List of people associated with Brasenose College, Oxford

See also Former students of Brasenose College, Oxford.

Politicians and civil servants

• Sir Donald Acheson, Chief Medical Officer of the United Kingdom (1983–1991)
• Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1801–1804)
• Sir Tim Barrow, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the European Union
• Mamoun Beheiry, former Sudanese finance minister and governor of the Central Bank of Sudan
• John Brademas, American politician and educator
• John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada
• David Cameron, Baron Cameron of Chipping Norton, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (2010–2016)
• Camilla Cavendish, Baroness Cavendish of Little Venice
• Pete Dawkins, Rhodes Scholar, U.S. Army brigadier general, and Republican candidate for Senate
• Stephen Dorrell, British Conservative politician
• John Gorton, Prime Minister of Australia
• Mark Harper, British politician
• Tanvir Ahmad Khan, former Foreign Secretary of Pakistan
• Bill O'Chee, Australian politician
• Amin Osman, Egyptian politician
• John Profumo, British politician
• Malcolm Turnbull, Prime Minister of Australia
• Melanie Joly, Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs

Judges and lawyers

• Charles Onyeama, Justice of the Nigerian Supreme Court (1964–67), Judge on the International Court of Justice (1967–76)
• George Baker, President of the Family Division (formerly of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division) of the High Court of Justice, 1971–1979
• Jack Beatson, Lord Justice of Appeal
• Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley English nobleman, judge and statesman who served as Lord Keeper and Lord Chancellor
• William Robert Grove, Welsh judge and physical scientist
• William Hulme, 17th-century lawyer and landowner
• Kris Kobach, 31st Secretary of State of Kansas and Republican candidate in the state's 2018 gubernatorial election
• Anthony McCowan, British barrister and judge of the High Court of Justice and Court of Appeal
• Jeremy McMullen, barrister, judge, trade unionist and expert on employment law^[2]
• John Mortimer, British barrister, dramatist, screenwriter and author
• John Port, judge
• Leslie Scarman, Baron Scarman, English judge and barrister
• Sir John McIntosh Young AC KCMG, Chief Justice of Victoria (1974-1991)

Clergy

• Richard Barnes, bishop in the Church of England (1567–1579)
• William Webb Ellis, Anglican clergyman; allegedly the inventor of rugby football whilst a pupil at Rugby School
• The Rt Revd Gordon Mursell, Bishop of Stafford
• George Nichols (martyr), martyr
• Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1980—1991
• Dom Illtyd Trethowan, English priest, philosopher and author
• The Very Reverend Henry Wace, principal of King's College London (1883–1897) and Dean of Canterbury (1903–1924)

Military personnel

• Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, field marshal, British senior officer during World War I
• Michelle D. Johnson, first female superintendent of the United States Air Force Academy
• Charles Herbert Little, Canadian Director of Naval Intelligence during the Second World War; author
• John S. Grinalds, Marine Corps Major General and 18th President of The Citadel

Classicists and archaeologists

• Arthur Evans, British archaeologist

Historians and antiquarians

• Elias Ashmole, antiquary, politician, officer of arms, astrologer and student of alchemy
• Colin B. Bailey, art historian
• Rev. Wladislaw Somerville Lach-Szyrma, historian (folklore) and science fiction
• Robert O'Neill, military theorist and historian
• Tudor Parfitt, historian, orientalist and writer
• John Robert Martindale, historian, specializing in Roman and Byzantine prosopography^[3]

Language and literature academics

• Robert Burton, scholar at Oxford University
• Francis Pott, Classical languages scholar and Anglican hymnwriter

Philosophers and theologians

• John Foxe, English historian and martyrologist
• Alexander Nowell, Anglican Puritan theologian and clergyman, served as dean of St Paul's
• David Pearce, Utilitarian philosopher, founder of the World Transhumanist Association
• Thomas Traherne, English poet, clergyman, theologian, and religious writer
• Dom Illtyd Trethowan, English priest, philosopher and author
• William Whittingham, English Biblical scholar and religious reformer, dean of Durham

Mathematicians, medics and scientists

• Colin Clark, economist and statistician
• Paul Frampton, particle phenomenologist
• William Robert Grove, Welsh judge and physical scientist
• Michael Kosterlitz, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate
• Professor Graham Richards, head of chemistry at the University of Oxford (1997–2006)
• Sir Michael Stratton, third director of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute; currently heads the Cancer Genome Project
• Sir Thomas Taylor, chemist and academic administrator

Educators

• Frank Aydelotte, U.S. educator
• Keith Ingram, former Dragon School headmaster
• Robert Lindgren, president of Randolph-Macon College
• Tim Peto, professor of medicine at the University of Oxford

Artists and writers

• Richard Barham, English cleric of the Church of England, novelist, and humorous poet
• John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician, served as Governor General of Canada
• Jessie Burton, author and actress
• Helen DeWitt, novelist
• J. G. Farrell, novelist
• Michael Freeman
• William Golding, English novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize in Literature laureate
• Tim Harford, economist and journalist
• David Langford, science fiction writer
• John Marston
• Simon Mawer, English writer
• Grace McCleen, novelist
• George Monbiot, English writer
• Sir John Mortimer, British barrister, dramatist, screenwriter and author
• Rev. James Noyes, Puritan scholar and author; founder of Newbury, Massachusetts
• Rolfe Arnold Scott-James, literary critic
• Sarah Vaughan, writer and journalist
• William Edward Vickers (Roy Vickers), English mystery writer
• Sara Wheeler, English travel writer and biographer
• Toby Young, British journalist

Broadcasters and entertainers

• Wilton Barnhardt, former reporter for Sports Illustrated; author
• Laura Corcoran, member of musical comedy cabaret double act
• Michael Palin, comedian, actor, writer and television presenter
• Mark Williams, actor
• Will Macdonald, television producer, executive and writer

Musicians

• Mylo (Myles MacInnes), Scottish electronic musician and record producer

Sports people

• Brian Boobbyer, rugby union and cricketer
• John Cherry, rower who competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics
• Colin Cowdrey, cricketer
• William Webb Ellis, Anglican clergyman; allegedly the inventor of rugby football whilst a pupil at Rugby School
• Tom Edwards-Moss, rower who competed in the Boat Race four times and twice won the Diamond Challenge Sculls; later a Conservative politician
• James Fulton, cricketer
• Arnold Jackson, British athlete 1912 Olympic 1500m gold medallist, Army Officer (DSO with Three Bars) and barrister
• Prince Alexander Obolensky, represented England in International Rugby Union
• Cuthbert Ottaway, first captain of the England football team
• Edward Shaw, cricketer and British Army officer
• Walter Bradford Woodgate, Boat Race winner and multiple-time Henley Royal Regatta champion

Other people in public life

• Kate Allen, Director of Amnesty International UK (AIUK)
• Mamoun Beheiry, economist, first commissioner of the Bank of Sudan and first president of the African Development Bank
• Andrew Feldman, Baron Feldman of Elstree
• Camilla Cavendish, Baroness Cavendish of Little Venice
• Martin Fiennes, venture capitalist and peer
• Denys Finch Hatton, aristocratic big-game hunter
• Robin Janvrin, Baron Janvrin, Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II (1999—2007)
• Bruce Kent, British political activist and former Roman Catholic priest
• Andrew Lindsay, former Olympic gold medal-winning rower at the 2000 Summer Olympics and CEO of Telecom Plus
• Philip Moore, Baron Moore of Wolvercote, Private Secretary to the Sovereign (1977–1986)
• Paul Pester, CEO of TSB Bank^[4]
• Amanda Pullinger, Philanthropist
• Guy Spier, Investor
• Philip Yea, British businessman and private equity investor
• Christopher Kong, CEO of Better Nature Tempeh

• J. L. Ackrill, Emeritus Professor of the History of Philosophy
• Richard Adams, theologian
• The Rev. Thomas Adams, English academic and theological writer
• John Anderson, Camden Professor of Ancient History (1927–1936)
• Konstantin Ardakov, mathematician
• John Barnard, supporter of James II of England
• Richard Barnes, Bishop in the Church of England (1567–1579)
• John Barnston, divine
• Llewellyn John Montfort Bebb, British academic, Principal of St David's College (1898–1915)
• The Rt. Rev. James Bell, Bishop of Knaresborough
• Bryan John Birch, British mathematician
• Peter Birks, Regius Professor of Civil Law
• Vernon Bogdanor, Research Professor at the Institute for Contemporary British History at King's College London
• Robert Bolton, clergyman and academic
• The Rt. Hon. George Bowen, British author and colonial administrator
• Gerard Baldwin Brown, art historian
• Peter Brunt, ancient historian at Oxford University
• Arthur Chandler, Bishop of Bloemfontein, Chaplin
• Ralph Churton, churchman
• Richard Cooper, Professor of French at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford
• Jonathan Culler, Professor of English at Cornell University
• George Edmundson, clergyman and academic historian
• Sos Eltis, Fellow and tutor in English of Brasenose College, author
• Russell G. Foster, Professor of Circadian Neuroscience

• John Foxe, English historian and martyrologist
• John Freeman, retired British politician, diplomat and broadcaster
• James Garbett, Archdeacon of Chichester
• Reginald Halse, Archbishop of Brisbane
• Francis J. Haverfield, British historian and archaeologist
• Douglas Higgs, researcher at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine at the University of Oxford
• Jonathan A. Jones, University lecturer in atomic and laser physics at Oxford University
• Kurt Josten, curator of the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
• Harry Judge, Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Education

• Otto Kahn-Freund, professor of comparative law, University of Oxford
• Nicholas Kurti, physicist
• Falconer Madan, librarian of the Bodleian Library
• Fergus Millar, British historian and Camden Professor of Ancient History
• Reginald Owen, Archbishop of New Zealand (1952—1960)
• Simon Palfrey, English scholar at Oxford University
• Walter Pater, English essayist, critic of art and literature, and writer of fiction
• Henry Francis Pelham, English scholar and historian
• William Petty, English economist, scientist and philosopher
• Edward Hayes Plumptre, English divine and scholar
• Leighton Durham Reynolds, British classicist and Emeritus Professor of Classical Languages and Literature
• Samuel Harvey Reynolds, divine
• Graham Richards, Head of Chemistry (1997–2006) at the University of Oxford
• Gareth Roberts, Welsh physicist
• Arthur William Rucker, physicist

• Simon Schama, British historian and art historian
• Robert Shackleton, English French language philologist and librarian
• Peter J. N. Sinclair, Professor in Economics at the University of Birmingham
• Richard V. Southwell, British mathematician
• Ronald Syme, historian and classicist
• D. R. Thorpe, biographer of three British Prime Ministers
• John Wain, former professor of Poetry, Oxford
• Thomas Humphry Ward, English author and journalist
• Geoffrey Warnock, philosopher and Vice-Chancellor
• Lawrence Washington, English rector
• Francis Willis, physician and clergyman
• The Rt. Rev. John Wordsworth, English prelate

Principals

The current principal is John Bowers.

• Donald Acheson, Chief Medical Officer of the United Kingdom (1983–1991)
• Kate Allen, Director of Amnesty International UK (AIUK)
• George Baker, President of the Family Division (formerly of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division) of the High Court of Justice
• Dominic Barton, Ugandan-born Canadian management consultant
• John Brademas, Greek American politician and educator
• David Cameron, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• John Gorton, Prime Minister of Australia
• Erwin Hahn, American physicist, Wolf Prize in Physics (1983/4)
• Catharine Bond Hill, former president of Vassar College
• Robin Janvrin, Baron Janvrin, Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II (February 1999 to September 2007)
• Michelle D. Johnson, Lieutenant General in the United States Air Force and Superintendent of the United States Air Force Academy
• Bruce Kent, British political activist
• John Mortimer, English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter and author
• Michael Palin, comedian, actor, writer and television presenter
• Leslie Scarman, Baron Scarman
• Francis James Wylie, first Warden of Rhodes House

• Jeffrey Archer
• Eleanor Parker, British historian and medievalist.