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Facts

Also Known As	Oxford University
Date	c. 1101 - present
Notable Alumni	Thomas, Cardinal Wolsey • Sir Michael Ernest Sadler • C.S. Lewis • J.R.R. Tolkien • Charles Taylor • Richard Dawkins • Sir Michael A.E. Dummett • Andrew Wiles • John D. Barrow • Sir Edwin Ray Lankester • E.E. Evans-Pritchard • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch • Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey • Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood • Frederick Soddy • Sir Erskine Holland • Sir Charles Firth • William Grocyn • Adam Smith • Bill Clinton • Christopher Wren • William Pitt, the Elder • Thomas More • William Ewart Gladstone • John Searle • Lewis Carroll • Blessed John Duns Scotus • St. John Henry Newman • Sir Richard Burton • Sir Philip Sidney • Margaret Thatcher • Robert Peel • Theresa May • John Wycliffe • Clement Attlee • Edwin Hubble • Oscar Wilde • William of Ockham • Edmond Halley • George Canning • Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd marquess of Salisbury • Aung San Suu Kyi • Sir Walter Raleigh • Indira Gandhi • H.H. Asquith, 1st earl of Oxford and Asquith • Halford Mackinder • Viktor Orbán • Dorothy Hodgkin • Malala Yousafzai • Kris Kristofferson • John Wesley • Peter J. Ratcliffe • M. Stanley Whittingham • Emma Watson • Simon Johnson • Atishi • Pete Buttigieg • Chelsea Clinton • Keir Starmer • Gemma Chan • Rishi Sunak • Mahamudu Bawumia • Tony Abbott • Oliver Sacks • Benazir Bhutto • Harold Macmillan • John Galsworthy • Andrew Lloyd Webber • Imran Khan • Emily Davison • William Jefferson Hague, Baron Hague of Richmond • Charles A. Beard • Harold Wilson • Rachel Maddow • Edward VII • Daniel C. Dennett • David Vitter • Robert Moses • Tina Brown • Malcolm Turnbull • Derek Parfit • Sir Charles Frank • Sir Edward Heath • Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig • Richard Adams • Sister Wendy Beckett • Rowan Atkinson • Stephen Hawking • George Cardinal Pell • Anthony Eden • John le Carré • John le Carré • Jonathan Sacks • Pedro Pablo Kuczynski • George Saintsbury • John Marston • Sir Cyril Burt • Philip Pullman • V.S. Naipaul • John Kufuor • Susan Rice • Richard Flanagan • Stephen Wolfram • Tim Berners-Lee • Mark Carney • Thomas L. Friedman • Sir Thomas Overbury • Sir Peter B. Medawar • Baruch S. Blumberg • John Redwood • Sir Stephen Spender • John Bowen • Max Beerbohm • Ed Balls • Iris Murdoch • St. Edmund of Abingdon • Hugh Grant • Humphrey Gilbert • Charles Wesley • Tony Richardson • Nicholas Udall • John Edgar Wideman • Gertrude Bell • Eric Garcetti • Carl Albert • Amos Oz • William Golding • John Lyly • Kenneth Mackenzie Clark, Baron Clark • Pawel Pawlikowski • Sir John Carew Eccles • Sir Tyrone Guthrie • Kate Millett • Tony Hall • Kingsley Amis • Sir Angus Wilson • Bertil Ohlin • A.S. Byatt • Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey of Riddlesden • Sir Martin Ryle • Alain Locke • Edgar Frank Codd • Nicanor Parra • Sir Harold Nicolson • John Kennedy • Cory Booker • Eric Bentley • Dean Rusk • Ben Sasse • Girish Karnad • George Chapman • Sir William Berkeley • Sir Victor Gollancz • George Steiner • Eddie Eagan • John Napier Turner • John Betjeman • Caryl Churchill • Frederick William Winterbotham • Donald Hall • Michael Foot • Lester B. Pearson • Oliver Smithies • Robert Hawke • Sydney Brenner • Byron R. White • Nannerl Overholser Keohane • Sir Lennox Berkeley • Timothy Mo • Sir Baldwin Spencer • Sir John Cornforth • D.M. Thomas • Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd • Sir Donald Francis Tovey • Wilfrid Sheed • James Edward Oglethorpe • C. Day-Lewis • Sir Adrian Cedric Boult • Michael Fried • Les Aspin • James Smithson • A. Alvarez • Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier • Robert Runcie • Bernard Miles • Sir William Jones • Tony Hoare • Sir John Robert Vane • Sir Terence Rattigan • Sir William Robert Grove • L.P. Hartley • Roger Bannister • Graham Wallas • Sir Edward George Warris Hulton • Jean-Pierre Sauvage • Brian Greene • Sir Max Mallowan • Baldwin Spencer • Sir William Monson • Anthony J. Leggett
Related People	Cecil Rhodes • William Laud • Sir William Osler, Baronet • Thomas, Cardinal Wolsey • William Richard Morris, Viscount Nuffield • John Fell • Sir Michael Ernest Sadler • William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge • Sir Richard Winn Livingstone