List of notable Oxford students

The following persons attended Oxford University but did not necessarily complete a degree course there.

Heads of State and Prime Ministers

Kings

• Abdullah of Jordan
• Edward VII of the United Kingdom (Christchurch)
• Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (Magdalen)
• Harald V of Norway (Balliol)
• Olav V of Norway
• Ahmad Shah of Malaysia (Worcester)
• Tuanku Abdul Halim of Malaysia (Wadham)
• Tuanku Jaafar of Malaysia (Balliol)
• William II of the Netherlands

Presidents and Prime Ministers (international)

• Solomon Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike President of Ceylon (later Sri Lanka) 1956-59
• Benazir Bhutto (Lady Margaret Hall) Prime Minister of Pakistan
• Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto (Christ Church) President of Pakistan 1971-1973, Prime Minister 1973-1977
• Bill Clinton (University) President of the USA
• Malcolm Fraser Prime Minister of Australia 1975-1983
• John Gorton Prime Minister of Australia 1968-1971
• Bob Hawke (University) Prime Minister of Australia 1983-1991
• Liaquat Ali Khan Prime Minister of Pakistan
• John Kufuor President of Ghana 2001-
• Farooq Leghari President of Pakistan 1993-1997
• Festus Mogae President of Botswana 1998-
• Viktor Orbán Prime Minister of Hungary 1998-2002
• Lester Bowles Pearson Prime Minister of Canada 1963-1968
• Wasim Sajjad President of Pakistan
• Manmohan Singh (Nuffield) Prime Minister of India 2004-
• Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy Prime Minister of Pakistan 1956-57
• John Napier Turner Prime Minister of Canada 1984

UK Prime Ministers

• Earl of Wilmington 1742-1743 (Trinity)
• Henry Pelham 1743-1746 (Hart Hall)
• Earl of Bath (Christ Church)
• George Grenville 1763-1765 (Christ Church)
• Earl of Chatham 1766-1768 (Trinity)
• Lord North 1770-1782 (Trinity)
• Earl of Shelburne 1782-1783 (Christ Church)
• Duke of Portland 1783, 1807-1809 (Christ Church)
• Henry Addington 1801-1804 (Brasenose)
• Baron Grenville 1806-1807 (Christ Church)
• Earl of Liverpool 1812-1827 (Christ Church)
• George Canning 1827 (Christ Church)
• Robert Peel 1841-1846 (Christ Church)
• Earl of Derby 1852, 1858-1859, 1866-1868 (Christ Church)
• William Gladstone 1868-1874, 1880-1885, 1886, 1892-1894 (Christ Church)
• Marquess of Salisbury 1885-1886, 1886-1892, 1895-1902 (Christ Church)
• Earl of Rosebery 1894-1895 (Christ Church)
• Herbert Asquith 1908-1916 (Balliol)
• Clement Attlee 1945-1951 (University)
• Anthony Eden 1955-1957 (Christ Church)
• Harold Macmillan 1957-1963 (Balliol)
• Alec Douglas-Home 1963-1964 (Christ Church)
• Harold Wilson 1964-1970, 1974-1976 (Jesus)
• Edward Heath 1970-1974 (Balliol)
• Margaret Thatcher 1979-1990 (Somerville)
• Tony Blair 1997- (St John's)

Saints

• Thomas More
• Edmund Rich
• John Boste
• Edmund Campion
• John Ingram

Other Notable Alumni

• Joseph Addison (Queen's/Magdalen)
• Rowan Atkinson (Queen's College)
• Aung San Suu Kyi (St. Hugh's)
• Roger Bacon
• Jeremy Bentham (Queen's)
• Tim Berners Lee
• Robert Boyle
• Richard Burton (actor) (Exeter)
• Richard Burton (orientalist) (Trinity)
• Lewis Carroll (Christ Church)
• Richard Dawkins (Balliol)
• John Donne (Hertford)
• Alfred Douglas (Magdalen)
• T. S. Eliot (Merton)
• William Golding (Brasenose)
• Hugh Grant (New)
• Edmond Halley (Queen's)
• Stephen Hawking (University)
• Robert Hooke (Christ Church)
• Boris Johnson (Balliol)
• Samuel Johnson (Pembroke)
• Imran Khan (Keble)
• Kris Kristofferson (Merton)
• Philip Larkin (St. John's)
• T. E. Lawrence (Jesus)
• Barbara Levick (St. Hugh's/St. Hilda's)
• C. S. Lewis (University/Magdalen)
• John Locke (Christ Church)
• Iris Murdoch (Somerville/St. Anne's)
• V. S. Naipaul (University)
• Cardinal Newman (Trinity)
• William of Ockham (Merton)
• Michael Palin (Brasenose)
• Robert Peel (Christ Church)
• Philip Pullman (Exeter)
• Fazlur Rahman
• Walter Raleigh (Oriel)
• A. L. Rowse (Oriel/All Souls)
• Dorothy L. Sayers (Somerville)
• John Duns Scotus
• Percy Bysshe Shelley (University)
• Adam Smith (Balliol)
• A. J. P. Taylor (Oriel)
• J. R. R. Tolkien (Exeter)
• John Wesley (Christ Church)
• Oscar Wilde (Magdalen)
• Cardinal Wolsey (Magdalen)
• Christopher Wren (Wadham)
• Terry Jones (St. Edmund Hall)