The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in England teaching since 1906 making it the oldest university in the English speaking world. It is made up of 30 constituent colleges and a range of academic departments which are organized in four departments. The history and influence of the Oxford University has made it one of the most prestigious Universities in the world.
The University has produced several authors, poets,actors, politicians, economists,physicists, theologians, media moguls, prime ministers, international leaders, sportsperson, doctors’philosophers, Nobel Prize winnersetc. who are spread all around the globe.
Let’sdiscover the Oxford University notable alumni in this article.
DAVID CAMERON
The British Prime Minister David Cameron studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Brasenose College. He is one the most popular Oxford University Notable Alumni, he graduated in1988 from Oxford University.
TINA BROWN
She is the editor of Tattler, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker she also helped found The DailyBeast. Tina Graduated from St. Anne’s in 1974. Her biography onDiana,‘Princess of Wales’ was the No.1 New York Times bestseller in the summer of 2007.
MARGARET THATCHER
She is popularly known as Iron lady, Margaret studied chemistry at SomervilleCollege and graduated in 1943. She was the Britain Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990 and so far the only female prime minister in the country. She was the most inspiring and influential world leaders of the 1980’s. Following her the ‘Iron lady’ of India Indira Gandhi also completed her education at Somerville and went on to become India’s first woman Prime Minister. Thus both the Iron Ladies are Oxford University notable alumni.
RUPERT MURDOCH
The media mogulRupert Murdoch studied in Worcester from 1949-1952. He founded ‘News Limited’ privately owned Media Company with its success he expanded his business to the United Kingdom and now his holding company News Corporation has acquired the Wall Street Journal (2007), Harper Collins (1989) and Twentieth Century Fox (1985)
Manmohan Singh
The former Indian Prime Minister from 2004-2014 studied Economics at Nuffield from 1960-1962 and earned his DPhil.
SARAH BAXTER
She studied at St. Hilda’s and graduated in 1978. She is the Deputy Editor at The Sunday Times and the Editor of the paper’s magazines, ST magazine.
There are several Oxford University notable alumni who are gifted men and women they studied and created history. This University gave 28 BritishPrime Ministers, 30 International Leaders, 55 Nobel Prize winners and 120 Olympic medal winners.
Here is the list of Oxford university notable Alumni and the fields in which they excel.
- Riz Ahmed - actor
- Monica Ali- author
- Tariq Ali - Writer
- Duran Adebayo – author
- Samira Ahmed – journalist and presenter
- Kate Barker – economist
- Gertrude Bell- explorer and archeologist
- Robert Graves – poet
- Mark Haddon- author
- WH Auden – poet
- TonyBenn - politician
- Edward De Bono – philosopher
- Helen fielding – author
- Emilia Fox – actor
- Professor Stephen Hawking – physicist
- John Buchan – author
- Edward Pusey – theologian
- Oscar wilder – author, poet
- LewisCarol – author and academic
