List of New College people

This is a list of notable people affiliated with New College, Oxford University, England, including former students, and current and former academics and fellows.

:See also List of Wardens of New College, Oxford.

Former students

• Robert Alston, British diplomat
• Michael Baldwin, Xristos
• Simon Baron-Cohen, professor of Developmental Psychopathology, University of Cambridge
• Kate Beckinsale, actor
• Tony Benn, Labour Party politician
• Peter Bergen, political journalist and author
• Tim Boswell, former Conservative MP
• Gyles Brandreth, writer and broadcaster, former Conservative MP for Chester
• David Butler, psephologist
• Henry Chichele, English archbishop
• G. A. Cohen, political philosopher
• Gary Cooper, musician and conductor
• Michael Crick, journalist
• Sir T.W. Edgeworth David (1858-1934) Australian geologist, academic, polar explorer, soldier, public figure
• J.R.C.Davies, author, philosopher.
• Angus Deayton, comedian, actor, television presenter
• Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, German film director
• John Farthing, Canadian philosopher and economist
• Jonathan Fenby, journalist, writer and former Editor of The Observer and the South China Morning Post
• Bram Fischer, South African lawyer, defended Nelson Mandela at the Rivonia Trial
• John Fowles, novelist
• Hugh Gaitskell, Labour Party leader (1955–63)
• Patrick Gale, novelist
• John Galsworthy, novelist and playwright
• John Gardner, Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Oxford
• Robert P. George, Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University
• Robert Goff, Baron Goff of Chieveley, British judge
• Victor Gollancz, publisher
• Hugh Grant, actor
• Irfan Habib, Padma Bhushan, Indian historian; Emeritus Professor of History, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh
• Mohammad Habib, Indian historian; Emeritus Professor of History, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh
• General Sir John Hackett, soldier, university administrator
• J. B. S. Haldane, Biologist
• William Reginald Halliday, historian and archaeologist
• Christopher Hampton, playwright and screenwriter
• H. L. A. Hart, former Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Oxford
• Saiyid Nurul Hasan, Governor of West Bengal and Orissa
• Arthur Cayley Headlam, theologian
• Peter Hobbs, novelist
• Adrian Holman, British diplomat
• William Howley, Archbishop of Canterbury (1828-48)
• Thomas Hughes, footballer who won the FA Cup twice in the 1870s
• The Ven. John Ingram, English Jesuit and martyr
• Douglas Jardine, cricketer
• Robert Jay, Counsel to the Leveson Inquiry and now High Court Judge
• Bobby Jindal, Governor of Louisiana
• Brian Johnston, broadcaster and cricket commentator
• Rachel Johnson, journalist
• Ian Katz, journalist
• Oliver Kamm, journalist, Times leader writer, former hedge fund manager
• Randal Keynes, conservationist
• Sophie Kinsella, 'chick lit' novelist
• Harold Laski, political scientist
• John Lennard, Professor of British and American Literature, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica,
• Andro Linklater (born 1944), historian
• Edward Luce, journalist
• Charles McCreery, psychologist and author
• Neil MacGregor, art historian, Director of the British Museum
• Dambudzo Marechera, Zimbabwean novelist
• Brian G. Marsden, astronomer
• Sir Henry Martin, MP for Oxford University, matr: New College, Oxford on 24 November 1581
• Douglas McLean, rower in the Boat Race five times and winner at Henley Royal Regatta
• Hector McLean, rowed in the Boat Race and won Silver Goblets at Henley Royal Regatta with his brother Douglas McLean
• Jamie McIntosh, Canadian abolitionist
• Michael Meacher, Labour Party politician
• Sir Frank Meyer, businessman and Conservative MP
• Nathaniel Micklem, Liberal Party politician
• Nathaniel Micklem, theologian, son of the above
• Alasdair Milne, BBC Director General (1982-87)
• Peter Francis Middleton, pilot and grandfather of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
• Kate Mosse, novelist
• Sir Albert Napier, Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Office
• Junzaburō Nishiwaki, Japanese poet
• Richard Ollard, historian and biographer
• Rageh Omaar, broadcast journalist
• G. L. Peiris, Sri Lankan politician and academic
• Sally Phillips, actress and writer
• Dennis Potter, playwright and journalist
• Gerald Priestland, broadcaster and journalist
• Nigel Rees, broadcaster and author
• Susan Rice, American diplomat
• Sir Bernard Rix (Lord Justice Rix), Judge, a Lord Justice of Appeal
• Alan Rodger, Baron Rodger of Earlsferry, Scottish-born Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
• Neil Rudenstine, former President of Harvard University
• Oliver Russell, 2nd Baron Ampthill, peer, rower and administrator who served as the Governor of Madras
• Anthony Russell-Roberts, businessman and opera manager
• Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi, United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth
• Madhavrao Scindia, Indian Cabinet Minister and Member of Parliament
• Paul Seabright, economist
• Tim Sebastian, broadcast journalist
• Mel Smith, comedian and film director
• David Verney, 21st Baron Willoughby de Broke, UKIP peer
• Toby Spence, opera singer (tenor)
• Rick Stein, chef, restaurateur and television presenter
• Adam Thirlwell, novelist
• Frank Thompson, SOE officer
• Alan Thornhill, Sculptor
• Daniel Topolski, rowing coach for Oxford, author of True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny
• Francis Turner, 17th century Bishop of Ely
• Julian Turner, poet
• William Warham, former Archbishiop of Canterbury
• Robert Penn Warren, poet, novelist and literary critic
• William Waynflete (though the validity of this claim is doubtful – see his page for further discussion)
• Geoffrey Wheatcroft, journalist and author
• John Edgar Wideman, American writer, Professor at Brown University
• Benjamin Whitaker Labour politician and former MP
• Richard Wilberforce Baron Wilberforce
• A. N. Wilson, author and journalist
• Naomi Wolf, American feminist
• James Woodforde, clergyman
• Philip Ziegler, historian
• Frank R. Palmer, linguist, lecturer at the University of Reading

Fellows and Lecturers

• Michael Atiyah
• A. J. Ayer
• Isaiah Berlin
• Alan Bullock
• Paul Campbell
• Raymond Carr
• David Cecil
• Richard Crossman
• Richard Dawkins
• Robin Lane Fox
• W. D. Hamilton
• G. H. Hardy
• H. L. A. Hart
• Nigel Hitchin
• Julian Huxley
• Willis Lamb
• Hermione Lee
• Rudolf Peierls
• Craig Raine
• Marcus du Sautoy
• Jane Shaw
• Joe Silk
• William Archibald Spooner
• Christopher Tolkien
• Harold Wilson