List of Oriel College people

Walter Raleigh, by Nicholas Hilliard, c.1585.

A list of notable people affiliated with Oriel College, Oxford University, England, including alumni, academics, provosts and honorary fellows.

Alumni

Academics

• Richard Ithamar Aaron - D.Phil student, graduated 1928: Welsh philosopher.
• Donald Ferlys Wilson Baden-Powell - Undergraduate 1917: Geologist and palaeolithic archeologist.
• Marius Barbeau - Rhodes Scholar 1907 - 1910: Canadian ethnographer and folklorist.
• Geoffrey Barraclough - scholar in History 1926-29. Chichele Professor of Modern History, University of Oxford, 1970–73.
• Harold Idris Bell - Adam de Brome scholar 1897, British papyrologist (specialising in Roman Egypt) and scholar of Welsh literature.
• Peter Brunt - Ancient historian.
• Anthony Collett - author and writer on natural history.
• Richard A. Epstein - American legal scholar
• Eric Foner - American historian, Bancroft Prize winner.
• James Anthony Froude - Undergraduate 1836 to 1840: English historian and Regius Professor of Modern History, 1892 to 1894.
• Robert Alfred Cloynes Godwin-Austen - Undergraduate 1826-1830: English geologist, Fellow in 1830.
• Sir Francis Knowles, 5th Baronet - Archaeologist
• J. L. Mackie - Undergraduate 1938 to 1940: Australian Philosopher.
• James Meade - Undergraduate 1926 to 1930: Economist, Nobel Prize award winner.
• Edward Thomas Monro - Principle Physician of Bethlem Hospital from 1816.
• Henry Monro - President of the Medical Psychological Association in 1864-65.
• Thomas Monro - Principal Physician of Bedlam Hospital from 1816.
• John Nunn - English chess player and mathematician
• Mark Pattison - Undergraduate 1832: English author and rector of Lincoln College, Oxford.
• Baden Powell - Undergraduate 1814 to 1817: Physicist and theologian, father of Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Scout Movement.
• Paul Preston - Professor in International History at the London School of Economics; historian of modern Spain.
• Philip Russell, FRS - Director of the third division of the Max Planck Research Group at the Institute of Optics, Information and Photonics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
• John Martin Robinson - Historian and author.
• William David Ross - FBA, Philosopher, Aristotelian scholar, Provost of Oriel College, Vice Chancellor of Oxford University.
• Hugh Edwin Strickland - Undergraduate 1829: English geologist, ornithologist and systemist.
• Ronald Syme - New Zealand-born historian, was the pre-eminent classicist of the 20th century.
• A.J.P. Taylor - Undergraduate 1924 to 1927: Renowned British historian of the 20th century.
• Alexander Todd - Undergraduate 1931 to 1934: Chemist, Nobel Prize award winner.
• D. E. R. Watt FRSE - Scottish historian and Professor Emeritus at St Andrews University.
• Ronald Lampman Watts - Canadian academic and the 15th Principal and Vice-chancellor of Queen's University from 1974 until 1984.
• Gilbert White - Undergraduate 1739 to 1743, Fellow of the college 1744 to 1793. Pioneering naturalist and ornithologist.

Clergy

• William Allen - Undergraduate 1547, Fellow of the college from 1550 to 1561: Principal of St Mary Hall 1556 to 1561, fellow at University of Douai, Cardinal.
• Thomas Arundel - Undergraduate 1373: Son of Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel, with whom he erected the first college chapel. Chancellor of England and Archbishop of Canterbury.
• Godwin Birchenough - Dean of Ripon Cathedral.
• Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton - Churchman and translator of one of only two English translations of the Septuagint.
• Joseph Butler - Undergraduate 1715 to 1718, graduate until 1733: Bishop of Bristol and Dean of St Paul's Cathedral 1740, Bishop of Durham 1750.
• David Chillingworth - Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld, and Dunblane 2005-
• Nigel Cornwall - Bishop of Borneo 1949-1962.
• Maxwell Craig - Minister of the Church of Scotland and General Secretary of Action of Churches Together in Scotland 1990-1999.
• Harold de Soysa - Bishop of Colombo 1964-1971.
• Frank Tracy Griswold - Presiding Bishop and Primate of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.
• Gerald Edgcumbe Hadow - English Christian missionary to East Africa in the mid-twentieth century.
• Renn Hampden - Bampton lecturer in 1832, principal of St Mary Hall 1833, Bishop of Hereford 1847.
• David Hand - Bishop Coadjutor of New Guinea 1950-63, Archbishop of Papua New Guinea 1977-83
• James Hannington - Undergraduate 1868 to 1873: Missionary bishop.
• George Wyndham Kennion - Anglican bishop of Adelaide and Bath and Wells.
• Edward King - Bishop of Lincoln 1885 to 1910.
• Thomas Mozley - English clergyman and writer.
• Reginald Pecock - Bishop of Chichester
• Iain Torrance - President of Princeton Theological Seminary and a former Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
• Vernon White - MLitt in Theology 1980, now principal of STETS and Canon of Winchester
• Samuel Wilberforce - Undergraduate 1823 to 1826: Bishop of Oxford and Winchester. Opposed Darwin's theory of evolution in a famous debate with biologist Thomas Huxley.

Politicians and civil servants

• Alexander Hugh Bruce, 6th Lord Balfour of Burleigh - Scottish politician and statesman
• James Brudenell, 5th Earl of Cardigan - Graduated 1747 with a Bachelor of Arts: Deputy Cofferer to the Household, Master of Robes to the Prince of Wales, Keeper of the Privy Purse, Constable of Windsor Castle and Steward of Windsor.
• Robert Chalmers, 1st Baron Chalmers - BA 1881. Governor of Ceylon 1913-1915
• Baron Clements - Irish nobleman and politician.
• George Coldstream, Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Office
• Stewart Crawford - diplomat
• Peter Emery - Member of Parliament continuously for Reading, Honiton, and East Devon from 1959 to 2001, appointed Privy Counsellor in 1993.
• William Grant - Scottish politician and judge.
• George Wellesley Hamilton - Ontario political figure, Prescott in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Conservative member from 1871 to 1874.
• William Gerard Hamilton - English Statesman, Chief Secretary for Ireland 1761 to 1764.
• Daniel Hannan - British politician, and Member of the European Parliament for the South East England region for the Conservative Party
• James Howard Harris, 3rd Earl of Malmesbury - Foreign Secretary 1852 and 1858 to 1859, Lord Privy Seal 1866 to 1868 and 1874 to 1876.
• Alan Haselhurst - British politician - Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons since 1997
• Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea - English statesman.
• David Manning - British Ambassador to the United States, Hon. Fellow.
• Baron Maude of Stratford-upon-Avon - Conservative Party politician and British cabinet member from 1979 until 1981.
• Herman Merivale - English civil servant and author.
• Paul Murphy - Secretary of State for Wales and former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
• Peter Neyroud - Chief Executive Officer (Designate) for the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA), and former Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police.
• Wilfrid Normand, Baron Normand - Scottish politician and judge.
• Cranley Onslow - MI6 field agent and privy counsellor.
• Phillip Oppenheim - Undergraduate 1974 to 1977. Politician and business guru.
• Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull - Undergraduate 1596 to 1599: Member of parliament, became Baron Pierrepont and Viscount Newark in 1627, and Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull in 1628.
• Oswald Rayner - British intelligence officer

Cecil Rhodes

• Cecil Rhodes - Undergraduate 1873, 1876 to 1878, 1881: Politician, businessman and the effective founder of the state of Rhodesia.
• Andrew Robathan - British Conservative politician, and Member of Parliament for Blaby.
• Frederic Rogers, 1st Baron Blachford - British civil servant.
• Thomas Sotheron-Estcourt - British politician, Home Secretary 1859.
• John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough - Undergraduate 1840: Lord President of the Council 1867; grandfather of Sir Winston Churchill.
• Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot of Hensol - Lord Chancellor 1733 to 1737.
• Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot - Industrialist, Liberal Member of Parliament for Glamorgan for sixty years.
• Henry Unton - English diplomat, ambassador to Henry IV of France.
• William Vesey-FitzGerald - British politician, Governor of Bombay 1867 to 1872 and Member of Parliament for Horsham.

Literary and performing artists

• Jon Bentley - British journalist and television presenter.
• Norman Cameron - poet.
• Edmund Fellowes - Undergraduate 1889 to 1892: Music editor and author on 16th and 17th English music.
• David Giles - British television director.
• Os Guinness - Writer and social critic living in McLean, Virginia.
• Peter Harness - British dramatist and screenwriter.
• Christopher Hibbert - English writer and popular historian and biographer.
• Michael Hoffman - Undergraduate 1979: Film director
• Thomas Hughes - Undergraduate 1841 to 1845: Author of Tom Brown's Schooldays, founder member of the Christian Socialists.
• Richard Hughes - British writer of poems, short stories, novels and plays.
• Francis Kynaston - Undergraduate 1601: English courtier and poet.
• James Leasor - Undergraduate 1946 to 1948: English writer and popular historian.
• Eugene Lee-Hamilton - Late-Victorian English poet.
• Philip Napier Miles - 1865-1935 - composer and philanthropist.
• Martin Mills - British Music Industry Executive.
• Adam Raphael, journalist
• Rachel Riley - television presenter.
• Eric Schlosser - American journalist and author.
• W. C. Sellar & R. J. Yeatman - Undergraduates 1919 to 1922: Humorists, authors of 1066 and All That.
• William Seward, matriculated 1764, anecdotist and conversationalist
• Richard Simpson - British Roman Catholic writer and literary scholar.
• J. I. M. Stewart - Scottish author whose pen name was Michael Innes.
• Joseph Warton - English academic and literary critic.
• Nigel Williams - novelist, playwright and screenwriter.
• Sandy Wilson - British lyricist and composer of The Boy Friend (1954).
• Michael Wood - Popular British historian, broadcaster and television presenter.
• Camilla Wright - Editor of Popbitch
• David Wright - Author and poet.

Lawyers, judges and statesmen

• Geoffrey Bindman, human rights lawyer.
• Alexander Croke - British judge, colonial administrator and author influential in Nova Scotia of the early nineteenth century.
• Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron - Undergraduate 1710 to July 1713: friend and patron of George Washington.
• George Joachim Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen - British statesman and business man.
• John Holt - Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales from 1689 to 1710.
• William Prynne - Graduated BA 1621; lawyer, author, polemicist.
• Walter Raleigh - Undergraduate 1572 to 1574: Courtier, statesman, scientist, writer, poet, spy, and explorer.
• A N Ray - Chief Justice of India (1973-7). Studied modern history
• William Scroggs - Undergraduate 1639 to c.1640: Lord Chief Justice over the Popish Plot

Sports people

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Charles Wreford Brown

• Bernard Bosanquet - Undergraduate 1896 to 1899: Triple Blues, English test cricketer, inventor of the googly.
• George Bridgewater - New Zealand rower, Bronze medallist in the pair at the 2008 Summer Olympics
• Charles Wreford Brown - Captained the English national football team several times between 1894 and 1895, credited with inventing the word soccer.
• Robin Ejsmond-Frey - British rower
• Peter Hackworth - British coxswain, cox of the 2002 Blue Boat
• Sjoerd Hamburger - Dutch rower, competed in the 2009 and 2010 Boat Races
• Malcolm Howard - Canadian rower, Olympic Gold medallist and 2014 OUBC President
• Chris Mahoney - British rower, Olympic silver medallist in 1980
• Lucas McGee - American rower, USRowing Men's National Team coach
• Peter Reed - British rower, Olympic champion 2008, and world champion 2005/6.
• Plum Warner - Played first-class cricket for Oxford University, Middlesex and England.

Other people

• David Arculus - English businessman.
• Raj Bahra - Philosophy, Politics and Economics undergraduate and contestant on Channel 4's The Taste.
• Beau Brummell - Undergraduate 1794: Dandy and arbiter of fashion.
• Clive Cheesman - Undergraduate: Richmond Herald 2010-current.
• Graham Chipchase - CEO of Rexam plc.
• Geoffrey Sandford Cox - former editor and chief executive of ITN and a founder of News at Ten.
• James Ralph Darling - Headmaster of Geelong Grammar School, and Chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Commission.
• Chris Green - British railway manager.
• Charles Handy - Management educator. Honorary Fellow.
• Edward Leigh, 5th Baron Leigh - Undergraduate 1761 to 1764: High Steward of Oxford University and benefactor.

Provosts

• 1326 to 1332: Adam de Brome - Almoner to Edward II and founder of college.
• 1332 to 1348: William de Leverton
• 1348 to 1349: William de Hawkesworth - Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford
• 1349 to 1373: William de Daventre
• 1373 to 1385: John de Colyntre
• 1385 to 1394: John de Middleton
• 1394 to 1402: John de Maldon
• 1402 to 1414: John Possell
• 1414 to 1415: John Rote
• 1415 to 1417: William Corffe
• 1417 to 1421: Thomas Leyntwardyn
• 1421 to 1422: Henry Kayle
• 1424 to 1427: Nicholas Herry
• 1428 to 1435: John Carpenter
• 1435 to 1446: Walter Lyhert
• 1446 to 1449: John Hals
• 1449 to 1476: Henry Sampson
• 1476 to 1479: Thomas Hawkyns
• 1479 to 1492: John Taylor
• 1493 to 1507: Thomas Cornysh
• 1507 to 1516: Edmund Wylsford
• 1516 to 1530: James More
• 1530 to 1538: Thomas Ware
• 1538 to 1540: Henry Mynne
• 1540 to 1550: William Haynes
• 1550 to 1565: John Smyth
• 1565 to 1566: Roger Marbeck - Chief physician to Elizabeth I.
• 1566 to 1574: John Belly
• 1574 to 1618: Antony Blencowe
• 1618 to 1621: William Lewis
• 1621 to 1644: John Tolson
• 1644 to 1653: John Saunders
• 1653 to 1691: Robert Say
• 1691 to 1708: George Royse
• 1709 to 1727: George Carter
• 1727 to 1757: Walter Hodges
• 1757 to 1768: Chardin Musgrave
• 1768 to 1781: John Clarke
• 1781 to 1814: John Eveleigh
• 1814 to 1828: Edward Copleston - Oxford Professor of Poetry 1802 to 1812, Bishop of Llandaff and Dean of St Paul's 1828 to 1849.
• 1828 to 1882: Edward Hawkins
• 1882 to 1905: David Binning Monro - Scottish Homeric scholar.
• 1905 to 1914: Charles Lancelot Shadwell
• 1914 to 1930: Lancelot Ridley Phelps
• 1930 to 1947: David Ross - Scottish philosopher, known for work in ethics.
• 1947 to 1957: George Clark - British historian.
• 1957 to 1980: Kenneth Turpin - Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1966 to 1969.
• 1980 to 1981: Michael Swann - molecular and cell biologist, Chairman of the BBC (1973–80), Principal of Edinburgh University (1973–80), and Chancellor of the University of York (1979–90).
• 1982 to 1990: Zelman Cowen - former Governor-General of Australia
• 1990 to 2003: Ernest Nicholson - former Oriel Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture
• 2003 to 2013: Derek Morris - former Chairman of the Competition Commission
• 2013 (current): Moira Wallace, former British civil servant, first Permanent Secretary of the Department of Energy and Climate Change.

Fellows and lecturers

• Matthew Arnold - Elected 28 March 1845, perpetual Fellow 17 April 1846, vacated (due to marriage) 6 April 1852: Poet and Critic, Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1857 to 1867
• Thomas Arnold - Elected 31 March 1815, perpetual Fellow 20 July 1816, year of grace (due to marriage) 12 August 1820: Headmaster of Rugby School 1828 to 1841 and Regius Professor of Modern History from 1841 to 1842.
• John Ashwardby - follower of John Wycliffe, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford (1391–1394)
• Robert Beddard - Fellow to 2006: British historian.
• Henry Bishop - member of the Royal Commission into the Operation of the Poor Laws 1832
• Derek Blake - Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow in Basic Biomedical Science at Oriel until 2007.
• Joseph Bowles - Bodley's Librarian, Fellow from 1719
• Henry Brooke - schoolmaster and divine
• Thomas Edward Brown - Elected 21 April 1854, perpetual Fellow 13 April 1855, year of grace (due to marriage) 24 June 1857: Poet.

James Bryce, Member of Parliament for Aberdeen South 1885-1907

• James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce - Elected 25 April 1862, perpetual Fellow 6 April 1863, resigned June 1893, honorary fellow 12 October 1894: British jurist, historian and politician.
• John Burgon - Elected 17 April 1846, perpetual Fellow 5 April 1847: Dean of Chichester Cathedral.
• The Rev. Charles Fox Burney - Oriel Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture from 1914, elected Fellow in 1919
• Jeremy Catto - Fellow to 2006: British historian.
• Thomas Kelly Cheyne - Fellow 1885 to 1905: English Biblical critic.
• Richard William Church - Fellow 1838, Dean of St Paul's 1871-90.
• Arthur Hugh Clough - Elected 1 April 1842, perpetual Fellow 21 April 1843: English poet.
• Thomas Cogan - physician, fellow in 1563, resigned his fellowship 1574
• John Cook Wilson - Fellow in 1874, Wykeham Professor of Logic from 1889
• Richard Alan Cross - Fellow, Professor of Medieval Theology and Tutor in Theology.
• Henry William Carless Davis - Fellow 1925 to 1928: British historian, editor of the Dictionary of National Biography and Regius Professor of Modern History.
• John Davison - clergyman and theological writer, Fellow 1800, and tutor at Oriel
• George Anthony Denison - Elected 11 April 1828, perpetual Fellow 24 April 1829: English churchman, curate of Cuddesdon.
• Frederick Dillistone - Dean of Liverpool (1956–1963), Fellow and Chaplain of Oriel (1964–70)
• John Flemming - economist and Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, Lecturer and Fellow (1963–65)
• James Fraser - Elected 24 April 1840, perpetual Fellow 1841, vacated fellowship 20 December 1861: Anglican Bishop of Manchester 1870 to 1885.
• Hurrell Froude - Early leader of the Oxford Movement, Fellow in 1826.
• Robert Fysher - Bodley's Librarian, Fellow in 1726
• Vivian Hunter Galbraith - Fellow of the British Academy and Oxford Regius Professor of Modern History.
• Eric Graham - priest, Fellow and Dean of Oriel
• Alexander Grant, 10th Baronet - Elected 13 April 1849, perpetual Fellow 1 April 1850, vacated (married) 2 June 1860: British educationalist and Principal of the University of Edinburgh
• Charles Edward Grey - Member of Parliament for Tynemouth and North Shields (1838–1841), elected in 1808
• Dalziel Hammick - Chemist, Fellow (1920 – 1966)
• John Harris - Bishop of Llandaff (1728–1738), Fellow in 1728
• William Holt - Jesuit, elected on 29 February 1568
• Simon Hornblower - Fellow until 1997, since when Professor of Classics and Grote Professor of Ancient History University College London
• Robert Ingham - barrister and politician, Fellow from 1816 until 1826.
• Richard William Jelf - Principal of King's College London, elected as Fellow in 1820.
• John Keble - Fellow 1811 to 1835: One of the leaders of the Oxford Movement, Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1831 to 1841, gave his name to Keble College in 1870.
• Richard Kilvington - philosopher.
• Raymond Klibansky - Honorary Fellow, Canadian Philosopher.
• William Lewis - mineralogist, elected 1871
• Humphrey Lloyd - Bishop of Bangor from 1674 until 1689, Fellow in 1630.
• Richard Mant - Fellow 1798: English churchman and writer.
• Charles Marriott - priest and a member of the Oxford Movement, Fellow 1833
• Basil Mitchell - British philosopher and Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion, Fellow 1968.
• John Henry Newman - Major figure in the Oxford Movement.
• Thomas Nowell - clergyman, historian, fellow in 1753 and Dean 1758-60 and in 1763.
• Cadwallader Owen - Welsh clergyman, Fellow from 1585 to no later than 1606
• Frederick York Powell - Fellow and Regius Professor of Modern History, 1894 to 1904
• Edward Bouverie Pusey - One of the leaders of the Oxford Movement.
• George Richards - clergyman, poet, Fellow 1790-96
• Samuel Rickards - clergyman, opponent of the Oxford Movement, Fellow from 16 April 1819 to 6 October 1822
• Howard Robinson - philosopher, Fellow and lecturer in philosophy (1970–1974), Provost (Pro-Rector) of the Central European University.
• John Robinson - Fellow, English diplomat, Bishop of Bristol and London.
• Richard Robinson - Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy 1946–69, Author of An Atheists Values
• John Rouse - second Bodley's Librarian, friend of John Milton, Fellow 1600.

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A portrait of John Rouse in Oriel College

• William Young Sellar - Fellow, Scottish classical scholar.
• William Henry Stowe - scholar and journalist, Fellow March 1852
• John Van Seters - Visiting Research Fellow (1985–86)
• Thomas Vesey, 1st Baronet - Irish clergyman, Bishop of Ossory from 1714 to 1730
• William Wand - Fellow and Dean from 1925: English born Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane, Australia.
• Richard Whately - Undergraduate, Fellow 1811: English logician, economist and theological writer, Archbishop of Dublin
• Robert Wilberforce - clergyman, writer, second son of William Wilberforce, Fellow 1826-31.
• John Wordsworth - Oriel Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture, Bishop of Salisbury.

Current fellows

Ordered by seniority of fellowship, oldest first;

• Gordon MacPherson - Reader in Experimental Pathology, Turnbull Fellow and Tutor in Medicine, Senior Tutor. Emeritus.
• Glenn Black - Academic Administrator
• David Charles - Colin Prestige Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy
• John Barton - Oriel Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture
• Michael Spivey - Misys and Andersen Fellow, Tutor in Computer Science, and Dean of Degrees
• David Hodgson - Todd Fellow and Tutor in Chemistry
• Teresa Morgan - William and Nancy Bissell Turpin Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History, Senior Dean
• Brian Leftow - Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion
• Ian Horrocks - Professor of Computer Science
• Antonia Logue - novelist and Visiting Fellow

Current lecturers

• Mark Almond (Modern History)

Honorary Fellows

Francesco Cossiga

The following is a list of former and current Honorary Fellows who have not been included elsewhere in this article.

• Albert Aynsley-Green, Children's Commissioner for England (2005-2009)
• Anthony Barber - Privy Councillor, British Conservative politician, member of both the House of Commons and the House of Lords.
• Jonathan Barnes - scholar of ancient philosophy, Fellow (1968–78), elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1987.
• James Barr - British Old Testament scholar.
• Anthony Collett - author and writer on natural history.
• Francesco Cossiga - Italian politician and former President of Italy, professor of law at University of Sassari.
• Zelman Cowen - Fellow 1947 to 1950, 19th Governor-General of Australia.
• John Elliott - Eminent English historian and former Regius Professor of Modern History.
• Robert John Weston Evans - Regius Professor of Modern History
• Ewen Fergusson - retired British diplomat
• Eric Foner - American historian, Bancroft Prize winner.
• Charles Handy - Management educator, author and philosopher.
• Philip Harris, Baron Harris of Peckham - Conservative peer and businessman
• John Hegarty - Irish physicist, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin (2001–2011)
• Michael Howard - military historian, formerly Chichele Professor of the History of War, Hon. Fellow and Regius Professor of Modern History, 1980 to 1989
• Isobel Laing - wife of Kirby Laing, of the civil engineering company
• Lee Seng Tee - Singaporean businessman and philanthropist.
• David Manning - British Ambassador to the United States.
• Colin Mayer - Peter Moores Professor of Management Studies at the Saïd Business School
• Kenneth O. Morgan - Welsh historian and author
• Paul Murphy - Secretary of State for Wales and former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
• Keith Murray, Baron Murray of Newhaven - Graduate of Oriel, Agricultural academic, Rector of Lincoln College, Chancellor of Southampton University (1964–74)
• William Abel Pantin - historian, Fellow and Lecturer in History, Keeper of the Archives for the university, Hon. Fellow 1971.
• Patrick Prendergast - Provost of Trinity College, Dublin
• Thomas Symons - founding President of Trent University, Canada
• John Vickers - economist and Warden of All Souls College, Oxford.
• Norman Willis - Former General Secretary of the TUC and President of the European Trade Union Confederation.

References

• Rannie, David, Oriel College (1900) — published by F. E. Robinson & Co. London (part of the University of Oxford College Histories series).
• Salter H. E. and Lobel, Mary D. (editors), The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, Volume III: The University of Oxford — Oxford University Press VCH series, (1954), p. 119-129 ISBN 0-7129-1064-6.