List of Lincoln College people
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A list of Lincoln College people, including former students, Fellows, Honorary Fellows and Rectors of the college of the University of Oxford.
Contents
Former students
Academics
- Geoffrey Alderman (born 1944) — historian
- Hugh Hale Bellot (1890-1969) - Professor of American History and Vice-Chancellor, University of London (1951–53)
- Roger H. Martin (born 1943) - American college president
- O. W. Wolters (1915- 2000) - Malayan civil servant and pioneering historian of Southeast Asia
Authors, actors, poets
- Naomi Alderman (born 1974) — novelist
- Eve Best (born 1971) — actress
- William Davenant (1606–1688) — poet and playwright
- Sefton Delmer (1904–1970) — journalist and WWII propagandist
- Theodor "Dr Seuss" Geisel (1904–1991) — writer and cartoonist
- Girish Karnad (born 1938) — Indian playwright, film actor and director
- Osbert Lancaster (1908–1986) — cartoonist, critic and author
- John le Carré (born 1931) — author, pen name of David Cornwell
- Rachel Maddow (born 1973) — American television anchor and political analyst
- Maulana Mohammad Ali (1878–1931) — Indian Muslim leader, journalist and poet
- Emily Mortimer (born 1971) — actress
- Craig Mullaney (born c. 1978) - US Army veteran and author
- William Eugene Outhwaite (1847-10 April, 1900) - New Zealand writer, poet, and lawyer.
- Tom Paulin (born 1949) — poet
- Francis Pilkington (1565–1638) — composer
- Edward Thomas (1878–1917) — poet
- James Essinger (born 1957) - writer
Broadcasters
- Suzannah Lipscomb (born 1978) - historian and television presenter
Businessmen
- David Clementi (born 1949) — deputy governor of the Bank of England and chairman of Prudential plc
- Sir Rod Eddington (born 1950) — chief executive of British Airways, 2000–2005
- Sir Peter Parker (1924–2002) — Chairman of the British Railways Board, 1976–1983
Clerics
- Nathaniel Crewe, 3rd Baron Crewe (1633–1721) — Bishop of Oxford, Bishop of Durham, Rector of Lincoln College
- William Richard Williams (1896–1962) — theologian
- Colin Winter (1928–1981) — bishop and anti-apartheid activist
Military and intelligence
- John Adye (born 1939) — former director of GCHQ
- David Craig, Baron Craig of Radley (born 1929) — House of Lords crossbencher and former Chief of the Defence Staff
- William Sholto Douglas (1893–1969) — RAF pilot and WWII military commander
- Jamie Shea (born 1953) — NATO spokesman
Politicians
- Peter Ainsworth (born 1956) — former MP
- Geoffrey Bing (1909–1977) — former MP
- Bill Cash (born 1940) — MP for Stone
- Peter Durack (1926–2008) — Australian politician and Attorney-General of Australia
- Edward Fitzalan-Howard, 18th Duke of Norfolk (born 1956) — Earl Marshal
- Nick Hawkins (born 1957) — former MP
- Oliver Smith (born 1993) — Youngest branch party president in British political history for The Liberal Democrats
- J.A. Hobson (1858–1940) — Liberal thinker and political theorist
- David Lewis (1909–1981) — Canadian MP and leader of the New Democratic Party
- James Lupton, donated £2.5 million to the Conservative Party and received a peerage
- Shabana Mahmood — MP for Birmingham Ladywood
- John Morley (1838–1923) — Liberal statesman and writer
- Noel Newton Nethersole (1903–1959) — Jamaican cricketer and politician, founder of the Bank of Jamaica
- Chukwuemeka Ojukwu (1933-2011) — Biafran secessionist
- Daniel Poneman (born 1956) — United States Deputy Secretary of Energy
- Mel Reynolds (born 1952) — disgraced former United States Representative from Illinois
- Sir John Stanley (born 1942) — MP for Tonbridge and Malling
Professionals
- Sir Edmund Anderson (1530–1605) — Chief Justice of the Common Pleas
- James Burge (1925–2010) — English criminal law barrister, original inspiration for the fictional barrister Rumpole of the Bailey
- Horace Byatt (1875–1933) — governor of Somaliland, Tanganyika, and Trinidad and Tobago
- John Dew (born 1952) — diplomat and ambassador
- Nicholas Hilliard (born 1959) — Common Serjeant of London
- Sir Donald Limon (1932-2012) – Clerk of the House of Commons
- Sir Andrew Longmore (born 1944) — Lord Justice of Appeal
- Sir Robert Rogers (parliamentary official) (born 1950) – Clerk of the House of Commons
Sportsmen
- Will Bratt (born 1988) — racing driver
- Steph Cook (born 1972) — modern pentathlete and Olympic gold medallist
- Rowland George (1905–1997) — rower and Olympic gold medallist
Academics, fellows and tutors
Howard Florey - Nobel Prize recipient and Fellow of Lincoln College
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- Edward Abraham (Sir Edward) (Fellow 1948–1999)
- Peter Atkins (Fellow 1965–2007, Acting Rector 2007)
- Howard Florey (Lord Florey) (Fellow 1934–1962)
- Susan Greenfield (Fellow 1985–present)
- Norman Heatley (Fellow 1948-1978, Supernumerary Fellow 1978–2004)
- Keith Murray (Fellow 1937–1993, Rector 1944–1953)
- Mark Pattison (Fellow 1839–1884, Rector 1861–1884)
- John Potter (Fellow 1694–1747)
- John Radcliffe (Fellow 1670–1675)
- Nevil Sidgwick (Fellow 1901–1958)
- John Wesley — theologian and founder of Methodism
- Vivian H. H. Green (Fellow 1951–2005, Rector 1983–1987)
- Paul Langford (Fellow 1970–2015, Rector 2000–2012)
- Walter Fraser Oakeshott (Academic and discoverer of the Winchester Manuscript of Le Morte d'Arthur) (Rector 1954-1972)
