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The following is a list of notable people associated with Balliol College, Oxford, including alumni and Masters of the college. When available, year of matriculation is provided in parentheses, as listed in the relevant edition of The Balliol College Register or in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Complete (or very nearly complete) lists of Fellows and students, arranged by year of matriculation, can be found in the published Balliol College Register; the 1st edition,[1] 2nd edition[2] and 3rd edition.[3]

This list of notable alumni consists almost entirely of men, because women were admitted to the college only from 1979.[4] To assist with verification, each name links to its Wikipedia page (except for those so ancient that no page exists). Each name only appears once in the lists, even though the person may have established themselves in more than one category.

Alumni

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Economists

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Stephanie Flanders 1986 public economics
Gavyn Davies 1972 Chair of the BBC
Deepak Nayyar 1967 development economics Rhodes Scholar
Patrick Minford 1961 macroeconomics Brexit advocate
Lester Thurow 1960 political economics Head to Head: The Coming Economic Battle Among Japan, Europe and America
Peter Donaldson 1953 economics education
Michael Posner 1950 international trade UK economic advisor
Walter Rostow 1936 economic growth US National Security Advisor
Sir Donald MacDougall 1931 public policy Head Government Economic Service [5]
Sir John Hicks 1922 general equilibrium theory Nobel Prize
G. D. H. Cole 1908 co-operative movement
Sir William Beveridge 1897 social policy founder, welfare state in the United Kingdom
William George Stewart Adams 1896 social science created Oxford philosophy, politics and economics course
Sir William Ashley 1878 economic history
Francis Edgeworth 1868 utility theory FBA
Charles Stanton Devas 1867 political economics Catholic apologist
Adam Smith 1740 The Wealth of Nations

Banking and finance, businesss

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Public intellectuals

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Law

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Judges

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Thomas Bingham
John Marshall Harlan II Supreme Court of the United States Associate Justice

Lawyers

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Music

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Chess

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  • Raaphi Persitz 1953 chess master, financial journalist and chess writer
  • Leonard Barden 1949 chess master, activist and journalist
  • Sir Theodore Tylor 1918 Fellow, blind, jurisprudence don, chess master
  • H. J. R. Murray 1887 school inspector, chess historian, "The History of Chess", son of the editor of the Oxford English Dictionary

Political journalists

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Robert Peston, ITV Political editor

Poets

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Hilaire Belloc
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Literary scholars

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Henry Sweet

Newspaper editors

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Television and film

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Peter Snow, television presenter

Security, Military and Intelligence

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John Aidan Liddell VC MC

Educators and school teachers

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Nick Bevan 1960 Shiplake College headmaster
Alec Peterson 1926 International Baccalaureate head of Oxford University Department of Education
John Fulton 1923 British Council chair of British Council
Robert Birley 1922 Eton College headmaster
Sir Henry Marten 1891 Eton College Provost of Eton

tutor to Princess Elizabeth later Queen Elizabeth II
Richard Powell Francis 1879 Brisbane Grammar School first Australian to graduate from Balliol [10]
George Ferris Whidborne Mortimer 1823 City of London School headmaster

Abolitionist
Richard Jenkyns 1800 Balliol College Master, educational innovator

Philosophers

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Toby Ord 2003 Effective altruism Founded Giving What We Can

The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity
Katherine Hawley 1989 metaphysics How Things Persist 2002

How To Be Trustworthy 2020
John Tasioulas 1989 moral philosophy Rhodes Scholar

Professor of Ethics and Legal Philosophy
Herman Cappelen 1987 Philosophy of language Professor of Philosophy, Hong Kong

Bad Language (with Josh Dever)
OUP 2019
Michael Otsuka 1986 Political philosophy Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers

Libertarianism Without Inequality
OUP 2003
Robert Maximilian de Gaynesford 1986 Philosophy of language Professor of Philosophy, Reading

I: The Meaning of the First Person Term
Clarendon 2006
Stephen Mulhall 1984 German philosophy Fellow, New College

The Great Riddle: Wittgenstein and Nonsense, Theology and Philosophy, OUP 2015
Cheryl Misak 1984 pragmatism Rhodes Scholar, FRSC
Professor of Philosophy, Toronto

Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers, OUP 2020
Paul W. Franks 1983 Jewish philosophy Professor of Philosophy, Yale

All or Nothing: Skepticism, Transcendental Arguments and Systematicity in German Idealism, HUP 2005
Ian Rumfitt 1983 Philosophy of language FBA, Fellow, All Souls

The Boundary Stones of Thought, Clarendon 2015
Adrian William Moore 1979 Metaphysics FBA, Professor of Philosophy, Oxford

The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics: Making Sense of Things, CUP 2012
Michael Sandel 1975 Political philosophy Rhodes Scholar, Professor of Government, Harvard

Justice: the right things to do, popular Harvard course
Timothy Williamson 1974 Philosophical logic Wykeham Professor of Logic, Fellow of New College

Knowledge and Its Limits OUP 2000
Hilary Lawson 1973 Anti-realism Founded the Institute of Art and Ideas
Joseph Raz 1972 Jurisprudence FBA, Fellow

The Concept of a Legal System: An Introduction to the Theory of a Legal System, 2nd Ed OUP 1980
William Newton-Smith 1967 Philosophy of science Fellow

The Rationality of Science, Routledge 1981
Arthur Prior 1967 temporal logic Fellow

Time and Modality, OUP 1957
Kit Fine 1964 Philosophical logic Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics, New York

Vagueness: A Global Approach OUP 2020
Sir Anthony Kenny 1964 Philosophy of mind Master

A New History of Western Philosophy OUP 2010
Roy Bhaskar 1963 critical realism Master

A Realist Theory of Science, Verso 1975
Sir Neil MacCormick 1963 Jurisprudence FRS, FRSE, Fellow
Regius Chair of Public Law, Edinburgh
MEP

Law, State and Practical Reason, OUP 2011
Derek Parfit 1961 Moral philosophy Fellow at All Souls

Reasons and Persons OUP 1984
Hans Sluga 1960 German philosophy Professor, Berkeley

The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein CUP 1996
Alan Ryan 1959 Political philosophy FBA, Professor of Politics, Oxford

The Philosophy of John Stuart Mill MacMillan 1970
Charles Taylor 1952 Political philosophy FRSC, Rhodes Scholar, Professor at McGill

A Secular Age HUP 2007
Alan Montefiore 1948 European philosophy Fellow

A Modern Introduction to Moral PhilosophyRoutledge 1958
John Lucas 1947 Philosophy of mathematics FBA, Fellow at Merton College

Minds, Machines and Gödel 1959
Sir Bernard Williams 1947 Moral philosophy FBA, Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy, Cambridge
White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford

Utilitarianism: For and Against CUP 1973

Social and political theorists

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Philanthropists

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Colonial administrators

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Politicians

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Currently active

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Boris Johnson, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Yvette Cooper, British Labour politician, former Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Members of Parliament
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House of Lords
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Deceased members of the House of Lords since 2000

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MPs and MEPs who completed service after 2020

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MPs and MEPs who completed service 2001 - 2020

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UK politicians active post-world war II

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Roy Jenkins, British Labour politician, former Home Secretary
Denis Healey, British Labour politician, former Chancellor of the Exchequer
Edward Heath, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

UK politicians active between World War I and World War II

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Lord Curzon
H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

UK politicians pre-World War I

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Monarchs, statesmen, politicians and public servants in non-UK countries

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Richard von Weizsäcker

Theologians and clergy

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John Wycliffe
Cardinal Manning
Shoghi Effendi Rabbani, head of the Baháʼí Faith (1921–1957)

Sport

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Other

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Fictional

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Notable applicants who were not matriculated

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Balliol Chancellors of Oxford University

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Masters of Balliol

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Main article: List of masters of Balliol College, Oxford

Balliol is run by the Master and Fellows of the college. The Master of the college must be "the person who is, in [the Fellows'] judgement, most fit for the government of the College as a place of religion, learning, and education".[20] The current Master of Balliol is Helen Ghosh.[21]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Balliol College (University of Oxford); Jones, John; Viney, Sally; Hilliard, Edward; Elliott, Ivo d'Oyle; Lemon, Elsie (1914). The Balliol College Register (1st ed.). Oxford. Retrieved 25 March 2013.(1914, covering matriculations 1832-1914)
  2. ^ Balliol College (University of Oxford) (1934). The Balliol College Register (2nd ed.). Oxford. Retrieved 25 March 2013.(1934, covering matriculations 1833-1933)
  3. ^ Balliol College (University of Oxford) (1953). The Balliol College Register (3rd ed.). Oxford. Retrieved 25 March 2013.(1953, covering matriculations 1900-1950)
  4. ^ "Balliol Women: Some Alumnae of the College | Balliol College, University of Oxford". www.balliol.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
  5. ^ Peden, G. C. "MacDougall, Sir (George) Donald Alastair (1912–2004)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/93612. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  6. ^ 'RIDLEY, Sir Adam (Nicholas)', in Who's Who 2014 (London: A. & C. Black, 2014)
  7. ^ "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/22543. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  8. ^ Singh, Olivia. "Denzel Washington addresses paying for 'Black Panther' star Chadwick Boseman's acting classes: 'Wakanda Forever, but where's my money?'". Insider. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
  9. ^ [https://www.ukwhoswho.com/display/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-16236 "Foulkes, Sir Nigel (Gordon)" in Who's Who online, accessed 21 October 2023 (subscription required)
  10. ^ "Memorial inscriptions". Balliol College Archives & Manuscripts. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
  11. ^ https://www.alumniweb.ox.ac.uk/balliol/about-the-westerman-pathfinders
  12. ^ ONDB
  13. ^ "William A. Coolidge".
  14. ^ https://www.alumniweb.ox.ac.uk/balliol/about-the-westerman-pathfinders
  15. ^ "William A. Coolidge Dies; Sheehan Gathering". 3 June 1992.
  16. ^ "Archives & Manuscripts - Memorial inscriptions". Balliol College. 2017. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  17. ^ Selinger-Morris, Samantha (12 August 2020). "Who is Maxwell and what is she charged with?". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  18. ^ Avrion, Mitchison. "Getting into New College, Oxford". Web of Stories. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
  19. ^ Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas. National Archives.; CP 40 / 677; in 1430; Thomas Chace appears as first name, but as defendant in a case of debt, brought by Thomas Coventre.
  20. ^ Statute II "The Master", clause 1
  21. ^ "Election of New Master". Balliol College, Oxford. 18 March 2011. Retrieved 25 June 2011.
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