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

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

Former students

  • Robert Alston, British diplomat
  • 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
  • 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
  • Bernard Longley, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham
  • 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
  • Frank R. Palmer, linguist, lecturer at the University of Reading
  • 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

    • Fellows and lecturers

  • A. J. Ayer, Wykeham Professor of logic
  • Isaiah Berlin
  • Alan Bullock
  • Paul Campbell
  • Raymond Carr
  • David Cecil
  • Richard Crossman
  • Richard Dawkins, Biology
  • Michael Dummett
  • Robin Lane Fox
  • J. B. S. Haldane (also an alumnus), Biology
  • W. D. Hamilton, Biology
  • G. H. Hardy
  • H. L. A. Hart
  • Nigel Hitchin
  • Julian Huxley, Biology
  • Willis Lamb
  • Hermione Lee
  • Rudolf Peierls
  • Craig Raine
  • Marcus du Sautoy
  • Jane Shaw
  • Joe Silk
  • William Archibald Spooner
  • Christopher Tolkien
  • Harold Wilson

    • References

    List of New College people Wikipedia
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