List of Lincoln College people

A list of Lincoln College people, including former students, Fellows, Honorary Fellows and Rectors of the college of the University of Oxford.

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

Craig Mullaney

• 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

Jamie Shea

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

John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

• 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

• 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)