List of alumni of St John's College, Oxford

A list of alumni of St John's College, Oxford, former students of the college of the University of Oxford.

Politicians in the United Kingdom

Name	M	Degree	Notes	Ref
Ali, RushanaraRushanara Ali	1993	BA PPE	Labour MP for Bethnal Green and Bow (2010-)	[1] [2]
Bayntun, EdwardEdward Bayntun	1636		MP for Devizes and Calne at various points between 1640-1679	[3]
Blair, TonyTony Blair (HF)	1972	BA Jurisprudence (2nd, 1975)	Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1997-2007); Labour MP for Sedgefield (1983-2007)	[4][5][6]
Burley, AidanAidan Burley	1998	BA Theology	Conservative MP for Cannock Chase (2010-2015)	[7][2]
Burt, AlistairAlistair Burt	1974	BA Jurisprudence (1977)	Conservative MP for Bury North (1983-1997) and North East Bedfordshire (2001-)	[2]
Duncan, AlanAlan Duncan	1976	BA PPE (1979)	Conservative MP for Rutland and Melton (1992-)	[8][2]
Eagle, AngelaAngela Eagle	1980	BA PPE	Labour MP for Wallasey (1992-)	[2]
Grogan, JohnJohn Grogan	1979	BA History and Economics (1982)	Labour MP for Selby (1997-2010)	[9][2]
Heath, DavidDavid Heath	1972	MA Physiological Sciences	Liberal Democrat MP for Somerton and Frome (1997-2015)	[10][2]
Howell, JohnJohn Howell	1978	DPhil Archaeology	Conservative MP for Henley (2008-)	[2]
McClymont, GreggGregg McClymont	1999	DPhil History	Labour MP for Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East (2010-2015)	[2]
Smith, AndrewAndrew Smith	1969	BA PPE, BPhil	Labour MP for Oxford East (1987-); Chief Secretary to the Treasury (1999-2002); Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (2002-2004)	[2]
Tredinnick, DavidDavid Tredinnick	1981	MLitt	Conservative MP for Bosworth (1987-)	[2]

• George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave
• Charles Cripps, 1st Baron Parmoor
• Henry Croke
• Edward du Cann
• William Duckett, MP
• Gwynfor Evans, former President of Plaid Cymru and first MP
• John Gilbert, Baron Gilbert
• Robert Henley, 1st Earl of Northington
• Richard Holme, Baron Holme of Cheltenham
• Leslie Hore-Belisha, 1st Baron Hore-Belisha
• Peter Mews of Hinton Admiral
• Rhodri Morgan, former First Minister of Wales
• John Parker, MP
• Thomas Russell
• John Smith, 17th-century Chancellor of the Exchequer
• Shaun Spiers
• Michael Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham
• William Trumbull
• Henry Wallop
• Samuel Whitbread
• Francis Windebank
• Sir Richard Wrottesley, 7th Baronet

Politicians and royalty of other countries

Name	M	Degree	Notes	Ref
Chatikavanij, KornKorn Chatikavanij	1983	BA PPE	Thailand Finance Minister (2008-2011)	[11][12]
Fumihito, PrincePrince Fumihito	1988	-	Visiting graduate student at the Department of Zoology; Prince Akishino of Japan	[13][14]
Gallop, GeoffGeoff Gallop	1972	BA PPE (2nd, 1974)	Rhodes Scholar; 27th Premier of Western Australia (2001-2006)	[15][16][17]
Otunnu, OlaraOlara Otunnu	1973	BA Jurisprudence	St John's Overseas Scholar; Uganda's Ambassador to the United Nations (1980-1985); President of the International Peace Academy (1990-1998); UN Under-Secretary General and Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict (1998 - 2005); President of the Uganda People's Congress (2010-)	[18][19][20][21]
Pearson, Lester B.Lester B. Pearson (HF, 1946)	1921	BA Modern History (2nd, 1923), MA (1925)	Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1957); 14th Prime Minister of Canada (1963-1968)	[22][23]
Rusk, DeanDean Rusk	1931	BS (1933), MA (1934)	Rhodes Scholar; Secretary of State of the United States (1961-1969)	[24][25]
Robinson, A. N. R.A. N. R. Robinson (HF)	1951	BA PPE (2nd, 1953), MA	3rd Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (1986-1991); 3rd President of Trinidad and Tobago (1997-2003)	[26][6]
Scott, CraigCraig Scott	1984	BA Jurisprudence (1986, 1st)	Rhodes Scholar; Canadian politician	[27]
Vejjajiva, AbhisitAbhisit Vejjajiva	1983	BA PPE (1st), MPhil	27th Prime Minister of Thailand (2008-2011)	[11][28]

• Diego Massimiliano De Giorgi, Visiting research student at the Faculty of Law; Head of the House of Giorgi (2014–)

Civil servants and diplomats

• Alan Bailey, formerly Permanent Secretary, Department of Transport^[6]
• Charles Crawford, Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Bosnia and Herzegovina (1996–98), Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Yugoslavia (2001–03), Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Poland (2003–07)
• David Faulkner, civil servant
• David Frost, Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Denmark (2006–08), CEO of the Scotch Whisky Association (2014–)
• Sadayuki Hayashi, former Ambassador of Japan to the Court of St. James^[6]
• Arnold Heeney
• Geoffrey Holland, former Permanent Secretary, Department of Employment and Department of Education and Vice-Chancellor, Exeter University; Chairman, Quality Improvement Agency^[6]
• Khoo Boon Hui, president of INTERPOL ^[29][30]
• Matthew Kirk, Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Finland (2002–06), Group External Affairs Director at Vodafone (2006–)
• Frank Newsam
• Michael Partridge, former Permanent Secretary, Department of Social Security; Pro-Chancellor and Governor, Middlesex University^[6]
• John Rickard
• R. James Woolsey, Jr., United States Under Secretary of the Navy (1977–79), 16th Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (1993–95)

Judges and lawyers

• James Eyre, judge
• Gérard La Forest, former Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
• Keith Lindblom
• John Nicholl
• Stephen Richards, Lord Justice
• John Silvester, Recorder of London
• Mark Warby, judge
• James Whitelocke

Clergy

Saints, blessed and archbishops of Canterbury

Name	M	Degree	Notes	Ref
Campion, EdmundEdmund Campion (F)	c. 1557	-	Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, martyr and saint	[31]
James, EdwardEdward James	c. 1575	-	Roman Catholic priest, martyr and saint	[31]
Juxon, WilliamWilliam Juxon (F)	1598	BCL (1603), DCL (1621)	President of St John's (1621-1633); Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford (1626-1628); Lord High Treasurer (1636-1641); 77th Archbishop of Canterbury (1660-1663)	[31][32]
Laud, WilliamWilliam Laud (F)	1589	BA (1594), MA (1598)	President of St John's (1611-1621); Chancellor of the University of Oxford (1630-1641); 76th Archbishop of Canterbury (1633-1645)	[33]
Roberts, JohnJohn Roberts	1596	-	Roman Catholic Benedictine monk, priest, martyr and saint	[31][34]

Other bishops

• Alfred Averill, Archbishop of New Zealand
• Paul Barber
• John Buckeridge
• Robert Hay, Bishop of Buckingham
• Kenneth Kirk
• Peter Mews
• Hugh Montefiore
• Edwin Morris, Archbishop of Wales
• Peter Selby
• David Wilcox
• Kenneth Woollcombe

Other priests

• Frederick Copleston
• Edward Drax Free
• Vicesimus Knox
• Peter Thomson

Journalists and writers

• Mark Abley, poet and journalist
• Kingsley Amis, novelist
• Daniel Blythe, author
• Ivor Bulmer-Thomas
• David Chater, award-winning British television foreign correspondent
• Tom Chatfield, author
• Victoria Coren Mitchell
• Edmund Crispin
• Evan Davis, journalist
• Janine Gibson, journalist ^[35]
• Robert Graves, poet
• John Lawrence Hammond, journalist and editor
• A. E. Housman, poet
• Simon Jenkins, journalist and editor
• John Lanchester
• Philip Larkin, poet and librarian
• Bronwen Maddox
• Vic Marks, journalist and cricketer^[36]
• Timothy Mo, novelist
• Peter Preston, journalist and editor
• Alan Ross
• Hugh Schofield, BBC Paris correspondent
• James Shirley
• J. K. Stanford
• D. J. Taylor
• James Townley
• Jason Webster
• Norman Webster, journalist and editor
• John Wain
• Henry Willobie, poet
• Jonathan Wright, journalist and translator

Sports

• John Davis, Welsh cricketer
• William Evans, Welsh international footballer
• Mike Fitzpatrick, footballer
• Christopher Penny, American rower, 1988 Blue Boat, Olympic silver medallist
• Barbara Slater, sports producer and gymnast^[37]
• Chris Tavare, England international cricketer
• John Young, cricketer^[38]

Name	M	Degree	Notes	Ref
Howitt Browning, JenniferJennifer Howitt Browning	2005	MPhil Development Studies (2007)	Rhodes Scholar. 2004 Athens Paralympics Wheelchair Basketball  Gold medal for the USA.	[39][40][41]
Joseph, RosaraRosara Joseph	2006	BCL, DPhil (2011)	Rhodes Scholar from New Zealand. 2005 Oceania Mountain Biking champion. 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games  Silver medal. 2008 Beijing Olympics Women's Mountainbike Cross-Country 9th.	[42][43][44]
Salmeen, AnnetteAnnette Salmeen	1997	DPhil Biochemistry (2001)	Rhodes Scholar. 1996 Atlanta Olympics Swimming (800m freestyle relay)  Gold medal for the USA.	[41][45]

Others

• Robert G. W. Anderson, museum curator
• Cyril Beeson, entomologist and forest conservator
• Trevor Bench-Capon, computer scientist
• Ian Bostridge, tenor^[46]
• Christopher Brewin
• Hector Catling, archaeologist^[47]
• Winston Churchill
• Jared Cohen, Director of Google Ideas think-tank
• John Cottingham
• Reginald de Koven
• Andrew Dilnot
• Henry Ellis, librarian
• Reginald John Farrer
• Antony Flew, philosopher
• Robert Fludd
• Paul Grice, philosopher (fellow 1939-1967, not an alumnus)^[48]
• Ronald Gurner
• Tyrone Guthrie, theatre director and producer^[49]
• Peter Hacker, philosopher (fellow 1966-present, not an alumnus)
• Ralph Hartley
• Eric Heaton
• Gilbert Highet
• Roger Howell, Jr.
• Frank Kearton, Baron Kearton
• Riad al Khouri, Economist; former Dean of the Business School, Lebanese French University, Iraq; currently Director, Middle East, GeoEconomic GmbH, Geneva
• Jason Kingsley, Rebellion Developments co-founder^[50]
• Alexander Leeper, Australian educationist
• Henry Longueville Mansel
• Sir John Marsham, 1st Baronet
• Edward Maufe, architect and designer
• Gilbert Murray, classical scholar
• Yannis Philippakis
• Alfred W. Pollard
• Quilla Constance, aka Jennifer Allen, fine artist
• William Mitchell Ramsay
• Sanjeev Sanyal, writer and economist
• Peter Frederick Strawson, philosopher^[51]
• Jethro Tull, agriculturist
• Stephen Wolfram

Fictional

• Inspector Morse, fictional TV crime series character, suggested to have won a scholarship

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