This is a list of people from the University of Oxford in academic disciplines. Many were students at one (or more) of the colleges of the university, and others held fellowships at a college.
This list forms part of a series of lists of people associated with the University of Oxford; for other lists, please see the main article List of University of Oxford people.
Law
Theology and the study of religions
Historians
Classicists, Byzantinists and archaeologists
Modern languages
Philosophers
Economists
Geography
Denis Cosgrove (St Catherine's) Andrew Goudie (Hertford and St Cross) Emily Georgiana Kemp (Somerville) Janelle Knox-Hayes (Green Templeton) Diana Liverman (Linacre) Halford John Mackinder (Christ Church) Director LSE 1903–08, Member of Parliament 1910–22 Nick Middleton (St Anne's) Ann Varley
Anthropology and ethnography
Sociology
Politics, political philosophy, and international relations
Asian studies
Mathematicians and statisticians
Scientists Naturalists, botanists, and zoologists
Medicine
Psychologists, psychiatrists, and physiologists of the brain
Chemists
Physicists and astronomers Astronomers Royal Edmund Halley (The Queen's) 1720–42 James Bradley (Balliol) 1742–62 Nathaniel Bliss (Pembroke) 1762-64 Martin Ryle (Christ Church) 1972–82
Other physicists and astronomers
Computers, electronics, and robotics
Engineering and agriculture
Geology
Meteorology
Joanna Haigh (Somerville) Patrick McTaggart-Cowan (Corpus Christi)
References Dictionary of Welsh Biography (The Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion of London and National Library of Wales). Cited in references as: DWB.
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