This is a list of notable people affiliated with New College, Oxford, including former students, and current and former academics and fellows. The college is a part of Oxford University, England. The disproportionate amount of men on this list is partially explained by the fact that for the first 600 years of its history, from its foundation in 1379 until 1979, women were barred from studying at New College.

Former students

14th to 19th centuries

Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury John Macleod Campbell Crum, priest and hymnwriterCrockford's Clerical Directory (1932), "Crum, John Macleod Campbell", p. 300. Sir T.W. Edgeworth David (1858–1934), geologist, polar explorer William Sealy Gosset, statistician William Howley, Archbishop of Canterbury (1828–1848) Thomas Hughes, footballer, won FA Cup twice in 1870s The Ven. John Ingram, English Jesuit and martyr Leopold George Wickham Legg, historian and editor of the Dictionary of National Biography“Legg, Leopold George Wickham” in Who Was Who 1961–1970 (A & C Black, 1979 reprint, ) William Pargeter, eighteenth-century physician known for his interest in mental illness Francis Turner, 17th century Bishop of Ely William Warham, former Archbishop of CanterburyWaad-Warwright Pages 1550-1577 Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714 William Waynflete, founder of Magdalen College and Lord Chancellor of England; doubtful if he was an alumnus. James Woodforde, clergymanBeresford, J. The Diary of a Country Parson, Oxford University Press, 1924, volume 1, p. 11

20th to 21st centuries

Simon Baron-Cohen, developmental psychopathologist Kate Beckinsale, actor Tony Benn, Labour Party politician

Katharine Birbalsingh, Headmistress and Founder of the Michaela Community SchoolWilby, Peter (27 February 2012). "Katharine Birbalsingh – undaunted by free school setback", The Guardian. Tim Boswell, life peer, former Conservative MP Gyles Brandreth, writer and broadcaster, Conservative MP for Chester

Gary Cooper, musician and conductor Michael Crick, journalistMatt Wells "The Guardian profile: Michael Crick", The Guardian (London), 17 October 2003 Richard Crossman, politician Rachel Cusk, author Angus Deayton, comedian, actor, television presenter William Douglas Home, dramatist and politician John Fowles, novelist

Stephen Eyre, High Court judge

Hugh Gaitskell, Labour Party leader (1955–63)

John Galsworthy, novelist and playwright

Peter Garwood (1931–2020), HM Inspector of Schools

William Henry Goschen, (1870-1943) KBE, banker Robert Goff, Baron Goff of Chieveley, British judge Victor Gollancz, publisher Denys Graham, actor Hugh Grant, actor

General Sir John Hackett, soldier J. B. S. Haldane, biologist

Adrian Holman, British diplomat

Douglas Jay, British Labour Party politician Robert Jay, Counsel to the Leveson Inquiry and judge of the High Court of Justice

Harold Laski, political theorist

Bernard Longley, Roman Catholic Archbishop of BirminghamArchbishop Longley. Birmingham Diocese

Neil MacGregor, art historian, director of the British Museum Outram Marshall, clergyman, organising secretary of the Church Union”Marshall, T. Outram”, in Society of the Holy Cross: The Romanising Conspirators at Work (London: Church Association, 1898) online at anglicanhistory.org

Michael Meacher, Labour Party politician Sir Frank Meyer, businessman and Conservative MP

Nathaniel Micklem, theologian, son of the above Peter Francis Middleton, pilot and grandfather of Catherine, Princess of Wales Alasdair Milne, BBC Director GeneralObituary: Alasdair Milne, telegraph.co.uk, 10 January 2013 Kate Mosse, novelist Sir Albert Napier, Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Office

Rageh Omaar, broadcast journalist

Rachel Reeves, the UK's first female Chancellor of the Exchequer George Renwick, Olympic athlete Susan Rice, American diplomat, policy advisor, and public official Sir Bernard Rix, Judge, a Lord Justice of Appeal

Alan Rodger, Baron Rodger of Earlsferry, Supreme Court judge

Oliver Russell, 2nd Baron Ampthill, Governor of Madras

Pardis Sabeti, geneticist Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi

Mel Smith, comedian and film director

Rick Stein, chef

Marc Tessier-Lavigne, neuroscientist

Frank Thompson, SOE officer

Daniel Topolski, freelance writer

David Verney, 21st Baron Willoughby de Broke, UKIP peer

Benjamin Whitaker Labour politician and former MP

Richard Wilberforce, Baron Wilberforce, judge and Lord of Appeal in Ordinary

Naomi Wolf, American feminist Owen Sheers, Welsh poet, novelist and playwright Lucy Worsley, historian, author and television presenter

Fellows and staff

A. J. Ayer, Wykeham Professor of logic Isaiah Berlin Alan Bullock Raymond Carr David Cecil Richard Dawkins, Biology Michael Dummett, Wykeham Professor of logic Robin Lane Fox, Ancient History J. B. S. Haldane (also an alumnus), Biology W. D. Hamilton, Biology G. H. Hardy H. L. A. Hart, Philosophy, Jurisprudence Nigel Hitchin, Savilian Professor of Geometry Julian Huxley, Biology Willis Lamb, Wykeham Professor of Physics Hermione Lee, first woman Professorial Fellow, from 1998 Jane Lightfoot Sir Henry Martin, MP for Oxford University, fellow 1582 (also alumnus) Rudolf Peierls, Wykeham Professor of Physics Craig Raine Marcus du Sautoy Jane Shaw, Dean of Divinity Jeremy Sheehy, Dean of Divinity Joe Silk, Savilian Professor of Astronomy William Archibald Spooner Christopher Tolkien Harold Wilson

Organists and directors of music

1694 John Weldon 1776 Philip Hayes 1825 Alfred Bennett 1830–60 Stephen Elvey 1860–69 George Benjamin Arnold 1870 James Taylor 1901 Hugh AllenThe Times, 21 February 1946, p. 7 1919 William Henry Harris 1929 John Dykes Bower 1933 Sydney Watson 1938 Herbert Kennedy Andrews 1956 Meredith Davies 1959 David Lumsden.Webb, Stanley and Paul Hale. "Lumsden, Sir David", Grove Music Online, Oxford University Press. Retrieved 27 November 2017 1976 Edward Higginbottom 2014 Robert Quinney

References

External links Emeritus, Honorary and Wykeham Fellows, New College, Oxford