This is a list of notable people affiliated with Trinity College at Oxford University, England. It includes former students, current and former academics and fellows, as listed in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography or another available source. The overwhelming maleness of this list is explained by the fact that for over 90% of its history (from its foundation in 1555 until 1979), Trinity was an all-male institution.

Former students

Academics and explorers

Nigel Anderson John Aubrey Herbert Edward Douglas Blakiston Sir Richard Burton (sent down) Kenneth Clark John White Vincent Cronin Mamoru Imura Miles Kington Wlodzimierz Julian Korab-Karpowicz Sir Arthur Norrington William Gifford Palgrave Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch

Scientists, engineers and mathematicians

Sir John Boreham Keith J. Laidler Henry Moseley Justin Stebbing Sir Harold Thompson

Artists and broadcasters Ralph Arnold Laurence Binyon George Butterworth Justin Cartwright Joyce Cary Lionel Chetwynd Sir John Denham E. R. Eddison Richard Foster David Green Basil Harwood Ben Judah Kit Lambert Walter Savage Landor William Lisle Bowles Thomas Lodge A. E. W. Mason Edward Powys Mathers James Michie"James Michie" (obituary), The Independent, 21 November 2007, accessed 8 June 2023 John Middleton Murry Sir Terence Rattigan William Russell Christopher Tolkien Simon Tolkien David Walter David Yates Michael Geller-Gieleta

Business Sir Angus Ogilvy John Preston (1950-2017), music industry executive Sir William Stuttaford Sir Peter Stothard Huw van Steenis Tunku Varadarajan

Clergy and theology

Aubrey Aitken Sidney Alexander John Arnold George Blackwell Henry Joy Fynes-Clinton John Gilbert Rupert Hoare Kenneth Kirk (Chaplain 1922–33) Robert MacCarthy Christopher Oswald Miles James Newcome John Henry Newman George Rawlinson Archibald Robertson John Rogers Montague Summers

Diplomats, civil servants and colonial administrators Sir George Bowen Harold Caccia, Baron Caccia Sir Edward Gent Vere Henry Hobart, Lord Hobart Sir Donald MacGillivray Albrecht von Bernstorff Sir Thomas Drew Sir Patrick Walker Sir Patrick Moberly

Lawyers Sir Edward Atkinson Peter Birks Rayner Goddard, Baron Goddard (former Lord Chief Justice) Philip Seaforth James John Lewger, first secretary and attorney general of Maryland, United States John McNeill, Crown Advocate of the British Supreme Court for China and chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association

Military Captain Noel Godfrey Chavasse Major General Lord Michael Fitzalan-Howard Flight Lieutenant Richard Hillary, RAFVR Henry Ireton Lieutenant General Frank Klotz, USAF Sarah Oakley, Royal Navy officerCaptain S. E. Oakley Royal Navy Captain Britannia Royal Naval College profile at royalnavy.mod.uk, accessed 7 November 2022 Squadron Leader Dinghy Young, RAFVR

Politicians

Sports people Andrew Comrie-Picard, X Games medallist and Hollywood stuntman Simon Danielli, rugby union player for Ulster and Scotland Walter Henderson, Olympic athlete Frederic Hugh Lee (1855–1924), Trinity College matriculant (1874), England rugby international and Registrar of the Court of Arches Constantine Louloudis, rower, bronze medallist in the 2012 Summer Olympics and gold medallist in the 2016 Summer Olympics Bevil Rudd, Olympic athlete Bonnie St. John, medal-winning Paralympic skier Henry Melvin 'Dinghy' Young, RAF pilot and rower in the 1938 Boat Race

Miscellaneous Michele Acton, Principal, St Hugh's College, Oxford Sir Arthur fforde Phil Harvey, Coldplay Frank Luntz Kate Mavor, Principal of St Cross College, Oxford Ross McWhirter Tom Riordan

Journalists Patrick Cockburn Adrian Michaels Michael Peel

Fictional characters Fictional former students include Jay Gatsby, the title character of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby who attends Trinity briefly after World War I, and Tiger Tanaka, an ally of James Bond in Ian Fleming's 1964 novel You Only Live Twice who receives a first in PPE before World War II.

Recent books in which Trinity features prominently are:

Fellows

John Michael Hammersley (1920–2004), mathematician Sir Cyril Hinshelwood (1897–1967), physical chemist; Nobel laureate Sir Henry Stuart Jones (1867–1939), classicist Martin Kemp (born 1942), art historian Ronald Knox (1888–1957), theologian Hans Adolf Krebs (1900–1981), biologist; Nobel laureate David Lambert Lack (1910–1973), evolutionary biologist Michael Maclagan (1914–2003), historian Rodney Robert Porter (1917–1985), biochemist; Nobel laureate Sir Edwin Southern (born 1938), molecular biologist Sir Ronald Syme (1903–1989), ancient historian Gail Trimble (born 1982), classicist Thomas Warton (1728–1790), historian and poet

Presidents

The head of Trinity College, Oxford, is titled the president.

16th century Thomas Slythurst (1556–1559; first president) Arthur Yeldard (1559–1599) Ralph Kettell (1599–1643)

17th century Hannibal Potter (1643–1648; first term) Robert Harris (1648–1658) Seth Ward (1659–1660) Hannibal Potter (1660–1664; second term) Ralph Bathurst (1664–1704)

18th century Thomas Sykes (1704–1705) William Dobson (1706–1731) George Huddesford (1731–1776) Joseph Chapman (1776–1808)

19th century Thomas Lee (1808–1824) James Ingram (1824–1850) Samuel William Wayte (1866–1878) John Percival (1879–1887) Henry George Woods (1887–1897) Henry Francis Pelham (1897–1907)

20th century Herbert Edward Douglas Blakiston (1907–1938) J. R. H. Weaver (1938–1954) Arthur Norrington (1954–1970) Alexander George Ogston (1970–1978) Anthony Quinton (1978–1987) John Burgh (1987–1996) Michael Beloff (1996–2006)

21st century Sir Ivor Roberts (2006–2017) Dame Hilary Boulding (2017–2025) Sir Robert Chote (2025–present)

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