A list of alumni of Hertford College, Oxford, including alumni of its two predecessor institutions, Hart Hall and Magdalen Hall.

Hart Hall (1282–1740)

Joseph Bowles, Bodley's Librarian Thomas Bray, clergyman and abolitionist Saint Alexander Briant, Jesuit martyr Henry Bromley, politician Reginald Scot, politician, author Morgan Coleman, MP for Newport, Cornwall John Donne, poet, Anglican priest Payne Fisher, poet Nicholas Fuller, Hebraist, philologist John Glynne, jurist Peter Heylyn, polemicist John Hutchins, antiquary Thomas Manton, Puritan clergyman and chaplain to Oliver Cromwell John Norden, cartographer Henry Pelham, British Whig Prime Minister John Selden, jurist, MP for Oxford University George Augustus Selwyn, politician Thomas Shirley, politician, soldier, adventurer, and privateer Jonathan Swift, satirist, poet, Anglican priest, author of Gulliver's Travels Henry Swinburne, ecclesiastical lawyer

Hertford College, first foundation 1740–1816

Charles James Fox, Whig statesman John Hippisley, politician, diplomat

Magdalen Hall, old site 1480–1822

Robert Ashley, writer Daniel Burgess, Presbyterian minister Matthew Bryan, Jacobite preacher Walter Charleton, Epicurean philosopher Samuel Daniel, poet, historian Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Justice Thomas Hobbes, political philosopher, author of Leviathan John Huckell, poet Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, historian, statesman John Gilbert, Archbishop of York Narcissus Marsh, Primate of All Ireland Richard Morton, physician Philip Nye, clergyman and member of the Westminster Assembly of Divines Robert Plot, naturalist, first Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford, and first Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum John Rickman, statistician Obadiah Sedgwick, clergyman and member of the Westminster Assembly of Divines George Shaw, biologist Fleetwood Sheppard, courtier William Tyndale, Bible translator, Reformation martyr Henry Vane the Younger, Parliamentarian statesman Sir Ralph Verney, 1st Baronet, of Middle Claydon, politician William Waller, Parliamentarian soldier John Wilkins, naturalist, Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, and founder of the Royal Society Benjamin Woodbridge, clergyman and controversialist

Magdalen Hall, new site 1822–1874 Montagu Burrows, first Chichele Professor of Modern History William Robinson Clark, theologian William Cowper, first Dean of Sydney John Thadeus Delane, journalist Clement Jackson, founder of the Amateur Athletic Association Arthur Mayo VC, soldier Francis McDougall, first Anglican bishop of Labuan and the Kingdom of Sarawak Brownlow North, evangelist Thorold Rogers, political economist William Williams, first Anglican Bishop of Waiapu, New Zealand Leonard Williams, third Bishop of Waiapu (son of William Williams) Nathaniel Woodard, Priest in the Church of England, founder of the Woodard Corporation

Hertford College, second foundation 1874– Richard Addinsell, composer of film music Helen Alexander, businesswoman C. A. J. Armstrong, historian Sharon Ashbrook, chemist Bernard Ashmole, archaeologist, art historian Andrea Ashworth, author, academic Christopher Ballinas Valdés, Mexican public policy expert and civil servant Edmund Bartley-Denniss, politician and cyclist Charles Bean, war correspondent and historian John Behan, educationist, jurist Marian Bell, economist Catherine Bennett, journalist David Blomfield, leader of the Liberal Party group on Richmond upon Thames Council, writer, book editor and local historian Martin Bridson FRS, mathematician Jasmine Brown, author Isaac Hawkins Browne, industrialist Fiona Bruce, BBC newsreader Rupert Bruce-Mitford, archaeologist and scholar Anthony Bushell, actor Carole Cadwalladr, journalist Walter Carey, clergyman Victor Cha, national security specialist Jean Chapdelaine, diplomat Calvin Cheng, Singapore modelling agency head, former Nominated Member of Parliament William Robinson Clark, theologian Wesley Coe, Olympic athlete Nick Cohen, political journalist Geoffrey Corbett, civil servant and mountaineer'Sir G. L. Corbett' in The Times, issue 47832 dated 3 November 1937, p. 16 W. Maxwell Cowan, neuroscientist Sherard Cowper-Coles, diplomat George Dangerfield, journalist, historian Daniel Dennett, philosopher of the mind David Dilks, historian Jack Herbert Driberg, anthropologist Bill Duff, Arabist Jack Duppa-Miller, sailor Alfred Earle, bishop J. Meade Falkner, novelist, The Lost Stradivarius Richard W. Fisher, diplomat Warren Fisher, civil servant Adam Fleming, BBC newsreader Thomas Fletcher, diplomat Nicholas Foulkes, historian, journalist Henry Sanderson Furniss, 1st Baron Sanderson, socialist educationalist Helen Ghosh, Master of Balliol College, Oxford, former Director-General of the National Trust. Pinny Grylls, documentary film maker Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Channel 4 newsreader Gideon Henderson, geochemist, climate-change scientist Nicholas Henderson, diplomat Jeremy Heywood, civil servant Leonard Hodgson, church historian Eric Hussey, Olympic athlete Jeffrey John, Dean of St Alban's Cathedral James John Joicey, amateur entomologist Mark S. Joshi, financial mathematician Natasha Kaplinsky, ITN newsreader Khalid Jawed Khan, Attorney General of Pakistan Soweto Kinch, jazz saxophonist, rapper Mark A. Lemmon FRS, Chair of Pharmacology at Yale University School of Medicine Seth Lerer, literary critic Alain LeRoy Locke, writer of the Harlem Renaissance Jurek Martin, journalist Ronald Martland, former justice of the Supreme Court of Canada Gavin Maxwell, naturalist, author of Ring of Bright Water Arthur Mayo, recipient of the Victoria Cross Roland Michener, former Governor General of Canada Dom Mintoff, former Prime Minister of Malta Ian Morison FRAS, 35th Gresham Professor of Astronomy John Shannon Munn, Cricketer and businessman David Naylor, medical researcher Edward Max Nicholson, founder of the World Wildlife Fund Richard Norton-Taylor, journalist, playwright Elizabeth Norton, historian and author Richard Parsons, founder of CGP Guides Peter Pears, tenor Barbara A. Perry, constitutional lawyer James Pettifer, scholar of the Balkans Bridget Phillipson, MP for Houghton and Sunderland South Tracey Poirier, Rhodes Scholar, first female Vermont Army National Guard general officer Maisie Richardson-Sellers, actor Nigel Saul, historian Joseph Gordon Saunders, composer Jacqui Smith, former British Home Secretary David Spedding, former Head of MI6 Manisha Tank, CNN newsreader Thum Ping Tjin, the first Singaporean to swim the English Channel Ed Vulliamy, journalist and world reporter Evelyn Waugh, author of Brideshead Revisited, journalist Roger Westbrook, diplomat Byron White, U.S. Associate Supreme Court Justice Athol Williams, South African poet and social philosopher Tobias Wolff, author of This Boy's Life Nathaniel Woodard, educationalist Alison Young, legal scholar, Sir David Williams Professor of Public Law at the University of Cambridge

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