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The following is a list of notable people associated with Balliol College, Oxford, including alumni and Masters of the college. When available, year of matriculation is provided in parentheses, as listed in the relevant edition of The Balliol College Register or in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Complete (or very nearly complete) lists of Fellows and students, arranged by year of matriculation, can be found in the published Balliol College Register; the 1st edition,[1] 2nd edition[2] and 3rd edition.[3]

This list of notable alumni consists almost entirely of men, because women were admitted to the college only from 1979.[4] To assist with verification, each name links to its Wikipedia page (except for those so ancient that no page exists). Each name only appears once in the lists, even though the person may have established themselves in more than one category.

Alumni

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Media

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Newspaper editors

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date 		Publication Comments Refs
Martin Kettle 1967 The Guardian Assisant Editor and columnist

Marxist, as were both parents

 [5]: 297 
Sir Richard Lambert 1963 The Financial Times Editor FT
director-general of the CBI
chancellor of the University of Warwick
chairman of the board of the British Museum
member, Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England		 [6]: 385 
Andrew Knight 1958 The Economist

Daily Telegraph

 Director of News Corporation
Director of BSkyB
Chairman of J. Rothschild Capital Management
 [6]: 327 
Geoffrey Cannon 1958 Radio Times

Sunday Times
assistant editor

World food and nutrition policy

Rock Journalist

"Dieting Makes you Fat" 1982
"The Food Scandal" 1984
"The Politics of Food" 1987
"Superbug" 1995

"Food, Nutrition and the Prevention of Cancer: a Global Perspective" WCRF 1997		 [6]: 323 
Baron William Rees-Mogg 1945 The Times member of the BBC's Board of Governors
chairman of the Arts Council		 [6]: 185 
David Astor 1931 DNG

The Observer

 Companion of Honour

Supported left wing causes - Amnesty International and the African National Congress

Buried alongside George Orwell		 [6]: 73 
Henry Vincent Hodson 1925 The Sunday Times Fellow of All Souls

Director, Empire Division, Ministry of Information WW2

Reforms Commissioner, Government of India

Head of Non-Munitions, at the Ministry of Production

wrote leader advocating legalisation of homosexuality

 [6]: 40 

Political journalists

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Jonathan Sacerdoti 1998 broadcaster, journalist, and TV producer campaigner against antisemitism [5]: 473 
Gary Gibbon 1984 Channel 4 political editor of Channel 4 News [5]: 190 
George Stephanopoulos 1984 White House communications director under Bill Clinton Rhodes Scholar

Co-anchor of Good Morning America

Memoir "All Too Human: A Political Education" 1999		 [5]: 516 
Robert Peston 1979 ITV Political editor BBC then ITV [5]: 426 
E. J. Dionne 1973 op-ed columnist
Washington Post		 Rhodes Scholar

Fellow, Brookings Institution

 [5]: 516 
David Aaronovitch 1972 DNG

columnist

President, National Union of Students		 Eurocommunist

TV producer, radio presenter, Orwell Prize winner

 [5]: 1 
Charles Krauthammer 1970 Psychiatrist
Director of psychiatric research under President Carter

US Conservative columnist

 Pulitzer Prize winner

chess addict

 [5]: 307 
Christopher Hitchens 1967 Atlantic

Vanity Fair

 new atheist

articulate speaker on numerous TV shows criticising religion

Wrote book and documentary criticising Mother Theresa

 [5]: 245 
Peter Snow 1958 Current affairs TV presenter General Election TV analyst [5]: 307 
Hugo Young 1958 The Guardian Harkness Fellow

Inside Politics colummn

 [5]: 603 
Peter Usborne 1958 Private Eye
co-founder		 founder Usborne publishers [5]: 554 

Radio, television and film

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Chadwick Boseman 1998 Summer school
Superhero actor (US)

 Black Panther [7]
Aidan Hartley 1984 Documentary maker Unreported World, Dispatches for C4

Kenyan wildlife conservationist and cattle farmer

"Wildlife" column on The Spectator

 [5]: 229 
Vanessa Engle 1981 Documentary maker Lefties [5]: 155 
Michael Winterbottom 1979 Film Director 24 Hour Party People
In This World		 [5]: 591 
Bill Heine 1967 Radio Oxford broadcaster Refounded the Penultimate Picture Palace 1976. Commissioned the Headington Shark on his property. [5]: 236 
John Schlesinger 1947 Film director Midnight Cowboy (1969). Won Oscars for Best Director and Best Picture: Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971), and The Next Best Thing (1999) [5]: 480 
Roger Mayne 1947 Photographer Southam Street [5]: 365 
Anthony Asquith 1921 Film Director Son of prime minister

The Winslow Boy (1948), The Browning Version (1951), Pygmalion (1938), French Without Tears (1940), The Way to the Stars (1945) and an adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)

 [8]: 225 
Maurice Gorham 1919 Controller of BBC TV Editor, Radio Times

Director of Radio Éireann

 [8]: 209 
Raymond Massey 1919 Hollywood actor Seven Angry Men [8]: 211 

Security, Military and Intelligence

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John Aidan Liddell VC MC

Educators and school teachers

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date 		Field of work Notes Refs
Nick Bevan 1960 Shiplake College Headmaster [5]: 41 
Alec Peterson 1926 International Baccalaureate Head of Oxford University Department of Education [6]: 47 
John Fulton 1923 British Council Chair of British Council [6]: 29 
Robert Birley 1922 Charterhouse
Eton College		 Headmaster
Professor, City University		 [6]: 24 
Sir Henry Marten 1891 Eton College Provost of Eton
Tutor to Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II		 [8]: 33 
Richard Powell Francis 1879 Brisbane Grammar School First Australian member of Balliol to graduate. [10]: 117 [11]
George Ferris Whidborne Mortimer 1823 City of London School Headmaster; abolitionist
"The Immediate Abolition of Slavery Compatible with the Safety and Prosperity of the Colonies" (1833)		 [12]
Richard Jenkyns 1800 Balliol College Master, educational innovator [13]

Social and political theorists

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Philanthropists

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Colonial administrators

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Music

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Chess

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  • Raaphi Persitz 1953 chess master, financial journalist and chess writer
  • Leonard Barden 1949 chess master, activist and journalist
  • Sir Theodore Tylor 1918 Fellow, blind, jurisprudence don, chess master
  • H. J. R. Murray 1887 school inspector, chess historian, "The History of Chess", son of the editor of the Oxford English Dictionary

Sport

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Other

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Fictional

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Notable applicants who were not matriculated

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Balliol Chancellors of Oxford University

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Masters of Balliol

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Main article: List of masters of Balliol College, Oxford

Balliol is run by the Master and Fellows of the college. The Master of the college must be "the person who is, in [the Fellows'] judgement, most fit for the government of the College as a place of religion, learning, and education".[23] The current Master of Balliol is Helen Ghosh.[24]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Balliol College (University of Oxford); Jones, John; Viney, Sally; Hilliard, Edward; Elliott, Ivo d'Oyle; Lemon, Elsie (1914). The Balliol College Register (1st ed.). Oxford. Retrieved 25 March 2013.(1914, covering matriculations 1832-1914)
  2. ^ Balliol College (University of Oxford) (1934). The Balliol College Register (2nd ed.). Oxford. Retrieved 25 March 2013.(1934, covering matriculations 1833-1933)
  3. ^ Balliol College (University of Oxford) (1953). The Balliol College Register (3rd ed.). Oxford. Retrieved 25 March 2013.(1953, covering matriculations 1900-1950)
  4. ^ "Balliol Women: Some Alumnae of the College | Balliol College, University of Oxford". www.balliol.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Balliol College Register (Seventh Edition) by Tom Bewley and John Jones. 2005.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i Balliol College Register (Fifth Edition) by John Jones and Sally Viney 1983
  7. ^ Singh, Olivia. "Denzel Washington addresses paying for 'Black Panther' star Chadwick Boseman's acting classes: 'Wakanda Forever, but where's my money?'". Insider. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
  8. ^ a b c d Balliol College Register (Third Edition) by Ivo Elliott 1953
  9. ^ "Foulkes, Sir Nigel (Gordon)" in Who's Who online, accessed 21 October 2023 (subscription required)
  10. ^ Balliol College Register (Second Edition) by Ivo Elliott 1934
  11. ^ "Memorial inscriptions". Balliol College Archives & Manuscripts. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
  12. ^ George Mortimer ODNB
  13. ^ Richard Jenkyns ODNB
  14. ^ https://www.alumniweb.ox.ac.uk/balliol/about-the-westerman-pathfinders
  15. ^ ONDB
  16. ^ "William A. Coolidge".
  17. ^ https://www.alumniweb.ox.ac.uk/balliol/about-the-westerman-pathfinders
  18. ^ "William A. Coolidge Dies; Sheehan Gathering". 3 June 1992.
  19. ^ "Archives & Manuscripts - Memorial inscriptions". Balliol College. 2017. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  20. ^ Selinger-Morris, Samantha (12 August 2020). "Who is Maxwell and what is she charged with?". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  21. ^ Avrion, Mitchison. "Getting into New College, Oxford". Web of Stories. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
  22. ^ Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas. National Archives.; CP 40 / 677; in 1430; Thomas Chace appears as first name, but as defendant in a case of debt, brought by Thomas Coventre.
  23. ^ Statute II "The Master", clause 1
  24. ^ "Election of New Master". Balliol College, Oxford. 18 March 2011. Retrieved 25 June 2011.
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