Wadham College, Oxford

Famous Former Students

• Monica Ali, novelist
• Charles Badham, classics scholar
• Samuel Augustus Barnett, social reformer
• Robert Blake, Cromwell's admiral
• Richard Bentley, scholar and critic
• Richard Bethell (Lord Westbury), former Lord Chancellor
• Thomas Beecham, conductor
• Melvyn Bragg, television broadcaster
• Cecil Day-Lewis, former Poet Laureate
• Michael Foot, politician
• William Fox, premier of New Zealand
• Tim Franks, journalist
• C. B. Fry, sportsman
• Evan Harris, Liberal Democrat MP for Oxford West and Abingdon
• Peter Hollas, BBC Sports Personality of the Year
• T.G. Jackson, architect
• Hari Kunzru, novelist
• Francis Kilvert, clergyman and diarist
• Tim McInnerny, actor
• Patrick Marber, comedian and playwright
• Robert Moses, city planner
• Arthur Onslow, former Speaker of the House of Commons
• Rosamund Pike, actress
• Michael Rosen, poet and broadcaster
• John Simon. former Lord Chancellor
• F. E. Smith (Lord Birkenhead), former Lord Chancellor
• Thomas Sprat, divine and cofounder of the Royal Society
• Rowan Williams, current Archbishop of Canterbury
• John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, libertine poet
• Christopher Wren, architect and cofounder of the Royal Society