This is a list of people from the
University of Oxford
, mottoeng = The Lord is my light
, established =
, endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019)
, budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20)
, chancellor ...
in academic disciplines. Many were students at one (or more) of the
colleges
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of the university, and others held
fellowships at a college.
This list forms part of a series of lists of people associated with the University of Oxford; for other lists, please see the main article
List of University of Oxford people
This page serves as a central navigational point for lists of more than 2,350 members of the University of Oxford, divided into relevant groupings for ease of use. The vast majority were students at the university, although they did not necessari ...
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Law
Theology and the study of religions
Historians
Classicists, Byzantinists and archaeologists
Modern languages
Philosophers
Economists
Geography
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Denis Cosgrove
Denis Edmund Cosgrove (3 May 1948, in Liverpool – 21 March 2008, in Los Angeles) was a distinguished British cultural geographer and Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. Before this, he was Professor of Human Ge ...
(St Catherine's)
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Andrew Goudie (Hertford and St Cross)
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Emily Georgiana Kemp
Emily Georgiana Kemp (1860–1939) was a British adventurer, artist and writer. She was awarded the Grande Médaille de Vermeil by the French Geographical Society for her 1921 work ''Chinese Mettle''.
Biography
Kemp was a Baptist from a we ...
(Somerville)
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Janelle Knox-Hayes (Green Templeton)
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Diana Liverman
Diana Liverman (born May 15, 1954, Accra, Ghana) is a retired Regents Professor of Geography and Development and past Director of the University of Arizona School of Geography, Development and Environment in the College of Social and Behavioral ...
(Linacre)
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Halford John Mackinder
Sir Halford John Mackinder (15 February 1861 – 6 March 1947) was an English geographer, academic and politician, who is regarded as one of the founding fathers of both geopolitics and geostrategy. He was the first Principal of University Ext ...
(Christ Church)
Director LSE 1903–08, Member of Parliament 1910–22
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Nick Middleton
Nick Middleton (born 1960) is a British physical geographer and supernumerary fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. He specialises in desertification.
Middleton was born in London, England. As a geographer, he has travelled to more than 70 coun ...
(St Anne's)
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Ann Varley
Anthropology and ethnography
Sociology
Politics, political philosophy, and international relations
Asian studies
Mathematicians and statisticians
Scientists
Naturalists, botanists, and zoologists
Medicine
Psychologists, psychiatrists, and physiologists of the brain
Chemists
Physicists and astronomers
Astronomers Royal
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Edmund Halley
Edmond (or Edmund) Halley (; – ) was an English astronomer, mathematician and physicist. He was the second Astronomer Royal in Britain, succeeding John Flamsteed in 1720.
From an observatory he constructed on Saint Helena in 1676–77, Ha ...
(The Queen's) 1720–42
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James Bradley
James Bradley (1692–1762) was an English astronomer and priest who served as the third Astronomer Royal from 1742. He is best known for two fundamental discoveries in astronomy, the aberration of light (1725–1728), and the nutation of th ...
(Balliol) 1742–62
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Nathaniel Bliss
Nathaniel Bliss (28 November 1700 – 2 September 1764) was an English astronomer of the 18th century, serving as Britain's fourth Astronomer Royal between 1762 and 1764.
Life
Nathaniel Bliss was born in the Cotswolds village of Bisley i ...
(Pembroke) 1762-64
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Martin Ryle
Sir Martin Ryle (27 September 1918 – 14 October 1984) was an English radio astronomer who developed revolutionary radio telescope systems (see e.g. aperture synthesis) and used them for accurate location and imaging of weak radio sourc ...
(Christ Church) 1972–82
Other physicists and astronomers
Computers, electronics, and robotics
Engineering and agriculture
Geology
Meteorology
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Joanna Haigh
Joanna Dorothy Haigh (born 7 May 1954) is a British physicist and academic. Before her retirement in 2019 she was Professor of Atmospheric Physics at Imperial College London, and co-director of the Grantham Institute – Climate Change and En ...
(Somerville)
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Patrick McTaggart-Cowan (Corpus Christi)
References
Dictionary of Welsh Biography(
The Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion of London and
National Library of Wales
The National Library of Wales ( cy, Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru), Aberystwyth, is the national legal deposit library of Wales and is one of the Welsh Government sponsored bodies. It is the biggest library in Wales, holding over 6.5 million boo ...
). Cited in references as: ''DWB''.
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