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in academic disciplines. Many were students at one (or more) of the

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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 ...

Law

Theology and the study of religions

Historians

Classicists, Byzantinists and archaeologists

Modern languages

Philosophers

Economists

Geography

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) * Andrew Goudie (Hertford and St Cross) *

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) * Janelle Knox-Hayes (Green Templeton) *

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) *

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 *

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) * 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

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 *

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 *

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 *

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

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) * 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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