political circles
Bill Clinton and nelson mandela (the former joined Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, and the latter was an honorary doctoral student at Oxford).
This school has trained 26 British prime ministers, almost all of whom graduated from Oxford after World War II. [Including: William gladstone, herbert asquith, Clement Attlee, Harold Macmillan, Heath, Harold Wilson, Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair, former Prime Minister David Cameron, and current Prime Minister theresa may.
By 20 10, more than 100 Oxford people were elected to the House of Commons. These include the latest opposition leader (edward miliband) and several shadow cabinet members. 140 Oxford alumni were also elected to the house of lords.
Oxford is also the alma mater of 30 foreign leaders. Famous people include: King harald v of Norway, King Abdullah II of Jordan, four Australian Prime Ministers (Wang Yuanyuan, Malcolm Fraser, bob hawke and tony abbott), the current Hungarian Prime Minister Oban Victor, two Canadian Prime Ministers (lester pearson and John Napier Turner), two Indian Prime Ministers (Manmohan Singh and Indira Gandhi who left without a degree) and five Pakistani Prime Ministers. Solomon Bandaranak, former Prime Minister of Ceylon, Norman Manley, spokesman of Jamaica, eric williams, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Vélez, former Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Witchachiva, the first US President Bill Clinton (who is also a Rhodes scholar), Arthur Mutambara, deputy prime minister of Zimbabwe and Rhodes scholar, former Botswana President festus mogae, Myanmar democratic politician and Nobel Peace Prize winner. In addition, Patten, Wilson, MacLehose, Joffrey Northcott, Kim, Reginald Edward stubbs, Telford, Bowen and Davis are all from Oxford.
literature and art
Oscar Wilde studied classical literature at Oxford University during 1874- 1878.
Many famous writers come from Oxford. Among them, writers include: Qian Zhongshu, Jiang Yang, john fowles, Dr. Seuss, Thomas Middleton, samuel johnson, christopher hitchens, robert Graves, evelyn waugh, lewis carroll, Huxley, Wilde, C·S· Lewis, J R R Tolkien, Graham Greene, V·S· Naipaul, Philip Pullman and Joseph. Poets include Shelley, john donne, A·E· houseman, W·H· Auden, T·S· Eliot and philip larkin. There are also seven poets laureate: Thomas Warton, Henry James Nora, robert southey, Robert Seymour bridges, Cecil Day Lewis and John F.? Bergman and Antwerp.
Composers Hubert Parry, George Butterworth, John Taverna, William Wharton and Andrew Lloyd Webber are all associated with universities.
Actors such as hugh grant, kate beckinsale, Dudley Moore, michael palin and terry jones are all undergraduates of Oxford University, including director florian Henkel von Dunningsmark, screenwriter ken loach and richard curtis.
Mathematical boundary
Inventor of World Wide Web-Tim Berners Lee.
Oxford University has trained many famous mathematicians. Three Oxford mathematicians, Michael Atia, Daniel Quillen and Danaldson Simon, won the Fields Prize, and andrew wiles, who successfully proved Fermat's Last Theorem, was also an Oxford student. He is now a professor at the Research Society of the Royal Society of Oxford. Marcus Du Seautois and sirroger penrose are professors in the department of mathematics. Stephen wolfram, the main designer of Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha software, Tim Berners Lee, the founder of World Wide Web, edgar codd, the founder of relational database theory, and Tony Hall, who made great contributions to programming, all went to Oxford to study.
Celebrities in the scientific community include several Nobel Prize winners in chemistry, physics and physiology or medicine. Dorothy Hodgkin and John E. Walker, who promoted the development of X-ray crystallography, conducted research in Oxford, while Richard Dawkins and Frederic Soddy, Oxford students, returned to work in universities after graduation because of their research projects. Robert hooke, Edwin Hubble and Stephen Hawking studied in Oxford. Besides, robert boyle, known as the "father of modern chemistry", did not formally study in university, but he also received an honorary degree from Oxford University. Albert Einstein, the pioneer of relativity and photon theory, also visited Oxford.
religion
* * * There are 12 saints and 20 archbishops of Canterbury (including the recently elected Tam Williams) born in this school. Wycliffe, the pioneer of the Reformation, was a scholar at Oxford University. John Wesley, the founder of Methodist Church, studied in the Christian Church and was elected as a scholar in lincoln college. Other important members include mirza ahmad Nasir of the Ahmadiya Sect, Ji Shou Afandi, one of the full-time leaders of Baha 'i, and Joseph Kell Dero, the only Catholic cardinal in Pakistan.
philosophy
Oxford's philosophical tradition began in the Middle Ages. Early members included roger bacon, William of Occam, who was famous for his razor theory, and Robert Gloucester. Thomas Hobbes, Jeremy Bentham and John Locke all received degrees from Oxford University, although the latter's achievements were recorded only after he left the university (and 12 years of school life also had a great influence on them). Gilbert ryle, the author of The Concept of Heart, devoted his life to university philosophy. Other famous modern philosophers who studied in Oxford include Alfred Jules Ayre, Paul Grice, Thomas Nagel, robert nozick and John Rogers Searle, who is famous for his paper The Possibility of Being a Bat.
sports circles
About 50 Olympic medal winners have academic ties with universities. Bill bradley, an American basketball player, Ivan Gazidis, CEO of Arsenal Football Club, imran khan, captain of Pakistani cricket national team, and matthew pinsent, winner of four gold medals in rowing, are two examples.