This is a list of Balliol College academics, people who have had teaching roles at Balliol College, Oxford or Balliol alumni who have held a senior position in secondary education.
College and University teachers
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|||Philip N. Howard||2015||||Professor of Internet Studies<p>sociologist</p>||
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|100px||Peter Tufano||2012||||Peter Moores Dean and Professor of Finance at Saïd Business School<br>social entrepreneur||
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|||Rosalind Thomas||2004|| ||classicist<p>Professor of Greek</p>||
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|||Lyndal Roper||2002|| ||Regius Professor of History||
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|||James Forder||1997||Fellow and Tutor in Economics ||Editor, Oxford Economic Papers||
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|||Judith M. Brown||1990||Fellow and Tutor in History||Professor of Commonwealth History||
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|||Mike Woodin||1990||Tutor in Psychology||Green Party leader||
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|||SirAdam Roberts||1985|| ||Professor of International Relations at Oxford||
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|||Alvin Plantinga||1975||Visiting Fellow|| analytic Christian philosopher||
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|||Anthony Kenny||1964||Master of Balliol||Philosopher||
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|||Baruch Blumberg||1955||Master of Balliol||doctor and co-recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|||
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|||Linus Pauling||1947|| Eastman Professor||chemist, Nobel prize winner||
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|||Heinrich Zimmer||1939|| ||German Indologist and linguist||
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|||Felix Frankfurter||1933|| Eastman Professor||judge US Supreme Court||
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|||Christopher Hill||1931|| Master of Balliol||Marxist historian||
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|||Vivian Hunter Galbraith||1910|||| historian||
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|||Roy Ridley||1909|| ||writer and poet<p>Newdigate Prize</p>||
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|||Frederick Temple||1900|||| Archbishop of Canterbury||
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|||William Hardie||1880|||| classical scholar||
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|||Baron Charles Bowen||1853||Visitor 1885||judge||
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|||Lewis Campbell||1849||||classicist||
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|||William Charles Salter||1842|| ||last Principal of St Alban Hall||
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|||Ralph Wheeler Robert Lingen, 1st Baron Lingen||1841|| ||civil servant||
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|||William George Ward||1834||||Theologian and mathematician||
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|||Herman Merivale||1828|||| English civil servant and historian||
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|||Adam Smith||1740||||Economist, philosopher||
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Educators and school teachers
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|||Nick Bevan|| 1960||Shiplake College ||Headmaster|||
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|||Alec Peterson|| 1926||International Baccalaureate ||Head of Oxford University Department of Education |||
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|||John Fulton|| 1923||British Council ||Chair of British Council |||
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|||Richard Powell Francis || 1879||Brisbane Grammar School ||First Australian member of Balliol to graduate.|||
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|100px||George Ferris Whidborne Mortimer|| 1823||City of London School ||Headmaster; abolitionist<br>"The Immediate Abolition of Slavery Compatible with the Safety and Prosperity of the Colonies" (1833)|||
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|||Richard Jenkyns|| 1800 ||Balliol College||Master, educational innovator|||
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