The following comprises lists of notable people associated with Balliol College, Oxford, namely alumni and those who taught at the College or were based at the College or were involved in college life. The alumni are grouped into categories corresponding to fields of work and are arranged chronologically. Almost all the individuals have a wiki page. The majority are men because women were only admitted to the college from 1979.

Alumni

Lists for specific categories

  • Musicians

Balliol Chancellors of Oxford University

  • Richard FitzRalph (1332)
  • William de Wilton (1374)
  • Thomas Chace (1426)
  • Richard Rotherham (1440)
  • William Grey (1440)
  • Robert Thwaytes (1445)
  • George Neville (1453); (1461)
  • John Morton (1494)
  • George Nathaniel Curzon (1907)
  • Alfred Milner (1925)
  • Edward Grey (1928)
  • Harold Macmillan (1960)
  • Roy Harris Jenkins (1987)
  • Christopher Francis Patten (2003)

College alumni

Security, Military and Intelligence

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|100px||Cressida Dick||1979||police||commissioner of the London Metropolitan Police<br>daughter of Balliol Senior Tutor Marcus Dick||

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|100px||Lieutenant-General Simon Mayall||1975||army||Defence Senior Advisor Middle East||

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|100px||Group Captain Archie Hope||1930||RAF||DFC<br>RAF pilot WW2||

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|100px||Hon Richard Gilbert Hare|| 1925||propaganda||Head of Russian propaganda, Ministry of Information WW2<p>Russian art historian</p>||

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|100px||Lieutenant Arthur Rhys-Davids|| 1916||RFC|| MC <p>declined scholarship to join the RFC</p>||

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|100px||Captain John Aidan Liddell|| 1908 ||RFC ||VC MC ||

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|100px||Lieutenant-General Adrian Carton de Wiart ||1899||army|| VC<br> left before graduating to fight in Boer War||

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|||Vice-Admiral William Monson|| 1581 ||navy||Matriculated at 14. His Naval Tracts describe Navy life ||

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Sources of information

The main source of information confirming college membership is the relevant edition of The Balliol College Register which lists Fellows and students by year of matriculation, thus providing evidence of existence, dates and some biographical information.

  • 1st edition — 1832–1914
  • 2nd edition — 1833–1933
  • 3rd edition — 1900–1950
  • 4th edition — 1916–1967
  • 5th edition — 1950–1980
  • 6th edition — 1940–1990
  • 7th edition — 1950–2000

Other sources of information include the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and Who's Who and Who was Who both published by Oxford University Press.

Fictional alumni

  • Sir Humphrey Appleby (from TV series Yes Minister)
  • Sir Arnold Robinson (from TV series Yes Minister)
  • The Rev Francis Arabin (from Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope)
  • John Blaylock (from Whitley Streiber's The Hunger)
  • Captain Hook from Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
  • Captain John Charity Spring (from Flash for Freedom! by George MacDonald Fraser)
  • Lord Peter Wimsey (from short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers)

Notable applicants who did not matriculate

  • - served variously as Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer (1873-1954)

References