See also: List of science, technology and mathematics people associated with Balliol College, Oxford.
See also: List of historians and classicists associated with Balliol College, Oxford.
The following is a list of notable people associated with Balliol College, Oxford, including alumni and Masters of the college. When available, year of matriculation is provided in parentheses, as listed in the relevant edition of The Balliol College Register or in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.Complete (or very nearly complete) lists of Fellows and students, arranged by year of matriculation, can be found in the published Balliol College Register; the 1st edition,[1] 2nd edition[2] and 3rd edition.[3]
This list of notable alumni consists almost entirely of men, because women were admitted to the college only from 1979.[4] To assist with verification, each name links to its Wikipedia page (except for those so ancient that no page exists). Each name only appears once in the lists, even though the person may have established themselves in more than one category.
| Image | Name | Join date | Field of work | Comments | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sir Richard Lambert | 1963 | The Financial Times | |||
| Andrew Knight | 1958 | The Economist | |||
| 1946 | The Times | ||||
| David Astor | 1931 | DNG The Observer | CH | ||
| 1925 | The Sunday Times | ||||
| Image | Name | Join date | Field of work | Comments | Refs | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gary Gibbon | 1983 | Channel 4 | ||||
| George Stephanopoulos | 1984 | Co-anchor of Good Morning America | ||||
| Robert Peston | 1978 | ITV Political editor | BBC then ITV | |||
| E. J. Dionne | 1973 | US op-ed columnist | ||||
| David Aaronovitch | 1972 | DNG, communist, | Orwell Prize winner | |||
| Charles Krauthammer | 1971 | Commonwealth Scholar, US conservative | ||||
| Martin Kettle | 1967 | The Guardian, Marxist | ||||
| Christopher Hitchens | 1967 | Atlantic, Vanity Fair, new atheist | ||||
| Peter Snow | 1958 | Current affairs TV presenter | ||||
| Hugo Young | 1958 | The Guardian | ||||
| Peter Usborne | 1953 | co-founder, Private Eye, founder Usborne publishers |
| Image | Name | Join date | Field of work | Productions | Refs | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chadwick Boseman | 1998 | summer school Superhero actor (US) | Black Panther | [5] | ||
| Vanessa Engle | 1980 | Documentary maker | Lefties | |||
| Michael Winterbottom | 1979 | Film Director | 24 Hour Party People | |||
| 1947 | Film director | Midnight Cowboy | ||||
| 1947 | Photographer | Southam Street | ||||
| Maurice Gorham | 1920 | Controller of BBC TV | ||||
| 1919 | Hollywood actor | Seven Angry Men |
| Image | Name | Join date | Field of work | Comments | Refs | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nick Bevan | 1960 | headmaster | [7] | ||||
| Alec Peterson | 1926 | head of Oxford University Department of Education | [8] | ||||
| John Fulton | 1923 | chair of British Council | |||||
| Robert Birley | 1922 | headmaster professor, City University | |||||
| Sir Henry Marten | 1891 | Eton College | Provost of Eton | [9] | |||
| 1879 | first Australian to graduate from Balliol | [10] [11] | |||||
| George Ferris Whidborne Mortimer | 1823 | headmaster Abolitionist | [12] | ||||
| Richard Jenkyns | 1800 | Balliol College | Master, educational innovator | [13] |
See main article: article and List of masters of Balliol College, Oxford.
Balliol is run by the Master and Fellows of the college. The Master of the college must be "the person who is, in [the Fellows'] judgement, most fit for the government of the College as a place of religion, learning, and education".[23] The current Master of Balliol is Helen Ghosh.[24]