A list of alumni of Christ Church, Oxford, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Its alumni include politicians, lawyers, bishops, poets, and academics.

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At least thirteen British prime ministers have been educated at Christ Church, including Sir Robert Peel (Prime Minister 1834–1835 & 1841–1846), Anthony Eden (1955–1957) and William Ewart Gladstone (1892–94, 1886, 1880–85, & 1868–74). At least ten Chancellors of the Exchequer have also been educated at Christ Church including Nigel Lawson (1983–1989) and William Murray (Lord Chief Justice 1756–1788 and Chancellor of the Exchequer 1757) as well as other prominent UK politicians such as Quintin McGarel Hogg (Lord Chancellor 1979–1987). Christ Church has also educated many people who have gone on to take prominent political roles abroad, such as Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (former Prime minister of Pakistan), Bilawal Bhutto Zardari (Chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party), S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike (Prime Minister of Ceylon (later Sri Lanka)) and Charles Cotesworth Pinckney.

A number of members of royal families were educated at Christ Church including King Edward VII (1841–1910), King of the United Kingdom and Emperor of India and his brother Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany as well as King William II of the Netherlands, Prince Abbas Hilmi from the Egyptian royal family, and Prince Hassan bin Talal from the Jordanian royal family.

There are numerous former students in the fields of academia and theology including seventeen Archbishops, most recently Rowan Williams (Archbishop of Canterbury 2002–2012). Other students in these areas include George Kitchin (the first chancellor of the University of Durham and Dean of Durham Cathedral), John Charles Ryle (first Bishop of Liverpool), John Wesley (leader of the Methodist movement), Richard William Jelf (Principal of King's College London), Ronald Montagu Burrows (Principal of King's College London) and Bishop William Stubbs (Bishop of Oxford and historian). Prominent philosophers including John Locke, John Rawls, Sir A. J. Ayer and Daniel Dennett also studied at Christ Church.

Albert Einstein was elected to undertake a 5-year Research Studentship in 1931,^{[1][2][3][4][5]} philosopher and polymath Robert Hooke and developmental biologist Sir John B. Gurdon (co-winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine), physician Sir Archibald Edward Garrod, the Father of Modern Medicine Sir William Osler, biochemist Kenneth Callow, radio astronomer Sir Martin Ryle and epidemiologist Sir Richard Doll are all associated with the college.

A number of successful businessmen have also been educated at Christ Church including Alex Beard (Glencore), Sir Michael Moritz (Sequoia Capital), Crispin Odey (hedge fund manager), Jacob Rothschild (N M Rothschild & Sons), Nicky Oppenheimer (De Beers), Peter Moores (Littlewoods), James A. Reed (Reed group), and Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss (twins associated with the founding of Facebook).

The college has educated six Olympic gold medalists including Jonny Searle in rowing. Other notable alumni include entrepreneur and founder of Pennsylvania William Penn, broadcaster David Dimbleby, composer Sir William Walton and the writers Lewis Carroll and W. H. Auden.

The college accepted men only for over four centuries, until 1980,^[6] which explains the dearth of women on this list of notable alumni.

The following list is not comprehensive and a fuller list can be found in the Category: Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford.

• Edward VII (1841–1910), King of the United Kingdom and Emperor of India
• Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (1853–84), youngest son of Queen Victoria and brother of King Edward VII
• King William II (1792–1849), King of the Netherlands
• Prince Abbas Hilmi (1941–), Egyptian prince and financial manager^[7]
• Prince Hassan bin Talal (1947–), son of King Talal
• Princess Badiya bint Hassan (1974–), Daughter of Prince Hassan bin Talal
• Prince Paul of Yugoslavia (1893-1976) Prince Regent of Yugoslavia

• Sir Alfred Ayer (1910–1989), philosopher
• John Lane Bell (1945– ), logician
• Daniel Dennett (1942– ), philosopher
• John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683–1744), philosopher
• Sir Michael Dummett (1925–2011), philosopher
• John Locke (1632–1704), philosopher
• Gilbert Ryle (1900–1976), philosopher
• John Rawls (1921–2002), philosopher
• John Searle (1932– ), philosopher

• John Morris (1595-1648), Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford
• Adam Blakeman (1596–1665), preacher and American settler
• Bernard Gilpin (1517–1583), 'Apostle of the North'
• Charles Wesley (1707–1788), Methodist preacher and hymnist
• Edward Bouverie Pusey (1800–1882), churchman and progenitor of the Oxford Movement
• Eric Lionel Mascall (1905–1993), Anglo-Catholic theologian
• George William Kitchin (1827–1912), theologian and Dean of Durham Cathedral
• John Charles Ryle (1816–1900), evangelical Anglican leader and first Bishop of Liverpool
• John Fell (bishop) (1625–1686), Dean of Christ Church and Bishop of Oxford
• Samuel Fell (1584–1649) Dean of Christ Church, Oxford and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford
• John Macquarrie (1919–2007), Christian Existentialist
• John Wesley (1703–1791), leader of the Methodist movement
• Percy Dearmer (1867–1936), priest and liturgist
• Peter Martyr Vermigli (1499–1562), theologian
• Rowan Williams (1950–), Archbishop of Canterbury
• Charles Longley (1794–1868), Archbishop of Canterbury
• William Wake (1657–1737), Archbishop of Canterbury
• John Potter (1674–1747), Archbishop of Canterbury
• John Moore (1730–1805), Archbishop of Canterbury
• William Howley (1766–1848), Archbishop of Canterbury
• Trevor Huddleston (1913–1998), Archbishop of Mauritius and anti-Apartheid campaigner
• Lancelot Blackburne 1658–1743), Archbishop of York
• Tobias Matthew (1546–1628), Archbishop of York
• Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt (1757–1847), Archbishop of York
• William Markham (bishop) (1719–1807), Archbishop of York
• Robert Hay Drummond (1711–1776), Archbishop of York
• John Gilbert (1693–1761), Archbishop of York
• John Dolben (1625–1686), Archbishop of York
• Tobias Matthew (1546–1628), Archbishop of York, Dean of Christ Church, Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University
• John Piers (1522/3 – 1594), Archbishop of York
• Michael Cox (1689–1779), Archbishop of Cashel
• Edward King (1829–1910), high church Bishop of Lincoln

• A. L. Rowse (1903–1997), historian
• Anthony Chenevix-Trench (1919–1979), classicist and headmaster of Bradfield College, Eton College and Fettes College
• Edward de Bono (1933–)
• Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre (1914–2003), historian
• Homi K. Bhabha (1949–), Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature and Language
• Jan Morris (1926–2020), writer and historian
• Prince Dmitriy Obolensky (1918–2001), historian
• Norman Cohn (1915–2007), historian
• Richard Carew (1555–1620), translator and antiquary
• Charles Dennis Fisher (1877–1916), classical scholar
• SR Gardiner (1829–1902), historian
• Richard William Jelf (1798–1871), Principal of King's College London (1843–1868)
• Robert Blake, Baron Blake (1916–2003), historian
• Robert Burchfield (1923–2004) scholar, writer, and lexicographer
• Ronald Montagu Burrows (1867–1920), Principal of King's College London (1913–1920)
• Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones (1922–2009), classical scholar
• Sir Michael Howard (1922–2019), historian
• Sir Raymond Carr (1919–), historian
• Sir Roy Harrod (1900–1978), economist
• Sir William Deakin (1913–2005), historian and diplomat
• Spencer Barrett (1914–2001), classical scholar
• Shahid Javed Burki (1938–), Vice-President of the World Bank
• William Camden (1551–1623), antiquarian and historian
• Sir Halford Mackinder, (1861–1947), geographer and educationalist
• Richard Newton, (1676–1753), founder and principal of the first Hertford College, Oxford in 1740
• Laurence Nowell (c.1515-c.1571), antiquary and cartographer
• Bishop William Stubbs (1825–1901), distinguished constitutional historian and ecclesiastic
• Robert William Eyton (1815–1881), antiquarian of Shropshire
• Mark Girouard (1931-), architectural historian

• Albert Einstein (elected to a 5-year Research Studentship in 1931)^{[1][2][3][4][5]}
• Clare Grey, chemist, University of Cambridge professor
• John Freind (1675–1728), physician and chemist
• John Kidd (1775–1851), physician, chemist and geologist
• Robert Hooke (1635–1703), scientist and inventor
• Sir Ray Lankester (1847–1929), invertebrate zoologist and evolutionary biologist, Copley Medal award winner
• Sir Archibald Garrod (1857–1936), physician and pioneer molecular geneticist
• Sir Denys Wilkinson (1922–2016), nuclear physicist
• Edmund Gunter (1581–1626), mathematician
• Sir Francis Simon (1893–1956), physicist
• Kenneth Callow (1901–1983), biochemist
• Sir John Maddox (1925–2009), science writer
• Sir Joseph Banks (1743–1820), botanist
• Sir Martin Ryle (1918–1984, radio astronomer
• Sir Martin Wood (1927–), engineer
• Patrick David Wall (1925–2001), Neuroscientist
• Sir Richard Doll (1912–2005), epidemiologist
• Richard Lower (physician) (1631–1691), first to perform blood transfusion
• Thomas Willis (1621–1675), physician and neurologist
• William Buckland (1784–1856), geologist, palaeontologist and omnivore
• Sir William Osler (1849–1919), physician, Father of Modern Medicine, and Regius Chair of Medicine (Oxford, 1905–1919)
• John D. Barrow (1977–1980), cosmologist, Templeton Laureate, RAS Gold medallist
• John B. Gurdon (1933–), developmental biologist, co-winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Ted Cooke-Yarborough (1918–2013), computer and radar pioneer
• Mark Williamson, biologist
• Sir Wallace Akers (1888–1954), Chemist
• Alfred Ubbelohde (1907–1988), Chemist

• Harold Barker, Silver in the Coxless Four – 1908 GB
• Robin Bourne-Taylor, Eight – 2004, Pair – 2008 GB
• Peter Cazalet (1907–73), English cricketer, jockey, racehorse owner and trainer
• John Pius Boland (1870–1958), MP and winner of gold medal for tennis in the 1896 Olympics
• Lewis Clive, Gold in the Coxless Pair – 1932 GB, killed in action in the Spanish Civil War
• Hugh R A (Jumbo) Edwards, Gold in the Coxless Pair – 1932, Gold in the Coxless Four – 1932 GB
• Albert Gladstone, Gold in the Eight – 1908 GB
• Charles Grimes (rower), Gold in the Eight – 1956 USA
• Ante Kušurin, Double Sculls – 2008 Croatia
• Max Mosley, President of FIA 1993–2009
• David Sawyier, Coxed Four – 1972 USA
• Jamie Schroeder, Quadruple Sculls – 2008 USA
• Jonny Searle (1969–), Gold in the Coxed pair – 1992 Summer Olympics, Bronze in the Coxed Four – 1996 Summer Olympics
• Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Coxless Pair – 2008 Summer Olympics USA, see also business

• Sir Harold Acton (1904–1994) writer and scholar
• W. H. Auden (1907–1973), poet
• F. W. Bain (1863–1940), writer of fantasy stories
• Daubridgecourt Belchier(1580–1621), dramatist
• Kate Brooke, screenwriter
• Robert Burton (1577–1640), writer of 'The Anatomy of Melancholy'
• David Carritt (1927–1982), British art historian, dealer and critic
• Lewis Carroll (1832–1898), (real name, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), writer, clergyman and mathematician
• Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1886–1959), Antarctic explorer and writer
• Richard Curtis (1956–), comedy writer
• Sir Robert Dudley (1574–1649), explorer and cartographer
• Geoffrey Faber (1889–1961), publisher
• Peter Fleming (1907–1971), traveller and writer
• Charles Greville (1794–1865), diarist and cricketer
• Bryan Guinness 2nd Lord Moyne (1905–1992), poet and brewer
• Desmond Guinness (1931–), conservationist and author
• Sheridan Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 5th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1938–1988), art patron
• Richard Hakluyt (1552–1616), writer
• Francis Hastings, 16th Earl of Huntingdon (1901–1990), artist
• Henry Hitchings (1974–), author and critic
• Barney Hoskyns (1959–) acclaimed music journalist
• Lennie Lee (1958–), artist
• Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775–1818), novelist and dramatist
• Sir John Masterman (1891–1977), academic, sportsman, author and spymaster
• Adrian Mitchell (1932–2008), poet, novelist and playwright
• Lewis Charles Powles (1860-1942), artist
• Clere Parsons (1908–1931), poet
• Bishop Thomas Percy (1729–1811), balladeer and early romantic poet
• Frank Prewett, (1893–1962), poet
• Adrian Mitchell (1932–2008), poet, novelist and playwright
• John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974), American poet, critic and academic
• John Ruskin (1819–1900), critic, poet and artist
• Anthony Sampson (1926–2004), writer
• Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586), poet and soldier
• Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope(1805–1875), founder of the National Portrait Gallery
• J. I. M. Stewart (Michael Innes) (1906–1994), literary critic and novelist
• Christopher Sykes (1907–1986), author
• James Twining (1972–), novelist
• Theippan Maung Wa (1899–1942), a pioneer of Burmese literary movement
• Auberon Waugh (1939–2001), author and journalist
• Stanley Weyman (1855–1928), novelist
• Theodore Zeldin (1933–), writer

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• Riz Ahmed (1982–), actor and rapper
• Sir Thomas Armstrong (1898–1994), musician
• Kenneth Barnes (1878–1957), Director of R.A.D.A.
• Sir Adrian Boult (1889–1983), conductor
• Laurence Cummings, conductor, organist, harpsichordist
• John Dowland (1563–1626), lutenist and composer
• Giles Farnaby (c. 1563–1640), composer and virginalist
• Michael Flanders (1922–1975), actor, writer and broadcaster
• Howard Goodall (1958–), composer and broadcaster
• Colin Gordon (1911–1972), actor
• Harry Lloyd (1983–), actor
• Norman Painting (1924–2009), radio actor (The Archers)
• Hugh Quarshie (1954–), actor
• Douglas Reith (1953–), actor
• James Ross, conductor
• Donald Swann (1923–1994), composer, musician and entertainer
• John Taverner (1490–1545), composer
• Sir William Walton (1902–1983), composer
• Peter Warlock (1894–1930), composer and critic

• Adam Boulton (1959–), Editor-at-large, Sky News
• David Dimbleby (1938–), broadcaster
• Mehdi Hasan, journalist
• Anthony Howard (1934–2010), journalist and broadcaster
• Marina Hyde, journalist at The Guardian
• Dominic Lawson (1956–), Journalist and son of Nigel Lawson
• Sir Ludovic Kennedy (1919–2009), broadcaster and writer
• S. P. B. Mais (1885–1975), author, journalist and broadcaster
• Hugh Pym (1959-) Health Editor, BBC News
• Richard Stengel (1955–), Managing Editor of Time Magazine
• Sonya Walger (1974–), actress

• Alex Beard (1967–), businessman, Glencore^[8]
• Kate Bingham (1965-), venture capitalist
• Russ Dallen,^[9][10] Publisher; investment bank head
• Sir William Goodenough (1899–1951), Chairman of Barclays Bank
• Sir Peter Green (1924–1996), Chairman of Lloyds Bank^[11][12]
• Paul Hamlyn (1926–2001), Publisher (Octopus Publishing Group) and philanthropist.
• Christopher Jones (1976-), venture investor, UVM Health Network Ventures
• Oswald Lewis (1887–1966), Partner in John Lewis & Company
• Sir Henry Meux (1817–1883), Head of brewery Meux and Co
• Sir Charles Mills (1792–1872), Director of the East India Company
• Charles Mills (1830–1898), Partner at Glyn, Mills & Co and MP
• Sir Nigel Mobbs (1937–2005), Chairman of Slough Estates and director of Barclays Bank
• Russi Mody (1918–2014), Chairman and managing director, Tata Steel (formerly TISCO), India
• Peter Moores (1932–2016), Founder of Littlewoods
• Michael Moritz (1954–), venture capitalist, Sequoia Capital
• Crispin Odey (1959–) hedge fund manager
• David Ogilvy (1929–1999) Iconic advertisement guru; known as the 'Pope of Advertising', he founded Ogilvy & Mather
• Nicky Oppenheimer (1945–) South African at De Beers
• Jonathan Oppenheimer (1969–) South African at De Beers
• Weetman Pearson (1910–1995), Chairman and President of S. Pearson & Son
• Oliver Poole (1911–1993), Chairman of Lazzard, Director of S Pearson & Sons, and MP for Oswestry
• James A. Reed (1963–), Chairman of the Reed group of companies
• Jacob Rothschild (1936–), investment banker
• Sir (Henry) Saxon Tate (1931–2012), MD of Tate & Lyle
• Henry Thynne, 6th Marquess of Bath (1905–1992), Developer of Longleat Safari Park and MP for Frome
• Fredric Warburg (1898–1981), publisher
• Stuart Wheeler (1935–) businessman at IG Index
• Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss (1981–), twins associated with the founding of Facebook

• Ambrose St. John (1815–1875), close companion of John Henry Newman
• Fra' Andrew Bertie (1929–2008), Prince and Grand Master of the Order of Malta
• Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury(1938–2004)
• Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford (1893–1971) Marshal of the Royal Air Force and Chief of the Air Staff, Second World War
• Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery (1674–1731), Statesman and patron of the sciences.
• Christopher Codrington (1668–1710), plantation and slave owner, endowed Codrington College and Codrington Library
• Gottfried von Bismarck (1962–2007)
• General Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch (1748–1843), commander in the Peninsular War
• James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan (1797–1868), Soldier and Commander of the Light Brigade at Balaclava
• John Chapman (1865–1933), abbot of Downside Abbey and founder of Worth School.
• Richard Fitzgeorge de Stacpoole, 1st Duc de Stacpoole (1787–1848)
• John Boyd (1718–1800), art collector and sugar merchant
• Jonathan Hancock (1972–), Memory champion
• Kurt Hahn (1886–1974), Founder of Outward Bound and the Duke of Edinburgh Award
• John Steel "Jock" Lewes (1913-1941), President of the Oxford University Boat Club (1936-37) and "co-founder" of the Special Air Service.
• Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers (1720–1760), last member of the House of Lords hanged in England
• Timothy Potts Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum
• Redmond Watt (1950–) Commander-in-Chief, Land Command, British Army
• Richard Scott, 10th Duke of Buccleuch (1954–), Scotland's largest private landowner
• Richard Busby (1606–1695), Headmaster of Westminster School
• Henry Liddell (1811–1898) dean of Christ Church, Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, and headmaster of Westminster School.
• Sir Peter Osborne, 17th Baronet (1943–), Father of George Osborne
• William Penn (1644–1718), founder of Pennsylvania
• Hubert Chesshyre, retired British officer of arms found to have committed child sexual abuse^[13]
• N. Handley