List of Wolfson College, Oxford, people

A list of people associated with Wolfson College, Oxford. This includes former students, Fellows and Presidents of the college.

Former students

 

Dame Kay Davies, human geneticist

 

Richard Ellis, astronomer

 

Wes Moore, governor of Maryland

• Gertrud Seidmann, oldest Oxford student who was awarded a Certificate of Graduate Attainment at the age 91.^[1]

Science

• Michael Butler, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton, UK
• Dame Kay Davies, Human Geneticist
• Richard Ellis, extragalactic astronomer, Steele Professor at Caltech and former Director, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge
• Artur Ekert, one of the pioneers of quantum cryptography, and winner of the Maxwell and Hughes medals, and the Descartes Prize
• Alison Gopnik, Professor of Psychology, Affiliate Professor of Philosophy, University of California at Berkeley
• Michael Hinchey, Irish computer scientist, Director at the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre (Lero), University of Limerick, Ireland
• Nigel Hitchin, British mathematician, winner of the Sylvester Medal
• Michele Mosca, quantum scientist known for his work on quantum algorithms and NMR quantum computation
• James R. Norris, mathematician working in probability theory and stochastic analysis, Professor of Stochastic Analysis in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge
• Tim Palmer FRS, Climate scientist at the University of Oxford
• Nicolaas Adrianus Rupke, a Dutch historian of science, who began his academic career as a marine geologist
• Michael Spivey, British computer scientist at the University of Oxford, who wrote an Oberon-2 compiler.

Law

• Karim Asad Ahmad Khan, Prosecutor in the UN International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, counsel before Special Courts in East Timor and Sierra Leone
• Dame Hazel Genn, authority on civil justice
• The Hon. Justice Francisco Rezek, distinguished Brazilian jurist and member of the International Court of Justice and formerly Foreign Minister of Brazil

History & literature

• Joe Andrew, Professor of Russian Literature at Keele University
• Henry Hardy, author and editor, publisher of Isaiah Berlin's papers
• Josef W. Meri, specialist in Islam in the pre-modern period, Islamic cultural and social history
• Iain Pears, popular British novelist, art historian

Politics & government

• Tony Buti, Australian politician and Australian Labor Party member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly
• Wes Moore, Governor of Maryland, US state
• Tom Phillips (diplomat), Commandant of the Royal College of Defence Studies.
• Mehdi Hashemi Rafsanjani, businessman, former Iranian government official, and the fourth child of Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, former President of Iran
• Nafisa Shah, Member of Pakistan's National Assembly (MNA), Chairperson of Pakistan's National Commission for Human Development, nominated for a collective Nobel Peace Prize under "1000 Women for Peace" category.
• Simon Upton, formerly Minister of Health, Environment and Science and Technology and member of the National Party
• Mike Woodin, former principal speaker for the Green Party of England and Wales (later Fellow of Balliol)

Business

• Don Elder, New Zealand engineer and businessman, CEO of the New Zealand mining and energy company Solid Energy.

Fellows

Further information: Category:Fellows of Wolfson College, Oxford and List of Honorary Fellows of Wolfson College, Oxford

• Samson Abramsky, computer scientist and developer of domain theory in logic form, game semantics and categorical quantum mechanics
• John Addis, former UK ambassador to Laos, the Philippines and China
• Leonie Archer, historian and authority on women in Jewish antiquity
• Isaiah Berlin, regarded as one of the twentieth century's most influential liberal philosophers
• Kanti Bajpai, Former Headmaster, The Doon School, India
• John Barnes, developer of the Ada programming language
• William Bradshaw, Baron Bradshaw, Member of the House of Lords
• Donald Broadbent, experimental psychologist
• Sebastian Brock, expert in Syriac language
• Amit Chaudhuri, novelist
• David Dabydeen, Guyana's Ambassador Plenipotentiary and Extraordinaire to China, from 2010 to 2015
• Simon Digby, oriental scholar
• Anthony Epstein, discovered the Epstein-Barr virus
• Robin Gandy, mathematician and logician
• Raymond Hoffenberg, endocrinologist and medical scientist and prominent opponent of apartheid in South Africa
• Tony Hoare, computer scientist, developer of Quicksort the widely used sorting algorithm
• Dorothy Hodgkin, British Chemist and Nobel Prize winner
• Avishai Margalit, philosopher, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Roger Moorey, British archeologist and keeper of antiquities at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford
• Pat Nuttall, expert in tick-borne diseases
• Gareth Roberts, physicist and influential figure in shaping British policy on the sciences
• Sumit Sarkar, Indian historian, former Professor of history, Delhi University
• Erich Wolf Segal, American author and screenwriter, wrote the screenplay for The Beatles' 1968 motion picture Yellow Submarine
• Steven Schwartz, Vice Chancellor of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia
• Jon Stallworthy, Professor Emeritus of English, University of Oxford, UK
• Bryan Sykes, world-renowned human geneticist
• Niko Tinbergen, Dutch ethologist and Nobel prize winner
• Géza Vermes, Hungarian Jewish historian of ancient Judaism and early Christianity, authority on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the historical Jesus

Presidents

• Isaiah Berlin, 1967–1975
• Henry Fisher, 1975–85
• Raymond Hoffenberg, 1985–93
• Jim Kennedy, (acting), 1993–1994
• David Smith, 1994–2000
• Jon Stallworthy, (acting), 2000
• Gareth Roberts, 2000–2007
• Jon Stallworthy, (acting), 2007–2008
• Hermione Lee, 2008–2017
• Philomen Probert, (acting), 2017–2018
• Tim Hitchens, 2018–present

References

1. . School of Archaeology. University of Oxford. 28 March 2011. Archived from the original on 15 July 2018. Retrieved 15 July 2018.