List of alumni of St Catherine's College, Oxford

A list of alumni of St Catherine's College, Oxford.

The list includes alumni associated with the Delegacy for Unattached Students, the Delegacy for Non-Collegiate Students and St Catherine's Society prior to the official founding of the college.

• R.J.Q. Adams – American historian who specializes in the history of Great Britain
• Clive Barnes – theatre critic
• Mark Beech – writer and broadcaster, rock critic
• Benazir Bhutto – Pakistani politician, elected to an Honorary Fellowship of the College 1989^[1]
• Michael Billington – critic, author and radio presenter
• John Birt – former Director-General of the BBC
• Christopher Bishop – Chief Research Scientist at Microsoft Research, Cambridge, and Chair of Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh
• Victor Blank – Chairman of Lloyds TSB
• Euros Bowen – Welsh poet
• Simon Bridges - Politician, previously Leader of the Opposition (National Party), New Zealand
• Tim Brighouse – education guru, previously Schools Commissioner for London
• Ben Britton - materials scientist and engineer
• Hans-Paul Burkner – Chairman of The Boston Consulting Group
• Alan Chesters – Anglican Prelate
• Christian Cole - first black graduate of the University of Oxford
• John Cornforth – 1975 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
• Yannis Stournaras - Governor of the Bank of Greece
• Denis Cosgrove – former Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles
• Alexander Curtis - youngest mayor in the United Kingdom
• Barun De – historian; formerly Chairman, West Bengal Heritage Commission
• Jeremy Duns – British author
• Audrey Elkington – Archdeacon of Bodmin
• Clark Kent Ervin – first Inspector General of the US Department of Homeland Security
• Alice Eve – actress
• Adam Foulds – novelist and poet
• Emilia Fox – actress
• Timothy Garden, Baron Garden – Liberal Democrat
• Grant Gee – film director, best known for the documentary Meeting People is Easy
• J. Paul Getty – American mogul and philanthropist^[2]
• Guthrie Govan - Musician
• Chris Greening - biochemist and microbiologist
• Joseph Heller – American author and playwright; Catch-22
• Richard Herring – comedian and writer
• Ernest Hilbert – American poet, book critic, opera librettist, and editor
• Farooq Leghari – former President of Pakistan
• Sam Llewellyn – author
• Peter Mandelson – architect of "New Labour", several times a UK Cabinet minister, and Trade Commissioner in the Barroso Commission 2004–2008
• Olly Mann – podcaster and broadcaster, co-creator of the podcast Answer Me This!
• Carl Marci – American neuroscientist
• James Marsh – Academy Award-winning film director
• Chris Maslanka – writer and broadcaster
• Mark Miodownik – materials scientist, engineer, broadcaster and writer
• Hiren Mukherjee – Member of Parliament, Calcutta North East, 1952–77.
• Richard Newby, Baron Newby – Liberal Democrat politician
• George Peck – founder of the Oxford School Of Drama
• Bob Peirce – diplomat
• Seamus Perry - lecturer in English Literature
• Tom Phillips – artist and Royal Academician
• Matthew Pinsent - rower
• Alex Polizzi – hotelier and television presenter
• Benjamin Ross – film director
• David Rudkin – playwright
• Gene Sharp – leading theoretician on nonviolent struggle
• Mark Simpson – clarinetist, BBC Young Musician of the Year 2006, and BBC Young Composer of the Year 2006
• Paul Spike – author, editor and journalist
• Andrew Stewart Coats - cardiologist
• H. S. Suhrawardy – First Bengali Prime Minister of Pakistan
• John Vane – 1992 Nobel Laureate in Medicine
• Rudolf Vleeskruijer – founder of the English Institute of the University of Utrecht
• John E. Walker – 1997 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
• Maurice Wiggin - journalist and author
• Ben Willbond - actor, star of Horrible Histories, Yonderland and Ghosts
• Eric Williams – Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
• Paul Wilmott – British mathematician and quantitative analyst
• Simon Winchester – British author and historian; The Surgeon of Crowthorne; The Map that Changed the World
• Jeanette Winterson – British author of books including Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Sexing the Cherry, Written on the Body, The World and Other Places
• Emily Woof – actress
• P. C. Wren – novelist, author of Beau Geste
• David Yates – previous Warden of Robinson College, Cambridge
• Helen Zaltzman – podcaster, co-creator of the podcast Answer Me This!

Sportsmen

• Phil de Glanville – former England rugby captain
• David Hemery – Olympic gold medallist in athletics
• Christopher Liwski – American rower and 2005 Oxford Blue
• Matthew Pinsent – Quadruple Olympic gold medallist in rowing
• Colin Smith – British rower and three time Oxford Blue
• Andrew Triggs Hodge- British rower, double Olympic gold medallist
• Derek Wyatt – rugby international, former MP and founder, Oxford Internet Institute

References

1. . Archived from the original on 13 January 2009.
2. David Horan. (1999). Oxford : a cultural and literary companion. Oxford: Signal. p. 114. ISBN 1-902669-05-3.