List of people associated with Trinity College, Oxford
This is a list of notable people affiliated with Trinity College at Oxford University, England. It includes former students, current and former academics and fellows, as listed in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography or another available source. The overwhelming maleness of this list is explained by the fact that for over 90% of its history, Trinity was an all-male institution.
Former students
Academics and explorers
- Nigel Anderson
- John Aubrey
- Herbert Edward Douglas Blakiston
- Sir Richard Burton
- Kenneth Clark
- John White
- Vincent Cronin
- Mamoru Imura
- Miles Kington
- Wlodzimierz Julian Korab-Karpowicz
- Sir Arthur Norrington
- William Gifford Palgrave
- Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
Scientists, engineers and mathematicians
Artists and broadcasters
- Ralph Arnold
- Laurence Binyon
- George Butterworth
- Justin Cartwright
- Joyce Cary
- Lionel Chetwynd
- Sir John Denham
- E. R. Eddison
- Richard Foster
- David Green
- Basil Harwood
- Ben Judah
- Kit Lambert
- Walter Savage Landor
- William Lisle Bowles
- Thomas Lodge
- A. E. W. Mason
- Edward Powys Mathers
- James Michie
- John Middleton Murry
- Sir Terence Rattigan
- William Russell
- Christopher Tolkien
- Simon Tolkien
- David Walter
- David Yates
- Michael Geller-Gieleta
Business
- Sir Angus Ogilvy
- John Preston, music industry executive
- Sir William Stuttaford
- Sir Peter Stothard
- Huw van Steenis
- Tunku Varadarajan
Clergy and theology
- Aubrey Aitken
- Sidney Alexander
- John Arnold
- George Blackwell
- Henry Joy Fynes-Clinton
- John Gilbert
- Rupert Hoare
- Kenneth Kirk
- Robert MacCarthy
- Christopher Oswald Miles
- James Newcome
- John Henry Newman
- George Rawlinson
- Archibald Robertson
- John Rogers
- Montague Summers
Diplomats, civil servants and colonial administrators
- Sir George Bowen
- Harold Caccia, Baron Caccia
- Sir Edward Gent
- Vere Henry Hobart, Lord Hobart
- Sir Donald MacGillivray
- Albrecht von Bernstorff
- Sir Thomas Drew
- Sir Patrick Walker
- Sir Patrick Moberly
Lawyers
- Sir Edward Atkinson
- Peter Birks
- Rayner Goddard, Baron Goddard
- Philip Seaforth James
- John Lewger, first secretary and attorney general of Maryland, United States
- John McNeill, Crown Advocate of the British Supreme Court for China and chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association
Military
- Captain Noel Godfrey Chavasse
- Major General Lord Michael Fitzalan-Howard
- Flight Lieutenant Richard Hillary, RAFVR
- Henry Ireton
- Lieutenant General Frank Klotz, USAF
- Sarah Oakley, Royal Navy officer
- Squadron Leader Dinghy Young, RAFVR
Sports people
- Andrew Comrie-Picard, X Games medallist and Hollywood stuntman
- Simon Danielli, rugby union player for Ulster and Scotland
- Walter Henderson, Olympic athlete
- Constantine Louloudis, rower, bronze medallist in the 2012 Summer Olympics and gold medallist in the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Bevil Rudd, Olympic athlete
- Bonnie St. John, medal-winning Paralympic skier
- Henry Melvin 'Dinghy' Young, RAF pilot and rower in the 1938 Boat Race
Miscellaneous
- Michele Acton, Chief Executive of the Royal Society of Medicine
- Sir Arthur fforde
- Phil Harvey, Coldplay
- Frank Luntz
- Kate Mavor, Principal of St Cross College, Oxford
- Ross McWhirter
- Tom Riordan
Journalists
Fictional characters
Fictional former students include Jay Gatsby, the title character of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby who attends Trinity briefly after World War I, and Tiger Tanaka, an ally of James Bond in Ian Fleming's 1964 novel You Only Live Twice who receives a first in PPE before World War II.Recent books in which Trinity features prominently are:
Fellows
- John Michael Hammersley, mathematician
- Sir Cyril Hinshelwood, physical chemist; Nobel laureate
- Sir Henry Stuart Jones, classicist
- Martin Kemp, art historian
- Ronald Knox, theologian
- Hans Adolf Krebs, biologist; Nobel laureate
- David Lambert Lack, evolutionary biologist
- Michael Maclagan, historian
- Rodney Robert Porter, biochemist; Nobel laureate
- Sir Edwin Southern, molecular biologist
- Sir Ronald Syme, ancient historian
- Gail Trimble, classicist
- Thomas Warton, historian and poet
Presidents
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- Herbert Edward Douglas Blakiston
- J. R. H. Weaver
- Arthur Norrington
- Alexander George Ogston
- Anthony Quinton
- John Burgh
- Michael Beloff