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The University of Oxford (informally Oxford University, or simply Oxford), located in the English city of Oxford, is the oldest surviving university in the English-speaking world and is regarded as one of the world's leading academic institutions. Although the exact date of foundation remains...
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J. R. R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE (pronounced /ˈtɒlkiːn/; in General American also /ˈtoʊlkiːn/) (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy...
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J. R. R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE (pronounced /ˈtɒlkiːn/; in General American also /ˈtoʊlkiːn/) (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy...
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Francis Simon
Sir Francis Simon, born Franz Eugen Simon (2 July 1893 – 31 October 1956), was a German and later British physical chemist and physicist who devised the method, and confirmed its feasibility, of separating the isotope Uranium-235 and thus made a...
Dana Scott
Dana Stewart Scott (born October 11, 1932) is the emeritus Hillman University Professor of Computer Science, Philosophy, and Mathematical Logic at Carnegie Mellon University; he is now retired and lives in Berkeley, California. His research career...
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Denis Noble
Denis Noble CBE FRS FRCP (born November 16, 1936) is an eminent British biologist who held the Burdon Sanderson Chair of Cardiovascular Physiology at Oxford University from 1984-2004 and is now Professor Emeritus and co-Director of Computational...
Dennis William Sciama
Dennis William Siahou Sciama FRS (18 November 1926 – 18 December 1999) was a British physicist who, through his own work and that of his students, played a major role in developing British physics after the Second World War. He is considerd as one...
J. H. C. Whitehead
John Henry Constantine Whitehead (11 November 1904–8 May 1960), known as Henry, was a British mathematician and was one of the founders of homotopy theory. He was born in Chennai (then known as Madras), in India, and died in Princeton, New Jersey,...
Nikolaas Tinbergen
Nikolaas "Niko" Tinbergen (15 April 1907 – 21 December 1988) was a Dutch ethologist and ornithologist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz for their discoveries concerning organization and...
Richard Dawkins
Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL (born 26 March 1941) is a British biological theorist with a background in ethology. He is a popular science author focusing on evolution.
Dawkins is one of Britain's best-known academics. He came to prominence...
George A. Miller
George Armitage Miller (born February 3, 1920 in Charleston, West Virginia) is the author of one of the most highly cited papers in psychology, "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two" published in 1956 in Psychological Review. This paper...
John Sealy Townsend
John Sealy Edward Townsend (7 June 1868 - 16 February 1957) was a mathematical physicist who conducted various studies concerning the electrical conduction of gases (concerning the kinetics of electrons and ions) and directly measured the electrical...
Roger Penrose
Sir Roger Penrose, OM, FRS (born 8 August 1931) is an English mathematical physicist and Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College. He has received a number...
Erwin Schrödinger
Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger (German pronunciation: [ˈɛrviːn ˈʃrøːdɪŋɐ]; 12 August 1887, Erdberg – 4 January 1961, Vienna) was an Austrian theoretical physicist who achieved fame for his contributions to quantum mechanics, especially the...
Patrick Alfred Pierce Moran
Patrick Alfred Pierce Moran (July 14, 1917 – September 19, 1988), commonly known as Pat Moran was an Australian statistician who made significant contributions to probability theory and its application to population and evolutionary genetics.
Moran...
Robert Birgeneau
Robert Joseph Birgeneau (born 25 March 1942) is a Canadian physicist educator and university administrator. He is the ninth chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, and was the fourteenth president of the University of Toronto from 2000...
Mensun Bound
Mensun Bound (born 4 February 1953) is a British marine archaeologist, based in Oxford. He is Triton Senior Research Fellow in Marine Archaeology at Oxford University and a Fellow of St Peter's College, Oxford.
He was born Michael Bound in 1953 in...
Jonathan Zittrain
Jonathan L. Zittrain (born December 24, 1970) is an American professor of Internet law at Harvard Law School and a faculty co-director of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Previously, Zittrain was Professor of Internet Governance and...
Katharine Keats-Rohan
Dr Katharine S. B. Keats-Rohan (born 1957) is a history researcher at the University of Oxford specialising in prosopography. She has produced seminal work on early European history, and collaborated with, among others, Christian Settipani. Keats...
Chris Patten
Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, CH, PC (born 12 May 1944 in Cleveleys, Lancashire) is a prominent British Conservative politician and a Patron of the Tory Reform Group.
He was a Member of Parliament, eventually rising to a...
William Laud
William Laud (7 October 1573 – 10 January 1645) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1633 to 1645. One of the High Church Caroline divines, he opposed radical forms of Puritanism. This and his support for King Charles I resulted in his beheading in the...
Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell (25 April 1599 – 3 September 1658) was an English military and political leader best known for his involvement in making England into a republican Commonwealth and for his later role as Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and...
Simon of Ghent
Simon of Ghent (or Simon de Gandavo) was a medieval Bishop of Salisbury.
He was a prebendary of the diocese of Salisbury and Chancellor of Oxford University, as well as Archdeacon of Oxford.
He was elected bishop on 2 June 1297 and consecrated on 20...
Ralph de Maydenstune
Ralph de Maydenstune (or Ralph de Maidstone or Ralph Maidstone) was a medieval Bishop of Hereford.
Nothing is known of his background or upbringing. Although his year of birth is unknown, he was probably born before about 1195. He earned the title...
Henry Harclay
Henry Harclay (c. 1270 – 1317) (also Henry of Harclay), was a Chancellor of the University of Oxford (1313–1316), and a secular master and scholastic philosopher.
He was the son of Sir Michael Harclay and Joan Fitzjohn, and the younger brother of...
George Lee, 3rd Earl of Lichfield
George Henry Lee II, 3rd Earl of Lichfield PC (21 May 1718 – 17 September 1772) was a British politician and peer. He was made a Privy Councillor and Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms in 1762, holding both honors until death. Previously, he had...
Richard FitzRalph
Richard FitzRalph (c. 1300 – 16 December 1360) was an Archbishop of Armagh during the 14th century. He was born into a well-off burgess family of Anglo-Norman/Hiberno-Norman descent in Dundalk, Ireland. He is noted as an ex-fellow and teacher of...
Lionel Woodville
Lionel Woodville (c. 1446 – 1484) was a Bishop of Salisbury.
He was a younger son of Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers and Jacquetta of Luxembourg; his siblings included Elizabeth Woodville, Queen Consort from 1464 to 1483.
In the late 1470s, he...
Thomas Bromley
Sir Thomas Bromley (1530-11 April 1587), English lord chancellor, was born in Staffordshire. He was educated at Oxford University and called to the bar at the Middle Temple. Through family influence as well as the patronage of Sir Nicholas Bacon,...
William Smyth
William Smyth (or Smith) (c. 1460 – 2 January 1514), was Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield from 1493 to 1496 and then Bishop of Lincoln until his death. He held political offices, the most important being Lord President of the Council of Wales and...
Philip Repyngdon
Philip Repyngdon (or Repington, or Repyndon) (died 1424) was an English bishop and cardinal.
He was educated at the Oxford and became an Augustinian canon at Leicester before 1382.
A man of some learning, he came to the front as a defender of the...
Thomas Cantilupe
Thomas de Cantilupe (c. 1218 – 25 August 1282), was an English saint and prelate.
He was a son of William de Cantilupe, the 2nd baron (d. 1251), one of King John's ministers, and a nephew of Walter de Cantilupe, Bishop of Worcester (d.1266). He was...
Christopher Hatton
Sir Christopher Hatton (1540 – 20 November 1591) was an English politician, the lord chancellor of England and, according to speculation, the lover of Queen Elizabeth I.
His father was William Hatton (d. 1546) of Holdenby, Northamptonshire and his...
E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, KG, OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, PC (16 April 1881–23 December 1959), known as The Lord Irwin from 1925 until 1934 and as The Viscount Halifax from 1934 until 1944, was one of the most senior British...
James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde
James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde PC (19 October 1610 – 21 July 1688), was an Anglo-Irish statesman and soldier. He was the top commander of the Royalist forces in Ireland from 1641 to 1647 fighting against the Irish Catholic Confederation. From...
William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville
William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville PC, PC (Ire) (25 October 1759 – 12 January 1834) was a British Whig statesman and Prime Minister.
Grenville studied at Eton, Christ Church, Oxford, and Lincoln's Inn. The son of Whig Prime Minister...
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon KG, PC, FZL, DL (25 April 1862 – 7 September 1933), better known as Sir Edward Grey, was a British statesman.
Grey was the eldest of the seven children of Colonel George Henry Grey and Harriet Jane Pearson,...
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (18 February 1609 – 9 December 1674) was an English historian and statesman, and grandfather of two British monarchs, Mary II and Queen Anne.
Hyde was the third son of Henry Hyde of Dinton and Purton, Wiltshire, a...
George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston KG, GCSI, GCIE, PC (11 January 1859 – 20 March 1925), known as The Lord Curzon of Kedleston between 1898 and 1911 and as The Earl Curzon of Kedleston between 1911 and 1921, was a British...
William Courtenay
William Courtenay (c. 1342 – 31 July 1396), English prelate, was Archbishop of Canterbury, having previously been Bishop of Hereford and Bishop of London.
He was a younger son of Hugh de Courtenay, 10th Earl of Devon (d. 1377), and through his...
Robert Winchelsey
Robert Winchelsey or Winchelsea (c. 1245–1313) was an English Christian theologian and Archbishop of Canterbury. He studied at the universities of Paris and Oxford, and later taught at both. Influenced by Thomas Aquinas, he was a scholastic...
Thomas Bourchier
Thomas Bourchier (c. 1404 – 30 March 1486) was an English archbishop, Lord Chancellor and cardinal.
Thomas was a younger son of William Bourchier, count of Eu (d. 1420), and through his mother, Anne of Gloucester, a daughter of Thomas of Woodstock,...
William Warham
William Warham (c. 1450 – 22 August 1532), Archbishop of Canterbury, belonged to a Hampshire family, and was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, afterwards practising and teaching law both in London and Oxford.
Later he took holy orders,...
Richard Bancroft
Archbishop Richard Bancroft, DD, BD, MA, BA (1544 – 2 November 1610), Archbishop of Canterbury and the "chief overseer" of the production of the authorized version of the Bible.
Bancroft was born at Farnworth, then a village in south Lancashire, in...
Richard Cromwell
Richard Cromwell (4 October 1626 – 12 July 1712) was the third son of Oliver Cromwell, and was the second Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland, for just under nine months, from 3 September 1658 until 25 May 1659.
Cromwell's enemies dubbed...
Mary Lake Polan
Mary Lake Polan, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., served as the chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Stanford University School of Medicine and was named the Katharine Dexter McCormick and Stanley McCormick Memorial Professor in 1990 when she...
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C. A. R. Hoare
Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare (born 11 January 1934), commonly known as Tony Hoare or C.A.R. Hoare, is a British computer scientist, probably best known for the development in 1960, at age 26, of Quicksort, one of the world's most widely used...
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C. A. R. Hoare
Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare (born 11 January 1934), commonly known as Tony Hoare or C.A.R. Hoare, is a British computer scientist, probably best known for the development in 1960, at age 26, of Quicksort, one of the world's most widely used...
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Moses Gaster
Moses Gaster (September 17, 1856 – March 5, 1939) was a Romanian-born Jewish-British scholar, the Hakham of the Spanish and Portuguese congregation, London, and a Hebrew linguist. He was also the son-in-law of Michael Friedländer, principal of Jews'...
Norman Stone
Norman Stone (born March 8, 1941, in Glasgow, Scotland) is a prominent British academic, currently a member of the faculty of the department of International Relations at Bilkent University, Ankara. Former professor at Oxford and lecturer at...
George Clark
Sir George Norman Clark (27 February 1890 - 6 February 1979, knighted 1953) was a 20th century British historian. Educated at Manchester Grammar School and Balliol College, Oxford, he became the inaugural Chichele Professor of Economic History at...
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