University of Oxford part 2

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Contents 1 Notable alumni and academics 2 Affiliates and other institutions 2.1 Departments 2.2 Clubs and societies 2.3 Media 2.4 Buildings and parks 2.5 Other institutions 3 Oxford in literature and other media 4 See also 5 Notes

Notable alumni and academics

Main article: List of University of Oxford people

There are many famous Oxonians, as alumni of the University are known:

25 British Prime Ministers have attended Oxford (including William Gladstone, Herbert Asquith, Clement Attlee, Harold Macmillan, Harold Wilson, Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair).^[1] At least 25 other international leaders have been educated at Oxford.^[2] This number includes King Harald V of Norway,^[3] King Abdullah II of Jordan,^[2] three Prime Ministers of Australia (John Gorton, Malcolm Fraser and Bob Hawke)^[4][5][6] two Prime Ministers of India (Manmohan Singh and Indira Gandhi)^[2][7] Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, and Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan,^[2] Norman Washington Manley (Prime Minister of Jamaica)^[8], Eric Williams (Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (1962-1981) and noted Historian) and Bill Clinton, the first American President to attend Oxford.^[2][9] The Burmese democracy activist and Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was a student of St Hugh's College.^[10] Including Aung San Suu Kyi, 47 Nobel prize winners have studied or taught at Oxford.^[2]

Oxford has also produced at least 12 saints, and 86 Archbishops of Canterbury, including the current incumbent Rowan Williams (who studied at Wadham College and was later a Canon Professor at Christ Church).^[2][11] Another religious figure was Shoghi Effendi, one of the appointed leaders of the Baha'i Faith. Some fifty Olympic medal winners have academic connections with the university, including Sir Matthew Pinsent, quadruple gold medallist rower.^[2][12] T. E. Lawrence was a student at Jesus College,^[13] while other illustrious members have ranged from the explorer, courtier, and man of letters Sir Walter Raleigh (who attended Oriel College, though left without taking a degree)^[14] to the media magnate Rupert Murdoch.^[15] The founder of Methodism, John Wesley, studied at Christ Church and was elected a fellow of Lincoln College.^[16]

Amongst the long list of writers associated with Oxford are Evelyn Waugh,^[17] Lewis Carroll,^[18] Aldous Huxley,^[19] Oscar Wilde,^[20] C. S. Lewis,^[21] J. R. R. Tolkien,^[22] Graham Greene,^[23] Phillip Pullman,^[2] Vikram Seth^[2] and Plum Sykes,^[24] the poets Percy Bysshe Shelley,^[25] John Donne,^[26] A. E. Housman,^[27] W. H. Auden,^[28] and Philip Larkin,^[29] and Poets Laureate Thomas Warton,^[30] Henry James Pye,^[31] Robert Southey,^[32] Robert Bridges,^[33] Cecil Day-Lewis,^[34] Sir John Betjeman,^[35] and Andrew Motion.^[36]

Some contemporary scientists include Stephen Hawking,^[2] Richard Dawkins^[37] and Nobel prize-winner Anthony James Leggett,^[38] and Tim Berners-Lee,^[2] co-inventor of the World Wide Web.

Actors Hugh Grant,^[39] Kate Beckinsale,^[39] Dudley Moore,^[40] Michael Palin,^[2] and Terry Jones^[41] were undergraduates at the University, as were Oscar winner Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck^[2] and film-maker Ken Loach.^[42]. Sportspeople who have attended the university include Imran Khan.^[2]

More complete information on famous senior and junior members of the University can be found in the individual college articles (an individual may be associated with two or more colleges, as an undergraduate, postgraduate, and/or member of staff).

Affiliates and other institutions

Well-known organisations and institutions officially connected with the University include:

Departments

See: Category:Departments of the University of Oxford

Clubs and societies

• Oxford University Amateur Boxing Club
• Oxford University Student Union
• Oxford Union Society (debating society)
• Oxford University Dramatic Society
• Oxford University Cricket Club - Cricket team whose matches are accorded First Class Status. Participates in The University Match
• Oxford University Boat Club (rowing club participating in the Boat Race)
• Oxford University RFC (rugby club participating in the Varsity Match)
• Oxford University A.F.C. (association football club)
• Oxford University Newman Society (Catholic speaker and debating society)
• Oxford University Ski and Snowboard Club (Governing club of The Varsity Trip)
• Oxford University Psychology Society
• Bullingdon Club

See also:

• Category:Oxford student societies
• Category:Oxford student sports clubs

Media

• Oxford University Press (world's largest university press)
• Oxide Radio (Student radio station)
• Isis (Student publication)
• Cherwell (Student publication)
• The Oxford Student (Student publication)
• The Triple Helix Oxford (Student publication)
• The Oxonian Review of Books (Graduate student publication)

Buildings and parks

• Sheldonian Theatre
• Tom Tower
• Radcliffe Camera
• University Church of St Mary the Virgin
• Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
• Oxford University Parks
• Oxford Botanic Garden and Harcourt Arboretum
• Rhodes Trust, the centre of the Rhodes Scholarship

See also:

• Category:Buildings and structures in Oxford
• Category:Churches in Oxford
• Category:Parks and open spaces in Oxford

Other institutions

There are other higher and further education institutions in Oxford, including various independent "colleges", not associated with the University. These include Oxford Brookes University; Ruskin College, Oxford - an adult education college - which, although not part of the University of Oxford, has close links with it; and the former Lady Spencer Churchill teaching college (now the Wheatley campus of Oxford Brookes).

The University of Oxford is an Educational Alliance Partner of the Meade 4M Community which supports the University's 'Project Jetwatch' program.

Oxford in literature and other media

Main article: University of Oxford in popular culture

Oxford University is the setting for numerous works of fiction. Oxford was mentioned in fiction as early as 1400 when Chaucer in his Canterbury Tales referred to a "Clerk [student] of Oxenford": "For him was levere have at his beddes heed/ Twenty bookes, clad in blak or reed,/ of Aristotle and his philosophie/ Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrie". As of 1989, 533 Oxford-based novels had been identified, and the number continues to rise.^[43] Famous literary works range from Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh, to the trilogy His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman, which features an alternate-reality version of the University. Sir Humphrey Appleby, GCB, KBE, MVO, MA (Oxon) attended the fictional Baillie College in Yes Minister, and the Complete Yes Minister book's introduction, dated Sept. 2019 was written from the equally fictitious Hacker College, presumably named for Sir James (or Lady) Hacker, Minister for Administrative Affairs in Yes Minister and Prime Minister in Yes, Prime Minister, MP for Birmingham South-East. The mention of Oxford is also in The Great Gatsby. The character the story revolves around, Jay Gatsby or James Gatz, has supposedly attended Oxford for 5 months. Gatsby: "It was in nineteen-nineteen. I only stayed five months. That's why I can't really call myself an Oxford man."^[44]

See also

Also associated with the University:

• Academic dress of the University of Oxford
• Oxbridge Scarf Colours
• Gaudy Celebrations
• Oxford University (UK Parliament constituency)
• Commemoration Balls
• Encaenia
• May Morning Celebration
• Boat races: Eights Week and Torpids, and the annual Boat Race against Cambridge University
• Formal Hall
• Gaisford Prize
• Punting
• Town and gown
• Oxbridge rivalry
• Serial comma - also known as the Oxford Comma
• Oxford '-er'
• Oxford bags
• Oxford University Police
• Isis (magazine)
• The Language Report

Notes

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