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Oxford University

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Location:
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England

Founding Date:
1096 AD

Motto:
Dominus Illuminatio Mea

Enrollment:
17,000

Official Website:
http://www.ox.ac.uk/

STUDENTS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
King Abdullah II
Royalty
30-Jan-1962   King of Jordan
Edward P. Abraham
Chemist
10-Jun-1913 8-May-1999 Cephalosporins
Richard Adams
Author
9-May-1920   Watership Down
Henry Addington
Head of State
30-May-1757 15-Feb-1844 UK Prime Minister, 1801-04
Joseph Addison
Author
1-May-1672 17-Jun-1719 The Spectator
Prince Akishino
Royalty
30-Nov-1965   Second son of Emperor Akihito
Carl B. Albert
Politician
10-May-1908 4-Feb-2000 Congressman from Oklahoma, 1946-76
Edward Albert
Actor
20-Feb-1951 22-Sep-2006 Butterflies Are Free
David Allen
Business
c. 1955   Group Chief of Staff, BP, 2000-08
Tom Allen
Politician
16-Apr-1945   Congressman, Maine 1st
Graham T. Allison
Scholar
23-Mar-1940   Kennedy School of Government
Kenneth Allsop
Critic
29-Jan-1920 23-May-1973 London Evening News book critic
Nicholas Amhurst
Author
16-Oct-1697 12-Apr-1742 The Craftsman
Martin Amis
Author
25-Aug-1949   The Rachel Papers
Lindsay Anderson
Film Director
17-Apr-1923 30-Aug-1994 If...
Jeffrey Archer
Novelist
15-Apr-1940   First Among Equals
David Arculus
Business
1946   Chairman of Severn Trent, 1998-2004
Karen Armstrong
Author
14-Nov-1944   A History of God
Matthew Arnold
Poet
24-Dec-1822 15-Apr-1888 Culture and Anarchy
Les Aspin
Politician
21-Jul-1938 21-May-1995 US Secretary of Defense, 1993-94
Herbert Henry Asquith
Head of State
12-Sep-1852 15-Feb-1928 UK Prime Minister 1908-16
Rowan Atkinson
Actor
6-Jan-1955   Mr. Bean
Clement Attlee
Head of State
3-Jan-1883 8-Oct-1967 UK Prime Minister, 1945-51
W. H. Auden
Poet
21-Feb-1907 29-Sep-1973 The Age of Anxiety
A. J. Ayer
Philosopher
29-Oct-1910 27-Jun-1989 Language, Truth and Logic
Kenneth Baker
Politician
3-Nov-1934   UK Home Secretary, 1990-92
Sir Richard Baker
Historian
c. 1568 18-Feb-1645 Chronicle of the Kings of England
Ed Balls
Politician
25-Feb-1967   British MP, Normanton
Sir Joseph Banks
Botanist
13-Feb-1743 19-Jun-1820 Accompanied James Cook
Leslie Banks
Actor
9-Jun-1890 21-Apr-1952 The Most Dangerous Game
Roger Bannister
Track and Field
23-Mar-1929   First to run a four-minute mile
Anthony Barber
Politician
4-Jul-1920 16-Dec-2005 Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1970-74
Julian Barnes
Novelist
19-Jan-1946   Flaubert's Parrot
Patrick Bauchau
Actor
6-Dec-1938   Sydney on The Pretender
John Bayley
Novelist
25-Mar-1925   Widower's House
William Bayliss
Doctor
2-May-1860 27-Aug-1924 Co-Discovered hormones
Emily Morison Beck
Editor
c. 1916 28-Mar-2004 Editor of Bartlett's Quotations
Kate Beckinsale
Actor
26-Jul-1973   Pearl Harbor
Max Beerbohm
Critic
24-Aug-1872 20-May-1956 Caricaturist, Seven Men
Peter Beinart
Columnist
1971   Washington Post columnist
Hilaire Belloc
Author
27-Jul-1870 16-Jul-1953 The Bad Child's Book of Beasts
Richard Benedick
Diplomat
?   US negotiator to the Montreal Protocol
David Benedictus
Novelist
16-Sep-1938   The Fourth of June
Peter Benenson
Activist
31-Jul-1921 25-Feb-2005 Founder of Amnesty International
Tony Benn
Politician
3-Apr-1925   Radical left Labour MP
Alan Bennett
Playwright
9-May-1934   The Madness of George III
Jeremy Bentham
Philosopher
15-Feb-1748 6-Jun-1832 Proponent of Utilitarianism
Eric Bentley
Critic
14-Sep-1916   The Life of the Drama
Isaiah Berlin
Philosopher
6-Jun-1909 5-Nov-1997 The Hedgehog and the Fox
Tim Berners-Lee
Computer Programmer
8-Jun-1955   Inventor of the World Wide Web
Afsaneh M. Beschloss
Business
c. 1956   The Rock Creek Group
John Betjeman
Poet
28-Aug-1906 19-May-1984 Summoned By Bells
Benazir Bhutto
Head of State
21-Jun-1953 27-Dec-2007 Former prime minister of Pakistan
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Head of State
5-Jan-1928 4-Apr-1979 Head of Pakistan, hanged
John Biddle
Religion
1615 22-Sep-1662 Father of English Unitarianism
James Billington
Historian
1-Jun-1929   13th Librarian of Congress
William Blackstone
Judge
10-Jul-1723 14-Feb-1780 Commentaries on the Laws of England
Tony Blair
Head of State
6-May-1953   UK Prime Minister, 1997-2007
Allan Blakeney
Politician
7-Sep-1925   Premier of Saskatchewan, 1971-82
Brebis Bleaney
Physicist
6-Jun-1915 4-Nov-2006 Electron paramagnetic resonance
Baruch S. Blumberg
Scientist
28-Jul-1925   Hepatitis B vaccine
Edmund Blunden
Poet
1-Nov-1896 20-Jan-1974 Undertones of War
Thomas Bodley
Scholar
2-Mar-1545 28-Jan-1613 Bodleian Library
Cory Booker
Politician
27-Apr-1969   Mayor of Newark, NJ
Daniel Boorstin
Historian
1-Oct-1914 28-Feb-2004 The Creators
David L. Boren
Politician
21-Apr-1941   Governor and Senator from Oklahoma
Kenneth E. Boulding
Economist
18-Jan-1910 18-Mar-1993 The Image: Knowledge of Life in Society
Elizabeth Bowen
Author
7-Jun-1899 22-Feb-1973 The Heat of the Day
Charles Boyle
Military
1676 28-Aug-1731 4th Earl of Orrery
Robert Boyle
Chemist
25-Jan-1627 30-Dec-1691 Pioneer of modern chemistry
John Brademas
Politician
2-Mar-1927   Congressman from Indiana, 1959-81
Bill Bradley
Politician
28-Jul-1943   US Senator from New Jersey, 1979-97
James Bradley
Astronomer
1693 13-Jul-1762 Aberration of Light
John Brand
Historian
19-Aug-1744 11-Sep-1806 Observations on Popular Antiquities
Sydney Brenner
Scientist
13-Jan-1927   Genetic regulation of organ development
Stephen Breyer
Judge
15-Aug-1938   US Supreme Court Justice
Robert Bridges
Poet
23-Oct-1844 21-Apr-1930 Prometheus the Firegiver
Vera Brittain
Author
1893 29-Mar-1970 Testament of Youth
Peter Brook
Theater Director
21-Mar-1925   Lord of the Flies
Henry Brooke
Politician
9-Apr-1903 29-Mar-1984 UK Home Secretary, 1962-64
Peter Brooke
Politician
3-Mar-1934   Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 1989-92
Christine Brooke-Rose
Novelist
16-Jan-1923   Out
Cleanth Brooks
Critic
16-Oct-1906 10-May-1994 The Well Wrought Urn
Brigid Brophy
Author
12-Jun-1929 7-Aug-1995 Black Ship to Hell
Norman O. Brown
Historian
25-Sep-1913 2-Oct-2002 Life Against Death
Tina Brown
Journalist
21-Nov-1953   Vanity Fair and The New Yorker
Sir Thomas Browne
Author
19-Oct-1605 19-Oct-1682 Pseudodoxia Epidemica
Beau Brummell
Socialite
7-Jun-1778 30-Mar-1840 Dandy, 19th c. arbiter of fashion
Arthur Bryant
Historian
18-Feb-1899 2-Jan-1985 Biographer of Samuel Pepys
John Buchan
Author
26-Aug-1875 11-Feb-1940 The Thirty-Nine Steps
William Buckland
Geologist
12-Mar-1784 15-Aug-1856 Reliquiae Diluvianae
John Bull
Composer
c. 1562 12-Mar-1628 English composer and organist
Alan Bullock
Historian
13-Dec-1914 2-Feb-2004 Historian of Hitler, Stalin
Edward Burne-Jones
Painter
28-Aug-1833 16-Jun-1898 British Pre-Raphaelite painter
William Joseph Burns
Diplomat
4-Apr-1956   US Ambassador to Russia
Richard Burton
Actor
10-Nov-1925 5-Aug-1984 Nineteen Eighty Four
Sir Richard Burton
Explorer
19-Mar-1821 20-Oct-1890 Translated The Arabian Nights
Robert Burton
Author
8-Feb-1577 25-Jan-1640 The Anatomy of Melancholy
W. Walton Butterworth
Diplomat
7-Sep-1903 31-Mar-1975 US Ambassador to Canada, 1962-68
William Camden
Scholar
2-May-1551 9-Nov-1623 Britannia
David Cameron
Politician
9-Oct-1966   Leader, UK Conservative Party
David Cannadine
Historian
1950   Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy
Charles John Canning
Government
14-Dec-1812 17-Jun-1862 Governor-General of India
George Canning
Politician
11-Apr-1770 8-Aug-1827 Twice Foreign Secretary of Britain
Thomas Carew
Poet
1595 22-Mar-1639 A Rapture
Gretchen Carlson
TV Personality
1966   Fox & Friends
John Le Carré
Novelist
19-Oct-1931   The Spy Who Came In From the Cold
Lewis Carroll
Author
27-Jan-1832 14-Jan-1898 Alice in Wonderland
Brad Carson
Politician
11-Mar-1967   Congressman from Oklahoma, 2001-05
Edmund Cartwright
Inventor
24-Apr-1743 30-Oct-1823 Invented the power loom
Joyce Cary
Novelist
6-Dec-1888 29-Mar-1957 The Horse's Mouth
Daniel H. Case III
Business
27-Jul-1957 27-Jun-2002 Hambrecht & Quist
Lee Caudill
Business
c. 1950   Former Avon/Liz Claiborne executive
David Caute
Author
16-Dec-1936   Comrade Jacob
George Cave
Politician
23-Feb-1856 29-Mar-1928 Lord Chancellor of Britain, 1922-28
Christopher Cazenove
Actor
17-Dec-1945   English character actor
Lord David Cecil
Author
9-Apr-1902 1-Jan-1986 Melbourne
Robert Cecil
Politician
14-Sep-1864 24-Nov-1958 Diplomat, Nobel Prize recipient
Richard Celeste
Politician
11-Nov-1937   Governor of Ohio, 1983-91
Paul W. Chellgren
Business
c. 1942   CEO of Ashland, 1996-2002
Gordon Childe
Archaeologist
14-Apr-1892 19-Oct-1957 The Dawn of European Civilisation
Caryl Churchill
Playwright
3-Sep-1938   Having a Wonderful Time
Randolph Churchill
Journalist
28-May-1911 6-Jun-1968 Son of Winston Churchill
Lord Randolph Churchill
Politician
13-Feb-1849 24-Jan-1895 Father of Winston Churchill
Kenneth Clark
Historian
10-Jul-1903 21-May-1983 Civilisation
Wesley Clark
Military
23-Dec-1944   Supreme Allied Commander, 1997-2000
Harlan Cleveland
Government
19-Jan-1918 30-May-2008 Futurist, diplomat
Bill Clinton
Head of State
19-Aug-1946   42nd US President, 1993-2001
Chelsea Clinton
Relative
27-Feb-1980   Daughter of Hillary and Bill Clinton
Alexander Cockburn
Columnist
6-Jun-1941   The Nation, CounterPunch
Claud Cockburn
Journalist
1904 15-Dec-1981 Radical British journalist
Robert P. Tristram Coffin
Poet
18-Mar-1892 20-Jan-1955 Strange Holiness
Jared Cohen
Government
c. 1982   Children of Jihad
Ronald Cohen
Business
1945   British venture capitalist, Apax
George Douglas Howard Cole
Economist
25-Sep-1889 14-Jan-1959 British Labour theorist
R. G. Collingwood
Historian
22-Feb-1889 9-Jan-1943 The Idea of History
Cyril Connolly
Critic
10-Sep-1903 26-Nov-1974 Enemies of Promise
Jim Cooper
Politician
19-Jun-1954   Congressman, Tennessee 5th
Wendy Cope
Poet
21-Jul-1945   If I Don't Know
John Cornforth
Chemist
7-Sep-1917   Stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysts
Thomas George Cowling
Mathematician
17-Jun-1906 16-Jun-1990 Cowling model
Donald Crisp
Actor
27-Jul-1880 25-May-1974 Silent film actor survived into talkies
Harry Crookshank
Politician
27-May-1893 17-Oct-1961 Leader, House of Commons, 1951-55
Anthony Crosland
Politician
29-Aug-1918 19-Feb-1977 UK Foreign Secretary, 1976-77
Richard Crossman
Politician
15-Dec-1907 5-Apr-1974 Leader, House of Commons, 1966-68
L. Gordon Crovitz
Publisher
c. 1959   Publisher, Wall Street Journal, 2006-07
William C. Crowley
Business
c. 1957   CFO of Sears Roebuck
George Nathaniel Curzon
Government
11-Jan-1859 20-Mar-1925 Created the Kingdom of Jordan
Hugh Dancy
Actor
19-Jun-1975   Galahad in King Arthur
George Dangerfield
Historian
28-Oct-1904 26-Dec-1986 The Strange Death of Liberal England
Drew Daniel
Electronic Musician
1971   Half of Matmos
Richard Danzig
Government
8-Sep-1944   US Secretary of the Navy, 1998-2001
Guy Davenport
Author
23-Nov-1927 4-Jan-2005 Thasos and Ohio
Nigel Davenport
Actor
23-May-1928   Chariots of Fire
Howard J. Davies
Business
c. 1951   Director, London School of Economics
Sir John Davies
Poet
16-Apr-1569 8-Dec-1626 Orchestra, or a Poem of Dancing
Norman Davies
Historian
8-Jun-1939   God's Playground
Robertson Davies
Author
28-Aug-1913 3-Dec-1995 Fifth Business
Crispin Davis
Business
c. 1949   CEO of Reed Elsevier
Ian Davis
Business
c. 1951   Managing Partner of McKinsey & Co.
Pete Dawkins
Football
8-Mar-1938   Winner, 1958 Heisman Trophy
Richard Dawkins
Biologist
26-Mar-1941   Zoologist and evolutionary biologist
Julian C. Day
Business
14-May-1952   CEO of Radio Shack
Cecil Day-Lewis
Poet
27-Apr-1904 22-May-1972 UK Poet Laureate, 1968-72
Thomas De Quincey
Author
15-Aug-1785 8-Dec-1859 Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Roxanne J. Decyk
Business
c. 1951   Executive at Shell Oil
Christopher W. Dell
Diplomat
1956   US Ambassador to Zimbabwe
Sir John Denham
Poet
1615 10-Mar-1669 Cooper's Hill
Nancy-Ann DeParle
Business
17-Dec-1956   Health care administrator
Thomas Frognall Dibdin
Author
1776 18-Nov-1847 English bibliographer
Kenelm Digby
Scientist
11-Jul-1603 11-Jun-1665 Founding member of the Royal Society
E. J. Dionne
Journalist
23-Apr-1952   The Washington Post
Pete Doherty
Musician
12-Mar-1979   Ex-frontman for The Libertines
Elizabeth Dole
Politician
29-Jul-1936   US Senator from North Carolina
Lee Dong-Won
Politician
1926 18-Nov-2006 Foreign Minister of South Korea, 1964-66
John Donne
Poet
1572 31-Mar-1631 Anniversaries
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Film Director
2-May-1973   The Lives of Others
George Douglas
Novelist
26-Jan-1869 28-Aug-1902 The House With the Green Shutters
Alec Douglas-Home
Head of State
2-Jul-1903 9-Oct-1995 UK Prime Minister, 1963-64
John Dowland
Composer
c. 1562 21-Jan-1626 Lachrimae
Ernest Dowson
Poet
2-Aug-1867 23-Feb-1900 English Decadent poet
Dermot Dunphy
Business
15-Apr-1932   CEO of Sealed Air, 1971-99
John Duns Scotus
Religion
c. 1265 8-Nov-1308 14th century Scottish scholar
Ronald Dworkin
Philosopher
11-Dec-1931   Taking Rights Seriously
William J. Dyess
Diplomat
1-Aug-1929 6-Jan-1996 US Ambassador to the Netherlands, 1982-83
Thomas Eagleton
Politician
4-Sep-1929 4-Mar-2007 US Senator from Missouri, 1969-87
John Eccles
Scientist
27-Jan-1903 2-May-1997 Membrane potential of nerves
Rod Eddington
Business
2-Jan-1950   CEO of British Airways, 2000-05
E. R. Eddison
Novelist
24-Nov-1882 18-Aug-1945 The Worm Ouroboros
Anthony Eden
Head of State
12-Jun-1897 14-Jan-1977 UK Prime Minister 1955-57
Peter P. Edwards
Chemist
1949   Metal-non-metal transition
Artur Ekert
Physicist
19-Sep-1961   Quantum cryptography
Charles Elton
Scientist
29-Mar-1900 1-May-1991 Animal Ecology
Richard Epstein
Scholar
17-Apr-1943   Takings
Edward Evans-Pritchard
Anthropologist
21-Sep-1902 11-Sep-1973 Theories of Primitive Religion
John Evelyn
Author
31-Oct-1620 27-Feb-1706 English diarist
James Fallows
Journalist
2-Aug-1949   Atlantic Monthly
Thomas L. Farmer
Attorney
c. 1926   Overseas Development Council
Russ Feingold
Politician
2-Mar-1953   US Senator from Wisconsin
Martin Feldstein
Economist
25-Nov-1939   Reagan economist
Niall Ferguson
Historian
18-Apr-1964   The House of Rothschild
Helen Fielding
Novelist
19-Feb-1958   Bridget Jones's Diary
Glenn Fine
Government
c. 1956   Justice Department Inspector General
Jonathan Finer
Journalist
c. 1976   Washington Post reporter
Richard W. Fisher
Business
18-Mar-1949   President and CEO, Dallas Fed
Penelope Fitzgerald
Novelist
17-Dec-1916 28-Apr-2000 The Blue Flower
Antony Flew
Philosopher
11-Feb-1923   British Libertarian philosopher
Joel West Flood
Judge
2-Aug-1894 27-Apr-1964 Virginia Congressman, Judge
Howard Florey
Scientist
24-Sep-1898 21-Feb-1968 Discovered penicillin
Michael Foot
Politician
23-Jul-1913   Leader, House of Commons, 1976-79
Henrietta Holsman Fore
Government
c. 1948   Acting Administrator, USAID
John Fowles
Novelist
31-Mar-1926 5-Nov-2005 The French Lieutenant's Woman
Charles James Fox
Politician
24-Jan-1749 13-Sep-1806 U.K.'s first Foreign Secretary
Emilia Fox
Actor
31-Jul-1974   Nikki Alexander on Silent Witness
Henry Richard Vassall Fox
Politician
21-Nov-1773 22-Oct-1840 3rd Baron Holland
John Foxe
Religion
1516 18-Apr-1587 Foxe's Book of Martyrs
Malcolm Fraser
Politician
21-May-1930   Prime Minister of Australia, 1975-83
Charles Fried
Government
15-Apr-1935   US Solicitor General, 1985-89
Thomas Friedman
Journalist
20-Jul-1953   New York Times
David B. Frohnmayer
Politician
9-Jul-1940   President, University of Oregon
Northrop Frye
Author
14-Jul-1912 23-Jan-1991 Fearful Symmetry
J. William Fulbright
Politician
9-Apr-1905 9-Feb-1995 Conceived the Fulbright Scholarships
Thomas Gaisford
Scholar
22-Dec-1779 2-Jun-1855 English classical scholar
Hugh Gaitskell
Politician
9-Apr-1906 18-Jan-1963 Leader of the Labour Party, 1955-63
Peter Galbraith
Diplomat
31-Dec-1950   The End of Iraq
Delia Gallagher
Journalist
11-Mar-1970   CNN Faith and Values Correspondent
John Galsworthy
Novelist
14-Aug-1867 31-Jan-1933 The Forsyte Saga
Richard N. Gardner
Diplomat
9-Jul-1927   US Ambassador to Spain, 1993-97
Geoffrey Garrett
Educator
c. 1958   President of the Pacific Council
Michael Garrison
Administrator
c. 1970   President, West Virginia University
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil
Head of State
3-Feb-1830 22-Aug-1903 UK Prime Minister three times
Geoffrey of Monmouth
Historian
c. 1100 1155 Historia regum Britanniae
Thomas P. Gerrity
Business
13-Jul-1941   Former Dean, Wharton School
Ivan Getting
Inventor
18-Jan-1912 11-Oct-2003 Global Positioning System
J. Paul Getty, Sr.
Business
15-Dec-1892 6-Jun-1976 Founder of Getty Oil Company
Edward Gibbon
Historian
8-May-1737 16-Jan-1794 Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Ian Gilmour
Politician
8-Jul-1926 21-Sep-2007 Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar
Herbert Gladstone
Politician
18-Feb-1854 6-Mar-1930 UK Home Secretary, 1905-10
William Ewart Gladstone
Head of State
29-Dec-1809 19-May-1898 Four times UK Prime Minister
Joseph Glanvill
Philosopher
1636 4-Nov-1680 The Vanity of Dogmatizing
Donald J. Gogel
Business
c. 1949   CEO of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice
William Golding
Novelist
19-Sep-1911 19-Jun-1993 Lord of The Flies
Jack Goldsmith
Government
26-Sep-1962   The Terror Presidency
Victor Gollancz
Publisher
9-Apr-1893 8-Feb-1967 Founder of Victor Gollancz, Ltd.
Jane Goodall
Naturalist
3-Apr-1934   Primate researcher
Kermit Gordon
Economist
1916 1976 Council of Economic Advisers, 1961-62
Lincoln Gordon
Diplomat
1913   US Ambassador to Brazil, 1961-66
John Gorton
Head of State
9-Sep-1911 19-May-2002 Prime Minister of Australia, 1968-71
Bryan Gould
Politician
11-Feb-1939   Former MP, Dagenham
Ragnar Granit
Scientist
30-Oct-1900 31-Mar-1990 Physiology of the retina
Hugh Grant
Actor
9-Sep-1960   Divine Brown's most prominent client
Robert Graves
Poet
24-Jul-1895 7-Dec-1985 I, Claudius
Hanna Holborn Gray
Educator
1930   President, University of Chicago, 1978-93
William Grayson
Politician
1736 12-Mar-1790 US Senator from Virginia, 1789-90
Henry Green
Novelist
29-Oct-1905 13-Dec-1973 Loving
Brian Greene
Author
9-Feb-1963   The Elegant Universe
Susan Greenfield
Scientist
1-Oct-1950   Brain Story
George Grenville
Politician
14-Oct-1712 13-Nov-1770 UK Prime Minister, 1763-65
William Wyndham Grenville
Politician
25-Oct-1759 12-Jan-1834 UK Prime Minister, 1806-07
Jo Grimond
Politician
29-Jul-1913 24-Oct-1993 Leader of the UK Liberal Party, 1956-67
Richard Haass
Government
1951   President, Council on Foreign Relations
Mark Haddon
Author
1962   The Curious Incident
William Hague
Politician
26-Mar-1961   Conservative Party leader, 1997-2001
Richard Hakluyt
Author
c. 1552 23-Nov-1616 Voiages and Discoveries of the English nation
J. B. S. Haldane
Biologist
5-Nov-1892 1-Dec-1964 The Causes of Evolution
Sir Matthew Hale
Judge
1-Nov-1609 25-Dec-1676 Lord Chief Justice of England
Stephen Hales
Scientist
7-Sep-1677 4-Jan-1761 Statical Essays
Donald Hall
Poet
20-Sep-1928   The One Day
Henry Hallam
Historian
9-Jul-1777 21-Jan-1859 View of the Middle Ages
Edmund Halley
Astronomer
8-Nov-1656 14-Jan-1742 Predicted return of Halley's Comet
Bill Halter
Politician
30-Nov-1960   Lt. Governor of Arkansas
John Hampden
Politician
1594 24-Jun-1643 English Parliamentarian
R. M. Hare
Philosopher
21-Mar-1919 29-Jan-2002 Moral Thinking
John Marshall Harlan
Judge
20-May-1899 29-Dec-1971 US Supreme Court Justice, 1955-71
James Harrington
Philosopher
7-Jan-1611 11-Sep-1677 Oceana
Roy Harrod
Economist
13-Feb-1900 9-Mar-1978 Towards a Dynamic Economics
Gary Hart
Politician
28-Nov-1936   US Senator from Colorado, 1975-87
L. P. Hartley
Novelist
30-Dec-1895 13-Dec-1972 The Boat
Steven Hatfill
Scientist
24-Oct-1953   US biowarfare researcher
Sir Christopher Hatton
Government
1540 1591 Lord Chancellor of England, 1587-91
Jerry A. Hausman
Economist
5-May-1946   Hausman Specification Test
Stephen Hawes
Poet
c. 1474 c. 1523 The Passetyme of Pleasure
Robert Hawke
Head of State
9-Dec-1929   Prime Minister of Australia, 1983-91
Stephen Hawking
Physicist
8-Jan-1942   Wheelchair-bound physicist
Richard Haythornthwaite
Business
c. 1957   Chairman of Mastercard
Denis Healey
Politician
30-Aug-1917   Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1974-79
Thomas Hearne
Historian
Jul-1678 10-Jun-1735 Edited many English chronicles
Edward Heath
Head of State
9-Jul-1916 17-Jul-2005 British Prime Minister 1970-74
Derick Heathcoat-Amory
Politician
26-Dec-1899 20-Jan-1981 Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1958-60
Joseph Heller
Author
1-May-1923 12-Dec-1999 Catch-22
Mark Helprin
Author
28-Jun-1947   Winter's Tale
Herbert of Cherbury
Philosopher
3-Mar-1583 5-Aug-1648 De Veritate
Michael Heseltine
Politician
21-Mar-1933   UK Deputy Prime Minister, 1995-97
John Heywood
Playwright
1497 c. 1580 The Play of Love
George Hickes
Religion
20-Jun-1642 15-Dec-1715 Provoked the Bangorian controversy
John R. Hicks
Economist
8-Apr-1904 20-May-1989 Value and Capital
Carla Hills
Diplomat
3-Jan-1934   US Trade Representative, 1989-93
Sir Cyril Hinshelwood
Chemist
19-Jun-1897 9-Oct-1967 The Kinetics of Chemical Change
Christopher Hitchens
Journalist
13-Apr-1949   Agent provocateur
Samuel Hoare
Politician
24-Feb-1880 7-May-1959 UK Home Secretary, 1937-39
Thomas Hobbes
Philosopher
5-Apr-1588 4-Dec-1679 Leviathan
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Chemist
12-May-1910 29-Jul-1994 Determined structure of Vitamin B12
Robert Hooke
Scientist
18-Jul-1635 3-Mar-1703 Law of Elasticity, microscopist
Richard Hooker
Religion
c. 1553 2-Nov-1600 Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Poet
28-Jul-1844 8-Jun-1889 Defeated the tyranny of poetic meter
Ralph Hopton
Military
1596 Sep-1652 Royalist commander, English Civil War
John Howe
Religion
17-May-1630 2-Apr-1706 The Living Temple
Edwin Hubble
Astronomer
20-Nov-1889 28-Sep-1953 Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble's Law
Trevor Huddleston
Religion
15-Jun-1913 20-Apr-1998 Anti-Apartheid activist
Richard Hughes
Author
19-Apr-1900 28-Aug-1976 A High Wind in Jamaica
Thomas Hughes
Author
20-Oct-1822 22-Mar-1896 Tom Brown's School Days
Thomas L. Hughes
Government
?   Carnegie Endowment for Int'l Peace
Edmund J. Hull
Diplomat
1949   US Ambassador to Yemen, 2001-04
John Hutton
Politician
6-May-1955   British MP, Barrow and Furness
Aldous Huxley
Author
26-Jul-1894 22-Nov-1963 Brave New World
Julian Huxley
Biologist
22-Jun-1887 14-Feb-1975 Evolutionary biologist
Henry Ireton
Military
1611 28-Nov-1651 Soldier under Oliver Cromwell
Reed Irvine
Activist
29-Sep-1922 16-Nov-2004 Founder, Accuracy in Media
John N. Irwin II
Diplomat
31-Dec-1913 28-Feb-2000 US Deputy Secretary of State, 1970-73
Walter Isaacson
Author
20-May-1952   Former Managing Editor for Time
Richard Jago
Poet
1715 8-May-1781 The Blackbirds
Benjamin Todd Jealous
Activist
c. 1972   President of the NAACP
Gladwyn Jebb
Diplomat
25-Apr-1900 24-Oct-1996 Acting UN Secretary General, 1945-46
John I. Jenkins
Educator
17-Dec-1953   President, University of Notre Dame
Roy Jenkins
Politician
11-Nov-1920 5-Jan-2003 Twice UK Home Secretary
Elizabeth Jennings
Poet
18-Jul-1926 26-Oct-2001 Song for a Birth or a Death
John Jewel
Religion
24-May-1522 23-Sep-1571 Defender of Anglicanism
Bobby Jindal
Politician
10-Jun-1971   Governor of Louisiana
Sir John Scarlett
Government
18-Aug-1948   Head of MI6
Boris Johnson
Journalist
19-Jun-1964   Mayor of London
Samuel Johnson
Lexicographer
18-Sep-1709 13-Dec-1784 A Dictionary of the English Language
Boisfeuillet Jones, Jr.
Publisher
1946   Publisher of the Washington Post
Terry Jones
Comic
01-Feb-1942   Monty Python
Benjamin Jowett
Scholar
15-Apr-1817 1-Oct-1893 Translator of Plato, etc.
Robert Joy
Actor
17-Aug-1951   Dr. Sid Hammerback on CSI: NY
Elena Kagan
Attorney
28-Apr-1960   Dean of Harvard Law School
Philip M. Kaiser
Diplomat
12-Jul-1913 24-May-2007 US Ambassador to Austria, 1980-81
Martin Karplus
Chemist
15-Mar-1930   Karplus Equation
Nicholas Katzenbach
Government
17-Jan-1922   US Attorney General, 1965-66
Cresson H. Kearny
Inventor
7-Jan-1914 18-Dec-2003 Patriot, inventor, survivalist idol
John Keegan
Historian
15-May-1934   The Face of Battle
William N. Kelley
Doctor
23-Jun-1939   Kelley-Seegmiller Syndrome
Ruth Kelly
Politician
9-May-1968   UK Minister of Transport
Margaret Kennedy
Novelist
23-Apr-1896 31-Jul-1967 The Constant Nymph
Nan Keohane
Scholar
18-Sep-1940   Political scientist
William T. Kerr
Business
17-Apr-1941   CEO of Meredith Corporation, 1997-2006
Rashid Khalidi
Author
1950   Resurrecting Empire
Christoph M. Kimmich
Educator
16-Jan-1939   President, Brooklyn College
Sophie Kinsella
Author
12-Dec-1969   Shopaholic series
Michael Kinsley
Pundit
9-Mar-1951   Slate founder
Andrew S. B. Knight
Journalist
1-Nov-1939   Editor of The Economist, 1974-86
Jeremy R. Knowles
Business
1935   Chemistry Professor, Harvard University
Michael Korda
Publisher
8-Oct-1933   Editor-in-Chief of Simon & Schuster
Jonathan Kozol
Educator
1936   Death at an Early Age
Charles Krauthammer
Columnist
13-Mar-1950   Washington Post columnist
Marvin Krislov
Educator
c. 1960   President, Oberlin College
Nicholas D. Kristof
Journalist
27-Apr-1959   New York Times Op-Ed columnist
Kris Kristofferson
Actor
22-Jun-1936   Big Top Pee-Wee
John Kufuor
Head of State
8-Dec-1938   President of Ghana
Aung San Suu Kyi
Activist
19-Jun-1945   Political activist, Nobel Prize recipient
Philip Lader
Government
1946   US Ambassador to the UK, 1997-2001
Corliss Lamont
Activist
28-Mar-1902 26-Apr-1995 Millionaire socialist
Richard Land
Religion
1947   Southern Baptist Convention
Andrew Lang
Author
31-Mar-1844 20-Jul-1912 Scottish man of letters, historian, author
Philip Larkin
Poet
9-Aug-1922 2-Dec-1985 The Whitsun Weddings
Richmond Lattimore
Poet
6-May-1906 26-Feb-1984 Translator of Iliad and Odyssey
William Laud
Religion
7-Oct-1573 10-Jan-1645 Archbishop of Canterbury, 1633-45
T. E. Lawrence
Author
16-Aug-1888 19-May-1935 Lawrence of Arabia
Nigel Lawson
Politician
11-Mar-1932   Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1983-89
Harper Lee
Novelist
28-Apr-1926   To Kill A Mockingbird
Anthony J. Leggett
Physicist
26-Mar-1938   Particle physicist, explored superfluidity
Richard C. Levin
Educator
7-Apr-1947   President of Yale University
Elliott H. Levitas
Politician
26-Dec-1930   Congressman from Georgia, 1975-85
C. S. Lewis
Novelist
29-Nov-1898 22-Nov-1963 Chronicles of Narnia
David Lewis
Politician
23-Jun-1909 23-May-1981 Leader of Canada's NDP, 1971-75
Christopher P. Liddell
Business
c. 1957   CFO of Microsoft
Thomas Linacre
Doctor
c. 1460 20-Oct-1524 Established the Royal Academy of Physicians
Penelope Lively
Novelist
17-Mar-1933   Moon Tiger
Ken Loach
Film Director
17-Jun-1936   My Name is Joe
Alain Locke
Author
13-Sep-1886 9-Jun-1954 Leader in the Harlem Renaissance
John Locke
Philosopher
29-Aug-1632 28-Oct-1704 An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Richard Lovelace
Poet
1618 1658 To Althea from Prison
Henry R. Luce
Business
3-Apr-1898 28-Feb-1967 Founded Time Magazine
Dick Lugar
Politician
4-Apr-1932   US Senator from Indiana
Frank Luntz
Pundit
23-Feb-1962   Republican pollster, strategist
Robert Luskin
Attorney
21-Jan-1950   Karl Rove's lawyer
Charles Lyell
Geologist
14-Nov-1797 22-Feb-1875 Principles of Geology
John Lyly
Playwright
1554 1606 Euphues
Robert Morrison MacIver
Sociologist
17-Apr-1882 15-Jun-1970 The Web of Government
Compton MacKenzie
Novelist
17-Jan-1883 30-Nov-1972 Carnival
Hugh MacLennan
Novelist
20-Mar-1907 7-Nov-1990 Barometer Rising
Harold Macmillan
Head of State
10-Feb-1894 29-Dec-1986 UK Prime Minister, 1957-63
Louis MacNeice
Poet
12-Sep-1907 3-Sep-1963 Autumn Journal
Salvador de Madariaga
Author
23-Jul-1886 14-Dec-1978 Englishmen, Frenchmen, Spaniards
Rachel Maddow
Radio Personality
1-Apr-1973   The Rachel Maddow Show
Peter A. Magowan
Business
5-Apr-1942   President, San Francisco Giants
Terrence Malick
Film Director
30-Nov-1943   Publicity-shy director of Badlands
Robert Malley
Government
?   Ex-National Security Council
Peter Mandelson
Politician
21-Oct-1953   EU Commissioner for Trade
Patrick Marber
Playwright
19-Sep-1964   Closer
A. E. W. Mason
Novelist
7-May-1865 22-Nov-1948 The Four Feathers
Raymond Massey
Actor
30-Aug-1896 29-Jul-1983 Things to Come
Vincent Massey
Government
20-Feb-1887 30-Dec-1967 Governor-General of Canada, 1952-59
Sylvia M. Mathews
Administrator
1965   Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
F. O. Matthiessen
Critic
19-Feb-1902 1-Apr-1950 American Renaissance
Reginald Maudling
Politician
7-Mar-1917 14-Feb-1979 UK Home Secretary, 1970-72
Frederick Denison Maurice
Religion
29-Aug-1805 1-Apr-1872 19th c. Anglican theologian
David Maxwell Fyfe
Politician
29-May-1900 27-Jan-1967 UK Home Secretary, 1951-54
Charles T. Maxwell
Business
c. 1931   Energy Analyst, Weeden & Co.
Jodhi May
Actor
1975   Sister My Sister
Patrick Mayhew
Politician
11-Sep-1929   Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 1992-97
Michael G. McCaffery
Business
c. 1953   Makena Capital Management
Gordon D. McCallum
Business
c. 1960   Virgin Management, Ltd.
Robert D. McCallum, Jr.
Diplomat
1946   US Ambassador to Australia
K. T. McFarland
Government
1952   Former Kissinger staffer
George C. McGhee
Diplomat
1912 4-Jul-2005 US Ambassador to Germany, 1963-68