List of Corpus Christi College, Oxford people

Academics

• Max Beloff, Baron Beloff – historian and Conservative peer
• Isaiah Berlin – social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas
• G. E. Berrios – Professor of Psychiatry, Cambridge University
• Charles Otto Blagden – linguist
• William Buckland - geologist and palaeontologist
• John Y. Campbell – economist
• Edmund Kerchever Chambers – literary scholar
• Steven Cowley FRS - theoretical physicist (and current President of Corpus).
• Thomas James Dunbabin – classicist scholar and archaeologist
• Henry Furneaux – classical scholar specialising in Tacitus
• Herbert Paul Grice – philosopher of language
• Francesca Happé - professor of cognitive neuroscience at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London
• William V. Harris - William R. Shepherd of History at Columbia University
• Charles Henderson – historian of Cornwall
• Richard Hooker – 16th century theologian
• Jonathan A. Jones - Professor of Physics, Oxford University^[1]
• Clyde Kluckhohn – American Rhodes Scholar, anthropologist
• Patrick McTaggart-Cowan – Canadian meteorologist and the first president of Simon Fraser University
• Roger Moorey – antiquarian and former Keeper of Antiquities, Ashmolean Museum
• Judith Mossman - Professor of Classics at the University of Nottingham
• Thomas Nagel – American philosopher whose main areas of interest are philosophy of mind, political philosophy and ethics
• Henry Nettleship – classical scholar
• J. I. Packer – British-born Canadian Christian theologian
• Edward Pococke – Orientalist and biblical scholar
• Robert Proctor – Bibliographer
• John Rainolds – academic and churchman
• Boris Rankov – professor of Roman history at Royal Holloway, University of London
• Basil William Robinson - Asian art scholar and author
• John Ruskin – art critic, watercolourist, prominent social thinker and philanthropist
• Gail Trimble – senior faculty member in Classics at Trinity College, Oxford
• Tsatsu Tsikata – former University of Ghana law lecturer and head of Ghana National Petroleum Company
• Juan Luis Vives - scholar and humanist
• Sir Bernard Williams - moral philosopher, former Provost of King's College, Cambridge

Educators

• Thomas Arnold - educator and historian, headmaster of Rugby School from 1828 to 1841
• Sir John Francis Lockwood Master of Birkbeck College, London, 1951–1965; Vice-Chancellor of the University of London, 1955-1958
• John Rosewell - Headmaster of Eton College

Musicians, artists and writers

Martin Wolf.

• Al Alvarez – poet, novelist, essayist and critic
• Lucy Atkins – journalist and author^[2]
• Gerard Baker – editor-in-chief, Wall Street Journal ^[3]
• Alex Bellos – journalist and author^[4]
• Patrick Bishop – journalist and author^[5]
• Ian Bostridge – tenor singer
• Robert Bridges – British poet, and poet laureate from 1913 to 1930.
• Geoff Dyer – writer
• Richard Edwardes – writer and composer
• Toby Harnden – journalist and author^[6]
• Alfred William Hunt – painter
• Charles H. M. Kerr – artist
• Robert Liddell – literary critic, biographer, novelist, travel writer and poet
• Camilla Long – The Sunday Times journalist^[7]
• Henry Newbolt – poet, novelist and historian
• C. P. Scott – journalist, publisher and politician
• Vikram Seth – Indian novelist and poet
• Nicholas Udall – playwright, cleric, and schoolmaster
• Jane Wilson-Howarth – author

Politicians, civil servants and lawyers

Ed Miliband.

• Ben Cannon – American teacher and politician from Oregon
• Chen Show Mao – Singaporean Rhodes Scholar, corporate lawyer and Singapore Member of Parliament
• Gerard Clauson – British civil servant, businessman, and orientalist
• David Curry – British Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Skipton and Ripon from 1987 to 2010
• David Hartley – signatory to the Treaty of Paris
• Stephen Lovegrove – civil servant and the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defence.
• David Miliband – Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (2007—2010) and Labour leadership candidate (September 2010)
• Ed Miliband – Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change (2008—2010) and Labour leader
• David Normington – Permanent Secretary at the Home Office
• Sir Christopher Nugee QC - High Court judge
• James Oglethorpe – British general, Member of Parliament, philanthropist, and founder of the colony of Georgia.
• Richard Pate – landowner and Member of Parliament for Gloucester in the Parliament of 1559 and 1563-1567
• William Waldegrave, Baron Waldegrave of North Hill – Conservative politician who served in the Cabinet (1990–1997)

Clergy

Cardinal Reginald Pole.

• Derek Browning - Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland (2017-18)
• John Keble – churchman and poet, gave his name to Keble College, Oxford
• Henry Phillpotts – Anglican Bishop of Exeter from 1830 to 1869
• Reginald Pole – cardinal, last Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury

Broadcasters and entertainers

• Michael Cockerell – political commentator and broadcaster
• Kenneth Kendall – BBC newscaster

Other people

• Sam Kay – caused the college's University Challenge 2009 team to be disqualified as champions
• Hector Sants – Chief Executive Officer of the Financial Services Authority (2007—2012)
• Michael Spencer – businessman; the chief executive of ICAP plc
• Nicholas Wadham – benefactor of Wadham College, Oxford.

Flight Lieutenant Dominic Bruce OBE MC AFM KSG, a British Royal Air Force officer, known as the "Medium Sized Man"