List of St Anne's College, Oxford people

The following is a list of notable people associated with St Anne's College, Oxford, including alumni, academics, and Principals of the college.

Alumni

Danny Alexander, former Chief Secretary to the Treasury, alumnus.

Mr Hudson, rapper and R&B artist, alumnus.

Tina Brown, editor of The Daily Beast and ex-editor of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, alumna.

Sir Simon Rattle, principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, alumnus.

• Sir Danny Alexander – Liberal Democrat MP for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch & Strathspey (2005–2015), formerly Chief Secretary to the Treasury
• Mary Archer, Lady Archer – scientist specialising in solar power conversion
• Karen Armstrong, FRSL – author on comparative religion
• Jackie Ashley – broadcaster, journalist, and contributor to The Guardian and New Statesman
• Wendy Beckett – BBC art historian
• Dame Gillian Beer – literary critic and former President of Clare Hall, Cambridge (1994–2001)
• Nicola Blackwood – Conservative MP for Oxford West and Abingdon (2010–17)
• Mark Bostridge – writer and critic, biographer of Vera Brittain and Florence Nightingale
• Tina Brown, CBE – writer, and magazine editor, currently of The Daily Beast and formerly Vanity Fair (1984–1992) and The New Yorker (1992–98)
• Frances Cairncross, CBE – journalist, economist, and Rector of Exeter College, Oxford (2004–2014)
• Rosemary Cramp – archaeologist specialising in Anglo-Saxon literature and culture
• Edwina Currie – Conservative MP (1983–97)
• Liam D'Arcy-Brown, Sinologist and travel writer
• Ruth Deech, Baroness Deech, DBE – lawyer, bioethicist, and former Principal of St Anne's (1991–2004)
• Paul Donovan – economist and author
• Dame Mary Douglas, DBE, FBA – anthropologist
• Anne Dreydel, OBE – co-founder of the Oxford English Centre, now St Clare's International School
• Rose Dugdale – former debutante, notable IRA member and art thief
• Moira Dunbar – Arctic ice researcher
• Andrew Edmonds – contestant on the reality TV show Big Brother 11
• U. A. Fanthorpe, CBE, FRSL – poet
• Penelope Farmer – children's writer
• Helen Fielding – novelist known for the Bridget Jones series
• Helen Fraser – executive and publisher
• Hadley Freeman – writer and columnist for The Guardian and Vogue
• Urszula Gacek – former Polish politician, since 2011 Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Poland to The Council of Europe
• Sanjay Ghose – noted Indian activist.
• Jean Golding – epidemiologist
• Sarah Gristwood - journalist and author
• Miriam Gross – literary editor and co-founder of Standpoint magazine
• Mary Harron – Canadian director and screenwriter, best known for American Psycho
• Zoë Heller – journalist and novelist, known for Notes on a Scandal
• Miriam Hodgson (1938–2005) - editor of children's books^[1]
• Brad Hooker – philosopher specialising in ethics, Professor of Philosophy at Reading University
• Nancy Hubbard – Professor of business, author, and Miriam Katowitz Chair of Management and Accounting at Goucher College

• Ben Hudson – stage name Mr Hudson, pop musician
• Devaki Jain – Indian economist, writer, and feminist activist
• Diana Wynne Jones – fantasy novelist, known for the Chrestomanci series and Howl's Moving Castle
• Martha Kearney – broadcaster and journalist, currently of BBC Radio 4's The World at One
• Sandra Landy – world champion bridge player and computer scientist
• Penelope Lively, CBE, FRSL – novelist and Booker Prize winner for Moon Tiger
• Guy Lynn – investigative reporter for the BBC
• William MacAskill – philosopher, co-founder of the Effective Altruism movement
• Kevin Macdonald – director, The Last King of Scotland and State of Play
• Max More – philosopher and futurist, founder of the Extropy Institute
• Rebecca Morelle – journalist, currently global science correspondent for BBC News
• Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh – South African author, musician and activist
• Lindsay Northover, Baroness Northover – Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords (since 2000), former Government Whip
• Una O'Brien, Permanent Secretary Department of Health
• Nicola Padfield - Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge and Professor of Criminal and Penal Justice at the Law Faculty, University of Cambridge
• Adam Parsons – television and radio presenter
• Ged Quinn – artist
• Janina Ramirez – art historian, lecturer and TV presenter.
• Justice Ruma Pal – judge of the Supreme Court of India (2000–2006)
• Norah Lillian Penston – principal of Bedford College, University of London, 1951–64
• Melanie Phillips – journalist and author, winner of the Orwell Prize
• Libby Purves, OBE – radio presenter and journalist, drama critic for The Times (2010–)
• Sir Simon Rattle, CBE, FRSA – prominent conductor, principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic (2002–2016), London Symphony Orchestra (2017–)^[2]
• John Robins – stand-up comedian and radio presenter
• Jancis Robinson, OBE, MW – wine critic and author
• James Rutledge – musician and producer
• Dame Cicely Saunders, OM, DBE – Anglican nurse, physician, writer, and pioneer of the hospice movement
• Frances Stonor Saunders – journalist, historian, television, film-maker, and former associate editor of the New Statesman
• Samantha Shannon – author of The Bone Season dystopian fiction series
• Susan Sontag – prominent American author, literary theorist, and political activist
• Susan J. Smith – Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge and Honorary Professor of Social and Economic Geography at the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge
• Russell Taylor, MBE – writer, journalist and composer
• Jane Thynne – novelist, journalist and broadcaster
• Polly Toynbee – journalist, writer, and columnist for The Guardian (since 1998)
• Jenny Uglow, OBE – critic and noted biographer, current editorial director of Chatto & Windus
• Jill Paton Walsh, CBE, FRSL – novelist and children's writer
• Victoria Whitworth – Anglo-Scots novelist, archaeologist and art historian
• Ivy Williams – first woman to be called to the English bar
• Mara Yamauchi – noted long-distance track and marathon runner

Academics

• Peter Ady – Fellow (1947–2004), eminent development economist, adviser to the Burmese Government and Ministry of Overseas Development.
• Roger Crisp – current Professor of Moral Philosophy, Uehiro Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, Chairman of Management Committee of Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
• Peter Donnelly, FRS – current Fellow (1996–), Australian mathematician and statistician, and current director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics at Oxford University
• Bent Flyvbjerg – current Fellow, noted economic geographer, urban planner, and current director of the BT Centre for Major Programme Management at the Saïd Business School
• Margaret Hubbard – Australian classical scholar specializing in philology; one of St Anne's 15 founding fellows
• Jonathan Katz – stipendiary lecturer, and current University Public Orator
• Patrick McGuinness – current Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Fellow and Tutor in French, author, and poet
• Georg Gottlob, FRS – current Fellow (since 2006), noted Austrian computer scientist specialising in database theory, logic, and artificial intelligence
• A. C. Grayling, FRSA, FRSL – current Supernumerary Fellow, philosopher, author, human rights and civil liberties advocate
• Tony Judt, FBA – Fellow (1980–87), author, historian, and public intellectual, later the director of the Erich Maria Remarque Institute at NYU and contributor to the New York Review of Books
• John Lloyd – current Supernumerary Fellow, journalist, contributor to the Financial Times, and co-founder of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University
• Nick Middleton – current Supernumerary Fellow, physical geographer specialising in desertification, and consultant to the IUCN, UNEP, EU, and WWF.^[3]
• Iris Murdoch, DBE – Fellow (1948–99), philosopher, and novelist, known for Under the Net and The Sea, The Sea
• Graham Nelson – current Supernumerary Fellow]] (since 2007), mathematician, poet, and noted interactive fiction game designer
• Roger Reed – current Supernumerary Fellow, professor of engineering and material science.^[4]
• Stephen Alexander Smith – Fellow (1991–98), legal scholar and writer
• Gabriele Taylor – current senior research fellow, philosopher in ethics
• Antonios Tzanakopoulos – current Fellow, legal scholar, Secretary-General of the International Law Association

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