| Some Famous Oxford Alumni Roger Bacon , scholar John Wyclif , religious reformer Cardinal Thomas Wolsey , Lord Chancellor and churchman Sir Thomas Moore (Saint) , Statesman and scholar Desiderius Erasmus , humanist and scholar Sir Walter Raleigh , explorer and statesman John Donne , poet and philosopher Thomas Hobbes , philosopher Sir Christopher Wren , architect Robert Boyle , physicist and chemist William Penn , reformer and founder of Pennsylvania Edmund Halley , astronomer Jethro Tull , agriculturalist and inventor William Pitt the Elder , British Prime Minister Dr Samuel Johnson , diarist and writer Sir Robert Peel , British Prime Minister Cardinal John Newman , Prelate and theologian William Gladstone , British Prime Minister Edward Burne-Jones , artist William Morris , poet and artist Oscar Wilde , poet and playwright Gertrude Bell , explorer Sir Thomas Beecham , conductor Clement Attlee , British Prime Minister T E Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) , soldier and diplomat J R R Tolkein , novelist Lord Denning , judge Evelyn Waugh , novelist Senator J W Fulbright , politician and educationalist Theodeor Seuss Geisel , children's author and cartoonist Edward Heath , British Prime Minister Indira Gandhi , Indian Prime Minister Dame Iris Murdoch , novelist and philosopher The Rt Hon Tony Benn , MP, politician Margaret Thatcher , British Prime Minister Sir Robin Day , writer and broadcaster Baroness Williams of Crosby , politician and academic Robert Hawke , Australian Prime Minister Dennis Potter , playwright Stephen Hawking , theoretical physicist Michael Palin | |
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