List of people associated with Balliol College, Oxford

See also: List of science, technology and mathematics people associated with Balliol College, Oxford

See also: List of historians, classicists and writers associated with Balliol College, Oxford

See also: List of politicians associated with Balliol College, Oxford

The following is a list of notable people associated with Balliol College, Oxford, including alumni and Masters of the college. When available, year of matriculation is provided in parentheses, as listed in the relevant edition of The Balliol College Register or in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Complete (or very nearly complete) lists of Fellows and students, arranged by year of matriculation, can be found in the published Balliol College Register; the 1st edition, 2nd edition and 3rd edition.

This list of notable alumni consists almost entirely of men, because women were admitted to the college only from 1979. To assist with verification, each name links to its Wikipedia page (except for those so ancient that no page exists). Each name only appears once in the lists, even though the person may have established themselves in more than one category.

Alumni

Philosophers

Image	Name	Join Date	Field of work	Comments	Refs
	Toby Ord	2003	Effective altruism	Founded Giving What We Can The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity
	Katherine Hawley	1989	metaphysics	How Things Persist 2002 How To Be Trustworthy 2020
	John Tasioulas	1989	moral philosophy	Rhodes Scholar Professor of Ethics and Legal Philosophy
	Herman Cappelen	1987	Philosophy of language	Professor of Philosophy, Hong Kong Bad Language (with Josh Dever) OUP 2019
	Michael Otsuka	1986	Political philosophy	Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers Libertarianism Without Inequality OUP 2003
	Robert Maximilian de Gaynesford	1986	Philosophy of language	Professor of Philosophy, Reading I: The Meaning of the First Person Term Clarendon 2006
	Stephen Mulhall	1984	German philosophy	Fellow, New College The Great Riddle: Wittgenstein and Nonsense, Theology and Philosophy, OUP 2015
	Cheryl Misak	1984	pragmatism	Rhodes Scholar, FRSC Professor of Philosophy, Toronto Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers, OUP 2020
	Paul W. Franks	1983	Jewish philosophy	Professor of Philosophy, Yale All or Nothing: Skepticism, Transcendental Arguments and Systematicity in German Idealism, HUP 2005
	Ian Rumfitt	1983	Philosophy of language	FBA, Fellow, All Souls The Boundary Stones of Thought, Clarendon 2015
	Adrian William Moore	1979	Metaphysics	FBA, Professor of Philosophy, Oxford The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics: Making Sense of Things, CUP 2012
	Michael Sandel	1975	Political philosophy	Rhodes Scholar, Professor of Government, Harvard Justice: the right things to do, popular Harvard course
	Timothy Williamson	1974	Philosophical logic	Wykeham Professor of Logic, Fellow of New College Knowledge and Its Limits OUP 2000
	Hilary Lawson	1973	Anti-realism	Founded the Institute of Art and Ideas
	Joseph Raz	1972	Jurisprudence	FBA, Fellow The Concept of a Legal System: An Introduction to the Theory of a Legal System, 2nd Ed OUP 1980
	William Newton-Smith	1967	Philosophy of science	Fellow The Rationality of Science, Routledge 1981
	Arthur Prior	1967	temporal logic	Fellow Time and Modality, OUP 1957
	Kit Fine	1964	Philosophical logic	Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics, New York Vagueness: A Global Approach OUP 2020
	Sir Anthony Kenny	1964	Philosophy of mind	Master A New History of Western Philosophy OUP 2010
	Roy Bhaskar	1963	critical realism	Master A Realist Theory of Science, Verso 1975
	Sir Neil MacCormick	1963	Jurisprudence	FRS, FRSE, Fellow Regius Chair of Public Law, Edinburgh MEP Law, State and Practical Reason, OUP 2011
	Derek Parfit	1961	Moral philosophy	Fellow of All Souls widely considered one of the most important and influential moral philosophers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, whose first book, Reasons and Persons (OUP 1984) has been described as the most significant work of moral philosophy since the 1800s
	Hans Sluga	1960	German philosophy	Professor, Berkeley The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein CUP 1996
	Alan Ryan	1959	Political philosophy	FBA, Professor of Politics, Oxford The Philosophy of John Stuart Mill MacMillan 1970
	Charles Taylor	1952	Political philosophy	FRSC, Rhodes Scholar, Professor at McGill The first president of the Oxford Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament A Secular Age HUP 2007
	Alan Montefiore	1948	European philosophy	Fellow A Modern Introduction to Moral PhilosophyRoutledge 1958
	John Lucas	1947	Philosophy of mathematics	FBA, Fellow at Merton College Minds, Machines and Gödel 1959
	Sir Bernard Williams	1947	Moral philosophy	FBA, Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy, Cambridge White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford "a good claim to be the leading British philosopher of his day (Martin Hollis)" Utilitarianism: For and Against CUP 1973 ||
	Ernest Gellner	1943	European philosophy	FBA, Fellow, Christ Church "the only Wittgensteinian to get Wittgenstein right"
	Richard Wollheim	1941	Philosophy of art	Grote Professor of Mind and Logic, UCL Art And Its Objects
	David Pears	1939	Ludwig Wittgenstein	Professor of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE "one-man crusader for critical rationalism" Words and Things 1959
	R. M. Hare	1937	Moral philosophy	FBA,White's Professor of Moral Philosophy The Language of Morals 1952
	Peter Geach	1934	Philosophical logic	Hon. Fellow, Professor of Logic, Leeds married to philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe
	Sir Stuart Hampshire	1933	Philosophy of mind	FBA, Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic, UCL Head of Philosophy, Princeton Warden, Wadham College Thought and Action
	J. L. Austin	1929	Philosophy of language	FBA, White's Professor of Moral Philosophy leading proponent of ordinary language philosophy How to Do Things with Words 1955
	John Niemeyer Findlay	1924	rational mysticism	Rhodes Scholar Professor of Philosophy, KCL/Yale/Boston
	Austin Marsden Farrer	1923	theology	FBA, Fellow, Trinity College, Oxford Warden, Keble College "one of the greatest figures of 20th-century Anglicanism"
	John Macmurray	1913	personalism	Fellow Grote Professor of Mind and Logic at UCL Professor of Moral Philosophy, Edinburgh
	Herbert James Paton	1908	German philosophy	FBA White's Professor of Moral Philosophy brains behind the Curzon Line 1919 splitting Poland
	Olaf Stapledon	1905	transhumanism	expressed philosophy through Science Fiction Last and First Men
	Sir W. D. Ross	1896	moral realism	FBA White's Professor of Moral Philosophy The Right and the Good
	Harold Joachim	1886	Coherence theory of truth	FBA Wykeham Professor of Logic The Nature of Truth 1906
	John Alexander Smith	1884	British idealism	FBA Waynflete Professor of Moral and Metaphysical Philosophy Instigator of the new PPE degree
	F. C. S. Schiller	1882	pragmatism	FBA, Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford Visiting Professor USC
	Samuel Alexander	1878	emergentist	OM, FBA Professor of Philosophy, Manchester Moral Order and Progress 1889
	David George Ritchie	1873	British idealism	Fellow Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, St Andrews Natural Rights 1895
	John Cook Wilson	1868	Logic	FBA, Fellow of New College Wykeham Professor of Logic Disputed the barbershop paradox with Lewis Carroll
	Bernard Bosanquet	1867	British idealism	FBA Husband of social theorist and reformer Helen Bosanquet The Philosophical Theory of the State 1899
	Richard Lewis Nettleship	1865	British idealism	Fellow The Theory of Education in Plato's Republic 1935 (43 years posthumous)
	William Wallace	1865	German philosophy	Fellow of Merton College White's Professor of Moral Philosophy The Logic and Prolegomena of Hegel 1873 Kant 1882
	Alfred Barratt	1862	panpsychism	Fellow, Brasenose College Physical Ethics 1869
	Edward Caird	1857	British idealism	FBA, FRSE Chair of Moral Philosophy, Glasgow Master of Balliol brother of theologian John Caird The Evolution of Religion 1893
	Thomas Hill Green	1855	British idealism	Whyte's Professor of Moral Philosophy Husband of Charlotte Byron Symonds who promoted women's education His teaching is considered the most potent philosophical influence in England during the last quarter of the 19th century, cited by many social liberal politicians, often Balliol alumni, such as Herbert Samuel and H. H. Asquith Prolegomena to Ethics 1884 postumously
	Sir William Hamilton	1807	metaphysics	Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, Edinburgh Philosophy of the Unconditioned 1829

Economists

Image	Name	Join date	Field of work	Comments	References
	Ian Goldin	2006	globalisation	Fellow Professor of Globalisation and Development founding Director of the Oxford Martin School
	Kitty Ussher	1990	public policy	former MP Chief Economist, Institute of Directors Group Head of Policy Development at Barclays
	Anusha Chari	1990	international economics	professor of economics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
	Stephanie Flanders	1986	public economics
	Jonathan Ostry	1981	international economics	Professor of Economics, Georgetown University son of economist Sylvia Ostry
	Gavyn Davies	1972		Chair of the BBC
	Deepak Nayyar	1967	development economics	Rhodes Scholar
	Patrick Minford	1961	macroeconomics	Brexit advocate
	Andrew Graham	1960	political economics	Master of Balliol Economic Advisor to the Prime Minister founded the Oxford Internet Institute son of Winston Graham of Poldark fame
	Lester Thurow	1960	political economics	Head to Head: The Coming Economic Battle Among Japan, Europe and America
	John Crow	1958	central banking	Governor of the Bank of Canada
	Peter Donaldson	1953	economics education
	Michael Posner	1950	international trade	UK economic advisor
	Alexandre Kafka	1936	international economics	Executive Director, International Monetary Fund second cousin of Franz Kafka
	Walter Rostow	1936	economic growth	US National Security Advisor
	Sir Donald MacDougall	1931	public policy	Head Government Economic Service
	Sir John Hicks	1922	general equilibrium theory	Nobel Prize
	G. D. H. Cole	1908	co-operative movement
	Sir William Beveridge	1897	social policy	founder, welfare state in the United Kingdom
	William George Stewart Adams	1896	social science	created Oxford philosophy, politics and economics course
	Sir William Ashley	1878	economic history
	Francis Edgeworth	1868	utility theory	FBA
	Charles Stanton Devas	1867	political economy	Catholic apologist
	Adam Smith	1740	political economy	a pioneer in the thinking of political economy and key figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, regarded as "The Father of Economics" or "The Father of Capitalism" The Wealth of Nations

Banking and finance, businesss

• Charles R. Conn (c1982) Rhodes Scholar, business creator
• Nicola Horlick (1979) fund manager "superwoman"
• Martin Taylor (c1971) CEO Barclays Bank
• Sir Adam Ridley 1961 director of several banks
• Grigor McClelland 1946 Professor of Management Studies
• James Robertson 1946 Director, Inter-Bank Research Organisation
• Sir Otto Niemeyer 1902 Bank of England director
• Oswald Toynbee Falk 1898 stockbroker

Public intellectuals

• David Aaronovitch (1972) did not graduate, communist, Orwell Prize winner
• Christopher Hitchens 1967 New Atheist
• Richard Dawkins 1959 FRS "The Selfish Gene"
• C. E. M. Joad 1910 "It all depends on what you mean by.."
• Arnold J. Toynbee 1907 FBA "A Study of History"

Law

Judges

Thomas Bingham

John Marshall Harlan II Supreme Court of the United States Associate Justice

• Julian Knowles (c1987) High Court Judge
• Robert Reed (c1978) FRSE President of the Supreme Court
• Alan Rodger (1969) FBA FRSE Justice of the Supreme Court
• William Nimmo Smith 1961 Judge of Supreme Courts of Justice, Scotland
• Mathew Thorpe 1957 Lord Justice of Appeal
• Sir Henry Brooke 1957 Lord Justice of Appeal
• Thomas Bingham 1954 FBA Lord Chief Justice
• Brian Hutton 1950 Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland
• Alan Stewart Orr 1933 Lord Justice of Appeal
• John Marshall Harlan II 1921 Rhodes Scholar (started 1922), Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court
• Charles Bowen 1853 FRS Fellow, Visitor, Lord Justice of Appeal
• Joseph William Chitty 1846 High Court Justice
• John Coleridge 1838 Lord Chief Justice
• Henry Bathurst 1730 Lord High Chancellor
• Thomas Coventry 1592 Lord Keeper of the Great Seal
• John Popham (c1549) Lord Chief Justice c. 1531–1607 The claim that he was at Balliol is in ONDB. The college does not have an extant record of his being a student and the university has no record of his receiving a degree.

Lawyers

• Gautam Bhatia 2011 Indian scholar of Constitutional law
• Jennifer Robinson (2006) Human rights barrister
• Rose-Marie Belle Antoine 1994 pro-vice chancellor, graduate studies, University of the West Indies
• Clare Moriarty 1982 Chief Executive Citizens Advice
• Joel Bakan (c1981) Constitutional law
• Simon Walsh (c1980) Police law
• Jane Stapleton 1980 FBA, Fellow, Ernest E. Smith Professor of Law at the University of Texas at Austin. Master of Christ's College, Cambridge
• Hugh Tomlinson (c1973) Media law
• George Carman 1949 Celebrity defence barrister
• Peter Benenson 1939 Human rights barrister, founder Amnesty International
• Charles Isaac Elton 1957 Property Lawyer, "The Great Book Collectors"
• Nicholas Katzenbach 1947 Rhodes Scholar, US Attorney General
• Courtenay Ilbert 1860
• Albert Venn Dicey 1854 "the rule of law"

Music

• Miron Fyodorov (2004) Russian hip hop artist Oxxxymiron
• Nicholas Kenyon (1969) BBC Radio 3, BBC Proms
• Vernon Handley 1951 Conductor
• John Farmer 1885 College organist, composer and keyboardist
• George Malcolm 1934 harpsichordist
• Richard Buckle 1934 Left after a year. Founded Ballet magazine
• Sydney Carter 1933 "Lord of the Dance"
• Inglis Gundry 1923 Composer
• Victor Hely-Hutchinson 1920 switched to RCM after one year, "Carol Symphony"
• F. S. Kelly 1900 Musician and composer. Olympic gold medallist in rowing
• Harold Boulton 1878 "Skye Boat Song"
• Julian Sturgis 1868 "the best serious librettist of the day" (W.S.Gilbert) FA Cup Final winner

Chess

• Raaphi Persitz 1953 chess master, financial journalist and chess writer
• Leonard Barden 1949 chess master, activist and journalist
• Sir Theodore Tylor 1918 Fellow, blind, jurisprudence don, chess master
• H. J. R. Murray 1887 school inspector, chess historian, "The History of Chess", son of the editor of the Oxford English Dictionary

Political journalists

Robert Peston, ITV Political editor

• Stephen Bush (2008) Financial Times
• Gary Gibbon (1983) Channel 4
• George Stephanopoulos 1984 Coanchor of Good Morning America
• Robert Peston (c1978) BBC then ITV
• E. J. Dionne 1973 US op-ed columnist
• Charles Krauthammer (c1971) Commonwealth Scholar, US conservative
• Martin Kettle 1967 The Guardian, Marxist
• Peter Snow 1958 Current affairs TV presenter
• Hugo Young 1958 The Guardian
• Peter Usborne 1953 co-founder, Private Eye, founder Usborne publishers

Poets

Hilaire Belloc

Gerard Manley Hopkins

• Christopher Ricks 1953 literary critic
• F. T. Prince 1931 WW2 "Soldiers Bathing"
• Laurence Whistler (1930) poet and glass engraver
• Patrick Shaw-Stewart 1907 WW1 war poet "Achilles in the Trench"
• Julian Grenfell 1906 WW1 war poet
• Walter Lyon 1905 WW1 war poet
• Hilaire Belloc 1893 Catholic literary revival
• Eric Stenbock 1879 (did not graduate) Baltic Swedish poet
• Henry Charles Beeching 1878 Dean of Norwich
• William Money Hardinge 1873 homosexual novels
• Andrew Cecil Bradley 1869 "Shakespearean Tragedy" 1904
• Andrew Lang 1865 FBA folklorist
• Gerard Manley Hopkins 1863 sprung rhythm, Jesuit
• Algernon Charles Swinburne 1856 (rusticated 1859) (did not graduate) poet-novelist-critic
• Charles Stuart Calverley (born Blayds) 1850 (expelled after one year) The university school of humour
• Francis Turner Palgrave 1842 anthologist, Golden Treasury
• Matthew Arnold 1840 sage writer
• John Campbell Shairp 1840 pastoral poet
• Arthur Hugh Clough 1837 secretarial assistant to Florence Nightingale
• Robert Southey 1792 (did not graduate) "Goldilocks and the three bears"
• Sir Edward Dyer (1561) Courtier and Poet Chancellor of the Order of the Garter. According to Anthony Wood (quoted in ONDB) he went to either Balliol or Broadgates Hall. He is listed as a student at Oxford in Fosters, but no college is given. From this evidence, there is no more than a 50% chance he was at Balliol.

Literary scholars

Image	Name	Join date	Field of work	Comments	Refs
	George Steiner	1950	comparative literature	Rhodes Scholar, Hon. Fellow Professor at Geneva, Oxford, Harvard Polyglot and polymath
	David Daiches	1934	literary history	Fellow A Critical History of English Literature The Penguin Companion to Literature
	John Livingston Lowes	1930	Samuel Taylor Coleridge Geoffrey Chaucer	Eastman Professor taught at Washington University St Louis, and Harvard
	Cyril Connolly	1922	literary critic	Enemies of Promise
	Logan Pearsall Smith	1888	essayist	Words and Idioms "The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood."
	Henry Watson Fowler	1877	lexicographer	A Dictionary of Modern English Usage Concise Oxford English Dictionary "a lexicographical genius" (The Times)
	Henry Sweet	1869	phoneticist	A Handbook of Phonetics
	John Churton Collins	1868	literary critic	Professor, Birmingham The Study of English Literature "a louse in the locks of literature" (Tennyson)
	John Nichol	1855	literary critic	Regius Professor of English Literature, Glasgow Byron, Burns, Carlyle
	Herbert Coleridge	1847	philologist	editor Oxford English Dictionary

Newspaper editors

• Richard Lambert 1963 The Financial Times
• Andrew Knight 1958 The Economist
• William Rees-Mogg 1946 The Times
• David Astor 1931 CH Did not graduate, The Observer
• Henry Vincent Hodson 1925 The Sunday Times

Television and film

Peter Snow, television presenter

• Chadwick Boseman (1998 summer school) Superhero actor (US)
• Vanessa Engle (c1980) Documentary maker
• John Schlesinger 1947 Film director "Midnight Cowboy"
• Roger Mayne 1947 Photographer
• Maurice Gorham 1920 Controller of BBC TV
• Raymond Massey 1919 Hollywood actor "Seven Angry Men"
• Michael Winterbottom

Security, Military and Intelligence

John Aidan Liddell VC MC

• Cressida Dick, (1979) commissioner of the London Metropolitan Police and daughter of Balliol Senior Tutor Marcus Dick
• Lieutenant-General Simon Mayall (c1975) Defence Senior Advisor Middle East
• Nigel Sheinwald (1972) Ambassador to the United States
• John Holmes Chairman of the Electoral Commission
• Martin Fido 1963 Fellow, True crime writer
• John Keegan 1953 Military historian
• Sir Nigel Foulkes, 1938 Chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority
• R. V. Jones 1934 FRS "the father of scientific intelligence"
• Sir John Rennie 1932 Director MI6
• Group Captain Archie Hope 1930 DFC, RAF pilot WW2
• Hon Richard Gilbert Hare Head of Russian propaganda, Ministry of Information WW2
• Lieutenant Arthur Rhys-Davids 1916 MC declined scholarship to join the Royal Flying Corps
• Captain John Aidan Liddell 1908 VC MC Royal Flying Corps
• Lieutenant-General Adrian Carton de Wiart 1899 VC left before graduating to fight in Boer War
• Vice-Admiral William Monson 1581 his Naval Tracts describe Navy life

Educators and school teachers

Image	Name	Join date	Field of work	Comments	Refs
	Nick Bevan	1960	Shiplake College	headmaster
	Alec Peterson	1926	International Baccalaureate	head of Oxford University Department of Education
	John Fulton	1923	British Council	chair of British Council
	Robert Birley	1922	Eton College	headmaster
	Sir Henry Marten	1891	Eton College	Provost of Eton tutor to Princess Elizabeth later Queen Elizabeth II
	Richard Powell Francis	1879	Brisbane Grammar School	first Australian to graduate from Balliol
	George Ferris Whidborne Mortimer	1823	City of London School	headmaster Abolitionist
	Richard Jenkyns	1800	Balliol College	Master, educational innovator

Social and political theorists

• Raj Patel (1991) social justice
• Geoff Mulgan 1979 Collective intelligence
• Graeme Garrard (1990) political thought
• Stephen Macedo (1980) liberalism
• Michael Sandel (1975) social justice
• Alex Callinicos (1968) Trotskyist political theorist
• Aly Kassam-Remtulla (1999) cultural anthropologist and non-profit executive
• David Miller 1967 social justice
• Robert Putnam 1963 Fulbright Fellow, two-level game theory, "Bowling Alone"
• Steven Lukes FBA 1958 Fellow, sociology
• Peter Sedgwick 1952 The politics of psychiatric services
• Norman O. Brown 1932 Freudo-Marxism
• Sir Leon Simon 1900 Zionist
• Sir Ernest Barker 1893 FBA political science
• Robert Ranulph Marett 1885 cultural anthropology

Philanthropists

• Matthew Westerman 1983 funded Pathfinder scheme and extended it to Asia
• John Templeton 1934 Rhodes Scholar, Fund Manager
• J. Irwin Miller American industrialist, modern architecture
• Cecil Jackson-Cole 1928 (external student) founder of OXFAM
• William A Coolidge 1924 Set up Pathfinder scheme for students to visit USA
• Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead 1874 arts and crafts movement
• Hannah Brackenbury 1865 major donor to Balliol College for scholarships and buildings
• Dervorguilla of Galloway 1282 endowed Balliol College as a "college for the poor"

Colonial administrators

• Crawford Murray MacLehose Joined 1936. Diplomat: ambassador to South Vietnam 1967-9, to Denmark 1969-71, Governor of Hong Kong 1971-82 (longest serving ever) .Life peer 1982 (crossbench). Died 2000.
• Cyril George Fox Cartwright
• Sir Lionel Barnett Abrahams 1888 Senior civil servant, India Office
• Shyamji Krishna Varma 1879 India
• George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston 1878 viceroy of India
• Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin (c1867) viceroy of India
• Henry Primrose private secretary to the Viceroy of India, chair Inland Revenue
• Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne 1863 listed as Lord Kerry viceroy of India
• Roger Ludlow 1609 (spelt Ludlowe) US Colonial lawmaker

Theologians and clergy

John Wycliffe

Cardinal Manning

Shoghi Effendi Rabbani, head of the Baháʼí Faith (1921–1957)

• George Abbot
• Mirza Nasir Ahmad
• Archibald Alison 1775
• John Bell
• Lionel Blue
• Thomas Bradwardine
• Alexander Briant
• Israel Brodie
• Thomas Byles
• John Douglas
• Shoghi Effendi
• Frederick William Faber
• Austin Farrer
• Cardinal Heard
• Ronald Knox
• Cosmo Lang
• Arnold Lunn Catholic apologist and inventor of the slalom ski run
• Henry Manning
• Thomas More (suggested but undocumented)
• John Morton
• George Neville
• Henry Oxenham
• John Coleridge Patteson
• Hardwicke Rawnsley (1870) Founder, National Trust
• Michael Sadgrove (1968)
• Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
• Bill Sykes
• Archibald Campbell Tait
• Frederick Temple
• William Temple
• Godfrey Thring
• Joseph Wood
• John Wycliffe
• David Young (bishop)

Sport

• Matthew Syed (1992) table tennis Commonwealth champion, columnist and broadcaster
• Richard Sharp 1959 England rugby union captain
• Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi 1959 India cricket captain
• Alan Rotherham 1881 England rugby union captain

Other

• Johnny Acton (1989) cook
• Ghislaine Maxwell, socialite and convicted child sex trafficker
• Aly Kassam-Remtulla Rhodes Scholar

Fictional

• Sir Humphrey Appleby
• The Rev Francis Arabin (from Barchester Towers)
• John Blaylock (from Whitley Streiber's The Hunger)
• Captain Hook
• Sir Arnold Robinson
• Captain John Charity Spring
• Lord Peter Wimsey

Notable applicants who were not matriculated

• Isaiah Berlin
• Tony Blair
• Bill Clinton
• Daniel Cohn-Bendit
• Daniel Dennett
• A. Hyatt Mayor
• Avrion Mitchison FRS immunologist
• Colin McGinn
• Lytton Strachey

Balliol Chancellors of Oxford University

• Richard FitzRalph (1332)
• William de Wilton (1374)
• Thomas Chace (1426)
• Richard Rotherham (1440)
• William Grey (1440)
• Robert Thwaytes (1445)
• George Neville (1453); (1461)
• John Morton (1494)
• George Nathaniel Curzon (1907)
• Alfred Milner (1925)
• Edward Grey (1928)
• Harold Macmillan (1960)
• Roy Harris Jenkins (1987)
• Christopher Francis Patten (2003)

Masters of Balliol

Main article: List of masters of Balliol College, Oxford

Balliol is run by the Master and Fellows of the college. The Master of the college must be "the person who is, in [the Fellows'] judgement, most fit for the government of the College as a place of religion, learning, and education". The current Master of Balliol is Helen Ghosh.

See also

• List of academics of Balliol College, Oxford