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Wabar craters

The Wabar craters are impact craters located in Saudi Arabia first brought to the attention of Western scholars by British Arabist, explorer, writer and Colonial Office intelligence officer St John Philby, who discovered them while searching for the legendary city of Ubar in Arabia's Rub' al Khali ("Empty Quarter") in 1932.

1932 Philby
The vast desert wasteland of southern Saudi Arabia known as the Empty Quarter, or Rub' al Khali in Arabic, is one of the most desolate places on Earth. In 1932, Harry St John "Jack" Philby was hunting for a city named Ubar, that the Quran describes being destroyed by God for defying the Prophet Hud. Philby transliterated the name of the city as Wabar.

Philby had heard of Bedouin legends of an area called Al Hadida ("place of iron" in Arabic) with ruins of ancient habitations, and also an area where a piece of iron the size of a camel had been found, and so organized an expedition to visit the site. After a month's journey through wastes so harsh that even some of the camels died, on 2 February 1932 Philby arrived at a patch of ground about a half a square kilometre in size, littered with chunks of white sandstone, black glass, and chunks of iron meteorite. Philby identified two large circular depressions partially filled with sand, and three other features that he identified as possible "submerged craters". He also mapped the area where the large iron block was reputed to have been found. Philby thought that the area was a volcano, and it was only after bringing back samples to the UK that the site was identified as that of a meteorite impact by Leonard James Spencer of the British Museum.

"A volcano in the midst of the Rub' al Khali! And below me, as I stood on that hill-top transfixed, lay the twin craters, whose black walls stood up gauntly above the encroaching sand like the battlements and bastions of some great castle. These craters were respectively about 100 and 50 yards in diameter, sunken in the middle but half choked with sand, while inside and outside their walls lay what I took to be lava in great circles where it seemed to have flowed out from the fiery furnace. Further examination revealed the fact that there were three similar craters close by, though these were surmounted by hills of sand and recognizable only by reason of the fringe of blackened slag round their edges."

Amongst the samples of iron, cindery material and silica glass that Philby brought back from the site was a 25 lb (11.3 kg) chunk of iron. Analysis showed it to be about 90% iron and 5% nickel, with the rest consisting of various elements, including copper, cobalt, and 6 ppm of iridium, an unusually high concentration. This siderophile element implied that the Wabar site was a meteorite impact area.

1937 Aramco
In 1937, Aramco geologists T. F. Harriss and Walton Hoag, Jr. also investigated the site, but, like Philby, were unable to locate the large block of iron.

1966 National Geographic and Aramco
In 1966 reports came that the sands had shifted and the large iron block was again visible. National Geographic journalist Thomas J. Abercrombie visited the site and found the large meteorite: "rumor has become a reality; the biggest iron meteorite ever found in Arabia lay at our feet ... shaped roughly like a saucer, it measured about four feet in diameter and two feet thick at center. A little quick geometry puts its weight at almost two and a half tons."

Later in October 1966, a group headed by Aramco employee James Mandaville visited the site with heavy lifting equipment. They found two large uncovered meteorites. The largest, weighing 2,045 kilograms, had a pitted, but roughly level top surface about a metre (3.5 feet) in diameter with one end formed into a cone shape when the meteorite penetrated the atmosphere like a bullet; it was imbedded in sand, which had drifted over the top. It was photographed in situ, then overturned by a bulldozer and lifted on board a trailer where it and another, smaller meteorite were taken to Dhahran.

1982 Aramco
Mandaville visited the site twice after his 1966 visit. On his last visit, in 1982, he noted that the desert winds and resultant movement of the dune system were covering the site: "instead of two thirds of the crater rim (visible as before [in 1966, 16 years earlier]), less than a quarter of it showed."

1994–1995 Zahid Tractors
In 1994 and 1995 a total of three expeditions were undertaken, sponsored by Zahid Tractor Corporation. A United States Geological Survey scientist, Jeffrey C. Wynn joined all three expeditions, and astronomer and geologist Gene Shoemaker joined at least one. These expeditions were made with modern offroad vehicles into the Empty Quarter, but even with modern technology, the trips were difficult ones. Not only were conditions harsh, but the Wabar site was tricky to find, as it sits in the midst of an enormous dune field that has no fixed landmarks.

The site
The Wabar site covers about 500 by, and the most recent mapping shows three prominent, roughly circular craters. Five were reported by Philby in 1932, the largest of which measured 116 m and 64 m wide. Another was described by the second Zahid expedition and is 11 metres wide: this may be one of the other three originally described by Philby. They are all underlain by a hemispherical rim of "insta-Rock," so called because it was created from local sand by the impact shock wave, and all three are nearly full of sand.

The surface of the area partly consisted of "Insta-Rock" or "impactite", a bleached-white, coarsely-laminar sandstone-look-alike, and was littered with black glass slag and pellets. The impactite featured a form of shocked quartz known as "coesite", and is thus clearly the product of an impact event. The impact did not penetrate to bedrock, but was confined to local sand, making it particularly valuable as a research site.

The presence of iron fragments at the site also pointed to a meteorite impact, as there are no iron deposits in the region. The iron was in the form of buried fist-sized cracked balls and smooth, sand-blasted fragments found on the surface. The largest fragment was recovered in a 1966 visit to Wabar and weighs 2.2 tonnes. It is known as the "Camel's Hump" and was on display at the King Saud University in Riyadh until it was moved to the new National Museum of Saudi Arabia in Riyadh, where it is displayed in the entrance foyer.

The sand was turned into black glass near the craters, and pellets of the glass are scattered all over the area, decreasing in size with distance from the craters due to wind-sorting. The glass is about 90% local sand and 10% meteoritic iron and nickel.

The layout of the impact area suggests that the body fell at a shallow angle, and was moving at typical (although slightly slow) meteorite entry speeds of 11–17 km/s. Its total mass was more than 3,500 tonnes (which would give it a diameter of 16 meters at a density of 1.5 g/cm3). The shallow angle presented the body with more air resistance than it would have encountered at a steeper angle, and it broke up in the air into at least four pieces before impact. The biggest piece struck with an explosion roughly equivalent to the atom bomb that levelled Hiroshima.

Dating the impact event
Fission-track analysis of glass fragments by Storzer (1965) suggested the Wabar impact took place thousands of years ago, but delicate glass filigree, and the fact that the craters have been filled in considerably since Philby's 1932 visit, suggests their origin is much more recent. Thermoluminescence dating by Prescott et al. (2004) suggests the impact site is less than 250 years old. This is consistent with Arab reports of a fireball passing over Riyadh, variously reported as occurring in 1863 or 1891 and heading southeast, reported in Philby's book Empty Quarter (1933). Fragments scattered from the path of this fireball at the Umm al-Hadidah site 25 kilometers northwest of Wabar, which contained fragments of a Type IIIA octahedrite identical to Wabar fragments, support this northwestern direction of arrival. Moreover, mapping done in 1995 show that there is an asymmetric distribution of "Insta-Rock", the coarsely-laminar sandstone created by the impact shock-wave, in the down-range (southeast) direction of the three main craters mapped.

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• Jenny Uglow (St Anne's)

• Guðbrandur Vigfússon

• Elizabeth Wade White

• Fredric Warburg (Christ Church)

• Marina Warner (Lady Margaret Hall)

• Joseph Warton (Oriel)

• Raymond Williams

• Simon Winchester (St Catherine's)

• George Woodcock

• Ghil'ad Zuckermann (St Hugh's)

Travel and non-fiction writers

 * Katharine Lee Bates

Media
''Many journalists work in both print and broadcast media. The following are listed under the medium for which they are best known. Those who are known solely as sports commentators will be found at List of University of Oxford people in sport, exploration, and adventuring.''

Editors
• Paul Anderson (Balliol) Tribune 1991–93, Deputy New Statesman 1993–96

• Perry Anderson (Worcester) New Left Review 1962–82 & 2000–03

• Lionel Barber (St. Edmund) The Financial Times 2005–

• Paul Barker (Brasenose) New Society 1968–86

• Peter Beinart (University) The New Republic 1999–2006, Editor-at-large 2006–

• Tina Brown (St Anne's) Tatler 1979–83, Vanity Fair 1984–92, The New Yorker 1992–98

• George Earle Buckle (New College and All Souls) The Times 1884–1912

• Alastair Burnet (Worcester) The Economist 1965–74, The Daily Express 1974–76

• Charles C. W. Cooke (LMH) National Review Online 2016-

• William Percival Crozier (Trinity) The Manchester Guardian 1932–44

• Matthew d'Ancona (Magdalen and All Souls) The Spectator 2006–

• Geoffrey Dawson (Magdalen and All Souls) The Times 1912–19 & 1923–41

• John Thadeus Delane (Magdalen Hall) The Times 1841–77

• Bill Emmott (Magdalen) The Economist 1993–2006

• James Fallows (The Queen's) U.S. News & World Report 1996–98

• Kim Fletcher (Hertford) The Independent on Sunday 1998–99, Ed Dir Telegraph New Media 2000-03, Ed Dir Telegraph Group 2003-05

• Paul Foot (University) Socialist Worker 1972–78

• John Gross (Wadham) Times Literary Supplement 1974–81, New York Times Book Review (Dep. Editor) 1985–1989

• John Lawrence Hammond (St John's) The Speaker 1899–1906

• Max Hastings The Daily Telegraph 1986–95, The Evening Standard 1996–2001

• Alastair Hetherington (Corpus Christi) The Guardian 1956–75

• Ian Hislop (Magdalen) Private Eye 1986–

• Anthony Howard (Christ Church) New Statesman 1972–78, Deputy The Observer 1981–88

• Brian Inglis (Magdalen) The Spectator 1959–62

• Richard Ingrams (University) co-founder Private Eye 1961, Editor 1963–86, founder The Oldie 1992

• Aboubakr Jamaï (University) co-founder Le Journal Hebdomadaire 1997, co-founder Assahifa al-Ousbouiya 1998

• Simon Jenkins (St John's) Evening Standard 1976–78, The Times 1990–92

• Paul Johnson (Magdalen) New Statesman 1965–70

• Mehreen Khan Financial Times 2016-22, The Times 2022–

• Michael Kinsley (Magdalen) The New Republic 1979–81 & 1985–89, Slate 1996–2002, sometime of Harper's Magazine

• Andrew Knight (Balliol) The Economist 1974–86

• Richard Lambert (Balliol) Financial Times 1991–2001, Director General Confederation of British Industry 2006–

• Dominic Lawson (Christ Church) The Spectator 1990–95, The Sunday Telegraph 1995–2005

• John Micklethwait (Magdalen) The Economist 2006–

• Ferdinand Mount (Christ Church) Times Literary Supplement 1991–2003

• Rowan Pelling (St Hugh's) Erotic Review 1997–

• Peter Preston (St John's) The Guardian 1975–95

• William Rees-Mogg (Balliol) The Times 1967–81, Chairman Arts Council 1982–89

• C. P. Scott (Corpus Christi) The Manchester Guardian 1872–1929

• Edward Taylor Scott The Manchester Guardian 1929–32

• Paul Spike (St Catherine's) Punch 1997

• Richard Stengel (Christ Church) Managing Editor Time 2006–

• Peter Stothard (Trinity) The Times 1992–2002, Times Literary Supplement 2002–

• Andrew Sullivan (Magdalen) The New Republic 1991–96

• Hilary Wainwright Red Pepper

• John Walter (Trinity) The Times 1803–09

• Norman Webster (St John's) sometime editor-in-chief The Globe and Mail, Montreal Gazette

• Jacob Weisberg (New College) sometime of Slate

• Andreas Whittam Smith (Keble) The Independent 1986–93, Pres Brit Bd of Film Classification 1997-2002, First Church Estates Commr 2002–

• Peregrine Worsthorne (Magdalen) The Sunday Telegraph 1986–89

Writers
• David Aaronovitch (Balliol)

• Tariq Ali (Exeter)

• Yasmin Alibhai-Brown (Linacre)

• Lynn Barber

• Katharine Lee Bates

• Nora Beloff (Lady Margaret Hall)

• Catherine Bennett (Hertford)

• Stephen Bernard (Christ Church, Brasenose College, University College)

• Adrian Berry, 4th Viscount Camrose (Christ Church)

• Michael Billington (St Catherine's)

• Grace Blakeley (St Peter's and St Antony's)

• Anna Blundy

• Emma Brockes (St Edmund Hall)

• James Buchan (Magdalen)

• David Caute (Wadham, St Antony's, and All Souls) Literary Editor New Statesman 1979–80

• Hugh Chisholm (Christ Church) Editor of Encyclopædia Britannica (11th & 12th edns)

• Alexander Cockburn (Keble)

• Andrew Cockburn (Worcester)

• Claud Cockburn

• Patrick Cockburn (Trinity)

• Peter Conradi (Brasenose)

• Robert Crampton

• George Dangerfield (Hertford) Literary Editor Vanity Fair 1933–35

• Nick Denton (University)

• E. J. Dionne

• Cordelia Fine

• Jonathan Freedland (Wadham)

• Thomas Friedman – American journalist, author and a three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize

• Barton Gellman

• Alan Gibson (Queen's)

• Maurizio Giuliano (University)

• Richard Gott

• Tom Gross (Wadham)

• John Harris (The Queen's)

• Julia Hartley-Brewer (Magdalen)

• Mehdi Hasan (Christ Church)

• Christopher Hitchens (Balliol)

• Anthony Holden

• Austen Ivereigh (St Antony's) Director of Public Affairs Archbishop of Westminster 2004–06

• Rachel Johnson (New College)

• Owen Jones (University)

• Tobias Jones (Jesus)

• John F. Jungclaussen (St Cross College)

• Oliver Kamm (New College)

• John Keay (Magdalen)

• Robert Kee (Magdalen)

• Lucy Kellaway (Lady Margaret Hall)

• Ludovic Kennedy (Christ Church)

• Martin Kettle (Balliol)

• Miles Kington (Trinity)

• Charles Krauthammer

• Nicholas D. Kristof (Magdalen)

• Christina Lamb (University)

• Osbert Lancaster (Lincoln)

• Nathaniel Lande Creative Director of Time, Director of Time World News Service & Time-Life

• Paul Levy (Nuffield)

• James McDonald (University)

• Derek Malcolm (Merton)

• Peter Millar (Magdalen)

• Seumas Milne (Balliol)

• Baisali Mohanty (Wolfson)

• Sheridan Morley (Merton)

• Harry Mount

• Eustace Clare Grenville Murray (Hertford) diplomat 1851–68, founder Queen's Messenger 1869, co-founder World 1874

• James Owen (University)

• Melanie Phillips (St Anne's)

• Adam Raphael (Oriel)

• Kate Rew

• W. Andrew Robinson (University) Literary Editor Times Higher Education Supplement

• Miranda Sawyer (Pembroke)

• William Shawcross (University)

• Sonia Sodha (St Hilda's)

• Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer (Magdalen)

• Guy Spier (Brasenose)

• George Steer (Christ Church)

• Jonny Steinberg

• Heather Stewart (Magdalen)

• Frances Stonor Saunders (St Anne's)

• David Stubbs

• Matthew Sweet

• Polly Toynbee (St Anne's)

• Kenneth Tynan (Magdalen)

• Sharon Waxman (St Antony's)

• Michael Wharton (Lincoln)

• Geoffrey Wheatcroft (New College)

• Christine Whelan (Worcester) author of Why Smart Men Marry Smart Women

• George Will (Magdalen)

• Tom Wintringham (Balliol) founder Daily Worker (1930) and Left Review (1934)

• John Woodcock (Trinity)

• Adrian Wooldridge (Balliol and All Souls)

• Hugo Young (Balliol)

• Toby Young (Brasenose)

Broadcast
• Samira Ahmed (St Edmund Hall)

• Jackie Ashley (St Anne's)

• Zeinab Badawi (St Hilda's)

• Paul Barry

• Frank Bough (Merton)

• Gyles Brandreth (New College)

• Ben Brown (Keble)

• Fiona Bruce (Hertford)

• Michael Brunson (The Queen's)

• Brenda Buttner (Balliol)

• Reeta Chakrabarti (Exeter)

• Jo Coburn

• Charles Collingwood

• Alan Connor (Wadham)

• Giles Coren (Keble)

• Victoria Coren (St John's)

• Michael Crick (New College)

• Adam Curtis (Mansfield)

• Evan Davis (St John's)

• Robin Day (St Edmund Hall)

• David Dimbleby (Christ Church)

• Stephanie Flanders (Balliol)

• Matt Frei (St Peter's)

• Delia Gallagher (Blackfriars)

• Paul Gambaccini (University)

• Arnab Goswami (St. Antony's College)

• Krishnan Guru-Murthy (Hertford)

• Lowri Gwilym

• Guto Harri (The Queen's)

• Russell Harty (Exeter)

• Chris Hollins (Keble)

• Gordon Honeycombe (University)

• Simon Jack

• Sarah Jarvis

• Sally Jones (St Hugh's)

• Natasha Kaplinsky (Hertford)

• Katty Kay

• Martha Kearney (St Anne's)

• Bridget Kendall (Lady Margaret Hall and St Antony's)

• Kenneth Kendall

• Victoria Lautman (Merton)

• Alvar Lidell (Exeter)

• Rachel Maddow (Lincoln)

• Magnus Magnusson (Jesus)

• Howard Marshall (Oriel)

• Rex Murphy

• Cathy Newman (Lady Margaret Hall)

• Rageh Omaar (Exeter)

• Robert Orchard

• Robert Peston (Balliol)

• Libby Purves (St Anne's)

• Esther Rantzen (Somerville)

• Katie Razzall (Pembroke)

• Nigel Rees (New College)

• Sophy Ridge (St Edmund Hall)

• Rachel Riley (Oriel)

• James Robbins (Christ Church)

• Nick Robinson (University)

• Robert Robinson (Exeter)

• Vir Sanghvi (Brasenose)

• Rajdeep Sardesai (University)

• Tim Sebastian

• John Sergeant (Magdalen)

• Peter Sissons (University)

• Howard K. Smith (Merton)

• Dan Snow (Balliol)

• Peter Snow (Balliol)

• Francine Stock (Jesus)

• Manisha Tank

• Karan Thapar (St. Antony's College)

• Louis Theroux (Magdalen)

• Alex Thomson (University)

Administration
• Jana Bennett Head of Science BBC 1994–2002, Director of Television 2002–06, Director of Vision 2006–

• Seymour Berry, 2nd Viscount Camrose (Christ Church) MP 1941–45, Dep Chmn Telegraph 1939–87, Vice Chmn Amalgamated Press 1942–59

• Michael Berry, Baron Hartwell (disclaimed 3rd Viscount Camrose) (Christ Church) Chmn & Ed-in-Chief Daily & Sunday Telegraph until 1986

• John Birt, Baron Birt (St Catherine's) BBC Director-General 1992 to 2000

• Michael Checkland (Wadham) BBC Director-General 1987 to 1992

• Calvin Cheng (Hertford) founder Looque International (2004)

• Arthur fforde (Trinity) Headmaster of Rugby 1948–57, Chairman of the BBC 1957–64

• Maurice Gorham (Balliol) Controller BBC Television Service 1946–47, Director Radio Éireann 1953–59

• Hugh Greene (Merton) BBC Director-General 1960 to 1969

• Tony Hall (Keble) BBC Director-General 2013 to 2020

• George Howard, Baron Howard of Henderskelfe (Balliol) Chairman of the BBC 1980–83

• Jeremy Isaacs (Merton) Channel 4 Chief Executive 1981–87

• Walter Isaacson (Pembroke) Chairman & CEO of CNN 2001–3, President & CEO of Aspen Institute 2003–

• Roly Keating (Balliol) Controller of BBC Four 2002–04, Controller of BBC Two 2004–

• Alasdair Milne (New College) BBC Director-General 1982 to 1987

• Rupert Murdoch (Worcester) founder, Chairman, and CEO News Corporation 1980–

• Frederick Ogilvie (Jesus) BBC Director-General 1938 to 1942

• Cathy Rogers Creative Director RDF Media (Los Angeles) 2001–

• Howard Stringer (Merton) Chairman and CEO Sony Corporation 2005–

• Mark Thompson (Merton) BBC Director-General 2004 to 2012

Stage and television
• Maria Aitken (St Anne's)

• Kenneth Barnes (Christ Church)

• Eve Best (Lincoln)

• Niamh Blackshaw

• Bunny Breckinridge

• Richard Burton (Exeter)

• Gemma Chan (Worcester)

• Hugh Dancy (St. Peter's)

• Oliver Ford Davies (Merton)

• Michael Denison (Magdalen)

• George Devine

• Rosaline Elbay (Oriel)

• Alfred Enoch (The Queen's)

• Michael Flanders (Christ Church) Flanders and Swann

• Emilia Fox (St Catherine's)

• Rebecca Front (St Hugh's)

• Val Gielgud

• Emily Hamilton

• Robert Hardy (Magdalen)

• Charles Hawtrey (Pembroke)

• George Procter Hawtrey (Pembroke)

• Sophie Hunter

• Felicity Jones (Wadham)

• Harry Lloyd (Christ Church)

• Louis Marks (Balliol)

• Ian Marter

• Jodhi May (Wadham)

• Emily Mortimer (Lincoln)

• Katherine Parkinson (St Hilda's)

• Rosamund Pike (Wadham)

• Hugh Quarshie (Christ Church)

• Diana Quick (Lady Margaret Hall)

• Wallace Shawn

• Waen Shepherd

• Donald Swann (Christ Church) Flanders and Swann

• Honeysuckle Weeks (Pembroke)

• Samuel West (Lady Margaret Hall)

• Simon Woods (Magdalen)

• Emily Woof

• Michael York (University)

Comedy
• Rowan Atkinson (The Queen's)

• Angus Deayton (New College)

• Paul Foot (Merton)

• Deborah Frances-White (Harris Manchester)

• Ivo Graham (University)

• Richard Herring (St Catherine's)

• Armando Iannucci (University)

• Terry Jones (St Edmund Hall)

• Emma Kennedy (St Edmund Hall)

• Stewart Lee (St Edmund Hall)

• Josie Long (Lady Margaret Hall)

• Dudley Moore (Magdalen) (St Edmund Hall)

• Al Murray (St Edmund Hall)

• Michael Palin (Brasenose)

• Rachel Parris (St Hilda's)

• Sally Phillips (New College)

• Jon Plowman (University)

• John Robins (St Anne's)

• David Schneider (Exeter)

• Mel Smith (New College)

• Laura Solon (Worcester)

• Andy Zaltzman (University)

Film
• Lindsay Anderson

• Kate Beckinsale (New College)

• Frank Cottrell Boyce (Keble)

• Donald Crisp Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor 1941

• Pippa Cross

• Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (New College) Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film 2007

• Alice Eve (St. Catherine's)

• David Giles (Oriel)

• Hugh Grant (New College)

• Tom Hooper (University) Academy Award for Best Director 2010 for The King's Speech

• Ken Loach (St Peter's)

• Terrence Malick (Magdalen)

• Laura Mulvey

• Paweł Pawlikowski (Magdalen)

• Rosamund Pike (Wadham)

• Dilys Powell (Somerville)

• Tony Richardson Academy Award for Best Director 1963 for Tom Jones

• John Schlesinger (Balliol) Academy Award for Best Director 1969 for Midnight Cowboy

• Emma Watson (Lady Margaret Hall, Worcester)

• Michael Winterbottom (Balliol)

Dance

 * Baisali Mohanty (Wolfson)

Music
Composers • Richard Addinsell (Hertford)

• Thomas Ashwell (Cardinal College)

• Richard Baker (Exeter)

• Edward Bairstow (Balliol)

• Lennox Berkeley (Merton)

• George Butterworth (Trinity)

• Barney Childs (Oriel)

• Reginald de Koven (St John's)

• John Dowland (Christ Church)

• Paul Drayton (New College)

• John Farmer (Balliol)

• John Gardner (Exeter)

• Howard Goodall (Christ Church)

• William Henry Harris (New College and Christ Church)

• Basil Harwood (Trinity and Christ Church)

• Joseph Horovitz (New College)

• Michael John Hurd (Pembroke)

• Peter Lawlor (Brasenose)

• Kenneth Leighton (The Queen's and Worcester)

• Andrew Lloyd Webber (Magdalen)

• Thomas Morley (Christ Church)

• Herbert Murrill (Worcester) Prof of Composition Royal Academy of Music 1933–52, Hd of Music BBC 1950–52

• Tarik O'Regan (Pembroke & New College)

• Stephen Oliver (Worcester)

• Ian Parrott (New College)

• Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (Exeter)

• Rachel Portman (Worcester)

• Thomas Preston (Magdalen)

• Daniel Purcell (Magdalen)

• Bernard Rose (The Queen's and Magdalen)

• Erik Routley (Mansfield)

• Robert Saxton (Worcester)

• Tim Souster (New College)

• John Stainer (Magdalen)

• Robert Steadman (Keble)

• Robert Still (Trinity)

• John Taverner (Christ Church)

• William Walton (Christ Church)

• Peter Warlock (Christ Church)

• Thomas Weelkes (New College)

• James Whitbourn (Magdalen and St Stephen's)

• Philip Wilby (Keble)

• Sandy Wilson (Oriel) Conductors • Thomas Beecham (Wadham)

• Harry Bicket (Christ Church)

• Adrian Boult (Christ Church)

• Harry Christophers (Magdalen)

• Nicholas Cleobury (Worcester)

• Laurence Cummings (Christ Church)

• Jane Glover (St Hugh's)

• Vernon Handley (Balliol)

• John Landor London Musical Arts Orchestra

• David Lloyd-Jones (Magdalen)

• Simon Rattle (St Anne's)

• Leopold Stokowski (The Queen's) Academy Honorary Award 1941

• John Whitfield (Keble) Organists • Thomas Armstrong (Keble and Christ Church) Principal Royal Academy of Music 1955–68

• Timothy Byram-Wigfield (Christ Church)

• John Clarke Whitfield

• E. T. Cook (The Queen's)

• Clive Driskill-Smith (Christ Church)

• George Job Elvey (New College)

• Jeremy Filsell (Keble)

• Philip Hayes (Magdalen)

• Christopher Herrick (Exeter)

• Max Kenworthy (Brasenose)

• John Keys (New College)

• Christopher Monckton (Magdalen)

• Sydney Nicholson (New College)

• Walter Parratt (Magdalen and Wadham)

• Simon Preston (Christ Church and Magdalen) Pianists • John Blakely

• Paul Crossley (Mansfield)

• Peter Hill (Christ Church)

• Ian Pace (The Queen's)

• Jean Redcliffe-Maud (Somerville)

• Peter Seivewright

• Blanc Wan (Jesus)

• Llŷr Williams (The Queen's) Singers • John Mark Ainsley (Magdalen)

• Robin Blaze (Magdalen)

• Ian Bostridge (Corpus Christi)

• James Bowman (New College)

• Susan Gritton

• Emma Kirkby (Somerville)

• Robert Lloyd (Keble)

• Peter Pears (Hertford)

• Myfanwy Piper (St Hugh's) Musicologists • Barry Cooper (University)

• Edmund Fellowes (Oriel)

• Jonathan Freeman-Attwood (Christ Church) Principal of the Royal Academy of Music 2008–

• Paul Hillier (Magdalen)

• Nicola LeFanu (St Hilda's)

• Robert Sherlaw Johnson (Worcester)

• Alan Tyson (All Souls) Administration
 * Tony Hall, Baron Hall of Birkenhead (Keble) Chief Executive Royal Opera House 2001–
 * Nicholas Kenyon (Balliol) Contr Radio 3 1992–, Dir Proms 1996–2000, Contr Proms, Live Events & TV Classical Music 2000–
 * Anthony Russell-Roberts (New College) Administrative Director of the Royal Ballet 1983–

Didgeridoo
 * Graham Wiggins

Jazz
 * Bill Ashton
 * Pat Fish (Patrick Huntrods) (Merton)
 * Soweto Kinch (Hertford)

Country
 * Kris Kristofferson (Merton)

Folk
 * June Tabor (St Hugh's)

Rock and pop
 * Mira Aroyo (attended but did not graduate)
 * Edwin Congreave
 * Guthrie Govan (attended but did not graduate)
 * Myles MacInnes (Mylo) (Brasenose)
 * Yannis Philippakis (St John's)
 * Mike Ratledge (University)
 * Mr Hudson

Museum and gallery directors
• Robert Anderson (St John's) Director British Museum 1992–2002

• Thomas P. Campbell Director Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 2009–

• Kenneth Clark, Baron Clark of Saltwood (Trinity) Director National Gallery 1933–46, Surveyor King's Pictures 1934–44, Chairman Arts Council 1953–60

• Henry Ellis (St John's) Principal Librarian British Museum 1827–56

• T. D. Kendrick (Oriel) Director and Principal Librarian British Museum 1950–59

• Frederic G. Kenyon (Magdalen) Director and Principal Librarian British Museum 1909–31

• Michael Levey (Exeter) Director National Gallery 1973–86

• Neil MacGregor (New College) Director National Gallery 1987–2002, Director British Museum 2002–, Chairman World Collections 2008–

• Edward Maunde Thompson (University) Principal Librarian British Museum 1888–98, Director and Principal Librarian 1898–1909

• Nicholas Penny (Balliol) Director National Gallery 2008–

• John Pope-Hennessy (Balliol) Director Victoria and Albert Museum 1967–73, Director and Principal Librarian British Museum 1974–76, Director 1976–79

• John Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden (Magdalen) V-C Reading Univ 1950–63, Chmn Wolfenden Cttee 1954–57, Chmn Univ Grants Cttee 1963–68, Dir & Prin Lib Brit Mus 1969–74

Art and history of art
• Peter Bales (Gloucester Hall)

• Wendy Beckett (St Anne's)

• Edward Burne-Jones (Exeter)

• W. G. Collingwood (University)

• Vincent Cronin (Trinity)

• Andrew Graham-Dixon

• Robert Hewison (Brasenose)

• Bevis Hillier (Magdalen)

• Kurt Jackson (St Peter's)

• Martin Kemp (Trinity)

• Tom Phillips (St Catherine's)

• George Rickey (Balliol)

• John Ruskin (Corpus Christi)

• Desmond Shawe-Taylor (University)

Architecture

 * Thomas Graham Jackson (Wadham)
 * Edward James (Christ Church)
 * John Martin Robinson
 * Sacheverell Sitwell (Balliol)
 * Christopher Wren (Wadham and All Souls)
 * Jack Diamond

Academic disciplines
This includes: • Law

• Theology and the Study of Religions

• Historians

• Classicists, Byzantinists, Archaeologists

• Modern Languages

• Philosophers

• Economists

• Geography

• Anthropology and ethnography

• Sociology

• Politics, political philosophy, and international relations

• Asian studies

• Mathematicians and statisticians

• Scientists

• * Naturalists, botanists, and zoologists

• * Medicine

• * Psychologists, psychiatrists, and physiologists of the brain

• * Chemists

• * Physicists and astronomers

• ** Astronomers Royal

• ** Other physicists and astronomers

• * Computers, electronics, and robotics

• * Engineering and agriculture

• * Geology

• * Meteorology

Chefs and wine experts

 * Oz Clarke (Pembroke)
 * Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (St Peter's)
 * Nigella Lawson (Lady Margaret Hall)
 * Jancis Robinson (St Anne's)
 * Rick Stein (New College)
 * Rick Stein (New College)

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Talk:List of University of Oxford people

What's happening with this page!?
When I try to access List of University of Oxford people the page ends very prematurely like this:

<a href="/wiki/John_
 * [Randall Thomas Davidson (Trinity)

When I try List of Oxford University people it works fine. What's happening and will it get sorted out?--Oxonian2006 12:47, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Solution?
Why not list all the colleges with which a person has been associated as a member of the Junior, Middle (=Graduate etc), or Senior Common Room? Hence Paul S. Fiddes would appear with St Peter's and Regent's Park, and Anthony Kenny with St Benet's Hall, Balliol, and St John's, obviosuly using common sense to leave out minor appointments (e.g. Lecturer) somebody (such as Kenny) may have held at other colleges.

To clarify, a Fellow (or Student of Christ Church) is not really a graduate student, except in the sense that he/she is a graduate and also a student in the broadest possible sense of the term (i.e. one who studies). Further, one is, unless some rare and drastic action is taken, a member of both college (or PPH) and university for life. One does not even need to be a matriculated member of the university to be an official member of a college, e.g. JYA students, who do not matriculate but are often entitled to sign the college register. The fact that somebody did not take a degree does not make them any less Oxonian. Nobody was more of an Oxonian than John Betjeman, who failed his Pass degree (not Divvers as commonly thought), and did not graduate until several decades later when he supplicated for an honorary DLitt. --Oxonian2006 13:16, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

College Links
Can we provide links to the various colleges? -- Zoe

 * Do you mean internal links to their articles or external links to their official webpages or both? Whichever way, I think that's a great idea.  Please go ahead -- they're all in the University of Oxford article, so you can open it for editing and copy them from there. (Having had the pleasure of gathering them all onto that page, I leave the fun of copying them here to someone else.) -- isis 07:33 Jan 26, 2003 (UTC)

I was hoping somebody who actually knows the colleges and what their Wikipedia names are could handle that. :-) -- Zoe

 * How about we find someone who wants to run their edit-count up and let them do it one link at a time? -- isis 07:52 Jan 26, 2003 (UTC)

Student or Don? - or both!
Are the colleges in brackets only supposed to be those where they were students? I saw that some people were listed with more than one college, and clicked on one at random - Barbara Levick. Her article says that she was a student at St. Hugh's College, Oxford, but a Fellow at St. Hilda's College, Oxford. So should we (a) remove names of colleges where people weren't students, or (b) rename the page to something more general, like List of notable Oxonians or the like? I'll leave it up to you. Oh, and I'll help with the linking when I have a bit more spare time (after my exams...) -- Oliver PEREIRA 08:06 Jan 26, 2003 (UTC)

 * I'd rather it be only where they were students, but I'm not absolutely sure a "fellow" isn't a graduate student of sorts (in the U.S., fellows are people on fellowships, and they ARE students), but I'd just as soon take it out, because this is only a list, and once you go to her link you get the other info anyhow. (I do question whether she's all that "notable", however, since I've never heard of her, but that's a different issue.)  But the main purpose of the list is for people who are strongly associated with Oxford in history but weren't students there all that long (or seriously), like Lord Alfred Douglas, and if you try changing the name of the list, you'll run into the same problem with having Richard Burton on it that made Deb take it out of the Oxford University article, altho she did not take the corresponding list out of the Cambridge University article. -- isis 08:35 Jan 26, 2003 (UTC)

 * I know that at Cambridge, once you've matriculated, you are a member of the university for life, even if you drop out. I don't know if that's the same for Oxford, but I would have thought so, and so people who dropped out would probably still be "Oxonians". But I agree, it keeps things simpler to just restrict it to students. By the way, in UK universities, a Fellow is a member of the academic staff, so they wouldn't be students. -- Oliver PEREIRA 09:05 Jan 26, 2003 (UTC)

 * In the U.S. (at least back when I was in grad school), most fellowships required either research or teaching (and carried a salary or "stipend" for it), and teaching fellows were academic staff (but perhaps not faculty), but then much/most teaching of undergraduates was done by graduate students instead of professors. I think you're right that in the U.K. fellows are faculty who hold appointments rather like a "chair" (or professorship) in the U.S., which is for a professor instead of a grad student, so we should probably stay clear of the issue for this list. -- isis 08:26 Jan 29, 2003 (UTC)

Scott Shaw
Recently added to "Novelists, Poets and Playwrights". Any source for this? No mention of any Oxford connection either on Wikipedia (Scott Shaw), or on his website. Flapdragon 14:30, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Have removed entry. --Simon D M (talk) 16:05, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

 * Scott Shaw's article on Wikipedia, Scott Shaw, does mention that he undertook postgraduate studies in geography at Oxford, citing this external biography. This page also mentions Oxford: Experience Festival. It doesn't seem to prove anything that this connection isn't mentioned on his own website since that site doesn't mention any of his education beyond high school. What I can't find any mention of is the claim that he is a member of Univ.--Oxonian2006 (talk) 11:32, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

 * If you scroll to the bottom of both pages, you'll see that they are just mirrors of the Wikipedia article about Shaw and so not actual valid sources at all. BencherliteTalk 11:53, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

 * I'm not sure what the technical meaning is of a mirror. I thought a mirror was an exact duplicate of a page provided by another means, whereas the ebay page, at least, claims only to be based on Wikipedia, and is clearly not a precise replica of it.
 * So where did the idea come from that he has any connection with Oxford? Do you think the information is inaccurate or merely not backed up by evidence? Has somebody created that huge list of universities he attended just as a joke?
 * I don't see that his inclusion or otherwise makes much difference, so best to leave him out for the time being.--Oxonian2006 (talk) 19:33, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

 * Maybe "mirror" wasn't the right technical term (Mirrors and forks isn't entirely clear), and I didn't investigate the similarities / differences between "our" article and "theirs" once I saw that "their" articles were based on "ours" and so had no independent reliability. Any differences may be because they copied an older version of the page, for example. I don't know whether the list of universities is a joke or not; it could be, for example, that he spent part of his course over here rather than a full degree. I agree with leaving it out for now. BencherliteTalk 20:07, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

 * To justify my actions, note that I didn't hesitate to remove Simon Pegg. I thought that Scott Shaw had a genuine and documented connection with the university.--Oxonian2006 (talk) 20:28, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

 * You don't have to justify anything to me, Oxonian2006 - I know you're on the side of the angels! BencherliteTalk 22:19, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Christian Baileys
Can any one provide me with information about Christian Baileys (Lincoln Group) time at Oxford, when he was there, when he graduated, contacts that might be willing to speak about him? Email me at homemagic4u@aol.com —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.199.24.163 (talk • contribs), at 04:15, 14 December 2005.

Non-entities
Pages like this are a magnet for jokers or vanity edits, and of the various red links some look non-notable to me. Can I suggest that if you must add a red link you should add a very brief summary of why the person is notable? But far better is to create at least a a stub article for the link to go to. Flapdragon 15:21, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Geoffrey of Monmouth
Any room for 12th century alumni? 70.20.216.43 05:23, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Oxford People Stubs
Stubs with rudimentary biographical detail on Oxford notables are unnecessary when they can be incorporated into this list more succinctly. Netkinetic/T/C/@ 06:08, 12 January 2007 (UTC)tyrese is going here

Dr. Kofi Abrefa Busia
Busia was the Prime Minister of Ghana from 1969-1972. He obtained a BA (Hons) at Oxford University in Politics, Philosophy & Economics; MA. Ph.D.Social Anthropology. Please amend your list of notable Oxonians to reflect this fact. Busia was the Prime Minister at the time that Edward Akuffo Addo was the ceremonial President of Ghana. 161.73.47.120 14:28, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Replacement of italics with small
Writing as the person who started the practice of adding notable details about people on this list in italics, I am suggesting that these are replaced with small text. This can be done by replacing '' at the beginning and end of the text with at the beginning and at the end. This looks neater and it will allow us to get more information onto each line without the danger of breaking onto the next line.--Oxonian2006 20:46, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Sortable list
I have made a start. I don't see why this list can't be as good as List of Dartmouth College alumni (a Featured List) with a lot of work. All help welcome! Bencherlite 22:03, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Very long
Oxford University is a great University and many notable individuals have studied or worked on the faculty of Oxford. I think this list should be divided into several lists. This list is very long. RS2007 04:37, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

 * I agree, it needs to be broken down into sub-sections on separate pages. It is currently the third longest page on Wikipedia and will only get longer as more table formatting and, more importantly, references are added.  The current table of contents is this (top levels of headings only):

* 1 Government * 2 The Law * 3 Religions * 4 Literature * 5 Media * 6 The Arts * 7 Historians * 8 Classicists, Byzantinists, Archaeologists * 9 Modern Languages * 10 Philosophers * 11 Economists * 12 Geography * 13 Anthropology and ethnography * 14 Sociology * 15 Politics, political philosophy, and international relations * 16 Asian studies * 17 Mathematicians and statisticians * 18 Scientists * 19 Educationalists * 20 Sports people * 21 Business people * 22 Explorers and adventurers * 23 Chefs and wine experts * 24 Miscellany * 25 Fictional Oxonians

 * Nos 1 to 6 would work on their own with their current titles (e.g. List of University of Oxford people/Government. 7 and 8 could be combined. 17 and 18 could be combined. 10, 11 and 15 (16 too?) could be combined in a "PPE" section. The rest are generally smaller sections and could probably for now just be put together in List of University of Oxford people/Others.  The main page would then consist of the introductory section, then links to each sub-list with some explanatory text about what each contains. Thoughts? BencherliteTalk 10:31, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

 * I have long been thinking about raising this issue myself. Obviously this page is too long as it is. Here are my thoughts:

--Oxonian2006 20:18, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
 * First, we don't want to lose any names from the list. Gathering together all these names in one place has been a big project and is one that should continue. Whatever solution is decided upon it should not involve cutting down the list.
 * Secondly, it needs to be easy for people to navigate the separate lists, which is the most likely solution that will be reached. I suggest having one page called "List of University of Oxford people" which will consist of a short list of links to a number of shorter lists. An alternative would be to have a "See also" list of links to the other shorter lists on each shorter list page. This would have the disadvantage that there would be no central hub.
 * Thirdly, I don't think a PPE page would be a good idea. It would be open to misunderstanding. It could suggest that the people on that page had read PPE. PPE is an undergraduate course rather than a field of endeavour in the real world. Philosophers, economists, and people working in academic politics, political philosophy, and IR do not actually have all that much in common. Most philosophers probably have more in common with mathematicians, linguists, theologians, and classicists. If there were an argument for having a PPE page then it could equally be argued that there should be a "Psychology, Philosophy, and Physiology" page.
 * Fourthly, I don't think we want too many pages. Even cutting the current page in half would be a big improvement. How would the following be for a set of shorter list pages:
 * University of Oxford people in public life, to include Government, everbody in The Law except for legal academics, and everybody in Religions except for theologians.
 * University of Oxford people in creative fields, to include Literature (except for people in the critics, librarians, diarists, etc sub-category who are known best as university-based academics), Media, and The Arts.
 * University of Oxford people in academic disciplines, to inlcude legal academics, theologians, university-based literary scholars, and sections 7-18. ✅ BencherliteTalk 21:23, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
 * University of Oxford people in education ✅ BencherliteTalk 21:23, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
 * University of Oxford people in business ✅ BencherliteTalk 21:23, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
 * University of Oxford people in sport, exploration, and adventuring ✅ BencherliteTalk 21:23, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
 * University of Oxford people in food and drink
 * Fictional University of Oxford people ✅ BencherliteTalk 21:23, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Fifthly, I would see if we could somehow get rid of the Miscellany section. I don't mean get rid of the people, but find a way of including them elsewhere.

 * 1 - I entirely agree, and wasn't suggesting otherwise. In fact, the issue of whether to include e.g. Imran Khan once or twice could also be revisited - the element of duplication is lessened if the entries are on two pages, rather than twice on the same page.
 * 2 - I entirely agree, and wasn't suggesting otherwise.
 * 3 - I meant a title like "Philosophy, political studies and economics", rather than "PPE", but I take your point. I was looking for ways of grouping academic disciplines together, short of putting them all on one page (which might get over-long itself, but we'll see on that front!).
 * 4 - I like your groupings, except for two suggestions:
 * (a) I think "public life" is too big - the government section alone is already 186kb long (out of a current page length of 331kb) and the other two combine at about 70kb, without full table formatting, so you'd be looking at a sub-page of around 250kb before the further tables, information and references are added. The same issue about page length would come up again.  I'd suggest three pages: University of Oxford people in public life (or perhaps in politics and public service, or something like that), University of Oxford people in the law and University of Oxford people in religion and theology.
 * (b) At the other end of the scale, a list for a handful of people in food and drink seems overkill! How about including them in creative fields? Some of those listed are known as cookery writers /broadcasters anyway rather than as restaurant-based chefs, e.g the lovely Nigella.
 * 5 I agree - possibly an "other people in public life" section in the main "public life" page?
 * Before we start moving names across, I'll just check that there isn't a GFDL issue in doing so. I assume not, as the main page isn't being deleted and that will have the history of contributions, but better safe than sorry... BencherliteTalk 21:07, 16 August 2007 (UTC) update: Summary style says how it's to be done, and it doesn't seem too difficult. BencherliteTalk 21:32, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Ok, I've done the first: List of University of Oxford people in education. More later, perhaps. BencherliteTalk 11:32, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
 * More done (as indicated above)
 * List of University of Oxford people in sport, exploration, and adventuring,
 * List of University of Oxford people in business,
 * List of University of Oxford people in academic disciplines and
 * List of fictional University of Oxford people.
 * Those changes have removed 41k, leaving about 298k. "Academic disciplines" is about 31k and will probably get too large for ease of use when properly referenced and formatted. I repeat my point about lumping together all of government and the law together: it would just transfer the length problem to a new page, not solve the problem.  I would welcome comments. BencherliteTalk 21:23, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

List of scientists?
How come I don't see any scientists/inventors alumni? Tarikur (talk) 23:52, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
 * How about List of University of Oxford people in academic disciplines? BencherliteTalk 08:49, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Oxonian Frederick Metcalfe? His books "The Oxonian in..." seem to qualify him
For more information, Google "The Oxonian in" for a list of his books from Open Library, Google, etc. to determine his eligibility as an Oxford alumnus. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Webistrator (talk • contribs) 01:06, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

Assessment comment
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Humanists/ Religious skeptics
At the risk of making this page any longer, there is nowhere for Andrew Copson, the prominent humanist. Religion hardly fits the bill, and as 50.6% of the population regarded themselves as belonging to no religion it seems odd to me that there is no section for Humanists. Another suggestion might be religious skeptics, plenty of skeptics are Oxon: Balliol alone had Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins. Mramoeba (talk) 23:38, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

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