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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, [1] 2nd edition [2] and 3rd edition. [3]
This list of notable alumni consists almost entirely of men, because women were admitted to the college only from 1979. [4] 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.
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Toby Ord | 2003 | Effective altruism | Founded Giving What We Can | ||
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) | ||
Michael Otsuka | 1986 | Political philosophy | Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers Libertarianism Without Inequality | ||
Robert Maximilian de Gaynesford | 1986 | Philosophy of language | Professor of Philosophy, Reading I: The Meaning of the First Person Term | ||
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 | ||
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 | ||
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 | ||
Sir W. D. Ross | 1896 | moral realism | FBA White's Professor of Moral Philosophy | ||
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 | ||
William Wallace | 1865 | German philosophy | Fellow of Merton College White's Professor of Moral Philosophy The Logic and Prolegomena of Hegel 1873 | ||
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 |
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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 | [5] | |
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" |
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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 | ||
Richard Powell Francis | 1879 | Brisbane Grammar School | first Australian to graduate from Balliol | [10] | |
George Ferris Whidborne Mortimer | 1823 | City of London School | headmaster Abolitionist | ||
Richard Jenkyns | 1800 | Balliol College | Master, educational innovator |
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