List of Wolfson College, Oxford, people

A list of people associated with Wolfson College, Oxford. This includes former students, Fellows and Presidents of the college.

Former students

Dame Kay Davies, human geneticist

Richard Ellis, astronomer

Science

• Michael Butler, is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton, UK
• Dame Kay Davies, Human Geneticist
• Richard Ellis, extragalactic astronomer, Steele Professor at Caltech and former Director, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge
• Artur Ekert, one of the pioneers of quantum cryptography, and winner of the Maxwell and Hughes medals, and the Descartes Prize
• Alison Gopnik, Professor of Psychology, Affiliate Professor of Philosophy, University of California at Berkeley
• Michael Hinchey, Irish computer scientist, Director at the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre (Lero), University of Limerick, Ireland
• Nigel Hitchin, British mathematician, winner of the Sylvester Medal
• Michele Mosca, quantum scientist known for his work on quantum algorithms and NMR quantum computation
• James R. Norris, leading mathematician working in probability theory and stochastic analysis, Professor of Stochastic Analysis in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge
• Nicolaas Adrianus Rupke, a Dutch historian of science, who began his academic career as a marine geologist
• Ib Holm Sørensen, noted computer scientist who made contributions to the Z notation and B-Method
• Michael Spivey, British computer scientist at the University of Oxford, who wrote an Oberon-2 compiler.

Law

• Karim Asad Ahmad Khan, Prosecutor in the UN International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, counsel before Special Courts in East Timor and Sierra Leone
• Dame Hazel Genn, leading authority on civil justice
• The Hon. Justice Francisco Rezek, distinguished Brazilian jurist and member of the International Court of Justice and formerly Foreign Minister of Brazil

History & literature

• Bashir Abu-Manneh, Assistant Professor of literature at Barnard College, a liberal arts college affiliated with Columbia University
• Joe Andrew, Professor of Russian Literature at Keele University
• Henry Hardy, author and editor, publisher of Isaiah Berlin's papers
• Josef W. Meri, leading specialist in Islam in the pre-modern period, Islamic cultural and social history
• Iain Pears, popular British novelist, art historian

Politics & government

• Tony Buti, Australian politician and Australian Labor Party member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly
• Mehdi Hashemi Rafsanjani, is a businessman, former Iranian government official, and the fourth child of Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, former President of Iran
• Simon Upton, formerly Minister of Health, Environment and Science and Technology and member of the National Party
• Mike Woodin, former principal speaker for the Green Party of England and Wales (later Fellow of Balliol)
• Nafisa Shah, Member of Pakistan's National Assembly (MNA), Chairperson of Pakistan's National Commission for Human Development, nominated for a collective Nobel Peace Prize under "1000 Women for Peace" category.

Business

• Don Elder, New Zealand engineer and businessman, CEO of the New Zealand mining and energy company Solid Energy.

Fellows

• Samson Abramsky, computer scientist and developer of domain theory in logic form, game semantics and categorical quantum mechanics
• Leonie Archer, historian and leading authority on women in Jewish antiquity
• Isaiah Berlin, regarded as one of the twentieth century's most influential liberal philosophers
• Kanti Bajpai, Former Headmaster, The Doon School, India
• John Barnes, developer of the Ada programming language
• William Bradshaw, Baron Bradshaw, Member of the House of Lords
• Donald Broadbent, experimental psychologist
• Sebastian Brock, leading expert in Syriac language
• Amit Chaudhuri, novelist
• Christopher Davis, reader in Command and Transition Economies
• Simon Digby, oriental scholar
• Anthony Epstein, discovered the Epstein-Barr virus
• Robin Gandy, mathematician and logician
• Raymond Hoffenberg, endocrinologist and medical scientist and prominent opponent of apartheid in South Africa
• Tony Hoare, computer scientist, developer of Quicksort the widely used sorting algorithm
• Roger Moorey, British archeologist and keeper of antiquities at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford
• Pat Nuttall, expert in tick-borne diseases
• Gareth Roberts, physicist and influential figure in shaping British policy on the sciences
• Sumit Sarkar, Indian historian, former Professor of history, Delhi University
• Erich Wolf Segal, American author and screenwriter, wrote the screenplay for The Beatles' 1968 motion picture Yellow Submarine
• Steven Schwartz, Vice Chancellor of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia
• Jon Stallworthy, Professor Emeritus of English, University of Oxford, UK
• Bryan Sykes, world-renowned human geneticist
• Niko Tinbergen, Dutch ethologist and Nobel prize winner
• Geza Vermes, Christian and Jewish historian and leading authority on the Dead Sea Scrolls

Presidents

• Isaiah Berlin, 1967–1975
• Henry Fisher, 1975–85
• Raymond Hoffenberg, 1985–93
• Jim Kennedy, (acting), 1993–1994
• David Smith, 1994–2000
• Jon Stallworthy, (acting), 2000
• Gareth Roberts, 2000–2007
• Jon Stallworthy, (acting), 2007–2008
• Hermione Lee, 2008–present

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