A list of alumni of St John's College, Oxford, former students of the college of the University of Oxford. The overwhelming maleness of this list is partially explained by the fact that for over 90% of its history (from its foundation in 1555 until 1979), women were barred from studying at St John's. The college maintains a growing list of profiles of prominent recent alumni on its website.
Politicians in the United Kingdom
George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave
Charles Cripps, 1st Baron Parmoor
Henry Croke
Edward du Cann
William Duckett, MP
Gwynfor Evans, former President of Plaid Cymru and first MP
John Gilbert, Baron Gilbert
Robert Henley, 1st Earl of Northington
Auberon Herbert, MP and political philosopher. Richard Holme, Baron Holme of Cheltenham Leslie Hore-Belisha, 1st Baron Hore-Belisha Peter Mews of Hinton Admiral Rhodri Morgan, former First Minister of Wales John Parker, MP Thomas Russell John Smith, 17th-century Chancellor of the Exchequer Shaun Spiers Michael Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham William Trumbull Henry Wallop Francis Windebank Sir Richard Wrottesley, 7th Baronet
Politicians and royalty of other countries
Civil servants and diplomats
Alan Bailey, formerly Permanent Secretary, Department of Transport
Mervyn Brown, Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Madagascar (1967–70), High Commissioner of the United Kingdom to Tanzania (1975–78), High Commissioner of the United Kingdom to Nigeria (1979–83) Ash Carter, United States Secretary of Defense Charles Crawford, Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Bosnia and Herzegovina (1996–98), Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Yugoslavia (2001–03), Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Poland (2003–07) David Faulkner, civil servant David Frost, Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Denmark (2006–08), CEO of the Scotch Whisky Association (2014–) Arnold Heeney Geoffrey Holland, former Permanent Secretary, Department of Employment and Department of Education and Vice-Chancellor, Exeter University; chairman, Quality Improvement Agency Khoo Boon Hui, president of INTERPOL Matthew Kirk, Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Finland (2002–06), Group External Affairs Director at Vodafone (2006–) Michael McFaul, United States Ambassador to Russia (2012-2014) Frank Newsam Michael Partridge, former Permanent Secretary, Department of Social Security; Pro-Chancellor and Governor, Middlesex University Sir David Pepper, former director of GCHQ Maharaj Muthoo Doctorate from Oxford as Commonwealth scholar; Indian Government & United Nations System senior civil servant John Rickard R. James Woolsey, Jr., United States Under Secretary of the Navy (1977–79), 16th Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (1993–95) Chris Wormald, Permanent Secretary, Department of Health Heath Tarbert, Nominee for Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Markets and Development in the U.S. (2017)