This is a list of alumni of Exeter College, Oxford. Exeter is one of the colleges of the University of Oxford.
The scarcity of women in this list of notable alumni reflects the fact that for over six and a half centuries (from its foundation in 1314 until 1979), women were barred from studying at Exeter.
Those educated at the college include:
Clergy
James Aitken (1829–1908), clergyman and sportsman, competed in the Varsity cricket match three times and the 1849 Boat Race James Aitken (d 1687), Bishop of Galloway George John Blomfield (1822−1900), clergyman E. E. Bradford (1860–1944), priest and Uranian poet Thomas Bradley (1596/7–1673), priest Harold Davidson (1875–1937), Anglican priest Charles Littlehales (1871–1945), cricketer and clergyman Benjamin Wills Newton (1807–1899), evangelist and theologian Jack Russell (1795–1883), priest and dog breeder Thomas Tregosse (c.1600–c.1670), Puritan minister Tom Wright (1948– ), Bishop of Durham
Politicians
Sir Hugh Acland, 5th Baronet (1639–1714), Member of Parliament
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury (1621–1683), politician
Dick Celeste (1937– ), 64th Governor of Ohio and US Ambassador to India
Sir John Eliot (1592–1632), statesman
Matt Hancock (1978– ), MP for West Suffolk since 2010
Brad Hoylman (born 1965), New York State Senator
Humayun Kabir (1906–1969), Education Minister of India
Sirr Al-Khatim Al-Khalifa (1919–2006), Prime minister of the Sudan
Liaquat Ali Khan (1896–1951), politician and the first Prime Minister of Pakistan Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (1938– ), former President of Peru John Kufuor (1938– ), President of Ghana John Maynard (1602–1690), 17th century lawyer and politician Patrick Mercer, Soldier and former Member of Parliament Chris Murphy (1973– ), United States Senator from Connecticut (Williams at Exeter programme) Sir Nicholas Slanning (1606–1643), Cornish MP and Civil War officer (royalist) Peter Truscott (1959– ), politician Claire Coutinho (1985- ), MP for East Surrey and Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero
Jurisprudence
Charles Arthur Turner (1833–1907), Jurist, Chief Justice of Madras High Court
Herbert Edmund-Davies (1906–1992), judge
David Feldman, Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of English Law at the University of Cambridge and former judge of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina John Fortescue (c.1394–c.1480), jurist Kenneth Hayne (1945– ), judge of the High Court of Australia J. C. H. James (1841–1899), public servant and magistrate of Western Australia Sydney Kentridge (1922– ), barrister and judge Sir John Laws (1945–2020), Lord Justice of Appeal and constitutional theorist William Noy (1577–1634), lawyer and Attorney General to Charles I Julius Stone (1907–1985), legal theorist Noel Gratiaen (1904-1973), Attorney General and Supreme court Justice of Ceylon Murray Tobias (1939– ), judge of the New South Wales Court of Appeal Aarif Barma (1959– ), judge of the Court of Appeal of Hong Kong
Other public offices
Malcolm Patrick Murray (1905–1979), British civil servant
Sir Oswyn Alexander Ruthven Murray (1873–1936), Permanent Secretary to the Admiralty, 1917–1936 Sir Robert Mark Russell (1929–2005), British Diplomat Major Thomas Close Smith (1878–1946), High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire, 1942 David Warren, diplomat
Academics
C. H. S. Fifoot (1899–1975), legal scholar
Ian Maddieson (1942– ), phonetician
Michael O'Neill (1953– ), academic
Joseph Nye (1937– ), political scientist
Surya Subedi (1958– ), international law scholar, barrister, Membre Titulaire of the Institut de Droit International Magdi Wahba (1925–1991), Egyptian academic, Lexicographer Robert J.C. Young (1950– ), FBA, Julius Silver Professor of English and Comparative Literature, New York University Qian Zhongshu (1910–1998), Chinese literary scholar
Science and medicine
John Lane Bell (1945– ), mathematician and philosopher
Sydney Brenner (1927– ), 2002 Nobel Laureate in the category "physiology or medicine" Richard Chorley (1927–2002), geographer Edgar F. Codd (1923–2003), inventor of the Relational Database Michael Efroimsky (1962– ), astronomer E. E. Evans-Pritchard (1902–1973), social anthropologist Malachy Hitchins (1741–1809 ), astronomer and mathematician Charles Lyell (1797–1875), geologist Brian John Marples (1907–1997), zoologist Arthur Peacocke (1924–2006), biochemist and theologian Paul Seymour (1950– ), mathematician