List of Rhodes Scholars
This is a list of Rhodes Scholars, covering notable people who are Rhodes Scholarship recipients, sorted by year and surname.
Key to the columns in the main table:
Name | University | Oxford College | Year | Notability |
Stellenbosch | Merton | 1903 | Historian of South Africa and critic of colonial rule in Africa and the West Indies | |
Melbourne | Hertford | 1904 | Lawyer and academic | |
Adelaide | Balliol | 1904 | Forester who played First-class cricket for Worcestershire | |
Vanderbilt | Pembroke | 1904 | U.S. Commissioner of Education, president of the University of Florida | |
Victoria | Trinity | 1905 | New Zealand chemist, university professor and writer | |
Adelaide | Magdalen | 1905 | The first Baron Robinson, regarded as the chief architect of state forestry in Great Britain | |
Queen's | 1904 | German sociologist and economist | ||
Baker | Jesus | 1907 | Historian at Boston University 1913–1957; Huntington Professor of History | |
Harvard | New College | 1907 | American historian | |
Harvard | Hertford | 1907 | Philosopher, writer, educator and Harlem Renaissance patron | |
Queensland | Magdalen | 1907 | Chief Justice of Queensland 1946–1955 | |
Utah | Exeter | 1908 | President of the American Bar Association | |
Rhodes | Trinity | 1909 | Consulting surgeon, Charing Cross Hospital | |
Adelaide | Balliol | 1909 | Physician and anthropologist | |
Laval | Oriel | 1910 | Canadian ethnographer and folklorist | |
Franklin | Queen's | 1910 | American newsman, director of the U.S. Office of War Information during World War II | |
Utah | St John's | 1910 | Inventor of the Hartley oscillator; mathematician; winner of the IRE Medal of Honor | |
Cape Town | Balliol | 1910 | Academic, public administrator, and South African liberal politician | |
Lawrence | University | 1910 | American physical anthropologist | |
Chicago | Queen's | 1910 | American astronomer | |
Vanderbilt | Christ Church | 1910 | Poet | |
Indiana | Brasenose | 1911 | President of Swarthmore College | |
Adelaide | Magdalen | 1911 | Explorer and geologist | |
Melbourne | New College | 1912 | Australian Army general, barrister, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria, Lieutenant Governor of Victoria | |
St John's | 1912 | German general in World War II | ||
Michigan | Merton | 1913 | Philosopher | |
Adelaide | Christ Church | 1913 | Physicist, academic, pathologist, biochemist | |
Melbourne | University | 1913 | Australian rules footballer, doctor and soldier | |
Bates | Christ Church | 1914 | U.S. Congressman | |
Howard S. Hilley | Transylvania | Jesus | 1914 | President of Atlantic Christian College |
Christ Church | 1914 | Australian soldier, Olympian and Olympic Games organiser, author, and federal and state government minister | ||
Jamaica | Jesus | 1914 | Chief Minister of Jamaica 1955–1959, Premier of Jamaica 1959–1962 | |
Princeton | Merton | 1914 | Canadian neurosurgeon | |
Melbourne | 1918 | Solicitor-General of Australia; father of Peter Bailey | ||
Queensland | Merton | 1918 | The only Australian Communist politician ever to win an election | |
Washington | Magdalen | 1918 | Screenwriter of Wings and The Dawn Patrol | |
UBC | St John's College | 1919 | Canadian Berry enlisted as a gunner with the 46th Battery in December 1915. He served in France with the Third Divisional Signal Company on the Somme in 1916, and at Vimy Ridge, Hill 70, and Passchendaele. He was gassed at Loos in 1917. He was UBC’s first Rhodes Scholar and took up his residence in St John’s College, Oxford, in April 1919. He was an intellect, athlete and proudly served his country selflessly fighting for the freedom of others. | |
Alberta | Hertford | 1919 | Governor General of Canada, lawyer, politician | |
Harvard | Exeter | 1920 | Psychology department head at Colgate University, authority on hypnosis during World War II | |
Princeton | Balliol | 1920 | Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court | |
Sydney | New College | 1920 | Keeper of Victoria and Albert Museum | |
Adelaide | Magdalen | 1921 | Australian pharmacologist, Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1945 | |
Melbourne | Balliol | 1921 | Historian, academic, biographer | |
Sydney | Oriel | 1921 | Australian Ambassador to Singapore, Japan and Germany | |
Princeton | Balliol | 1922 | American Olympic gold medalist in 1924, president of Oberlin College, U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines | |
Tasmania | New College | 1923 | Australian physicist | |
Otago | Magdalen | 1923 | New Zealand physician, military surgeon, statesman, athlete, Governor-General of New Zealand | |
Georgia | University | 1924 | Psychiatrist, pioneer in the field of psychopathy, co-author of The Three Faces of Eve | |
Pretoria | Balliol | 1924 | Philosopher, Gifford lecturer; Meinong, Hegel, Husserl and Wittgenstein scholar | |
Melbourne | Magdalen | 1925 | Australian neurophysiologist, Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1963, for his work on the synapse | |
Arkansas | Pembroke | 1925 | U.S. Senator for Arkansas, originator of the Fulbright Fellowship program | |
Vanderbilt | Christ Church | 1925 | Chairman and CEO of Eastman Kodak | |
Alabama | Queen's | 1925 | Physicist, academic, and inventor of the Van de Graaff generator | |
Melbourne | Magdalen | 1926 | Vice chancellor University of Melbourne | |
Victoria | Balliol | 1927 | New Zealand athlete, scholar and teacher | |
Iowa | St Edmund | 1928 | American etymologist and lexicographer | |
Swarthmore | Balliol | 1928 | Mathematician, academic, scientific director Office of Scientific Research and Development | |
Victoria | Balliol | 1928 | New Zealand barrister, QC, British Labour Party politician | |
Vanderbilt | New College | 1928 | American poet and critic | |
Vanderbilt & Tulane | Exeter | 1929 | American literary critic | |
Alberta | Keble | 1929 | Canadian historian, designer of Canadian flag, Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick | |
Bethany | Jesus | 1930 | Historian, president of Bethany College and Wichita State University | |
Toronto | Brasenose | 1930 | Director of Canadian Naval Intelligence during World War II | |
Bonn & Berlin | New College | 1930 | Economist, statistician, author, social theorist, public speaker | |
Oklahoma | St Peter's | 1931 | Speaker of U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Congressman, 1947–1977 | |
Bloemfontein | New College | 1931 | Anti-apartheid activist and lawyer | |
Toronto | Christ Church | 1931 | Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario | |
Otago | Exeter | 1931 | 1500 metre Olympic gold medallist in 1936 Berlin Olympics | |
Adelaide | Magdalen & Exeter | 1931 | Professor of tropical medicine at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine | |
Davidson | St John's | 1931 | U.S. Secretary of State, 1961–1969 | |
Göttingen | Balliol | 1931 | German diplomat and anti-Nazi patriot, executed in 1944 | |
Auckland | New College | 1932 | New Zealand journalist, writer, relief worker, prisoner of war and university professor | |
Otago | Oriel | 1932 | Newspaper and television journalist in Britain | |
Auckland | Merton | 1933 | New Zealand writer, journalist and editor; author of novel Man Alone; in SOE in Greece in World War II | |
McGill | Lincoln | 1932 | Member of parliament and leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada | |
Manitoba | St John's | 1932 | Canadian historian | |
MIT | Merton | 1933 | American weapons scientist and co-inventor of GPS technology | |
Harvard | Balliol | 1934 | American historian and Librarian of Congress | |
Transvaal | Exeter | 1934 | South African-British-Israeli social anthropologist | |
Saskatchewan | Queen's | 1934 | Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Canada | |
SMU | Queen's | 1934 | U.S. Ambassador to Turkey and to Germany | |
Yale | Balliol | 1934 | Businessman and founder of Templeton College, Oxford | |
Ontario | Christ Church | 1935 | First Secretary-General of the Commonwealth | |
MIT | Jesus | 1935 | American polymer chemist | |
Melbourne | Christ Church | 1936 | Australian headmaster and professor of classics and ancient history | |
Princeton | Balliol | 1936 | American historian and OSS veteran | |
Otago | Balliol | 1936 | New Zealand novelist and head of Oxford University Press | |
Toronto | Trinity | 1936 | Russian-born Canadian diplomat, president of the UN Security Council, father of Michael Ignatieff | |
Wisconsin | Balliol | 1936 | U.S. Ambassador to Mauritania, Hungary, and Austria, ASL for International Affairs, Special Assistant to Governor Averell Harriman | |
Princeton | Queen's | 1936 | New York Times editor of the editorial page, 1961–1976 | |
Yale | Balliol | 1936 | Special Assistant for National Security Affairs, Deputy Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, 1961 | |
Cape Town | Trinity | 1937 | Soldier, statesman and principal and vice-chancellor of the University of Cape Town | |
Tulane | Merton | 1937 | Broadcast journalist | |
Colorado | Hertford | 1938 | Football player, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1962–1993 | |
Malta | Hertford | 1939 | Prime Minister of Malta, 1955–1957 & 1971–1984 | |
British Columbia | St John's | 1939 | Canadian Minister of the Environment, B.C. Minister of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources | |
Cape Town | Trinity | 1940 | Member of South African parliament and England rugby union international | |
Massey | University | 1940 | New Zealand educator and university administrator | |
Melbourne | New College | 1941 | Australian jurist and academic, Governor General of Australia | |
Christ Church | 1942 | Speaker of the Maltese House of Representatives | ||
Canterbury | University | 1946 | New Zealand civil engineer and Member of Parliament | |
Arizona | Queen's | 1947 | American social anthropologist | |
McGill | Queen's | 1947 | Canadian politician, cabinet minister | |
Princeton | Pembroke | 1947 | First rector of the United Nations University, president of New York University | |
Princeton | Balliol | 1947 | U.S. Attorney General, U.S. Under-Secretary of State | |
Virginia | Lincoln | 1947 | Director, National Institutes of Health, president of University of Florida | |
U.S. Military Academy | University | 1947 | American general, Supreme Allied Commander, NATO | |
Melbourne | University | 1947 | Australian academic, historian and biographer | |
Washington | Wadham | 1947 | United States Poet Laureate | |
U.S. Naval Academy | Exeter | 1947 | American admiral, Director of Central Intelligence | |
Duke | Merton | 1948 | American writer and man of letters | |
Adelaide | Queen's | 1948 | Applied mathematician, defined the Potts model | |
Madras | Christ Church | 1948 | Indian representative in the 1948 Olympic Games men's 100 metres | |
Nebraska | St Edmund | 1948 | Professor emeritus of philosophy at Brooklyn College, City University of New York | |
Melbourne | 1949 | Public servant and academic; son of Kenneth Bailey | ||
Victoria | Magdalen | 1949 | New Zealand lexicographer, editor of the Oxford English Dictionary | |
Western Australia | Lincoln | 1949 | Australian politician, Commonwealth Attorney General, author | |
New Brunswick | St John's | 1949 | Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada 1985–1997; CC, QC, FRSC | |
British Columbia | Magdalen | 1949 | Liberal Party of Canada leader and Prime Minister of Canada, 1984 | |
Princeton | Balliol | 1950 | Academic, historian, Librarian of U.S. Congress, 1987–2015 | |
Harvard | Brasenose | 1950 | U.S. Congressman 1959–1981, president of New York University 1981–1992 | |
Madras | Trinity | 1951 | Indian metallurgist | |
Oregon | University | 1951 | President, American University in Cairo, 1963–1969, interim president 2002–2003; chancellor University of Alabama System, 1981–1989; chancellor State University of New York, 1994–1996 | |
Harvard & Yale | Balliol | 1951 | U.S. Ambassador to Italy and Spain, academic | |
Jamaica | Merton | 1951 | British cultural theorist | |
Princeton | Merton | 1951 | Professor of English literature at Princeton, literary historian and critic, author, editor | |
Harvard | Balliol | 1951 | Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, Sheriff of Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Boston City Councilor, candidate for Governor of Massachusetts | |
Western Australia | 1951 | Secretary to the Australian Treasury 1979–1984, Senator for Queensland 1987–1990 | ||
Melbourne | Magdalen | 1952 | Victorian Supreme Court Judge and Governor of Victoria | |
Wisconsin | Christ Church | 1952 | American philosopher | |
McGill | Balliol | 1952 | Philosopher, winner of the Kyoto and Templeton prizes | |
Otago | Balliol | 1952 | New Zealand diplomat, politician and member of parliament | |
Université de Montréal Faculty of Law | Pembroke | 1953 | Puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada | |
Yale | Magdalen | 1953 | American legal academic, judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, professor and dean at Yale Law School | |
Harvard | Magdalen | 1953 | American legal philosopher, academic | |
Malta | Christ Church | 1953 | Maltese writer, psychologist, author | |
Diocesan College | Worcester | 1953 | South African businessman, former chairman of De Beers and Anglo American | |
Pomona College | St John's | 1953 | President of Warner Brothers and The Walt Disney Company until his death in a helicopter crash | |
Western Australia | University | 1953 | President of ACTU 1969–1979, Prime Minister of Australia, 1983–1991 | |
Cape Town | Queen's | 1954 | UK Lord of Appeal in Ordinary | |
Manitoba and Princeton | Oriel | 1954 | Canadian historian of the Middle Ages | |
Denison | Pembroke | 1954 | U.S. Senator 1977–2013, Aspen Strategy Group member | |
Princeton | Balliol | 1954 | U.S. Senator 1977–2007 | |
Washington & Lee | Merton | 1954 | Historian, academic | |
Toronto | University | 1955 | President of the University of Toronto 1972–1978, chairman of the Rockefeller Foundation | |
New Mexico | University | 1955 | Senior partner, Kirkland & Ellis | |
Duke | Merton | 1955 | Poet and novelist | |
Cape Province | University | 1955 | UK Lord of Appeal in Ordinary | |
Adelaide | Magdalen | 1955 | Solicitor, company director, former Australian politician, Minister for Home Affairs and Environment, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs | |
Tasmania | Jesus | 1956 | Australian academic, professor of politics, politician, cabinet minister, UK High Commissioner | |
Delhi | University | 1956 | Indian Administrative Service and United Nations officer; served as Chef de Cabinet to Secretary-General of the United Nations | |
Texas | New College | 1956 | Author, editor of Harper's Magazine | |
Ceylon | Trinity | 1956 | Lawyer and politician | |
Emory | University | 1956 | U.S. Congressman, 1975–1985 | |
Princeton | New College | 1956 | Educator, president of Harvard University, 1991–2001 | |
Alberta | Pembroke | 1956 | Canadian civil servant and diplomat, chancellor of Carleton University, 1993–2002 | |
India | Jesus | 1957 | Indian Olympic athlete | |
Columbia | Merton | 1957 | Austrian-American classical scholar | |
Jamaica | Oriel | 1957 | Vice-chancellor of the University of the West Indies, author, dance director | |
Princeton | University | 1957 | American political scientist | |
Cape Town | Balliol | 1957 | Philosopher, AI researcher, cognitive scientist | |
MIT | Balliol | 1957 | MIT maths professor | |
Jesus College | 1958 | American literary critic and professor of literature and comparative literature at Princeton University | ||
Princeton | Merton | 1958 | American art historian and critic | |
Bowdoin | St John's | 1958 | 10th president of Bowdoin College, professor and scholar of British history at Bowdoin, author of several books on British history specializing in Tudor and Stuart England | |
West Indies | St Edmund | 1958 | Jamaican poet and professor emeritus at University of the West Indies; recipient of the Jamaican Order of Merit; Poet Laureate of Jamaica | |
Pomona | Merton | 1958 | American singer-songwriter and actor, starred in Amerika | |
Princeton | Exeter | 1958 | American political scientist; chairman National Intelligence Council ; ASD for International Security Affairs ; dean, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard | |
Harvard | Magdalen | 1958 | American writer and social activist | |
Delhi | Balliol | 1958 | Assistant Secretary-General of the Commonwealth | |
Adelaide | Magdalen | 1959 | Econometrician and vigneron, vice-chancellor ANU 1994–2000, chairman AARNET Pty Ltd 2002–, CEO Quarry Hill Wines 2000– | |
RMC of Canada | Keble | 1959 | Historian and author | |
Cape Town | St Edmund | 1959 | Rhodesian-born South African cricketer, 1963–67 | |
U.S. Military Academy | Brasenose | 1959 | 1958 Heisman Trophy winner, Brigadier General, US Army, chairman and CEO of Diversified Distribution Services, Travelers Group | |
Government College | Christ Church | 1960 | Economist, Finance Minister of Pakistan | |
Yale | Exeter | 1960 | Governor of Ohio, director of the Peace Corps, U.S. Ambassador to India, president of Colorado College | |
University of Ghana | Oriel | 1960 | First black African Rhodes Scholar, Director-General, Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, 1972–1974; 1984–1988 and Member, Public Services Commission of Ghana | |
Karnatak | Lincoln and Magdalen | 1960 | Indian Kannada-language playwright, film actor and director, screenwriter | |
Williams | Balliol | 1960 | American economist and author, professor of economics at MIT | |
UBC | 1960 | Canadian physicist | ||
Harvard | Magdalen | 1961 | Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1990–2009 | |
Oxford | St Edmund | 1961 | Political economist, director of the Scott Trust, senior fellow of Oxford Internet Institute, acting master of Balliol College, Oxford, 1997–2001, policy advisor to Harold Wilson, 1974–76 | |
Duke | Merton | 1962 | Chairman of the board of PBS, dean of the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | |
Harvard | Wadham | 1962 | President of the University of Oregon, 1994–; Attorney General of Oregon, 1980–1991 | |
Auckland | Balliol | 1962 | New Zealand-born British politician, academic, vice-chancellor of University of Waikato | |
Sydney | University | 1962 | Australian judge | |
Yale | Balliol | 1963 | Governor of Oklahoma 1975–1979, U.S. Senator 1979–1994, president of the University of Oklahoma 1994– | |
Princeton | Balliol | 1963 | U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, senior adviser for national defense for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, Aspen Strategy Group member | |
Alberta | Brasenose | 1963 | Lawyer, member of Legislative Assembly of Province of Alberta | |
Pennsylvania | New College | 1963 | American writer, two-time recipient of PEN/Faulkner award | |
McGill | Pembroke | 1963 | Canadian civil servant and politician; clerk of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, president of the Treasury Board and member of cabinet | |
Stanford | St John's | 1963 | Director of Central Intelligence Agency, core member of the Project for the New American Century, senior vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton | |
Delhi | Magdalen | 1964 | Indian economist, first independent evaluator o the International Monetary Fund, Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission | |
RMC of Canada | Exeter | 1964 | Canadian economist and author | |
Sydney | University | 1964 | High Court judge of Australia | |
Punjab | Balliol | 1964 | Rector, GIK Institute, Director General Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, Pride of Performance Recipient | |
South Dakota | St Edmund | 1964 | American politician, U.S. Congressman 1975–1979, U.S. Senator 1979–1997, authored the Telecommunications Act of 1996 | |
Burn Hall | Wadham | 1964 | Pakistani politician and lawyer, interim president of Pakistan, chairman of the Senate | |
McGill | Balliol | 1964 | British philosopher, head of Humanities Division at the University of Oxford 2000–2006 | |
Natal | St Edmund | 1965 | South African Rugby Union player 1963–71 | |
Princeton | Worcester | 1965 | American politician, NBA star, U.S. Senator 1979–1997, and Democratic presidential candidate, 2000 | |
Reed | Magdalen | 1965 | U.S. Under Secretary of the Navy, U.S. Secretary of the Navy | |
Delhi | Christ Church | 1965 | Indian Ambassador to Japan | |
Western Australia | Wadham | 1965 | Australian politician, Liberal Member of the House of Representatives, 1993–2004, Attorney-General of Australia 1996–2003 | |
Malta | St Edmund | 1966 | Governor of the Central Bank of Malta, 1999– | |
Alberta | Queen's | 1966 | Canadian philosopher | |
McGill | Worcester | 1966 | Canadian Cell Biologist, CQ, FRSC | |
U.S. Military Academy | Magdalen | 1966 | United States Army general, Supreme Allied Commander, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 1997–2000; Democratic presidential candidate, 2004 | |
Manitoba | St. John's | 1966 | Canadian member of the Manitoba Legislative Assembly, Minister of Energy and Mines with responsibility for Manitoba Hydro, Minister of Health, 1977–1988; private/public sector entrepreneur, 1989–present | |
Princeton | Magdalen | 1966 | Canadian economist, Nobel Prize in Economics for 2001 | |
Wabash | Worcester | 1966 | American lawyer, President Clinton's personal lawyer | |
Harvard | Magdalen | 1966 | American film director of Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line, Badlands, The New World, and The Tree of Life | |
Bowdoin | Wadham | 1967 | American politician, U.S. Congressman, 1997–2009 | |
Adelaide | Magdalen | 1967 | Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia, 1995–2012 | |
Yale | University | 1967 | American author of ' | |
Delhi | Balliol | 1967 | Vice chancellor of Delhi University | |
Princeton | New College | 1967 | U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs, 1993–1994, president of the board of trustees of Princeton University, 2006– | |
U.S. Naval Academy | University | 1968 | Retired four-star Admiral, former Director of National Intelligence, president of the Institute for Defense Analyses and former Commander-in-Chief of U.S. Pacific Command | |
Witwatersrand | Merton | 1968 | Vice chancellor University of the Witwatersrand ; deputy vice chancellor University of London ; Warden Green College ; Principal Green Templeton College | |
Queensland | Balliol | 1968 | Mathematician, academic | |
Tasmania | New College | 1968 | Academic | |
Yale | Christ Church | 1968 | American lawyer, U.S. Associate Attorney General, 2003– | |
Memorial | St Edmund | 1968 | Canadian commentator | |
Dartmouth | University | 1968 | American commentator and author, U.S. Secretary of Labor, Chancellor's Professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley | |
Harvard | Exeter | 1968 | Vice chairman of The Washington Post Company, former publisher and CEO of The Washington Post | |
Georgetown | University | 1968 | American politician, 42nd president of the United States, 1993–2001, Governor of Arkansas, 1979–1981 & 1983–1993 | |
Colombo | University | 1968 | Sri Lankan politician, 11th Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka, 2010–present | |
Harvard | Merton | 1968 | Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit | |
Otago | Merton | 1968 | New Zealand All Black, diplomat, MP, talk radio host, author, Human Rights Commissioner and Race Relations Conciliator | |
Yale | Magdalen | 1968 | American diplomat and journalist, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, president of the Brookings Institution, Aspen Strategy Group member | |
BYU | Queens | 1969 | Harvard professor of Business and Government, senior scholar at the Wilson Center, senior economic advisor to presidents Ford, Reagan, and Bush | |
Brown | Balliol | 1969 | White House senior aide, originator of ICANN | |
Canterbury | Magdalen | 1969 | New Zealand Olympic field hockey player | |
Toronto | Balliol | 1969 | Canadian politician, former Premier of Ontario | |
Memorial | Keble | 1969 | Lawyer and businessman, Canadian politician, Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador | |
Victoria | Balliol | 1969 | New Zealand barrister, solicitor and academic | |
Harvard | Queen's | 1970 | American writer | |
Melbourne | Exeter | 1970 | Australian jurist: Supreme Court of Victoria ; Court of Appeals division of the Supreme Court of Victoria ; Puisne Justice of the High Court of Australia | |
Yale | Merton | 1970 | American science, nature and travel writer | |
Harvard | Magdalen | 1970 | Staffer, US Senator Warren G. Magnuson ; author, The Dance of Legislation ; lawyer and businessman | |
Sydney | University | 1970 | Barrister and international human rights activist | |
Queensland | Magdalen | 1970 | Historian and Author on Pacific, Australian and New Zealand history | |
Brown and Princeton | Merton | 1970 | Principal of King's College London | |
Harvard | Magdalen | 1971 | Chairman and CEO of Fannie Mae, 1999–2004; director of the Office of Management and Budget, 1996–1998 | |
Witwatersrand | St Edmund | 1971 | South African poet, professor of poetry at Rhodes University | |
Yale | Balliol | 1971 | Mayor of Baltimore, 1987–1999; dean of Howard University School of Law | |
Western Australia | St John's | 1972 | Academic, Premier of Western Australia, 2001–2006 | |
Harvard | Magdalen | 1972 | American journalist, founder of Slate magazine, editor of The New Republic | |
Harvard | Exeter | 1972 | President of the Massachusetts Senate, candidate for Democratic nomination for Governor of Massachusetts, 2002 | |
Western Australia | Balliol | 1973 | Australian politician, former deputy prime minister of Australia and Leader of the Opposition, Australian ambassador to the United States | |
Harvard | Balliol | 1973 | American journalist and Washington Post columnist, senior fellow at Brookings Institution, and commentator on NPR, MSNBC, and PBS | |
Oberlin | Wadham and St Antony's | 1973 | President of the Council on Foreign Relations, director of the Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State | |
USAF Academy | Trinity | 1973 | U.S. Air Force lieutenant general, first commander Air Force Global Strike Command | |
Princeton | Balliol | 1974 | American author | |
Yale | Wadham | 1974 | American classicist and historian | |
Western Australia | Lincoln | 1974 | Former CEO of British Airways, director of News Corporation | |
Maryland | University | 1974 | U.S. Olympian, NBA basketball player, U.S. Congressman, 1987–1993 | |
Harvard | Pembroke | 1974 | Author, managing editor of Time magazine, chairman and CEO of CNN, president of the Aspen Institute, vice chairman of the Louisiana Recovery Authority | |
Stellenbosch | Keble | 1975 | Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, African National Congress lawyer and AIDS activist | |
BYU | Queens | 1975 | Harvard Business School professor, author | |
Peter King | Sydney | Worcester | 1975 | Australian barrister, author, and federal politician |
Western Australia | St John's | 1975 | Australian businessman, sporting administrator and former Australian rules footballer | |
Virginia and Princeton | Queen's | 1975 | American political scientist and director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics | |
Wisconsin | Magdalen | 1975 | U.S. Senator 1993–2011 | |
Sydney | Worcester | 1975 | Australian diplomat and senior public servant | |
Brandeis | Balliol | 1975 | American political philosopher and professor at Harvard University | |
Illinois | Lincoln | 1975 | U.S. Congressman, 1993–1995; convicted felon | |
University of North Carolina | Oriel | 1975 | U.S. Congressman from Tennessee's 5th Congressional District | |
Princeton University | Merton | 1976 | Dean and President of Brooklyn Law School | |
Bochum | St Catherine's | 1976 | Former president and CEO of The Boston Consulting Group, chairman at BCG | |
Yale | St John's | 1976 | Former Harvard professor and United States Deputy Secretary of Defense, former United States Secretary of Defense | |
Auckland | Worcester | 1976 | New Zealand businessman, vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford 2004–2009 | |
BYU | Wadham | 1977 | Special assistant in the State Department, Asia Director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | |
Zimbabwe | University | 1977 | Zimbabwean businessman, former CEO of MBCA and NMB | |
Princeton | Balliol | 1977 | Harvard Law School professor | |
North Carolina | Magdalen | 1977 | Dutch American businessman, co-founder/chairman of SEAF | |
Victoria | Nuffield | 1978 | New Zealand historian | |
USC | University | 1978 | Won Rose Bowl MVP as quarterback at USC, played with the Los Angeles Rams, currently the athletic director at his alma mater, USC | |
Princeton | St John's | 1978 | Chair of U.S. President Barack Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, founder of the Human Genome Project, biology professor at MIT | |
Cork | Wolfson | 1978 | Jamaican academic, professor of West Indian literature at University of the West Indies | |
Yale | Somerville | 1978 | American-British lawyer who specializes in cases of civil litigation, sexual harassment, and sexual discrimination | |
University of Zambia | Somerville | 1978 | Zambian civil rights activist and first woman to have her portrait displayed on the walls of the Rhodes House | |
Sydney | Brasenose | 1978 | 29th Prime Minister of Australia, 2015–2018 | |
Toronto | Hertford | 1979 | Canadian medical researcher, president of the University of Toronto | |
Tennessee | Balliol | 1979 | Administrator of the U.S. Health Care Financing Administration, 1997–2000, director of White House Office of Health Reform, 2009– | |
Tasmania | St Catherine's | 1979 | chief executive officer of the Defence Materiel Organisation | |
Harvard | Magdalen | 1979 | Ophthalmologist, LASIK specialist, Extreme Makeover ophthalmologist | |
Marc Tessier-Lavigne | McGill University | New College | 1980 | Canadian neuroscientist, president of Stanford University, past president of Rockefeller University |
McGill | Wadham | 1980 | Canadian multi-billionaire, president and CEO of Trader Classified Media, one of the world's largest classified advertising companies | |
Canterbury | Wolfson | 1980 | New Zealand engineer and businessman | |
Harvard | St Catherine's | 1980 | Former Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security | |
Harvard | University | 1980 | American philosopher | |
Melbourne | Magdalen & Wolfson | 1980 | Australian neurologist | |
Alberta | Magdalen | 1980 | Canadian politician, former Minister in British Columbia, Leader of the Liberal Party in British Columbia | |
Sydney | Queen's | 1981 | 28th Prime Minister of Australia, 18 September 2013 – 14 September 2015 | |
Harvard | Magdalen | 1981 | New York Times reporter and columnist, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, Aspen Strategy Group member | |
University of Queensland | Trinity | 1981 | Educational reformer and first Rhodes Scholar to serve as Warden of Rhodes House, Oxford | |
Auckland | Wolfson | 1981 | New Zealand politician and member of Parliament | |
Princeton | University | 1982 | Pulitzer Prize-winning U.S. journalist, author | |
Canterbury | Balliol | 1982 | New Zealand legal scholar, author and researcher, professor at New York University | |
St Edmund | 1982 | Non-executive chairman of Norilsk Nickel, executive chairman of New World Resources and formerly group CEO of De Beers | ||
USAF Academy | Jesus | 1982 | President of South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; former Republican member of the US House of Representatives, representing New Mexico's 1st congressional district 1998–2009; first female military veteran elected to a full term in Congress | |
Boston | Balliol | 1983 | Warden of Rhodes House, Oxford, 2013–2018 | |
Princeton | University | 1983 | President of Princeton University | |
Pittsburgh | University | 1983 | Appellate attorney who has parties dozens of cases before the United States Supreme Court | |
Stanford | St John's | 1983 | Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas 2007–2011 | |
Davidson | Balliol | 1983 | Former president of Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, Georgia; Warden of Rhodes House, Oxford, 2018– | |
Macalester College | Trinity | 1983 | Business executive who has worked in the public and the private sectors to expand access to health care | |
Harvard | Magdalen | 1983 | U.S. Senator, 2005–2017 | |
University of Queensland | Balliol | 1983 | Australian investment banker and Trustee of the Rhodes Trust, 2010–2018 | |
St Edmund | 1984 | Australian judge, Trials Division Justice at the Supreme Court of Victoria, 2004– | ||
Tasmania | Worcester | 1984 | Australian author, winner of the 2002 Commonwealth Writers PrizeWinner of the 2014 Man Booker Prize | |
Manitoba | St Edmund | 1984 | Canadian lawyer and former politician, represented the constituency of Halifax in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly, 2001–13 | |
British Columbia | Brasenose | 1984 | Former President/head and managing director of McKinsey & Company, a multi-billion revenue consulting firm. Chancellor, University of Waterloo, Canada | |
Stanford | Magdalen | 1984 | Peace Corps/Senegal country director, former president and CEO of Intrepid Learning Solutions | |
Yale | Magdalen | 1984 | Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs, National Security Council, 1997–2001 | |
Davidson | Balliol | 1984 | Senior economist at the International Monetary Fund, Peterson Institute for International Economics, and United States Congress Joint Economic Committee | |
Georgetown | Hertford | 1984 | Former aide to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala; president of Franklin & Marshall College | |
Columbia | Balliol | 1984 | Moderator of ABC's This Week and communications director for Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign | |
U.S. Military Academy | Balliol | 1985 | Brigadier General, Chief Prosecutor of Military Commissions | |
Malaya | 1985 | Malaysian politician, Member of Parliament, Former Deputy Minister | ||
Adelaide | New College | 1985 | Australian stem cell scientist, vice-chancellor, University of Tasmania 2011– | |
Yale | New College | 1985 | American feminist social critic, author of books including ' | |
Chen Show Mao | Harvard | Corpus Christi | 1986 | Singaporean opposition politician and lawyer |
Queensland | University | 1986 | Dean of Law Faculty, Monash University; Australian researcher, consultant, commentator and professional speaker on specialised legal, business, and governmental topics | |
Stanford | St. John's | 1986 | U.S. Ambassador to Russia, academic | |
Stanford | New College | 1986 | U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, United States Ambassador to the United Nations,, National Security Advisor | |
Manitoba | St Edmund | 1986 | Minister of Finance of Nova Scotia, member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly | |
Pennsylvania | New College | 1986 | President and CEO of the National Constitution Center 2006– | |
Adelaide | Lincoln | 1987 | Australian philosopher of mind | |
Patrick Pichette | Université du Québec à Montréal | Pembroke | 1987 | Senior vice president and chief financial officer of Google until 2015 |
Holy Cross | Balliol | 1987 | Founder of synthetic biology; MacArthur "genius" bioengineer and inventor; MIT professor | |
Stanford | Balliol | 1987 | Surgeon and New Yorker medical writer | |
Delhi | Magdalen and St Antony's | 1987 | Indian journalist | |
Columbia | St. Antony's | 1987 | President and CEO of NAACP 2008–2013 | |
Otago | Worcester | 1987 | Captain of the New Zealand All Blacks who won the inaugural Rugby World Cup in 1987; CEO of Fairfax Media, 2005–2008 | |
Yale | New College | 1987 | Journalist and editor of Slate magazine | |
Auckland | Balliol | 1987 | New Zealand-born British academic | |
Harvard | Balliol | 1988 | Historian, Rhodes Professor of Imperial History | |
Otago | Worcester | 1988 | New Zealand footballer, forensic psychiatrist | |
Harvard | St Edmund | 1988 | American businessman, Democratic U.S. Representative for Connecticut's 4th Congressional District | |
Baylor | Trinity | 1989 | U.S. Congressman, 2001–2005 | |
West Virginia University | Exeter | 1989 | New York State Senator, 2013-present | |
Michael McCullough | Stanford | Balliol | 1989 | Social entrepreneur; founder of QuestBridge, medical investor and entrepreneur, physician, assistant professor at UCSF |
University of Southern California | Corpus Christi College | 1989 | University of Kansas classics professor | |
Toronto | Merton | 1990 | Professor of Chinese history at Harvard University | |
Zimbabwe | Merton | 1991 | Zimbabwean politician who became president of one faction of the Movement for Democratic Change in 2006 | |
Yale | University | 1991 | Ninth president of the College Board | |
Brown | Magdalen | 1991 | Author, speechwriter, political cartoonist | |
Jadavpur | University | 1992 | Novelist, longlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize | |
Stanford | Queen's | 1992 | Former mayor of Newark, New Jersey; 2013 elected Democratic US Senator from New Jersey | |
Harvard | Christ Church | 1992 | American author, Harvard law professor, constitutional adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, 2003–2005 | |
Georgetown | St Antony's | 1992 | Russian-American contributing editor for The National Interest, teacher at Naval War College | |
Brown | New College | 1992 | Governor of Louisiana ; U.S. congressman, civil servant, and university administrator; former Republican presidential candidate | |
Delhi | St John's | 1992 | Asian economist, banker and conservationist from India | |
Yale | University | 1993 | Journalist; former editor of The New Republic; contributing editor at The Atlantic; associate professor at CUNY | |
Harvard | Brasenose | 1993 | Former Senior Writer, Time; freelance writer | |
Harvard | St Antony's | 1993 | Canadian author, editor of Thomson Reuters Digital, Member of Parliament, Canada's Minister of Global Affairs | |
Columbia | Queen's | 1993 | Mayor of Los Angeles | |
Stanford | Magdalen | 1993 | Physician, scientist, professor at Columbia Medical School, author of which won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction | |
Harvard | Magdalen | 1993 | Actress, comedian, host of Public Radio International's Fair Game from PRI with Faith Salie | |
Harvard | New College | 1993 | 2014 elected Democratic Governor of Rhode Island | |
Rutgers | Keble | 1994 | President and CEO of BCT Partners, winner of The Apprentice 4 | |
Stanford | Lincoln | 1995 | Journalist; social activist; host of The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC | |
Duke | 1996 | Solicitor General of Missouri | ||
Darmstadt and Cornell | St John's | 1996 | London-based entrepreneur and financier from Germany | |
Melbourne | Magdalen | 1997 | International law professor and author from Australia | |
Sydney and NSW | Balliol | 1997 | Author and foreign policy commentator from Australia | |
Tasmania | Exeter | 1997 | Olympic Games and Commonwealth Games athlete from Australia | |
MIT | New College | 1997 | Computational biologist studying infectious diseases; 2014 Time Person of the Year; lead singer of the Thousand Days | |
UCLA | St John's | 1997 | American gold medalist in swimming at the 1996 Olympic Games | |
University of Western Australia | Magdalen | 1998 | Justice of the High Court of Australia | |
Vassar | Lincoln | 1998 | Author of Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls | |
Duke | Lady Margaret Hall | 1998 | 56th Governor of Missouri, Founder of The Mission Continues and former Navy SEAL | |
Washington | Corpus Christi | 1999 | Oregon State Representative | |
Harvard | University | 1999 | Humanitarian activist from Canada, co-founder of Free the Children | |
Bangalore | Oriel | 2000 | International swimming champion from India | |
Yale | Magdalen | 2000 | American Director of Policy Planning, National Security Advisor to the Vice President | |
Peshawar | Somerville | 2001 | Pakistani political columnist, radio and TV show host, "Head of Ideas" for an advertising agency, 2012 World Economic Forum Young Global Leader | |
Wes Moore | Johns Hopkins | Wolfson | 2001 | New York Times Bestselling Author, CEO of the Robin Hood Foundation |
Yale | St Antony's | 2002 | American social activist in justice issues like parental incarceration, author of Gringo: A Coming of Age in Latin America | |
Harvard | St. John's | 2003 | American physicist and proposer of "dissipative-driven adaptation" | |
Columbia | Wolfson | 2003 | Writer | |
Columbia | St John's | 2003 | 16th Lieutenant Governor of Washington, first Iranian-American elected to state-level office in the U.S. | |
Jared Cohen | Stanford | St John's | 2004 | CEO of Jigsaw and an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations |
Melissa Dell | Harvard University | Trinity | 2005 | Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Awarded the John Bates Clark Medal in 2020 |
Jennifer Howitt Browning | Georgetown | St. John's | 2005 | 2004 Athens Paralympics Wheelchair Basketball Gold medal for the USA. |
Catherine Frieman | Yale | Merton | 2005 | Associate professor of Archaeology at the Australian National University. |
Canterbury | St John's | 2005 | 2006 Commonwealth Games and 2008 Olympic Games cyclist from New Zealand | |
Harvard | Pembroke | 2005 | Mayor of South Bend, Indiana | |
University of Chicago | Magdalen | 2005 | Democratic U.S. Representative for New Jersey's 3rd Congressional District | |
Neil Kruger | Green Templeton | 2005 | Orthopedic surgeon and cricketer who has represented the Netherlands. | |
Tucker Murphy | Dartmouth | Merton | 2005 | Bermudan Cross Country skier and Winter Olympian. |
Florida State | Exeter | 2006 | Co-founder of SendHub, All-American athlete | |
Washington | Merton | 2007 | American physician, Baltimore Health Commissioner, and author of When Doctors Don't Listen: How to Avoid Misdiagnoses and Unnecessary Tests | |
Florida State | St Edmund | 2008 | All-ACC defensive back for Florida State Seminoles; selected by the Tennessee Titans in the 2010 NFL Draft; Bahamian-American; played for the Tennessee Titans and the Pittsburgh Steelers | |
Nairobi | Wolfson | 2009 | 2012 presidential candidate for Kenya | |
Oxford | 2009 | |||
Michigan | Oriel | 2009 | Detroit Health Commissioner | |
Stellenbosch | St Catherine's | 2010 | 2006 Commonwealth Games and 2008 Olympic Games triathlete from South Africa | |
Stanford | St John's | 2011 | American energy expert, CTO of ReNew Power, and author of Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet | |
Yale | Magdalen | 2012 | American human rights activist, senior foreign policy official in the Obama administration, U.S. State Department special adviser on global youth issues and Pulitzer Price-winning journalist | |
New York University Abu Dhabi | Blavatnik | 2014 | United Arab Emirates Minister of Youth | |
Peking University | Blavatnik | 2018 | Former womens' world champion of chess | |
U.S. Air Force Academy | Oriel | 2019 | First female wrestler and wrestling national champion at the U.S. Air Force Academy | |
Princeton | Lincoln | 1982 | Former Chief of Staff to Vice President Joe Biden |