This is a list of alumni of Keble College, Oxford . The school's alumni include politicians, lawyers, bishops, poets, and academics. The majority of this list are male; from its foundation in 1870 until 1979 Keble only admitted male students.[ 1]
Tim Besley , Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics
Dame Averil Cameron , historian
William Macbride Childs , the first vice-chancellor of the University of Reading
Quassim Cassam , former Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy
O. G. S. Crawford , archaeologist
Martin Dixon , Professor of the Law of Real Property, University of Cambridge
George Efstathiou , astrophysicist , Director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmology at the University of Cambridge
Richard English , historian of Irish nationalism , terrorism expert and director of CSTPV at the University of St Andrews [ 2]
Austin Farrer , theologian and philosopher
Nick Foskett , Vice-Chancellor of Keele University (from August 2010)
William Hugh Clifford Frend , historian, archaeologist, priest
Marc Goergen , professor of finance
James Harris , FBA, Professor at the London School of Economics
Christopher Hawkes , archaeologist
Geoffrey Hill , poet
Paul Johnson , government economist
Roderick MacFarquhar , politician, journalist, academic
Bryan Magee , philosopher
James Martin , author
Nicholas O'Shaughnessy , economist
David Spiegelhalter , statistician
Raymond Tallis , Professor of Geriatrics, University of Manchester
Ralph Townsend , Headmaster of Winchester College
Christopher Wickham , Chichele Professor of Medieval History in the University of Oxford, fellow of All Souls College , and winner of the 2005 Wolfson History Prize
Artists and broadcasters [ edit ]
Thomas Armstrong , organist and conductor
Leslie Banks , actor
Frank Cottrell Boyce , children's author and screenwriter
Katy Brand , actress, comedian and writer
Ben Brown , television journalist
Priyanga Burford , actor
Humphrey Carpenter , writer and biographer
Alexander Cockburn , journalist
Giles Coren , writer
Clement Crisp , dance critic
Scott Ellaway , conductor and broadcaster
Michael Elliot , theatre director
Jeremy Filsell , piano and organ recitalist
Michael Goodliffe , actor
Tony Hall, Baron Hall of Birkenhead , journalist and administrator
Ian Hamilton , poet and critic
Paula Hawkins , novelist and journalist
John Hayes , Director of the National Portrait Gallery (1974–1994)
Charles Hazlewood , conductor and broadcaster
Anthony Hedges , composer and lecturer
Chris Hollins , sports journalist and TV presenter
Robert Lloyd , singer
David Owen Norris , pianist, composer and broadcaster
Peter Pears , singer
Gavin Plumley , cultural historian
Jason Pontin , journalist, editor and publisher
Max Rushden , presenter of Sky Sports' Soccer AM
Angela Saini , writer
Edward St Aubyn , author
John Shaw , radio broadcaster
Robert Steadman , composer
Philip Stopford , composer and conductor
Colin Touchin , conductor, composer, and music educator
Hugh Welchman , filmmaker
John Whitfield , conductor
Andreas Whittam Smith , journalist
Philip Wilby , composer
Edward Windsor, Lord Downpatrick , fashion designer
Andrew Hunter Murray , author and podcaster
Cressida Cowell , author
Business and leaders [ edit ]
Walter Hubert Baddeley , bishop
Ian James Brackley , bishop
Harry James Carpenter , Bishop of Oxford
Duleep De Chickera , Bishop of Colombo
Stephen Conway , Bishop of Ely
Lakdasa De Mel , Metropolitan Bishop of India, Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon
Gregory Dix , historian, monk
Cyril Garbett , Archbishop of York
Frederick Joseph Kinsman , Bishop of Delaware
John Richard Packer , Bishop of Ripon and Leeds
Michael Francis Perham , Bishop of Gloucester
Rev. David Railton , son of George Scott Railton and father of Dame Ruth Railton
Geoffrey Rowell , Bishop of Gibraltar
Harold Eustace Sexton , former Archbishop of British Columbia
Marcus Stock , Bishop of Leeds
David Thomas , Provincial Assistant Bishop of the Church in Wales
John James Absalom Thomas , Bishop of Swansea and Brecon
Michael Turnbull , bishop
Chad Varah , Anglican priest, founder of the Samaritans
Arthur Winnington-Ingram , Bishop of London
Sir Arthur Dyke Acland, 13th Baronet , Liberal politician
Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis , politician
Ed Balls , Labour politician, MP for Morley and Outwood 2010-2015, previous Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
Robert Bourassa , Canadian politician
William Burdett-Coutts , Conservative politician
Reginald Craddock , politician
William Davison, 1st Baron Broughshane
Philip Dunne , politician
Richard Harrington, Baron Harrington of Watford , Conservative politician
Les Huckfield , politician
Imran Khan , 22nd Prime Minister of Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Pakistani politician, former cricketer
Peter Morrison , PPS to Margaret Thatcher
Christopher Newbury , politician, member of the Council of Europe
Tony Pua , Malaysian politician
Sir Ivor Roberts , diplomat, President of Trinity College, Oxford
George F. G. Stanley , Canadian historian, designer of Canadian flag, Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick
Andy Street , Conservative Mayor of the West Midlands
Sir James Cameron Tudor , Barbadian politician and diplomat[citation needed ]
Andrew Turner , politician
Danny Williams , Premier of Newfoundland
David Wilson, Baron Wilson of Tillyorn , diplomat and Sinologist