Frances Stead Sellers (1979 Modern Languages), Senior Writer Washington Post
Government and Public Service
Harriett Baldwin MP (1978 Modern Languages), former minister of state, and Conservative MP for the West Worcestershire constituency
Gertrude Bell (1886 History), political intelligence officer, explorer, writer and archaeologist
Benazir Bhutto (1975 PPE), former Prime Minister of Pakistan
Juliet Campbell CMG (1954 PPE), former HM Ambassador and Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge
Baroness D'Souza (1973 Anthropology), former Lord Speaker
Baroness Finn (1987 History), Downing Street Deputy Chief of Staff
The Rt Hon Michael Gove MP (1985 English), Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office as well as Conservative MP for the Surrey Heath Constituency
Tessa Green CBE (1983 PPE), former Chairman of Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
Sir George Hollingbery KCMG (1982 Human Sciences), former minister of state, former Conservative MP for the Meon Valley constituency, and HM Ambassador to Cuba (Designate)
Philip Hollobone MP (1984 History & Economics), Conservative MP for the Kettering constituency
Dame Judith Macgregor DCMG (1971 History), former HM Ambassador and British High Commissioner
Baroness Manningham-Buller DCB (1967 English), former Director General MI5
Baroness Neville-Jones DCMG (1958 History), former BBC Governor and Chairman of the British Joint Intelligence Committee
Baroness Parminter (1983 Theology), Liberal Democrat life peer in the House of Lords
The Rt Hon Dominic Raab MP (1993 Law), First Secretary of State, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs as well as Conservative MP for Esher and Walton
Barbara Roche (1972 PPE), former Labour MP and Minister of State
Dame Mary Smieton DBE (1922 PPE), Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, the second woman to achieve the rank of Permanent Secretary
Phyllis Starkey (1966 Biochemistry), former Labour MP
Baron (Matthew) Taylor (1982 PPE), former Liberal Democrat MP and Chair of the Liberal Democrats
Baroness Warnock DBE FBA (1942 Classics), philosopher, writer and former Mistress of Girton College
Helen Whately MP (1995 PPE), Minister of State for Social Care, Conservative MP for the Faversham and Mid-Kent constituency
The Rt Hon Ann Widdecombe (1969 PPE), former Conservative MP and Minister of State, novelist, and broadcaster
Finance and Industry
Richard Buxton (1982 English), Head of UK Equities, Old Mutual Global Investors
Stephen Hester (1979 PPE), Chief Executive Officer of RSA Insurance Group and former Chief Executive Officer of the RBS Group
Baroness Hogg (1964 PPE), Chairman of the Financial Reporting Council, former Chairman of 3i plc
Dr Joanna Kennedy OBE FREng FICE (1969 Engineering), civil engineer and director of the ERA Foundation, and former Director of Ove Arup and Partners
Guy Monson (1981 PPE), Chief Investment Officer and Senior Partner of Sarasin & Partners LLP
Neil Simpkins (1984 Physics), Senior Managing Director Blackstone Group (New York)
Law
Judith Freedman CBE FBA (1972 Jurisprudence), Pinsent Masons Professor of Tax Law and Policy at Oxford
Diana Guy (1962 Law), Deputy Chairman of Competition Commission
The Hon Mrs Justice Jefford DBE (Nerys Jefford, 1981 Jurisprudence), High Court Judge
The Hon Mrs Justice Lang DBE (Beverley Lang, 1974 Jurisprudence), High Court Judge
Justice Goodwin Liu (1991 Psychology, Philosophy and Physiology), Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court
The Hon Mrs Justice Manohar (Sujata Manohar, 1954 PPE), former Supreme Court Justice, India
Dame Barbara Mills DBE (1959 Law), first woman Director of Public Prosecutions
The Hon Mrs Justice Proudman DBE (Sonia Proudman, 1968 Law), High Court Judge
The Hon Mrs Justice Slade DBE (Elizabeth Slade, 1968 Law), High Court Judge
Dame Juliet Wheldon DCB (1968 History), first woman to be appointed Treasury Solicitor
Humanities scholarship
Margaret Aston CBE FBA (1951 History), medieval and early modern historian
Marjorie Chibnall OBE FBA (1933 History), medieval historian
Kathleen Coleman FBA (1976), James Loeb Professor of the Classics at Harvard University
Marianne Elliott OBE FBA (1971 History), modern historian
Amanda Foreman (1991 History), biographer and historian
Dame Antonia Fraser DBE (1950 History), biographer and historian
Carol Harrison FBA (1979 Theology), Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Oxford
Mary Jacobus CBE FBA (1962 English), literary scholar
Evelyn Jamison (1898 History), medieval historian
Dame Frances Lannon DBE (1969 History), modern historian and former Principal of LMH
Mary Lascelles FBA (1919 English), literary scholar
Susan Mendus CBE FBA (1973 BPhil), political philosopher
Griselda Pollock (1967 History), feminist art historian, Holberg Prize Laureate
Susan Reynolds FBA (1947 History), medieval historian
Susan Treggiari (1958 Lit. Hum.), classicist, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor Emerita of Stanford University
Dame Marina Warner DBE (1964 Modern Languages), novelist, short story writer, historian, mythographer and academic
Dame Veronica Wedgwood OM, DBE (1928 History), biographer and historian, and the third female member of the Order of Merit
Science and Medicine
Dame Josephine Barnes DBE (1930 Physiology), first woman President of British Medical Association
Margaret Buckingham Médaille d'or du CNRS 2013, ForMemRS, Officier de l'Ordre National du Mérite, Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur (1964 Biochemistry), developmental biologist
Maria Fitzgerald FRS (1972 Physiology), Professor of Developmental Neurobiology, UCL
Neil Ferguson OBE (1987 Physics), epidemiologist
Margaret Jenning, Lady Florey (1924 PPE), bacteriologist, part of the team that developed Penicillin
Nancy Lane OBE (1960 Biology), Fellow and President, Institute of Biology and President, Society of Biologists
Dame Anne McLaren FRS (1945 Zoology), leading scientist in mammalian reproductive and developmental biology and genetics
Dame Rosemary Murray DBE (1932 Natural Sciences, Chemistry), first President of New Hall [now Murray Edwards College] Cambridge, and first female Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University
Kathleen Tanner OBE (1976 Engineering), Bonfield Professor of Biomedical Materials at Queen Mary University of London
Dame Margaret Turner-Warwick DBE (1943 Physiology), first woman President of the Royal College of Physicians
Veronica Van Heyningen CBE FRS (1970 Biochemistry), geneticis
Philanthropy
Dame Vivien Duffield DBE (1963 Modern Languages), Chairman of the Clore Duffield Foundation
Barbara Harrell-Bond OBE (1965 Social Anthropology), founder of the Refugee Studies Centre at Oxford
Eglantyne Jebb (1895 History), founder of Save the Children
Margaret Keswick Jencks (1959 English), founder of Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres
Joyce Pearce OBE (1934 History), founder of the Ockenden Venture, now Ockenden International
Winifred Tumim, Lady Tumim CBE (1955 PPE), chairperson of the Royal National Institute for the Deaf, chairperson of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations
Malala Yousafzai (2017 PPE), Nobel Laureate and human rights activist
