title: List of Wolfson College, Oxford, people
text: # List of Wolfson College, Oxford, people
  
  A list of people associated with Wolfson College, Oxford. This includes former students, Fellows and Presidents of the college.
  
  ## Former students
  
  * Gertrud Seidmann, oldest Oxford student who was awarded a Certificate of Graduate Attainment at the age 91.
  
  ### Science
  
  * Michael Butler, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton, UK
  * Dame Kay Davies, Human Geneticist
  * Richard Ellis, extragalactic astronomer, Steele Professor at Caltech and former Director, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge
  * Artur Ekert, one of the pioneers of quantum cryptography, and winner of the Maxwell and Hughes medals, and the Descartes Prize
  * Alison Gopnik, Professor of Psychology, Affiliate Professor of Philosophy, University of California at Berkeley
  * Michael Hinchey, Irish computer scientist, Director at the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre (Lero), University of Limerick, Ireland
  * Nigel Hitchin, British mathematician, winner of the Sylvester Medal
  * Michele Mosca, quantum scientist known for his work on quantum algorithms and NMR quantum computation
  * James R. Norris, mathematician working in probability theory and stochastic analysis, Professor of Stochastic Analysis in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge
  * Tim Palmer FRS, Climate scientist at the University of Oxford
  * Nicolaas Adrianus Rupke, a Dutch historian of science, who began his academic career as a marine geologist
  * Michael Spivey, British computer scientist at the University of Oxford, who wrote an Oberon-2 compiler.
  
  ### Law
  
  * Karim Asad Ahmad Khan, Prosecutor in the UN International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, counsel before Special Courts in East Timor and Sierra Leone
  * Dame Hazel Genn, authority on civil justice
  * The Hon. Justice Francisco Rezek, distinguished Brazilian jurist and member of the International Court of Justice and formerly Foreign Minister of Brazil
  
  ### History & literature
  
  * Joe Andrew, Professor of Russian Literature at Keele University
  * Henry Hardy, author and editor, publisher of Isaiah Berlin's papers
  * Josef W. Meri, specialist in Islam in the pre-modern period, Islamic cultural and social history
  * Iain Pears, popular British novelist, art historian
  
  ### Politics & government
  
  * Tony Buti, Australian politician and Australian Labor Party member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly
  * Wes Moore, Governor of Maryland, US state
  * Tom Phillips (diplomat), Commandant of the Royal College of Defence Studies.
  * Mehdi Hashemi Rafsanjani, businessman, former Iranian government official, and the fourth child of Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, former President of Iran
  * Nafisa Shah, Member of Pakistan's National Assembly (MNA), Chairperson of Pakistan's National Commission for Human Development, nominated for a collective Nobel Peace Prize under "1000 Women for Peace" category.
  * Simon Upton, formerly Minister of Health, Environment and Science and Technology and member of the National Party
  * Mike Woodin, former principal speaker for the Green Party of England and Wales (later Fellow of Balliol)
  
  ### Business
  
  * Don Elder, New Zealand engineer and businessman, CEO of the New Zealand mining and energy company Solid Energy.
  
  ## Fellows
  
  * Samson Abramsky, computer scientist and developer of domain theory in logic form, game semantics and categorical quantum mechanics
  * John Addis, former UK ambassador to Laos, the Philippines and China
  * Leonie Archer, historian and authority on women in Jewish antiquity
  * Isaiah Berlin, regarded as one of the twentieth century's most influential liberal philosophers
  * Kanti Bajpai, Former Headmaster, The Doon School, India
  * John Barnes, developer of the Ada programming language
  * William Bradshaw, Baron Bradshaw, Member of the House of Lords
  * Donald Broadbent, experimental psychologist
  * Sebastian Brock, expert in Syriac language
  * Amit Chaudhuri, novelist
  * David Dabydeen, Guyana's Ambassador Plenipotentiary and Extraordinaire to China, from 2010 to 2015
  * Simon Digby, oriental scholar
  * Anthony Epstein, discovered the Epstein-Barr virus
  * Robin Gandy, mathematician and logician
  * Raymond Hoffenberg, endocrinologist and medical scientist and prominent opponent of apartheid in South Africa
  * Tony Hoare, computer scientist, developer of Quicksort the widely used sorting algorithm
  * Dorothy Hodgkin, British Chemist and Nobel Prize winner
  * Avishai Margalit, philosopher, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  * Roger Moorey, British archeologist and keeper of antiquities at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford
  * Pat Nuttall, expert in tick-borne diseases
  * Gareth Roberts, physicist and influential figure in shaping British policy on the sciences
  * Sumit Sarkar, Indian historian, former Professor of history, Delhi University
  * Erich Wolf Segal, American author and screenwriter, wrote the screenplay for The Beatles' 1968 motion picture Yellow Submarine
  * Steven Schwartz, Vice Chancellor of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia
  * Jon Stallworthy, Professor Emeritus of English, University of Oxford, UK
  * Bryan Sykes, world-renowned human geneticist
  * Niko Tinbergen, Dutch ethologist and Nobel prize winner
  * Géza Vermes, Hungarian Jewish historian of ancient Judaism and early Christianity, authority on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the historical Jesus
  
  ## Presidents
  
  * Isaiah Berlin, 1967–1975
  * Henry Fisher, 1975–85
  * Raymond Hoffenberg, 1985–93
  * Jim Kennedy, (acting), 1993–1994
  * David Smith, 1994–2000
  * Jon Stallworthy, (acting), 2000
  * Gareth Roberts, 2000–2007
  * Jon Stallworthy, (acting), 2007–2008
  * Hermione Lee, 2008–2017
  * Philomen Probert, (acting), 2017–2018
  * Tim Hitchens, 2018–present
  