List of University of Oxford people in sport, exploration, and adventuring
This is a list of people from the University of Oxford involved in sport, exploration, and adventuring. Many were students at one (or more) of the colleges of the University, at least two (Anton Oliver and Joe Roff) are current students, and others held fellowships at a college.
This list forms part of a series of lists of people associated with the University of Oxford – for other lists, please see the main article List of University of Oxford people.
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.
List of sports people
Matthew Pinsent
William Webb-Ellis
- James Allen (Lady Margaret Hall)
- Harry Altham
- John Bain (1854 – 1929), England footballer and 1877 FA Cup Finalist
- Roger Bannister (Exeter and Merton)
- Stuart Barnes (St Edmund Hall)
- Paul Bennett (Kellogg College), Olympics gold medalist
- Francis Birley (University) Three-times winner of the FA Cup in the 1870s
- Michael Blomquist (St Peter's)
- Bernard Bosanquet
- Tom Bourdillon (Balliol)
- Robin Bourne-Taylor (Christ Church)
- Bill Bradley (Worcester)
- Charles Wreford Brown (Oriel)
- Clarence Bruce, 3rd Baron Aberdare (New College)
- John Cyril Campbell, player and first football coach of Panathinaikos
- Ed Coode (Keble)
- Steph Cook (Lincoln)
- Colin Cowdrey, Baron Cowdrey of Tonbridge (Brasenose)
- Gerry Crutchley President of Middlesex CCC 1958-62
- Jamie Dalrymple (St Peter's)
- Simon Danielli (Scotland Rugby International) (Trinity)
- Chris Davidge Gold medallist in rowing at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
- Martin Donnelly
- Hugh Edwards (Christ Church)
- Jason Flickinger (Keble)
- R. E. Foster
- Timothy Foster MBE (St Cross)
- C. B. Fry (Wadham)
- George Harris, 4th Baron Harris
- David Hemery (St Catherine's)
- Simon Hollingsworth (Exeter)
- Chris Hollins
- David Humphreys
- Douglas Jardine
- Malcolm Jardine
- Brian Johnston (New College)
- Imran Khan
- David Kirk (Worcester)
- Christopher Liwski (St Catherine's)
- Jack Lovelock (Exeter) gold medal British Empire Games 1934, gold medal Olympic Games 1936
- Joseph von Maltzahn (Kellogg)
- Lucas McGee (Oriel)
- Tom McMillen (University)
- Alan Melville
- Max Mosley (Christ Church) President of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile 1993-
- John Nunn (Oriel) Chess Grandmaster ranked =9th in the world in 1985
- Anton Oliver (Worcester)
- Cuthbert Ottaway (Brasenose)
- Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi
- Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
- John Misha Petkevich
- Sir Matthew Pinsent CBE (St Catherine's)
- Ronald Poulton-Palmer (Balliol)
- Pete Reed (Wolfson and Oriel)
- Joe Roff (Harris Manchester)
- Myron Rolle
- James Schroder (Christ Church)
- Brough Scott (Corpus Christi)[1]
- Jonathan Searle MBE (Christ Church)
- Colin Smith (St Catherine's)
- M. J. K. Smith
- John J. Tigert (Pembroke)
- Andrew Triggs Hodge (St Catherine's)
- Dick Twining President of Middlesex CCC 1950–57, President Marylebone Cricket Club 1964–65
- Sir Pelham Warner
- William Webb-Ellis (Brasenose)
- Matthew Wells (Balliol)
- Jacob Wetzel (Linacre)
- Barney Williams (Jesus)[2][3]
- Buffy Williams (St Hugh's)
Adventurers and explorers
Walter Raleigh
- Gertrude Bell (Lady Margaret Hall)
- Apsley Cherry-Garrard (Christ Church)
- Richard Francis Burton (Trinity)
- Thomas Coryat (Gloucester Hall)
- Peter Fleming (Christ Church)
- T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) (Jesus and All Souls)[4][5]
- Walter Raleigh (Oriel)
- Cecil Rhodes (Oriel)
- Andrew Irvine (Merton)
- Alex Hibbert (St Hugh's)
See also
- Other names can be found Sport in Oxford, as well as its subcategories, especially Rowing in Oxford, Oxford University cricketers, and Oxford University AFC players
References
- ↑ ‘SCOTT, (John) Brough’, Who's Who 2008, A & C Black, 2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 26 March 2008
- ↑ "A Week in the Life of a Law Student". Jesus College, Oxford. 24 June 2006. Retrieved 2007-07-22.
- ↑ Williams, Barney (2006). "Head of the River" (PDF). Jesus College Newsletter. Jesus College, Oxford. p. 9. Retrieved 2007-07-22.
- ↑ "Lawrence of Arabia". Jesus College, Oxford. Retrieved 2007-07-14.
- ↑ "Outline chronology". The T. E. Lawrence Society. Retrieved 2007-07-14.
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