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Oxford People

With almost 20,000 students, 8,500 University staff, 3,000 College employees, and 180,000 alumni, people are what make Oxford an internationally-renowned university.

Key University Officers

Learn more about the Vice-Chancellor, the Chancellor and other key University figures.

Famous Oxonians

Find out the names of some of the distinguished men and women who have studied or taught at Oxford.

Oxonian Award-Winners

Oxonian Nobel Laureates, winners of the Balzan Prize, Fields Medal and Rolf Schock Prize are listed here.

Origins of the Royal Society: key figures

Discover the Oxford University scientists who played a key role in the founding of the Royal Society in 1660.

Professor of Poetry

Geoffrey Hill was elected Oxford University Professor of Poetry on June 18 2010.

2 may 2008

Sir John Eccles, the neourophysiologist and expert on synaptic transmission, studied medicine at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He remained to begin his research career at Exeter College and was then a tutor at Magdalen, before returning to his native Australia and a series of prominent posts. The philosophy of the mind was always a great interest for him. He died this day in 1997. Credit: ODNB