100 Notable alumni of University of Oxford

Updated: June 23, 2026 EliteDegrees

University of Oxford is ranked #3 in the world and #1 in United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from University of Oxford sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with University of Oxford won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.

Jeremy Bentham

1. Jeremy Bentham

1748-1832 (aged 84)
lawyer merchant suffragist economist political theorist
Jeremy Bentham was an English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism.
Edward Heath

2. Edward Heath

1916-2005 (aged 89)
conductor military personnel journalist politician
Sir Edward Richard George Heath was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975. Heath also served for 51 years as a Member of Parliament from 1950 to 2001. Outside politics, Heath was a yachtsman, a musician, and an author.
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Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer

3. Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer

1964-. (aged 62)
aristocrat politician writer historian broadcaster
Charles Edward Maurice Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer, styled Viscount Althorp between 1975 and 1992, is a British peer, author, journalist, and broadcaster. He is the younger brother of Diana, Princess of Wales, and the maternal uncle of William, Prince of Wales, and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex.
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Anna Popplewell

4. Anna Popplewell

1988-. (aged 38)
model stage actor actor film actor
Anna Popplewell is an English actress. She is known for portraying Susan Pevensie in The Chronicles of Narnia trilogy (2005–2010), which grossed over $1.5 billion worldwide and earned her a number of awards.
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Rory Kinnear

5. Rory Kinnear

1978-. (aged 48)
television actor stage actor actor film actor
Rory Michael Kinnear is an English actor. He won two Olivier Awards, both at the National Theatre, in 2008 for his portrayal of Sir Fopling Flutter in The Man of Mode, and for playing the William Shakespeare villain Iago in Othello in 2014.
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Susan Rice

6. Susan Rice

1964-. (aged 62)
diplomat screenwriter politician
Susan Elizabeth Rice is an American former diplomat, policy advisor, and public official. As a member of the Democratic Party, Rice served as the 22nd director of the United States Domestic Policy Council from 2021 to 2023, as the 27th U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from 2009 to 2013, and as the 23rd U.S. national security advisor from 2013...
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Fumihito, Crown Prince of Japan

7. Fumihito, Crown Prince of Japan

1965-. (aged 61)
ichthyologist ornithologist aristocrat
Fumihito, Crown Prince Akishino is the heir presumptive to the Japanese throne. He is the younger brother of Emperor Naruhito, and the younger son of Emperor Emeritus Akihito and Empress Emerita Michiko. Since his marriage in June 1990, he has had the title Prince Akishino (秋篠宮, Akishino-no-miya) and has headed the Akishino branch of the Imperial House of Japan.
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Terrence Malick

8. Terrence Malick

1943-. (aged 83)
film producer film actor film director journalist director
Terrence Frederick Malick is an American filmmaker. Malick began his career as part of the New Hollywood generation of filmmakers and received numerous accolades, including the Palme d'Or and the Golden Bear, in addition to nominations for three Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a DGA Award, and a WGA Award.
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Michael Palin

9. Michael Palin

1943-. (aged 83)
television presenter diarist television actor actor children's writer
Sir Michael Edward Palin is an English actor, comedian, writer, and television presenter. He was a member of the Monty Python comedy group. He received the BAFTA Fellowship in 2013 and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2019.
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Camilla Luddington

10. Camilla Luddington

1983-. (aged 43)
actor television actor film actor motion capture acting voice actor
Camilla Anne Luddington is an English actress, best known for her role as Dr. Jo Wilson in the ABC medical drama series Grey's Anatomy (since 2012). She is also known for voicing Lara Croft in the Tomb Raider Survivor trilogy video games and Zatanna in the DC Animated Movie Universe.
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Jonathan Swift

11. Jonathan Swift

1667-1745 (aged 78)
satirist pamphleteer priest human rights defender novelist
Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish writer, essayist, satirist, and Anglican cleric. He was the author of the satirical prose novel Gulliver's Travels (1726) and the creator of the fictional island of Lilliput. He is regarded by many as the greatest satirist of the Georgian era and one of the foremost prose authors in the history of English and world literature.
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Alfred Enoch

12. Alfred Enoch

1988-. (aged 38)
film actor actor television actor
Alfred Lewis Enoch is a British actor. He is known for playing Dean Thomas in the fantasy film series Harry Potter and Wes Gibbins in the legal thriller television series How to Get Away with Murder.
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Oxxxymiron

13. Oxxxymiron

1985-. (aged 41)
lyricist songwriter rapper activist
Miron Yanovich Fyodorov, known by the stage name Oxxxymiron, is a Russian rapper and former CEO of the Booking Machine booking agency, as well as a co-founder and former member of the record label Vagabund. He is one of the most influential and prominent hip-hop performers in Russia, and his albums The Wandering Jew and Gorgorod are considered by the...
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Nigella Lawson

14. Nigella Lawson

1960-. (aged 66)
television presenter writer journalist
Nigella Lucy Lawson is an English food writer and television cook.
Jacob Rees-Mogg

15. Jacob Rees-Mogg

1969-. (aged 57)
fund manager politician
Sir Jacob William Rees-Mogg is a British politician, businessman and broadcaster who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for North East Somerset from 2010 to 2024. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council from 2019 to 2022, Minister of State for Brexit Opportunities and Government...
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Bongbong Marcos

16. Bongbong Marcos

1957-. (aged 69)
politician
Ferdinand "Bongbong" Romualdez Marcos Jr., commonly referred to by the initials BBM or PBBM, is a Filipino politician who has served as the 17th president of the Philippines since 2022. He is the second child and only son of 10th president Ferdinand Marcos and former first lady Imelda Marcos.
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Wallace Shawn

17. Wallace Shawn

1943-. (aged 83)
television actor actor writer voice actor film actor
Wallace Michael Shawn is an American actor, essayist, playwright, and screenwriter. He is known for playing Vizzini in The Princess Bride (1987), Mr. Hall in Clueless (1995), Dr. John Sturgis in Young Sheldon (2017–2024), and voicing Rex in the Toy Story franchise (1995–present).
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Lucy Hawking

18. Lucy Hawking

1970-. (aged 56)
teacher novelist journalist author philanthropist
Catherine Lucy Hawking is an English journalist, novelist, educator, and philanthropist. She is the daughter of the theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking and writer Jane Wilde Hawking. She lives in London, and is a children's novelist and science educator.
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Mark Carney

19. Mark Carney

1965-. (aged 61)
economist central bank governor prime minister party leader politician
Mark Joseph Carney is a Canadian politician and economist who has served as the 24th prime minister of Canada since 2025. He has also been leader of the Liberal Party and the member of Parliament (MP) for Nepean since 2025. He previously was Governor of the Bank of Canada from 2008 to 2013 and Governor of the Bank of England...
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Emilia Fox

20. Emilia Fox

1974-. (aged 52)
television actor stage actor actor film actor
Emilia Rose Elizabeth Fox is an English actress and presenter whose career is primarily in British television. Her feature film debut was in Roman Polanski's film The Pianist (2002). Her other motion pictures include the Italian–French–British romance-drama The Soul Keeper (2002), for which she won the Flaiano Film Award for Best Actress; the drama The Republic of Love (2003); the...
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Louis Theroux

21. Louis Theroux

1970-. (aged 56)
documentary filmmaker
Louis Sebastian Theroux is a British and American documentarian, journalist, broadcaster, and author. He has received three British Academy Television Awards and a Royal Television Society Television Award.
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Neil Gorsuch

22. Neil Gorsuch

1967-. (aged 59)
jurist lawyer judge
Neil McGill Gorsuch is an American jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President Donald Trump on January 31, 2017, and has served since April 10, 2017.
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Rachel Maddow

23. Rachel Maddow

1973-. (aged 53)
journalist
Rachel Anne Maddow is an American television news program host and liberal political commentator. She hosts The Rachel Maddow Show, a weekly television show on MS NOW (formerly MSNBC), and serves as the cable network's special event co-anchor. Her syndicated talk radio program of the same name aired on Air America Radio from 2005 to 2010.
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Emma D'Arcy

24. Emma D'Arcy

1992-. (aged 34)
singer stage actor television actor actor film actor
Emma Zia D'Arcy is an English actor known for their roles in the BBC drama Wanderlust (2018), the Amazon Prime series Truth Seekers (2020), and the HBO fantasy series House of the Dragon (2022–present). They earned critical acclaim and two Golden Globe Award nominations for playing the lead role of Rhaenyra Targaryen in House of the Dragon. They have also...
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Harold Macmillan

25. Harold Macmillan

1894-1986 (aged 92)
military personnel Prime Minister of the United Kingdom politician diplomat leader
Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, was a British statesman and Conservative politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963. Nicknamed "Supermac", he was known for his pragmatism, wit, and unflappability.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley

26. Percy Bysshe Shelley

1792-1822 (aged 30)
playwright librettist novelist linguist poet
Percy Bysshe Shelley was an English writer who is considered one of the major English Romantic poets. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame during his lifetime, but recognition of his achievements in poetry grew steadily following his death, and he became an important influence on subsequent generations...
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Emily Mortimer

27. Emily Mortimer

1971-. (aged 55)
film director comedian film producer actor film actor
Emily Kathleen Anne Mortimer is a British actor and writer. She began acting in stage productions and has since appeared in several film and television roles. In 2003, she won an Independent Spirit Award for her performance in Lovely and Amazing. She is also known for playing Mackenzie McHale in the HBO series The Newsroom (2012–2014). She co-created and co-wrote...
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Robert Hooke

28. Robert Hooke

1635-1703 (aged 68)
biologist physicist university teacher diarist architect
Robert Hooke FRS was an English polymath who was active as a physicist ('natural philosopher'), astronomer, geologist, meteorologist, and architect. He is credited as one of the first scientists to investigate living things at microscopic scale in 1665, using a compound microscope that he designed. Hooke was an impoverished scientific inquirer in young adulthood who went on to become one...
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John Dalton

29. John Dalton

1766-1844 (aged 78)
physicist meteorologist mathematician chemist botanist
John Dalton FRS was an English chemist, physicist, and meteorologist whose work laid the foundations of modern atomic theory and stoichiometric chemistry. Building on earlier ideas about the indivisibility of matter and his own precise measurements of combining ratios, Dalton proposed that each chemical element consists of identical atoms of characteristic weight, and that compounds are formed when atoms of...
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Philippe of Belgium

30. Philippe of Belgium

1960-. (aged 66)
monarch military officer Noiraud politician
Philippe or Filip is King of the Belgians.
Cory Booker

31. Cory Booker

1969-. (aged 57)
jurist lawyer politician
Cory Anthony Booker is an American politician and lawyer serving as the senior United States senator from New Jersey, a seat he has held since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Booker is the first African-American U.S. senator from New Jersey. He was the 38th mayor of Newark from 2006 to 2013, and served on the Municipal Council of...
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Yuval Noah Harari

32. Yuval Noah Harari

1976-. (aged 50)
popular science author military historian writer philosopher medievalist
Yuval Noah Harari is an Israeli medievalist, military historian, public intellectual, and popular science writer. He is a professor of history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His first bestselling book, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011) is based on his lectures to an undergraduate world history class. His other works include the bestsellers Homo Deus: A Brief History...
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Hugh Dancy

33. Hugh Dancy

1975-. (aged 51)
stage actor fashion model television actor actor film actor
Hugh Michael Horace Dancy is an English actor who rose to prominence for his role as the title character in the television film adaptation of David Copperfield (2000) as well as for roles in feature films as Kurt Schmid in Black Hawk Down (2001) and Prince Charmont in Ella Enchanted (2004). Other film roles include Joe Conner in Shooting Dogs...
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Kayleigh McEnany

34. Kayleigh McEnany

1988-. (aged 38)
writer spokesperson political pundit news presenter
Kayleigh Michelle McEnany is an American political commentator, media personality, and former political spokesperson who served as the 33rd White House press secretary during the first Trump administration from 2020 to 2021.
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Benazir Bhutto

35. Benazir Bhutto

1953-2007 (aged 54)
politician
Benazir Bhutto was a Pakistani politician and stateswoman who served as the 11th prime minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990, and again from 1993 to 1996. She was the first woman elected to head a democratic government in a Muslim-majority country. Ideologically a liberal and a secularist, she chaired or co-chaired the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) from the early...
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Christopher Hitchens

36. Christopher Hitchens

1949-2011 (aged 62)
autobiographer political scientist literary critic writer essayist
Christopher Eric Hitchens was a British and American author and journalist. Known as one of the "Four Horsemen" of New Atheism (along with Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett), he gained prominence as a columnist and speaker. His epistemological razor, which states that "what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence", is still of mark...
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T. S. Eliot

37. T. S. Eliot

1888-1965 (aged 77)
poet lyricist literary critic social critic essayist
Thomas Stearns Eliot was a poet, essayist and playwright. He was a leading figure in English-language Modernist poetry where he reinvigorated the art through his use of language, writing style, and verse structure. He is also noted for his critical essays, which often re-evaluated long-held cultural beliefs.
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Alice Eve

38. Alice Eve

1982-. (aged 44)
stage actor film director actor film actor
Alice Sophia Eve is a British and American actress. The daughter of actors Trevor Eve and Sharon Maughan, she began her career with supporting roles in the films Hawking and Stage Beauty (both 2004). Her other credits include Starter for 10 (2006), She's Out of My League (2010), Men in Black 3 (2012), Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), Before We...
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Tim Berners-Lee

39. Tim Berners-Lee

1955-. (aged 71)
inventor physicist programmer university teacher computer scientist
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, HTML, the URL system, and HTTP. He is a professorial research fellow at the University of Oxford and a professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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Aldous Huxley

40. Aldous Huxley

1894-1963 (aged 69)
philosopher university teacher prose writer science fiction writer author
Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, including non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives and poems.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber

41. Andrew Lloyd Webber

1948-. (aged 78)
politician theatrical director producer composer businessperson
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 21 musicals, a song cycle, a set of variations, two film scores, and a Latin Requiem Mass.
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Chelsea Clinton

42. Chelsea Clinton

1980-. (aged 46)
university teacher children's writer historian writer film producer
Chelsea Victoria Clinton is an American writer. She is the only child of former U.S. President Bill Clinton and former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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Ellie Kemper

43. Ellie Kemper

1980-. (aged 46)
television actor writer voice actor actor film actor
Elizabeth Claire Kemper is an American actress, best known for her roles of Erin Hannon in the sitcom The Office (2009–2013) and Kimmy Schmidt in the sitcom Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2015–2019). She has also appeared in films, notably Bridesmaids (2011), 21 Jump Street (2012), Sex Tape (2014), and Home Sweet Home Alone (2021). In 2018, she released her debut book,...
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Richard Dawkins

44. Richard Dawkins

1941-. (aged 85)
theoretical biologist geneticist epistemologist film screenwriter essayist
Richard Dawkins is a British evolutionary biologist, zoologist, science communicator and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford. In 1995 he was named the first Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, a position he held until 2008, and is on the advisory board of the University of Austin. Dawkins has won several academic and writing...
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Sarah Rafferty

45. Sarah Rafferty

1972-. (aged 54)
television actor stage actor actor film actor
Sarah Rafferty is an American actress, best known for her role as Donna Paulsen on the USA Network legal drama Suits and for her role as Katherine Walter on the American teen drama My Life with the Walter Boys, for which she received a Children's and Family Emmy Award nomination in the Outstanding Supporting Performer category. She currently co-hosts a...
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Anna Wintour

46. Anna Wintour

1949-. (aged 77)
media executive fashion editor editor writer journalist
Dame Anna Wintour is a British and American media executive who served as editor-in-chief of Vogue from 1988 to 2025. Currently, Wintour serves as global chief content officer and artist director at Condé Nast. Known for her trademark pageboy bob haircut and dark sunglasses, Wintour is regarded as the most powerful woman in publishing, and has become an important figure...
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Lewis Carroll

47. Lewis Carroll

1832-1898 (aged 66)
philosopher diarist children's writer mathematician novelist
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer and reluctant Anglican deacon. His most notable works are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (1871), some of the most important examples of Victorian literature. He was noted for his facility with word play, logic, and fantasy....
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Thomas Hobbes

48. Thomas Hobbes

1588-1679 (aged 91)
writer historian philosopher economist translator
Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher and political theorist, best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theory. He is considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy.
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Ronan Farrow

49. Ronan Farrow

1987-. (aged 39)
human rights defender jurist lawyer politician documentarian
Satchel Ronan O'Sullivan Farrow is an American journalist. The son of actress Mia Farrow and filmmaker Woody Allen, he is known for his investigative reporting on sexual abuse allegations against film producer Harvey Weinstein, which was published in The New Yorker magazine. The magazine won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for this reporting, sharing the award with The...
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Kellyanne Conway

50. Kellyanne Conway

1967-. (aged 59)
political adviser political scientist lawyer campaign manager pollster
Kellyanne Elizabeth Conway is an American political consultant and pollster who served as Senior Counselor to the President in the first presidency of Donald Trump from 2017 to 2020. She was previously Trump's campaign manager, having been appointed in August 2016; Conway is the first woman to have run a successful U.S. presidential campaign. She previously held roles as a...
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Mohammad Ali Jinnah

51. Mohammad Ali Jinnah

1876-1948 (aged 72)
barrister lawyer freedom fighter politician
Muhammad Ali Jinnah was a barrister, politician, and the founder of Pakistan. Jinnah served as the leader of the All-India Muslim League from 1913 until the inception of Pakistan on 14 August 1947 and then as Pakistan's first governor-general until his death a year later in 1948.
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C. S. Lewis

52. C. S. Lewis

1898-1963 (aged 65)
university teacher theologian writer
Clive Staples Lewis was a British author, literary scholar and Anglican lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Magdalen College, Oxford (1925–1954), and Magdalene College, Cambridge (1954–1963). He is best known as the author of The Chronicles of Narnia, but he is also noted for his other works of fiction, such as The Screwtape Letters and...
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Abdullah II of Jordan

53. Abdullah II of Jordan

1962-. (aged 64)
monarch
Abdullah II is the King of Jordan, having ascended the throne on 7 February 1999. He is a member of the Hashemites, who have been the reigning royal family of Jordan since 1921, and is traditionally regarded a 41st-generation direct descendant of the prophet Muhammad.
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J. Paul Getty

54. J. Paul Getty

1892-1976 (aged 84)
entrepreneur autobiographer art collector patron of the arts industrialist
Jean Paul Getty Sr. was an American petroleum industrialist who founded the Getty Oil Company in 1942 and was the patriarch of the Getty family. A native of Minneapolis, Minnesota, he was the son of pioneer oilman George Getty. In 1957, Fortune magazine named J. Paul Getty the wealthiest living American, while the 1966 Guinness Book of Records declared him...
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T. E. Lawrence

55. T. E. Lawrence

1888-1935 (aged 47)
archaeologist military personnel autobiographer aircraft pilot spy
Thomas Edward Lawrence was a British Army officer, archaeologist, diplomat and writer known for his role during the Arab Revolt and Sinai and Palestine campaign against the Ottoman Empire in the First World War. The breadth and variety of his activities and associations, and Lawrence's ability to describe them vividly in writing, earned him international fame as Lawrence of Arabia,...
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Richard Burton

56. Richard Burton

1925-1984 (aged 59)
stage actor producer director actor diarist
Richard Walter Burton was a Welsh actor.
Harold Wilson

57. Harold Wilson

1916-1995 (aged 79)
Esperantist statistician politician
James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, was a British politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1964 to 1970 and from 1974 to 1976. He was Leader of the Labour Party from 1963 to 1976, Leader of the Opposition twice from 1963 to 1964 and again from 1970 to 1974, and a Member of...
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Dr. Seuss

58. Dr. Seuss

1904-1991 (aged 87)
producer writer illustrator animator poet
Theodor Seuss Geisel was an American children's author, illustrator, animator, and cartoonist. He is known for his work writing and illustrating more than 60 books under the pen name Dr. Seuss. His work includes many of the most popular children's books of all time, selling over 600 million copies and being translated into more than 20 languages by the time...
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Pete Buttigieg

59. Pete Buttigieg

1982-. (aged 44)
minister politician secretary statesperson military officer
Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg is an American politician and former naval officer who served as the 19th United States secretary of transportation from 2021 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 32nd mayor of South Bend, Indiana, from 2012 to 2020, which earned him the nickname "Mayor Pete".
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Liz Truss

60. Liz Truss

1975-. (aged 51)
accountant politician
Mary Elizabeth Truss is a British politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from September to October 2022. On her fiftieth day in office, she stepped down amid a government crisis, making her the shortest-serving prime minister in British history. The member of Parliament (MP) for South West Norfolk from 2010 to...
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Gemma Chan

61. Gemma Chan

1982-. (aged 44)
model television actor actor film actor
Gemma Chan is an English actress. A graduate of Worcester College, Oxford, Chan began acting during the late 2000s, making her film debut in 2009. She rose to attention with her leading role in the Channel 4 science fiction series Humans (2015–2018), and gained prominence with her starring film roles in Crazy Rich Asians and as Elizabeth Hardwick in Mary...
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Anthony Eden

62. Anthony Eden

1897-1977 (aged 80)
diplomat aristocrat politician
Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon, was a British politician and military officer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1955 until his resignation in 1957.
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Amal Clooney

63. Amal Clooney

1978-. (aged 48)
jurist human rights defender lawyer public prosecutor general barrister
Amal Clooney is a French-British-Lebanese international human rights lawyer. She has represented several high-profile clients, including former Maldivian president Mohamed Nasheed, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, Yazidi human rights activist Nadia Murad, Filipino-American journalist Maria Ressa, Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova, and Egyptian-Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy.
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Imran Khan

64. Imran Khan

1983-. (aged 43)
actor
Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi is a Pakistani former cricketer, philanthropist, and politician who served as the 19th prime minister of Pakistan from August 2018 until April 2022. As a cricketer, he captained the Pakistan national cricket team to victory in the 1992 Cricket World Cup. After retiring from cricket, he founded the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre,...
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David Cameron

65. David Cameron

1966-. (aged 60)
politician
David William Donald Cameron, Baron Cameron of Chipping Norton, is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016. Until 2015, he led the first coalition government in the UK since 1945 and resigned after a referendum supported the country's leaving the European Union. After his premiership, he served as Foreign Secretary in...
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Theresa May

66. Theresa May

1956-. (aged 70)
politician
Theresa Mary May, Baroness May of Maidenhead, is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2016 to 2019. She previously served as Home Secretary from 2010 to 2016. She was Member of Parliament (MP) for Maidenhead from 1997 to 2024, and has been a member of the House...
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Rupert Murdoch

67. Rupert Murdoch

1931-. (aged 95)
entrepreneur financier publisher businessperson media proprietor
Keith Rupert Murdoch is an Australian and American former business magnate, investor, and media mogul. Through his company News Corp, he is the owner of hundreds of local, national, and international publishing outlets around the world, including in the United Kingdom (The Sun and The Times), in Australia (The Daily Telegraph, Herald Sun, and The Australian), in the United States...
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John Locke

68. John Locke

1951-. (aged 75)
novelist
John Locke was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of the Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism". His important works include A Letter Concerning Toleration (1689), Two Treatises of Government (1689/90), both published anonymously, and An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689/90). His writing on toleration contends that religion is...
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Felicity Jones

69. Felicity Jones

1983-. (aged 43)
child actor voice actor executive producer actor film actor
Felicity Rose Hadley Jones is an English actress. She began acting as a child, appearing in The Treasure Seekers (1996) and playing Ethel Hallow for one series of the television series The Worst Witch (1998). She then starred in the Donmar Warehouse production of The Chalk Garden (2008).
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Adam Smith

70. Adam Smith

1965-. (aged 61)
lawyer politician
Adam Smith was a Scottish economist and philosopher who was a pioneer in the field of political economy and key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment. Seen by many as the "father of economics" or the "father of capitalism", he is primarily known for two classic works: The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes...
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Kris Kristofferson

71. Kris Kristofferson

1936-2024 (aged 88)
voice actor composer singer-songwriter actor military personnel
Kristoffer Kristofferson was an American musician and actor. He was a pioneering figure in the outlaw country movement of the 1970s, moving away from the polished Nashville sound and toward a more raw, introspective style. Some of his most famous songs include "Me and Bobby McGee" (1970), "For the Good Times" (1968), "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down" (1969), and "Help Me...
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Naruhito

72. Naruhito

1960-. (aged 66)
monarch aristocrat
Naruhito is Emperor of Japan. He acceded to the Chrysanthemum Throne following the abdication of his father, Akihito, on 1 May 2019, beginning the Reiwa era. He is the 126th monarch, according to the traditional order of succession.
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Rosamund Pike

73. Rosamund Pike

1979-. (aged 47)
actor narrator film actor voice actor stage actor
Rosamund Mary Ellen Pike is an English actress and producer. Known for her portrayals of complex and morally ambiguous women in psychological thrillers, her accolades include a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award and two British Academy Awards.
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Malala Yousafzai

74. Malala Yousafzai

1997-. (aged 29)
writer memoirist blogger human rights defender women's rights activist
Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani female education activist, and producer of film and television. She is the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in history, receiving the Peace Prize in 2014 at age 17, and is the second Pakistani and the only Pashtun to receive a Nobel Prize. Yousafzai is a human rights advocate for the education of women and children in...
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Hugh Grant

75. Hugh Grant

1958-. (aged 68)
entrepreneur
Hugh John Mungo Grant is an English actor. He established himself early in his career as a charming and vulnerable romantic leading man, and has since transitioned into a character actor. He has received several accolades including a British Academy Film Award and a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards. He received an Honorary...
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Indira Gandhi

76. Indira Gandhi

1917-1984 (aged 67)
writer politician
Indira Gandhi was an Indian stateswoman who served as the prime minister of India from 1966 to 1977 and again from 1980 until her assassination in 1984. She was India's first and only female prime minister, and a central figure in Indian politics as the leader of the Indian National Congress (INC). She was the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, the...
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Henry V of England

77. Henry V of England

1386-1422 (aged 36)
politician
Henry V, also called Henry of Monmouth, was King of England from 1413 until his death in 1422. Despite his relatively short reign, Henry's outstanding military successes in the Hundred Years' War against France made England one of the strongest military powers in Europe. Immortalised in Shakespeare's Henriad plays, Henry is known and celebrated as one of the greatest warrior-kings...
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J. R. R. Tolkien

78. J. R. R. Tolkien

1892-1973 (aged 81)
philologist librettist linguist literary critic translator
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was an English writer and philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954–55).
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Rishi Sunak

79. Rishi Sunak

1980-. (aged 46)
financial analyst politician
Rishi Sunak is a British politician and former investment banker who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2022 to 2024. Following his defeat to Keir Starmer's Labour Party in the 2024 general election, he became Leader of the Opposition, serving in this role from July to November 2024. He previously held...
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Edward VIII

80. Edward VIII

1894-1972 (aged 78)
military personnel monarch aristocrat
Edward VIII, later known as the Duke of Windsor, was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 20 January 1936 until his abdication in December of the same year.
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Emma Watson

81. Emma Watson

1990-. (aged 36)
voice actor stage actor model actor child actor
Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson is an English actress. In the 2010s, she was ranked among the world's highest-paid actresses by Forbes and Vanity Fair, and was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2015. Watson was also listed by Forbes as an honouree on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2015...
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Bill Clinton

82. Bill Clinton

1946-. (aged 80)
lawyer diplomat autobiographer jurist governor
William Jefferson Clinton is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the attorney general of Arkansas from 1977 to 1979 and as the governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981, and again from 1983 to 1992. His centrist...
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Boris Johnson

83. Boris Johnson

1964-. (aged 62)
journalist politician
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson is a British politician and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2019 to 2022. He was previously Foreign Secretary from 2016 to 2018 and the second mayor of London from 2008 to 2016. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Henley from 2001 to...
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Kate Beckinsale

84. Kate Beckinsale

1973-. (aged 53)
model stage actor actor film actor
Kathrin Romary Beckinsale is an English actress. The only child of the actors Richard Beckinsale and Judy Loe, she debuted in the series premiere of the 1975 daytime drama Couples.
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Manmohan Singh

85. Manmohan Singh

1932-2024 (aged 92)
university teacher civil servant politician economist banker
Manmohan Singh was an Indian economist, bureaucrat, academician and statesman who served as the prime minister of India from 2004 to 2014. He was the fourth longest-serving prime minister after Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, and Narendra Modi. A member of the Indian National Congress, Singh was the first and remains the only Sikh prime minister of India. He was also...
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Edward VII

86. Edward VII

1841-1910 (aged 69)
monarch aristocrat politician art collector
Edward VII was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910.
Stephen Hawking

87. Stephen Hawking

1942-2018 (aged 76)
theoretical physicist writer cosmologist
Stephen William Hawking was an English theoretical astrophysicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge. Between 1979 and 2009, he was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, widely viewed as one of the most prestigious academic posts in the world.
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Keir Starmer

88. Keir Starmer

1962-. (aged 64)
barrister jurist politician
Sir Keir Rodney Starmer is a British politician and lawyer who has served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since 2024 and as Leader of the Labour Party since 2020. He served as Leader of the Opposition from 2020 to 2024. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Holborn and St Pancras since 2015, and was Director...
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Rowan Atkinson

89. Rowan Atkinson

1955-. (aged 71)
electrical engineer television director film actor voice actor stage actor
Rowan Sebastian Atkinson CBE is an English actor, comedian and writer. He first gained success on the sketch comedy show Not the Nine O'Clock News (1979–1982), before going on to play the title roles in the sitcoms Blackadder (1983–1989) and Mr. Bean (1990–1995), and in the film series Johnny English (2003–present).
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Riz Ahmed

90. Riz Ahmed

1982-. (aged 44)
film actor activist television actor singer actor
Rizwan Ahmed is a British actor and rapper. He has received several awards, including an Academy Award and a Primetime Emmy Award, and nominations for two Golden Globe Awards and two British Academy Film Awards. In 2017, he was named by Time as one of the most influential people in the world.
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Margaret Thatcher

91. Margaret Thatcher

1925-2013 (aged 88)
chemist research scientist business executive statesperson politician
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, was a British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to hold the position. As prime minister, she implemented policies that came to...
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Tony Blair

92. Tony Blair

1953-. (aged 73)
autobiographer lawyer diplomat politician
Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007, and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He was Leader of the Opposition from 1994 to 1997 and held shadow cabinet posts from 1987 to 1994. Blair was Member of Parliament (MP) for Sedgefield from...
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Clement Attlee

93. Clement Attlee

1883-1967 (aged 84)
diplomat professor politician
Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, was a British statesman who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955. Attlee was deputy prime minister during the wartime coalition government under Winston Churchill, and Leader of the Opposition on three occasions: from 1935 to 1940, briefly in 1945...
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Aung San Suu Kyi

94. Aung San Suu Kyi

1945-. (aged 81)
human rights defender writer politician
Aung San Suu Kyi is a Burmese politician, diplomat and author who served as State Counsellor of Myanmar and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2016 to 2021. She has served as the general secretary of the National League for Democracy (NLD) since the party's founding in 1988 and was registered as its chairperson while it was a legal party from...
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John le Carré

95. John le Carré

1931-2020 (aged 89)
actor screenwriter writer novelist film producer
David John Moore Cornwell, better known by his pen name John le Carré, was an Irish-British author, best known for his espionage novels, many of which were successfully adapted for film or television. A "sophisticated, morally ambiguous writer", he is considered one of the greatest novelists of the postwar era. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked for both the...
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Harald V of Norway

96. Harald V of Norway

1937-. (aged 89)
monarch aristocrat
Harald V is King of Norway, reigning since 1991.
Viktor Orbán

97. Viktor Orbán

1963-. (aged 63)
jurist association football player politician
Viktor Mihály Orbán is a Hungarian lawyer and politician who has been the 56th prime minister of Hungary since 2010, previously holding the office from 1998 to 2002. He has also led the Fidesz political party since 2003, and previously from 1993 to 2000. He was re-elected as prime minister in 2014, 2018, and 2022. On 29 November 2020, he...
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Empress Masako

98. Empress Masako

1963-. (aged 63)
diplomat consort aristocrat
Masako is Empress of Japan as the wife of Emperor Naruhito.
Erwin Schrödinger

99. Erwin Schrödinger

1887-1961 (aged 74)
university teacher physicist theoretical physicist non-fiction writer mathematician
Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger, sometimes written as Schroedinger or Schrodinger, was an Austrian–Irish theoretical physicist who developed fundamental results in quantum theory. In particular, he is recognized for devising the Schrödinger equation, an equation that provides a way to calculate the wave function of a system and how it changes dynamically in time. He coined the term "quantum entanglement"...
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Robert Mugabe

100. Robert Mugabe

1924-2019 (aged 95)
politician
Robert Gabriel Mugabe was a Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician who led Zimbabwe from 1980 until he was deposed in a coup in 2017. He served as the first Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from internationally recognised independence in 1980 to 1987, then as the second president of Zimbabwe from 1987 to 2017. He was also the Leader of the Zimbabwe African...
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