Hart Hall 1282–1740
- Saint Alexander Briant, Jesuit martyr
- John Donne, poet, Anglican priest
- Nicholas Fuller, Hebraist, philologist
- Henry Pelham, British Whig Prime Minister
- John Selden, jurist, MP for Oxford University
- Jonathan Swift, satirist, poet, Anglican priest, author of Gulliver's Travels
Magdalen Hall, old site 1448–1822
- Samuel Daniel, poet, historian
- Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Justice
- Thomas Hobbes, political philosopher, author of Leviathan
- Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, historian, statesman
- William Tyndale, Bible translator, Reformation martyr
- Henry Vane the Younger, Parliamentarian statesman
- William Waller, Parliamentarian soldier
Magdalen Hall, new site 1822–1874
- William Robinson Clark, theologian
- Clement Jackson, founder of the Amateur Athletic Association
Hertford College, first foundation 1740–1816
- Charles James Fox, Whig statesman
- Sir John Hippisley, politician, diplomat
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Hertford College, second foundation 1874–
- Richard Addinsell, composer of film music
- Bernard Ashmole, archaeologist, art historian
- Andrea Ashworth, author, academic
- John Behan, educationist, jurist
- Marian Bell, economist
- Catherine Bennett, journalist
- Fiona Bruce, BBC newsreader
- Calvin Cheng, modelling mogul, Singaporean parliamentarian
- Nick Cohen, political journalist
- Sherard Cowper-Coles, diplomat
- George Dangerfield, journalist, historian
- Daniel Dennett, philosopher of the mind
- David Dilks, historian
- J. Meade Falkner, novelist, The Lost Stradivarius
- Richard W. Fisher, diplomat
- Adam Fleming, BBC newsreader
- Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Channel 4 newsreader
- Gideon Henderson, geochemist, climate-change scientist
- Nicholas Henderson, diplomat
- Leonard Hodgson, church historian
- Jeffrey John, Dean of St Alban's Cathedral
- Mark S. Joshi, financial mathematician
- Natasha Kaplinsky, ITN newsreader
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- Soweto Kinch, jazz saxophonist, rapper
- Seth Lerer, literary critic
- Alain LeRoy Locke, writer of the Harlem Renaissance
- Jurek Martin, journalist
- Arthur Mayo, recipient of the Victoria Cross
- Gavin Maxwell, naturalist, author of Ring of Bright Water
- Roland Michener, former Governor General of Canada
- Dom Mintoff, former Prime Minister of Malta
- David Naylor, medical researcher
- Edward Max Nicholson, founder of the World Wildlife Fund
- Richard Norton-Taylor, journalist, playwright
- Peter Pears, tenor
- Barbara A. Perry, constitutional lawyer
- James Pettifer, scholar of the Balkans
- Jacqui Smith, former British Home Secretary
- Manisha Tank, CNN newsreader
- Ed Vulliamy, journalist and world reporter
- Evelyn Waugh, author of Brideshead Revisited, journalist
- Byron White, U.S. Associate Supreme Court Justice
- Nathaniel Woodard, educationalist
- Tobias Wolff, author of This Boy's Life
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