Prime Ministers
| Name | College | Student at Oxford | Period as Prime Minister | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington | Trinity | 1690–? | 1742–1743 | |
| Henry Pelham | Hart Hall | 1710–? | 1743–1746 | |
| George Grenville | Christ Church | 1730–1733 | 1763–1765 | |
| William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham | Trinity | 1727–1728 | 1766–1768 | |
| Frederick North, Lord North (later 2nd Earl of Guilford) | Trinity | 1748–1750 | 1770–1782 | |
| William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne | Christ Church | 1755–1757 | 1782–1783 | |
| William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland | Christ Church | 1755–1757 | 1783, 1807–1809 | |
| Henry Addington (later 1st Viscount Sidmouth) | Brasenose | 1774–1778 | 1801–1804 | |
| William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville | Christ Church | 1776–1780 | 1806–1807 | |
| Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool | Christ Church | 1787–1790 | 1812–1827 | |
| George Canning | Christ Church | 1787–1791 | 1827 | |
| Sir Robert Peel, Bt | Christ Church | 1805–1808 | 1834–1835, 1841–1846 | |
| Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby | Christ Church | 1817–1820 | 1852, 1858–1859, 1866–1868 | |
| William Ewart Gladstone | Christ Church | 1828–1831 | 1868–1874, 1880–1885, 1886, 1892–1894 | |
| Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury | Christ Church | 1847–1849 | 1885–1886, 1886–1892, 1895–1902 | |
| Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery | Christ Church | 1866–1869 | 1894–1895 | |
| Herbert Asquith (later 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith) | Balliol | 1870–1874 | 1908–1916 | |
| Clement Attlee (later 1st Earl Attlee) | University | 1901–1904 | 1945–1951 | |
| Anthony Eden (later 1st Earl of Avon) | Christ Church | 1919–1922 | 1955–1957 | |
| Harold Macmillan (later 1st Earl of Stockton) | Balliol | 1912–1914 | 1957–1963 | |
| Sir Alexander Douglas-Home (formerly 14th Earl of Home, later Baron Home of the Hirsel) | Christ Church | 1922–1925 | 1963–1964 | |
| Harold Wilson (later Baron Wilson of Rievaulx) | Jesus | 1934–1937 | 1964–1970, 1974–1976 | |
| Edward Heath | Balliol | 1935–1939 | 1970–1974 | |
| Margaret Thatcher (later Baroness Thatcher) | Somerville | 1943–1947 | 1979–1990 | |
| Tony Blair | St John's | 1972–1975 | 1997–2007 | |
| David Cameron | Brasenose | 1985–1988 | 2010–incumbent |
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