Heads of State and Heads of Government
Name | College | Years at Oxford | Country | Position | Ref |
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John Gorton | Brasenose | 1932–1935 | Australia | Prime Minister 1968–71 | |
Malcolm Fraser | Magdalen | 1949–1952 | Australia | Prime Minister 1975–83 | |
Bob Hawke | University | 1953–1955/6 | Australia | Prime Minister 1983–91 | |
Grantley Adams | St Catherine's Society | 1919– | Barbados and the West Indies | Premier of Barbados 1954–58, Prime Minister of the West Indies Federation 1958–62 | |
J.M.G. (Tom) Adams | Magdalen | Barbados | Prime Minister of Barbados 1976–85 | ||
Seretse Khama | Balliol | Botswana | President 1966–80 | ||
Festus Mogae | University | Botswana | President 1998– | ||
John Napier Turner | Magdalen | Canada | Prime Minister 1984 | ||
Lester Bowles Pearson | St John's | Canada | Prime Minister 1963–68 | ||
Solomon Bandaranaike | Ceylon | Prime Minister 1956–59 | |||
José Ramos-Horta | St Antony's | East Timor | Prime Minister 2006–2007, President 2007–, Nobel Peace Prize laureate 1996 | ||
Penaia Ganilau | Wadham | Fiji | President 1987–93 | ||
Kamisese Mara | Wadham | Fiji | Prime Minister 1967–87 and 1987–92, President 1993–2000 | ||
Richard von Weizsäcker | Balliol | Germany | President 1984–94 | ||
John Kufuor | Exeter | Ghana | President 2001– | ||
Edward Afuko Addo | St Peter's | Ghana | President 1970–72 | ||
Kofi Abrefa Busia | University and St Antony's | Ghana | Prime Minister 1969–72 | ||
Viktor Orbán | Pembroke | 1989–1990 | Hungary | Prime Minister 1998–2002 | |
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan | Manchester and All Souls | 1923–1927 (Lecturer, Manchester); 1936–1952 (Professor, All Souls) | India | First Indian to hold an Oxford Professorship. President 1962–67 | |
Manmohan Singh | Nuffield | India | Prime Minister 2004– | ||
Indira Gandhi | Somerville | 1937–1941 | India | Prime Minister 1966–77 and 1980–84 | |
Norman Manley | Jesus | Jamaica | Chief Minister 1955–59, Premier 1959–62 | ||
Dominic Mintoff | Hertford | Malta | Prime Minister 1955–58, 1971–84 | ||
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto | Christ Church | Pakistan | President 1971–73, Prime Minister 1973–77 | ||
Benazir Bhutto | Lady Margaret Hall | Pakistan | Prime Minister 1988–90, 1993–96 | ||
Wasim Sajjad | Wadham | Pakistan | President 1993, 1997–98 | ||
Liaquat Ali Khan | Exeter | 1918–1921 | Pakistan | Prime Minister 1947–51 | |
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy | Pakistan | Prime Minister 1956–57 | |||
Farooq Leghari | Pakistan | President 1993–97 | |||
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski | Exeter | 1956– | Peru | Prime Minister 2005–06 | |
Seni Pramoj | Worcester | Thailand | Prime Minister 1945–46, 1975, 1976 | ||
Kukrit Pramoj | The Queen's | –1933 | Thailand | Prime Minister 1975–76 | |
Abhisit Vejjajiva | St John's | Thailand | Prime Minister 2008–2011 | ||
Eric Williams | St Catherine's | Trinidad and Tobago | Prime Minister 1956–81 | ||
A. N. R. Robinson | St John's | Trinidad and Tobago | Prime Minister 1986–91, President 1997–2003 | ||
Mihai Razvan Ungureanu | St John's | Romania | Prime Minister 2012, Prrime minister 2012 | ||
Bill Clinton | University | 1968–1970 | United States | President 1993–2001 |
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