Academia
- Francis John Lys, Provost of Worcester College, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford
- Sir Colin Lucas, former Master of Balliol College and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University until 2001.
- Michael McCrum CBE, former Headmaster of Eton College, former Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University until 2004.
- Sir Derman Christopherson OBE FRS FREng, former Vice-Chancellor of Durham University and Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge
- Harold Temperley, historian and former Master of Peterhouse College, Cambridge
- Alan Turing OBE, FRS, mathematician and instrumental figure at Bletchley Park
- Alfred North Whitehead OM, mathematician and philosopher
- John Newsom-Davis CBE, FRCP FRS, FMedSci, neurologist
- The Right Honourable the Lord Thomas of Swynnerton, historian
- Richard Atkinson CBE, prehistorian and archeologist
- Sir Malcom Pasley Bt FBA, literary scholar
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