List of St Anne's College, Oxford People (113 items)report

• Sir Danny Alexander – Liberal Democrat MP for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch & Strathspey (2005–2015), formerly Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Alumnae)

• Mary Archer, Lady Archer – scientist specialising in solar power conversion (Alumnae)

• Karen Armstrong, FRSL – author on comparative religion (Alumnae)

• Jackie Ashley – broadcaster, journalist, and contributor to The Guardian and New Statesman (Alumnae)

• Wendy Beckett – BBC art historian (Alumnae)

• Dame Gillian Beer – literary critic and former President of Clare Hall, Cambridge (1994–2001) (Alumnae)

• Nicola Blackwood – Conservative MP for Oxford West and Abingdon (2010–17) (Alumnae)

• Mark Bostridge – writer and critic, biographer of Vera Brittain and Florence Nightingale (Alumnae)

• Tina Brown, CBE – writer, and magazine editor, currently of The Daily Beast and formerly Vanity Fair (1984–1992) and The New Yorker (1992–98) (Alumnae)

• Dame Frances Cairncross, DBE, CBE – journalist, economist, and Rector of Exeter College, Oxford (2004–2014) (Alumnae)

• Rosemary Cramp – archaeologist specialising in Anglo-Saxon literature and culture (Alumnae)

• Edwina Currie – Conservative MP and minister (1983–97) (Alumnae)

• Liam D'Arcy-Brown, Sinologist and travel writer (Alumnae)

• Ruth Deech, Baroness Deech, DBE – lawyer, bioethicist, and former Principal of St Anne's (1991–2004) (Alumnae)

• Paul Donovan – economist and author (Alumnae)

• Dame Mary Douglas, DBE, FBA – anthropologist (Alumnae)

• Anne Dreydel, OBE – co-founder of the Oxford English Centre, now St Clare's International School (Alumnae)

• Rose Dugdale – former debutante, notable IRA member and art thief (Alumnae)

• Moira Dunbar – Arctic ice researcher (Alumnae)

• Andrew Edmonds – contestant on the reality TV show Big Brother 11 (Alumnae)

• U.A. Fanthorpe, CBE, FRSL – poet (Alumnae)

• Penelope Farmer – children's writer (Alumnae)

• Helen Fielding – novelist known for the Bridget Jones series (Alumnae)

• Helen Fraser – executive and publisher (Alumnae)

• Hadley Freeman – writer and columnist for The Guardian and Vogue (Alumnae)

• Urszula Gacek – former Polish politician, since 2011 Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Poland to The Council of Europe (Alumnae)

• Helen Palmer Geisel – children's book author, editor, and co-founder of Beginner Books (Alumnae)

• Sanjay Ghose – Indian activist. (Alumnae)

• Jean Golding – epidemiologist (Alumnae)

• Sarah Gristwood – journalist and author (Alumnae)

• Miriam Gross – literary editor and co-founder of Standpoint magazine (Alumnae)

• Mary Harron – Canadian director and screenwriter, best known for American Psycho (Alumnae)

• Zoë Heller – journalist and novelist, known for Notes on a Scandal (Alumnae)

• Miriam Hodgson (1938–2005) – editor of children's books (Alumnae)

• Brad Hooker – philosopher specialising in ethics, Professor of Philosophy at Reading University (Alumnae)

• Nancy Hubbard – Professor of business, author, and Miriam Katowitz Chair of Management and Accounting at Goucher College (Alumnae)

• Mr Hudson (Ben Hudson) – pop musician (Alumnae)

• Devaki Jain – Indian economist, writer, and feminist activist (Alumnae)

• Diana Wynne Jones – fantasy novelist, known for the Chrestomanci series and Howl's Moving Castle (Alumnae)

• Martha Kearney – broadcaster and journalist, currently of BBC Radio 4's Today programme (Alumnae)

• Sandra Landy – world champion bridge player and computer scientist (Alumnae)

• Penelope Lively, CBE, FRSL – novelist and Booker Prize winner for Moon Tiger (Alumnae)

• Guy Lynn – investigative reporter for the BBC (Alumnae)

• William MacAskill – philosopher, co-founder of the Effective Altruism movement (Alumnae)

• Mercia MacDermott – writer and historian (Alumnae)

• Kevin Macdonald – director, The Last King of Scotland and State of Play (Alumnae)

• Sara Maitland – novelist (Alumnae)

• Max More – philosopher and futurist, founder of the Extropy Institute (Alumnae)

• Rebecca Morelle – journalist, currently global science correspondent for BBC News (Alumnae)

• Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh – South African author, musician and activist (Alumnae)

• Lindsay Northover, Baroness Northover – Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords (since 2000), former Government Whip (Alumnae)

• Una O'Brien, Permanent Secretary Department of Health (Alumnae)

• Nuala O'Faolain, journalist, writer, broadcaster, producer and feminist (Alumnae)

• Nicola Padfield – Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge and Professor of Criminal and Penal Justice at the Law Faculty, University of Cambridge (Alumnae)

• Ruma Pal – former justice of the Supreme Court of India (Alumnae)

• Adam Parsons – television and radio presenter (Alumnae)

• Ged Quinn – artist (Alumnae)

• Norah Lillian Penston – principal of Bedford College, University of London, 1951–64 (Alumnae)

• Melanie Phillips – journalist and author, winner of the Orwell Prize (Alumnae)

• Libby Purves, OBE – radio presenter and journalist, drama critic for The Times (2010–) (Alumnae)

• Janina Ramirez – art historian, lecturer and TV presenter. (Alumnae)

• Sir Simon Rattle, CBE, FRSA – prominent conductor, principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic (2002–2016), London Symphony Orchestra (2017–) (Alumnae)

• Mary Remnant, DSG – medieval musicologist, musician (Alumnae)

• Gillian Reynolds, MBE – journalist and broadcaster (Alumnae)

• John Robins – stand-up comedian and radio presenter (Alumnae)

• Jancis Robinson, OBE, MW – wine critic and author (Alumnae)

• James Rutledge – musician and producer (Alumnae)

• Dame Cicely Saunders, OM, DBE – Social worker, nurse, physician, writer, and pioneer of the hospice movement (Alumnae)

• Frances Stonor Saunders – journalist, historian, television, film-maker, and former associate editor of the New Statesman (Alumnae)

• Samantha Shannon – author of The Bone Season dystopian fiction series (Alumnae)

• Susan Sontag – American writer, literary theorist, and political activist (Alumnae)

• Susan J. Smith – Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge and Honorary Professor of Social and Economic Geography at the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge (Alumnae)

• Harriet Spicer – publisher (Alumnae)

• Russell Taylor, MBE – writer, journalist and composer (Alumnae)

• Jane Thynne – novelist, journalist and broadcaster (Alumnae)

• Polly Toynbee – journalist (The Guardian), writer, and broadcaster (Dropout) (Alumnae)

• Victor Ubogu – Rugby player for Bath Rugby, businessman (Alumnae)

• Jenny Uglow, OBE – critic and noted biographer, current editorial director of Chatto & Windus (Alumnae)

• Hilary Wainwright – feminist activist (Alumnae)

• Jill Paton Walsh, CBE, FRSL – novelist and children's writer (Alumnae)

• Victoria Whitworth – Anglo-Scots novelist, archaeologist and art historian (Alumnae)

• Ivy Williams – first woman to be called to the English bar (Alumnae)

• Mara Yamauchi – noted long-distance track and marathon runner (Alumnae)

• Janet Young, Baroness Young, PC, DL Conservative politician. first female Leader of the House of Lords, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Lord Privy Seal (Alumnae)

• Peter Ady – Fellow (1947–2004), eminent development economist, adviser to the Burmese Government and Ministry of Overseas Development. (Academics)

• Roger Crisp – current Professor of Moral Philosophy, Uehiro Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, Chairman of Management Committee of Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics (Academics)

• Peter Donnelly, FRS – current Fellow (1996–), Australian mathematician and statistician, and current director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics at Oxford University (Academics)

• Bent Flyvbjerg – current Fellow, noted economic geographer, urban planner, and current director of the BT Centre for Major Programme Management at the Saïd Business School (Academics)

• Jenifer Hart – History Fellow (Academics)

• Margaret Hubbard – Australian classical scholar specializing in philology; one of St Anne's 15 founding fellows (Academics)

• Jonathan Katz – stipendiary lecturer, and current University Public Orator (Academics)

• Patrick McGuinness – current Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Fellow and Tutor in French, author, and poet (Academics)

• Georg Gottlob, FRS – current Fellow (since 2006), noted Austrian computer scientist specialising in database theory, logic, and artificial intelligence (Academics)

• A. C. Grayling, FRSA, FRSL – current Supernumerary Fellow, philosopher, author, human rights and civil liberties advocate (Academics)

• Tony Judt, FBA – Fellow (1980–87), author, historian, and public intellectual, later the director of the Erich Maria Remarque Institute at NYU and contributor to the New York Review of Books (Academics)

• John Lloyd – current Supernumerary Fellow, journalist, contributor to the Financial Times, and co-founder of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University (Academics)

• Nick Middleton – current Supernumerary Fellow, physical geographer specialising in desertification, and consultant to the IUCN, UNEP, EU, and WWF. (Academics)

• Iris Murdoch, DBE – Fellow (1948–99), philosopher, and novelist, known for Under the Net and The Sea, The Sea (Academics)

• Graham Nelson – current Supernumerary Fellow (since 2007), mathematician, poet, and noted interactive fiction game designer (Academics)

• Roger Reed – current Supernumerary Fellow, professor of engineering and material science. (Academics)

• Stephen Alexander Smith – Fellow (1991–98), legal scholar and writer (Academics)

• Gabriele Taylor – current senior research fellow, philosopher in ethics (Academics)

• 1894–1921 Bertha Johnson (Principals)

• 1921–1929 Christine Burrows (Principals)

• 1929–1940 Grace Eleanor Hadow (Principals)

• 1940–1953 Eleanor Plumer (Principals)

• 1953–1966 Mary Ogilvie (Principals)

• 1966–1984 Nancy Trenaman (Principals)

• 1984–1991 Claire Palley (Principals)

• 1991–2004 Ruth Deech (Principals)

• 2004–2016 Tim Gardam (Principals)

• 2016–2017 Robert Chard (acting) (Principals)

• 2017–present: Helen King (Principals)

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