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OXFORD
Most Famous People Born in Oxford, United Kingdom
- Notable people
- 740
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- Median birth year
- 1948
- Most distinctive
- Anthropologist 4.7×
Predictably high-table: the Anthropologist and Mathematician benches are the colleges showing through, with the Rower count a direct byproduct of Eights Week on the Isis. The quieter Composer thread is the interesting one — the choral tradition, the Holywell Music Room, and generations of organ scholars escaping into film scores.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Oxford during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Oxford Is Known For
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Football is Oxford's biggest profession — 12% of all notables (87).
Oxford over-indexes on anthropologist — 4.7× the global rate.
Oxford under-produces politician — only 0.4× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Oxford's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Filtered to 1860s Clear ×
Raymond Unwin
1863 - 1940
Herbert Prior
1867 - 1954
Basil Thomson
1861 - 1939
Iso Mutsu
1867 - 1930
Stephen Phillips
1864 - 1915
Leonard James Rogers
1862 - 1933
Charles Henry Wright
1864 - 1941
George Thurland Prior
1862 - 1936
Helen Thomas Dranga
1866 - 1940
Humphry Rolleston
1862 - 1944
Percy Alden
1865 - 1944
Gertrude Tuckwell
1861 - 1951
Samuel Savery
1861 - 1938
H. Cooper Cliffe
1862 - 1939
Levi Wright
1862 - 1953
Ethel Hatch
1869 - 1975
Frank Arthur Bellamy
1863 - 1936
Cecil Clinkard
1862 - 1941
Richard Beaumont-Thomas
1860 - 1917