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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 1870s Clear ×
Nevil Sidgwick
1873 - 1952
Reginald Tyrwhitt
1870 - 1951
Richard Olaf Winstedt
1878 - 1966
Reginald Lee
1870 - 1913
Reginald Edward Stubbs
1876 - 1947
Henry Crozier Keating Plummer
1875 - 1946
George Cathcart Woolley
1876 - 1947
Leonard Campbell Taylor
1874 - 1969
William Henry Leffingwell
1876 - 1934
Frank Lascelles (pageant master)
1875 - 1934
Esmond Ovey
1879 - 1963
Evelyn Hatch
1871 - 1951
John Davy Rolleston
1873 - 1946
Thomas Loveday (university administrator)
1875 - 1966
Razor Smith
1877 - 1946
Héctor Henman
1879 - 1969
Albert Edward Harris
1870 - 1933
Arthur Jolliffe
1871 - 1944
Robert William Douglas Willoughby
1877 - 1920