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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.