Notable Pembrokians
Over the years, many of our graduates have made significant contributions to their chosen field, or achieved high office in public life. Some members of our recent alumni community showcase the variety of talent and scholarship which the College attracts today. The following list of notable Pembrokians provides an overview of the sheer variety of people who have studied here.
Alumni
In order of year of matriculation (year in brackets)
Tarik O’Regan (1996) Composer
Michelle Peluso (1993) SVP & Chief Marketing Officer, IBM
Tim Griffin (1990) Politician, Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas
Katharine Viner (1989) Journalist and playwright
Patrick Pichette (1987) Former Senior Vice President and CFO of Google Inc
Stefan Gates (1986) Television presenter, author, broadcaster, ‘Gastronaut’ and food scientist
Mary Creagh MP (1986) Politician
Miranda Sawyer (1985) Journalist and broadcaster
Caroline Hawley (1985) Journalist, BBC Special Correspondent
Tanya Beckett (1984) Television and radio journalist
King Abdullah II of Jordan (1984)
Patience Agbabi (1983) Poet, performer and academic
Radek Sikorski (1983) Polish Politician and Journalist
Major General James Cowan (1983) former British Army Officer, CEO of the HALO Trust
Sari Horwitz (1982) Three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and reporter for The Washington Post
Lieutenant General Sandy Storrie (1981) British Army
Maria Eagle MP (1980) Politician
Glenn Fine (1979) Acting Inspector General of the United States Department of Defence
Kevin Brennan MP (1979) Politician, Shadow Minister (Digital, Culture, Media and Sport)
Lord Ian Burnett (1976) Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
Walter Isaacson (1974) Writer and Journalist, CEO of Aspen Institute
Archbishop Makarios of Kenya (1972)
Lord Peter Ricketts (1971) Her Majesty’s Ambassador to France
Princess Basma bint Talal (1968) Princess Royal of Jordan
Ambassador Philip Lader (1967) United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom
Oz Clarke (Robert Owen) (1967) Actor, Broadcaster, Television Presenter and Wine Writer
Sir Robert Crawford (1964) Historian, Former Director General of the Imperial War Museum
Sir Philip Bailhache (1964) Senator
Lord John Krebs (1963) Zoologist
Sir Rocco Forte (1963) Hotelier
Lord John Kerr (1960) Former UK diplomat who wrote Article 50
Dr Andrew Buxton (1959) Former CEO of Barclays Bank
Sir John Frank Mummery (1959) Former Lord Justice of Appeal
Conrad Seagroatt (1958) Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court of the Sultanate of Brunei
Sir Graham Hart (1958) Civil Servant
Lord Abernethy (1958) Lawyer and a former Senator of the College of Justice
Professor Geoffrey Raisman (1957) Neuroscientist
Sir Peter Wallis (1955) Cricket
Professor Sir Richard Sorabji (1955) Historian
Barry Strayer (1955) Canadian Court of Appeal Judge
Senator Richard Lugar (1954) Politician
Most Revd Kallistos Ware (1952) Auxiliary Bishop of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Great Britain
Lord Carswell (1952) Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
Lord Heseltine (1951) Politician and businessman
Sir Julian Michael Gordon Critchley (1951) Politician
Lord Ivor Richard (1950) Politician
Sir Robert Clarke (1949) Chairman of United Biscuits
Philip Nicholas Seton Mansergh (1929) Historian
Senator J. William Fulbright (1925) Senator
William Albert Samuel Hewins (1884) Economist and politician
Frederick John Smith (1868) Physicist
George Birkbeck Norman Hill (1855) Editor and author
Richard Watson Dixon (1852) Ecclesiastical historian and poet
George Rolleston (1846) Physician and physiologist
Sir Peter Le Page Renouf (1840) Egyptologist and religious writer
William Corbet LeBreton (1831) Dean of Jersey
Henry Mackenzie (1830) Bishop and Suffragan of Nottingham
John Jackson (1829) Bishop of London
Richard Durnford (1820) Bishop of Chichester
Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1820) Poet, dramatist and physician
James Smithson (1782) Chemist and Mineralogist. Founding donor of the Smithsonian Institution.
John Moore (1745) Archbishop of Canterbury
Sir William Blackstone (1738) Jurist, judge and politician
Richard Graves (1732) Writer and translator
William Shenstone (1732) Poet
George Whitefield (1732) English Anglican cleric
Samuel Johnson (1728) Writer
Sir Erasmus Philipps (1720) Politician
Sir John Philipps (1720) Politician
Nathaniel Bliss (1716) Astronomer
Simon Harcourt, First Viscount Harcourt (1677) Lawyer and politician
Poet Timothy Hall (1654) Bishop of Oxford
Sir William Scroggs (1640) Judge
Other Notable Pembrokians
Sir Roger Bannister (1946, Merton College), Former middle-distance athlete, physician and academic. He was Master of Pembroke College 1985-93
J.R.R. Tolkien (1911, Exeter College), Writer, poet, philologist and professor. He was the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and Fellow 1925-45
Find out more about Tolkien in the Oxford college archives here.
R.G. Collingwood (1912) Philosopher and archaeologist, Fellow 1912-1935