List of Oxfordian theory supporters

This is a list of supporters of the Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship, which was first promulgated in 1920.

• Percy Allen — journalist, theatre historian[1]
• Mark Anderson — journalist, researcher, author, astrophysicist[2]
• Charles Wisner Barrell — researcher, author[3]
• Charles Beauclerk, Earl of Burford — writer
• Charles Sidney Beauclerk — Jesuit priest[4]
• Michael Delahoyde — Professor of English, Washington State University [5]
• Louis P. Bénézet — American school reformer[6]
• Harry Blackmun — U.S. Supreme Court Justice[7]
• Marjorie Bowen — British historian, biographer, novelist[8]
• Gelett Burgess — author, critic, poet, artist[9]
• John Byrne — British-born Canadian-American comic book artist and writer[10]
• Michael Chiklis — actor[11]
• Montagu William Douglas — soldier and colonial administrator.[12]
• Ren Draya — Professor of English & Communications, Blackburn College [13]
• Roland Emmerich — film director, screenwriter, producer; producer and director of Anonymous (2011)[14]
• William Farina — biographer, nonfiction researcher and author, essayist[15]
• Bert Fields — lawyer and writer
• Sigmund Freud — pioneer of psychoanalysis[16]
• Michael H. Hart — astrophysicist, author of The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History[17]
• Warren Hope — academic, university English professor, author[18]
• Christmas Humphreys — British barrister, judge, author, Buddhist scholar[19]
• Jeremy Irons — actor[20]
• Sir Derek Jacobi — Shakespearean actor, director[21][22]
• Richard Kennedy — American children's book writer
• Felicia Hardison Londré — Curators’ Professor of Theatre at the University of Missouri-Kansas City [23]
• Lynne Kositsky — Canadian author of poetry and young adult historical fiction
• J. Thomas Looney — British school teacher, researcher, author[24]
• David McCullough — historian, author, biographer[25]
• Paul Nitze — longtime high-ranking U.S. government official and Presidential advisor, ambassador[26][27]
• Charlton Greenwood Ogburn — lawyer
• Charlton Ogburn — investigative journalist, researcher, author[28]
• John Orloff — screenwriter[29]
• Sir Roger Penrose — mathematician, Nobel Laureate in Physics[30]
• Anne Pluto — Professor of Literature and Theatre, Lesley University [31]
• Enoch Powell - politician [32]
• Keanu Reeves - actor[33]
• Gerald Henry Rendall — professor of Greek[34]
• Anne Rice — author
• Mark Rylance — Shakespearean actor and director, director of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre 1995–2005[35]
• Don Rubin — Professor Emeritus of Theatre at York University in Toronto; Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship Vice President
• Antonin Scalia — U.S. Supreme Court Justice[7]
• Joseph Sobran — journalist, author, researcher[36]
• John Paul Stevens — U.S. Supreme Court Justice[7]
• Roger Stritmatter — Professor of Humanities at Coppin State University and the general editor of Brief Chronicles[37]
• Peter A. Sturrock — British astrophysicist, Stanford University professor of applied physics, Arctowski Medalist, author of AKA Shakespeare: A Scientific Approach to the Authorship Question[38]
• Patrick Walker (40 Watt Sun) — musician, songwriter.
• Bernard Mordaunt Ward — military officer, author
• Alexander Waugh — writer
• Orson Welles — actor, director, writer, producer
• Daniel L. Wright — Professor of English, Concordia University, Portland; Director of the Shakespeare Authorship Research Centre [39]
• Michael York — actor[35]