List of St Anne's College, Oxford people

Danny Alexander, former Chief Secretary to the Treasury

Tina Brown, editor of The Daily Beast and ex-editor of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker

Mr Hudson, rapper and R&B artist

Sir Simon Rattle, principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic

• Sir Danny Alexander – Liberal Democrat MP for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch & Strathspey (2005–2015), formerly Chief Secretary to the Treasury
• Mary Applebey – mental health campaigner and co-founder of MIND
• Mary Archer, Lady Archer – scientist specialising in solar power conversion
• Karen Armstrong, FRSL – author on comparative religion
• Jackie Ashley – broadcaster, journalist, and contributor to The Guardian and New Statesman
• Wendy Beckett – BBC art historian
• Dame Gillian Beer – literary critic and former President of Clare Hall, Cambridge (1994–2001)
• Nicola Blackwood – Conservative MP for Oxford West and Abingdon (2010–17)
• Mark Bostridge – writer and critic, biographer of Vera Brittain and Florence Nightingale
• Tina Brown, CBE – writer, and magazine editor, currently of The Daily Beast and formerly Vanity Fair (1984–1992) and The New Yorker (1992–98)
• Dame Frances Cairncross, DBE, CBE – journalist, economist, and Rector of Exeter College, Oxford (2004–2014)
• Rosemary Cramp – archaeologist specialising in Anglo-Saxon literature and culture
• Edwina Currie – Conservative MP and minister (1983–97)
• Liam D'Arcy-Brown, Sinologist and travel writer
• Ruth Deech, Baroness Deech, DBE – lawyer, bioethicist, and former Principal of St Anne's (1991–2004)
• Paul Donovan – economist and author
• Dame Mary Douglas, DBE, FBA – anthropologist
• Anne Dreydel, OBE – co-founder of the Oxford English Centre, now St Clare's International School
• Rose Dugdale – former debutante, notable IRA member and art thief
• Moira Dunbar – Arctic ice researcher
• Andrew Edmonds – contestant on the reality TV show Big Brother 11
• U.A. Fanthorpe, CBE, FRSL – poet
• Penelope Farmer – children's writer
• Helen Fielding – novelist known for the Bridget Jones series
• Helen Fraser – executive and publisher
• Hadley Freeman – writer and columnist for The Guardian and Vogue
• Urszula Gacek – former Polish politician, since 2011 Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Poland to The Council of Europe
• Helen Palmer Geisel – children's book author, editor, and co-founder of Beginner Books
• Sanjay Ghose – Indian activist.
• Jean Golding – epidemiologist
• Sarah Gristwood – journalist and author
• Miriam Gross – literary editor and co-founder of Standpoint magazine
• Mary Harron – Canadian director and screenwriter, best known for American Psycho
• Zoë Heller – journalist and novelist, known for Notes on a Scandal
• Miriam Hodgson (1938–2005) – editor of children's books[2]
• Brad Hooker – philosopher specialising in ethics, Professor of Philosophy at Reading University
• Nancy Hubbard – Professor of business, author, and Miriam Katowitz Chair of Management and Accounting at Goucher College
• Mr Hudson (Ben Hudson) – pop musician
• Devaki Jain – Indian economist, writer, and feminist activist
• Diana Wynne Jones – fantasy novelist, known for the Chrestomanci series and Howl's Moving Castle
• Martha Kearney – broadcaster and journalist, currently of BBC Radio 4's Today programme
• Sandra Landy – world champion bridge player and computer scientist
• Penelope Lively, CBE, FRSL – novelist and Booker Prize winner for Moon Tiger
• Guy Lynn – investigative reporter for the BBC
• William MacAskill – philosopher, co-founder of the Effective Altruism movement
• Mercia MacDermott – writer and historian
• Kevin Macdonald – director, The Last King of Scotland and State of Play
• Sara Maitland – novelist
• Max More – philosopher and futurist, founder of the Extropy Institute
• Rebecca Morelle – journalist, currently global science correspondent for BBC News
• Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh – South African author, musician and activist
• Lindsay Northover, Baroness Northover – Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords (since 2000), former Government Whip
• Una O'Brien, Permanent Secretary Department of Health
• Nuala O'Faolain, journalist, writer, broadcaster, producer and feminist
• Nicola Padfield – Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge and Professor of Criminal and Penal Justice at the Law Faculty, University of Cambridge
• Ruma Pal – former justice of the Supreme Court of India
• Adam Parsons – television and radio presenter
• Ged Quinn – artist
• Norah Lillian Penston – principal of Bedford College, University of London, 1951–64
• Melanie Phillips – journalist and author, winner of the Orwell Prize
• Libby Purves, OBE – radio presenter and journalist, drama critic for The Times (2010–)
• Janina Ramirez – art historian, lecturer and TV presenter.
• Sir Simon Rattle, CBE, FRSA – prominent conductor, principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic (2002–2016), London Symphony Orchestra (2017–)[3]
• Mary Remnant, DSG – medieval musicologist, musician
• Gillian Reynolds, MBE – journalist and broadcaster
• John Robins – stand-up comedian and radio presenter
• Jancis Robinson, OBE, MW – wine critic and author
• James Rutledge – musician and producer
• Dame Cicely Saunders, OM, DBE – Social worker, nurse, physician, writer, and pioneer of the hospice movement
• Frances Stonor Saunders – journalist, historian, television, film-maker, and former associate editor of the New Statesman
• Samantha Shannon – author of The Bone Season dystopian fiction series
• Susan Sontag – American writer, literary theorist, and political activist
• Susan J. Smith – Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge and Honorary Professor of Social and Economic Geography at the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge
• Harriet Spicer – publisher
• Russell Taylor, MBE – writer, journalist and composer
• Jane Thynne – novelist, journalist and broadcaster
• Polly Toynbee – journalist (The Guardian), writer, and broadcaster (Dropout)
• Victor Ubogu – Rugby player for Bath Rugby, businessman
• Jenny Uglow, OBE – critic and noted biographer, current editorial director of Chatto & Windus
• Hilary Wainwright – feminist activist
• Jill Paton Walsh, CBE, FRSL – novelist and children's writer
• Victoria Whitworth – Anglo-Scots novelist, archaeologist and art historian
• Ivy Williams – first woman to be called to the English bar
• Mara Yamauchi – noted long-distance track and marathon runner
• Janet Young, Baroness Young, PC, DL Conservative politician. first female Leader of the House of Lords, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Lord Privy Seal

• Peter Ady – Fellow (1947–2004), eminent development economist, adviser to the Burmese Government and Ministry of Overseas Development.
• Roger Crisp – current Professor of Moral Philosophy, Uehiro Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, Chairman of Management Committee of Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
• Peter Donnelly, FRS – current Fellow (1996–), Australian mathematician and statistician, and current director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics at Oxford University
• Bent Flyvbjerg – current Fellow, noted economic geographer, urban planner, and current director of the BT Centre for Major Programme Management at the Saïd Business School
• Jenifer Hart – History Fellow
• Margaret Hubbard – Australian classical scholar specializing in philology; one of St Anne's 15 founding fellows
• Jonathan Katz – stipendiary lecturer, and current University Public Orator
• Patrick McGuinness – current Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Fellow and Tutor in French, author, and poet
• Georg Gottlob, FRS – current Fellow (since 2006), noted Austrian computer scientist specialising in database theory, logic, and artificial intelligence
• A. C. Grayling, FRSA, FRSL – current Supernumerary Fellow, philosopher, author, human rights and civil liberties advocate
• Tony Judt, FBA – Fellow (1980–87), author, historian, and public intellectual, later the director of the Erich Maria Remarque Institute at NYU and contributor to the New York Review of Books
• John Lloyd – current Supernumerary Fellow, journalist, contributor to the Financial Times, and co-founder of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University
• Nick Middleton – current Supernumerary Fellow, physical geographer specialising in desertification, and consultant to the IUCN, UNEP, EU, and WWF.[4]
• Iris Murdoch, DBE – Fellow (1948–99), philosopher, and novelist, known for Under the Net and The Sea, The Sea
• Graham Nelson – current Supernumerary Fellow (since 2007), mathematician, poet, and noted interactive fiction game designer
• Roger Reed – current Supernumerary Fellow, professor of engineering and material science.[5]
• Stephen Alexander Smith – Fellow (1991–98), legal scholar and writer
• Gabriele Taylor – current senior research fellow, philosopher in ethics

A list of principals of St Anne's College, Oxford.[6]

• 1894–1921 Bertha Johnson
• 1921–1929 Christine Burrows
• 1929–1940 Grace Eleanor Hadow
• 1940–1953 Eleanor Plumer
• 1953–1966 Mary Ogilvie
• 1966–1984 Nancy Trenaman
• 1984–1991 Claire Palley
• 1991–2004 Ruth Deech
• 2004–2016 Tim Gardam
• 2016–2017 Robert Chard (acting)
• 2017–present: Helen King