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==Notable members== === Alumni === {{See also|:Category: Alumni of Linacre College, Oxford}} {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Juan Ossio Acuña]], anthropologist and historian, and the first Peruvian [[Ministry of Culture (Peru)|Minister of Culture]] * [[Yasmin Alibhai-Brown]], journalist * [[Carolyn Browne]], diplomat, British Ambassador to [[Kazakhstan]], former British Ambassador to [[Azerbaijan]] * [[Stefan Buczacki]], botanist, horticulturist, broadcaster, author * [[James J. Busuttil]], lawyer, legal academic and company director * [[Deborah Cadbury]], author and television producer * [[Edward Chen (politician)|Edward Chen]], [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]], [[Gold Bauhinia Star|GBS]], Professor and Fellow of the Centre of Asian Studies at the [[University of Hong Kong]] * [[Nigel A. L. Clarke]], [[Minister of Finance and the Public Service|Minister of Finance and the Public Service of Jamaica]] and [[Parliament of Jamaica|Jamaican Member of Parliament]] * [[Heather Couper]], astronomer, television and radio presenter, writer, and film producer; served as commissioner for the [[Millennium Commission]] * [[Gianni De Fraja]], Professor of Economics at the [[University of Nottingham]] * [[Flavio Delbono]], Italian economist and politician * [[Satsuki Eda]], served as President of the [[House of Councillors]] of Japan * [[Neil Ferguson (epidemiologist)|Neil Ferguson]], {{post-nominals|OBE|FMedSci|size=100}}, epidemiologist, Professor of Mathematical Biology and head of the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at [[Imperial College London]] * [[Raymond Flood (mathematician)|Raymond Flood]], former [[Gresham Professor of Geometry]] at [[Gresham College]] * [[Alexandra Freeman, Baroness Freeman of Steventon]], Executive Director of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication at [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]], [[BBC]] producer * [[Philip A. Gale]], Professor of Chemistry and Head of School, [[University of Sydney]] * [[Crispin Gardiner]], New Zealand theoretical physicist and professor at [[University of Otago]] * [[Elspeth Garman]], Professor of Molecular Biophysics at Oxford * [[David Gavaghan]], Professor of Computational Biology at Oxford * [[Frene Ginwala]], South African politician and former journalist * [[Carolyn Irish|Carolyn Tanner Irish]], Bishop of the [[Episcopal Diocese of Utah]] * [[Dafydd Glyn Jones]], Welsh scholar and lexicographer * [[Joanna Kavenna]], novelist, essayist and travel writer, [[Granta]] Best of Young British Novelists 2013 * [[David Kelly (weapons expert)|David Kelly]], biological weapons expert * [[Lady Gabriella Kingston]], anthropologist and freelance journalist * [[Guy Lloyd-Jones]], Forbes Professor of Organic Chemistry at the [[University of Edinburgh]] * [[Jef McAllister]], American journalist, author and lawyer, former White House Correspondent and London Bureau Chief of ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine * [[Alister McGrath]], Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at Oxford * [[P. Michael McKinley]], [[United States Ambassador to Brazil]], former United States Ambassador to [[Afghanistan]], [[Colombia]], and [[Peru]] * [[Urjit Patel]], 24th [[Governor of the Reserve Bank of India]] * [[Anthony Pierce]], former [[Bishop of Swansea and Brecon]] * [[Kenneth Joseph Riley]], former Canon Precentor at [[Liverpool Cathedral]] * [[Ian Stanes]], former Archdeacon of Loughborough * [[Klaus Stimeder]], Austrian writer and magazine founder * [[Brian Keith Tanner|Brian Tanner]], Professor of Physics and Dean of Knowledge Transfer at [[Durham University]] * [[Paul Tellier]], former [[Clerk of the Privy Council (Canada)]] * [[Stephen Venner]], [[Bishop to the Forces]] and [[Bishop for the Falkland Islands]] * [[Keith Ward]], British cleric, philosopher and theologian * [[Jake Wetzel]], Olympic gold medallist rower * [[Martin Wharton]], [[Bishop of Newcastle (England)|Bishop of Newcastle]] {{div col end}} === Fellows === {{See also|:Category: Fellows of Linacre College, Oxford}} [[File:Paul Nurse portrait.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Paul Nurse]]]] [[File:Shinzō Abe and Malala Yousafzai (1) Cropped.jpg|thumb|216x216px|[[Malala Yousafzai]]]] [[File:Linacre 18 9 2021 7001.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Nick Brown (academic)|Nick Brown (Principal)]]]] {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Silke Ackermann]], Director of the [[History of Science Museum, Oxford]], and the first woman to direct a museum at the university * [[Martin Aitken]], Oxford professor of archaeometry<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/aug/24/martin-aitken-obituary|title=Martin Aitken obituary|last=Aitken|first=Jessica|date=2017-08-24|work=The Guardian|access-date=2017-11-23|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> * [[Hazel Assender]], Professor in Materials at Oxford * [[Jim Bennett (historian)|James Bennett]], Professor of the History of Science at Oxford, former Director of the [[History of Science Museum, Oxford]] * [[:de:Hermann Blaschko|Hermann Blaschko]], Reader in Biochemical Pharmacology at Oxford * [[Brian Catling]], Professor of Fine Art at the [[Ruskin School of Art]] * Rupert Cecil, World War II bomber pilot ([[Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom)|DFC and Bar]]), scientific intelligence officer, and first Dean and Vice Principal of Linacre College<ref>{{cite news |title=Wing Commander Rupert Cecil |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1466931/Wing-Commander-Rupert-Cecil.html |newspaper=The Telegraph|location=London |date= 14 July 2004|access-date=21 March 2012}}</ref> * [[Chris Dobson]], chemist and structural biologist, and Master of [[St John's College, Cambridge]] * [[Ursula Dronke]], former Vigfússon Reader in Old Norse at Oxford * [[Terry Eagleton]], literary critic and theorist, Distinguished Professor of English Literature at [[Lancaster University]] * [[Margaret Gowing]], holder of the first chair in the History of Science at Oxford * [[Rom Harré]], former Director of the [[Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science]] at the [[London School of Economics]] * Sir [[John Hicks]], winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Economics]] * [[Ursula Hicks]], economist and founder of ''[[The Review of Economic Studies]]'' * [[Schuyler Jones]], anthropologist and Director of the [[Pitt Rivers Museum]] * Sir [[Paul Nurse]], Nobel Prize–winning biochemist, former President of the [[Royal Society]], Chancellor of the [[University of Bristol]] * [[Michael Stumpf]], Professor of Theoretical Systems Biology at [[Imperial College]] * [[Henri Tajfel]], former Chair of Social Psychology at the [[University of Bristol]] * [[M J Whelan|Michael J. Whelan]], Professor in the Department of Materials at Oxford, and recipient of multiple awards for work in crystallography and microscopy including the [[Hughes Medal]], the C.V. Boys Prize, and the Gjønnes Medal {{div col end}} === Honorary Fellows === * [[David Hope, Baron Hope of Thornes]] * [[Malala Yousafzai|Malala Yousafazai]], youngest individual to win the Nobel Peace Prize and advocate for women's education<ref>{{Cite web |last=Moussavi |first=Henna |date=2023-05-05 |title=Malala Yousafzai awarded honorary fellowship at Linacre College |url=https://cherwell.org/2023/05/05/malala-receives-honorary-linacre-fellowship/ |access-date=2023-05-11 |website=Cherwell |language=en-GB}}</ref> * [[Obert C. Tanner]] * [[Geoffrey Thomas (academic)|Geoffrey Thomas]] === Principals === * 1962–1988: [[John Bamborough]], founding principal * 1988–1996: Sir [[Bryan Cartledge]] * 1996–2010: [[Paul Slack]] * 2010–present: [[Nick Brown (academic)|Nick Brown]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.plants.ox.ac.uk/plants/staff/NickBrown.aspx|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150112211132/http://www.plants.ox.ac.uk/plants/staff/NickBrown.aspx|url-status=dead|title=Dr Nick Brown|archivedate=12 January 2015}}</ref>
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