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== Notable alumni == {{Main|List of University of Oxford people|List of Nobel laureates affiliated with the University of Oxford}} Throughout its history, a sizeable number of Oxford alumni, known as Oxonians, have become notable in many varied fields, both academic and otherwise. More than 70 Nobel prize-winners have studied or taught at Oxford, with prizes won in all six categories.<ref name="Famous">{{cite web|url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/about/oxford-people/famous-oxonians|title=Famous Oxonians|publisher=University of Oxford|date=30 October 2007|access-date=13 June 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140607051053/http://www.ox.ac.uk/about/oxford-people/famous-oxonians|archive-date=7 June 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> More information on notable members of the university can be found in the [[Colleges of the University of Oxford|individual college]] articles. An individual may be associated with two or more colleges, as an undergraduate, postgraduate and/or member of staff. {{multiple image | total_width = 400 | align = right | direction = horizontal | header = Notable alumni | image1 = Oscar Wilde portrait (cropped).jpg | caption1 = [[Oscar Wilde]], [[Magdalen College, Oxford|Magdalen College]] | image2 = Tim Berners-Lee CP 2 head crop.jpg | caption2 = [[Tim Berners-Lee]], [[The Queen's College, Oxford|The Queen's College]] | image3 = Bill Clinton.jpg | caption3 = [[Bill Clinton]], [[University College, Oxford|University College]] }} Notable alumni include three Fields Medallists, two British kings and at least fifteen monarchs of eleven other sovereign states (including five reigning monarchs), twenty-eight British prime ministers, and thirty-five presidents and prime ministers of nineteen other countries. As of July 2019 there are seven Oxonians in the Cabinet of the United Kingdom and two in the Shadow Cabinet. The university has produced 291 Members of Parliament (excluding MPs who were subsequently peers), eleven Members of the European Parliament (excluding MEPs also serving at Westminster), twelve Lord Chancellors, nine Lord Chief Justices and twenty-two law lords; ten US Senators, ten US Representatives (including a Speaker of the House), three state governors, and four associate justices of the US Supreme Court; as well as six puisne justices of the Supreme Court of Canada and a chief justice of the now defunct Federal Court of Canada.
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