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=== Government and politics === <gallery class="center"> File:Clement Attlee.png|[[Clement Attlee]], former [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] File:Sir W.H. Beveridge, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left.jpg|[[William Beveridge]], economist File:Harold Wilson (1967).jpg|[[Harold Wilson]], former [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] File:EWhitehead.jpg|[[Edgar Whitehead]], former [[Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia]] File:Portrait of Count Felix Sumarokov-Elston.jpg|[[Felix Yusupov]], Russian aristocrat File:John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon by Sir Thomas Lawrence.jpg|[[John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon]], former [[Lord Chancellor]] File:Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood by Sir William Orpen.jpg|[[Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood|The Viscount Cecil of Chelwood]], politician and recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] File:Bill Clinton.jpg|[[Bill Clinton]], former [[President of the United States of America]] ''(did not graduate)'' File:Robert Reich.jpg|[[Robert Reich]], economic advisor, former [[United States Secretary of Labor|U.S. Secretary of Labor]], and author File:Bernard W. Rogers.jpg|[[Bernard W. Rogers]], former [[Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army]] File:WilliamWeld.jpg|[[William Weld]], former [[Governor of Massachusetts]] and U.S. presidential candidate File:Hawke Bob BANNER.jpg|[[Bob Hawke]], former [[Prime Minister of Australia]] File:Philip Hammond, Secretary of State for Defence.jpg|[[Philip Hammond]], former [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]] File:Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch Official Portrait.jpg|[[Neil Gorsuch]], [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]] File:Festus Mogae 2009-06-23.jpg|[[Festus Mogae]], 3rd [[President of Botswana]] File:Chelsea Clinton (cropped).jpg|[[Chelsea Clinton]], lead at the [[Clinton Foundation]] and [[Clinton Foundation|Clinton Global Initiative]], daughter of [[Bill Clinton|Bill]] and [[Hillary Clinton]] </gallery> Many influential politicians are associated with the college, including the social reformer and author of the Beveridge Report [[William Beveridge]] (who was a master of University College) and two UK Prime Ministers: [[Clement Attlee]] and [[Harold Wilson]] (a Univ [[fellow]]). US President [[Bill Clinton]] (though he did not graduate) and Prime Minister of Australia, [[Bob Hawke]] were also students. Other heads of state and government to have attended Univ include [[Edgar Whitehead]] (Rhodesia), [[Kofi Abrefa Busia]] (Ghana), and [[Festus Mogae]] (Botswana). [[Nobel Peace Prize]] Laureate [[Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood|Robert Cecil]] studied law at the college, similarly [[US Supreme Court|U.S. Supreme Court]] Associate Justice [[Neil Gorsuch]] received a DPhil in law as a [[Marshall Scholar]],<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=http://www.ca10.uscourts.gov/judges/judge-neil-m-gorsuch|title=Judge Neil M. Gorsuch|website=Administrative Office of the United States Courts|publisher=The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit|access-date=31 January 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202050829/http://www.ca10.uscourts.gov/judges/judge-neil-m-gorsuch|archive-date=2 February 2017}}</ref> while former [[NATO]] Supreme Allied Commander [[Bernard W. Rogers]] read [[Philosophy, Politics and Economics]] as a [[Rhodes Scholarship|Rhodes Scholar]], and former [[Court of Justice of the European Communities]] Judge Sir [[David Edward]] read [[Classics]].<ref name="Famous Univites">[https://www.univ.ox.ac.uk/content/famous-univites/ Famous Univites].</ref>
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