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Balliol College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford. Founded in 1263 by John I de Balliol, it has a claim to be the oldest college in Oxford and the English-speaking world.Members of Balliol have been awarded 13 Nobel Prizes with 12 Laureates (the most of any Oxford college). Balliol has educated four Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom (the second highest of any Oxford college), Harald V of Norway, Empress Masako of Japan, President Richard von Weizsäcker of Germany, and Seretse Khama of Botswana. Balliol alumni also include the astronomer James Bradley, legal figures Lord Bingham and John Marshall Harlan II, geneticist Baruch Samuel Blumberg, writers Robert Southey, Gerard Hopkins, Matthew Arnold, Graham Greene and Algernon Swinburne, historians R. H. Tawney, Christopher Hill and James H. Billington and philosopher Derek Parfit. Among the most famous students are economist Adam Smith, the Guardian of the Baháʼí Faith Shoghi Effendi, the biologist Julian Huxley and his brother Aldous Huxley, the author of Brave New World. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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Authors educated at Balliol College 141
- J. Horace Round
- Adam Smith
- Chris Patten
- Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
- Olaf Stapledon
- John Evelyn
- Bernard Williams
- Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
- Nevil Shute
- John Keegan
- Charles Gore
- Aldous Huxley
- Richard Dawkins
- Christopher Hitchens
- Graham Greene
- Harold Macmillan
- John Gribbin
- Michael Sandel
- George Steiner
- Anthony Hope
- Henry Edward Manning
- R. M. Hare
- Amit Chaudhuri
- Raphael Samuel
- John Robert Jones
- Gwyneth Lewis
- Lewis Campbell
- Christopher Ricks
- Peter Hayes
- Vivian Hunter Galbraith
- John Burnet
- Timothy Snyder
- Glen Bowersock
- Beth Shapiro
- Ernest Gellner
- Andrew Lang
- John Pope-Hennessy
- Robertson Davies
- Daniel J. Boorstin
- Anthony Powell
- Roger Cohen
- Hilary Saint George Saunders
- Howard Marks
- Nicholas Mosley, 3rd Baron Ravensdale
- Kenneth Dover
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