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The most successful and famous alumni from each Oxford College

Published by Business Insider on Wed, 30 Sep 2015


Oxford is synonymous with excellence in education and leadership.The University counts26 British Prime Ministers, 50 Nobel Prize leaders, and dozens of international heads of stateamong its alumni. Oh, and 120 Olympic medallists studied there.Oxford is made up of 38 colleges, each with its own heritage and tradition.Check out the most successful and famous alumni from each one below.Brasenose College ' David Cameron, British Prime MinisterThe current Prime Minister is a former student at Brasenose, where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics and graduated in 1988.Another illustrious alumnus from that school is William Webb Ellis, the inventor of rugby.William Golding, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983, studied there too.Christ Church College ' Albert Einstein, Nobel Prize-winning physicistAlbert Einstein was briefly a student at Christ Church College in the 1930s, before emigrating to the US.His theory of relativity revolutionized modern physics and he was named Person of the Century by Time Magazine.Christ Church is probably the most prestigious college when it comes to alumni: 13 British prime ministers and King Edward VI of England studied there.It is also the college of Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the Olympic rowing twins associated with the founding on Facebook.St John's College ' Tony Blair, former British Prime MinisterBlair, UK prime minister from 1997 to 2007, is a graduate from St John's, where he read law.He is currently the UN representative for the Middle East as well as an advisor to many foreign governments.Another alumnus is Lester Pearson, Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 and a former prime minister of Canada.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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