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This is a list of fictional people associated with the University of Oxford. Some characters attended fictional colleges; others attended genuine colleges at the university.

List

• Sir Humphrey Appleby GCB (Baillie, perhaps Balliol College) Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister
• Stephen Barley The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
• Lyra Belacqua (the fictional Jordan) His Dark Materials
• Edmund Bertram Mansfield Park
• Anthony Blanche Brideshead Revisited
• James Bond Tomorrow Never Dies
• Lord Brideshead Brideshead Revisited
• Tom Brown (St Ambrose's, probably based on Oriel) Tom Brown at Oxford
• Prince Bumpo Doctor Dolittle
• 'Chacko' The God of Small Things
• The Clerk of Oxenford The Canterbury Tales
• Simon Cormack The Negotiator
• Frasier Crane Frasier
• Thomas Crown The Thomas Crown Affair
• Dick Diver (Rhodes Scholar) Tender Is the Night
• Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm
• Robert Elsmere by Mrs Humphry Ward
• Kivrin Engle Doomsday Book
• Gervase Fen (the fictional St Christopher's) by Edmund Crispin
• Edward Ferrars Sense and Sensibility
• Lord Sebastian Flyte (Christ Church) Brideshead Revisited
• Charles Gardner (the fictional St Sebastian's) Hut 33
• Jay Gatsby The Great Gatsby
• Rupert Giles Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Patrick Grant (the fictional St Mark's) by Margaret Yorke
• Verdant Green (the fictional Brazenface) The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green
• Rev. Mr. Hale (the fictional Plymouth, based on Exeter College) North and South
• Basil Hallward The Picture of Dorian Gray
• Bill Haydon by John le Carré
• Captain Hook (Balliol) Peter Pan
• Master Keaton and his wife (Somerville)
• John Kemp Jill
• Vanessa Kensington Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
• Chatter Lal Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
• Archie Leach A Fish Called Wanda
• Canon Leigh (Christ Church) Towers in the Mist by Elizabeth Goudge
• Alwin Lowdham The Notion Club Papers
• DI Thomas Lynley ^[1] The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
• Helen Magnus Sanctuary
• Pincher Martin (Christ Church)
• Mary, Marie, Margaret and Myfanwy (the fictional St Bride's College (Somerville)) by Philip Larkin
• Ranald McKechnie (a fictional college with a Surrey Quad) A Staircase in Surrey
• Jenny Mellor (Merton College) An Education
• Colonel Sebastian Moran The Adventure of the Empty House
• Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse (St John's) Colin Dexter's Morse novels and TV adaptations
• Fox Mulder The X-Files
• Nikki (Wadham) The Incandescent by Emily Tesh
• Duncan Patullo (a fictional college with a Surrey Quad) A Staircase in Surrey
• Paul The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
• Paul Pennyfeather (the fictional Scone College) Decline and Fall
• Charles Reding (the fictional St Saviour's College) Loss and Gain
• Rumpole of the Bailey (Keble or the fictional St Joseph's)
• Mary Russell by Laurie R. King
• Charles Ryder Brideshead Revisited
• Connie Sachs by John le Carré
• Donna Sheridan (New College) Mamma Mia!
• George Smiley (Lincoln) by John le Carré
• Roderick Spode The Code of the Woosters
• Gwen Stacy (Somerville) in The Amazing Spider-Man 2
• Prince Nasir al-Subaai and Prince Meshal al-Subaai Syriana
• Connie Tate The West Wing TV series
• Sir Leigh Teabing The Da Vinci Code
• Paul Temple by Francis Durbridge
• Nigel Thornberry The Wild Thornberrys
• Henry Tilney Northanger Abbey
• Professor Timberlake (J. R. R. Tolkien) (a fictional college with a Surrey Quad) A Staircase in Surrey
• Harriet Vane (the fictional Shrewsbury College (Somerville)) by Dorothy L. Sayers
• Sapphire Walden (St. Catherine's) The Incandescent by Emily Tesh
• Will (Christ Church) The Incandescent by Emily Tesh
• Lord Peter Wimsey (Balliol) by Dorothy L. Sayers
• Viscount St George Wimsey (Christ Church) by Dorothy L. Sayers
• Bertie Wooster (Magdalen) by P. G. Wodehouse
• Lord Henry Wotton The Picture of Dorian Gray
• Charles Xavier (Pembroke) X-Men

References

• Hood, Nancy, Literary Oxford. Sutton Publishing Limited, 1999. ISBN   0750921153