- An unbroken tradition of learning since 1458
- Engaging environment for study and friends
- Welcoming students from all backgrounds
- Building on excellence
- A warm community
- Academic and athletic experiences
- A community of enquiry and discovery
- An environment for growth
- Nurturing arts and culture
- Joseph Addison
- Lord Richard Atkin
- Julian Barnes, writer
- John Betjeman, poet
- Caroline Bird, writer
- Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court (external links)
- Prince Chichibu of Japan
- General Wesley Clark
- Lord Alfred Denning
- Lord Alfred “Bosie” Douglas
- Sir John Eccles 1963 Nobel Laureate in Medicine
- King Edward VIII
- Malcolm Fraser, Former Prime Minister of Australia
- Professor Howard (later Lord) Florey 1945 Nobel Laureate in Medicine
- Martha Lane Fox, Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho, businesswoman & philanthropist
- Alan Garner, writer
- Edward Gibbon (external link)
- Omar Hassan (external link)
- Seamus Heaney 1995 Nobel Laureate in Literature (external link)
- Rt. Hon. William Hague MP, former Leader of the Conservative Party
- Dido Harding, Baroness Harding of Winscombe, businesswoman
- Robert Hardy, actor
- Ian Hislop, journalist
- Alan Hollinghurst, writer
- Rt. Hon. The Lord Keith of Kinkel GBE PC, Law Lord
- Nicholas Kristof, Pullitzer prize winner
- T. E. Lawrence of Arabia
- C.S. Lewis (external link)
- Terrence Malick, Film Director
- Sir Peter Medawar 1960 Nobel Laureate in Medicine
- Katie Mitchell, director
- Dudley Moore
- George Osborne, politician
- Cardinal Reginald Pole
- Elsa Punset Bannel, writer
- Dan Quillen, Mathematician, 1978 Fields Medalist
- Sir Robert Robinson 1947 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
- Dr Erwin Schrödinger 1933 Nobel Laureate in Physics
- Sir Charles Sherrington 1932 Nobel Laureate in Medicine
- David Souter, Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court (external links)
- John Turner, former Prime Minister of Canada
- King Jigme Wangchuck of Bhutan
- Oscar Wilde (external link)
- Cardinal Thomas Wolsey