Ten individuals associated with Magdalen have been awarded Nobel prizes, eight of them for their work in science and medicine, one for literature, and one for economics.
The ten Magdalen Nobel Laureates are:
- Sir Charles Sherrington – 1932 – Medicine
- Dr Erwin Schrödinger – 1933 – Physics
- Professor Howard (later Lord) Florey – 1945 – Medicine
- Sir Robert Robinson – 1947 – Chemistry
- Sir Peter Medawar – 1960 – Medicine
- Sir John Eccles – 1963 – Medicine
- Professor Seamus Heaney – 1995 – Literature
- Professor A. Michael Spence – 2001 – Economics
- Professor Sir Anthony Leggett – 2003 – Physics
- Professor Sir Peter Ratcliffe – 2019 – Medicine
