This is a list of Lincoln College people, including former students, Fellows, Honorary Fellows and Rectors of the college of the University of Oxford. This list is mostly male because women were only admitted to study at Lincoln in 1979.
Former students
Academics
Geoffrey Alderman (born 1944) — historian
Hugh Hale Bellot (1890–1969) — Professor of American History and Vice-Chancellor, University of London (1951–53) David Denison (born 1950) — professor of linguistics Roger H. Martin (born 1943) — American college president Jeremy Waldron (born 1953) — legal and political philosopher O. W. Wolters (1915–2000) — Malayan civil servant and pioneering historian of Southeast Asia Deborah Bowman (born 1968) — medical ethicist
Authors, actors, poets
Naomi Alderman (born 1974) — novelist
Eve Best (born 1971) — actress
William Davenant (1606–1688) — poet and playwright
Sefton Delmer (1904–1970) — journalist and WWII propagandist
James Essinger (born 1957) — writer
Mohammad Ali Jouhar (1878–1931) — Indian Muslim leader, journalist and poet
Osbert Lancaster (1908–1986) — cartoonist, critic and author
John le Carré (1931–2020) — author, pen name of David Cornwell
Emily Mortimer (born 1971) — actress
Craig Mullaney (born c. 1978) — US Army veteran and author
William Eugene Outhwaite (1847–1900) — New Zealand writer, poet, and lawyer
Tom Paulin (born 1949) — poet
Francis Pilkington (1565–1638) — composer
Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) (1904–1991) — writer and cartoonist
Kate Smurthwaite - Comedian
Edward Thomas (1878–1917) — poet
Tom Ward (born 1971) — actor
Broadcasters
Suzannah Lipscomb (born 1978) — historian and television presenter
Rachel Maddow (born 1973) — American television anchor and political analyst
Business
David Clementi (born 1949) — deputy governor of the Bank of England and Chairman of the BBC Sir Rod Eddington (born 1950) — chief executive of British Airways, 2000–2005 Adebayo Ogunlesi (born 1953) — Chairman and Managing Partner of Global Infrastructure Partners Sir Peter Parker (1924–2002) — Chairman of the British Railways Board, 1976–1983 Nicola Shaw (born 1968) — executive director of National Grid
Clerics
Thomas Brinknell
Gregory Cameron (born 1959) — Bishop of St Asaph, Honorary Fellow
Nathaniel Crewe, 3rd Baron Crewe (1633–1721) — Bishop of Oxford, Bishop of Durham, Rector of Lincoln College Robert Sanderson (1587-1663) - Bishop of Lincoln (1660-1663) Graham Tomlin (born 1958) — Bishop of Kensington William Richard Williams (1896–1962) — theologian Colin Winter (1928–1981) — bishop and anti-apartheid activist John Wraw (1959–2017) — Bishop of Bradwell
Military and intelligence
John Adye (born 1939) — former director of GCHQ
David Craig, Baron Craig of Radley (born 1929) — House of Lords crossbencher and former Chief of the Defence Staff William Sholto Douglas (1893–1969) — RAF pilot and WWII military commander John Langdon, Royal Marine officer at D-Day, later became an Anglican priest Jamie Shea (born 1953) — NATO spokesman