This is a list of supporters of the Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship, which was first promulgated in 1920.
Percy Allen — journalist, theatre historian
Mark Anderson — journalist, researcher, author, astrophysicist
Charles Wisner Barrell — researcher, author
Charles Beauclerk, Earl of Burford — writer
Charles Sidney Beauclerk — Jesuit priest
Michael Delahoyde — professor of English, Washington State University
Louis P. Bénézet — American school reformer
Harry Blackmun — U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Marjorie Bowen — British historian, biographer, novelist
Gelett Burgess — author, critic, poet, artist
John Byrne — British-born Canadian-American comic book artist and writer
Michael Chiklis — actor<ref>Kevin Pollak's Chat Show #112 , 2011. Time reference: 01:16:30. Retrieved May 30, 2011.</ref> Montagu William Douglas — soldier and colonial administrator. Ren Draya — professor of English & communications, Blackburn College Roland Emmerich — film director, screenwriter, producer; producer and director of Anonymous (2011) William Farina — biographer, nonfiction researcher and author, essayist Bert Fields — lawyer and writer Sigmund Freud — pioneer of psychoanalysis Michael H. Hart — astrophysicist, author of The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History Warren Hope — academic, university English professor, author Christmas Humphreys — British barrister, judge, author, Buddhist scholar Jeremy Irons — actor Sir Derek Jacobi — Shakespearean actor, directorThorpe, Vanessa. "Who Was Shakespeare? That Is (Still) the Question: Campaign Revives Controversy of Bard's Identity." The Observer. 9 September 2007. Richard Kennedy — American children's book writer Felicia Hardison Londré — curators’ professor of theatre at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Lynne Kositsky — Canadian author of poetry and young adult historical fiction J. Thomas Looney — British school teacher, researcher, author David McCullough — historian, author, biographer Paul Nitze — longtime high-ranking U.S. government official and Presidential advisor, ambassadorNitze argued the Oxfordian case for the 1992 Frontline three-hour video dialogue, Uncovering Shakespeare: An Update, chaired by William F. Buckley. Charlton Greenwood Ogburn — lawyer Charlton Ogburn — investigative journalist, researcher, author John Orloff — screenwriter Sir Roger Penrose — mathematician, Nobel Laureate in Physics Anne Pluto — professor of literature and theatre, Lesley University Enoch Powell - politician Keanu Reeves - actor Gerald Henry Rendall — professor of Greek Anne Rice — author Mark Rylance — Shakespearean actor and director, director of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre 1995–2005 Don Rubin — professor emeritus of theatre at York University in Toronto; Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship vice president Antonin Scalia — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Joseph Sobran — journalist, author, researcher John Paul Stevens — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Roger Stritmatter — professor of humanities at Coppin State University and the general editor of Brief Chronicles Peter A. Sturrock — British astrophysicist, Stanford University professor of applied physics, Arctowski Medalist, author of AKA Shakespeare: A Scientific Approach to the Authorship Question'' Patrick Walker (40 Watt Sun) — musician, songwriter. Bernard Mordaunt Ward — military officer, author Alexander Waugh — writer Douglas Wilson - CREC pastor, theologian, social critic Daniel L. Wright — Professor of English, Concordia University, Portland; Director of the Shakespeare Authorship Research Centre Michael York — actor