The following is a list of notable people associated with Balliol College, primarily alumni and faculty.

Economics

• William Beveridge
• G.D.H. Cole
• Gavyn Davies
• Charles Stanton Devas
• Francis Edgeworth
• John Hicks
• Donald Macdougall
• Walter Rostow
• Adam Smith
• Lester Thurow

History

• James H. Billington
• Daniel J. Boorstin
• Donald Creighton
• Charles Harding Firth
• Christopher Hill
• H.J.R. Murray
• Lewis Namier
• Richard Southern
• R.H. Tawney
• Arnold J. Toynbee
• Patrick Wormald

Law

• Henry Bathurst
• Peter Benenson
• Thomas Bingham
• Charles Bowen
• George Carman
• Joseph Chitty
• John Coleridge
• Thomas Coventry
• Albert Venn Dicey
• Charles Isaac Elton
• John Marshall Harlan II
• Brian Hutton
• Nicholas Katzenbach
• Roger Ludlow
• Mathew Thorpe
• Theodore Tylor

Letters / Arts

• Archibald Alison
• Harold Boulton
• Sydney Carter
• John Churton Collins
• Cyril Connolly
• Robertson Davies
• Dan Davin
• Kenneth Dover
• Robinson Ellis
• John Evelyn
• Henry Watson Fowler
• Graham Greene
• Inglis Gundry
• L. P. Hartley
• Aldous Huxley
• Sidney Lee
• John Gibson Lockhart
• Howard Marks
• Ved Mehta
• David Binning Monro
• John Nichol
• John Beverly Nichols
• Anthony Powell
• Peter Quennell
• Nevil Shute
• George Steiner
• John Addington Symonds
• Laurence Whistler

Mathematics/Science/Technology

• Baruch Blumberg
• E. J. Bowen
• James Bradley
• Richard Dawkins
• Dudd Dudley
• Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
• R. V. Jones
• Anthony James Leggett
• Christopher Longuet-Higgins
• Donald Michie
• Henry John Stephen Smith
• Bill Smythies
• James Stirling
• William Spottiswoode
• J.H.C. Whitehead

Media

• David Astor
• Maurice Gorham
• Christopher Hitchens
• Henry Vincent Hodson
• John Keegan
• Charles Krauthammer
• Raymond Massey
• William Rees-Mogg
• John Schlesinger
• Peter Snow
• Hugo Young

Other

• Leonard Barden
• Gerald Hillman
• Nicola Horlick
• John Aidan Liddell V.C. M.C.
• Geoff Mulgan
• Leif Mills
• William Monson
• Nawab of Pataudi
• Richard Sharp
• John Templeton
• Sir Adrian Carton De Wiart V.C., K.B.E.,C.B.,C.M.G.,D.S.O.

Philosophy

• J. L. Austin
• Roy Bhaskar
• Thomas Hill Green
• William Hamilton
• Peter Geach
• Stuart Hampshire
• R. M. Hare
• C.E.M. Joad
• Anthony Kenny
• John Lucas
• John Macmurray
• Richard Lewis Nettleship
• Derek Parfit
• David George Ritchie
• F.C.S. Schiller
• Bernard Williams
• John Cook Wilson
• Richard Wollheim

Poetry

• Matthew Arnold
• Hilaire Belloc
• Henry Charles Beeching
• Andrew Cecil Bradley
• Charles Stuart Calverley
• Sydney Bertram Carter
• Arthur Hugh Clough
• Edward Dyer
• Julian Grenfell
• Gerard Manley Hopkins
• Andrew Lang
• Francis Turner Palgrave
• F. T. Prince
• Christopher Ricks
• William Young Sellar
• John Campbell Shairp
• Robert Southey (did not graduate)
• Eric Stenbock
• Patrick Shaw-Stewart
• Algernon Swinburne (rusticated 1859)

Politics

Currently in Parliament

• Eric Avebury (Lords)
• Alan Beith
• Yvette Cooper
• Damian Green
• Boris Johnson
• Robert Maclennan (Lords)
• Patrick Mayhew (Lords)
• Chris Patten (Lords)
• Charles Tannock (MEP)
• Stephen Twigg
• William Waldegrave (Lords)
• Tony Wright

UK politicians active post-World War II

• Dingle Foot
• Bryan Gould
• Jo Grimond
• Denis Healey
• Edward Heath
• Roy Jenkins
• Crawford Murray MacLehose
• Harold Macmillan
• Walter Monckton
• Frank Soskice
• Dick Taverne

UK politicians active post-World War I

• Leo Amery
• Herbert Asquith
• George Nathaniel Curzon
• Alfred Milner
• Harold Nicolson
• Herbert Samuel

UK politicians pre-World War I

• Victor Bruce
• Edward Cardwell
• Stafford Northcote
• Arthur Peel
• Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice
• Robert Reid

Politicians/statesmen/monarchs in non-UK countries

• Canada
  • Vincent Massey
• Germany
  • Adam von Trott zu Solz
• Norway
  • Harald V
  • Olav V
• Malaysia
  • Tuanku Jaafar
• Botswana
  • Seretse Khama
• Japan
  • Masako Owada
• USA
  • James Burnham
  • Paul Sarbanes
  • George Stephanopoulos

Religion

• George Abbot
• John Bell
• Lionel Blue
• Israel Brodie
• John Douglas
• Shogi Effendi
• Frederick William Faber
• Austin Farrer
• Cardinal Heard
• Ronald Knox
• Cosmo Lang
• Henry Manning
• John Morton
• Henry Oxenham
• Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
• Archibald Campbell Tait
• Frederick Temple
• William Temple
• John Wycliffe
• Thomas More Suggested but undocumented

Notable applicants who were not matriculated (public domain information)

• Isaiah Berlin
• Daniel Cohn-Bendit
• Tony Blair
• Bill Clinton
• Colin McGinn
• Lytton Strachey
• A. Hyatt Mayor