University of Oxford

Politics
Political leaders who attended Oxford University

William Gladstone

Aung San Suu Kyi

Benazir Bhutto

Bill Clinton
27 British prime ministers have attended Oxford, including William Gladstone, H. H. Asquith, Clement Attlee, Harold Macmillan, Edward Heath, Harold Wilson, Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair, David Cameron and most recently Theresa May. Of all the post-war prime ministers, only Gordon Brown was educated at a university other than Oxford, while James Callaghan and John Major never attended a university.^[135]
Over 100 Oxford alumni were elected to the House of Commons in 2010.^[135] This includes former Leader of the Opposition, Ed Miliband, and numerous members of the cabinet and shadow cabinet. Additionally, over 140 Oxonians sit in the House of Lords.^[17]
At least 30 other international leaders have been educated at Oxford^[17] This number includes Harald V of Norway,^[136] Abdullah II of Jordan,^[17] five Prime Ministers of Australia (John Gorton, Malcolm Fraser, Bob Hawke, Tony Abbott, and Malcolm Turnbull)^{[137][138][139]} five Prime Ministers of Pakistan (Liaquat Ali Khan, Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Sir Feroz Khan Noon, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, and Benazir Bhutto),^[17] two Prime Ministers of Canada (Lester B. Pearson and John Turner),^[17][140] two Prime Ministers of India (Manmohan Singh and Indira Gandhi (although she did not finish her degree)),^[17][141] S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike (former Prime Minister of Ceylon), Norman Washington Manley of Jamaica,^[142] Eric Williams (Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago), Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (current President of Peru), Abhisit Vejjajiva (former Prime Minister of Thailand) and Bill Clinton (the first President of the United States to have attended Oxford; he attended as a Rhodes Scholar).^[17][143] Arthur Mutambara (Deputy Prime Minister of Zimbabwe), was a Rhodes Scholar in 1991. Seretse Khama, first president of Botswana, spent a year at Balliol College. Festus Mogae (former president of Botswana) was a student at University College. The Burmese democracy activist and Nobel laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi, was a student of St. Hugh's College.^[144] Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, the current reigning Druk Gyalpo (Dragon King) of Bhutan, was a member of St Peter's College.^[145]