The university's oldest student was Gertrud Seidmann, who was awarded a Certificate of Graduate Attainment aged 91. The university claims forty-seven Nobel Laureates and three Fields Medallists. The university lays claim to twelve saints, ten blesseds, an antipope, eighteen cardinals, and eighty-nine archbishops (including thirty-two of Canterbury and twenty-two of York). As of July 2019 there are seven Oxonians in the Cabinet of the United Kingdom and two in the Shadow Cabinet. Oxonians (a term for members, students or alumni of the university derived from its Latin name, Academia Oxoniensis) have included two British kings and at least twelve monarchs of ten other sovereign states, twenty-eight British prime ministers, and thirty-five presidents and prime ministers of nineteen other countries. In particular, many theologians, lawyers, and sociologists work in areas that might be thought to be encompassed by philosophy. Some academic disciplines are more difficult to define than others. Hence Jeffrey Archer ( Brasenose), a novelist, is listed as a life peer Imran Khan ( Keble), a former captain of the Pakistani cricket team, is listed as a Pakistani politician. These appear only in the category with which it is felt they are most often associated, or in which they have been more recently involved. Many of the university's alumni/ae, or old members, as they are more traditionally known, have attained a level of distinction in more than one field. The list has been divided into categories indicating the field of activity in which people have become well known. This page does not include people whose only connection with the university consists in the award of an honorary degree or an honorary fellowship. The vast majority were students at the university, although they did not necessarily take a degree others have held fellowships at one of the university's colleges many fall into both categories. This page serves as a central navigational point for lists of more than 2,350 members of the University of Oxford, divided into relevant groupings for ease of use.
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