They also include:
- The first and only woman in the UK to win a Nobel prize for science
- Generations of distinguished novelists
- The first woman to be an ordained minister
- Three of the twentieth century’s leading philosophers
- The first doctor to enter Belsen concentration camp at the end of the Second World War
- The first Ghanaian man to be President of the Oxford Union
- Winners of innumerable prizes for academic distinctions
and the list goes on. Scroll through the images below to access individual stories.