Articles from Wikipedia's "Did You Know" archives about the university and people associated with it:
- ... that it was the British geologist Joseph Prestwich (bust pictured) who confirmed the findings of Boucher de Perthes?
- ... that a Regius Professor of Civil Law was elected to parliament, gaoled, exiled, re-elected, kidnapped, put in the Tower, tortured, hanged, drawn and quartered, then beatified?
- ... that Mike Woodin was the Principal Speaker of the Green Party of England and Wales for six years and a city councillor for Oxford for 10 years?
- ... that A.W. Lawrence, the former Professor of Classical Archaeology at Cambridge University, was the brother of "Lawrence of Arabia"?
- ... that the winners of the university's Gaisford Prize for Greek Verse include the fictional Duke of Dorset in Max Beerbohm's 1911 novel Zuleika Dobson?