People from Headington

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was an English writer and philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954–55).

Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson is an English actress. In the 2010s, she was ranked among the world's highest-paid actresses by Forbes and Vanity Fair, and was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2015.

British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)

Russo-British-Latvian Jewish social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas (1909–1997)

English poet (1926-2001)

British cryptographer (1884-1943)

cricketer (born 1958)