Oxfordshire Blue Plaques erected in the city and county

Please click on names to read biographical details:

• ABBOTT, MONT (1902 – 1989) carter, shepherd, storyteller, at Biddy's Bottom, Fulwell, Enstone.
• ALDER, JOHN (c.1712-1780), lottery winner and public benefactor, at 39 Stert Street, formerly the Mitre Inn
• BETJEMAN, SIR JOHN (1906-1984), poet, writer and broadcaster, at Garrards Farmhouse, Uffington
• BURDEN, JANE (Mrs William Morris) 1839-1914, Pre-Raphaelite Muse, at St Helen's Passage, Oxford
• CARTER, WILLIAM (1852-1920), founder of Carterton, at Carterton Town Hall
• CHAVASSE, CAPTAIN NOEL GODFREY (1884-1917) V.C. and Bar, at Magdalen College School
• COMBE, THOMAS (1796-1872) and MARTHA (1806-1893), Founders of St Barnabas, philanthropists and patrons of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, at St Barnabas in Jericho, Oxford
• COOPER, SARAH JANE (1848-1932), marmalade maker, at 83 High Street, Oxford
• CRIPPS, SIR STAFFORD (1889 – 1952) Statesman and Benefactor, at the Village Centre, Filkins.
• WALLS, CUTTESLOWE (1934 - 1959), at 34 Aldrich Road, Oxford
• EVANS, DANIEL (1769-1846) and JOSHUA SYMMEVANS (1809-1887) Oxford builders, at 34 St Giles’, Oxford
• GAINSBOROUGH, HUMPHREY (1718-1776), innovative engineer, at Christ Church United Reformed Church, Reading Road, Henley-on-Thames
• GIRDLESTONE, PROFESSOR GATHORNE ROBERT (“GRG”) 1881 - 1950, pioneering orthopaedic surgeon, at the Nuffield Staff Accommodation, 72-74 Old Road, Headington
• JACKSON-COLE, CECIL (1901–1979), philanthropist and founding member of Oxfam Committee, at 17 Broad Street, Oxford
• LASCELLES, FRANK (1875-1934), Pageant Master, at the Manor House, Sibford Gower, near Banbury
• MORRIS, WILLIAM , VISCOUNT NUFFIELD (1877-1963), carmaker and philanthropist, at 16 James Street, Cowley, Oxford
• MRI (MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING) SCANNER (1980) at the King's Centre, Osney Mead.
• MURRAY, SIR JAMES (1837-1915), lexicographer and Editor of the OED, at 78 Banbury Road, Oxford
• NASH , PAUL (1889 – 1946) artist, at 106 Banbury Road, Oxford, Enstone.
• PATER, WALTER (1838-1894), author and scholar, at 2 Bradmore Road, Oxford, CLARA PATER (1841-1910), pioneer of women’s education, at 2 Bradmore Road, Oxford
• POTTS,WILLIAM (1868-1949), author and editor of the Banbury Guardian, at 16 Parson Street, Banbury
• PYM, BARBARA (1913-1980), novelist, at Barn Cottage, High Street, Finstock
• RIPON HALL, former Liberal Anglican Theological College (1933-1975), at Foxcombe Hall, Boar’s Hill
• SAMUELSON, SIR BERNHARD (1820-1905), industrialist and educationist, at Banbury Library (formerly The Mechanics Institute), Banbury
• SIMON, SIR FRANCIS (1893-1956), low temperature physicist and philanthropist, at 10 Belbroughton Road, Oxford
• SKENE, FELICIA (1821-1899), prison reformer and friend of the poor, at 34 St Michael’s Street, Oxford
• STAR INN/OXFORDSHIRE YEOMANRY (1794), at 34 Cornmarket Street (Clarendon Centre), Oxford
• STONE, REVD EDWARD (1702-1768), discoverer of the active ingredient in aspirin, at Hitchman Brewery, West Street, Chipping Norton
• SUB-FOUR MINUTE MILE (1954), at Oxford University Sports Ground, Iffley Road, Oxford
• TOLKIEN, JOHN RONALD REUEL (1892-1973), author and scholar, at 20 Northmoor Road, Oxford

• TULL, JETHRO (1674-1741), agriculturist and inventor of the seed drill, at 19A The Street, Crowmarsh Gifford
• TURNER, WILLIAM "OF OXFORD"(1789-1862), artist, at 16 St John Street, Oxford

• WESTFIELD HOUSE, refuge for Basque children 1937-1939, at Aston, near Bampton