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The scholarship committee selects candidates based on a combination of literary and academic achievements, athletic involvement, character traits like truth and courage, and leadership potential, originally assessed on a 200-point scale. In 2018, the criteria were revised to emphasize using one's talents and caring for others.
This is a list of Rhodes Scholars, covering notable people who have received a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford since its 1902 founding, sorted by the year the scholarship started and student surname. All names are verified using the Rhodes Scholar Database. This is not an exhaustive list of all Rhodes Scholars.
Pages in category "Rhodes Scholars" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Pages in category "American Rhodes Scholars" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 560 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Alain LeRoy Locke (September 13, 1885 – June 9, 1954) was an American writer, philosopher, and educator. Distinguished in 1907 as the first African American Rhodes Scholar, Locke became known as the philosophical architect—the acknowledged "Dean"—of the Harlem Renaissance. [2]
B. Kenneth Bailey (lawyer) Peter Hamilton Bailey; Bob Baker (politician) Robert Barbour (cricketer) Thomas Baxter (rugby union) Noel Bayliss; Kim Beazley
Sabeti was selected as Rhodes Scholar and completed a masters in human biology than doctorate work in evolutionary genetics in 2002, [1] at New College, Oxford, earning a M.Sc. and D.Phil. She went on to complete a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) at Harvard Medical School in 2006 summa cum laude , being the third woman to receive this honor since the ...
As an example of the animosity, Morris wrote in North Toward Home that the university did not acknowledge his award of a Rhodes Scholarship with even as much as a letter of congratulation. Although Morris's contribution to the university continues to go unrecognized, in 1997 The Daily Texan began honoring each year's best editorial writer with ...