Famous Exeter Alumni

Exeter college, in all its years, has produced many alumni that have excelled in their own areas, all of these notable men and women have left their own, personal mark in history, but here, we will only mention a few.

J.R.R Tolkien (1862-1973) perhaps one of the most notable of exeter alumni, Tolkien was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university, most famous for writing The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit & The Silmarillion which all have a connected body of tales, poems, fictional histories, invented languages, and literary essays about a fantasy word called Arda, and Middle Earth within it.

When we visited the college we actually saw a sculpture of Mr. Tolkien in the chapel, where it stands today as a monument to this great writer. This sculpture was built by his daughter-in-law in 1977.

Franklin Pierce (1804-1869) was the 14th President of the United States, also entered Exeter College.He was a democrat and he took part in the Mexican-American war (1846- 1848) and then became a brigadier general.
He died in New Hampshire, in 1869 at 64 years old.

Samuel Babson Fuld (1981- ) is another notable Oxonian, and he is an American baseball outfielder with the Tampa Bay Rays of MLB
This incredible man has overcome his diabetes by double batting .600 at the age of 10, ranking 19th in the country at the time.
Since then he has become a great player and has won numerous awards for his excellent games.