List of Oxfordian theory supporters

This is a list of supporters of the Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship, which was first promulgated in 1920.

• Percy Allen — journalist, theatre historian^[1]
• Mark Anderson — journalist, researcher, author, astrophysicist^[2]
• Charles Wisner Barrell — researcher, author^[3]
• Charles Beauclerk, Earl of Burford — writer
• Charles Sidney Beauclerk — Jesuit priest^[4]
• Michael Delahoyde — professor of English, Washington State University ^[5]
• Louis P. Bénézet — American school reformer^[6]
• Harry Blackmun — U.S. Supreme Court Justice^[7]
• Marjorie Bowen — British historian, biographer, novelist^[8]
• Gelett Burgess — author, critic, poet, artist^[9]
• John Byrne — British-born Canadian-American comic book artist and writer^[10]
• Michael Chiklis — actor^[11]
• Montagu William Douglas — soldier and colonial administrator.^[12]
• Ren Draya — professor of English & communications, Blackburn College ^[13]
• Roland Emmerich — film director, screenwriter, producer; producer and director of Anonymous (2011)^[14]
• William Farina — biographer, nonfiction researcher and author, essayist^[15]
• Bert Fields — lawyer and writer
• Sigmund Freud — pioneer of psychoanalysis^[16]
• Michael H. Hart — astrophysicist, author of The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History^[17]
• Warren Hope — academic, university English professor, author^[18]
• Christmas Humphreys — British barrister, judge, author, Buddhist scholar^[19]
• Jeremy Irons — actor^[20]
• Sir Derek Jacobi — Shakespearean actor, director^[21][22]
• Richard Kennedy — American children's book writer
• Felicia Hardison Londré — curators’ professor of theatre at the University of Missouri-Kansas City ^[23]
• Lynne Kositsky — Canadian author of poetry and young adult historical fiction
• J. Thomas Looney — British school teacher, researcher, author^[24]
• David McCullough — historian, author, biographer^[25]
• Paul Nitze — longtime high-ranking U.S. government official and Presidential advisor, ambassador^[26][27]
• Charlton Greenwood Ogburn — lawyer
• Charlton Ogburn — investigative journalist, researcher, author^[28]
• John Orloff — screenwriter^[29]
• Sir Roger Penrose — mathematician, Nobel Laureate in Physics^[30]
• Anne Pluto — professor of literature and theatre, Lesley University ^[31]
• Enoch Powell - politician ^[32]
• Keanu Reeves - actor^[33]
• Gerald Henry Rendall — professor of Greek^[34]
• Anne Rice — author
• Mark Rylance — Shakespearean actor and director, director of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre 1995–2005^[35]
• Don Rubin — professor emeritus of theatre at York University in Toronto; Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship vice president
• Antonin Scalia — U.S. Supreme Court Justice^[7]
• Joseph Sobran — journalist, author, researcher^[36]
• John Paul Stevens — U.S. Supreme Court Justice^[7]
• Roger Stritmatter — professor of humanities at Coppin State University and the general editor of Brief Chronicles^[37]
• Peter A. Sturrock — British astrophysicist, Stanford University professor of applied physics, Arctowski Medalist, author of AKA Shakespeare: A Scientific Approach to the Authorship Question^[38]
• Patrick Walker (40 Watt Sun) — musician, songwriter.
• Bernard Mordaunt Ward — military officer, author
• Alexander Waugh — writer
• Douglas Wilson - CREC pastor, theologian, social critic ^[39]
• Daniel L. Wright — Professor of English, Concordia University, Portland; Director of the Shakespeare Authorship Research Centre ^[40]
• Michael York — actor^[35]