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Rhodes Scholars

The Rhodes Scholarships, the oldest international fellowships, were initiated after the death of Cecil Rhodes in 1902, and bring outstanding students from many countries around the world to the University of Oxford. The first American Scholars were elected in 1904.


  • Wayne E. Groves, 1965
  • Davis B. Bobrow, 1956
  • C. Keith Conners, 1953
  • Francis D. Logan, 1952
  • George Steiner, 1950
  • James Bruce Engle, 1947
  • Norman Davidson, 1937
  • Robert Higgins Ebert, 1936
  • Charles A. Bane, 1935
  • John Justin Mcdonough, 1928
  • William Nash, 1928
  • Ralph Ernest Huston, 1923
  • Harold Delmar Natestad, 1917
  • Robert Valentine Merrill, 1913
  • Edwin Powell Hubble, 1910
  • Robert Llewellyn Henry, 1904