Editing University Challenge (section)

==Notable contestants==
[[File:University Challenge - Pro-Celebrity edition (1992).jpg|thumb|right|Pro-Celebrity edition, 1992.]]
Notable contestants in the regular student competition. Special Celebrity Christmas editions, where all competitors are distinguished, are excluded.''

===Entertainers===
*[[Stephen Fry]] – [[Queens' College, Cambridge]], 1980
*[[Clive James]] – [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]], 1968<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/dec/10/clive-james-16-my-dress-sense-baroque-glory|title=Clive James: 'At 16, my dress sense was in the first full flower of its baroque glory'|first=Clive|last=James|date=10 December 2016|access-date=12 December 2016|newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref>
*[[Miriam Margolyes]] – [[Newnham College, Cambridge]], 1963<ref name='brandreth'>{{cite book|title=Have You Eaten Grandma?|first=Gyles|last=Brandreth|page=135|publisher=Penguin|date=2018|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MZxnDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT135|access-date=31 March 2019|isbn=978-0241352656|author-link=Gyles Brandreth}}</ref>
*[[John Sessions]] – reserve for [[Bangor University|UCNW Bangor]], 1973
*[[June Tabor]] – [[St Hugh's College, Oxford]], 1968
*[[The Wizard of New Zealand]] (Ian Brackenbury Channell) – [[University of Leeds]], 1963<ref>{{youTube|2oZk6DWlw8I|Granada TV's "University Challenge" 1962/3}}</ref>

===Authors===
*[[Sebastian Faulks]] – [[Emmanuel College, Cambridge]], 1972
*[[Julian Fellowes]] – [[Magdalene College, Cambridge]], 1969
*[[David Starkey]] – [[Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge]]

===Politicians===
*[[Aaron Bell (politician)|Aaron Bell]] – [[St John's College, Oxford]], 2001
*[[Tim Boswell]] – [[New College, Oxford]]
*[[Damian Collins]] – [[St Benet's Hall, Oxford]], 1995
*[[Kwasi Kwarteng]] – [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], 1995
*[[David Lidington]] – [[Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge]], 1978
*[[David Mellor]] – [[Christ's College, Cambridge]]
*[[Malcolm Rifkind]] – [[University of Edinburgh]], 1967
*[[Mary Robinson]] – [[Trinity College Dublin]], 1966

===Journalists===
*[[David Aaronovitch]] – [[Victoria University of Manchester]], 1975
*[[John Authers]] – [[University College, Oxford]], 1987
*[[Christopher Hitchens]] – [[Balliol College, Oxford]], 1968<ref>Blake Morrison [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/may/29/hitch-22-christopher-hitchens-review I contain multitudes], [[The Guardian]], 29 May 2010</ref>
*[[Charles Moore (journalist)|Charles Moore]] – [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], 1978
*[[John Simpson (journalist)|John Simpson]] – [[Magdalene College, Cambridge]], 1964
*[[Josh Spero]] – [[Magdalen College, Oxford]], 2004

===Others===
*[[Brandon Blackwell]] (Quizzer / TV personality) – [[Imperial College London]], 2020
*[[Daisy Christodoulou]] (Teacher / Education campaigner) – [[University of Warwick]], 2007
*[[Patrick Finglass]] (Academic) – [[St John's College, Oxford]], 2001
*[[Alex Guttenplan]] (Academic) – [[Emmanuel College, Cambridge]], 2010
*[[Sarah Healey]] (Civil Servant) – [[Magdalen College, Oxford]], 1998
*[[Mark Labbett]] (Quizzer / TV personality) – [[University of Glamorgan]], 1997<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2015-11-05/meet-the-chasers-mark-labbett|title=Meet the Chasers: Mark Labbett|publisher=radiotimes.com|access-date=12 December 2016}}</ref>
*[[Eric Monkman]] (Academic / TV presenter) – [[Wolfson College, Cambridge]], 2017
*[[Mark Pallen]] (Academic) – [[Imperial College London]], 1996
*[[Jenny Ryan]] (Quizzer / TV personality) – [[University of Leeds]], 2003
*[[Bobby Seagull]] (Teacher / TV presenter) – [[Emmanuel College, Cambridge]], 2017
*[[Dorjana Širola]] (Quizzer) – [[Somerville College, Oxford]], 2002
*[[Michael Taylor (historian)|Michael Taylor]] (Historian) – [[Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge]], 2015
*[[Gail Trimble]] (Academic) – [[Corpus Christi College, Oxford]], 2009