The main source of information is the relevant edition of The Balliol College Register which lists Fellows and students by year of matriculation, thus providing evidence of existence, dates and some biographical information.
Other sources of information include the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and Who's Who and Who was Who both published by Oxford University Press.
The alumni are grouped into categories corresponding to fields of work and are arranged chronologically.
The lists of notable alumni consists almost entirely of men, because women were admitted to the college only from 1979.
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