The Oxford DNB's 10,000 contributors were overseen by an expert editorial team in Oxford led by Professors H.C.G. Matthew and Sir Brian Harrison; the current editor is Dr Lawrence Goldman of St Peter's College, Oxford. Fourteen external consultant editors and 400 associate editors recommended new subjects and peer reviewed completed work for academic quality.
Our list of contributors includes some of the finest scholars who bring a lifetime's study, and sometimes personal acquaintance, to some of the most influential figures in history. Nowhere but the Oxford DNB will you find:
| Paul Addison on Winston Churchill |
| Rosemary Ashton on George Eliot |
| Frank Barlow on Thomas Becket |
| G. W. S. Barrow on Robert Bruce |
| Michael Billington on Laurence Olivier |
| R. Angus Buchanan on Isambard Kingdom Brunel |
| Patrick Collinson on Elizabeth I |
| Adrian Desmond, Janet Browne and James Moore on Charles Darwin |
| Marianne Elliott on Wolfe Tone |
| R. F. Foster on W. B. Yeats |
| Lyndall Gordon on Virginia Woolf |
| Douglas Gray on Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Jose Harris on John Stuart Mill |
| Eric Hobsbawm on Karl Marx |
| J. C. Holt on Robin Hood |
| Anne Hudson and Anthony Kenny on John Wyclif |
| Roy Jenkins on Harold Wilson |
| Michael Kennedy on Edward Elgar |
| Fiona MacCarthy on William Morris |
| Diarmaid MacCulloch on Thomas Cranmer |
| Noel Malcolm on Thomas Hobbes |
| Ray Monk on Bertrand Russell |
| Kenneth O. Morgan on David Lloyd George |
| John Morrill on Oliver Cromwell |
| Martin Postle on Joshua Reynolds |
| Christopher Ricks on Alfred Tennyson |
| N. A. M. Rodger on Horatio Nelson |
| Barbara Taylor on Mary Wollstonecraft |
| Janet Todd on Aphra Behn |
| Richard S. Westfall on Isaac Newton |
| T. P. Wiseman on Julius Caesar |
| Patrick Wormald on Alfred |
