List of principals of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford

The head of Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, is the principal. The current principal is Professor Stephen Blyth, since October 2022.^[1]

Founding principal Elizabeth Wordsworth in 1928

Name	Birth	Death	Principal between	Notes
Dame Elizabeth Wordsworth	1840	1932	1879 – 1909	Novelist and founding principal, also the founder of St Hugh's College[2]
Henrietta Jex-Blake	1869	1953	1909 – 1921	Violinist and school headmistress prior to joining LMH[3]
Lynda Grier	1880	1967	1921 – 1945	Economist[4]
Dame Lucy Sutherland	1903	1980	1945 – 1971	Historian[5]
Sally Chilver	1914	2014	1971 – 1979	Historian, political scientist and anthropologist
Duncan Stewart	1930	1996	1979 – 1995	Fellow of Wadham College and university administrator[6]
Sir Brian Fall	1937		1995–2002	Diplomat
Dame Frances Lannon	1945		2002–2015	Historian
Alan Rusbridger	1953		2015–2021	Journalist and newspaper editor
Christine Gerrard	1959		2021–2022	Interim Principal; Professor of English Literature
Stephen Blyth			2022–	Professor of the Practice of Statistics at Harvard University