Notable old pupils include: •
Sir John Adye, former Director of the
GCHQ •
Crispin Aubrey, civil rights campaigner •
Sir Tony Baldry, former
MP •
Julian Bell, Bloomsbury member, son of
Vanessa Bell and
Clive Bell, poet •
Quentin Bell, Bloomsbury member, son of
Vanessa Bell and
Clive Bell, artist and writer •
Eliza Bennett, Actress •
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, Composer and jazz pianist •
Shyam Bhatia, writer and journalist •
Michael Binyon, Times leader journalist • Sir
John Birch, former ambassador to Hungary •
Derek Brewer, Secretary and Chief Executive of Marylebone Cricket Club •
Jim Broadbent, Oscar-winning actor -
Hot Fuzz,
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,
Paddington •
Basil Bunting, poet •
Sir Egbert Cadbury, Managing Director of
Fry's and
Cadbury's and decorated First World War ace •
Kristian Callaghan, British pistol shooter, winner of Bronze Medal 2014 Commonwealth Games • Professor
Edward Chaney, cultural historian •
Lance Clark, former CEO of Clark's Shoes and founder of Soul of Africa charity •
Nathan Crowley, Oscar-winning production designer -
Interstellar,
Dunkirk,
First Man,
Wicked •
Baron Davies of Stamford, former
MP, Government Minister and Life Peer •
Leonard Doncaster, Geneticist •
Christopher Dorling, co-founder of Dorling Kindersley Publishing •
Phil Dunster, Emmy-nominated actor -
Ted Lasso •
Jason Durr, Actor -
Casualty,
Heartbeat •
Owen Edwards, pioneer of Welsh TV broadcasting •
Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon, former Ambassador to
United Nations •
Michael Foot, former
Labour Party leader •
Robert Gillmor, artist and ornithologist •
Martin Griffiths, former Under-Secretary-General at the
United Nations •
Hugh Haughton, Professor at York University •
Tim Ingold, anthropologist and Professor at Aberdeen University •
Sir David Lean, Oscar-winning director -
The Bridge on the River Kwai,
Lawrence of Arabia,
Doctor Zhivago •
Po Shun Leong, artist •
Paddy Benson, Archdeacon of Hereford •
Peter Litten, film director •
Tom Lowenstein, poet •
Professor Grigor McClelland, businessman, founder of the
Manchester Business School and social activist •
David McFarland, Fellow
Balliol College, Professor of animal behaviour, Oxford University •
Laura Marling, Multi award-winning singer songwriter •
Tom Maschler, Publisher, former chairman of Cape, co-founder of The Booker Prize; founder of The Book Bus •
Peter May, cricketer, captain of England, and later Chairman of the England cricket selectors •
Jagat Singh Mehta, Foreign Secretary India, 1970s •
John Mitchell, Musician and music producer •
Nicholas Moore, poet and son of
GE Moore, Cambridge Philosopher • Prof.
Peter Nienow, Edinburgh University, winner of the
Polar Medal 2017, recognition for his pioneering glaciological work in the Arctic. •
Nathaniel Parker, Olivier Award-winning actor •
Patrick Parrinder, Professor of English, Reading University •
Lionel Penrose, Psychiatrist, medical geneticist, paediatrician, mathematician and chess theorist,
Galton Professor of eugenics at University College London •
Sir Roland Penrose, artist, historian and co-founder of Institute of Contemporary Arts •
Henry Priestman, Singer/songwriter with
The Christians •
John Prizeman, Architect and author on modern design • Prof.
Dan Reinstein, Leading eye surgeon and jazz musician •
Karel Reisz, Oscar-winning film director • Prof.
Julian Stallabrass, Art historian, photographer and lecturer, Courtauld Institute •
Ian Stillman, Missionary •
Richard Vernon, Actor •
Richard G. Wilkinson, Social epidemiologist, author and advocate •
Timothy Williamson, Former
Wykeham Professor of Logic, Oxford University •
Stuart Zender, Musician and former founder member of
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