Academia •
T.D. Barnes (born 1942), Professor of Classics in the University of Toronto (1976–2007) •
John Barron (1934–2008), classicist and Master of St Peter's College, Oxford •
Stuart Jones, British historian, Professor of Intellectual History at the University of Manchester • Professor
Sir Hans Leo Kornberg (1928-2019), British biochemist and master of Christ's College, Cambridge (1982–1995) •
David May (born 1951), Professor of Computer Science at the
University of Bristol, former lead architect of the
transputer and
Chief Technology Officer and founder of
XMOS. •
Joseph Moxon (1627–1691), Mathematician and
Hydrographer to
King Charles II. •
John Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden (1906–1985), Vice Chancellor of the University of Reading, and chair of the Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution, which in 1957 published the
Wolfenden Report that recommended the decriminalisation of homosexuality. •
Hector Munro Chadwick (1870–1947), English philologist and historian, fellow of
Clare College, Cambridge and professor of Anglo-Saxon at the
University of Cambridge (1912–41) •
John Hopkins (1936–2018), Cambridge University academic •
Roger Clifford Carrington (1906–1971), English classical scholar, archaeologist and teacher •
Anand Menon (born 1965), European Politics and Foreign Affairs,
King's College London Arts Art •
Thomas Hartley Cromek (1809–1873), English artist
Literature •
Thomas Armstrong (1899–1978), novelist •
Richard Bentley (1662–1742), theologian, classical scholar and critic •
AJ Quinnell (real name Philip Nicholson; 1940–2005), author •
David Storey (1933–2017), playwright and novelist, winner of the
Booker Prize in 1976 for Saville •
Kenneth Leighton (1929–1988),
classical and
Anglican church music composer •
John Scott (1956–2015), choirmaster and organist •
Lukas Wooller, keyboardist with the band
Maxïmo Park Criminals •
Adam Britton (born 1971),
zoologist and
zoosadist who sexually abused, tortured and killed around 40 dogs •
Stephen Griffiths (born 1969),
serial killer, from Dewsbury, known as the "Crossbow Cannibal" •
John George Haigh (1909–1949), serial killer in England in the 1940s, known as the "Acid Bath Murderer" •
Edmund Cartwright (1743–1823), inventor of the
power loom •
Charles Hoole (1610–1667), English cleric and educational writer •
William Alfred Ismay (1910–2001), librarian, writer and collector •
Nicholas Lavender (born 1964), English Justice of the High Court of England and Wales •
Joseph Hirst Lupton (1836–1905), English schoolmaster, cleric and writer •
Francis Smith (1847–1912), Puisne judge •
Tony Greaves (1942–2021), Liberal Democrat member of the
House of Lords •
William J. Howard (1799–1862), American-born politician and Free Trade activist •
Richard Henry Lee (1732–1794), signer of the
United States Declaration of Independence and
US Senator •
Frank Marshall, Baron Marshall of Leeds (1915–1990), British lawyer, politician, and member of the
House of Lords •
Sir Francis Molyneux, 7th Baronet (1765–1812),
Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod •
Edward Thompson,
Member of Parliament for
York and later the
Commissioner of the Admiralty •
Henry Zouch (c. 1725–1795), English antiquary and social reformer •
John Ashton (1866–1964), Anglican
Bishop of Grafton •
James Bardsley (1805–1886), English cleric and honorary canon of
Manchester Cathedral •
Joseph Bingham (1668–1723), English scholar and divine •
Hugh Paulinus de Cressy (c.1605–1674), English
Benedictine monk •
The Rt Revd and Rt Hon The Lord Hope of Thornes (born 1940), former
archbishop of York •
Barnabas Oley (1602–1686), English churchman and academic
Science and medicine •
Andy Harter (born 1961), British computer scientist •
Herbert Haslegrave (1902–1999), British engineer •
Julian Norton (born 1972), British surgeon, author and TV personality •
John Radcliffe (1652–1714), British physician •
Robert Smith (1840–1885), Assistant Colonial Surgeon of Sierra Leone
Sport •
Reg Bolton (1909–2006), rugby union footballer who played in the 1930s for England, Yorkshire, Wakefield and Harlequins •
Gordon Bonner (1907–1985),
British and Irish Lions rugby union footballer who
toured New Zealand and Australia in 1930 •
Harry Duke (born 2001), English cricketer •
Martin Dyson (1935–2019), English cricketer and schoolmaster who played
first-class cricket for
Oxford University (1958–1960) •
Jack Ellis (1912–2007), English rugby union player •
William Guest (1903–1991), rugby union footballer who played in the 1920s and 1930s for Yorkshire, South Elmsall and Wakefield •
Mike Harrison (born 1956), former captain
England national rugby union team •
Roger Pearman (born 1939), rugby union, and rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s for Sandal, Headingley, Loughborough University, Wakefield Trinity and Canterbury-Bankstown, and coached in the 1960s for Canterbury-Bankstown •
Ben Woods (born 1982), flanker for
Newcastle Falcons and
England Saxons rugby union ==See also==