Beckfoot Upper Heaton

History

Notable former pupils

Belle Vue Boys' School

• Adil Rashid – Yorkshire and England cricket player
• Marsha Singh 1954– 2012 – Labour MP for Bradford West 1997 to 2012

  Belle Vue Boys' Grammar School

• Kamlesh Patel, Baron Patel of Bradford, OBE – politician and member of the House of Lords.
• Sir Reginald Bailey CBE – former President of the British Wool Federation
• Sir James Birrell FCA – Chief Executive from 1988–93 of the Halifax Building Society
• Sydney Burton – Managing Director from 1975–81 of the Gateway Building Society and President from 1976–77 of the Building Societies Institute
• David Butterfield, Archdeacon of the East Riding from 2007–14
• Malcolm Creek LVO OBE – High Commissioner from 1985–88 to Vanuatu
• Trevor Croft – Director from 1997–2001 of the National Trust for Scotland
• Satnam Singh Gill OBE Principal Working Men's College London from 1999
• James Hill, film director of 1966 Born Free
• Philip Hobsbaum, poet and literary scholar
• Kenneth Hutton, Chairman from 1987-92 of the Peterborough Development Agency, Chief Engineer from 1968-84 of the Telford Development Corporation
• Norman Crowther Hunt, Baron Crowther-Hunt of Eccleshill – former Labour education minister from 1974–76, Rector from 1982-87 of Exeter College, Oxford
• Sir Robert Yewdall Jennings – President from 1991–94 of the International Court of Justice
• George Layton, actor – starred in Confessions of a Driving Instructor
• Harry Moore – Professor of Glass Technology from 1946–55 at the University of Sheffield
• Geoffrey Myers CBE – British Rail executive and Chairman from 1987–95 of Transaid
• Prof John Needham – Professor of Architecture from 1957–72 at the University of Sheffield
• Maurice Peston, Baron Peston, economist at Queen Mary College, and father of Robert Peston
• J. B. Priestley OM, writer, who wrote Time and the Conways, and Freeman of the City of Bradford
• Simon Rouse – well-known actor who played Jack Meadows in The Bill
• Jack Schofield – former computer editor, The Guardian
• Sydney Smith CBE – Chairman from 1956–65 of the Scottish Gas Board and from 1952–56 of the East Midlands Gas Board
• Prof Fred Watson AM – astronomer
• Fielding West – Labour MP from 1934–35 for Hammersmith North and from 1929–31 Kensington North

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