List of Old Alleynians
The following is a list of notable Old Alleynians, former pupils of Dulwich College, in south London, England.
Years of birth and death are given in full. Years at the college are given last, using two digits if unambiguous. All entries are placed in alphabetical order by surname, paying particular attention to any double-barrelled surnames, in which the letters of the first surname take priority.
Arts and entertainment
Art
- Jeremy Deller, artist
- Stephen Finer, artist
- Stanhope Forbes, artist and member of the once influential Newlyn school of painters.
- Stephen Gardiner, OBE, British architect, teacher and writer
- Walter Hodges, an English illustrator and author.
- James Jarvis, graphic artist
- Henry Herbert La Thangue RA, artist.
- Gavin Stamp, writer and architectural historian
- C. F. A. Voysey, English architect and furniture designer
Drama
- Clive Brook, actor
- Richard Caldicot, actor
- Chiwetel Ejiofor, film actor: 1990–1995
- Nigel Harman, actor
- Angus Imrie, television, radio and stage actor: 2001–2012
- Raza Jaffrey, actor
- John Francis Lane, actor
- Mel Raido, actor :1989–1994
- Rupert Penry-Jones, actor: 1982–1989
- Jamie Thomas King, actor
- Michael Powell, film director
- Ben Turner, actor
- Derek Waring, actor
- Arthur Wimperis, award-winning script and screenplay writer
Entertainment & media
- Rowan Ayers, television producer
- Lionel Barber, Financial Times editor
- Godfrey Barker, journalist and author
- Peter Bazalgette, television producer: 64–71
- Rob Bonnet, TV sports journalist: 64–71
- Clive Bull, broadcaster, narrator: 1970–1977
- Gordon Burns, British journalist and television presenter who became known as the host of Granada TV's popular game show The Krypton Factor.
- Nat Coombs, television presenter, comedian and comedy writer
- Peter Dimmock, sports broadcaster
- Denis Gifford, film historian, comics historian, cartoonist: 1939–41
- Jonathan Head, BBC South Asia correspondent: 74–78
- Adam Kay, writer and comedian
- Bob Monkhouse, comedian: 42–45
- Adam Shaheen, President, Executive Producer, Cuppa Coffee Studios
- Paul Sinha, comedian
- David Thomson
- Peter Warren, Canadian investigative journalist, private investigator, former talk radio host and member of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters' Hall of Fame
- Martin Young, TV reporter and media trainer
- Adam Shaheen,
Literature
- George Bedborough, English bookseller, journalist and writer
- Simon Brett, Writer
- Raymond Chandler, writer: 1900–1905
- Hugh de Selincourt, English author and journalist, chiefly remembered today for his tale of village cricket, The Cricket Match
- C. S. Forester, writer: 15–16
- Denis Goodwin, script writer: 41-44
- Hamish Henderson, Scottish poet, songwriter, socialist, humanist, soldier, and intellectual.
- Nigel Hinton, writer
- Claude Houghton, writer
- G. Wilson Knight, English literary critic and academic
- Andrew George Lehmann, English Art and Literary Critic
- Ian MacCormick,, author
- A. E. W. Mason, writer
- Keith McCarthy, writer of crime fiction
- Tom McCarthy, writer short-listed for the Booker Prize
- Michael Ondaatje, writer winner of Booker Prize
- Jon Silkin, poet
- Thomas Sturge Moore, poet and artist
- Graham Swift, writer
- Dennis Wheatley, occultist writer
- P. G. Wodehouse, writer: 1894–1900
Music
- John Amis, broadcaster and critic
- Peter Branscombe, musicologist
- Rodney Clarke, opera singer and actor
- Harold Fraser-Simson, British composer, famous for The Maid of the Mountains.
- Alan Ray Hacker, OBE
- Gordon Jacob, composer
- Bill MacCormick, musician
- Phil Manzanera , musician with Roxy Music
- Ray Noble, bandleader and composer
- Anthony Payne, composer, elaborated the sketches of Elgar's Third Symphony
- David Rhodes, musician, member of 1970s band Random Hold, long-serving collaborator with Peter Gabriel
- Max Sedgley, music producer, drummer, DJ
- Ed Simons, one half of the Chemical Brothers
Exploration
- Stanley Portal Hyatt 1885–92 #3817 African explorer and war correspondent
- Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton CVO, OBE 1887–90 was a British Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic. He was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. During the Nimrod expedition of 1907–1909, he and three companions established a new record Farthest South latitude at 88°S, only 97 geographical miles from the South Pole, the largest advance to the pole in exploration history. Also, members of his team climbed Mount Erebus, the most active Antarctic volcano. For these achievements, Shackleton was knighted by King Edward VII on his return home.
Military
- Rear Admiral Martin Alabaster, Flag Officer, Scotland, Northern England and Northern Ireland
- Wing Commander Frank Arthur Brock, OBE inventor of the smoke-screen at Zeebrugge in 1918
- General Sir Webb Gillman KCB KCMG DSO – former Chief of staff in Mesopotamia.
- Lieutenant General Eric Goddard, Indian Army, GOC-in-C Southern Command India
- Air Vice-Marshal F. C. Halahan CMG CBE DSO MVO
- Berthold Wells Key, CB DSO MC ADC, Major General during Second World War
- Group Captain Cyril Nelson "Kit" Lowe, MC DFC RAF, English rugby union footballer, First World War flying ace, and supposedly the inspiration for W. E. Johns' character "Biggles".
- Brigadier Geoffrey Rimbault , British Army officer
- Rear Admiral Arthur Skey, recipient of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus in the First World War
- Wing Commander G. H. Stainforth, AFC RAF, British Royal Air Force pilot and the first man in the world to exceed 400 mph in an aircraft
- Air Commodore Owen Truelove, first man to fly from England to New Zealand in a glider
- Brigadier James Whitehead, CB, CMG, CBE, DSO, OStJ, ADC, British Indian Army officer who later became a senior officer in the London Metropolitan Police.
- Air Chief Marshal Sir John Willis GBE KCB FRAeS, Vice Chief of the Defence Staff
Victoria Cross and George Cross holders
- Victoria Cross
- *First World War
- **Vice-Admiral Gordon Campbell, VC, DSO
- **Lieutenant Richard Basil Brandram Jones, VC
- **Major Alexander Malins Lafone, VC
- **Major Stewart Walter Loudoun-Shand, VC
- **Lieutenant Cecil Harold Sewell, VC
- *Second World War
- **Lieutenant-Colonel Lorne McLaine Campbell, VC, DSO, TD, MA
- **Captain Philip John Gardner, VC, MC
- George Cross
- *Second World War
- **Major Herbert John Leslie Barefoot, GC, ARIBA
Philosophy and academia
- C. D. Broad, epistemologist, historian of philosophy, and philosopher.
- Robert Gildea, author and Professor of History at the University of Oxford
- Hugh Gusterson, author and Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at the George Washington University. President American Ethnological Society, 2015–17.
- William Keith Chambers Guthrie, Scottish classical scholar, best known for his History of Greek Philosophy, in six volumes.
- Sir Charles Hilary Jenkinson,, archivist; founder and definer of modern archival theory and practice
- John Lewis, philosopher
- K. B. McFarlane, historian
- George Edward Moore, one of the founders of the Analytic tradition in philosophy
- Arthur Lindsay Sadler, was Professor of Oriental Studies at the University of Sydney
- Dominic Shellard, Vice Chancellor of De Montfort University
- Sir John Sheppard, classical scholar, the first non-Etonian to become Provost of King's College, Cambridge, and openly gay.
- Alic Halford Smith, former Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University.
- Michael Winterbottom, Classics scholar, Oxford University
Politics, law and business
- Kweku Etrew Amua-Sekyi, Formerly Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana and Justice of the Supreme Court of the Gambia
- Jonathan Bartley, Co-Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales and Leader of the Opposition on Lambeth Council
- Jon Benjamin, Former Chief Executive, Board of Deputies of British Jews
- Eric Arthur Cleugh, Diplomat and former Ambassador to Panama
- Sir Alexander Colin Cole, KCB, KCVO, long serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London and Garter Principal King of Arms, the highest heraldic office in England.
- Mark Coombs, billionaire and CEO, Ashmore Group
- William Leslie Comyn, Shipbuilder and shipowner – built first concrete ship in California USA
- Robert Craven, author and entrepreneur
- Sir Horatio Davies,, Victorian London Businessman and Lord Mayor of London.
- Nigel Farage, Leader of the Brexit Party, former leader of the UK Independence Party and Member of the European Parliament
- Sir George Vandeleur Fiddes, former Permanent Under Secretary for the Colonies.
- David Ford, Leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland and Minister of Justice for Northern Ireland
- Edward 'Eddie' George, Governor of the Bank of England: 49–57
- Sir Edward Harding, former Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Dominions and High Commissioner in South Africa.
- Sir Clement Hindley KCIE, former Chairman of the Race-course Betting Control Board and Chief Commissioner of Railways in India.
- Sir Arthur Hirtzel, GCB, Permanent Secretary of State for India.
- Sir William Searle Holdsworth, OM, KC, DCL, HON LL.D, FBA, legal historian and Vinerian Professor of English Law at Oxford University. Author of the 12 volume History of English Law.
- Philip Hollobone, Member of Parliament: 1976–1983
- Sir John Leonard Hunt, British Conservative Party politician.
- Peter Lilley, Member of Parliament: 1983-2017, Life Peer
- Lord Luke of Pavenham KBE JP, businessman and did much for the British Charities Association
- Alistair Macdonald, British Labour Party politician.
- Horace Brooks Marshall, 1st Baron Marshall of Chipstead, Lord Mayor of London from 1918 to 1919
- Chris Mole, Member of Parliament for Ipswich
- Sir Ronald Norman OBE DL, businessman and author, honoured for services to urban regeneration in Newcastle and services to Teesside.
- Sam Owens, Chief Executive Officer, Petit Tinqueur Holdings
- His Excellency Anand Panyarachun, Prime Minister of Thailand
- Mr Justice Sir A F Peterson, Judge of the Chancery Division.
- Peter Prescott, barrister, Queen's Counsel and Deputy High Court Judge of England and Wales.
- Raj Rajaratnam, Chief Executive and Fund manager of New York-based Galleon Group, convicted of insider trading
- Sir Colin Rimer, Lord Justice of Appeal.
- Sir John Ritblat FRICS FSVA, property tycoon, principal donor to the John Ritblat Gallery of the British Library
- Hartley Shawcross, lawyer and Labour politician, lead British prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials
- John Silkin, Member of Parliament, brother of the below
- Samuel Silkin, Baron Silkin of Dulwich, Member of Parliament
- Sir Melford Stevenson, High Court judge
- Philip Rutnam, Permanent Secretary to the Department for Transport
- John Spellar, Member of Parliament for Warley
- Tin Tut, first High Commissioner for Burma in London.
- Iain Vallance, Baron Vallance of Tummel, a British businessman and a Liberal Democrat politician
- Sir Nicholas Wall, President of the Family Division, a judge in England and Wales
- Cecil Whiteley, Common Serjeant of London; Judge at Mayor's and City of London Court
Religion
- The Very Reverend John Chester Hughes
- Right Reverend Reginald Herbert Owen, former Archbishop of New Zealand
- The Very Reverend Arthur Wesley Carr, KCVO, Dean of Westminster 1997–2006, Anglican divine.
- Frank Weston, Missionary Bishop of Zanzibar.
Science and medicine
- Dr Alec Coppen, MD DSc FRCP FRCPsych
- Sir Richard Tetley Glazebrook KCB, KCVO FRS, physicist
- Harold Hartley
- Colin Leslie Hewett FRSE biochemist.
- Sir Reginald Murley, KBE, TD, MS, FRCS
- Professor John McKay, mathematician
- Professor Ali Mobasheri, , ,
- Robert Neal Rudmose-Brown
- Tony Sale, British electronic engineer, computer programmer, computer hardware engineer, and historian of computing
- Professor Karol Sikora, MA, PhD, MB BChir
- Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, inventor of the process of eliminating phosphorus from iron by means of the Bessemer converter
- Colin Tudge, British science writer
- Peter Twinn, mathematician and cryptographer
- Sir Cecil Wakeley, 1st Baronet KBE CB, President of the Royal College of Surgeons.
Sport
Athletics
- Emeka Udechuku, Olympic Discus thrower
- R S Woods, twice represented Great Britain in the Olympics in the shot-put.
Cricket
- Trevor Bailey, Essex and England cricketer: 37–42
- Hugh Tryon Bartlett, England Cricketer
- Monty Bowden, England cricket captain
- Jim Dewes, played first-class cricket for Cambridge University
- James Douglas, England cricketer.
- Robert Noel Douglas, England cricketer
- Arthur Gilligan, England cricket captain: 06-14
- Frank William Gilligan, OBE, MA, cricketer
- Harold Gilligan, England cricket captain
- Billy Griffith, CBE, DFC, TD, an English cricketer and cricket administrator
- Chris Jordan, Barbados born cricket all-rounder playing for Surrey County Cricket Club, Sussex County Cricket Club and England
- Frank King, represented Cambridge University and Dorset
- Roger Knight, Surrey, Sussex and Gloucestershire cricketer and Secretary of the Marylebone Cricket Club
- Neville Knox, England cricketer
- Kenelm McCloughin, first-class cricketer and British Army officer
- Bill Mitchell, cricketer for Oxford University
- Eoin Morgan, England cricketer, ODI captain and World Cup winner, plays for Middlesex; also played international cricket for Ireland
- Karl Nunes, West Indian cricketer who played in West Indies' first Test in their inaugural Test tour of England as wicketkeeper and captain.
- Alex Rackow, cricketer for Oxford University
- Geoffrey Rimbault , first-class cricketer
- W.V. Sherlock, Cricket International for Demerara and British Guyana
- Arthur Skey, played first-class cricket for the Royal Navy
- Bill Thomas, played first-class cricket for Cambridge University
Hockey
- E.G.S.Hose, Hockey International for England
- P. M. Rees, Hockey International for England and went on to win gold at the 1908 Olympics
- Frank Solbé, Hockey International for England
Rugby union
- Henry Braddon, Rugby union international for New Zealand All Black, who represented Argentina in 1911
- E. A. Cleugh, Rugby union international for Uruguay
- Ian Coutts, Scotland international
- William David Doherty, Rugby union international for Ireland Later captained Ireland
- Grahame Donald, Rugby union international for Scotland
- Mark Easter, rugby union footballer who plays for Northampton Saints
- Nick Easter, professional rugby union footballer for Harlequins and England
- S. Ellis, Rugby union international for England
- David Flatman, prop for the England national rugby union team.
- H.T.S. Gedge, Rugby union international for Scotland
- John Eric Greenwood, Rugby union international for England Later captained England.
- Jock Hartley, Rugby union international for England
- N.F.Henderson, Rugby union international for Scotland
- G. A. M. Isherwood, Rugby union international for Great Britain
- William Leake, Rugby union international for England
- Nick Lloyd, rugby union player with Saracens; selected for Scotland in 2006 but had to withdraw due to injury
- E.G. Loudoun-Shand, Rugby union international for Scotland
- Group Captain Cyril Nelson "Kit" Lowe MC DFC RAF, English rugby union footballer representing England in 25 consecutive matches, First World War flying ace, and supposedly the inspiration for W. E. Johns' character "Biggles".
- Tom Mercey, rugby footballer, England Under 21s, club Saracens
- C.T. Mold, Rugby union international for Argentina
- JEC 'Birdie' Partridge, Welsh born rugby international, capped for South Africa; founded Army Rugby Union
- Andrew Sheridan, rugby footballer for Sale Sharks and England: 90–98
- Kendrick Stark, England international
- David Trail, represented a forerunner of the British and Irish Lions, known as the Anglo-Welsh on their tour of Australasia in 1904
- A.L Wade, Rugby union international for Scotland
- Cyril Mowbray Wells, played Rugby Union for England as well as being a first-class cricketer
- Eric Cyprian Perry Whiteley, England international
| Name | Country | Caps | First capped | Last capped | Notes |
| Kendrick Stark | 9 | 15 Jan 1927 | 17 Mar 1928 | ||
| Eric Cyprian Perry Whiteley | 2 | 21 Mar 1931 | 6 Apr 1931 | ||
| Ian Coutts | 2 | 13 Jan 1951 | 15 Mar 1952 | ||
| Nick Easter 91–96 | 47 | 10 Feb 2007 | 10 Oct 2015 | professional club NEC Harlequins | |
| Andrew Sheridan 90–98 |  British and Irish Lions | 40 2 | 13 Nov 2004 | 10 Sep 2011 | professional club Sale Sharks |
| David Flatman | 8 | 17 Jun 2000 | 22 Jun 2002 | ||
| Andy Mullins | 1 | 1989 | 1989 | ||
| C. H. Scott | 1 | 1922 | 1922 | ||
| E. A. Cleugh | 1 | 1922 | 1922 | ||
| C. T. Mold | 1 | 1910 | 1910 | ||
| Cyril Mowbray Wells | 6 | 4 Mar 1893 | 13 Mar 1897 | as well as being a first-class cricketer | |
| Cyril Nelson "Kit" Lowe MC DFC RAF | 25 | 4 Jan 1913 | 2 Apr 1923 | representing England in 25 consecutive matches, First World War flying ace, and supposedly the inspiration for W. E. Johns' character "Biggles". | |
| Sidney Ellis | 1 | 30 Jan 1880 | 30 Jan 1880 | ||
| Henry Braddon | 3 | 31 May 1884 | 14 July 1884 | The first New Zealand team was selected in 1884, for a tour to New South Wales. The team played its first match at home, against a Wellington XV, before recording eight wins in eight matches in Australia. | |
| William David Doherty | 7 | 14 Feb 1920 | 9 Apr 1921 | Later captained Ireland | |
| David Grahame Donald | 2 | 7 Feb 1914 | 28 Feb 1914 | ||
| William Leake | 3 | 3 Jan 1891 | 7 Mar 1891 | ||
| Nelson Henderson | 1 | 20 Feb 1892 | 20 Feb 1892 | ||
| Albert Wade | 1 | 21 Mar 1908 | 21 Mar 1908 | ||
| G. A. M. Isherwood | British Isles | 3 | 6 Aug 1910 | 3 Sep 1910 | |
| Eric Loudoun-Shand | 1 | 15 Mar 1913 | 15 Mar 1913 | ||
| J. E. "Jenny" Greenwood | 13 | 8 Apr 1912 | 20 Mar 1920 | Later captained England. | |
| Jock Hartley | 2 | 9 Mar 1901 | 15 Mar 1902 | ||
| Henry Gedge | 6 | 3 Feb 1894 | 11 Mar 1899 | ||
| JEC Partridge | 1 | 26 Aug 1903 | 26 Aug 1903 | Born in Wales, "Birdie" Partridge was a lieutenant in the Welsh Regiment in the Boer War and joined Pretoria Harlequins then the Transvaal and was capped by the Springboks against the British Team of 1903. He played 18 times for the Barbarians between 1905–15 and was in their first international match. He also found the Army Rugby Union. | |
| David Trail | Anglo-Welsh | 4 | 2 Jul 1904 | 13 Aug 1904 |
Other
- A. F. Engelbach, Badminton International for England
- Raymond Dennis Keene, OBE, Chess Grandmaster: 59–66
- Kieran West MBE, Olympic champion oarsman: 86–95