List of Old Ardinians

Politics

• Sir Andrew Bowden - Member of Parliament
• Sir Robert Cary, 1st Baronet - Member of Parliament
• Jack Easter - Member of the Legislative Assembly in New South Wales
• Sir John Gorst - Member of Parliament
• Sir Joseph Simpson - Cabinet Minister in Uganda
• Sir Robert Tasker - Member of Parliament

  Ecclesiastical

• Walter Adams, Archbishop of British Columbia and Yukon
• George Browning, Bishop of Canberra and Goulburn
• Dennis Ede, Archdeacon of Stoke
• Gordon Mursell, Bishop of Stafford
• Andrew Norman, Principal of Ridley Hall, Cambridge

  Diplomacy

• Robert Alston - UK High Commissioner to New Zealand and UK Ambassador to Oman
• Chris Gunness - UNRWA chief spokesperson
• Sir Claude Hayes - civil servant for overseas territories
• Sir Edward Jackson - UK Ambassador to Belgium and UK Ambassador to Cuba
• Ian Mackley - UK High Commissioner to Ghana and UK Chargé d'Affaires to Afghanistan
• Sir David Manning - UK Ambassador the United States and UK Ambassador to Israel
• Sir Robin McLaren - UK Ambassador to China and UK Ambassador to the Philippines
• Sir Andrew Wood - UK Ambassador to Russia and UK Ambassador to Yugoslavia

  Sciences

• Harold Comber - botanist
• Mike Pitts - archaeologist
• John Paul Wild - radio astronomer

  Military

• Lieutenant Commander Peter Piper - submarine commander
• Lieutenant Colonel George Starr - Special Operations Executive agent and leader
• Major General Robert Whittaker - Anti Aircraft divisional commander

  Academia

• Mark Bevir - Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley and the United Nations University
• Frank Cowell - Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics
• Robert Foley - Leverhulme Professor of Human Evolution at the University of Cambridge
• Patrick Hanks - lexicographer

  Arts

• Dick Allen - film editor
• Charles Bryant - actor and film director
• Creighton Hale - actor
• Alan Howard - actor
• Mark Letheren - actor
• Ed Sanders - actor
• Terry-Thomas - actor

• Frank Williams - actor

• Nicholas Fisk - children's author
• Neil Gaiman - author and screenwriter
• Thomas Meech - author and journalist
• Ed Whitmore - screenwriter

• Alex Cartana - singer
• Mike Christie - singer
• Julian Clifford - conductor
• James Lancelot - organist
• Stephen Oliver - composer
• Victor Silvester - composer and band leader
• Ed Welch - composer

• George Belcher - artist
• John Hayes - director of the National Portrait Gallery

  Media

• Sir Bill Cotton - controller of BBC One
• Colin Griffiths - broadcaster
• Ian Hislop - editor of Private Eye and panelist on Have I Got News For You
• Nick Newman - cartoonist and scriptwriter
• Ed Petrie - children's television presenter
• Paul Reynolds - BBC News correspondent
• Jay Wynne - BBC weather forecaster

  Sport

• Max Chilton - Formula One, WEC, and IndyCar racing driver
• Clifford Earp - racing driver
• Mike Hawthorn - Formula One racing driver and World Champion

• George Brann - England footballer and Sussex cricketer
• Donald Coles - footballer
• Adam Virgo - footballer

• Walter Bettesworth - Scotland and Sussex cricketer
• William Blackman - Sussex cricketer
• Ben Brown - Sussex cricketer
• Alex Gregory - South Australia cricketer
• Arthur Kneller - Hampshire cricketer
• Billy Newham - England and Sussex cricketer
• Toby Peirce - Sussex cricketer
• Paul Phillipson - Sussex cricketer
• Abidine Sakande - Sussex cricketer
• Valentine Sewell - Dorset cricketer
• Thomas Symington - Rhodesia cricketer

  Industry and Commerce

• Sydney Allard - founder of Allard Motor Company
• Charles Cruft - founder of Crufts dog show
• Sir Charles Fairey - founder of Fairey Aviation Company
• Sir Richard Morris - industrialist

  Other

• John Hooper - President of the British Orthodontic Society
• Felix Pery, Viscount Glentworth