List of Old Edwardians (Sheffield)

Sheffield Grammar School, later Sheffield Royal Grammar School">Sheffield Grammar School">Sheffield Grammar School, later Sheffield Royal Grammar School (1604–1905)

• :John Balguy, divine and philosopher
• :John Roebuck FRS, inventor known for developing the industrial-scale manufacture of sulfuric acid
• Sir :Samuel Gillott, lawyer and politician, Lord Mayor of Melbourne
• :Walter Sugg, first-class cricketer
• :Robert Murray Gilchrist, novelist and author of regional interest books about the Peak District
• :W. S. Senior, scholar, poet and member of the Church Missionary Society
• :Edward Keble Chatterton, prolific author on maritime and naval themes
• Ludwig Glauert, paleontologist, herpetologist and museum curator
• :William Andrew |William Andrew MC, Anglican priest
• :Charles Sargeant Jagger MC, sculptor on the theme of war, best known for his war memorials
• Kenneth Kirk, Bishop of Oxford

  [Sheffield Collegiate School] (1836–1884)

• :Henry Clifton Sorby, microscopist and geologist
• :George Rolleston FRS, physician and zoologist, Linacre Professor of Anatomy and Physiology at Oxford
• Sir :Nathaniel Creswick, footballer and solicitor, co-founded Sheffield FC
• :Henry Jackson |Henry Jackson OM, classicist, Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge
• :Henry Arnold Favell, Anglican priest, Archdeacon of Sheffield
• :George William Kinman, Headmaster of Hertford Grammar School

  Wesley College">Wesley College, Sheffield">Wesley College (1838–1905)

• :Joseph Bennett |Joseph Bennett, merchant and Liberal politician
• :Samuel Danks Waddy, politician and MP
• :Angus Holden, 1st Baron Holden, Liberal Party politician and MP
• :Joseph Ruston, engineer, manufacturer, Liberal Party politician
• Sir :Swire Smith, woollen manufacturer, educationalist and Liberal Party politician
• :Frederick Cawley, 1st Baron Cawley, businessman and Liberal Party politician
• :Leonard Cockayne FRS, New Zealand botanist
• :Frank Wilson |Frank Wilson, Premier of Western Australia
• :Arthur Neal, politician and Liberal MP
• :Cecil Wilson |Cecil Wilson, pacifist Labour Party MP

  King Edward VII School (1905–present)

• Ephraim Lipson, economic historian
• Hermann Glauert, aerodynamicist, who developed the Prandtl–Glauert transformation
• Harry Epworth Allen, English painter
• Edward Charles Titchmarsh – FRS, Oxford Mathematician, and Savilian Professor of Geometry
• Geoffrey Gledhill Turner, GC GM
• Frank Ellis – eminent radiation oncologist
• Edward Linfoot, Astronomer. Assistant Director of the Observatory, University of Cambridge 1948–70
• Prof Albert Goodwin, Professor of Modern History at the University of Manchester from 1953–69
• Revd Hugh Turner, Anglican priest, theologian, and academic
• Sir Charles Husband CBE, civil engineer, President of the Institution of Structural Engineers from 1964–5, and Chairman of the Association of Consulting Engineers from 1967–8, and designed the Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory
• Major Lionel Wigram, was a British soldier, who played a significant part in developing British infantry fighting tactics in World War 2, killed in action in Italy
• Rt Rev Leslie Stradling, Bishop of Johannesburg 1961–1974
• Sir Harold Warris Thompson CBE – English physical chemist; Chairman of the Football Association
• Sir Eric Gardner Turner CBE, papyrologist and classicist
• Philip Allen, Baron Allen of Abbeydale CB – British civil servant
• Sir Geofroy Tory, Ambassador to Ireland from 1964–67
• Brigadier Sir Edgar "Bill" Williams – academic and warrior
• Gordon Nornable MC won the Military Cross and Croix de Guerre in 1944 fighting with the French Maquis in eastern France.
• Sir Peter Youens – British administrator in Nyasaland and Malawi, and director of Lonrho
• Sir Robert Scholey, Bob Scholey, known as 'Black Bob', deputy chairman and chief executive of British Steel, Chairman of British Steel, succeeding Sir Robert Haslam
• Peter Jaffrey Wheatley, chemist and Cambridge academic
• John Gatenby Bolton – British-Australian astronomer
• Prof Donald Nicol, Koraës Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature at King's College London from 1970–88, and President of the Ecclesiastical History Society from 1975–6
• Prof Raymond Ian Page, Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Cambridge University from 1984 to 1991, and Parker Librarian at the Parker Library, Corpus Christi College
• Michael James Farrell, British economist
• Prof Adrian Horridge – FRS, neurobiologist, professor at Australian National University
• Prof John Philipps Kenyon, Joyce and Elizabeth Hall Distinguished Professor in Early Modern British History at the University of Kansas from 1987–94
• Francis Cheetham OBE, museum curator
• Sir Michael Carlisle – Pro-Chancellor, University of York
• John Farnsworth Wright was a British economist and Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford.
• Peter Landin, computer scientist and academic at Queen Mary College, London
• John Lemmon – logician and philosopher
• Sir Norman Adsetts OBE Knight Bachelor, OBE – Hon Life President SIG plc since 1996
• :Dick Charlesworth, jazz clarinettist and bandleader
• Prof Ian Fells CBE – Professor of Energy Conversion at The University of Newcastle upon Tyne, and President of the Institute of Energy from 1978–9, and broadcaster
• George MacBeth – Poet and author
• Alan Jinkinson, General Secretary of UNISON from 1993–6
• Prof David Downes, Professor of Social Administration at the LSE from 1987–2003, and Editor of the British Journal of Criminology from 1985–90
• Ted Wragg – E C Wragg, Professor of Education at the University of Exeter
• Sir Eric Dancer KCVO CBE JP, Managing Director of Dartington Crystal from 1986–2000, and Lord Lieutenant of Devon 1998–2015
• Ted Powell, amateur footballer who went on to coach the Malawi national football team and the England Under–18 side which won the European Championship in 1993.
• Rony Robinson – writer and broadcaster
• :Dave Sheasby, playwright, director, dramatist and radio producer
• Sir John Goulden CMG – diplomat and Ambassador to Turkey from 1992–5, and subsequently to NATO.
• Alan Wood – CEO of Siemens Plc
• Roy Galley – Conservative MP for Halifax from 1983–7
• John Ramsden, Professor of History at Queen Mary College, an authority on the history of the Conservative party
• Bob Davies – CEO of Arriva Plc until April 2006
• Prof Paul Collier CBE, Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford since 1993, and Director since 1991 of the Centre for the Study of African Economies
• Peter Horbury, car designer, Executive Design Director of all Ford's American brands from 2004
• Martin Smith – Car designer
• Clive Betts – Current Labour MP
• Air Commodore Jon Chitty, OBE RAF
• Dr David Thomson, current Bishop of Huntingdon
• Phil Oakey – singer, Human League
• Martyn Ware, founder member of The Human League and Heaven 17
• Simon Collis, Ambassador to Syria since 2007, and to Qatar from 2005–7. Currently the United Kingdom's Ambassador to Iraq.
• Matthew Bannister – British radio administrator and broadcaster
• John Rawling, main boxing commentator on ITV since 2005
• Simon Wessely – professor of epidemiological and liaison psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London and Director of the King's Centre for Military Health Research.
• Bruce Dickinson – professional pilot and singer in Iron Maiden.
• Graham Fellows – comedian and actor, aka John Shuttleworth
• Joe Elliott – lead singer of Def Leppard
• Carl Shutt – former Sheffield Wednesday, Leeds United and Bradford City footballer
• Paul Heaton – leader, The Beautiful South and The Housemartins
• Julia Bradbury – presenter of Watchdog
• Emily Maitlis – newscaster for BBC television
• Tyrone Thompson – footballer with Torquay United
• Ben Purkiss – footballer with Oxford United
• Toddla T – musician and DJ
• Elizabeth Henstridge – Actor in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.