List of Old Emanuels
This is a list of notable former pupils and staff of Emanuel School, London, England.
Notable Old Emanuels
Armed forces
- Sholto Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Kirtleside GCB, MC, DFC – Marshal of the Royal Air Force, at Emanuel 1904–1905
- Major Edward Thomas MC – noted for his part in the Battle of Hellfire Pass
Arts and entertainment
- Naveen Andrews – actor, star of Lost, and The English Patient
- John Banting – artist
- Alan Caddy – guitarist with The Tornados
- Derek Davis – ceramic artist
- Rupert Degas – actor
- Hero Fiennes-Tiffin – actor
- Jack Hedley – actor
- Leslie Henson – actor
- Douglas Hickox – film director
- Chris Hughes – record producer, and Adam and the Ants drummer, aka Merrick
- Richard Marquand – film director, director of Return of the Jedi
- Ben Moore – artist and curator
- Gordon Murray – puppeteer
- Mick Rock – rock photographer
Clergy
- Barney Hopkinson – formerly Rector of Wimborne Minster 1981–1986; Archdeacon of Sarum 1986–1998; and Archdeacon of Wilts 1998–2004
- J. B. Phillips – theologian and clergyman
Industry
- Neil Carson OBE – formerly CEO Johnson Matthey PLC
Literature
- Vernon Richards – anarchist writer and photographer
- N. F. Simpson – dramatist
- Michael Vince – poet and author
- Clive Wilmer – poet and Fellow of Fitzwilliam College and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
Media
- Michael Aldred – co-presenter of Ready Steady Go!
- Michael Aspel OBE – broadcaster
- Clive Barnes – theatre critic
- Simon Barnes – chief sports correspondent for The Times
- Bill Boorne – Theatre Critic & Journalist
- Andi Peters – television presenter and producer
- Paul Rambali – Music journalist & author
Other professions
- Charles Walter Clark FRIBA – main architect for the Metropolitan Line on the London Underground
- Michel Roux Jr – Two-starred Michelin chef and restaurateur and presenter of Masterchef
- Tomasz Starzewski – designer
Politics, public administration, and diplomacy
- The Rt Hon Richard Adams MP – politician, formerly Lord Commissioner of the Treasury
- Sir Alfred Butt MP – politician, theatre manager, race horse owner and breeder
- Ernest Crutchley CB, CMG, CBE – Minister /Deputy High Commissioner Australia
- Sir Arthur Galsworthy KCMG – British Ambassador to Ireland and formerly British High Commissioner to New Zealand
- Sir John Galsworthy KCVO, CMG – British Ambassador to Mexico
- Baron Hain of Neath, PC – formerly Secretary of State for Wales; previously Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland; Leader of the House of Commons and Lord Privy Seal
- The Rt Hon Geoffrey Robinson MP – formerly Paymaster General
- Mark MacGregor – politician, formerly Conservative Party chief executive
- Matthew Taylor – chief executive of the Royal Society of Arts
- Charles Wilfrid Scott-Giles OBE, FSA – Fitzalan Pursuivant of Arms Extraordinary
- Sir Sebastian Wood KCMG – British Ambassador to Germany; formerly British Ambassador to China, and Principal Private Secretary to the Cabinet
Professors and distinguished thinkers
- Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee OM, KBE, FRS, FRSA, FREng, DFBCS – inventor of the World Wide Web, recipient of the Millennium Technology Prize and professor at MIT
- Edward Bowell – astronomer, Lowell Observatory
- Professor Tony Brooker – Emeritus Professor of Computer Science, University of Essex
- Professor J Duncan M Derrett – Emeritus Professor of Oriental Laws, University of London
- Professor Derek Fray FRS, FREng – Professor of Materials Chemistry, and Fellow, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge; formerly Assistant Professor of Metallurgy at MIT
- Professor Robert Gibson – Emeritus Professor of Engineering Science, King's College, London
- A. C. Gimson – phonetician and head of the department of phonetics and linguistics, UCL
- Professor Peter Goddard CBE, FRS – mathematical physicist, director of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; formerly Master of St John's College, Cambridge; Honorary Fellow Isaac Newton Institute
- Professor Ivor James – professor of cello, Royal College of Music
- Professor Tony Judt FBA – historian, and Erich Maria Remarque Professor in European Studies, New York University. Nominated for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.
- Tom Kemp – Marxist economic historian and political theorist; formerly Reader in Economic History at the University of Hull
- William Lovelock – composer
- George Lyward OBE – educationalist, teacher,, and founder of Finchden Manor progressive community for young people
- Professor David Marquand FBA, FRSA, FRHistS – academic, visiting fellow and formerly principal of Mansfield College, Oxford; ex-Labour Party MP and SDP co-founder
- Professor Mark Miodownik MBE – materials scientist, University College London
- Professor Denis Noble CBE, FRS, FRCP, Emeritus Professor and co-Director of Computational Physiology, Balliol College, Oxford; formerly Burdon Sanderson Professor of Cardiovascular Physiology
- Professor John Paynter OBE, FRSA – composer and Emeritus Professor of Music University of York
- Edward P.F. Rose – paleontologist and geologist
- Professor Sir Owen Saunders Kt, FRS, FREng – Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Fellow, and formerly Rector of Imperial College, London and Vice-Chancellor of the University of London
Royalty and other nobility
- His Royal Highness Prince Abdul Hakeem Jefri Bolkiah of Brunei
Sport
Rowing
- Clint Evans – member of the 2005 Atlantic Rowing Race, overall winning crew and winning pairs team: C2
- Malcolm McGowan – Great Britain Olympic oarsman 1980; silver medalist Men's Coxed Eights & 1984 Finalist
- Anton Obholzer – Great Britain Olympic oarsman in Seoul. Member of GB Eight that came 4th.
- Clive Roberts – Great Britain Olympic oarsman in Los Angeles. Member of GB Eight that came 5th.
Rugby
- George Littlewood Hirst – Wales and Barbarians rugby international 1912–1914
- Tom Smith – Scotland and Lions rugby International
Cricket
- John Cole, first-class cricketer and British Army officer
- Ian Payne – cricketer
- Stuart Surridge – cricketer
- Leonard Shelton Heath Summers – cricketer
Notable Masters
- J. A. Cuddon – Writer, works include A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory
- Tristram Jones-Parry – Headmaster of Emanuel School 1994–1998; Headmaster of Westminster School 1998–2004