List of Old Paulines

16th century

• John Leland ; antiquary
• George Lily ; Catholic priest, biographer and topographer
• Peter Carew ; adventurer
• Thomas Gresham ; founder of the Royal Exchange
• William Harrison ; clergyman and author of The Description of England
• William Camden ; antiquary

  17th century

• John Milton ; poet
• Samuel Pepys ; civil servant and diarist
• James Hayes ; Prince Rupert's secretary and first Deputy Governor, Hudson's Bay Company.
• George Jeffreys ; Lord Chief Justice
• Samuel Johnson English political writer
• John Churchill ; army officer and 1st Duke of Marlborough
• Edmond Halley ; astronomer, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist
• Spencer Compton ; Earl of Wilmington and Prime Minister of Great Britain
• Roger Cotes ; mathematician

  18th century

• Joshua Toulmin ; Dissenting minister
• George Dance the Younger ; architect
• John André ; army officer and spy
• Thomas Taylor ; scholar and translator
• Thomas Clarkson ; anti-slavery campaigner
• Daniel Alexander ; architect

  19th century

• Richard Ryan ; biographer, poet and playwright
• Joseph Blakesley ; clergyman
• Benjamin Jowett ; Master of Balliol College, Oxford
• Henry Baden-Powell KC ; older brother of Robert Baden-Powell, founder of Sea Scouts, angler and notable canoe author & designer
• Ray Lankester ; zoologist
• Cecil Clementi Smith ; colonial administrator
• Bertrand Dawson, 1st Viscount Dawson of Penn ; Royal physician
• Sidney Alexander ; Newdigate Prize Winner and Canon, St. Paul's
• Gilbert Walker ; Physicist and Statistician
• Charles Beazley ; Historian and academic
• Laurence Binyon ; poet
• Sidney Barton ; diplomat
• Sir Walter Willson, member of the Legislative Assembly of India.
• William Martin Geldart ; jurist
• Aurobindo Ghose ; Indian mystic, philosopher, poet, yogi and guru
• G. K. Chesterton ; writer
• Edmund Clerihew Bentley ; journalist and poet
• Leslie Mathews ; cricketer and educator
• Edward Thomas ; poet
• Ernest Shepard ; illustrator of Winnie the Pooh and The Wind in the Willows
• James Garnett ; educationist, barrister, and peace campaigner
• Leonard Woolf ; civil servant and political theorist
• Edward Ayrton ; Egyptologist and archaeologist
• Compton Mackenzie ; writer
• Otto Niemeyer, director at the Bank of England
• John Littlewood ; mathematician
• Philip Clayton, founder of Toc H
• Duncan Grant, Bloomsbury painter
• Valentine Vivian ; vice-chief of SIS; head of counter-espionage
• George Watson ; mathematician
• Bernard Law Montgomery, World War II General and Field Marshall
• Archibald Low, ; scientist and inventor
• G. D. H. Cole, political philosopher
• Leonard Hodgson, theologian
• Paul Nash ; artist
• Isaac Rosenberg; ;poet
• John Armstrong ; artist
• Victor Gollancz ; publisher
• Baron Hannen ; judge
• Ewart Alan Mackintosh MC,war poet and an officer in the Seaforth Highlanders
• Henry Daniell ; actor
• Leonard Barnes ; anticolonialist writer and educationalist
• B. H. Liddell Hart ; military strategist
• George Catlin ; political scientist and philosopher
• Indra Lal Roy ; World War I fighter ace

  20th century

• Hugh Schonfield ; biblical scholar, critic of St Paul
• Desmond Nethersole-Thompson ; renowned British ornithologist, naturalist and authour
• Magnus Pyke ; author, scientist
• Isaiah Berlin ; political philosopher and historian of ideas
• Max Beloff ; historian
• George Ignatieff ; Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations
• Eric Newby ; writer
• John Russell ; chief art critic, NY Times
• John Chadwick ; linguist, assisted Michael Ventris in the 1953 decipherment of Linear B.
• Norman Mischler ; cricketer
• Dennis Brain ; horn player
• Lister Sinclair ; writer, actor, playwright and presenter with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
• Anthony Hinds ; film producer and scriptwriter, known for Hammer Films
• Ian Allan, OBE ; book publisher and railwayman
• Sir Ninian Stephen ; Governor-General of Australia, Justice of the High Court of Australia
• Donald Nicol ; byzantinist
• Nicholas Parsons ; actor and television presenter
• Peter Hilton ; mathematician
• Clement Freud ; writer, broadcaster and politician
• James Moorhouse ; politician
• Pete Murray ; broadcaster and disc jockey
• Klaus Roth ; mathematician, Fields medallist
• Patrick David Wall ; neuroscientist
• John Thorn ; headmaster of Repton and Winchester, chairman of the Headmasters' Conference for 1981
• Anthony Shaffer ; author, playwright
• Richard Wilson ; physicist
• Peter Shaffer ; author, playwright
• Alexis Korner ; blues musician
• Ioan James ; mathematician
• Greville Janner, politician
• John Dunwoody ; politician
• Stanley Sadie ; musicologist, editor of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
• Chris Barber ; trombonist, jazz band leader
• Antony Jay ; writer of Yes Minister, broadcaster
• Brian Widlake ; presenter of The World at One and PM and The Money Programme
• Oliver Sacks ; neurologist, author
• Julian Bream ; classical guitarist
• Kenneth Baker ; politician
• Jonathan Miller ; theatre and opera director
• Basil Moss ; television and radio actor
• Bob Jeffery, Dean Emeritus of Worcester
• Richard Gombrich, professor of Sanskrit
• Benjamin Zander ; conductor
• Robert Winston ; biologist and television presenter
• Neil Trevor Kaplan, High Court judge, Hong Kong
• Chris Green ; railway manager
• John Gilbert, television writer, director and producer
• Tim Razzall, politician and solicitor
• John Simpson ; journalist
• Serge Lourie ; local politician and Leader of London Borough of Richmond upon Thames
• Paul Cartledge ; Levantis Professor of Greek Culture, Cambridge University
• Duncan Fallowell ; author
• Jon Blair ; television & film writer, director and producer
• Tim Hunkin ; inventor
• Lloyd Dorfman ; billionaire, philanthropist
• Terence Etherton ; Master of the Rolls
• Tim Fywell, television and film director
• Philip Hardie, professor and specialist in Latin literature, Cambridge University
• Duncan Haldane, 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics laureate
• Richard Davenport-Hines ; historian, writer
• Roly Bain, clown-priest
• David Bean, judge
• Rob Manzoli ; musician, lead guitarist Right Said Fred
• Glen Oglaza ; political correspondent of Sky News
• Tom Hayhoe ; director of healthcare organisations, offshore racing sailor
• David Shilling ; hat designer
• Luke Hughes ; furniture designer
• Simon Fraser ; Diplomat, Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs July 2010 – July 2015
• Francis Wright ; actor and puppeteer
• Maxwell Caulfield ; actor
• Iain Gale ; journalist and author
• Euclid Tsakalotos ; Greek economist and politician, former Greek Minister of Finance
• Simon Milton ; politician
• David Levin ; businessman, CEO of McGraw-Hill Education
• Ian Livingstone ; chairman and co-owner, London & Regional Properties
• Ben Watt ; musician
• Imre Leader : mathematician, Othello player
• James Reed ; chairman, Reed Group
• William Goodchild ; composer and orchestrator
• James Kennard ; rabbi and educationalist
• Patrick Marber ; playwright
• Stephen Greenhalgh ; Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime in London since June 2012
• Robert Asch ; journalist and author; co-editor of St Austin Review
• Ed Vaizey ; M.P. May 2005 – present
• Neil Jones ; Director of Studies in Law at Magdalene College, Cambridge
• Hal Cruttenden ; actor and comedian
• James Harding ; editor of The Times newspaper
• Alan Cox ; actor
• James Hyman ; presenter
• James Max ; broadcaster, journalist
• Alex Chesterman ; entrepreneur
• George Osborne ; M.P. June 2001, Chancellor of the Exchequer May 2010 – July 2016
• Sam Houser ; president of Rockstar Games
• Patrick Neate ; novelist
• Sacha Tarter ; actor and screenwriter
• Theo Hobson ; theorist
• Jamie Bamber ; actor
• Tom Tugendhat ; M.P. May 2015 – present
• Dan Houser ; vice-president of Rockstar Games
• Simon Dennis ; rower and Olympic gold medalist
• Ben Jones ; London street preacher and featured in Bill Maher's Religulous
• Rory Kinnear ; actor
• Dan Snow ; journalist & television presenter
• Robin Walker ; M.P. May 2010 – present
• Blake Ritson ; actor
• Tim Kash ; television presenter
• Robin Ticciati ; conductor
• Benjamin Paisner ; entrepreneur and philanthropist
• Henry Lloyd-Hughes, actor
• Charlie Fink ; musician and member of folk band Noah and the Whale
• Winston Marshall ; musician and member of folk band Mumford & Sons
• Will Attenborough ; actor
• George Burgess ; entrepreneur, Founder and CEO of Gojimo
• Sam Cato ; cricketer

  Victoria Cross holders

• Captain Randolph Cosby Nesbitt, VC,, British South Africa Police. Later promoted to Major during the South African War. Awarded for act that took place during the Mashona Rebellion of 1896–1897.
• Major Cuthbert Bromley, VC, 1st Lancashire Fusiliers. Awarded for act that took place during the First World War.
• Major Oliver Cyril Spencer Watson, VC, DSO,, Yeomanry, attached King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. Later promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel. Awarded for act that took place during the First World War.