List of Old Uppinghamians

A

• Robert Adley, Member of Parliament for Bristol North East and Christchurch
• Sir Crispin Agnew of Lochnaw Bt, QC, Rothesay Herald and former explorer and mountaineer.
• Jonathan Agnew, England, Leicestershire cricketer and Chief Cricket Correspondent for BBC Radio
• John Aldridge, Royal Academician
• Anthony Armstrong, author, essayist, dramatist
• Sir William Mitchell Acworth KCSI, British railway economist, barrister and politician

  B

• Tristan Ballance, cricketer
• Adrian Bell, author of Corduroy
• Robin Blaze, countertenor
• Brian Boobbyer, England rugby player and evangelist for Moral Re-Armament
• Thomas George Bonney, geologist
• Ernle Bradford, historian and writer
• Katie Breathwick, broadcaster, Classic FM
• Captain Edward Brittain MC, younger brother of Vera Brittain, whose stories are told in her autobiography Testament of Youth

  C

• Everard Calthrop, railway engineer and inventor
• Donald Campbell, World Land and Water Speed record holder, killed on Coniston Water in Bluebird
• Sir Malcolm Campbell, holder of World Land and Water Speed records in 1920s and 1930s
• William Henry Charsley, Master of Charsley's Hall, Oxford
• Archie Cochrane, medic, researcher and pioneer of evidence-based medicine
• Holden Chow, solicitor and politician. He is the Vice-Chairman of the Democratic Alliance of the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong.
• Jonathan Crick, English barrister

  D

• Johnny Dawes, rock climber
• Adrian Dixon, Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge University
• Eric Dorman-Smith, British Army officer and Irish nationalist
• Rt Hon Stephen Dorrell, MP PC, Health Secretary 1995–97, current Chair of the Health Select Committee
• Norman Douglas, novelist and travel writer
• Charles Dunstone, co-founder of Carphone Warehouse

  E

• John H. Edwards and his brother A. W. F. Edwards
• Dan Everard, British inventor, engineer and author

  F

• William Fawcett, writer on horses, hunting and racing
• Ronald Firbank, novelist
• Pat Fish, songwriter and musician
• James Elroy Flecker, poet and dramatist
• Nick Freeman "Mr Loophole", celebrity lawyer
• Edward Fowler, cricketer
• Stephen Fry, actor, comedian and writer, expelled in 1972

  G

• Christopher Gabbitas, baritone for The King's Singers
• William Garforth, cricketer and soldier
• Andrew Gimson, political Journalist
• Piers Gough, architect

  H

• John Hare, cricketer
• Johnny Hon, Entrepreneur and Founder of The Global Group
• Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
• William Frederick Hartman, founder of Lendrum & Hartman Limited prestigious London importer of US cars
• E. W. Hornung, author
• Danny Hipkiss, professional Rugby player, Leicester Tigers and England
• Lieutenant-General Sir Brian Horrocks, British Army general, distinguished corps commander in the Second World War
• Henry Hughes, cricketer

  I

• George Ivatt, mechanical engineer

  J

• Hugh Jackman, actor
• Christian Jessen, doctor and television presenter
• Harry Judd, musician and member of McFly

  K

• Boris Karloff, actor Frankenstein
• Dominic Keating, actor
• Andrew Kennedy, Tenor
• Patrick Kinmonth, opera director, stage designer, writer
• Norman Knight, cricketer and colonial administrator

  L

• Edward Thurlow Leeds, archaeologist, Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum 19281945
• John Lees, cricketer
• Sir David Li, current chairman and chief executive of the Bank of East Asia in Hong Kong
• Lieutenant Roland Leighton, fiancé of Vera Brittain, whose stories are told in her autobiography Testament of Youth
• Hugh Lamberton, scientist and co-developer of the Pearson Lamberton TEA laser

  M

• Sir Claude Maxwell Macdonald, soldier-diplomat
• Gregor MacGregor, England, Scotland, Cambridge University, Middlesex cricketer and rugby player
• Sir Frederick Orridge MacMillan, Publisher.
• Maurice Crawford MacMillan, Publisher.
• Charles Mallam, cricketer
• Tim McMullan, actor
• Tim Melville-Ross, head of CBI and Institute of Directors
• Sir Dermot Milman, 8th Baronet, rugby union international and first-class cricketer
• Ed Minton and Alex Davies, members of rock band Elliot Minor
• Ernest John Moeran, composer
• Oscar Murton, Baron Murton of Lindisfarne, politician

  N

• Richard Lewis Nettleship, philosopher
• C. R. W. Nevinson, Official War Artist in both World Wars
• Ernest Newton, architect, President RIBA

  O

P

• Canon Jeremy Pemberton, the first Church of England priest to marry his same-sex partner
• William Pershke, cricketer
• Dickson Poon, businessman and non-executive Chairman of Harvey Nichols
• Peter Powell, Radio One disc jockey
• William Henry Pratt, who achieved fame under his stage name, Boris Karloff
• James Purves, cricketer

  Q

R

• Professor Canon Charles E. Raven Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, Theologian, Intellectual, Preacher
• Canon H. D. Rawnsley, co-founder of the National Trust
• Mark Redhead, Producer
• Lieutenant Victor Richardson MC, associate of Vera Brittain, whose stories are told in her autobiography Testament of Youth
• Edward Riddell, cricketer
• Thomas Ridley, cricketer, barrister and clergyman
• Sam Riley, Actor
• David Ross, co-founder of Carphone Warehouse
• Alan Rotherham,, former England rugby union international, captain of England, and inductee into the IRB Hall of Fame
• Guy Rowlands, Historian

  S

• Sir Reginald Savory, British Indian Army Officer in World War I and World War II
• John Schlesinger, film director
• Cecil Sharp, musician, collector and populariser of English folk song and dance
• Charlie Simpson, Musician in Busted, Fightstar and as a solo artist
• Sir Arthur Somervell, composer
• Toby Spence, tenor
• Phil Spencer, property expert, Channel 4 television
• Ed Stafford, Explorer, walking the length of the Amazon River
• Rick Stein, chef and restaurateur
• George Martin Stephen, Headmaster of St Paul's School
• John Suchet, journalist and broadcaster

  T

• Shiv Thakor, cricketer
• Richard Thorp, actor, writer
• Robert Thorogood, actor, writer Death in Paradise
• Richard Tice, businessman and politician
• Edward Timpson Conservative Member of Parliament for Crewe and Nantwich

  U

V

• Johnny Vaughan, TV presenter

  W

• Anthony Way, former chorister, St Paul's Cathedral
• James Whitaker, Leicestershire and England cricketer
• Jenny Willott, Member of Parliament for Cardiff Central
• Charles Plumpton Wilson, England footballer

  X

Y

• William Yates, former member of both British and Australian Parliaments

  Z