List of people educated at St John's School, Leatherhead

A

• Richard Acworth, Archdeacon of Wells from 1993 to 2003
• David Alesworth, ARBS, artist based in Pakistan
• The Rt Rev. Hugh Ashdown, 8th Bishop of Newcastle

  B

• David Balcombe, cricketer
• Edward Alexander Bannister CMG QC, former Commercial Court Judge of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court based in the BVI
• Thomas Barfett MA, Archdeacon of Hereford, Canon Residentiary at Hereford Cathedral between 1977 and 1982
• Robert Stanley Warren Bell, novelist, journalist and first editor of The Captain
• The Rev. Dr. Anthony Bird, priest, physician and academic
• The Rt Rev. Jim Bishop, Suffragan Bishop of Malmesbury
• John Blair FSA, FBA, Professor of Medieval History and Archaeology at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford
• Paul Boissier, former headmaster of Harrow School, wartime civil servant and cricketer
• John Westerdale Bowker, Honorary Canon of Canterbury Cathedral, consultant to UNESCO, BBC broadcaster, author and editor
• Peter Bruinvels, former Conservative MP
• Septimus Brutton, cricketer
• Sir Paul Bryan DSO MC, former Conservative MP
• The Rt Rev. Mark Bryant, 2nd Bishop of Jarrow
• John Burgess, Ireland Rugby International
• Ronald Burroughs , diplomat, Her Majesty's Ambassador to Algeria between 1971 and 1973
• Rupert Bursell QC, barrister and priest

  C

• Sir Henry Calley DL DFC DSO, senior officer in the RAF during World War II, local politician and owner of a stud farm
• Basil Fulford Lowther Clarke, priest and architectural historian
• Rear Admiral Christopher Clayton, former senior officer in the Royal Navy
• Victor Clube, first class cricketer and astrophysicist
• John Collinson, cricketer
• John Cook, composer, organist and church musician
• James Cope, cricketer
• The Ven. Alexander Cory, Archdeacon of the Isle of Wight
• Air Commodore James Baird Coward AFC, senior officer in the Royal Air Force
• Walter Crawley, lawn tennis player who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics
• Sir Peter Cresswell DL, former judge of the High Court

  D

• The Rt Rev. Edward Darling, Bishop of Limerick and Killaloe between 1985 and 2000
• Jenkin Alban Davies, Wales Rugby International
• The Rt Rev. Stephen Davies, Bishop of Carpentaria
• Giles Dilnot, BBC Daily Politics Political Correspondent and co-presenter
• Wing Commander John Dowland , senior officer in the Royal Air Force who was awarded the GC
• Lancelot Driffield, cricketer
• Peter Drury, football commentator
• Kenneth Durham, educator

  E

• Basil Ede, wildlife artist
• John Hugh David Eland FRS, chemist
• Mohamed A. El-Erian, businessman
• The Ven. John Mascal Evans, Archdeacon of Surrey between 1968 and 1980
• Arthur Evanson, England Rugby International
• Wyndham Evanson, England Rugby International
• Sir Anthony Ewbank QC, judge

  G

• Sir Richard Lavenham Gardner FRSB FRS, embryologist and geneticist
• Paymaster J.T. Gedge, first British officer to be killed in the First World War
• Professor Nigel Glendinning, authority on Goya and 18th Century Spanish literature
• The Rt Rev. Ronald Goodchild, Bishop of Kensington 1964-80
• Geoffrey Grigson, poet, anthologist and critic
• Air Commodore John William Boldero "Jack" Grigson DSO, DFC & Two Bars, senior British officer in the Royal Air Force
• Sir Wilfrid Vernon Grigson CSI, soldier, senior civil servant and colonial administrator

  H

• John Harvey, architectural historian
• Sir David Hatch CBE, BBC Radio manager and producer
• Richard Haughton, rugby sevens referee and former rugby union player
• Gavin Hewitt, Europe Editor of BBC News
• Robert Lockhart Hobson CB, Keeper, Department of Oriental Antiquities and Ethnography at the British Museum
• The Ven. George Hodges, Archdeacon of Sudbury
• Paymaster-Captain Basil Hood CBE DSO, senior officer in the Royal Navy
• Sir Anthony Hope, author of adventure novels such as The Prisoner of Zenda
• Major-General Malcolm Hunt OBE RM, Commanding Officer of 40 Commando RM during the Falklands War

  J

• Michael James, cricketer
• Gwilliam Iwan Jones, photographer and anthropologist

  K

• George Kruis, England Rugby International

  M

• Claudia MacDonald, England Rugby International
• Alex Macqueen, actor
• The Rt Rev. Morris Maddocks, bishop
• Humfrey Malins CBE, former Conservative MP
• Sir Arthur Wellington Marshall DL, High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire in 1890
• Very Rev. Peter Jerome Marshall, Dean of Worcester, 1997–2006, now Emeritus
• Christopher Matthews, businessman
• Air Vice Marshal Forster Herbert Martin "Sammy" Maynard, CB, AFC, World War II flying ace
• The Very Rev. John Methuen, Dean of Ripon between 1995 and 2005
• Guy Michelmore, composer and former news presenter
• Patrick Ferguson Millard, artist
• Philip Morgan, cricketer, athlete, clergyman and educator
• James Morwood, classicist

  N

• L. Everard Napier CIE FRCP, physician specialising in tropical medicine
• Lllewellyn Charles Nash, Ireland Rugby International
• Andrew Norriss, author and TV sitcom writer

  P

• The Very Rev. John Penfold, Dean of the Island and Bailiwick of Guernsey and its Dependencies
• Thomas Perkins, cricketer
• Sir Stephen Herbert Pierssené, General Director of Conservative Central Office between 1945 and 1957
• Denys Campion Potts, scholar and authority on French literature

  R

• Reverend Vivian Redlich, missionary in Papua New Guinea when the Japanese invaded in 1942, beheaded in August that year
• Jonathan Rendall, author
• Lieutenant Commander Eric Gascoigne Robinson VC
• Tom Rogan, journalist
• Lord Richard Rogers, architect
• Sir Robert Romer GCB PC FRS, judge
• The Rt Rev. David Rossdale, former Bishop of Grimsby
• Squadron Leader Peter Rothwell, bomber pilot, key figure in the defence of Malta during World War II

  S

• Dr Louis Charles Arthur Savatard Hon.M.Sc., L.S.A., dermatologist
• Lt.-Col. Derek Seagrim VC
• Charles Haslewood Shannon, artist
• The Rt Rev. E.D. Shaw, cricketer and later Bishop of Buckingham
• Victor Silvester OBE, dancer, musician and bandleader
• Nicholas Smith, actor
• Air Commodore Ian Stewart, senior officer in the Royal Air Force
• Claude Stokes CIE DSO OBE, Indian Army officer, later diplomat
• Raymond Toole Stott MBE, bibliographer, historian of the circus and its allied arts
• Patrick Sykes, England Rugby International
• Wymond Cory Symes, businessman, sportsman and member of the Bombay Legislative Council

  T

• Sir Thomas Shenton Whitelegge Thomas GCMG GCStJ, last Governor of the Straits Settlements
• Simon Thomas, former Blue Peter presenter
• John Henry Thorpe OBE, Conservative MP
• Sir Arthur Charles Trevor, KCSI, senior civil servant and colonial administrator
• Dr Robert Twycross FRCP FRCR, Macmillan Clinical Reader in Palliative Medicine, Oxford University, 1988–2001, now Emeritus

  W

• The Ven. Ted Ward, Archdeacon of Sherborne and Chaplain of the Royal Chapel in Windsor Great Park
• Sir Telford Waugh KCMG, diplomat
• John Wells, Professor of Phonetics, University College London, 1988–2006, now Emeritus
• Edward Allan Wicks CBE, Organist, Canterbury Cathedral, 1961–88
• William Williams, Wales Rugby International
• The Rt Rev. Leonard Wilson, priest, Bishop of Singapore 1941-49, Dean of Manchester 1949-53, Bishop of Birmingham 1953-69
• The Ven. Mark Wilson, Archdeacon of Dorking, 1996–2005
• Sir Wilfrid Wentworth Woods KCMG KBE, colonial administrator
• Lieutenant Geoffrey Harold Woolley VC, the first Territorial Army officer to win the VC
• Sir Leonard Woolley, archaeologist