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This is a list of Old Whitgiftians (abbreviated OWs), former pupils of
Whitgift School , which is a British
private boys' day school in
South Croydon in London.
Academia, medicine and science
Gordon Kauffman , architect of the
Hoover Dam
Stafford Beer , cybernetics expert, businessman and author
[1]
Sir James Berry , surgeon
[2]
Peter Bourne , physician, anthropologist, biographer, author and international civil servant
[3]
Sir Robert Boyd , space research scientist
[4]
Donald Broom , biologist
[5]
Hugh Ernest Butler
FRSE , astronomer
Sir Bernard Crick , academic, British political theorist, author
[6]
Prof
John William Henry Eyre
FRSE , bacteriologist
Walter Godfrey , architect, antiquary, and architectural and topographical historian
[2]
Dalziel Hammick , research chemist
[7]
Bryan Harrison , virologist
[8]
Michael Hart , political scientist
Michael Hassell , biologist
[9]
Eric John Hewitt , plant physiologist
Arthur Robert Hinks , astronomer and geographer
[10]
Francis Hodgson , educator, cleric and author
[11]
Dr
Andrew Holding , Biomedical Academic and Radio Presenter
[12]
Liam Hudson , social psychologist and author
[13]
Kenneth H. Jackson , linguist and translator
[14]
Euan MacKie , archaeologist and anthropologist
[15]
Michael Posner , economist
[16]
Kawal Rhode , engineer, professor at
King's College London
Dudley Shallcross , professor of atmospheric chemistry
Dafydd Stephens ,
audiological
physician
[17]
John Tedder, 2nd Baron Tedder ,
professor of chemistry
[18]
Eric Tomlin , philosopher
[19]
Sir Gilbert Walker ,
physicist and
statistician
[20]
Roger Wickson , teacher, historian
[21]
Paul Wild , pioneering radio astronomer, chairman of
CSIRO
[22]
Business
Law, government and politics
Edward Archer , Australian politician
[27]
Lord Bowness ,
Conservative politician
[28]
Scroop Egerton, 1st Duke of Bridgewater , British peer and courtier
[29]
Eddy Butler , far right politician
[30]
Sir Nicholas Carew, 1st Baronet , politician, MP for
Haslemere
[2]
Sir Jeremy Cooke , High Court judge
[31]
Lord Diplock , judge and
Law Lord
[32]
Lord Freeman ,
Conservative politician
Lord Freud , senior government advisor on welfare reform
[33]
Sir Daniel Harvey , merchant, politician, Ambassador to the
Ottoman Empire
[34]
David Kerr , Labour politician
[35]
Sir Keith Lindblom , High Court judge
[36]
Charles Jenkinson, 3rd Earl of Liverpool , politician
[2]
Lord Percy of Alnwick , MP for Marlborough, Portsmouth and Northumberland
[37]
Lord Prentice , politician
[38]
William Style , barrister and legal author
[2]
Lord Trend , civil servant[
citation needed ]
Lord Tope ,
Liberal Democrat politician
[39]
Richard Vaughan, 2nd Earl of Carbery , Welsh soldier, peer and politician
[2]
Lord Wedderburn of Charlton , Labour politician, lawyer
[40]
Timothy Fancourt , Barrister and High Court judge
[41]
Media, music and the arts
Derren Brown , illusionist
[42]
Leonard Barden , chess columnist
[43]
Eric Barker , writer and comedian
Jamie Bulloch , translator
Loyle Carner , hip hop musician
[44]
Kit Connor , actor
[45]
Tim Davie , Director-General, BBC
Basil Dean , actor, film and theatrical producer/director
[46]
Robert Dougall , BBC newsreader and President of the
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)
[47]
Paul England (1893–1968), actor, singer, director, author, and translator
[48]
Sir Newman Flower , publisher and author
[49]
Neil Gaiman , author
[50]
Jonathan "JB" Gill , member of the band
JLS
[51]
Tim Gudgin , BBC radio presenter and voiceover artist
[36]
Martin Jarvis , actor
[52]
Gordon Kaufmann , British-American architect
[53]
Robert Keable , novelist and priest
[2]
Michael Legat , author, publisher
[54]
Conrad Leonard , composer and pianist
[55]
Peter Ling , creator of TV soap
Crossroads
[56]
Anthony McCall ,
avant-garde artist
[36]
Tarik O'Regan , composer
[57]
Gary Taphouse , Sky Sports football commentator
Jon Pearn ,
Grammy Award &
Ivor Novello Award nominated record producer
Steve Punt , writer, comedian and actor
[58]
Leon Quartermaine , stage actor
[2]
Jeremy Sams , director, writer, orchestrator and lyricist
[36]
Mark Shivas , film and television producer
[59]
Alan Truscott ,
bridge player, columnist, author
[60]
William Waterhouse ,
bassoonist and
musicologist
[61]
Colin Watson , author
[62]
Pete Wiggs , musician.
[63]
Harcourt Williams , actor and director
[2]
Guy Woolfenden , conductor and composer with around 150 scores for the
Royal Shakespeare Company
[64]
Daniel Munks , philosophy and theology undergraduate student at Jesus College, Oxford University; violinist for the Jesus Four and Oxford University Orchestra
Military
Group Captain
John "Cats Eyes" Cunningham , RAF officer and ace pilot
[65]
Air Vice-Marshal
John Downey , RAF officer and fighter pilot
[66]
Bryan Draper , RAF officer and flying ace
[67]
Captain
Alex Eida RHA , army officer, killed in action in Afghanistan, 1 August 2006
[68]
Anthony Eyre , RAF officer and flying ace
[69]
Captain
Kenneth Lockwood , prisoner at
Colditz , honorary secretary of Colditz Association
[70]
Lieutenant colonel
Colin "Mad Mitch" Mitchell , Commanding Officer 1st Battalion
The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders , politician, founder of the
Halo Trust
[71]
Vice Admiral
Henry Palmer , officer, Comptroller of Royal Navy
[2]
Air Vice-Marshal
Sir Frederick Hugh Sykes , officer,
Chief of the Air Staff and
Governor of Bombay
[72]
Sir Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder ,
Marshal of the Royal Air Force , Deputy Supreme Commander of
D-Day , and Deputy Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe under
Dwight D. Eisenhower .
[73] Tedder was the Allied witness who signed the
German Instrument of Surrender in May 1945, ending the Second World War in Europe.
General
Sir Peter Wall , officer and former head of the
British Army as
Chief of the General Staff
[74]
Sport
Edwin Bailey , cricketer (
Europeans )
Geoffrey Bozman , cricketer (Europeans)
Troy Brown , footballer,
Rotherham United and
Wales under-21
[75]
Rory Burns , cricketer Surrey CCC and England
[76]
Danny Cipriani , rugby union player,
England Rugby and
Sale Sharks
[77]
Ernest Cowdrey , cricketer, father of
Colin Cowdrey
Vivian Crawford , cricketer, England, Surrey CCC and Leicestershire CCC
[78]
Elliot Daly , rugby union player,
England Rugby ,
Barbarians ,
British and Irish Lions and
Saracens
[79]
Laurie Evans , cricketer,
Warwickshire CCC
[75]
Mark Foster , rugby union player,
Exeter Chiefs
[75]
Lee Hills , footballer,
Crystal Palace
Callum Hudson-Odoi , footballer,
Nottingham Forest
[80]
George Keay , cricketer
Tom Lancefield , cricketer,
Surrey CCC
[75]
Benjamin Lo, footballer and elite Product Manager
Tosh Masson , rugby union player,
Harlequins
[81]
George Merrick , rugby union player,
Clermont Auvergne
[82]
George Pilkington Mills , English racing cyclist
Victor Moses , footballer,
Chelsea and
Nigeria
[83]
Jamal Musiala , footballer,
Bayern Munich
[84]
Lawrence Okoye , American Football Player,
San Francisco 49ers , British
discus record holder
[85]
Gordon Orford , cricketer, Europeans
Jason Roy , cricketer, Surrey CCC and England
[86]
Dominic Sibley , cricketer, Surrey and Warwickshire CCC
[87]
Jamie Smith , cricketer,
Surrey CCC
Stan South , rugby union player,
Exeter Chiefs
[82]
Matthew Spriegel , cricketer, Northamptonshire CCC
[88]
Robert Strang , English cricketer
[89]
Raman Subba Row ,
cricketer , England, Surrey and Northamptonshire
[90]
Adam Thompstone , rugby union player,
Leicester Tigers
[91]
Richard Thorpe , rugby union player, Leicester Tigers &
Canada
[75]
[92]
Bertrand Traoré , footballer,
Aston Villa
Dudley Tredger , British
Épée
fencer
[93]
Freddie van den Bergh , cricketer, Surrey CCC
[94]
Harry Williams , rugby union player,
Exeter Chiefs ,
England Rugby
Marland Yarde , rugby union player,
Sale Sharks [
citation needed ]
Joseph Choong , modern pentathlete and Olympic gold medallist
Other
A
One Puffin coin of 1929, bearing the portrait of
Martin Coles Harman , Old Whitgiftian and self-styled King of
Lundy .
Colin Buchanan , priest, former
Bishop of Aston and
Bishop of Woolwich
[95]
Roberta Cowell , racing driver, World War 2 fighter pilot and the first known British
transsexual woman to undergo
sex reassignment surgery
Harold Davidson , "The Rector of Stiffkey", killed by a lion
[96]
Martin Coles Harman , self-styled King of
Lundy
Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Nottingham , aristocrat
[97]
Michael Manktelow , priest, former
Bishop of Basingstoke
[98]
James Roxburgh , priest, former
Bishop of Barking
[99]
Francis Skeat , church stained glass designer
[100]
Graham Smith , priest,
Dean of Norwich till 2013
[101]
Cyril Uwins , test pilot
[102]
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