List of people educated at Whitgift School

This is a list of Old Whitgiftians (abbreviated OWs), former pupils of Whitgift School, which is a British independent boys' day school in South Croydon.

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]
• Liam Hudson, social psychologist and author[12]
• Kenneth H. Jackson, linguist and translator[13]
• Euan MacKie, archaeologist and anthropologist[14]
• Michael Posner, economist[15]
• Dafydd Stephens, audiological physician[16]
• John Tedder, 2nd Baron Tedder, professor of chemistry[17]
• Eric Tomlin, philosopher[18]
• Sir Gilbert Walker, physicist and statistician[19]
• Roger Wickson, teacher, historian[20]
• Paul Wild, pioneering radio astronomer, chairman of CSIRO[21]

Business

• Sir Bernard Ashley, businessman, husband of Laura Ashley[22]
• Jerry Buhlmann, Chief Executive of Aegis Group[23]
• John Wingett Davies (1908–1992), cinema exhibitor and director of Davies and Newman[24]
• Andy Duncan, former Chief Executive, Channel 4[25]
• Kevin Kalkhoven, venture capitalist

Law, government and politics

• Edward Archer, Australian politician[26]
• Lord Bowness, Conservative politician[27]
• Scroop Egerton, 1st Duke of Bridgewater, British peer and courtier[28]
• Eddy Butler, far right politician[29]
• Sir Nicholas Carew, 1st Baronet, politician, MP for Haslemere[2]
• Sir Jeremy Cooke, High Court judge[30]
• Lord Diplock, judge and Law Lord[31]
• Lord Freeman, Conservative politician[32]
• 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
• 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]

Media, music and the arts

• Derren Brown, illusionist[41]
• Leonard Barden, chess columnist[42]
• Eric Barker, writer and comedian
• Jamie Bulloch, translator
• Loyle Carner, hip hop musician [43]
• Tim Davie, Director-General, BBC
• Basil Dean, actor, film and theatrical producer/director[44]
• Robert Dougall, BBC newsreader and President of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)[45]
• Paul England (1893–1968), actor, singer, director, author, and translator[46]
• Sir Newman Flower, publisher and author[47]
• Neil Gaiman, author[48]
• Jonathan "JB" Gill, member of the band JLS[49]
• Tim Gudgin, BBC radio presenter and voiceover artist[36]
• Martin Jarvis, actor[50]
• Gordon Kaufmann, British-American architect[51]
• Robert Keable, novelist and priest[2]
• Michael Legat, author, publisher[52]
• Conrad Leonard, composer and pianist[53]
• Peter Ling, creator of TV soap Crossroads[54]
• Anthony McCall, avant-garde artist[36]
• Tarik O'Regan, composer[55]
• Gary Taphouse, Sky Sports football commentator
• Jon Pearn, Grammy Award & Ivor Novello Award nominated record producer
• Steve Punt, writer, comedian and actor[56]
• Leon Quartermaine, stage actor[2]
• Jeremy Sams, director, writer, orchestrator and lyricist[36]
• Mark Shivas, film and television producer[57]
• Alan Truscott, bridge player, columnist, author[58]
• William Waterhouse, bassoonist and musicologist[59]
• Colin Watson, author[60]
• Pete Wiggs, musician.[61]
• Harcourt Williams, actor and director[2]
• Guy Woolfenden, conductor and composer with around 150 scores for the Royal Shakespeare Company[62]

Military

• Group Captain John "Cats Eyes" Cunningham, RAF officer and ace pilot[63]
• Air Vice-Marshal John Downey, RAF officer and fighter pilot[64]
• Captain Alex Eida RHA, army officer, killed in action in Afghanistan, 1 August 2006[65]
• Captain Kenneth Lockwood, prisoner at Colditz, honorary secretary of Colditz Association[66]
• Lieutenant colonel Colin "Mad Mitch" Mitchell, Commanding Officer 1st Battalion The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, politician, founder of the Halo Trust[67]
• 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[68]
• 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[69]
• General Sir Peter Wall, officer and former head of the British Army as Chief of the General Staff[70]

Sport

• Troy Brown, footballer, Rotherham United and Wales under-21[71]
• Rory Burns, cricketer Surrey CCC[72]
• Danny Cipriani, rugby union player, England Rugby and Sale Sharks[73]
• Vivian Crawford, cricketer, England, Surrey CCC and Leicestershire CCC[74]
• Elliot Daly, rugby union player, England Rugby, Barbarians, British and Irish Lions and Saracens[75]
• Laurie Evans, cricketer, Warwickshire CCC[71]
• Mark Foster, rugby union player, Exeter Chiefs[71]
• Lee Hills, footballer, Crystal Palace
• Callum Hudson-Odoi, footballer, Chelsea[76]
• George Keay, cricketer
• Tom Lancefield, cricketer, Surrey CCC[71]
• Tosh Masson, rugby union player, Harlequins[77]
• George Merrick, rugby union player, Clermont Auvergne[78]
• George Pilkington Mills, English racing cyclist[2]
• Victor Moses, footballer, Chelsea and Nigeria[79]
• Lawrence Okoye, American Football Player, San Francisco 49ers, British discus record holder[80]
• Jason Roy, cricketer, Surrey CCC[81]
• Dominic Sibley, cricketer Warwickshire CCC[82]
• Jamie Smith, cricketer, Surrey CCC
• Stan South, rugby union player, Exeter Chiefs[78]
• Matthew Spriegel, cricketer, Northamptonshire CCC[83]
• Robert Strang, English cricketer[84]
• Raman Subba Row, cricketer, England, Surrey and Northamptonshire[85]
• Adam Thompstone, rugby union player, Leicester Tigers[86]
• Richard Thorpe, rugby union player, Leicester Tigers[71]
• Bertrand Traoré, footballer, Chelsea
• Dudley Tredger, British Épée fencer[87]
• Freddie van den Bergh, cricketer, Surrey CCC[88]
• Harry Williams, rugby union player, Exeter Chiefs, England Rugby
• Marland Yarde, rugby union player, Sale Sharks

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[89]
• 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[90]
• Martin Coles Harman, self-styled King of Lundy
• Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Nottingham, aristocrat[91]
• Michael Manktelow, priest, former Bishop of Basingstoke[92]
• James Roxburgh, priest, former Bishop of Barking[93]
• Francis Skeat, church stained glass designer[94]
• Graham Smith, priest, Dean of Norwich till 2013[95]
• Cyril Uwins, test pilot[96]

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