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Alumni of the English school Charterhouse
The following are notable Old Carthusians, who are former pupils of Charterhouse (founded in 1611).
Politicians
- Thomas Chataway (1864β1925), Senator for Queensland (1907β1913)
- John Colville, 1st Baron Clydesmuir (1894β1954), politician, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, 1936β1938, Secretary of State for Scotland, 1938β1940, and Governor of Bombay, 1943β1948
- Fox Maule-Ramsay, 11th Earl of Dalhousie (1801β1874), Secretary at War, 1846β1852, and Secretary of State for War, 1855β1858
- Patrick Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 4th Baron Derwent (1901β1986), politician
- Henry William Newman Fane (1897β1976), Chairman of Kesteven County Council (1962β1967) and High Sheriff of Lincolnshire (1952)
- Thomas Milner Gibson (1806β1884), radical politician, President of the Board of Trade, 1859β1866
- Major John Gouriet (1935β2010), Conservative political campaigner and founder of The Freedom Association
- William Haines (1810β1866), Premier of Victoria (1855β1857; 1857β1858)
- Richard Hope Hall (1924β2007), Deputy Speaker of the Rhodesia House of Assembly (1973β1977)
- General Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay (1887β1965), Secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence, 1938β1946, Chief of Staff to the Viceroy of India, 1947β1948, and first Secretary General of NATO, 1952β1957
- Kenneth Jeyaretnam (born 1959), Singaporean politician
- Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool (1729β1808), Secretary at War, 1778β1782, first President of the Board of Trade, 1786β1804, and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1786β1803
- Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (1770β1828), Prime Minister, 1812β1827
- Sir Horatio Mann, 2nd Baronet (1744β1814), politician and patron of cricket
- Thomas Manners-Sutton, 1st Baron Manners (1756β1842), Lord Chancellor of Ireland (1807β1827)
- Hartland Molson (1907β2002), brewer and Canadian senator
- Geoffrey FitzClarence, 5th Earl of Munster (1906β1975), Paymaster General
- Matthew Oakeshott, Baron Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay (born 1947), Labour peer and Treasury minister in the 2010 Coalition government
- Ralph Bernal Osborne (c. 1808β1882), politician, Secretary of the Admiralty, 1852β1858
- Ivan Power (1903β1954), British diplomat and London County Councillor
- Sir Garrard Tyrwhitt-Drake (1881β1964), Mayor of Maidstone, zoo keeper
- James Vernon (c. 1646β1727), Secretary of State
- James Stuart-Wortley, 1st Baron Wharncliffe (1776β1845), politician and Lord President of the Council, 1841β1845
MPs
- John Archer-Houblon (1773β1831), MP for Essex (1810β1820)
- William Bagot, 3rd Baron Bagot (1811β1887), MP for Denbighshire (1835β1852)
- Thomas Barrett-Lennard (1788β1856), MP for Ipswich (1820β1826) and Maldon (1826β1837; 1847β1852)
- Richard Fellowes Benyon (1811β1897), MP for Berkshire (1860β1876)
- Reginald Blaker (1900β1975), MP for Spelthorne (1931β1945)
- John Gordon Drummond Campbell (1864β1935), MP for Kingston-upon-Thames (1918β1922)
- Douglas Carswell (born 1971), MP for Harwich (2005-10) and Clacton (2010β17)
- Ronald Cartland (1907β1940), MP and rebel against Chamberlain's appeasement policies, killed near Dunkirk in 1940; portrayed in Lynne Olson's "Troublesome Young Men."
- Arthur Stuart, 7th Earl Castle Stewart (1889β1961), MP for Harborough
- Henry Cautley, 1st Baron Cautley (1863β1946), MP for Leeds East and East Grinstead
- Sir Charles Clifford, 4th Baronet (1821β1895), MP for Isle of Wight (1857β1865) and Newport (1870β1885)
- Thomas Cobbold (1833β1883), MP for Ipswich (1876β1883) and diplomat
- Anthony Coombs (born 1952), MP for Wyre Forest
- Coningsby Disraeli (1867β1936), MP for Altrincham
- Ralph Etherton (1904β1987), MP for Stretford
- Clavering Fison (1892β1985), MP for Woodbridge
- Walter Fletcher (1892β1956), MP for Bury (1945β1950) and Bury and Radcliffe (1950β1955)
- Stephen Furness (1902β1974), MP for Sunderland (1935β1945)
- Richard Gardner (1812β1856), MP for Leicester (1847β1848; 1852β1856)
- Mark Garnier (born 1963), MP for Wyre Forest
- George Gipps (1783β1869), MP for Ripon (1807β1826)
- Charles Goodson-Wickes DL (born 1945), former soldier, businessman, consulting physician, and former Conservative MP for Wimbledon
- Sir Douglas Hall, 1st Baronet (1866β1923), MP for Isle of Wight (1910β1922)
- Sir George Hamilton, 1st Baronet (1877β1947), MP for Altrincham (1913β1923) and Ilford (1928β1937)
- Henry Handley (1797β1846), MP for Heytesbury (1820β1826) and South Lincolnshire (1832β1841)
- George Harrison (1680β1759), MP for Hertford (1727β1734; 1741β1759)
- Edward Hicks (1814β1889), MP for Cambridgeshire (1879β1885)
- Frederick Hindle (1877β1953), MP for Darwen (1923β1924)
- Geoffrey Hirst (1904β1984), MP for Shipley (1950β1970)
- Kirkman Hodgson (1814β1879), MP for Bridport and Bristol, and Governor of the Bank of England
- Sir Henry Hoghton, 7th Baronet (1768β1835), MP for Preston (1795β1802)
- Henry Thomas Howard (1808β1851), MP for Cricklade (1841β1847)
- Jeremy Hunt (born 1966), MP for South West Surrey and Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Edward John Hutchins (1809β1876), MP for Penryn and Falmouth (1840β1841) and Lymington (1850β1857)
- William Fletcher-Vane, 1st Baron Inglewood (1909β1989), MP for Westmorland and government minister
- John Jenkinson (1734?β1805), MP for Corfe Castle (1768β1780)
- Sir Geoffrey Johnson-Smith (1924β2010), MP for Holborn and St Pancras South, East Grinstead and Wealden
- David Jones (1810β1869), MP for Carmarthenshire (1852β1868)
- Sydney Jones (1872β1947), MP for Liverpool West Derby (1923β1924)
- Seymour King (1852β1933), MP for Kingston upon Hull Central (1885β1911)
- Timothy Kitson (1931β2019), MP for Richmond, North Yorkshire (1959β1983)
- Sir Frederick Knight (1812β1897), MP
- Sir Edmund Lechmere, 3rd Baronet (1826β1894), MP
- William Cunliffe Lister (1809β1841), MP for Bradford (1841)
- Lord Cecil Manners (1868β1945), MP for Melton (1900β1906)
- James Martin (1807β1878), MP for Tewkesbury (1859β1865)
- William Meeke (1758β1830), MP for Penryn (1796β1802)
- John Mills (1879β1972), MP for New Forest and Christchurch (1932β1945)
- John Pretyman Newman (1871β1947), MP for Enfield (1910β1918) and Finchley (1918β1923)
- Sir Charles Nicholson, 1st Baronet, of Harrington Gardens (1857β1918), MP for Doncaster (1906β1918)
- Reginald Nicholson (1869β1946), MP for Doncaster (1918β1922)
- George Palmer (1772β1853), MP for
- Thomas Erskine Perry (1806β1882), MP for Devonport (1854β1859)
- Vivian Phillipps (1870β1955), MP for Edinburgh West (1922β1924)
- Richard Pilkington (1908β1976), MP for Widnes (1935β1945) and Poole (1951β1964)
- William Pole-Carew (1811β1888), MP for East Cornwall (1845β1852)
- Rafton Pounder (1933β1991), MP for Belfast South (1963β1974)
- Uvedale Tomkins Price (1685β1764), MP for Weobley (1713β1715; 1727β1734)
- Jim Prior, Baron Prior (1927β2016), MP for Lowestoft and Waveney, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (1970β72), Secretary of State for Employment (1979β81)
- David Ricardo (1803β1864), MP for Stroud (1832β1833)
- Thomas Rider (1785β1847), MP for Kent (1831β1832) and West Kent (1832β1835)
- Benjamin Rodwell (1815β1892), MP for Cambridgeshire (1874β1881)
- George Schuster (1881β1982), MP for Walsall (1938β1945)
- McInnes Shaw (1895β1957), MP for Western Renfrewshire (1924β1929)
- Sir John Shelley, 7th Baronet (1808β1867), MP for Gatton (1830β1831), Great Grimsby (1831β1832), and Westminster (1852β1865)
- Waldron Smithers (1880β1954), MP for Chislehurst (1924β1945) and Orpington (1945β1954)
- Edward Richard Stewart (1782β1851), MP for Wigtown Burghs (1806β1809)
- Dick Taverne, Baron Taverne, (born 1928), MP for Lincoln, founder of Democratic Labour, co-founder of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and Liberal Democrat peer
- William Thompson (1792β1854), MP for Callington (1820β1826), London (1826β1832), Sunderland (1833β1841), and Westmorland (1841β1854), and Lord Mayor of London (1828β1829)
- Mike Thornton (born 1953), MP for Eastleigh
- Lord Edward Thynne (1807β1884), MP for Weobley (1831β1832) and Frome (1859β1865)
- Anthony Trafford, Baron Trafford (1932β1989), MP for The Wrekin
- George James Turner (1798β1867), MP
- Philip Twells (1808β1880), MP for City of London (1874β1880)
- Kenyon Vaughan-Morgan (1873β1933), MP for Fulham East (1922β1933)
- John Wakeham, Baron Wakeham, (born 1932), MP for Maldon and South Colchester and Maldon and government minister
- Thomas Spencer Wilson (1727β1798), MP for Sussex (1774β1780)
- Henry Wilson-Fox (1863β1921), MP for Tamworth
- Ian Winterbottom, Baron Winterbottom (1913β1992), MP for Nottingham Central
- Edmund Workman-Macnaghten (1790β1876), MP for Antrim (1847β1852)
- Tim Yeo (born 1945), MP for South Suffolk and former chairman of the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee
- Henry Redhead Yorke (1802β1848), MP for City of York (1841β1848)
- Robert Curzon, 14th Baron Zouche (1810β1873), MP for Clitheroe
Political scholars, activists, and others
- John Campbell (born 1947), political writer and biographer
- Adam Curle (1916β2006), British academic and Quaker peace activist
- Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson (1862β1932), political scholar
- Charles Evenden (1894β1961), British soldier who was the founder of the Memorable Order of Tin Hats
- Garry Thomson (1925β2007), British conservator and Buddhist
- Patrick Trevor-Roper (1916β2004), British eye surgeon and pioneer gay rights activist (witness before the Wolfenden Committee)
Royalty
- Yashwant Rao Holkar II (1907β1990), Maharaja of Indore
- Prince Albert of Schleswig-Holstein (1869-1931), grandson of Queen Victoria
- Prince Dilok Nobaratana (1884-1912), son of King Rama V of Siam
Nobility
- Sir Robert Abdy, 5th Baronet (1896β1976)
- Niall Campbell, 10th Duke of Argyll (1872β1949), hereditary peer
- Peter Baden-Powell, 2nd Baron Baden-Powell (1913β1962), hereditary peer
- Maxwell Aitken, 3rd Baron Beaverbrook (born 1951), hereditary peer
- Adrian Buckmaster, 4th Viscount Buckmaster (born 1949), hereditary peer
- Horace Lambart, 11th Earl of Cavan (1878β1950), Irish peer
- Sir Charles Clarke, 2nd Baronet (1812β1899)
- Robert Boyle, 11th Earl of Cork (1864β1934)
- Mark Pepys, 6th Earl of Cottenham (1903β1943), racing driver
- Edward Law, 5th Baron Ellenborough (1841β1915)
- Charles Campbell, 2nd Baron Glenavy (1885β1963), hereditary peer
- David Hacking, 3rd Baron Hacking (born 1938), hereditary peer
- Walter Angelo Fox-Strangways, 8th Earl of Ilchester (1887β1970)
- Richard Milner, 3rd Baron Milner of Leeds (born 1959), hereditary peer
- Simon Russell, 3rd Baron Russell of Liverpool (born 1952), crossbench peer
- Granville Eliot, 7th Earl of St Germans (1867β1942), hereditary peer
- Montague Eliot, 8th Earl of St Germans (1870β1960), hereditary peer
- Sir Gervais Tennyson d'Eyncourt, 2nd Baronet (1902β1971), landowner, Prime Warden of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers
- Henry Fowler, 2nd Viscount Wolverhampton (1870β1943), hereditary peer
Royal household and ceremonial positions
- Sir (Marsom) Henry Boyd-Carpenter (born 1939), courtier
- Hubert Chesshyre (born 1940), courtier
- John Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Lymington (1920β2005), Master of the Rolls
- Arthur Erskine (1881β1963), Crown Equerry (1924β1941)
- Charles Jenkinson, 3rd Earl of Liverpool (1784β1851), Lord Steward (1841β1846)
- Derek Keppel (1863β1944), Master of the Household (1913β1936)
- David McCorkell (born 1955), Lord-Lieutenant of County Antrim and former Board Director of Brewin Dolphin plc
- John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland (1759β1841), Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, 1789β1794, and Lord Privy Seal, 1798β1827
- Fiske Goodeve Fiske-Harrison (1793β1872), High Sheriff of Essex (1827)
- Charles Young (1795β1869), Garter Principal King of Arms (1842β1869)
Colonial administration
- John Adam (1779β1825), acting Governor-General of the British East India Company (1823)
- Oswald Raynor Arthur (1905β1973), Governor of the Falkland Islands (1954β1957) and Governor of the Bahamas (1957β1960)
- Edward Beetham (1905β1979), Governor of the Windward Islands (1953β1955) and Governor of Trinidad and Tobago (1955β1960)
- James Samuel Berridge (1806β1885), Governor of Saint Christopher (1872β1873)
- George Bowen (1821β1899), Chief Secretary of the Ionian Islands, 1854β1859, first Governor of Queensland, 1859β1867, Governor of New Zealand, 1867β1873, Governor of Victoria, 1873β1879, Governor of Mauritius, 1879β1882, and Governor of Hong Kong, 1882β1885
- Cavendish Boyle (1849β1916), Governor of Newfoundland (1901β1904) and of Mauritius (1904β1911)
- Sir Henry Ernest Gascoyne Bulwer (1836β1914), Governor of Natal 1882β1885
- Major-General Sir James Carmichael-Smyth, 1st Baronet (1779β1838), Governor of the Bahamas (1829β1833) and Governor of British Guiana (1833β1838)
- Geoffrey Francis Taylor Colby (1901β1958), Governor of Nyasaland (1948β1956)
- Elliot James Dowell Colvin (1885β1950), Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir
- Robert Henry Davies (1824β1902), Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab (1871β1877)
- William Des VΕux (1834β1909), Administrator of St Lucia, 1869β1878, Governor of Fiji, 1880β1885, Governor of Newfoundland, 1886β1887, and Governor of Hong Kong, 1887β1891
- Lieutenant-General Sir William Dobbie (1879β1964), Inspector, Royal Engineers, 1933β1935, General Officer Commanding Malaya and Singapore, 1935β1939, and Governor-General of Malta, 1940β1942
- Edward Hay Drummond Hay (1815β1884), President of the British Virgin Islands (1839β1850), Lieutenant Governor of Saint Christopher (1850β1855), and Governor of Saint Helena (1856β1863)
- Charles Du Cane (1825β1889), Governor of Tasmania (1869β1874)
- Peter Fawcus (1915β2003), Resident Commissioner of Bechuanaland (1960β1965)
- Laurence Guillemard (1862β1951), British High Commissioner in Malaya (1920β1927)
- Frederick Seton James (1870β1934), Colonial Secretary of the Straits Settlements (1916β1924) and Governor of the Windward Islands (1924β1930)
- Henry Lushington (1812β1855), Chief Secretary of Malta, 1847β1855
- Henry Augustus Marshall (c. 1776β1841), Civil Auditor General (1823β1841)
- Field Marshal Sir George Nugent, 1st Baronet (1757β1849), Lieutenant-Governor of Jamaica, 1801β1806, and Commander-in-Chief in India, 1811β1813
- Aubrey Metcalfe (1883β1957), Chief Commissioner of Baluchistan (1939β1943)
- Arthur Wigram Money (1866β1951), Chief Administrator of Palestine (1918β1919)
- John Giles Price (1808β1857), British penal governor at Norfolk Island
- Leslie Probyn (1862β1938), Governor of Sierra Leone (1904β1910) and Governor of Jamaica (1918β1924)
- Arthur Somers-Cocks, 6th Baron Somers (1887β1944), Governor of Victoria, 1926β1931, Deputy Chief Scout, 1936β1941, and Chief Scout, 1941β1944
- Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Knight Storks (1811β1874), last High Commissioner for the Ionian Islands, 1859β1863, Governor of Malta, 1864β1865, Governor of Jamaica, 1864β1866, Controller-in-Chief of the War Office, 1866β1870, and Surveyor-General of the Ordnance, 1870β1874
- Ronald Storrs (1881β1955), Oriental Secretary in Cairo, 1909β1915, Governor of Jerusalem, 1917β1926, Governor of Cyprus, 1926β1932, and Governor of Northern Rhodesia, 1932β1934
- John Sturrock (1875β1937), Resident Commissioner in Basutoland (1926β1935)
- Sir Charles Trevelyan, 1st Baronet (1807β1886), Assistant Secretary to HM Treasury & responsible for famine relief during the Irish famine, 1840β1859, Governor of Madras, 1859β1860, and Minister of Finance of India, 1862β1865
- William Douglas Young (1859β1943), Governor of the Falkland Islands
Diplomats
- Sir John Banham (born 1940), diplomat and business leader
- James Bowker (1901β1983), UK Ambassador to Burma (1948β1950), Turkey (1954β1958), and Austria (1958β1961)
- Francis Cornish (born 1942), diplomat and courtier
- Sir Frederick Currie, 1st Baronet (1799β1875), British diplomat
- Thomas Drew (1970β), British High Commissioner to Pakistan (2016βpresent) and Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (2012β2014)
- Gai Eaton (1921β2010), diplomat, writer and Sufist Islamic scholar
- Sir Leonard Figg (1923β2014), diplomat
- William Kerr Fraser-Tytler (1886β1963), envoy to Afghanistan (1935β1941)
- Donald Gainer (1891β1966), British ambassador to Venezuela (1939β1944), Brazil (1944β1947), and Poland (1947β1950)
- George Dixon Grahame (1873β1940), UK Ambassador to Belgium (1920) and UK Ambassador to Spain (1928β1935)
- John Hay Drummond Hay (1816β1893), British Ambassador to Morocco (1845β1886)
- George LabouchΓ¨re (1905β1999), British diplomat and collector of modern art
- Ronald Macleay (1870β1943), British diplomat
- Guy Millard (1917β2013), British diplomat
- Hubert Montgomery (1876β1942), Ambassador to the Netherlands
- William Frederick Travers O'Connor (1870β1943), Irish diplomat involved in the British expedition to Tibet and the NepalβBritain Treaty of 1923
- Augustus Paget (1823β1896), British Ambassador to Austria-Hungary (1884β1893)
- David Aubrey Scott (1919β2010), High Commissioner to New Zealand (1973β1975) and British Ambassador to South Africa (1976β1979)
- Walford Selby (1881β1965), British diplomat
- Sir Eric Teichman (1884β1944), diplomat and traveller in Central Asia, Chinese Secretary in Peking, 1922β1936
- Michael Walker (1916β2001), High Commissioner to Ceylon/Sri Lanka (1962β1966), Malaysia (1966β1971), and India (1974β1976)
- Charles Wingfield (1877β1960), British diplomat
Civil servants
- Sir George Barrow, 2nd Baronet (1806β1876), civil servant
- William Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge (1879β1963), civil servant, politician, economist and social reformer, Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Food, 1919, director of the London School of Economics, 1919β1937, and Master of University College, Oxford, 1937β1944
- James Brooks (1863β1941), Director of Victualling (1911β1923)
- Harry Chester (1806β1868), Secretary to the Privy Council
- Richard Dean (1772β1850), British civil servant
- Denis Dobson (1908β1995), Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Office (1968β1977)
- George Engle (1926β2016), First Parliamentary Counsel (1981β1987)
- Edward Anthony Hawke (1895-1964), Common Serjeant of London and Recorder of London
- Neville Leigh (1922β1994), Clerk of the Privy Council (1974β1984)
- Evan MacGregor (1842β1926), British civil servant
- Sir William Hay Macnaghten (1793β1841), Chief Secretary, Indian Secret and Political Department, 1833β1841
- Samuel March Phillipps (1780β1862), English civil servant
- Sir Reginald Palgrave (1829β1904), Clerk of the House of Commons, 1886β1900
- C. K. Rhodes (1889β1941), British civil servant for the Indian Civil Service
- Martin Rowlands (1925β2004), Secretary for the Civil Service in Hong Kong (1978β1985)
- Patrick Shovelton (1919β2012), British civil servant and transport executive
- Sir Charles Trevelyan (1807-1886) Administrator of relief during the Irish potato blight famine who believed that the disaster was God's judgement. Also during Highland Potato Famine.
- Sir John Lovegrove Waldron (1910β1975), Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, 1968β1972
Businesspeople
- Eric Vansittart Bowater (1895β1962), English businessmen who was CEO and chairman of Bowater
- Christopher Buxton (1929β2017), British property developer who pioneered the subdivision of English country houses into smaller units that enabled their owners to continue to live in part of their former home
- John Cazenove (1788β1879), English businessman and political economist
- Ian Davies (born 1951), chairman of Rolls-Royce Group plc
- Basil Eddis (1881β1971), Anglo-Indian businessman who was president of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry (1927β1928)
- Dudley Hooper (1911β1968), British accountant, early promoter of electronic data processing, and President of the British Computer Society
- Philip Jeyaretnam (born 1964), Singaporean businessman and CEO of Dentons
- William Madocks (1773β1828), property developer and politician, founder of Tremadog and Porthmadog
- Sir William McAlpine, 6th Baronet (1936β2018), British businessman who was director of Sir Robert McAlpine
- John Murray III (1808β1892), British publisher associated with the company of the same name
- Anthony Nares (1942β1996), British publisher
- Robin Niblett (born 1961), Director of Chatham House
- Archie Norman (born 1954), businessman, chairman of ITV plc and former Conservative MP for Tunbridge Wells
- Harry Oppenheimer (1908β2000), Chairman of De Beers
- Shirish Saraf (born 1967), entrepreneur
- Peter de Savary (1944-2022), entrepreneur and former chairman of Millwall F.C.
- George Samuel Fereday Smith (1812β1891), industrialist and canal manager
- Brian Harold Thomson (1918β2006), British newspaper proprietor for DC Thomson
Economists, financiers and bankers
- William Blake (1774β1852), English classical economist who contributed to the early theory of purchasing power parity
- Ronald Colville, 2nd Baron Clydesmuir (1917β1996), soldier, Governor of the Bank of Scotland
- Brien Cokayne, 1st Baron Cullen of Ashbourne (1864β1932), Governor of the Bank of England
- Arthur Lowes Dickinson (1859β1935), British chartered accountant who was senior partner of Price Waterhouse
- Maurice Dobb (1900β1976), economist
- Sir John Gieve KCB, (born 1950), Deputy Governor of the Bank of England
- Jonathan Goodwin (born 1975), British banker and investor
- Robert Neild (1924β2018), Cambridge economist and peace researcher
- Sir Inglis Palgrave (1827β1919), economist and banker
- John Horsley Palmer (1779β1858), Governor of the Bank of England
Academics
- Sheldon Amos (1835β1886), Professor of Jurisprudence, University College, London, 1869β1879, and University of London, 1873β1879, and lawyer and judge in Egypt
- Cardale Babington (1808β1895), Professor of Botany, University of Cambridge, 1861β1895
- Gregory Bateson (1904β1980), anthropologist and co-founder of cybernetics
- Sir William Blackstone (1723β1780), first Vinerian Professor of English Law, University of Oxford, 1758β1766, politician and judge
- Richard Lynch Cotton (1794β1880), Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford
- Edward Craig (born 1942), English academic philosopher, editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and cricketer who played one List-A and 50 first-class matches
- John Davies (1679β1732), Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
- Edward Eastwick (1814β1883), orientalist, diplomat and politician, Professor of Urdu, East India College, 1845β1857
- Sir Alan Gardiner (1879β1963), Egyptologist
- Herbert Giles (1845β1935), Sinologist, Professor of Chinese, University of Cambridge, 1897β1932, co-inventor of WadeβGiles transliteration system
- Geoffrey Gorer (1905β1985), anthropologist and author
- Thomas Greaves (1612β1676), English orientalist and a contributor to the London Polyglot
- Philip Seaforth James (1914-2001), an English Lawyer and Academic
- John Robert Kenyon (1807β1880), Vinerian Professor of English Law (1844β1880)
- Henry Liddell (1811β1898), Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, 1855β1891, editor of the Greek-English Lexicon
- Edmund Law Lushington (1811β1893), Rector of the University of Glasgow (1884β1887)
- John Sinclair Morrison (1913β2000), Professor of Greek, University of Durham, 1945β1950, Vice-Master of Churchill College, Cambridge, 1960β1965, first President of University College (later Wolfson College), Cambridge, 1965β1980, expert on Greek triremes
- Paul OppΓ© (1878β1957), English art historian, critic, art collector and museum official
- Arthur Rook (1918β1991), British dermatologist and the principal author of Rook's Textbook of Dermatology
- Kenneth Searight (1883β1957), linguist
- Horace Geoffrey Quaritch Wales (1900β1981), Southeast Asian studies
- Patrick Wilkinson, classical scholar
- Francis Wollaston (1762β1823), Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of Cambridge, 1792β1813
- Henry Cecil Kennedy Wyld (1870β1945), philologist and lexicographer, first Baines Professor of English Language and Philology, University of Liverpool, 1904β1920, Merton Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford, 1920β1945
Education leaders
- Samuel Berdmore (1739β1802), Master of Charterhouse School, 1769β1802
- William Lloyd Birkbeck (1806β1888), Master of Downing College, Cambridge (1885β1888)
- Ronald Burrows (1867β1920), Principal of King's College London (1913β1920)
- Warin Foster Bushell (1885β1974), educationalist and president of the Mathematical Association
- Walter Empson (1856β1934), New Zealand headmaster
- Andrew Graham (born 1942), Master of Balliol College, Oxford
- Michael Hoban (1921β2003), headmaster of Harrow School
- Sir Cyril Jackson (educationist) (1863β1924), Inspector-General of Schools, Western Australia, 1896β1903, Chief Inspector of Elementary Schools, 1903β1905, and Chairman of London County Council, 1915β?
- Edmund Keene (1714β1781), Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, Bishop of Chester and Bishop of Ely
- John King (c. 1655β1737), Master of Charterhouse 1715-1737
- Alexander Nowell (c. 1517β1602), Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford (1595β1596)
- J. F. Roxburgh (1888β1954), first head master of Stowe School, 1923β1949
- John Russell (1787β1863), Headmaster of Charterhouse
- Augustus Saunders (1801β1878), Headmaster of Charterhouse
- Andrew Tooke (1673β1732), headmaster of Charterhouse (1728β1732), Gresham Professor of Geometry, Fellow of the Royal Society and translator of Tooke's Pantheon
- George Waddington (1793β1869), Warden of Durham University (1862β1869)
Scientists
- Max Barclay (born 1970), entomologist
- Isaac Barrow (1630β1677), mathematician and theologian
- Richard Henry Beddome (1830β1911), British naturalist who was chief conservator of the Madras Forest Department
- Hugh Bostock (born 1944), British neuroscientist and Emeritus Professor of Neurophysiology at University College, London
- James Clark (born 1964), British computer programmer known for his open-source software work and writing groff
- J. Norman Collie (1859β1942), organic chemist and mountaineer, Professor of Organic Chemistry, University College, London, 1902β1928
- Charles John Cornish (1858β1906), English naturalist and author
- William Rutter Dawes (1799β1868), astronomer
- Edward A. Guggenheim (1901β1970), English physical chemist noted for his contributions to thermodynamics
- William Hamilton (1805β1867), geologist and politician
- Sir Henry Head (1861β1940), neurologist
- George Hampson (1860β1936), British entomologist
- Henry Hayter (1821β1895), English-born Australian statistician
- Terence Kealey (born 1952), biochemist
- Bernard Kettlewell (1907β1979), lepidopterist
- Robert Heath Lock (1879β1915), English botanist and geneticist who wrote the first English textbook on genetics
- C. N. H. Lock (1894β1949), English aerodynamicist
- Guy Anstruther Knox Marshall (1871β1959), Indian-born British entomologist and authority on Curculionidae
- Peter Nye (1921β2009), soil scientist
- Chris Perrins (born 1935), ornithologist and Her Majesty's Warden of the Swans
- Bruce Ponder (born 1944), English geneticist and cancer researcher
- Sir Oliver Scott (1922-2016), radiobiologist
- William Fleetwood Sheppard (1863β1936), Australian-British mathematician and statistician known for Sheppard's correction
- James Smithson (1764β1829), mineralogist, traveller and founder of the Smithsonian Institution (probable Old Carthusian)
- William Hyde Wollaston (1766β1828), metallurgist, crystallographer and physiologist, discoverer of palladium and rhodium, researcher into platinum
- James Wood-Mason (1846β1893), English zoologist who was the director of the Indian Museum at Calcutta
Engineers
- Geoffrey Binnie (1908β1989), British civil engineer
- Colonel Sir Proby Cautley (1802β1871), civil engineer and palaeontologist, Superintendent of the Doab Canal, India, 1831β1843, and Superintendent of Canals, North-Western Provinces, 1843β1854, architect of the Ganges Canal
- George Thomas Clark (1809β1898), civil engineer and antiquary, Manager, Dowlais Ironworks, 1855β1897
- John Dewrance (1858β1937), British inventor and mechanical engineer
- Sir Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt FRS (1868-1951), distinguished British Naval Architect and Engineer and Director of naval Construction for the Royal Navy 1912β1924.
- Alfred Giles (1816β1895), President of the Institution of Civil Engineers (1893β1894) and MP for Southampton (1878β1880; 1883β1892)
- Francis McClean (1876β1955), British civil engineer and pioneer aviator
- Robert Sinclair (1817β1898), Locomotive Superintendent of the Caledonian Railway (1847β1856), of the Eastern Counties Railway (1856β1862), and of the Great Eastern Railway (1862β1865)
- Wallace Thorneycroft (1864β1954), President of the Institution of Mining Engineers
Physicians
- George Francis Abercrombie (1896β1976), British physician who co-founded the Royal College of General Practitioners
- Benjamin Guy Babington (1794β1866), physician and orientalist, inventor of the laryngoscope
- John Carr Badeley (1794β1851), English physician
- Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet (1783β1862), surgeon and physiologist, Sergeant-Surgeon to William IV and Queen Victoria, 1832β1862
- Sir Farquhar Buzzard (1871β1945), physician, Regius Professor of Medicine, University of Oxford, 1928β1943
- Thomas Spencer Cobbold (1828β1886), first Professor of Helminthology, Royal Veterinary College, 1873β1886
- Sir Thomas Gery Cullum (1741β1831), surgeon, botanist, and Bath King of Arms, 1771β1800
- David Dane (1923β1998), virologist
- Arthur Farre (1811β1887), English obstetric physician
- Frederic John Farre (1804β1886), English physician
- Edward Price Furber (1864β1940), British obstetrician and surgeon
- Peter Alfred Gorer (1907β1961), British immunologist and pioneer of transplant immunology
- William Heberden the Younger (1767β1845), physician to George III
- John Hunt, Baron Hunt of Fawley (1905β1987), founder of the Royal College of General Practitioners
- Henry Levett (1668β1725), chief physician, Charterhouse 1712-1725
- Archie Norman (1912β2016), British paediatrician
- George Edward Paget (1809β1892), English physician and academic
- William Wyatt Pinching (1851β1878), surgeon and early rugby union international who represented England in 1872.
- David Prior, Baron Prior of Brampton (born 1954), current chair of NHS England, chairman of University College Hospital, and MP for North Norfolk (1997β2001)
- Sir Harold Ridley (1906β2001), ophthalmic surgeon, inventor of the intraocular lens implant
- W. H. C. Romanis (1889β1972), British surgeon and medical author
- William Henry Stone (1830β1891), English physician known for his studies on electro-therapy and the electrical properties of the human body
- Thomas Hawkes Tanner (1824β1871), physician and medical writer
- Hubert Maitland Turnbull (1875β1955), British pathologist
- William Watson (1744β1824), English physician, naturalist, and Mayor of Bath (1801)
- Frederick Parkes Weber (1863β1962), English dermatologist
Philosophers
- David Bostock (1936-2019), philosopher
- Don Cupitt (born 1934), philosopher of religion and Christian theologian
- Walking Stewart (1747β1822), philosopher, traveller and eccentric
- Richard Swinburne (born 1934), philosopher and Christian apologist
Historians and antiquaries
- Henry Balfour (1863β1939), British archaeologist, the first curator of the Pitt Rivers Museum and President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
- James Bindley (1737β1818), English antiquary and book collector
- Rawdon Brown (1806β1883), historian in Venice
- George Burges (1785 or 1786β1864), classicist
- Charles Burney (1757β1817), English classical scholar who gathered the Burney Collection of Newspapers
- Eric Christiansen (1937β2016), British medieval historian
- Peter Cowie (born 1939), film historian
- George Dennis (1814β1898), archaeologist and diplomat
- John Ehrman (1920β2011), historian and biographer of William Pitt the Younger
- I. H. N. Evans (1886β1957), British anthropologist, ethnographer and archaeologist
- Professor Peter Green (1924β2024), classical scholar, historian and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
- George Grote (1794β1871), historian and radical politician
- John Edward Jackson (1805β1891), archivist at Longleat
- Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1841β1905), classicist and politician, Professor of Greek, University of Glasgow, 1875β1889, and Regius Professor of Greek, University of Cambridge, 1889β1905
- T. D. Kendrick (1895β1979), British archaeologist and art historian
- G. E. R. Lloyd (born 1933), English historian
- Sir Ellis Minns (1874β1953), archaeologist and palaeographer, Disney Professor of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, 1927β1939
- Henry Nettleship (1839β1893), classicist, Corpus Christi Professor of Latin, University of Oxford, 1878β1893
- Francis Peck (1692β1743), antiquary
- Charles Reed Peers (1868β1952), English architect and archaeologist
- Michael Prestwich (born 1943), former professor of Medieval History at the University of Durham
- George Cecil Renouard (1780β1867), classicist and orientalist
- Henry Thomas Riley (1816β1878), English translator and antiquary
- Joseph Rykwert (born 1926), English architectural historian
- Sir Richard Sorabji (born 1934), historian of ancient philosophy
- Maxwell Staniforth (1893β1985), British scholar and writer
- Lawrence Stone (1919β1999), historian and Dodge Professor of History, Princeton University, 1963β1990
- Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914β2003), historian of early modern Britain and Nazi Germany, Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, later Baron Dacre of Glanton
- Simon Walker (1958β2004), British historian of late medieval England
- Robert Walpole (1781β1856), English classical scholar
- T. B. L. Webster (1905β1974), British archaeologist who studied Greek comedy
- Daniel Wray (1701β1783), English antiquary
- Claud William Wright (1917β2010), British civil servant, palaeontologist and archaeologist
Judges, barristers, and lawyers
- Sir Edward Hall Alderson (c. 1787β1857), judge
- Richard Webster, 1st Viscount Alverstone (1842β1915), judge and politician, Attorney-General, 1885β1886, 1886β1892, 1895β1900, Master of the Rolls, 1900, and Lord Chief Justice, 1900β1913
- Joseph Arnould (1813β1886), British judge in India and great-uncle of Laurence Olivier
- William Henry Ashurst (1725β1807), English judge
- Sir Philip Bailhache KC (born 1946), Bailiff of Jersey and later Minister for External Relations
- Sir William Bailhache KC (born 1953), Bailiff of Jersey
- Edward Bearcroft (1737β1796), Chief Justice of Chester (1788β1796) and MP for Hindon (1784β1790) and Saltash (1790β1796)
- Michael Briggs, Lord Briggs of Westbourne (born 1954), Justice of the High Court
- Alfred Townsend Bucknill (1880β1963), English judge specialising in maritime law
- John Alexander Strachey Bucknill (1873β1926), Attorney General of Hong Kong
- James Cockle (1819β1895), Chief Justice of Queensland (1863β1879) and mathematician
- Cresswell Cresswell (1793β1863), judge and politician
- Nigel Davis (born 1951), Lord Justice of Appeal
- Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough (1750β1818), Lord Chief Justice, 1802β1818
- Robert Fane (1796β1864), English judge
- John Fonblanque (1787β1865), barrister and legal writer
- Charles Freshfield (1808β1891), solicitor
- Henry Ray Freshfield (1814β1895), solicitor and conservationist
- Ralph Gibson (1922β2003), Lord Justice of Appeal (1985β1994)
- Peston Padamji Ginwala (1918β2008), barrister
- Sir Henry Gollan (1868β1949), Chief Justice of various British colonies, retired as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong
- Sir James Goss Kt KC (born 1953), Justice of the High Court
- Harold Hanbury (1898β1993), jurist, Vinerian Professor of English Law, University of Oxford, 1949β1964
- Ernest Pollock, 1st Viscount Hanworth (1861β1936), judge and politician, Solicitor-General, 1919β1922, Attorney-General, 1922, and Master of the Rolls, 1923β1935
- Patrick Hastings (1880β1952), barrister and politician, first Labour Attorney-General, 1924
- Lionel Heald (1897β1981), barrister and politician, Attorney-General, 1951β1954
- John Hill (1912β2007), barrister, farmer and Conservative MP for South Norfolk
- Milner Holland (1902β1969), Attorney-General of the Duchy of Lancaster (1951β1969)
- David Jenkins, Baron Jenkins (1899β1969), Attorney-General of the Duchy of Lancaster
- Charles Shaw, Baron Kilbrandon (1906β1989), advocate and judge, Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, 1957β1959, Lord of Session, 1959β1965, Chairman of the Scottish Law Commission, 1965β1971, and Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, 1971β1976
- Alfred Lutwyche (1810β1880), first judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland
- Herbert William Malkin (1883β1945), Legal Adviser to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (1929β1945)
- Jonathan Mance, Baron Mance (born 1943), Law Lord and Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
- John McNeill QC (1899β1982), Crown Advocate of the British Supreme Court for China and chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association
- S. F. C. Milsom (1923β2016), English legal historian
- Basil Montagu (1770β1851), author, barrister and Accountant-General in Bankruptcy, 1835β1846
- J. H. C. Morris (1910β1984), British legal scholar best known for his contributions to the conflict of laws
- Kenneth Muir Mackenzie, 1st Baron Muir Mackenzie (1845β1930), barrister and civil servant, Clerk of the Crown in Chancery, 1880β1915, and Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor, 1884β1915
- Montague Muir Mackenzie (1847β1919), Scottish barrister and legal writer
- Edward Sullivan Murphy (1880β1945), MP for Attorney General for Northern Ireland (1937β1939) and City of Londonderry (1929β1939)
- Sir Reginald Neville, 1st Baronet (1863β1950), barrister and politician
- Nicholas Padfield (born 1947), English barrister and deputy judge
- Edward Pearce, Baron Pearce (1901β1990), Law Lord
- John Pedder (1784β1859), Chief Justice of Van Diemen's Land (1824β1854)
- Henry Pollock (1864β1953), Acting Attorney General of Hong Kong (1896β1901), Attorney General of Fiji (1901β1903), and Senior Unofficial Member (1917β1941)
- Oliver Popplewell (born 1927), British judge and cricketer who played 41 first-class matches
- Sir Christopher Rawlinson (1806β1888), Recorder of Prince of Wales Island, Singapore and Malacca, 1847β1850, and Chief Justice of Madras, 1850β1859
- Christopher Robinson (1766β1833), Judge of the High Court of Admiralty (1828β1833) and MP for Callington (1818β1820)
- Sir Henry Russell, 1st Baronet (1751β1836), Chief Justice of Bengal
- L. Gordon Rylands (1862β1942), British criminologist
- Eric Sachs (1898β1979), British barrister and judge
- Terence Skemp (1915β1996), British lawyer and parliamentary draftsman
- Sir Alfred Stephen (1802β1894), Solicitor-General of Van Diemen's Land, 1825β1833, Attorney-General of Van Diemen's Land, 1833β1837, Chief Justice of New South Wales, 1844β1873, and Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales, 1875β1891
- Thomas Strangman (1873β1971), British barrister who spent much of his career in India
- Samuel Toller (1764β1821), Advocate-General of Madras (1812β1821)
- Jeremy Varcoe (born 1937), ambassador to Somalia and Immigration Tribunal Appeal judge
- George Stovin Venables (1810β1888), barrister and journalist
- Thomas Webster (1810β1875), English barrister known for his involvement in patent legislation and for committee work leading up to the Great Exhibition
- John Walpole Willis (1793β1877), controversial judge in Canada, British Guiana and Australia
- Sir William Yorke, 1st Baronet (c. 1700β1776), judge
Military
- General Sir Frederick Adam (1784β1853), army officer, commander of the 3rd Brigade at the Battle of Waterloo, commander in the Mediterranean, 1817β1824, Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands, 1824β1832, and Governor of Madras, 1832β1837
- Charles Philip de Ainslie (1808β1889), British Army general who was colonel of the 1st The Royal Dragoons (1869β1889)
- General Sir Kenneth Anderson (1891β1959), General Officer Commanding First Army, 1942β1943, GOC Second Army, 1943β1944, GOC Eastern Command, 1944β1945, GOC-in-C East Africa, 1945β1946, and Governor of Gibraltar, 1947β1952
- Lieutenant-General Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1857β1941), soldier and founder of the Scouting Movement, commander of Mafeking garrison, 1899β1900, founder and first commander of the South African Constabulary, 1900β1902, Inspector of Cavalry, 1902β1908, General Officer Commanding Northumbrian Division, 1908β1910
- General Henry Bates (1813β1893)
- William Becke (1916β2009), British Army lieutenant-colonel best known for his role during the IndonesiaβMalaysia confrontation
- Edward Beddington-Behrens (1897β1968), British Army major and art patron
- Geoffrey Biggs (1938β2002), British Royal Navy vice admiral who was Deputy Commander-in-Chief Fleet (1992β1995)
- Sir David Bill (born 1954), British Army lieutenant-general who was Commandant Royal College of Defence Studies (2012β2014)
- Brigadier Guy Boisragon (1864β1931), Victoria Cross
- Major-General Patrick Brooking (1937β2014), British Army officer and Commandant of the British Sector in Berlin 1985β1989
- Brian Burnett (1913β2011), British RAF Air Chief Marshal who was Air Secretary (1967β1970)
- Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford (1775β1804), Royal Navy officer and rake (left after 9 days)
- George Augustus Stewart Cape (1867β1918), British Army brigadier-general
- William Henry Carmichael-Smyth (1780β1861), British Army major
- Hubert Chevis (1902β1931), British Army lieutenant who died of strychnine poisoning after eating contaminated partridge
- Dudley Clarke (1899β1974), leading World War II deception planner and founder of the Commandos
- Colonel James Morris Colquhoun Colvin (1870β1945), Victoria Cross
- Vaughan Cox (1860β1923), British general in the Indian Army
- Richard Craddock (1910β1977), British Army lieutenant-general who was Commander British Forces in Hong Kong (1963β1964) and GOC-in-C Western Command (1964β1966)
- Sir Hugh Cunningham (1921β2019), soldier and Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff, 1976β1978
- Major-General Philip Davies (1932β), GOC North West District (1983β1986)
- John Derry (1921β1952), British RAF Squadron Leader believed to be the first Briton to have exceeded the speed of sound in flight
- Moore Disney (1765β1846), British Army general
- Charles Macpherson Dobell (1869β1954), Canadian lieutenant-general served with the Royal Welch Fusiliers of the British Army
- Lionel Dorling (1860β1925), British Army colonel
- William Assheton Eardley-Wilmot, 3rd Baronet (1841β1896), Deputy Assistant Adjutant General in Ireland
- George Erskine (1899β1965), British Army general and multi-GOC
- Xan Fielding (1918β1991), SOE officer and author
- Sir Francis Fletcher-Vane, 5th Baronet (1861β1934), British military officer
- Brigadier William Fraser (1890β1964), Chief of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
- Air Vice-Marshal Sir Philip Game (1876β1961), Director of Training and Organisation, Royal Air Force, 1919β1923, Air Officer Commanding India, 1923, Air Member for Personnel, 1923β1929, Governor of New South Wales, 1930β1935, and Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, 1935β1945
- General Sir Timothy Granville-Chapman (born 1947), Adjutant-General to the Forces, 2000β2003, Commander-in-Chief Land, 2003β2005, and Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff, 2005β2009
- Hugh Griffiths, Baron Griffiths (1923β2015), soldier, cricketer, barrister, judge and life peer
- Alan Hartley (1882β1954), British Indian Army general
- Major-General Sir Henry Havelock (1795β1857), commander in the Indian Mutiny
- William Havelock (1793β1848), British Army lieutenant-colonel
- Assistant Commissary-General Sir George Head (1782β1855), army commissary, Deputy Knight-Marshal to William IV and Queen Victoria, 1831β1855
- Lieutenant Richard Hill (1899β1918), British World War I flying ace credited with seven aerial victories
- Field Marshal Sir Richard Hull (1907β1989), Commander, Blade Force, 1942, General Officer Commanding 1st Armoured Division, 1944β1945, GOC 5th Infantry Division, 1945β1946, Commandant, Staff College, Camberley, 1946β1948, Director of Staff Duties, 1948β1950, Chief Army Instructor, Imperial Defence College, 1950β1952, Chief of Staff, Middle East Land Forces, 1953β1954, GOC British Troops in Egypt, 1954β1956, Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1956β1958, Commander-in-Chief, Far East Land Forces, 1958β1961, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1961β1965, and Chief of the Defence Staff, 1965β1967
- John Hulton (1882β1942), British Army officer
- Thomas Humphreys (1878β1955), GOC 5th Division (1931β1934)
- James Bruce Jardine (1870β1955), British Army brigadier-general
- Cecil Frederick King (1899β1919), British RAF captain who was a World War I fighter ace
- Stanley Kirby (1895β1968), British Army major-general
- George Lea (1912β1990), Head of the British Defence Staff β US (1967β1970)
- Lieutenant-Colonel Gerard Leachman (1880β1920), intelligence officer and traveller
- Rodney Lees (born 1944), Defence Services Secretary (1998β2001)
- Charles Longcroft (1883β1958), British RAF Air Vice-Marshal and GOC
- Alastair Mackie (1922β2018), Royal Air Force officer and nuclear disarmament campaigner
- Henry Maitland-Makgill-Crichton (1880β1953), British Army brigadier
- Eric Archibald McNair (1894β1918), First World War Victoria Cross
- Field Marshal Sir Archibald Montgomery-Massingberd (1871β1947), Chief of Staff, Fourth Army, 1916β1918, Chief of Staff, British Army of the Rhine, 1918β1920, Deputy Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief, India, 1920β1925, General Officer Commanding Southern Command, Adjutant-General to the Forces, 1931β1933, and Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1933β1936
- Thomas Morland (1865β1925), British Army brigadier
- W. Stanley Moss (1921β1965), SOE officer, author and traveller
- Robert Francis Brydges Naylor (1889β1971), British Army general who was Vice Quartermaster-General (1943β1944)
- Oliver Newmarch (1934β1920), general who was Military Secretary to the India Office (1889β1899)
- Lieutenant-General Edward F. Norton (1884β1954), soldier and mountaineer, Acting Governor of Hong Kong, 1940β1941, and General Officer Commanding Western Independent District, India, 1941β1942
- Thomas Pearson (1914β2019), Commander-in-Chief of Allied Forces Northern Europe (1972β1974)
- Arthur Potter (1905β1998), British Indian Army brigadier
- John Murray Prain (1902β2001), soldier and Scottish businessman
- Harry Pritchard (1871β1953), GOC Malaya Command (1929β1931)
- Neville Purvis (born 1936), Chief of Fleet Support (1991β1994)
- William Robert McClintock-Bunbury, 4th Baron Rathdonnell MC (1914β1959), soldier and Irish peer
- Thomas Leopold McClintock-Bunbury, 3rd Baron Rathdonnell (1881β1937), soldier and peer
- Edward Ravenshaw (1854β1880), Scottish footballer
- Colin Rawlins (1919β2003), British civil servant and RAF officer
- General Brian Robertson, 1st Baron Robertson of Oakridge (1896β1974), managing director, Dunlop, South Africa, 1935β1940, Chief Administrative Officer, Allied Forces in Italy, 1944β1945, Deputy Military Governor of the British Zone of Germany, 1945β1947, Commander-in-Chief, British Army of the Rhine, 1947β1949, British Commissioner, Allied High Commission, 1949β1950, C-in-C Middle East Land Forces, 1950β1953, and Chairman of the British Transport Commission, 1953β1961
- Philip Robertson (1866β1936), GOC 17th (Northern) Division (1916β1919) and 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division (1919β1923)
- William Victor Trevor Rooper (1897β1917), British World War I captain and flying ace
- Richmond Shakespear (1812β1861), British Indian Army lieutenant-colonel who helped to influence the Khan of Khiva to abolish slavery in Khiva.
- Freddie Sowrey (1922β2019), British Air Marshal who was Commandant of the National Defence College (1972β1975)
- John Squire (1780β1812), Lieutenant-Colonel in the Royal Engineers
- Frank Noel Stagg (1884β1956), British Royal Navy commander known for his role in Danish and Norwegian resistance movements
- James Swaby (1798β1863), one of the first non-white commissioned officers in the British Army
- Brigadier John Tiltman (1894β1982), cryptographer, Chief Cryptographer, Bletchley Park
- Frank Weare (1896β1971), British RAF Flight Lieutenant who was a flying ace in World War I
- Ronald Weeks, 1st Baron Weeks (1890β1960), Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff
- Christopher Welby-Everard (1909β1996), GOC Nigerian Army (1963β1965)
- Major-General Orde Wingate (1903β1944), guerrilla warfare specialist, founder and commander of the Chindits
- F. W. Winterbotham (1897β1990), intelligence officer
Religion and theologians
- Thomas Gilbank Ackland (1791β1844), English clergyman
- Gilbert Ainslie (1793β1870), clergyman, Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
- James Allen (1802β1897), Dean of St David's (1879β1895)
- Arthur Anstey (1873β1955), Archbishop of the West Indies (1943β1945)
- John Armstrong (1813β1856), Bishop of Grahamstown, 1853β1856
- William Alexander Ayton (1816β1909), clergyman, alchemist, and member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
- Frederick Beadon (1777β1879), English clergyman who lived to 101
- Philip Bearcroft (1695β1761), English clergyman and antiquary
- Martin Benson (1689β1752), Bishop of Gloucester
- John Ernest Bode (1816β1874), clergyman and poet
- Henry Bonney (1780β1862), English churchman and author
- Peter Bostock (1911β1999), Archdeacon of Mombasa and Doncaster
- Henry Bowlby (1823β1894), Bishop of Coventry (1891β1894)
- Henry Bowlby (1864β1940), Headmaster of Lancing College (1909β1925)
- George Boyle (1828β1901), Dean of Salisbury (1880β1901)
- Samuel Bradford (1652β1731), Bishop of Carlisle and Rochester
- John Buckner (1734β1824), Bishop of Chichester
- Andrew Burn (1864β1927), Dean of Salisbury
- Hedley Burrows (1887β1983), Dean of Hereford
- Leonard Burrows (1857β1940), Bishop of Lewes and Sheffield
- Eyton Butts (β1779), Dean of Cloyne (1770β1779)
- Sir Anthony Buzzard, 3rd Baronet (born 1935), biblical scholar and Christian theologian
- Donald Campbell (1886β1933), Archdeacon of Carlisle (1930β1933)
- Edward Churton (1800β1874), Archdeacon of Cleveland (1846β1874) and Spanish scholar
- Arthur Clarke (1848β1932), Archdeacon of Lancaster and Rochdale
- Sir William Cockburn, 11th Baronet (1773β1858), Dean of York (1823β1858)
- James Cropper (1862β1938), Dean of Gibraltar
- Christopher Cunliffe (born 1955), Archdeacon of Derby
- William Davey (1825β1917), Dean of Llandaff (1897β1913)
- Richard Eyre (1929β2012), Dean of Exeter
- Henry Felton (1679β1740), English clergyman
- John Finney (born 1932), churchman and former Bishop of Pontefract
- John Fisher (1788β1832), Archdeacon of Berkshire
- Henry FitzHerbert (1882β1958), Archdeacon of Derby
- Henry Formby (1816β1884), English Roman Catholic priest and writer
- Walter Frere (1863β1938), founder member of the Community of the Resurrection, Bishop of Truro, 1923β1935
- Alfred Gatty (1813β1903), clergyman and writer
- Edgar Gibson (1848β1924), Bishop of Gloucester
- Charles Green (1864β1944), Archdeacon of Monmouth, 1914β1921, first Bishop of Monmouth, 1921β1928, Bishop of Bangor, 1928β1944, and Archbishop of Wales, 1934β1944
- Charles Hahn (1870β1930), Archdeacon of Eshowe (1913β?) and Archdeacon of Damaraland (1924β1927)
- William Hale (1795β1870), Archdeacon of St Albans (1839β1840), Archdeacon of Middlesex (1840β1842), Archdeacon of London (1842β1870)
- Julius Hare (1795β1855), theological writer
- Peter Harrison (born 1939), Archdeacon of the East Riding (1999β2006)
- William Hayter (1858β1935), Dean of Gibraltar
- Joseph Henshaw (1603β1679), Bishop of Peterborough, 1663β1679
- Mark Hiddesley (1698β1772), Bishop of Sodor and Man, 1755β1772
- Air Marshal Sir John Frederick Andrews Higgins (1875β1948), founder member of the Royal Flying Corps, Commander, No.2 Brigade, RFC, 1916β1918, Royal Air Force commander, British Army of the Rhine, Air Officer Commanding Northern Area, Director of Personnel, AOC Inland Area, 1922β1924, AOC Iraq, 1924β?, Air Member for Supply and Research, and AOC-in-C India, 1939β1940
- Samuel Hinds (1793β1872), Bishop of Norwich, 1849β1857
- William Hornby (1810β1899), Archdeacon of Lancaster
- William Hurrell (1860β1952), Archdeacon of Loughborough
- Murray Irvine (1924β2005), churchman and Provost of Southwell Minster
- Henry Jacobs (1824β1901), Dean of Christchurch (1866β1901)
- Thomas James (1786β1828), Bishop of Calcutta, 1826β1828, and art historian
- William Jones of Nayland (1726β1800), controversial clergyman
- John Jortin (1698β1770), ecclesiastical historian and literary critic
- Peter Judd (1949β), Dean of Chelmsford (1997β2013)
- William Smyth King (1810β1890), Dean of Leighlin
- Hubert Larken (1874β1964), Archdeacon of Lincoln (1933β1937)
- George Henry Law (1761β1845), Bishop of Chester, 1812β1824, and Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1824β1845
- John Law (1745β1810), bishop
- Henry Majendie (1764β1830), Bishop of Chester and Bangor
- Charles Manners-Sutton (1755β1828), Bishop of Norwich, 1792β1805, and Archbishop of Canterbury, 1805β1828
- James Henry Monk (1784β1856), theologian and classicist, Bishop of Gloucester, 1830β1836, and Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, 1836β1856
- Thomas Mozley (1806β1893), clergyman and writer
- Arthur Munro (1864β1944), Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford
- William Foxley Norris (1859β1949), Dean of York and Westminster
- Ronald O'Ferrall (1890β1973), Bishop of Madagascar (1926β1940)
- William BruΓ¨re Otter (1805β1876), Archdeacon of Lewes
- Oswald Parry (1868β1936), Bishop of Guyana
- Lancelot Phelps (1853β1936), Provost of Oriel College, Oxford (1914β1930)
- Greville Phillimore (1821β1884), clergyman and author
- William Phillpotts (1807β1888), Archdeacon of Cornwall
- Venn Pilcher (1879β1961), Bishop of Sydney (1935β1961)
- Bertram Pollock (1863β1943), Bishop of Norwich
- Kenrick Prescot (1703β1779), Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1744β1745)
- Arthur Preston (1883β1936), Bishop of Woolwich
- John Pretyman (?β1817), Archdeacon of Lincoln (1793β1817)
- William Forbes Raymond (1785β1860), Archdeacon of Northumberland
- John Ryder (c. 1697β1775), Church of Ireland Bishop of Down and Connor, 1743β1752, and Archbishop of Tuam, 1752β1775
- Leonard Savill (1869β1959), Archdeacon of Tonbridge (1942β1968)
- Alexander John Scott (1768β1840), English clergyman who was Horatio Nelson's personal chaplain at the Battle of Trafalgar
- Charles Scott (1847β1927), Bishop of North China (1880β1913)
- Albert Seymour (1841β1908), Archdeacon of Barnstaple
- Godfrey Smith (1878β1944), Bishop of Penrith (1926β1944)
- Pat Smythe (1860β1935), Provost of St Ninian's Cathedral (1911β1935)
- Henry Southwell (1860β1937), Bishop of Lewes
- Samuel John Stone (1839β1900), clergyman and hymn writer
- William Strong (1756β1842), Archdeacon of Northampton (1797β1842)
- Edward Talbot (1844β1934), first Warden of Keble College, Oxford, 1869β1888, Vicar of Leeds, 1889β1895, Bishop of Rochester, 1895β1905, first Bishop of Southwark, 1905β1911, and Bishop of Winchester, 1911β1923
- Connop Thirlwall (1797β1875), Bishop of St Davids, 1840β1874, and historian
- John Thomas (1696β1781), Bishop of Winchester
- William Unwin (1745β1786), clergyman
- Peter Vaughan (born 1930), churchman and former Bishop of Ramsbury
- Wilmot Vyvyan (1861β1937), Bishop of Zululand (1903β1929)
- Thomas Wagstaffe (1645β1712), English clergyman
- Hampton Weekes (1880β1948), Archdeacon of the Isle of Wight
- John Wesley (1703β1791), founder of Methodism
- Samuel Wix (1771β1861), English cleric and controversialist
- George Wollaston (1738β1826), English Anglican priest
- Michael Whinney (born 1930), churchman and former Bishop of Aston and Bishop of Southwell
- George Whitaker (1811β1882), clergyman and first provost of Trinity College, Toronto
- Herbert Wild (1865β1940), Bishop of Newcastle (1915β1927)
- Thomas Wilson (1882β1961), Archdeacon of Worcester
- John Wollaston (1791-1856), Archdeacon of Western Australia
- John Woodhouse (1884β1955), Bishop of Thetford
Writers, novelists, and poets
- Joseph Addison (1672β1719), writer and politician
- Martin Donisthorpe Armstrong (1882β1974), poet and novelist
- Mordaunt Roger Barnard (1828β1906), translator and author
- F. W. Bateson (1901β1978), English literary scholar and critic
- Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803β1849), English poet and dramatist
- Max Beerbohm (1872β1956), satirist and caricaturist
- James Beresford (1764β1840), novelist
- James Shergold Boone (1799β1859), English cleric and writer
- T. E. B. Clarke (1907β1989), author and screenwriter
- Alexander Clifford (1909β1952), journalist and author
- Richard Crashaw (1612 or 1613β1648), poet
- Arthur Shearly Cripps (1869β1952), English Anglican priest who lived in Southern Rhodesia
- Patrick Cullinan (1932β2011), South African poet and biographer
- Lewis Dartnell (born 1980), science writer
- Thomas Day (1748β1789), author
- George Harcourt Vanden-Bampde-Johnstone, 3rd Baron Derwent (1899β1949), English poet and peer
- John Dighton (1909β1989), British playwright and screenwriter
- Brian Glanville (born 1931), football writer and novelist
- Richard Perceval Graves (born 1945), English biographer on his great-uncle Robert Graves
- Robert Graves (1895β1985), poet and novelist
- Peter Heyworth (1921β1991), American-born English music critic and biographer
- Aubrey Hopwood (1863β1917), lyricist and novelist
- Richard Hughes (1900β1976), novelist and dramatist
- James Innes (born 1975), author
- Christopher Jackson (born 1980), author and poet
- Peter James (born 1948), crime writer
- John Kenyon (1784β1856), English verse-writer and philanthropist best now known as a patron of Robert Browning
- Nathaniel Lee (c. 1647β1692), dramatist and poet
- Arthur Locker (1828β1893), English novelist and journalist
- Richard Lovelace (1618β1657), poet and soldier
- Henry Luttrell (1768β1851), wit and poet
- Andrew Lycett, English biographer and journalist
- Lachlan Mackinnon (born 1956), poet and critic
- G. D. Martineau (1897β1976), English cricket writer
- Gavin Menzies (born 1937), author
- Kenneth Newton (1927β2010), novelist
- Francis Turner Palgrave (1824β1897), critic and poet
- Robert Paltock (1697β1767), writer
- Omar Pound (1926β2010), Anglo-American writer, teacher, and translator
- Jim Powell (born 1949), novelist
- Henry Raper (1799β1859), writer on navigation
- Frederic Raphael (born 1931), writer
- Simon Raven (1927β2001), writer
- Γdouard Roditi (1910β1992), American poet, short-story writer and translator
- William Seward (1747β1799), anecdotist and conversationalist
- Sir Richard Steele (c. 1672β1729), writer and politician, founder of The Tatler
- G. S. Street (1867-1936), critic, journalist and novelist
- A. S. J. Tessimond (1902β1962), poet
- William Makepeace Thackeray (1811β1863), novelist
- Edward Hovell-Thurlow, 2nd Baron Thurlow (1781β1829), poet
- Ben Travers (1886β1980), dramatist
- Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810β1889), poet and writer
- Richard Usborne (1910β2006), British journalist and author regarded as the leading scholar of P. G. Wodehouse
- William Edward Vickers (1889β1965), English mystery writer
- Hilary Wayment (1912β2005), author and historian of stained glass
Actors
- George Asprey (born 1966), actor
- Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson (1853β1937), actor-manager
- Richard Goolden (1895β1981), British actor (Toad of Toad Hall, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, et al.)
- Basil Hallam (1889β1916), English actor and singer best known for the character of Gilbert the Filbert in The Passing Show
- Nicky Henson (1945-2019), actor
- Thomas Hull (1728β1808), English actor and dramatist
- Frederick Kerr (1858β1933), English actor
- Cyril Maude (1862β1951), actor-manager
- Sir Ronald Millar (1919β1998), actor, scriptwriter and speechwriter for Margaret Thatcher
- Richard Murdoch (1907β1990), actor and comedian
- Dennis Neilson-Terry (1895β1932), British actor and producer
- Graham Seed (born 1950), actor who played Nigel Pargetter in BBC radio programme The Archers
- Henry Siddons (1774β1815), English actor and theatrical manager now remembered as a writer on gesture
- Hugh Sinclair (1903β1962), British actor
- Sir C. Aubrey Smith (1863β1948), actor and cricketer
- Geoffrey Toone (1910β2005), actor
- Frederick Henry Yates (1797β1842), actor-manager
- Sam Crane (born 1979), actor
Journalists and presenters
- Richard Dennen (born 1982), journalist and editor of Tatler
- David Dimbleby (born 1938), television presenter
- Jonathan Dimbleby (born 1944), television and radio presenter
- William Godwin the Younger (1803β1832), English journalist and author
- Sir Max Hastings (born 1945), journalist, writer and broadcaster
- Jonathan Holborow (born 1943), British newspaper editor
- Philip Hope-Wallace (1911β1979), English music and theatre critic associated with ββThe Manchester Guardianββ
- Tim Judah (born 1962), journalist and author
- Henry Longhurst (1909β1978), golf journalist and commentator
- Michael Melford (1916β1999), British sports journalist
- Basil Murray (1902β1937), British journalist and editor
- Cathy Newman (born 1974), journalist and Channel 4 presenter
- Benedict Nightingale (born 1939), British journalist
- Peter O'Sullevan (1918β2015), Irish-British horse racing commentator
- John Peet (born 1954), journalist for The Economist
- Gerald Priestland (1927β1991), broadcaster and writer
- Adam Raphael (born 1938), journalist
- William Rees-Mogg, Baron Rees-Mogg (1928β2012), public servant, journalist, and editor of The Times (1967β81)
- Olly Smith (born 1974), wine writer and television presenter
- Charles Spencer (1955β), British journalist
- David Walter (1948β2012), ITN and BBC correspondent, radio and television producer and later political advisor (President of the Oxford Union and winner of the Kennedy Memorial Scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Kent Walton (1917β2003), wrestling commentator
Media producers and directors
- Colin Blumenau (born 1956), theatre director
- Sir Anthony Havelock-Allan (1904β2003), film producer
- John Mollo (1931β2017), costume designer for the film industry
- Farhad Safinia (born 1975), film producer
- Jack Whittingham (1910β1972), James Bond screenwriter
- Peter Yates (1929β2011), film director
Artists
- Adrian Berg (1929β2011), painter
- Anthony Caro (1924β2013), sculptor
- John Cobbett (1929β), Scottish-born sculptor
- Adrian Daintrey (1902β1988), British portrait and landscape painter
- Charles Lock Eastlake (1793β1865), painter and first Director of the National Gallery, 1855β1865
- Claud Lovat Fraser (1890β1921), artist and designer
- Anthony Froshaug (1920β1984), English typographer and designer
- Geoffrey Sneyd Garnier (1889β1970), English artist and printmaker
- John Percival GΓΌlich (1864β1898), illustrator, engraver and artist
- David Nightingale Hicks (1929β1998), interior designer and author
- Johnny Jonas (born 1948), painter
- Sir Osbert Lancaster (1908β1961), cartoonist and designer
- John Leech (1817β1864), caricaturist
- John Lewis (typographer) (1912β1996), typographer and illustrator
- Sir Cedric Morris (1889β1982), painter and gardener
- Charles William Dyson Perrins (1864β1958), art, porcelain and book collector and benefactor
- Percy Robertson (1868β1934), English watercolour landscape painter and etcher
- John Tunnard (1900β1971), painter
Architects
- Alfred Bossom, Baron Bossom (1881β1965), architect and politician
- Richard Carpenter (1841β1893), English Gothic Revival architect
- Richard Cromwell Carpenter (1812β1855), architect
- Basil Champneys (1842β1935), architect and author
- Francis William Deas (1862β1951), Scottish architect
- Major Rohde Hawkins (1821β1884), English architect of the Victorian era
- Owen Jones (1809β1874), architect, printer and designer
- Russell Page (1906β1985), British gardener and architect
- Richard Gilbert Scott (1923β2017), British architect
- Sir Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt (1868β1951), naval architect, Director of Naval Construction, 1912β1924
- Richard Tyler (1916β2009), architect
- Thomas Bostock Whinney (1860β1926), chief architect of the Midland Bank
Musicians and composers
- Ben Adams (born 1981), singer and member of a1
- Tom Allom (born TBC), record producer and engineer. Most notably Judas Priest
- Tony Banks (born 1950), keyboardist and founding member of Genesis
- Mark Blatchly (born 1960), composer and organist at Charterhouse
- Ray Cooper (born 1954), English singer-songwriter and member of Oysterband
- Harold Fraser-Simson (1872β1944), composer
- Peter Gabriel (born 1950), singer-songwriter and founding member of Genesis
- H. Balfour Gardiner (1877β1950), composer
- Christopher Gibbons (c. 1615β1676), organist and composer
- John R. Graham, American film composer
- Peter Grant (1935β1995), manager of Led Zeppelin
- Basil Harwood (1859β1949), organist and composer
- Ernest Irving (1877β1953), musical director and composer
- Rivers Jobe (1950β1979), bass guitarist and member of Anon
- Jonathan King (born 1944), singer, writer, pop music, TV personality, film maker. Named and produced Genesis.
- Dave Lawson (1945β), English keyboardist and composer, member of Greenslade
- Richard Macphail (born 1950), vocalist for Anon
- Lionel Monckton (1861β1924), composer and songwriter
- Peter Oundjian (1955-), Canadian violinist and conductor
- Anthony Phillips (born 1951), guitarist and founding member of Genesis
- Rachel Portman (born 1960), composer
- Clement Power (born 1980), conductor
- Philip Radcliffe (1905β1986), composer and musicologist
- Christopher Raeburn (1928β2009), English record producer
- Alfred Edward Rodewald (1862β1903), English musician who developed the Liverpool Orchestral Society to become a large semi-professional orchestra of distinction
- Lettice Rowbotham (b. 1989), violinist, finalist in the 2014 season of Britain's Got Talent
- Mike Rutherford (born 1950), guitarist and founding member of Genesis and Mike + The Mechanics
- Chris Stewart (born 1951), founding member of Genesis
- Ian Wallace (1919β2009), singer and broadcaster
- Karl Wallinger (1957-2024), rock musician
- Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872β1958), composer
Sportspeople
Cricketers
- Brigadier-General Anthony Abdy (1856β1924), English cricketer who played one first-class match in 1881
- Anthony Allom (1938β2017), English cricketer who played five first-class matches
- Richard Bagge (1810β1891), English cricketer who played two first-class matches
- Andrew Barker (born 1945), English cricketer who played 6 List A and 44 first-class matches
- Francis Barmby (1863β1936), English cricketer who played one first-class match
- Aubrey Beauclerk (1817β1853), English cricketer who played in two first-class matches in 1837
- Charles William Beauclerk (1816β1863), English cricketer who played ? first-class matches
- James Bovill (born 1971), English cricketer who played 26 List A and 38 first-class matches
- Robert Braddell (1888β1965), English cricketer who played 20 first-class matches
- Trevor Branston (1884β1969), English cricketer who played 89 first-class matches
- William Bristowe (born 1963), English cricketer who played 1 List A and 10 first-class matches
- James Bruce-Jones (1910β1943), Scottish cricketer who played 2 first-class matches
- John Buchanan (1887β1969), South African-born English cricketer who played 34 first-class matches
- Herbert Burrell (1866β1949), English cricketer who played three first-class matches
- Tom Bury (born 1958), English cricketer who played 4 first-class matches
- Arthur Ceely (1834β1866), English cricketer who played 3 first-class matches
- William Chetwynd-Talbot (1814β1888), English cricketer who played one first-class match
- Edward Colebrooke (1858β1939), cricketer
- Geoffrey Cooke (1897β1980), cricketer and British Army officer
- Alexander Cowie (1889β1916), English cricketer who played 14 first-class matches
- Wilfred Curwen (1883β1915), English cricketer who played 25 first-class matches
- Alfred Dallas (1895β1921), English cricketer who played in one first-class match
- William Davies (1825β1868), English cricketer who played 9 first-class matches
- Gilbert Sackville, 8th Earl De La Warr (1869β1915), hereditary peer and cricketer
- Christian Doll (1880β1955), cricketer and architect
- Mordaunt Doll (1888β1966), cricketer
- John Dyson (1913β1991), first-class cricketer
- Frederick Fane (1875β1960), Anglo-Irish cricketer who played 14 Test and 417 first-class matches
- Leonard Furber (1880β1912), English cricketer who played 2 first-class matches
- Tommy Garnett (1915β2006), Australian horticulturalist and English cricketer who played five first-class matches
- Edward Garrow (1815β1896), English cricketer who played one first-class match
- Humphrey Gilbert (1886β1960), Indian-born English cricketer who played in 118 first-class matches
- Ivor Gilliat (1903β1967), English cricketer who played 13 first-class matches
- Richard Gilliat (born 1944), English cricketer who played 269 first-class matches
- Guy Goodliffe (1883β1963), English cricketer who played one first-class match
- George Gowan (1818β1890), cricketer
- Herbert Green (1878β1918), English cricketer and soldier who played in one first-class match
- Guy Gregson-Ellis (1895β1969), English cricketer who played four first-class matches
- Lancelot Grove (1905β1943), English cricketer who played four first-class matches
- James Hamblin (born 1978), English cricketer who played 11 first-class matches, 48 List A matches and 5 Twenty20 matches
- Andrew Hamilton (born 1953), English cricketer who played 12 first-class matches
- Charles Harvey (1837β1917), English cricketer who played five first-class matches
- Charles Hooman (1887β1969), English cricketer who played 38 first-class matches
- Harry Hooper (born 1986), English cricketer who played 7 first-class matches
- Mike Hooper (1947β2010), English cricketer who played 17 List A and 21 first-class matches
- Campbell Hulton (1877β1947), English cricketer who played one first-class match, brother of the below
- John Hulton (1882β1942), English cricketer who played 3 first-class matches, brother of the above
- Francis Inge (1840β1923), English cricketer and clergyman who played nine first-class matches
- John Inge (1844β1919), English cricketer who played two first-class matches
- Tony Jakobson (born 1937), English cricketer who played 14 first-class matches
- Ben Jeffery (born 1991), English cricketer who played 6 first-class matches
- Antony Kamm (1931β2011), English historian and cricketer
- George Kemp-Welch (1907β1944), English cricketer who played 114 first-class matches
- John Larking (1921β1998), English cricketer who played three first-class matches
- Jeff Linton (1909β1989), Welsh cricketer who played two first-class matches
- Michael Livock (1936β1999), English cricketer who played two first-class matches
- John Lomas (1917β1945), English cricketer who played 23 first-class matches
- Christopher Lubbock (1920β2000), English cricketer who played nine first-class matches
- Herbert Malkin (1836β1913), English cricketer who played two first-class matches in 1858
- Roger Marshall (born 1952), English cricketer who played 12 List A and 24 first-class matches
- Peter May (1929β1994), England cricket captain
- Alfred McGaw (1900β1984), English cricketer who played seven first-class matches
- William Meryweather (1809β1841), English cricketer who played ? first-class matches
- Niel Morgan (1904β1985), Welsh cricketer who played six first-class matches
- Trevil Morgan (1907β1976), Welsh cricketer who played 83 first-class matches
- John Stanton Fleming Morrison (1892β1961), English cricketer who played 38 first-class matches
- Charles Nepean (1851β1903), English cricketer who played ten first-class matches
- Henry Nethercote (1819β1886), English cricketer who played 19 first-class matches
- Oswald Norris (1883β1973), English cricketer who played 11 first-class matches
- Cecil Parry (1866β1901), English cricketer who played ? first-class matches
- Cecil Payne (1885β1976), English cricketer who played 29 first-class matches
- Alec Pearce (1910β1982), cricketer (Kent County Cricket Club, Hong Kong national cricket team, and Marylebone Cricket Club)
- Ernest Powell (1861β1928), English cricketer who played 21 first-class matches
- Jack Pritchard (1895β1936), English cricketer who played 2 first-class matches
- Bernard Randolph (1834β1857), English cricketer who played seven first-class matches
- R. C. Robertson-Glasgow (1901β1965), Scottish cricketer who played 144 first-class matches and wrote several books on cricket
- Gavin Roynon (1936β2018), English cricketer who played nine first-class matches and military historian
- Charles Rucker (1894β1965), English cricketer who played five first-class matches
- Patrick Rucker (1900β1940), English cricketer who played seven first-class matches
- Martin Souter (born 1976), English cricketer who played one first-class match
- Edward Spurway (1863β1914), English cricketer who played two first-class matches
- Hugh Stanbrough (1870β1904), English footballer and cricketer
- John Strachan MC (1896β1988), English cricketer who played one first-class match and British Army officer
- Edward Streatfeild (1870β1932), English cricketer who played nine first-class matches
- Alexander Streatfeild-Moore (1863β1940), English cricketer who played first-class matches
- Gilbert Vassall (1876β1941), English cricketer who played six first-class matches
- Charles Vintcent (1866β1943), South African cricketer who played in 3 Test and 6 first-class matches
- William Wakefield (1870β1922), cricketer
- Algernon Whiting (1861β1931), English cricketer who played nine first-class matches
- Reginald Wood (1860β1915), English cricketer who played one Test and 12 first-class matches
- Anthony Wreford-Brown (1912β1997), English cricketer who played five first-class matches
- Charles Wreford-Brown (1866β1951), English international football captain and cricketer
- Charles Wright (1863β1936), English cricketer who played seven first-class matches
- Teddy Wynyard (1861β1936), English cricketer who played 3 Test and 154 first-class matches
Other sports
- Andrew Amos (1863β1931), England international footballer and clergyman
- Woolf Barnato (1895β1948), British racing driver among the Bentley Boys
- Alfred Bower (1895β1970), England footballer
- Oswald Carver (1887β1915), British Olympic rower who won bronze in the 1908 men's eight
- William "Nuts" Cobbold (1862β1922), England international footballer
- James Ogilvie Fairlie (1809β1870), Scottish golfer
- Walter Gilliat (1869β1963), England international footballer and clergyman
- Richard Clewin Griffith (1872β1955), British chess champion (1912) and chess author
- Alan Haig-Brown (1877β1918), English footballer and British Army officer who served as commander of the Lancing Officers' Training Corps
- Wyndham Halswelle (1882β1915), sprinter who won Olympic gold in 1908 in the 400m and was killed in battle during World War One. The school refused an offer to host his Olympic medals and other trophies in 2008. They are now displayed in the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame.
- Thomas Hooman (1850β1938), English footballer
- John Frederic Inglis (1853β1923), Scottish cricketer and footballer
- Stewart Morris (1909β1991), British Olympic sailor who won gold in the 1948 men's swallow
- Edward Hagarty Parry (1855β1931), English footballer
- Basil Patchitt (1900β1991), English footballer
- Vane Pennell (1876β1938), English Olympic rackets player who won gold in the 1908 men's doubles
- James F. M. Prinsep (1861β1895), footballer and holder of two 'youngest player' records until 2004
- Tom Rowlandson MC (1880β1916), England amateur football goalkeeper
- G. O. Smith (1872β1943), English amateur footballer often referred to as "the first great centre forward"
- Ulric Oliver Thynne (1871β1957), British colonel and champion polo player
- Arthur Melmoth Walters (1865β1941), England and Corinthian footballer
- Percy Melmoth Walters (1863β1936), England and Corinthian footballer
- Peter Walwyn (1933β2017), racehorse trainer
- Alicia Wilson (swimmer) (born 2000)
Adventurers, explorers, and colonists
- G. R. Blane (1791β1821), British surveyor and East India Company member
- David Carnegie (1871β1900), explorer and gold prospector in Western Australia
- Augustine Courtauld (1904β1959), yachtsman and British Arctic explorer
- Captain Mark John Currie (1795β1874), a figure in the formation of the Swan River Colony
- Jeremy Curl (born 1982β), Anglo-Irish explorer
- Ernest Ayscoghe Floyer (1852β1903), English colonial official and explorer
- John Richard Hardy (1807β1858), English-born Australian pastoralist and gold commissioner
- Wilfrid Noyce (1917β1962), mountaineer and writer, member of the 1953 Everest Expedition
- Gifford Palgrave (1826β1888), traveller and diplomat
- Stephen Venables (born 1954), mountaineer and writer
- John Washington (1633β1677), Virginia planter and great-grandfather of George Washington
- Roger Williams (c. 1603β1683), religious dissenter and co-founder of Rhode Island
Others
- Merlin Minshall (1906β1987), Lieutenant-Commander in the Naval Intelligence Division often claimed to have been one of the inspirations for James Bond
- Peter Newton (1926β2008), winemaker
- Amar Singh (born 1989), art and non-fungible token (NFT) dealer, philanthropist, women's rights and LGBTQ+ activist, and film producer
Fictional Old Carthusians
- Giles Wemmbley-Hogg (created 2002, born c. 1984), fictional BBC Radio 4 character
- Major Quive-Smith (created 1939, born c.1900) from Geoffrey Household's Rogue Male; a British-educated gestapo officer and the book's chief antagonist.
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