Most famous people to go to your school?

According to Wiki:

Rory Bremner
Sebastian Faulks
George Orwell (although only for 1 term apparently)
Christopher Lee
James Hunt (racing driver)
Peter Snow
Will Young
James Haskell, Tom & Max Evans (international rugby players)
 
there's a few more than i knew actually :p

Notable alumni

Freddie Burns, Rugby Union player at Gloucester Rugby[5]
Adam Campbell, actor[6]
Jason Dodd, Director of Southampton F.C. youth academy[7]
Jason Gardener,[8] sprint athlete
David Lassman, author, arts journalist and scriptwriter[9][dead link]
Andrew Lincoln, actor[10][11]
Charlie McDonnell, musician and vlogger[12]
Sir John Sawers, Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Ambassador to the United Nations 2007-9[13]
Curt Smith, musician (Tears for Fears)[14][11]
Tony Spreadbury, rugby union referee[15]
Paul Tisdale, manager of Exeter City football club[16]
Amy Williams, gold medal winner in the skeleton at the 2010 Winter Olympics, the first British individual Winter Olympics gold medal since 1980[17]
Danny Byrd, musician, and producer
 
twist3d0n3 said:
there's a few more than i knew actually :p

Notable alumni

Freddie Burns, Rugby Union player at Gloucester Rugby[5]
Adam Campbell, actor[6]
Jason Dodd, Director of Southampton F.C. youth academy[7]
Jason Gardener,[8] sprint athlete
David Lassman, author, arts journalist and scriptwriter[9][dead link]
Andrew Lincoln, actor[10][11]
Charlie McDonnell, musician and vlogger[12]
Sir John Sawers, Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Ambassador to the United Nations 2007-9[13]
Curt Smith, musician (Tears for Fears)[14][11]
Tony Spreadbury, rugby union referee[15]
Paul Tisdale, manager of Exeter City football club[16]
Amy Williams, gold medal winner in the skeleton at the 2010 Winter Olympics, the first British individual Winter Olympics gold medal since 1980[17]
Danny Byrd, musician, and producer
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Danny Byrd! Epic!


Mark Cueto (rugby player)

and a few Crewe players who were a couple of years above me. See them regularly because they're friends with my neighbour. Wouldn't call them famous though.
 
No one at my school, but my nephew's school you can fill a book with them.

Bill Bailey,Andy Robinson, & Ross Lowis Mangles - Recipient of the Victoria Cross to name a few.
 
Moses said:
If we're going with a Wiki copy and paste,
...
Lots of non-famous people, yay!
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Your Wiki'ing inspired me. I have now learnt Jimmy Doherty (of Jimmy and the Giant Supermarket, recently on channel 4) and James Frain (from The Tudors) also went to my school.

Never knew that.
 
Paul Merson and Jermaine Beckford.(my workmate used to play football with him often and i remember seeing Paul often when he played for Arsenal at a young age was a great guy)
 
Squadron Leader Robert Anthony Maurice Palmer VC DFC & Bar (1920–1944).
Sir Richard Southwood Kt DL FRS (1931–2005), Professor of Zoology and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, 1989-1993.
Johnny Hills (1934- ), professional footballer, Tottenham Hotspur.
Professor Brian Newbould (1936- ), Professor of Music, Hull University, 1979-2001.
Jonathan A. Martin OBE (1943- ), Head of BBC Sport, 1982-2000.
David Nicholls (1943–2008), Kent cricketer.
Peter Jones (1944- ), Chairman of the Horserace Totaliser Board (the Tote), 1997–2008, President of the Racehorse Owners' Association, 1990–1993 and Chairman Dorset Police Authority, 1997-2003.
David A. Cooke (1949- ), England Rugby International.
Geoff Whitehorn (1951- ), guitarist and singer-songwriter, member of Procul Harum.
Rt Rev Tony Porter (1952- ), Bishop of Sherwood, 2006–present.
Richard T. Russell (1952- ), author of the BBC BASIC for Windows programming language.
Paul Greengrass (1955- ), BAFTA winning and Academy Award nominated film director.
Dr Mike Clarke (1959- ), Chief Executive, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), 2010–present.
Nicholas Hind (1960- ), Dark matter nuclear physicist - missing since 1999
Stephen Webster (1960- ), jewellery designer.
Dr Mike Woodin (1965–2004), principal speaker of the Green Party of England and Wales.
Howard Saunders (1968- ), musician and composer from Lunatic Calm
Alex Hryniewicz (1983- ), BAFTA winning TV producer.[2]
 
Frankie Fitzgerald was in the year above me at Secondary. He was a total **** when he was younger (Was in my Scouts troop, he liked to beak things for no reason). No idea what he's like now although I'm sure he's matured

- GP
 
14 recipients of the Victoria Cross (knew this factoid beforehand) and according to Wiki...

William Adair
Percy Adams
Gerald Allen
Augustus Henry Eden Allhusen
Frederic Allsopp
Herbert Allsopp
Lindsay Anderson
Fred Andrews
Randolph Aston
Peter Atkinson (politician)
Peter Baker (cricketer)
Thomas Durand Baker
Hugh Bateman-Champain
John Bateman-Champain
Hubert Beaumont (Liberal politician)
Hugh John Beazley
Fougasse (cartoonist)
George Blacker
Stewart Blacker
Nicholas Bodington
Andrew Cathcart Bogle
Frederick Charles Booth
Frederick Booth-Tucker
John Dykes Bower
Maurice Bowra
Duncan Gordon Boyes
Edward Courtney Boyle
John Boyle (UK politician)
A. C. Bradley
William Brocklehurst Brocklehurst
Peter Bromley
Geoffrey Brooke-Taylor
Chris Bryant
Beaufort Burdekin
Alexander Douglas Campbell
Frederick Carrington
Thomas Tupper Carter-Campbell of Possil
Allen Chandler
George Nicolas Channer
Philip Lindsey Clark
Henry Clowes
Gilbert Collett
Anthony Hamilton-Smith, 3rd Baron Colwyn
Frederick Corfield
Robert Coryndon
Henry Crowe
Alan Cunningham
Simon Danielli
Jack Davenport
Nigel Davenport
David Telling
Reymond de Montmorency
James Dick-Cunyngham
John Dill
Charles Eccles
Charles Eliot (diplomat)
Albert Elliott
Vivian Ellis
John Walter Fletcher
James Forbes-Robertson
Charles Wilbraham Watson Ford
John Bagot Glubb
Eric Graham
John Duncan Grant
Cleveland Greenway
Colin Gubbins
Teddy Gueritz
Charles Harington Harington
Christopher Hart (novelist)
H. L. A. Hart
Reginald Clare Hart
Kenneth Haworth
Patrick Stanley Vaughan Heenan
Thomas Edgecumbe Hickman
Charles Hodson, Baron Hodson
Ian Hogg (Royal Navy officer)
Thomas Holderness
Charles Horner (cricketer)
Martin Horwood
Geoffrey Hutchinson, Baron Ilford
Charles Inglis (engineer)
Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford
Donald McIntosh Johnson
Michael Jopling, Baron Jopling
André Kempster
Evelyn King (politician)
Charles King-Turner
Arnold Kirke-Smith
Walter Knight-Adkin
William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Arthur Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham
Edward Vere Levinge
Tarka L'Herpiniere
Mike Lithgow
John Longley
Ian MacArthur
Donald McCowen
William Fraser McDonell
Robert Gwyn Macfarlane
Robert Mackenzie (cricketer)
Percy Alexander MacMahon
H. C. McNeile
Nevil Macready
Joseph Mallalieu
Herbert Manners
Kenneth Mason (geographer)
John Maxwell (British Army officer)
J. G. Mayne
Teignmouth Melvill
William Walter Merry
Stuart Milner-Barry
Alfred Mond, 1st Baron Melchett
Robert Mond
George Raymond Dallas Moor
Jeremy Moore
Peter Moore (priest)
Baron Moore of Wolvercote
John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn
Charles Mules
Archibald Murray
Ernest Myers
Frederic William Henry Myers
William Napier (British Army officer)
Philip Neame
Stuart Neame
John Neve
William West Neve
Rageh Omaar
Ridley Pakenham-Walsh
Thomas Paton
Edward Perrott
I. S. O. Playfair
William Plenderleath
William Plunket, 4th Baron Plunket
Tom Pocock
Arthur Power Palmer
Sir George Power, 7th Baronet
Connop Price
John Ranking
Robert Reid, 1st Earl Loreburn
Henry Renny-Tailyour
Thomas Renny-Tailyour
Douglas Reynolds
David Richards (cricketer)
Michael Rose (British Army officer)
Hugh Ruttledge
Robert Ryder
Frederick Robert St John
Charles Schreiber
Charles Scott (ambassador)
Thomas Sorby
Terry Spencer (RAF officer)
William Herbert Steavenson
George Strachan
John Stratton (cricketer)
Athol Alexander Stuart
Douglas Stuart (rower)
Richard Summers
Anthony Sumption
Robert Thompson (rugby player)
Robert Trefusis
Ruthven Wade
Roderick Walker
Charles Warren
Neil Leslie Webster
Foss Westcott
James Whitaker (journalist)
Patrick White
T. H. White
Edward Adrian Wilson
Wynne Willson
Ormonde Winter
George Wood (cricketer)
Randal Woollatt

The only one of which I immediately recognise is HLA Hart, from my philosophy/law reading.

Eat yer heart out.
 
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