Most famous people to go to your school?

According to Wikipedia:

Sir Clive Sinclair - The British computer entrepreneur
David Laws - Liberal Democrat MP
Adam Hollioake - England and Surrey Cricket Player
Ben Hollioake - England and Surrey Cricket Player
Marcus Agius - Chairman of Barclays Bank
David Atkinson - Conservative MP

All of them way before me, thats for sure.
 
No-one that famous really.

A couple of film director, one that made one big hit.
A few footballers, one current, one that scored for Northen Ireland.
A former Olympic gymnast
 
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Former Scotland rugby player David Rollo attended.
Dale Reid OBE, one of the most successful golfers in the history of the Ladies European Tour.
Allan Stewart, former Conservative MP for Eastwood.
Stewart Stevenson, SNP MSP for Banffshire and Buchan Coast and Minister for Environment and Climate Change in the Scottish Government.

I don't know who any of these people are :o
 
Quite a dew at mine. I had the same teacher for English as Douglas Adams and when I went there Frank Lampard and Jodie Marsh were there:

David Acfield (born 1947), cricketer
Douglas Adams (1952–2001), author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Keith Allen (born 1953), comedian, actor, singer and writer (father of the singer Lily Allen)
Peter Allen (born 1946), BBC broadcaster and journalist, [3]
Sir Hardy Amies (1909–2003), Couturier and Dressmaker by Appointment to Her Majesty The Queen
Peter Barker (born 1983), squash player and influential member of winning English team in European Team Championships 2006[12]
Charles Bean (1879–1963), historian of Australian Forces in World War I.
Charlie Bean (born 1953), Executive Director and Chief Economist of the Bank of England
Lord Black of Brentwood, (Guy Black) (born 1964), former Press Secretary to Michael Howard, and Director of PCC
Patrick Carter, Baron Carter of Coles (born 1946), politician and life peer
Colonel Sir Neville Chamberlain (1856–1944), army officer, Inspector-General of the Royal Irish Constabulary and inventor of snooker
Philip Arthur William Collins (1923–2007), Dickensian scholar and emeritus professor of English, Leicester University[13]
Roger Cowley (born 1939), professor of experimental philosophy at the University of Oxford
Sir Robin Day (1923–2000), broadcaster (attended the school 1934 - 1938)[14]
Ralph Dellor, (born 1952), cricket broadcaster, journalist and first chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board Coaches Association [15]
Hugo Drayton, former Managing Director of The Daily Telegraph newspaper
Sir David Eady (born 1943), High Court Judge
David Eldridge (born 1973), playwright
Noel Edmonds (born 1948), disc jockey and broadcaster
Dr Stephen Fleet (1936–2006), Master of Downing College, Cambridge
Howard Flight (born 1948), Conservative politician
Prof. Sir Roderick Floud (born 1942), academic, Vice-President of the European Universities Association
Fabian Hamilton (born 1955), Labour politician
Stuart Hamilton (born 1964), British Champion weightlifter
Neil Harris (born 1977), footballer
Keith Hopkins (1934–2004), Influential historian and sociologist, professor of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge
David Irving (born 1938), controversial historian
Chris Jarvis (born 1969), television presenter
Paul Neil Milne Johnstone (1952–2004) poet and butt of Douglas Adams' jokes in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Nic Jones (born 1947), musician
Frank Lampard (born 1978), footballer
Andrew Lansley (born 1956), Conservative politician & Secretary of State for Health 2010–present
Frank Godbould Lee (1903–1971), civil servant and Master of Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge
Sir Ralph Murray, (1908–1983), diplomat
Jodie Marsh (born 1978), glamour model
Ian Martin (born 1948), Special Representative of the Secretary General of the UN & Secretary-General of Amnesty International
Jake Maskall (born 1971), actor
Alexander O'Connell (born 1988), Sabre Fencing Individual World and Commonwealth Champion[16]
Robert Andrew Muter Macindoe Ogilvie (1853–1938), England international footballer[17]
Hal Ozsan (born 1976), actor
Michael Peppiatt (born 1941), Writer and Art Historian
Eric Peters (born 1969), rugby player
Mark Philpott (born 1965), Oxford academic and Principal of the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Oxford
Ian Pont (born 1961), Professional cricketer, international coach and author
David Pickthall (born 1958), conductor and composer[18]
Penny Rimbaud (born Jeremy Ratter 1943), drummer, poet and founder of punk band Crass
Griff Rhys Jones (born 1953), comedian and actor
Stewart Robson (born 1964), footballer
Sir John Rogers (1928), Air Chief Marshall in the Royal Air Force and member of the FIA World Motor Sport Council[19]
Vivian Rosewarne (1917 - May 1940) Wellington bomber pilot memorialised in the 1941 film An Airman's Letter to His Mother,[20]
Sir Nick Scheele (born 1943), former President of the Ford Motor Company
Daryl Selby (born 1982), Professional Squash player
Asad Shan model and actor
Bob Simpson, (1944–2006), BBC journalist[21]
Sir Peter Stothard (born 1951), Former editor of The Times
Jack Straw (born 1946), Labour politician & Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain 2007-2010
Charles Thomson (born 1953), founder of the Stuckists art movement
Paul Wickens (born 1956) musician, usually known as "Wix"
Teerathep Winothai (born 1985), Thai footballer
Sir Denis Wright (born 1911, died 2005) ambassador and author [22]
Stephen Yardley (born 1942), actor
 
Sarah Baxendale who played Ellie Hunter in Hollyoaks is about it as far as I'm aware. Maybe a few rugby players, but I've got NFI about rugby..
 
John Boorman, British film director
Tim Brabants, British World Champion Canoeist Olympic K1000 Gold Medallist
Terence Dackombe, actor (The Krays; Cockneys vs. Zombies), writer (Spitting Image)
Tony Doyle, Cycling World Pursuit Champion 1980 & 1986
Andrew Mackinlay, MP
Martin Freeman, Actor
Ian Selley, Arsenal FC 1992-1997
Sir Kieran Prendergast, British diplomat
Sev Lewkowicz, session musician (Mungo Jerry, Dennis Locorriere)

Martin Freeman is about as cool as it gets for me.. maybe he can hook me up with some Hobbit premier tickets?!
 
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