Most famous people to go to your school?

Ray Milland went to my Junior School (years before me and years before he became a Hollywood Actor).

Also went to School with Sian Lloyd (the BBC Wales reporter not the weather girl).
 
From Wikipedia -

Dudi Appleton, director, screenwriter and journalist
Paul Bew, scholar and life peer
Derek Bell, harpist, late member of The Chieftains
Andrew Bree, swimmer
Gordon Burns, journalist and television presenter
Sir Anthony Campbell, retired judge
Ben Clarke, The Apprentice candidate in 2009
Sir John Collins, businessman
David Crawford Librarian
Freeman Wills Crofts, author; was a member of the school's first class in 1894
George Currie, British Member of Parliament
Eric Robertson Dodds, classical scholar
William John English, Victoria Cross recipient whose medal was bequeathed to the school
Thomas Henry Flewett, virologist
Mike Gibson (rugby player)
Paddy Hirsch, journalist, award-winning Marketplace radio producer and presenter
Michael Hoey (golfer)
John Irvine, award-winning ITV News journalist
Charles Lawson, actor
C.S. Lewis, Author
Gary Lightbody, vocalist and guitarist in Snow Patrol
William MacQuitty, film producer
James Godfrey MacManaway, MP and Church of Ireland minister
Tim Martin, founder and current Chairman of JD Wetherspoon
Sir John MacDermott, Baron MacDermott, former Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland
Alan McFarland, former British Army officer and Ulster Unionist politician
Sir Percy McElwaine, barrister and Attorney General of Fiji
Colonel Sir Michael McCorkell - Northern Irish soldier
Alan McKibbin, British Member of Parliament
John Morrow, peace activist
Jonny Quinn, drummer in Snow Patrol
Robert Shanks, former Chairman of the Commissioners of Irish Lights and commanding officer of HMS Caroline
James Simmons, poet
Air Chief Marshal John Thomson, RAF officer
Lloyd Hall-Thompson, British Member of Parliament
Noel Thompson, BBC journalist
Chris Farrell, rugby union footballer for Ulster U18s, Ulster U20s, Ulster and Ireland U18s
Jamie Smith, rugby union footballer for Ulster
Hong-Wing Yeung, Businessman
Paddy Wallace, rugby union footballer for Ireland
Edmund De Wind, Victoria Cross recipient

C.S. Lewis is a bit rich though, think he was only there for one term and hated it because he was bullied.

Samuel Beckett taught for a couple of terms at the school where apparently he was told that he was teaching the cream of Ulster. "Yes," he replied. "Rich and thick."
 
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Me :p.

Looking up the two schools on Wikipedia:

School 1:
Those I've heard of:
  • Jeremy Guscott, rugby player - Apparently he's featured quite often in the old detention book :p.
  • Danny Wallace, comic writer
And those that aren't actually famous but are on Wiki:
  • Ollie Barbieri, actor (Skins)
  • Scott Sinclair, football player

School 2 has two many for me to comment, so I'll just copy/paste:

  • Steve Williams MBE, 1976-, 2004 and 2008 Olympic rowing Gold Medallist (Great Britain Coxless Four) and four-times World Champion at Coxless and Coxed Fours
  • Alex Partridge, 1981-, 2005 and 2006 Rowing World Champion (Great Britain Coxless Four) and 2008 Olympic Silver Medallist (Great Britain Eight)
  • Rowley Douglas MBE, 1977-, 2000 Olympic rowing Gold Medallist (cox to Great Britain Eight)
  • Dr William George Ranald Mundell "Ran" Laurie, 1915–1998, 1948 Olympic rowing Gold Medallist (Great Britain Coxless Pairs)and father of actor, Hugh Laurie.
  • Michael Lapage, 1923-, 1948 Olympic rowing Silver Medallist (Great Britain Eight)
  • Alfred Mellows, 1922–1997, 1948 Olympic rowing Silver Medallist (Great Britain Eight)
  • Paul Barber, 1955-, field hockey player, 1988 Olympic Gold Medallist and 1984 Olympic Bronze Medallist
  • Iain Torrance TD, 1949-, President of Princeton Theological Seminary, Queen's Chaplain and former Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
  • Sir Richard Peirse, 1892–1970, Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Air Force and of RAF Bomber Command
  • Sir Richard Stilgoe OBE, 1943-, songwriter and lyricist
  • Bernard Cornwell, 1944-, author of the Sharpe novels
  • Sir Timothy Lankester KCB MA, 1942-, former Deputy Secretary of H.M. Treasury and Permanent Secretary, Department for Education, since 2001 President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford)
  • Michael J D Stear KCB CBE QCVSA, DL MA FRAeS, 1938-, former Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces Central Europe and former President of the Royal Air Forces Association
  • Richard Dearlove KCMG OBE, 1945-, Head of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) from 1999 until 2004 and Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge
  • Stefan Booth, 1979-, actor (Hollyoaks, The Bill, Dancing on Ice)
  • Ian Cundy, 1945-2009, Bishop of Peterborough 1996-2009
  • Maurice Arthur Ponsonby Wood DSC, 1916–2007, Bishop of Norwich who took the first church service on liberated French soil in June 1944
  • John Desmond Clark OBE, 1916–2002, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, University of Berkeley, USA and pre-eminent African archaeologist
  • George Herbert Jose, 1868–1956, Dean of Adelaide (Australia)
  • Michael Head, 1900–1976, composer, musician and broadcaster
  • Michael Barton Akehurst, 1940–1989, international lawyer
  • Dr. Wilfred Edward Shewell-Cooper MBE, 1900–1982, British organic gardener and pioneer of no-dig gardening.
  • Alfred Young, 1873–1940, outstanding mathematician and inventor of Young tableau for use in theory of groups and quantum mechanics
  • David Howard Adeney, 1911–1994, Protestant Christian missionary in China and East Asia
  • Major General John Dutton Frost CB, DSO & Bar, MC, DL, 1912–1993, British airborne officer best known for being the leader of the small group of airborne forces at Arnhem bridge during the Battle of Arnhem
  • Adrian Mitchell, 1932–2008, author and Shadow Poet Laureate
  • John Frank Ewan Bone, 1930-, former Bishop of Reading from 1989 until 1996
  • Josh Ovens, 1989-, professional rugby union player for Bath Rugby and England Under 20s
  • Kevin Walton GC, 1918–2009, awarded the George Cross in 1946
  • John Bush, 1937-, former Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire
  • Squadron Leader James MacLachlan DSO, DFC and Bar, RAF Second World War fighter ace and amputee.
  • Philip Marsh, 1994-, 2011 U20 World Fencing Champion (Junior Men's Epee)
 
Absolutely no one. The best wiki came up with was a blogger. One of the PE teachers played rugby for the Saracens, although I'm not sure that counts.
 
Secondary - Jason Bradbury of The gadget show (A couple of years above me)
Steve Plater - Motorcycle rider

Tim Garbutt - of the Utah Saints went to the local Grammar school for a while.
 
Kevin Macdonald - Director - he directed Last King of Scotland.
Robbie Coltrane - actor - Goldeneye :D
Rob Wainwright - Scotland rugby player
HM Bateman - Cartoonist
Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia
Charles Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton
Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin - British statesman who served as Viceroy of India from 1894 to 1899.

lol....theres a few
 
None that i know of from my school although I did achieve reasonable accolades at one point. I do have a claim to fame though from a family member going out with best friend of a major actor, though wont name names.

PS: More likely to have someone famous/infamous from my school for committing some heinous crime.
 
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