List of Old Ardinians

The following is a list of some notable Old Ardinians, being former pupils of Ardingly College in the United Kingdom.

Politics

 * Sir Andrew Bowden MBE - Member of Parliament (Conservative)
 * Sir Robert Cary, 1st Baronet - Member of Parliament (Conservative)
 * Jack Easter - Member of the Legislative Assembly in New South Wales
 * Sir John Gorst - Member of Parliament (Conservative)
 * Sir James Simpson KBE - Cabinet Minister in Uganda
 * Sir Robert Tasker - Member of Parliament (Conservative)

Diplomacy

 * Robert Alston CMG - UK High Commissioner to New Zealand and UK Ambassador to Oman
 * Chris Gunness - UNRWA chief spokesperson
 * Sir Claude Hayes KCMG - civil servant for overseas territories
 * Sir Edward Jackson KCMG - UK Ambassador to Belgium and UK Ambassador to Cuba
 * Ian Mackley CMG, CVO - UK High Commissioner to Ghana and UK Chargé d'Affaires to Afghanistan
 * Sir David Manning GCMG, KCVO - UK Ambassador the United States and UK Ambassador to Israel
 * Sir Robin McLaren KCMG - UK Ambassador to China and UK Ambassador to the Philippines
 * Sir Andrew Wood GCMG - UK Ambassador to Russia and UK Ambassador to Yugoslavia

Sciences

 * John Ackroyd - engineer
 * Harold Comber - botanist
 * Mike Pitts - archaeologist
 * John Paul Wild CBE, FRS - radio astronomer

Academia

 * Mark Bevir - Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley and the United Nations University
 * Frank Cowell - Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics
 * Robert Foley - Leverhulme Professor of Human Evolution at the University of Cambridge
 * Sue Hamilton - Professor of Prehistory at (and former director of) the UCL Institute of Archaeology
 * Patrick Hanks - lexicographer

Arts

 * Stage and screen
 * Dick Allen - film editor
 * Charles Bryant - actor and film director
 * Josh Dylan - actor
 * Creighton Hale - actor
 * Alan Howard CBE - actor
 * Mark Letheren - actor
 * Ed Sanders - actor
 * Terry-Thomas - actor
 * Frank Williams - actor
 * Suhana Khan - actress


 * Writers
 * Nicholas Fisk - children's author
 * Neil Gaiman - author and screenwriter
 * Thomas Meech - author and journalist
 * Ed Whitmore - screenwriter
 * Music
 * Alex Cartana - singer
 * Mike Christie - singer
 * Julian Clifford - conductor
 * James Lancelot - organist
 * Stephen Oliver - composer
 * Victor Silvester OBE - composer and band leader
 * Ed Welch - composer
 * Visual arts
 * George Belcher - artist
 * John Hayes CBE - director of the National Portrait Gallery (1974–1994)

Media

 * Sir Bill Cotton CBE - controller of BBC One (1977–1981)
 * Colin Griffiths - broadcaster
 * Ian Hislop - editor of Private Eye and panelist on Have I Got News For You
 * Nick Newman - cartoonist and scriptwriter
 * Ed Petrie - children's television presenter
 * Paul Reynolds - BBC News correspondent
 * Jay Wynne - BBC weather forecaster

Sport

 * Motor sports
 * Max Chilton - Formula One, WEC, and IndyCar racing driver
 * Clifford Earp - racing driver
 * Mike Hawthorn - Formula One racing driver and World Champion (1958)
 * Football
 * George Brann - England footballer and Sussex cricketer
 * Donald Coles - footballer
 * Adam Virgo - footballer
 * Cricket
 * Walter Bettesworth - Scotland and Sussex cricketer
 * William Blackman - Sussex cricketer
 * Ben Brown - Sussex and Hampshire cricketer
 * Dale de Neef - Scotland cricketer
 * Alex Gregory - South Australia cricketer
 * Arthur Kneller - Hampshire cricketer
 * Billy Newham - England and Sussex cricketer
 * Toby Peirce - Sussex cricketer
 * Paul Phillipson - Sussex cricketer
 * Abidine Sakande - Sussex and Leicestershire cricketer
 * Valentine Sewell - Dorset cricketer
 * Thomas Symington - Rhodesia cricketer

Industry and commerce

 * Sydney Allard - founder of Allard Motor Company
 * Charles Cruft - founder of Crufts dog show
 * Sir Charles Fairey MBE - founder of Fairey Aviation Company
 * Sir Richard Morris CBE - industrialist

Military

 * Lieutenant Commander Peter Piper DSO, DSC - submarine commander
 * Lieutenant Colonel George Starr DSO, MC - Special Operations Executive agent and leader
 * Major General Robert Whittaker CB, CBE - Anti Aircraft divisional commander

Ecclesiastical

 * Walter Adams, Archbishop of British Columbia and Yukon
 * George Browning, Bishop of Canberra and Goulburn
 * Dennis Ede, Archdeacon of Stoke
 * Gordon Mursell, Bishop of Stafford
 * Andrew Norman, Principal of Ridley Hall, Cambridge

Other

 * John Hooper - President of the British Orthodontic Society