List of Old Gregorians

An Old Gregorian (usually abbreviated OG) is a former member of Downside School, situated near Bath, Somerset, in the United Kingdom.

Alumni are so-named of St Gregory the Great who is the patron saint of the Downside monastic community, that used to run and own the school.

A

 * Sir Rudolph Agnew – former chairman of Consolidated Goldfields
 * Michael J. Alexander – academic and poet
 * Sir Mark Allen – United Kingdom spy, turned businessman and academic lecturer
 * Rupert Allason – author (under the pen-name Nigel West) and former Conservative MP
 * Antony Nicholas Allott – English academic, Professor of African Law at the University of London
 * Alistair Asprey – Secretary for Security for Hong Kong Government, Commanding Officer of Royal Hong Kong Auxiliary Air Force

B

 * Alex Barrow- cricketer
 * Tom Bethell – editor of the American Spectator
 * Fergus Blackie - Justice of The Supreme Court of Zimbabwe and Rhodesian Front MP
 * Don Brennan – English cricketer
 * Andrew Bonaparte-Wyse - Irish civil servant
 * Sir Rowland Blennerhasset, 4th Baronet - Liberal Party politician
 * Edward Cuthbert Butler - historian

C

 * Mark Canning- British diplomat and Former British Ambassador to Indonesia
 * William Cash – author and journalist
 * Denis Caulfield Heron- Irish lawyer and politician
 * Jeremy Campbell-Lamerton- Scottish Rugby Union player
 * Max Emanuel Cenčić - countertenor
 * Alex Chisholm – Cabinet Office Permanent Secretary and Chief Operating Officer of the Civil Service
 * Desmond Chute – poet and artist
 * John Clibborn – British Intelligence Officer, served as MI6 head of station in Washington D.C
 * Ralph Clutton – cricketer
 * George Cooper – British Army officer, served as Adjutant-General to the Forces
 * Brian Cotter – former Liberal Democrat MP
 * Archie Cotterell – cricketer and novelist
 * Archbishop Maurice Noël Léon Couve de Murville – former Archbishop of Birmingham
 * Thomas Clifford, 14th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh
 * William Craven, 6th Earl of Craven
 * Oliver Crosthwaite-Eyre – British Conservative Party Politician

D

 * John Charles Day – amongst the first Catholic judges in England to be appointed after the English Reformation
 * Pete de Freitas – musician, member of Echo & The Bunnymen
 * Christian Louis de Massay – Monegasque royalty
 * Arthur Denaro – County Donegal-raised Commanding Officer of the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars and later Commandant of Sandhurst
 * Henry Eric Dolan – World War I flying ace
 * John Drummond, 17th Earl of Perth – Minister for Colonial Affairs
 * Prince Jonathan Doria Pamphilj
 * Neil Dexter – former captain of Middlesex County Cricket Club

E

 * Dominick Elwes – portrait painter
 * Barry England – novelist and playwright
 * Sir Osmond Esmonde, 12th Baronet - Teachta Dála for Fine Gael
 * Peter Evans-Freke, 11th Baron Carbery - Anglo Irish Peer
 * Michael Evans-Freke, 12th Baron Carbery - Anglo Irish Peer

F

 * Rocco Forte – British hotelier and entrepreneur
 * Edward Fitzgerald KC
 * James Percy FitzPatrick – South African author, mining financier and pioneer of the fruit industry. Repsonsible for the two-minute silence observed on Armistice Day
 * Nicolás Franco – nephew of Francisco Franco
 * William Anthony Furness, 2nd Viscount Furness (1929–1995)
 * Gerard Fairlie – writer, scriptwriter and Winter Olympian

G

 * Joseph Gaggero – Gibraltarian businessman
 * Francis Aidan Gasquet – Cardinal, Vatican librarian
 * Jan Gawroński - Polish diplomat
 * Carlos Gereda y de Borbón – Spanish aristocrat, engineering entrepreneur and philanthropist
 * J. G. Greig – first-class cricketer, soldier, and Catholic priest
 * Brion Gysin – author and artist

H

 * Denis Hanley – electrical engineer and Conservative Party politician
 * Jared Harris – actor
 * Damian Harris – film director and screenwriter
 * Jamie Harris – actor
 * Simon Halliday – former England rugby player
 * David Hawkins – Royal Air Force officer
 * Steve Henderson – cricketer
 * Bobby Henrey – child actor, star of 'The Fallen Idol'
 * Denis Caulfield Heron - First Catholic Scholar at Trinity College, Dublin and MP for Tipperary
 * Tristram Hillier – surrealist painter
 * Patrick Holcroft – Lord-Lieutenant of Worcestershire
 * Richard Holmes – biographer
 * Henry Howard – first formal British envoy to the Vatican for over 300 hundred years
 * Hubert Howard – intelligence officer
 * Lord Hunt of Tanworth

I

 * Andrew Ibrahim - terrorist

J

 * Christopher Jamison – Abbot of Worth
 * Philip Jebb – architect and Liberal Party politician

K

 * Chris Kelly – TV presenter and producer
 * Norbert Keenan - Irish Barrister and Member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly
 * Ivone Kirkpatrick - Irish born Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, British High Commissioner at Allied High Commission and Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the Holy See
 * David Knowles - Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge
 * Halik Kochanski - Historian and writer
 * William Keatinge - military chaplain and bishop

L

 * Sir John Leslie, 4th Baronet
 * Dominic Lieven- professor at Cambridge University and Fellow of the British Academy
 * John Lytton, 5th Earl of Lytton- British chartered surveyor, peer, and Member of the House of Lords

M

 * Seán MacBride - Teachta Dála, Minister for Foreign Affairs (Ireland), Chief of Staff of the IRA and Nobel Peace Prize Winner
 * Frank MacDermot - Teachta Dála and founder of Fine Gael
 * Guy Malet - Artist
 * Alex Mapelli-Mozzi – alpine skier
 * Patrick Marnham – writer, journalist and biographer
 * Pierce McCan- Teachta Dála and Easter Rising Veteran
 * Pierre Maréchal- Racing Driver who died during 24 Hours of Le Mans
 * Patrick Mason- Director of the Abbey Theatre
 * Alexander McDonnell, 9th Earl of Antrim
 * Nicholas Mander – Sir Charles Nicholas Mander, 4th Baronet
 * Gerald Maxwell MC – First World War flying ace
 * Prince Emmanuel de Merode – Director of the Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
 * Midland - DJ and Producer
 * James Miller – journalist and film-maker
 * David Mlinaric – interior designer
 * Joseph Molony - Chairman of the General Council of the Bar
 * Richard More O'Ferrall - Governor of Malta and high level politician, of the prominent More O'Ferrall family.
 * Peter Morgan – Oscar nominated scriptwriter
 * John Mullan – professor of English and writer
 * Helenus Milmo – Irish lawyer and High Court Judge

N

 * Albert Nelson, 6th Earl Nelson
 * Henry Nelson, 7th Earl Nelson
 * Martin Newland – former editor of The Daily Telegraph
 * Barry Nicholas – classicist, former Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford
 * William Nicholson – playwright and Oscar winner
 * Marek Niedużak - lawyer
 * Michael Noakes – artist
 * John Norman – first-class cricketer
 * Stafford Northcote, 4th Earl of Iddesleigh

O

 * Sir Tim O'Brien, 3rd Baronet- England Cricket Team Player
 * John O'Brien- Ireland Cricket Team Player
 * Daniel O'Connell - Leader of the movement for Catholic emancipation, Irish Nationalist and MP
 * Charles Owen O'Conor, O'Conor Don - Liberal MP for Roscommon and President of Gaelic League
 * Denis Charles Joseph O'Conor - hereditary Chief of the Name O'Conor
 * Denis Maurice O'Conor - Liberal MP for Sligo County
 * Denis Armar O'Conor, O'Conor Don - Irish nobleman
 * Denis Maurice O'Conor - former Lord Justice of Appeal
 * Mervyn O'Gorman- British electrical and aircraft engineer
 * Denis Ormerod- first Roman Catholic commander of the Ulster Defence Regiment

P

 * Anthony Palliser – artist
 * Tony Pearson – cricketer
 * Nigel Poett – British Army Officer, commanded the 5th Parachute Brigade during the second world war
 * John Bede Polding – first Archbishop of Sydney
 * Francis Pollen – architect, worked on buildings at the Abbey and school
 * Philip Pope – actor and composer
 * James Pope-Hennessy – biographer and travel writer
 * John Pope-Hennessy – former director of the British Museum
 * Nicholas Preston, 17th Viscount Gormanston – art connoisseur and aristocrat
 * Jonathan Pugh – cartoonist
 * Edmund Purdom – film actor

R

 * Rev. Timothy Radcliffe, OP – Master of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans) from 1992 to 2001
 * Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell – Solicitor General and Attorney General
 * George William Rendel – diplomat
 * Dan Riddiford – New Zealand politician of the National Party
 * Michael Richey – navigator and author
 * Paul Richey – flying ace of the Second World War and author
 * Michael Robinson – flying ace of the Second World War
 * Jerome Roche – musicologist
 * Tremayne Rodd, 3rd Baron Rennell – Conservative peer - Scottish rugby international
 * Nicholas Rossiter – TV producer

S

 * John de Salis, 9th Count de Salis-Soglio – ICRC delegate and envoy
 * Hilary St George Saunders – author
 * Wilfrid Sheed – novelist and essayist
 * Todd Sharpville – musician
 * Arthur Sidgreaves – businessman, head of Rolls-Royce during the Second World War
 * Eugene Simon – actor
 * Sir John Smythe, 8th Baronet – cricketer
 * Sir Robert Stapylton – courtier, dramatic poet and translator
 * Richard Stokes – former Lord Privy Seal
 * Christopher Sykes – author
 * John Sweetman - Founder of Sinn Féin
 * Roger Sweetman - Teachta Dála for Sinn Féin and abstentionist MP

T

 * Artur Tarnowski - politician
 * Simon Tolkien – author and novelist
 * Rudolph de Trafford – aristocrat and banker
 * Maurice Turnbull – Welsh rugby international and Test cricketer
 * Bernard Turnbull – former captain of Wales Rugby Team
 * Paolo Tullio – writer, radio/TV personality and Michelin star-winning chef

U

 * James Underwood – pathologist
 * William Bernard Ullathorne – English prelate

V

 * John Varley – former CEO of Barclays
 * Hugh Vyvyan – captain of Saracens Rugby

W

 * Auberon Waugh – journalist
 * Robert Walker, Baron Walker of Gestingthorpe – former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
 * Patrick Wall – Royal Marines officer and Conservative politician
 * Charles Walmesley – Procurator General, astronomer and mathematician
 * Dennis Walters – Conservative Party politician
 * Charles Wegg-Prosser – politician
 * Bob Wellings – Broadcaster
 * Arthur B. Woods – film director
 * Douglas Woodruff – editor of the Tablet

Z

 * Count Adam Zamoyski – historian