List of Old Oundelians

The following is a list of some notable Old Oundelians, alumni of Oundle School in Northamptonshire, England:

Armed forces

 * Air Vice Marshal David Atcherley, senior Royal Air Force officer
 * Major-General Llewellyn William Atcherley, British army officer and Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Constabulary
 * Air Marshal Sir Richard Atcherley, senior Royal Air Force officer. He served as Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Pakistan Air Force between 1949 and 1951
 * Bernard Paul Gascoigne Beanlands, Canadian World War I flying ace credited with eight aerial victories
 * Patrick Beesly, wartime intelligence officer and author
 * James Bradley MBE, prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II
 * Rear Admiral Benjamin Bryant CB DSO** DSC, the most successful British submarine ace to survive the war
 * Count Manfred Beckett Czernin, World War II Royal Air Force Pilot and later in the war an operative with the Special Operations Executive
 * Denis Eadie MC, British Army officer who was awarded the Military Cross by Field Marshal Lord Wavell for his conduct during the relief of Kohima
 * Wing Commander Patrick Gibbs, RAF pilot and journalist
 * Alan Jerrard VC, recipient of the Victoria Cross for action during the Great War
 * Norman Jewell, World War II Royal Navy officer
 * Cecil Leonard Knox VC, recipient of the Victoria Cross for action during the Great War
 * John Langdon, Royal Marine officer at D-Day, later became an Anglican priest
 * William Howard Livens, soldier and inventor
 * Sir Rhys Llewellyn, 2nd Baronet, soldier and mining executive
 * General Sir Richard Shireff, KCB, CBE, British army officer and former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe
 * Air Marshal Sir Charles Steele, former Commander-in-Chief of RAF Coastal Command
 * Sir (Charles) Geoffrey Vickers VC, lawyer, administrator, writer and pioneering systems scientist
 * Vice Admiral Sir John Michael Villiers, Royal Navy officer and Fourth Sea Lord
 * General Sir Charles John Waters, former Commander-in-Chief, Land Forces
 * Harold Whistler, fighter pilot and flying ace
 * Air Commodore John Whitworth, Royal Air Force pilot in the 1930s and a commander during and after the Second World War
 * Sir Charles Rodger Winn, Royal Navy intelligence officer and judge
 * Major General Sir John Winterton, Governor and Commander of Trieste
 * Captain William Wright, WW1 flying ace and civil servant
 * Michael Wynn, 7th Baron Newborough, Royal Navy officer

Arts

 * Christopher Alexander, architect, academic and author
 * Al Alvarez, poet
 * John Davys Beresford, author
 * Peter Bicknell, architect and art historian
 * George Blagden, actor, singer
 * Michael Broadbent MW, wine critic and auctioneer
 * Lucy Brown, actress
 * Thomas Carr, artist
 * Allan Chappelow, writer and photographer
 * Joanna Christie, actress
 * Jim Clark, Academy Award-winning film editor
 * Charles Crichton, film director
 * Bruce Dickinson, lead singer in the band Iron Maiden, commercial pilot, fencer
 * John Dreyfus, book designer and historian of printing
 * David Edgar, playwright
 * John Maxwell Edmonds, poet, dramatist and writer of celebrated epitaphs
 * Adrian Fisher MBE, maze designer
 * Colin Franklin, writer, bibliographer, book-collector and antiquarian bookseller
 * Roderick Gordon, author
 * Anthony Holden, biographer
 * Maxwell Hutchinson, architect, broadcaster and former President of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)
 * Fred Inglis, professor of Cultural Studies
 * Christopher Joll, historian and author
 * Jon Jones, BAFTA winning film and television director
 * Frederick Knott, playwright
 * Andrew Pettegree, historian and professor at St Andrews University
 * David Pickering, writer
 * George Sassoon, writer
 * Sir Peter Saunders, theatrical impresario
 * Sir Peter Scott, conservationist and painter
 * Paul Seabright, academic and writer
 * Keith Shackleton, conservationist and painter
 * Judge Smith, musician, Van der Graaf Generator
 * Robert Speechly, architect
 * John Charles Traylen, architect
 * Kenneth Hotham Vickers, historian
 * Bill Ward, actor
 * Ivo Watts-Russell, music producer, president 4AD Records
 * Sir Bertram Clough Williams-Ellis, architect, designer of Portmeirion
 * Martin Woodhouse, author and scriptwriter

Business and finance

 * John Allwood, businessman
 * Alex Baldock, businessman, banker, CEO of Currys
 * Sir Alan Budd, economist
 * Geoffrey Crowther, Baron Crowther, businessman, economist and journalist
 * David Fleming, economist and environmental writer
 * Sir Roland Franklin, Antigua and Barbuda-based merchant banker
 * Jason Gissing, entrepreneur, co-founder of Ocado Group
 * Colin Matthews, businessman and Chairman of Highways England
 * Sir David Newbigging, businessman and Hong Kong politician
 * Nazir Razak, banker
 * Sir Howard Stringer, chairman and CEO Sony Corporation
 * Sir John Timpson, founder of British retailer Timpson
 * John Ward, economist and trade union leader
 * James Kenneth Weir, peer and businessman

Engineering

 * Tony Blackman, aviator and test pilot for Avro
 * James Boyd (1904–1987), American mining engineer and director of the United States Bureau of Mines; did not graduate
 * Major Patrick Hunter Gordon, soldier and electrical engineer
 * Sir Richard O'Brien, engineer and industrial relations expert
 * Raymond Mays, racing driver, engineer and entrepreneur, co-founder of ERA and BRM
 * Kenyon Taylor, electrical engineer and inventor
 * Amherst Villiers, engineer (automotive, aeronautical, astronautical), portrait painter
 * Rex Wailes, engineer and historian

Media

 * Barrie Edgar, TV producer
 * Damian Grammaticas, BBC Europe Correspondent
 * Cecil Lewis, co-founder of the BBC, flying ace and author of 'Sagittarius Rising'
 * David Loyn, International Development Correspondent of BBC News
 * Arthur Marshall, writer and broadcaster
 * Rufus Pollock, economist and founder of Open Knowledge International
 * Norman Smith, Assistant Political Editor of BBC News
 * Charles Wintour, newspaper editor

Politics, Civil Service and the law

 * Baron Allan of Hallam, Liberal Democrat M.P.
 * Major Basil Barton, solicitor and M.P.
 * Michael Beaumont, Conservative M.P.
 * Sir Roy Beldam, Lord Justice of Appeal
 * Caroline Criado Perez, feminist campaigner and writer
 * Robert Dixon-Smith, Baron Dixon-Smith, Conservative M.P.
 * Frederick Erroll, 1st Baron Erroll of Hale, Conservative M.P.
 * Ailwyn Fellowes, 3rd Baron de Ramsey, peer and Lord Lieutenant of Huntingdonshire
 * Charles Finch-Knightley, 11th Earl of Aylesford, peer styled "Lord Guernsey", Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant for Warwickshire
 * Gary Flather, judge and disability campaigner
 * Abraham Flint, barrister and judge
 * Donald Gorrie, Scottish Liberal Democrat M.P. and former M.S.P. for Central Scotland
 * John Grimston, 6th Earl of Verulam, peer and M.P.
 * John Hanscomb, politician
 * Denis Keegan, barrister and M.P.
 * David Kitchin, Lord Kitchin, UK Supreme Court Justice
 * Owen Lloyd George, 3rd Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, peer
 * Sir William Laxton, grocer and school founder
 * Sir William Montagu, judge
 * Michael Mustill, Baron Mustill, Law Lord
 * Mark Ormerod, civil servant and chief executive of The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
 * Sir Herbert Palmer, Governor of Gambia and Cyprus
 * Ralph Bonner Pink, Conservative M.P.
 * Christian Herbert, 6th Earl of Powis
 * James Provan, farmer, businessman and M.E.P.
 * Janil Puthucheary, Malaysian-born Singaporean politician and paediatrician
 * David Reddaway, diplomat
 * David Lockhart-Mure Renton, Baron Renton, Conservative M.P.
 * Sir David Richards, UK Supreme Court Justice
 * John Vernon Rob, diplomat and first High Commissioner to Singapore
 * The Rt. Hon. Kenneth Robinson, Labour M.P. and Minister of Health 1964-1968
 * Sir Colin Shepherd, Conservative M.P.
 * Sir Joseph Simpson, Metropolitan Police commissioner
 * Michael Tatham, diplomat
 * Peter Thurnham, Conservative and Liberal Democrat M.P.
 * Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia
 * Sir George Mark Waller, judge and former Lord Justice of Appeal
 * Arthur Wynn, civil servant and recruiter of Soviet spies, known as "Agent Scott"

Science, medicine and religion

 * Michael Ashby, neurologist, witness in John Bodkin Adams case
 * David Barker, epidemiologist
 * Colin Bibby PhD, ornithologist and conservationist
 * Sir Cyril Clarke, physician
 * Richard Dawkins, ethologist, evolutionary biologist and science writer
 * George Dawson Preston, physicist and crystallographer
 * William Dillingham, clergyman and academic
 * Charles Fagge, surgeon
 * Hartley T. Ferrar, geologist who accompanied Captain Scott's First Antarctic Expedition
 * Alister Hardy, marine biologist
 * John B. Harman, former chairman of the British National Formulary
 * Leslie Hilton Brown OBE, ornithologist and agriculturalist
 * Hugh Jackson, paediatrician
 * Richard Keynes, physiologist
 * Stephen John Keynes, chairman of the Charles Darwin Trust
 * William Milo Keynes, doctor and author
 * Thomas Layng, clergyman and soldier
 * Alan Lindsay Mackay, crystallographer
 * Bobby Milburn, priest
 * Clive Minton, ornithologist
 * David Nabarro, senior UN system coordinator
 * C. H. Nash, clergyman and founder of the Melbourne Bible Institute
 * Joseph Needham, biochemist
 * Guy Newton, biochemist and rower
 * Robin Nicholson, metallurgist, Chief Scientific Advisor to cabinet
 * David Oates, archaeologist and Ancient Near East specialist
 * P. D. Orton, mycologist
 * Derek Richter, neuroscientist
 * John Speechly, bishop
 * Simon Tavaré, founding director of the Herbert and Florence Irving Institute of Cancer Dynamics
 * Ronald F. Tylecote, archaeologist and metallurgist

Sport

 * Matthew Austin, cricketer
 * Richard Beesly, Olympic gold medal, 1928 Coxless fours rowing
 * Rollo Brandt, bobsledder, competed for Great Britain at 1956 Winter Olympics
 * Farn Carpmael, rower
 * Carston Catcheside, former England rugby player
 * Alexander Crawford, cricketer
 * Ben Curry, rugby player
 * Tom Curry, England rugby player
 * Bill Elsey, racehorse trainer
 * Patrick Foster, cricketer
 * Christopher Gimson, cricketer and civil servant
 * Eric Gore-Browne, cricketer
 * Tom Harrison, fmr. cricketer and current CEO of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB)
 * Iain Henderson, cricketer
 * Reggie Ingle, cricketer
 * Will Jefferson, professional cricketer
 * David Jennens, Olympic rower
 * Sir Harry Morton Llewellyn, 3rd Baronet of Bwllfa, showjumper
 * Robert Martin, cricketer
 * Michael Maw, cricketer
 * John Michael Mills, cricketer
 * Peter Morley, president Crystal Palace Football Club
 * Sam Olver, rugby player
 * Richard Pearsall, cricketer
 * Mark Phythian, cricketer
 * Alfred Graham Skinner, cricketer
 * Greg Smith, cricketer
 * John Willoughby Dixie Smith, cricketer
 * Tom Stallard, Olympic rower
 * Arthur Sutthery, cricketer
 * Tim Swinson, rugby player
 * Cameron Wake, cricketer
 * Dave Walder, professional rugby player
 * Legh Winser, cricketer and golfer
 * Arthur Woodhouse, cricketer
 * James Wykes, cricketer and schoolmaster
 * Norman Wykes, cricketer