List of Old Wellingtonians

This is a list of notable Old Wellingtonians, being former pupils of Wellington College in Berkshire, England.

Politics

 * Hammad Azhar (1982-), Member of National Assembly of Pakistan, Federal Minister.
 * David Blomfield MBE (1934–2016), leader of the Liberal Party group on Richmond upon Thames Council, writer, book editor and local historian
 * Michael Blundell (1907–1993), politician and government minister in Kenya
 * Crispin Blunt (1960–), Conservative Member of Parliament for the English constituency of Reigate since 1997, and chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee.
 * Julian Brazier, TD (1953–), Conservative Member of Parliament for the English constituency of Canterbury from 1987 to 2017 and former government minister
 * Lord Campbell of Croy (1921–2005), British Cabinet Minister who served as Secretary of State for Scotland during the whole of Edward Heath's government
 * Lord Colnbrook (1922–1996), British Cabinet Minister
 * John Dugdale (1905–1963), journalist, Labour Member of Parliament for the English constituency of West Bromwich between 1941 and 1962, and former government minister
 * James Malcolm Monteith Erskine (1863–1944), Anti-Waste League, Independent Conservative, and Conservative Member of Parliament for Westminster St George's, 1921–1929
 * Christopher Ewart-Biggs (1921–1976), British Ambassador who was assassinated by the IRA
 * The Viscount Falkland (1935–), Politician and former member of the House of Lords
 * George Ferguson (1947–), the first elected Mayor of Bristol (2012–16)
 * Thomas Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde (1960–), Former leader of the Conservative Party in the House of Lords
 * Sir Edward Garnier KC (1952–), Conservative Member of Parliament for the English constituency of Harborough since 1992, and former Solicitor General for England and Wales
 * Lord Gordon-Walker (1907–1980), British Cabinet Minister who served as Foreign Secretary under Harold Wilson
 * The Lord Faulks KC (1950–), Conservative Member in the House of Lords
 * Sir Alexander Grantham, (1899–1978) British colonial administrator who governed Hong Kong
 * Lord Luce (1936–) Governor of Gibraltar and Lord Chamberlain to HM The Queen
 * Antony Rivers Marlow (1940–), Conservative Member of Parliament for the English constituency of Northampton North between 1979 and 1997
 * Sir Harold Nicolson (1886–1968), British diplomat, author and politician
 * Sir Michael Spicer (1943–2019), Conservative Member of Parliament for the English constituencies of West Worcestershire and South Worcestershire between 1974 and 2010 and former chairman of the 1922 committee
 * Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby (1865–1948), British Secretary of State for War (two separate times) and founder of the Lord Derby Cup
 * Sir Edmund Stockdale (1903–1989), Lord Mayor of London
 * Lord Stodart of Leaston (1916–2003), Scottish Tory politician who served under Sir Alec Douglas-Home and Edward Heath
 * Robin Tilbrook (1958–), leader and founder of the English Democrats

Religion

 * The Lord Harries of Pentregarth (1936–) retired Church of England bishop, the 41st Bishop of Oxford from 1987 to 2006
 * David Watson (1933–1984) evangelical Church of England clergyman, evangelist and author

Sport

 * Henry Beaumont (1881–1964), cricketer
 * Lionel Booth (1850–1912), cricketer
 * Frederick Browning (1870–1929) cricketer and rackets amateur champion
 * Simon Clarke (1938–2017) England rugby player and first-class cricketer
 * Ben Curran (1996-) Northamptonshire Cricketer, brother of Tom and Sam
 * Sam Curran (1998–) England and Surrey Cricketer, brother of Tom Curran
 * Thomas Curran (1995–) England and Surrey Cricketer, brother of Sam Curran
 * Ernest Denny (1872–1949), cricketer
 * Paul Doran-Jones (1985–) England International Rugby player
 * Sean Edwards (1986–2013) British racing driver
 * Max Evans (1983–) Scotland International Rugby player
 * Thom Evans (1985–) Scotland International Rugby player
 * David Fasken (1932–2006), First-class cricketer
 * James Haskell (1985–) England International Rugby player
 * Sir Patrick Head (1946–) co-founder of the Williams Formula One team
 * Percy Heath (1877–1917), cricketer
 * Madison Hughes (1992–) USA International Rugby player
 * James Hunt (1947–1993) 1976 F1 World Champion
 * Norman Grace (1894–1975), cricketer
 * Peter Gracey (1921–2006), cricketer
 * Eric Grimley (1899–1969), cricketer
 * Max Lahiff (1989–) Rugby union player (Bath Rugby & London Irish)
 * Morgan Lake (1997–) Olympic athlete and twice World Junior Athletics Champion
 * Henry Lawrence (1848–1902) England international rugby player and captain
 * Rear-Admiral Spencer Login, C.V.O., Royal Navy (1851-1909), rugby union international who represented England in 1875
 * Tim Mayer (1966–) US motorsports organizer and official.
 * Richard Raphael (1872–1910), cricketer
 * Donald Ray (1903–1944), cricketer
 * Jamie Salmon (1959–) dual rugby international (New Zealand All Blacks and England)
 * James Scott Douglas (1930–1969) Scottish racing driver (and Baronet Douglas)
 * Ernest Tomkins (1869–1927), cricketer
 * Tom Townsend (1971–) Britain and England international bridge player and writer
 * Chris Wakefield (1991–), cricketer
 * Geoffrey Warren (1908–1941), cricketer
 * Louis Weigall (1873-1957), cricketer
 * Maximillian Wood (1873–1915), cricketer
 * Richard Worsley (1879–1917), cricketer
 * Murray Wyatt Marshall (1873–1978), England International Rugby player and captain
 * Ed Young (1989–), cricketer
 * Peter Young (1986–), cricketer

Art and entertainment

 * Charles Robert Ashbee (1863–1942) one of the prime movers of the English Arts and Crafts movement
 * Ellie Bamber (1997–) actress
 * Sir Hugh Beaver (1890–1967) founder of the Guinness Book of Records
 * James Bernard (1925–2001) British Film composer and Academy Award winner
 * Trevor Blakemore (1879–1953), poet
 * Josh Bowman (1988–) Star of ABC drama Revenge
 * Rory Bremner (1961–) British impressionist and comedian, noted for his political satire
 * Heather Cameron-Hayes, Semi-Finalist of BBC1's The Voice 2016 
 * Bob Carlos Clarke (1950–2006) Photographer
 * Richard Curle (1883–1968), author, critic and journalist
 * Henry Danton (1919–2022) ballet dancer Henry Danton
 * Caggie Dunlop, Star of E4 reality series Made in Chelsea
 * Elize du Toit (1980–) actress and model best known for the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks
 * Gavin Ewart (1916–1995) British poet
 * Jim Field Smith (1979–) British film director, writer and comedian
 * Sebastian Faulks (1953–) novelist whose works include Birdsong and Charlotte Gray
 * Nicola Formby (1965– ), journalist
 * John Gardner (1917–2011) British composer
 * John Keane (1954–) painter and official artist, Gulf War
 * Sir Christopher Lee (1922–2015) film actor
 * John Masters (1914–1983) British Army Officer and novelist
 * Robert Morley (1908–1992) film actor
 * John Nash (1893–1977) 20th-century painter and war artist
 * Frederick Noad (1929–2001) guitarist, lutenist, author, and teacher
 * Gregory Norminton (1976–) novelist
 * George Orwell (1903–1950) author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four (Easter Term 1917 only, in May 1917 he became a King's Scholar at Eton)
 * Nerina Pallot (1974–) singer, songwriter, producer
 * Harry Ricketts (1950–) writer and biographer
 * Guy Siner (1947–) actor
 * Count Nikolai Tolstoy (1935–) Russo-British historian and author
 * Martin Windrow (1944–) British historian
 * Will Young (1979–) British singer and actor

Broadcasting

 * Daniel Farson (1927–1997) broadcaster and writer
 * Gerald Hine-Haycock (1951–) journalist, Correspondent for ITN and BBC News; Presenter for HTV West and BBC West
 * Robin Oakley (1941–) journalist, Political Editor of CNN International, formerly Political Editor of the BBC
 * Peter Snow CBE (1938–) British television and radio presenter

Military

 * Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck, British Army commander during World War II
 * Field Marshal Sir Nigel Bagnall, Chief of the General Staff
 * Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John Salmond, Chief of the Air Staff
 * Field Marshal Sir Geoffrey Baker, Chief of the General Staff 1968 to 1971
 * Field Marshal Sir Gerald Templer, Chief of the Imperial General Staff
 * General Sir Charles Richardson, Chief Royal Engineer and Master-General of the Ordnance
 * General Sir Harry Tuzo, General Officer Commanding, Northern Ireland and other senior British Army commands
 * General Sir Charles Huxtable, Commander-in-Chief UK Land Forces 1988 to 1990
 * General Sir Richard O'Connor, British Army general during World War II
 * General Sir Peter Hunt, Chief of the General Staff 1973
 * General Sir James Glover, Commander-in-Chief UK Land Forces 1985 to 1987
 * General Sir Roland Guy, Adjutant General to the British Army 1984 to 1986
 * General Sir Chris Deverell, Commander of the UK's Joint Forces Command and member of the UK Chiefs of Staff Committee April 2016 to May 2019.
 * Lieutenant General Sir Noel Beresford-Peirse, General Officer Commanding, XIII Corps and later General Officer Commander-in-Chief, Southern Army, India during the Second World War
 * Lieutenant General Sir Alistair Irwin, Adjutant General to the British Army 2003 to 2005
 * Lieutenant General Sir Montagu Stopford, Commander of British forces during the Battle of Kohima
 * Lieutenant General Sir Maurice Johnston, Assistant Chief of the General Staff, Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff and Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire
 * Lieutenant General Sir Kenneth Loch, Director of Anti-Aircraft and Coastal Defence (1939–1941), Master-General of Ordnance, India (1944–1947), and head of the board of governors at Wellington
 * Major-General George Erroll Prior-Palmer, General Officer Commanding, 6th Armoured Division
 * Major-General Douglas Wimberley, British Divisional Commander in World War II
 * Roger Bushell, Mastermind of the Great Escape
 * Lieutenant Colonel Sir Wolseley Haig (1865–1938) Lieutenant-Colonel
 * Sir John Rennie, former Director of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)

Fifteen Old Wellingtonians have won the Victoria Cross; one Old Wellingtonian has won the George Cross. They are as follows:
 * Victoria Cross and George Cross holders


 * Victoria Cross
 * Zulu War
 * Lieutenant Henry Lysons, VC (He later achieved the rank of colonel and was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)) (1858–1907)
 * South African War (Boer War)
 * Captain Charles FitzClarence, VC (He later achieved the rank of brigadier general. He was killed in action, Polygon Wood, Zonnebeke, Belgium, on 12 November 1914) (1865–1914)
 * Captain Ernest Beachcroft Beckwith Towse, VC (He later became a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO), and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE) (1864–1948)
 * Third Ashanti Expedition
 * Captain Charles John Melliss, VC (later to become Major General Sir Charles John Melliss VC, KCB, KCMG) (1862–1936)
 * Second Somaliland Expedition
 * Captain Alexander Stanhope Cobbe VC, (He later achieved the rank of general) (1870–1931)
 * First World War
 * Captain John Franks Vallentin, VC (1882–1914)
 * Lieutenant James Anson Otho Brooke VC (1884–1914)
 * Captain John Fitzhardinge Paul Butler VC (1888–1916)
 * Second Lieutenant Alexander Buller Turner, VC (1893–1915)
 * Lieutenant Thomas Orde Lawder Wilkinson, VC (1894–1916)
 * Second World War
 * Flight Lieutenant Roderick Alastair Brook Learoyd, VC (1913–1996)
 * Commander Anthony Cecil Capel Miers, VC (Later to become Rear Admiral Sir Anthony Cecil Capel Miers VC, KBE, CB, DSO & Bar) (1906–1985)
 * Captain Patrick Porteous, VC (1918–2000) (he later achieved the rank of colonel)
 * Lieutenant-Colonel Victor Buller Turner, VC (brother of Alexander Buller Turner, VC)(1900–1972)
 * Lieutenant Claud Raymond, VC (1923–1945)
 * George Cross
 * 1935 Quetta earthquake
 * Lieutenant John Cowley GC (Originally awarded the Albert Medal which was converted to the George Cross. He was later to become Lieutenant General Sir John Cowley GC KBE CB)

Other

 * Joseph Arthur Arkwright FRS Bacteriologist
 * John Arnold
 * David Boyle, British intelligence officer
 * Ranald Boyle, British diplomat
 * C.R. Boxer, historian
 * Matthew Restall, historian
 * W S Bristowe, arachnologist
 * Michael Brock CBE, British historian
 * Patrick de Maré, psychiatrist
 * Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke
 * Michael Knatchbull, 5th Baron Brabourne, British peer and soldier
 * The Marquess of Cambridge, brother of Queen Mary
 * Anthony Fletcher, English historian
 * Nicholas Grimshaw, English architect who is behind the Eden Project
 * Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein
 * The 9th Duke of Portland
 * Prince Francis of Teck
 * John F. C. Turner, architect and theorist
 * Peter Llewellyn Gwynn-Jones, Garter Principal King of Arms, 1995–2010
 * Professor Klaus Dodds, Notable Academic and Professor of Geopolitics. Royal Holloway, University of London
 * John Haycraft, founder of International House World Organisation
 * Sir Rudolph Peters FRS, biochemist
 * Princess Maria Olympia of Greece and Denmark
 * Prince Constantine Alexios of Greece and Denmark
 * Prince Achileas-Andreas of Greece and Denmark
 * Prince Odysseas-Kimon of Greece and Denmark