Old Etonians

This is a list of notable former pupils of Eton College, a 13–18 public fee-charging and boarding secondary school for boys in Eton, Berkshire, England. Former pupils of the school are known as Old Etonians.

Politics

 * Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, first Prime Minister of Great Britain
 * William Pitt the Elder, 1st Earl of Chatham, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
 * William Ewart Gladstone, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
 * Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
 * Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
 * Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
 * Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
 * Alec Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
 * David Cameron, Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
 * Boris Johnson, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
 * Abhisit Vejjajiva, former Prime Minister of Thailand
 * Kwasi Kwarteng, former Chancellor of the Exchequer
 * Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
 * Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
 * Lord Curzon, former Viceroy of India
 * Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire, former Governor General of Canada
 * Tam Dalyell, former Labour MP

Eton has produced twenty British prime ministers. Eleven of them are shown above.

Royalty and nobility
A number of blue-blooded pupils come to Eton from aristocratic and royal families from six continents, some of whom have been sending their sons to Eton for generations. This is an incomplete list.

British

 * Lord William Beauchamp Nevill (1860–1939)
 * Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster (1879–1953)
 * Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (1900–1974)
 * George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood (1923–2011), son of Mary, Princess Royal and Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood
 * John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough (1926–2014)
 * Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (born 1935)
 * Prince William of Gloucester (1941–1972)
 * Prince Michael of Kent (born 1942)
 * Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester (born 1944)
 * Henry Alan Walter Richard Percy, 11th Duke of Northumberland (1953 – 1995)
 * George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews (born 1962)
 * James Ogilvy (born 1964), son of Princess Alexandra and the Rt Hon. Sir Angus Ogilvy
 * Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer (born 1964), brother of Diana, Princess of Wales
 * Alexander Windsor, Earl of Ulster (born 1974)
 * Lord Frederick Windsor (born 1979)
 * William, Prince of Wales (born 1982)
 * Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex (born 1984)
 * Edward Windsor, Lord Downpatrick (born 1988)
 * Lord Max Percy (born 1990), son of Ralph Percy, 12th Duke of Northumberland
 * Samuel Chatto (born 1996), son of Lady Sarah Chatto and Daniel Chatto
 * Arthur Chatto (born 1999), son of Lady Sarah Chatto and Daniel Chatto
 * Charles Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley (born 1999)

Foreign

 * Prince Tokugawa Iesato (1863–1940)
 * Aga Khan III (1877–1957)
 * Prince Eustachy Sapieha (1881–1963)
 * Prajadhipok, King Rama VII of Siam (1893–1941)
 * Leopold III of Belgium (1901–1983)
 * Prince Nicholas of Romania (1903–1978)
 * Birendra of Nepal (1945–2001)
 * Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia (born 1945)
 * Zera Yacob Amha Selassie, Head of the Imperial House of Ethiopia
 * Dipendra of Nepal (1971–2001)
 * Prince Nirajan of Nepal (1978–2001)

Writers

 * Robert Bridges
 * John Carter
 * Cyril Connolly
 * William Douglas Home
 * Henry Fielding
 * Ian Fleming
 * Gilbert Frankau
 * Thomas Gray
 * Aldous Huxley
 * Pico Iyer
 * Montague Rhodes James
 * Ronald Knox
 * Richard Mason
 * Douglas Murray
 * Musa Okwonga
 * Dillibe Onyeama
 * George Orwell
 * Anthony Powell
 * Benedict Rattigan
 * Percy Bysshe Shelley
 * Osbert Sitwell
 * Sacheverell Sitwell
 * Horace Walpole
 * Guy Walters

Scientists

 * Robert Boyle, chemist
 * John Gurdon, biologist and Nobel laureate
 * J. B. S. Haldane, biologist and statistician
 * Henry Moseley, physicist
 * John Maynard Smith, biologist and geneticist
 * John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, physicist
 * Stephen Wolfram, computer scientist
 * Richard Wrangham, biological anthropologist

Journalists

 * Timothy Brinton, 1950s BBC newsreader and 1960s ITN newscaster
 * Nicholas Coleridge, president of Conde Nast International and managing director of Condé Nast UK
 * Geordie Greig, current editor of The Mail on Sunday
 * Julian Haviland, former political editor of ITN and The Times
 * David Jessel, BBC current affairs presenter
 * Ludovic Kennedy, former ITN newscaster and BBC Panorama presenter
 * James Landale, current BBC diplomatic correspondent
 * Charles Moore, Baron Moore of Etchingham, former editor of The Daily Telegraph
 * Ferdinand Mount, former editor of The Spectator
 * John Oaksey, former chief ITV and Channel 4 racing commentator
 * David Shukman, BBC science editor
 * Corbet Woodall, 1960s BBC newsreader

Actors

 * Sebastian Armesto
 * Michael Bentine
 * Jeremy Brett
 * Christopher Cazenove
 * Jeremy Child
 * Jeremy Clyde
 * Adetomiwa Edun
 * Clement von Franckenstein
 * Harry Hadden-Paton
 * Nyasha Hatendi
 * Jonah Hauer-King
 * Charles Hawtrey
 * Tom Hiddleston
 * Hugh Laurie
 * Damian Lewis
 * Harry Lloyd
 * Patrick Macnee
 * Ian Ogilvy
 * Julian Ovenden
 * Eddie Redmayne
 * John Standing
 * Moray Watson
 * Dominic West

Music

 * Thomas Arne, composer
 * Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt, 14th Lord Berners, composer and novelist
 * George Butterworth, composer
 * John Macleod Campbell Crum, priest and hymnwriter
 * Thomas Dunhill, composer
 * Victor Hely-Hutchinson, composer and conductor
 * Frederick Septimus Kelly, musician and composer
 * Humphrey Lyttelton, jazz trumpeter
 * Hubert Parry, writer of the hymn "Jerusalem" and the coronation anthem "I was glad"
 * Roger Quilter, composer
 * Donald Tovey, musicologist
 * Frank Turner, musician
 * Atticus Ross, musician and film composer
 * Philip Heseltine, Anglo-Welsh composer and writer (pseudonym Peter Warlock)

Others

 * Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Nazi SA Obergruppenführer
 * Francis Bertie, 1st Viscount Bertie of Thame, ambassador
 * Henry Blofeld, cricket commentator
 * Beau Brummell, dandy
 * Guy Burgess, diplomat and spy
 * Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, WWI commander and Governor-General of Canada
 * Alan Clark, MP and author
 * James Colthurst, radiologist and friend of Diana, Princess of Wales
 * Piers Courage, Formula 1 racing driver
 * Charles Douglas-Home, 13th Earl of Home, father of Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home
 * Ranulph Fiennes, explorer
 * Alexander Fiske-Harrison, bullfighter and author
 * Ivo Graham, comedian
 * Bear Grylls, adventurer
 * William Inge, Dean of St Paul's Cathedral
 * John Maynard Keynes, economist
 * Richard Layard, Baron Layard, economist
 * Oliver Leese, WWII commander 8th Army
 * Frederick Stanley Maude, WWI commander
 * Stewart Menzies, WWII head of MI6
 * Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica
 * Nigel Oakes, CEO of Behavioural Dynamics Institute and SCL Group
 * Lawrence Oates, Antarctic explorer
 * Derek Parfit, philosopher
 * Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer, WWI commander
 * Paul Raison, art historian and former Chairman of Christie's
 * Timothy Raison, MP and Government minister
 * Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson, WWI commander, ultimately Commander in Chief India
 * Charles Studd, cricketer and missionary
 * Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury
 * Henry Maitland Wilson, WWII commander
 * Timothy Yates, theologian, vicar and historian

Thirty-seven Old Etonians have been awarded the Victoria Cross—the largest number to alumni of any school (see List of Victoria Crosses by school).