Famous folk from your school

[Pearcyy]

Only ones i can think of

Gary and Phil Neville
The fat bird from X Factor (YEP!!!!! WTF)
Georgia Foot (actress)
There were a few other girls that appeared on TV

I went to 2 schools

[BigBen]

Stedman said:

You're not visiting 'the' 'field are you!?

No not that brave, sunny Southgate for me

Ben

[Fun Bus]

jaybkay said:

Leslie Crowther

Went to my school too but this wasn't the boys high school.

[sanguinary]

Bodie390 said:

Wacky Racer said:

Bodie390 said:

Mick Hucknall.

So that would be Audenshaw Grammar then?...

My brother and quite a few of my friends went there...

Correct.

I was there 89-94.

Apparently he hated the place and refuses to talk about it. Could have been worse for him, there are plenty of s**t schools in the area!

[koolchris99]

sanguinary said:

Bodie390 said:

Wacky Racer said:

Bodie390 said:

Mick Hucknall.

So that would be Audenshaw Grammar then?...

My brother and quite a few of my friends went there...

Correct.

I was there 89-94.

Apparently he hated the place and refuses to talk about it. Could have been worse for him, there are plenty of s**t schools in the area!

Chris martin went to sherborne and refuses to talk about it or associate him with the whole public school image

[Sway]

bigdods said:

Terry Pratchett and Heston Blumenthal. Seems we dont turn out many publicly successful people !

John Hampden Grammer?

I went to the other school he went to Latymer Upper in Hammersmith....

Full wiki list from mine:

In film

Hugh Grant (actor)
Christopher Guard (actor)
William Hinds (1887–1957) (jeweller and owner of Hammer Productions Film Studios)
Imogen Poots (actress)
Alan Rickman (actor)
Mel Smith (actor, comedian, film director, producer and writer)
Will Theakston (actor)

In music

Andrew Hale, founder member of Sade
Dom & Roland, drum & bass DJ/producer
Ils, electronic music producer and DJ
Jack Lawrence-Brown and Harry McVeigh from White Lies
Walter Legge record producer and classical impresario
Matrix
Charlie Morgan, Tom Robinson Band and composer of theme tune to The Bill
Optical, drum & bass DJ/producer and Matrix's older brother
Alex Phountzi, member of Bugz in the Attic
Thomas Porter, an eminent DJ based in the north of Scotland
Jay Sean (singer)
Cliff Townshend (jazz musician, expelled from Latymer, father of Pete)
Raphael Wallfisch (cellist)

In sport

Andy Holmes, Olympic gold medal rower (1984 Games and 1988 Games)
Simon Hughes (cricketer)
Hugh Jones, London Marathon winner
Dan Luger (rugby player)
Dominic Waldouck (rugby player)

In politics

Alan Hunt (former British High Commissioner to Singapore)
Sir John Killick (former British Ambassador to Moscow)
Sir Ian Percival (former Solicitor General)
Andrew Slaughter (Labour MP for Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush)
Joshua Rosenberg (legal affairs correspondent for the Daily Telegraph)
Nicholas Stern (ex-Chief Economist of the World Bank and author of the Stern Review on climate change in October 2006)
Keith Vaz (Labour MP for Leicester East)
Peter Walker, Baron Walker of Worcester (former Conservative Cabinet Minister)
Lord Whitty (former Labour Party General Secretary)
George Walden (former Conservative Party Education Minister)

In other fields

Heston Blumenthal (award-winning chef and owner of The Fat Duck)
Ajahn Brahm, Buddhist monk
Chris Brooke, Isaiah Berlin Research Fellow in Political Theory at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford
Lily Cole (model and actress)
Bill Emmott (former editor of The Economist)
Sir Harold Spencer Jones (Astronomer Royal 1933–1955)
Hilary Jones, GMTV in-house doctor
Tim Moore, travel writer
Eric Simms (Naturalist), natural history broadcaster
Zbigniew Szydlo, historian of chemistry and lecturer
Fred Vine, geologist and co-discoverer of plate tectonics
Adrian Weale, writer and historian


Some that I'm certain many other alumni would, like myself, rather not be associated with...

[GFWilliams]

Dizeee went there - same house as me too!

The head of MI5 - he did a chapel sermon about a term back.. Slightly more interesting than normal!

A few famous parents:
Tony Fernandes (old boy too)
Chris Coleman
Robbie Earle

[SunderJimmy]

Token from The Gadget Show went to my polytechnic back in the day.

[MrFlibbles]

Jon C said:

MrFlibbles said:

James Allen aka the cock.

Crescat, Dead cat Crosbeia? floriat fortuna floriat? What year?

Class of 2000!

(How could i forget Ben Kay?)

[wainy]

From Wiki


Notable Old Pupils


* George Able - Master of Dulwich College[1] and educationalist.
* Major William Barnsley Allen VC DSO MC - recipient of the Victoria Cross.
* John Austin - Bishop of Aston (1992–2005).
* Richard Bacon - broadcaster.[2].
* Jack Buckner - European 5000m champion 1986 and double Olympian (Seoul 1988 and Barcelona 1992).
* Tom Buckner - AAA steeplechase champion and Olympian (Barcelona 1992).
* Simon Corlett - former president of the Irish Cricket Board.
* Neil Dickson - actor
* Adam Dixon - Current member of the Great Britain hockey team.
* Norman Hall - England rugby fly half and captain 1947 - 1955.
* John Grice - Former member of the Great Britain hockey team.
* Matthew Lambley - International hammer thrower.
* Samit Patel - Nottinghamshire and England cricketer.
* Phil Sharpe - England cricketer and Wisden Cricketer of the year 1966.
* Rupert Sheldrake - scientist, author and television personality.
* Mark Simmonds - Conservative Member of Parliament for Boston and Skegness.
* Chad Varah CH CBE - Founder of The Samaritans.
* Richard Windsor - Professional West End dancer.

Notable staff

* Jeff Butterfield - Captain of England rugby team in the 1950s
* Alan Old - England rugby fly half 1972-1978
* Frank Dick - International athletics coach
* Roger Knight - Former secretary to the MCC
* Herbert Jacob - England rugby wing 1924-1930
* Ken Farnes - England fast bowler in the 1930s
* Nick Gaywood - England Minor Counties cricketer

[Lemmonie]

BigBen said:

Lemmonie said:

Garath Southgate

Me too. Hazelwick ?

Yup!

Hi Ben! We were in the same class!

Edited by Lemmonie on Monday 15th March 20:51

[mattallmouth]

Some from my school, copied from Wiki

Ricky Balshaw - Silver medallist in Equestrian Dressage in Beijing Paralympics 2008
Sophie Bould - Understudy for 'Maria' in London's West End Production of 'The Sound of Music[5]
Lee Collins (footballer) - Former Wolves defender, now plays for Port Vale
Elliott Bennett (footballer) - Former Wolves midfielder currently at Brighton
Kyle Bennett (footballer) - Wolves Youth team player.
Rob Edwards (footballer) - Former Wolves, current Blackpool and Wales full-back
Danny Guthrie (footballer) - Newcastle Midfielder
Sam Morsy (footballer) - Port Vale youth team midfielder

[LHD]

Nevin said:

LHD said:

At my old school we had:

Chris Hoy - Olympic Gold Medallist
Gavin Hastings - Ex-Scottish Rugby Captain
Scott Hastings - Ex-Scotland Rugby International
Sheena Donald - Ex-Channel 4 Newsreader
Marcus Di Rollo - Scotland Rugby Interational

Some famous parents too.

Ah, another Watson's boy then? Me too.

Hugo Rifkind - Times Columnist (was in my sister's year)
Gordon Kennedy from old telly
Mylo from music and stuff

When were you there?

I was 95-01.

[Loaf]

Henry Williamson - author, wrote Tarka the Otter
Garry Bushell - bearded f***wit/journalist
Peter Howitt - Joey from 'Bread' and latterly film director
Jack Ryder - soap 'actor'
Eric Ambler - spy novelist
Robert Key - Kent and England cricketer
Dennis Wilson, radio/TV producer (Till Death Us Do Part, Citizen Smith, Hancock's Half Hour)

[BigBen]

Lemmonie said:

BigBen said:

Lemmonie said:

Garath Southgate

Me too. Hazelwick ?

Yup!

Hi Ben! We were in the same class!

Edited by Lemmonie on Monday 15th March 20:51

Which class? I don't remember anyone called Lemmonie!

[cazzer]

My Mrs has just found out that the geeky kid in her school became.....

.....the former executive vice president of Economic Strategy Institute, former executive director of the Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom, and served as Senator Jeff Bingaman's Senior Policy Advisor on Economic and International Affairs. He has also served on the advisory board to the Center for U.S.-Japan Relations at the RAND Corporation. Earlier in his career, he was the executive director of the Japan America Society of Southern California from 1987 to 1994.

.....was the technical advisor for the film Rising Sun, which starred Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes.
.....also had a role as a talk show host. He also had a role in the film State of Play, starring Ben Affleck.

.....also serves on the Board of Advisors of the C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland and the Clarke Center at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

[Jon C]

MrFlibbles said:

Jon C said:

MrFlibbles said:

James Allen aka the cock.

Crescat, Dead cat Crosbeia? floriat fortuna floriat? What year?

Class of 2000!

(How could i forget Ben Kay?)

Jeez, do they still make kids learn that fecking awful song?

I have to say my time at Merchants wasn't really the happiest in my life (I left in 1981 after my dad had to retire with ill health). I left just in time for them to stop making you go in on a Saturday morning. They still send my the 'Old Crosbean's' magazine, and it actually looks quite a nice place now. I guess had I recognised the opportunity at the time I would have made more of it. We were far too common to fit in, and Working Class to boot. Amusing given the number of nouveau riche scallys who sent their vile offspring there. None of them knew what order to use cutlery though!

[Gretchen]

A fair few, including this boy a year above me who's in this band called Jamiroquai now. Still say hello as he lives locally, his Mother drives a lovely old Merc too.

[Lost_BMW]

jep said:

Andy Porter, Seth Johnson, Dean Ashton and Ryan Brooke. All footballers... Mark Herbert who directed series 1 of Phoenix Nights was also a student IIRC.

Seth Johnson eh? What was he like, if you knew him? Always seemed like a bit of a "hard case".

One of the best footballers Derby County ever had; sadly underrated, screwed by poor managers/owners and now injury ruined.

[Goughie]

Tim Henman, Jamie Delgado and plenty of other tennis bods you've probably never heard of. Oh, and Dan Skinner who you probably know as that stupid Angelos bloke from Shooting Stars (he's been in Armstrong & Miller, too).

Edited by Goughie on Monday 15th March 23:56