Famous folk from your school

[sebhaque]

Shamelessly stolen from Wikipedia:

Politics
* Robin Gorham - former British Deputy High Commissioner, Lusaka and former Head of Protocol Department and Assistant Marshal of Diplomatic Corps, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
* David Malcolm McBain LVO - former Ambassador to Madagascar
* Brian Paddick - Liberal Democrat candidate in the London Mayoral election, 2008, former Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Metropolitan Police, and I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! contestant
* Peter Alfred Penfold CMG OBE - former British High Commissioner, Sierra Leone and former Governor of the British Virgin Islands

Media
* Richard James Ayre - former Deputy Chief Executive, BBC News
* Professor David Bellamy OBE - famous botanist, broadcaster, author and environmental campaigner
* Roger Parry - media tycoon

Arts
* Christopher Bigsby - novelist and BBC Radio broadcaster
* Richard Craze - author and publisher
* James Farrar - writer and poet
* Anthony Nicholls - author and historian
* Jeremy Stangroom - author on philosophy
* Donald Winch - author on classical economics

Sport
* Peter Downes - Great Britain American footballer
* Peter Fear - former Wimbledon FC and England U21 footballer
* David Fletcher - former Surrey CCC cricketer
*Sung Yong Kim - South Korean National Footballer

Miscellaneous
* Eric Radley-Smith - surgeon (carried out some of the first lobotomy and hypophysectomy procedures) and former President of Brentford FC
* David J Farrar OBE - engineer (developed the Bristol Bloodhound surface-to-air-missile)
* Dr Lancelot Lionel Ware OBE - co-founder of MENSA

[OliverTwist]

Some footballer forgot his name

[Lemmonie]

Garath Southgate

[SkinnyBoy]

the chick who wrote "Two Pints of Lager.." tv series was from my school, she was in my brothers year a few down from me. I think that is the lofty heights of the calibre of people who went my school.

[indi pearl]

The greatest rock star vocalist of all time................Robert Plant,one year above me.

[Wacky Racer]

I played in the same school football team as Alan West, who captained Luton Town in the seventies, and also played for Burnley. He is now Luton Town's official Priest..







Also, at another school my games teacher was "Busby Babe" Dennis Viollet, who survived the 1958 Munich air crash.......


Also Manchester United and Newcastle's Nicky Butt attended another of my schools.

[Waugh-terfall]

H G Wells and Charles Lyell

[elster]

Guy Fawkes
John Barry (James Bond Composer)
James Thompson (Racing Driver)
Greg Wise (Actor Married to Emma Thompson)

A few old England cricketers and lots of others on wiki, but none that I'm interested in.

There was also an illegal arms dealer caught in the far east 5-10 years ago, he went to my school too.

[bigdods]

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

[Wacky Racer]

indi pearl said:

The greatest rock star vocalist of all time................Robert Plant,one year above me.

I hope you've aged better than The Kidderminster kid....

[elster]

I am guessing there are lots of older people as it is the 3rd oldest school in the World, so far known.

[indi pearl]

Considering the lifestyle it is a wonder of nature he is still with us and not on the stairway to heaven!

[Bodie390]

Mick Hucknall.

[E31Shrew]

Ben Elton.

[Waugh-terfall]

E31Shrew said:

Ben Elton.

Godalming Sixth Form College by any chance?

[Emeye]

Her:


Melanie Sykes - Lived next door but one to my best mate too.

Edited by Emeye on Sunday 14th March 12:40

[hooperpride]

A single conference footballer according to wikipedia, personally I couldn't think of any.

[Fish]

Jeremy Clarkson ( Expelled by my Maths teacher for drinking and smioking, Roald Dahl, C B Fry

[Cock Womble]

Smioking?

[standfree93]

I found out that Harry Hill went to the same school as the PHer Scottish Samurai.

From the schools I went to there was:
Tyrone Smith - Sports presenter on the local news channel.
Mark Perry - Footballer with Aberdeen, Dundee UTD, Ross County and Peterhead, now at Keith.
Warren Cummings - Former player for Chelsea, now at Bournemouth.