Famous folk from your school

[Closet Roy]

George Abbot - Archbishop of Canterbury
James Purnell - Former member of the Cabinet
Bob Willis - England Cricket Captain
Terry Jones - Monty Python
Simon Bird - Actor, The Inbetweeners - in my year; lovely chap
Jean-Jacques Burnel - Musician, The Stranglers
John Russell - Painter, member of the Royal Academy


Ernest Carling - surgeon and developer of radiotherapy
Conwy Lloyd Morgan - comparative psychologist and philosopher
John Vincent - President of the Royal College of Surgeons
Professor Peter Haynes - Head of Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Cambridge.
Professor Andrew D. Hamilton - Provost of Yale University, future Vice-Chancellor of University of Oxford

Edited by Closet Roy on Monday 15th March 09:08

[koolchris99]

pugwash4x4 said:

cyberface said:

Not something I paid too much attention to really, and looking at the Wiki page there's not a huge amount of note (apart from Haile Selassie sending most of his kids there ages ago). All I remember is that actress Stephanie Beacham's two daughters Phoebe and Chloe were there - Phoebe in my year, Chloe a couple of years below. Phoebe was alright really, though carried the 'famous mother' thing badly. Not a great looker but since I wasn't in the 'in-crowd' (perpetual outsider, me) and hence not likely to be pursuing her for the 'status' or indeed pursuing her at all, she was surprisingly open with me. Seemed terribly fragile TBH and whilst she could do the 'haughty' incredibly well, it was a pretty brittle front. I felt sorry for her really.

Chloe on the other hand was better looking, arrogant, irresponsible and just plain irritating. If I was stuck in the beer bar (we had some weird ancient licence that let the 6th formers drink long drinks (no spirits, just beer, lager and cider) on Wednesday and Saturday nights) alone with them, I'd stay as far away from Chloe as possible and talk to Phoebe instead. But I've always been drawn to mixed-up girls like a moth to a flame.

And no, if you asked her I expect the chances of her remembering me are zero

Wasn't a bad school TBH - some outstanding teachers really put me on the right path, and beggars can't be choosers (poor boy with a full scholarship, you don't turn down a free education!) - and got into a decent university as a result (where LOTS of famous folk went) so whilst I had a troubled childhood, I still look back fondly at the place. Nearly got expelled though when I wrote a virus for the school's network of new Acorn Archimedes computers... spread by floppy discs and caused some aggro at the time...

You went to Kings taunton- probably the same year as my Brother KA'91 - although possibly 2 years above as i "think" was same year as Chloe- i remember her as being utterly gorgeous though.

Tom Voyce
Roger Twose (Rather good cricketer)
Dom Wood- kids TV- "Dick and Dom"

dam i miss kings, you should see what the have done to the old tuckwell, neates, woodard..
turned them into flats

[PhillT]

Wacky Racer said:

indi pearl said:

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

My dad was at school with him

[brickwall]

The ones I can remember from the top of my head:

Ernest Shackleton - Explorer
Eddie George - Former BoE governor
Rupert Penry-Jones - Actor (spooks...)
Raza Jaffrey - Actor (spooks again...)
Bob Monkhouse
Peter Bazalgette - who has the dubious honor of bringing Big Brother to Britain.
Nick Easter - England Rugby player
David Flatman - England Rugby player
Andrew Sheridan - England Rugby player
P.G. Wodehouse - writer
Graham Swift - writer
C.S. Forester - writer
Nigel Farage - tt
John Amis - critic

[DXB]

The ones I can remmeber: Kate Beckinsdale, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Davina McCall, Nigella Lawson, Susan Greenfield (Director of the Royal Institute), Jemima Rooper.

[Neil H]

The ones I know of are: James Beattie (footballer) was 2 years below me, Michael Winterbottom (film director), Wayne Hemmingway (fashion designer, allegedly).

[Matt Evans]

I was watching a programme the other day which mentioned a gold medallist in the Beijing 2008 Olympics - Ed Clancy.

Recognised the name from a lad at school who was into his cycling. Sure enough on checking, Wikipedia brought up this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Clancy

Well done Ed

[Republik]

Robert Parker, Salford Rugby League player.
Phil Rowson who is one of the cops in Coronation Street at the moment. The beardy one.
Sarah Baxendale (stage name) who played Elli Hunter in Hollyoaks.
Shaun Keavney, DJ on BBC 6 music.
Went to University with Christina Baily (stage name) who played Dannii Carbone in Hollyoaks and is very very fit!

Also lived round the corner from Michael Tonge who currently plays for Derby County on loan from Stoke.

Edited by Republik on Monday 15th March 13:52

[chunkymonkey71]

Stan Laurel and Midge Ure.

Wonder if they were spat on in the "grog pit"

[AndrewW-G]

The Prophet said:

Can't be bothered with Wikipedia, most of the people it lists aren't all that famous anyway. From memory my school was attended by:

Andy Baddeley - Olympic 1500m runner

Daniel Craig - James Bond (although he was only at the school for about 2 weeks)

Ray Holmes - Battle of Britain fighter pilot (look him up on Wikipedia, he should be more famous than he is)

In which case you were no doubt incarcerated at Caldy

You missed OMD and Bill thingy from Napalm Death

[Lastinclass]

Peter Nicol - one time world No1 @ squash.(my year)
Barry Robson - Middlesborough and Scotland footballer.(sister's year)

[Zod]

SmartTowelGS401 said:

poached from wiki and edited:

Arts and Broadcasting

* Kenneth Adam, Controller of the BBC
* Jonathan Charles, BBC Foreign Correspondent
* Leslie Crowther, comedian and quiz show host
* D. H. Lawrence[10], writer and publisher

I was in the year below this next one, vaguely famous i guess:
* Jonny Sweet, comedian and actor

The Armed Forces

* Albert Ball, the first Royal Flying Corps winner of the Victoria Cross
* Theodore Hardy, (former master) non-combatant chaplain during the Great War, awarded the Victoria Cross

Sports

Knew both of these two not that they're desperately famous!!

• Andy Turner, Professional sprint hurdles
• Anthony Douglas Great Britain Short Track Speed Skating Team.

Politics, some big guns in here!!

* Rt Hon Ed Balls MP, Labour Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), current Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, former Economic Secretary to the Treasury.
* Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke QC MP[5], former Chancellor of the Exchequer,current Shadow Business Secretary and perennial Conservative Party leadership candidate
* Edward Davey MP[12], Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament, Liberal Democrat Chief of Staff.
* Rt Hon Geoff Hoon MP, Current Transport Secretary and former Minister of State for Europe,Secretary of State for Defence and Leader of the House of Commons
* Piers Merchant former Conservative Member of Parliament, resigned in disgrace in 1997

Civil and Diplomatic Service and some more big guns!

* Sir Peter Gregson KCB, former Permanent Secretary of the Department of Trade and Industry
* Sir Richard Lloyd-Jones KCB, former Permanent Secretary of the Welsh Office
* Lord Richardson of Duntisborne KG, sometime Governor of the Bank of England
* Sir Douglas Wass GCB, sometime Permanent Secretary of the Treasury and Head of the Home Civil Service
* G. O. Whittaker OBE, Governor of Anguilla
* Norman Turner CBE, Official Solicitor 1970–1980[13]

Commerce

* Jesse Boot later Lord Trent, founder of the chemist's Boots (now the Boots Group)
* Frank Bowden engineer and businessman, founder of Raleigh Bicycle Company, inventor of the Bowden Cable
* John Player, tobacconist (John Player & Sons)

Science and Technology

* J. P. Knight, inventor of the traffic light

Nottingham High School then.

Here's my list (bold are the ones I think more people will have heard of):

John Sharp (1645–1714), Archbishop of York
Abraham Sharp (1653–1742), mathematician and scientific instrument maker
David Hartley (1705–1757), philosopher and physician
James Scott (1733–1814), writer
John William Whittaker (1790–1854), clergyman
George Douglas (1859–1947), dyer
Hudson Shaw (1859–1944), historian and orator
Frederick Delius (1862–1934), composer
Sir Charles Harris (1864–1943), civil servant
C. J. Cutcliffe-Hyne (1865–1944), novelist
Henry de Beltgens Gibbins (1865–1907), economic historian
Henry Ward (1865–1911), photographer and author
William Binnie (1867–1949), civil engineer
Sir Frank Watson Dyson[5] (1868–1939), Astronomer Royal
Charles Wilson[6](1869–1959), physicist
John Lawrence Hammond[7] (1872–1949), historian and journalist
Sir William Rothenstein[8] (1872–1945), artist
Albert Rutherston (1881–1953), painter and illustrator
Sir Henry Clay (1883–1954), economist and Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford
Humbert Wolfe (1885–1930), poet and civil servant
Charles Fairburn (1887–1945), railway engineer
John Rawlings Rees (1890–1969), psychiatrist
Sir Mortimer Wheeler[9] (1890–1976), archaeologist and broadcaster
Arthur Raistrick (1896–1991), civil engineer, industrial archaeologist and pacifist
Harry McEvoy (1902–1984), breakfast cereal manufacturer
Richard Eurich (1903–1992), painter
H. L. A. Hart[10] (1907–1992), legal philosopher
Geoffrey Barraclough[11] (1908–1984), historian
Ronald Illingworth (1909–1990), paediatrician
William Henry Walsh (1913–1986), philosopher
Michael Wharton[12] (1913–2006), columnist Peter Simple
Alan Bullock[13] (1914–2004), a.k.a. Baron Bullock of Leafield, historian
Denis Healey, Baron Healey[14] (born 1917), Chancellor of the Exchequer
J. C. Holt (born 1922), historian
Sir Ken Morrison[15] (born 1931), Executive Chairman of Morrisons
David Hockney[16] (born 1937), artist
Malcolm Laycock[17] (1938-2009), radio presenter and producer
Michael Jack[18] (born 1946), politician
Jonathan Silver (1949–1997), entrepreneur and art gallery owner
Richard Nerurkar, marathon and 10,000 metres runner
Boris Rankov (born 1954), Professor of Roman History at Royal Holloway, University of London; 6-time Boat Race winner with Oxford
Roger Mosey (born 1958), Head of BBC Television News
John Mann (politician), (born 1960), Member of Parliament for Bassetlaw
Ashley Metcalfe (born 1963), former Yorkshire County Cricket Club cricketer
Adrian Moorhouse[19] (born 1964), Olympic gold medallist swimmer
Robert Hardy[20] (born 1980), bassist of Franz Ferdinand
Dan Scarbrough (born 1978), England rugby union player (Full back / Wing)
Charlie Hodgson[21] (born 1980), England rugby union player (Fly half)
Alistair Brownlee[22](born 1988) British triathlete

[DogChops1]

Having looked at the Wikipedia list for my old school, I've heard of none of them, thereby failing the "famous" test. One listed was a failed terrorist ffs.

Not listed is Paul Dickenson off the BBC who was a teacher when I was at school and was famous at the time for not doing particularly well at hammer throwing at the Montreal olympics...

[cs174]

Gordon Brown

Well I guess someone had to.

[blinkythefish]

Famous pupils:
Alan Hansen
Some bird that was on the apprentice.

Famous Teachers:
Jack McConnell - Former first minister of Scotland.
Alan Cousin - Former Dundee & Scotland international.

[aspender]

Ones off the top of my head:

Paddy Ashdown
John Fowles
Martin Bayfield
Andy Gomarsall
Alastair Cook
Al Murray
Comedy Dave
Dan Wheldon
Joel Beckett (former Eastenders actor)

[aclivity]

Johnny Vegas (He wasn't called that at school though. Wasn't funny at school either, so some things haven't changed).

Bernie Clifton went around the same time as my Dad.

Pete McCarthy - Broadcaster and author who wrote a couple of travel books in the 90's, "McCarthy's Bar" & "The Road to McCarthy".

[Grotbags]

swerni said:

Penny Lancaster
Tamzin Outhwaite
Simon Amstell
Anthonty Garcia - more infamous than famous

I went to the same school. Another couple of famous attendees are Nick Frost and Bruce Dyer

[Size Nine Elm]

Amalgamating from different schools attended:

Eric Auld, artist
Ian Black was a Commonwealth Games gold medalist, and BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 1958 at the age of only seventeen. He later returned to RGC as Headmaster of the Junior School.
Martin Buchan, former footballer and captain with Manchester United, Aberdeen and Scotland
David Carry,Commonwealth gold medal winner
Chris Cusiter, Ruaridh Jackson and Stuart Grimes, Scottish rugby players
George Donald, one-third of Scottish comedy act Scotland the What?[4]
Professor Ian Frazer, who worked to develop the HPV vaccine.[citation needed]
Michael Gove, journalist and politician[5]
Buff Hardie, one-third of Scottish comedy act Scotland the What?[4]
BBC Radio Scotland presenter Robbie Shepherd
Nicol Stephen, politician [6]
Scott Sutherland, architect and founder of the University's School of Architecture at their Garthdee campus
Stewart Sutherland, Baron Sutherland of Houndwood, academic and public servant
Robert A. Thom, steam locomotive engineer[7]
Sandi Thom, singer[8]
Jack Webster, local writer
John West, Depute Provost of Aberdeen (elected at the age of 18).[9][10]
Aberdeen City Councillor, Kirsty West, elder sister of John West (above). Elected to Aberdeen City Council in 2007, at age 21, and appointed as Education spokesperson for the council.[10] Also now a Governor of Robert Gordon's College.[11]
Sir Ian Wood, Scottish businessman and Chancellor of the Robert Gordon University
Peter J. Stephen, Lord Provost of Aberdeen
John Arthur, Church of Scotland missionary to East Africa.
J. M. Barrie, writer of 'Peter Pan'
Laura Bartlett, British Hockey Player and Olympic Athlete[11][12][13]
John Beattie (rugby player), rugby player for Scotland and British Lions
Sir James Caird (1864–1954), founder of the National Maritime Museum.
Miller Caldwell, Author, UNESCO Camp Manager at Mundihar in pakistan [14]
Billy Campbell, winner of the 2009 Scottish BAFTA Best Fictional Film award for 'Life of a Pigeon'[15].
Sir John Cargill, Chairman of Burmah Oil Company, 1904–1943
Jackson Carlaw, Scottish Conservative Party MSP.
Andrew Colin (financial analyst), Adjunct Professor at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane and at Southern Cross University in New South Wales
Douglas Crawford, Scottish National Party MP
Darius Danesh, singer-songwriter & actor
Donald Dewar, Scottish Labour Party MP and MSP, first First Minister of Scotland
Walter Elliot, Scottish Unionist Party MP, Secretary of State for Scotland
Niall Ferguson, Professor of History at Harvard University
George Macdonald Fraser, Author [16]
John Gardner (law), Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Oxford
Thomas Dunlop Galbraith, 1st Baron Strathclyde, Scottish Unionist Party MP
Group Captain Sir Louis Leisler Greig, KBE, CVO British naval surgeon, and intimate of King George VI (1880 –1953)
Sir Angus Grossart, Chairman and executive director of merchant bank Noble Grossart[17]
Rev. Dr Andrew Harper, Scottish–Australian Biblical scholar and Principal of the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne and St Andrew's College, Sydney (also attended Scotch College, Melbourne)[11]
Michael Hirst, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party MP and Chairman
Sir William Wilson Hunter, K.C.S.I. (1840-1900)
Sir Jeremy Isaacs Founder of Channel 4
Nicholas P. Jewell, Vice Provost & Professor of Biostatistics, University of California, Berkeley
William Paton Ker, literary critic
John Kerr, Baron Kerr of Kinlochard, diplomat and crossbench life peer
Colin Kidd, Professor of Modern History at University of Glasgow
Alexander Dunlop Lindsay, 1st Baron Lindsay of Birker, philosopher
Maurice Lindsay CBE Scottish broadcaster, writer and poet (1918 – 2009).
Sir James Lithgow, shipbuilder and industrialist; 1883-1952
Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum[18]
Alan Mackin, Professional tennis player (Ranked 262 in World)[19]
Robert Maclennan, Baron Maclennan of Rogart, leader of the Social Democratic Party and the Liberal Democrats
John J McCutcheon CBE, MA, PhD, DSc, FFA, FRSE, Professor Emeritus of Heriot-Watt University[20]
George Matheson theologian and preacher (1842 - 1906).
W. H. Murray, mountaineer, explorer and writer
Alexander Pollock, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party MP, sheriff
William Ramsay, discovered the gas 'Argon'
John Reith, 1st Baron Reith, founder of the BBC
James Prime, keyboard player for Deacon Blue,lecturer at the University of the West of Scotland
Albert Russell, Scottish Unionist Party MP, Solicitor General for Scotland
David Scott Iain Belch, Notable researcher in the field of medicine, Cancer Research
William Sharp, poet and literary biographer
Ninian Smart, scholar of religion
Norman Stone, historian
Iain Vallance, Baron Vallance of Tummel, ex Chief Executive of BT, Liberal Democrat politician
Herbert Waddell Scottish rugby internationalist and president of the Barbarians(1902 – 1988)
Sir James Wordie, polar explorer and geologist
Andrew Odber, Pianist and Composer

[Stedman]

Robert Smith from The Cure.

From my town:

Gareth Southagte lived the road up from me.
Eugene Sully from Big Brother lives the road DOWN from me (and my dog jumped all over him).
X-Factor's Chico mother-fking Chico is also my from town.

Yeap- 3 out of the 4 people i've mentioned didn't go to my school.