The following is a list of notable Old Alleynians, former pupils of Dulwich College, in south London, England.
Years of birth and death (when listed) are given in full. Years at the college are given last, using two digits if unambiguous. All entries are placed in alphabetical order by surname, paying particular attention to any double-barrelled surnames, in which the letters of the first surname take priority.
Jeremy Deller, artist
Stephen Finer, artist
Stanhope Forbes (1857–1947), artist and member of the once influential Newlyn school of painters.
Stephen Gardiner, OBE (1924–2007), British architect, teacher and writer
Peter George Greenham, CBE RA (1909–1992), artist
Walter Hodges (1909–2004), an English illustrator and author.
James Jarvis, graphic artist
Henry Herbert La Thangue RA (1857–1929), artist.
Samuel Melton Fisher RA (1856–1939), artist.
Gavin Stamp, writer and architectural historian
Richard Barrie Treleaven (1920–2009), artist (SWLA)
C. F. A. Voysey (1857–1941), English architect and furniture designer (FRIBA, RDI)
Clive Brook, actor
Richard Caldicot, actor
Chiwetel Ejiofor (born 1976), film actor: 90–95
Nigel Harman, actor
Angus Imrie, actor (and son of the actress Celia Imrie)
Raza Jaffrey, actor
Rupert Penry-Jones (born 1970), actor: 82–89
Jamie Thomas King, actor
Michael Powell, film director
Ben Turner, actor
Derek Waring, actor
Arthur Wimperis, award winning script and screenplay writer (Won the Academy Award (Oscar) in 1942 for Best Screenplay for the film Mrs. Miniver)
Rowan Ayers (1922-2008), television producer
Lionel Barber, Financial Times editor
Godfrey Barker, journalist and author
Peter Bazalgette, television producer: 64–71
Rob Bonnet, TV sports journalist: 64–71
Clive Bull (born 1959), broadcaster, narrator: 1970–1977
Gordon Burns (born 1942), British journalist and television presenter who became known as the host of Granada TV's popular game show The Krypton Factor.
Nat Coombs, television presenter, comedian and comedy writer
Peter Dimmock, sports broadcaster
Denis Gifford (1927-2000), film historian, comics historian, cartoonist: 1939-41
Jonathan Head, BBC South Asia correspondent: 74–78
Russ Kane, Radio host for Capital FM
Bob Monkhouse (1928-2003), comedian: 42–45 (expelled)
Adam Shaheen, President, Executive Producer, Cuppa Coffee Studios
Paul Sinha, comedian
David Thomson (film critic)
Peter Warren (born 1939), Canadian investigative journalist, private investigator, former talk radio host and member of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters' Hall of Fame
Mark Wnek, Chairman and Chief Creative Officer, Lowe New York
Martin Young, TV reporter and media trainer
Simon Brett (born 1945), Writer
Raymond Chandler (1888–1959), writer: 1900–1905
Hugh de Selincourt (1878–1951), English author and journalist, chiefly remembered today for his tale of village cricket, The Cricket Match (1924)
C. S. Forester (1899–1966), writer: 15–16
Denis Goodwin, script writer: 41(?)-44(?)
Hamish Henderson (1919-2002), Scottish poet, songwriter, socialist, humanist, soldier, and intellectual.
Nigel Hinton (born 1941), writer
Claude Houghton (1889–1961), writer
G. Wilson Knight (1897–1985), English literary critic and academic
Andrew George Lehmann, English Art and Literary Critic
Ian MacCormick (aka Ian MacDonald), (1948-2003), author (Revolution In The Head, The New Shostakovich)
A. E. W. Mason (1865–1948), writer
Keith McCarthy (1960– ), writer of crime fiction
Tom McCarthy (born 1969), writer short-listed for the Booker Prize
Michael Ondaatje (born 1943), writer winner of Booker Prize
Sir Victor Sawdon Pritchett, CH CBE (1900–1997), British writer and critic.
Jon Silkin (1930–1997), poet
Thomas Sturge Moore, poet and artist (1870–1944)
Graham Swift (born 1949), writer
Dennis Wheatley, occultist writer
P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975), writer: 1894–1900
John Amis, broadcaster and critic: 36–39
Peter Branscombe (1929–2008), musicologist
Rodney Clarke, opera singer and actor: 89–96
Harold Fraser-Simson (1872–1944), British composer, famous for The Maid of the Mountains.
Alan Ray Hacker, OBE (born 1938)
Gordon Jacob (1895–1984), composer
Graeme James Ewers Jenkins (born 1958)
Rex Lawson, Concert Pianolist (born 1948)
Bill MacCormick, musician (Quiet Sun, Random Hold, 801)
Phil Manzanera (P. G. Targett-Adams) (born 1951), musician with Roxy Music (1960-1969)
Ray Noble, bandleader and composer
Adam Norsworthy, singer-songwriter and member of The Mustangs
Anthony Payne (born 1936), composer, elaborated the sketches of Elgar's Third Symphony
John Ratcliff (born 1954), discovered, produced and managed the Norwegian supergroup 'a-ha' who have sold over 80 million records worldwide (1965–1973)
David Rhodes, musician, member of 1970s band Random Hold, long-serving collaborator with Peter Gabriel
Max Sedgley, music producer, drummer, DJ
Ed Simons, one half of the Chemical Brothers (1986-1991)
George Cross
Note that the award made to Herbert John Leslie Barefoot (detailed above under 'Military') was made in a military capacity for gallantry that was not in the face of the enemy, hence it is not repeated here.
George MedalSecond World War
W. G. Adam (for heroism during the Blitz)
J. Beeston (for heroism during the Blitz)
Sebastian Merriman 1988-93 5th Brit to complete the Explorers Grand Slam - Seven Summits and skiing to the North and South Poles. Website
Stanley Portal Hyatt (1877–1914) 1885–92 #3817 African explorer and war correspondent
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton CVO, OBE (1874–1922) 1887–90
Rear Admiral Martin Alabaster, Flag Officer, Scotland, Northern England and Northern Ireland
Wing Commander Frank Arthur Brock (1884–1918), OBE inventor of the smoke-screen at Zeebrugge in 1918
Air Commodore H. M. Cave-Browne-Cave, former Director of Technical Development at the Air Ministry
Brigadier Alan Douglas Campbell Clacher MBE OBE
Flight Lieutenant Charles H. Collet (1888–1915), DSO (Captain in the RMA), hero of the September 1914 air-raid on Düsseldorf, and the first naval officer to loop the loop
General Sir Webb Gillman KCB KCMG DSO – former Chief of staff in Mesopotamia.
Lieutenant General Eric Goddard, Indian Army, GOC-in-C Southern Command India
Major General Frederick Knowles Escritt OBE
Air Vice-Marshal F. C. Halahan CMG CBE DSO MVO
Group Captain J. C. Halahan CBE AFC
Lieutenant General Sir H. C. Holman KCB CMG DSO
Berthold Wells Key (1895–1986), CB DSO MC ADC, Major General during Second World War
Group Captain Cyril Nelson "Kit" Lowe (1891–1983), MC DFC RAF, English rugby union footballer, First World War flying ace, and supposedly the inspiration for W. E. Johns' character "Biggles".
Wing Commander G. H. Stainforth (1899-1942), AFC RAF, British Royal Air Force pilot and the first man in the world to exceed 400 mph in an aircraft
Major General Sir Andrew M. Stuart KCMG CB, former Director of Works, BEF.
Air Commodore Owen Truelove, first man to fly from England to New Zealand in a glider
Brigadier James Whitehead (1880-1955), CB, CMG, CBE, DSO, OStJ, ADC, British Indian Army officer who later became a senior officer in the London Metropolitan Police.
Air Chief Marshal Sir John Willis GBE KCB FRAeS, Vice Chief of the Defence Staff
Victoria Cross and George Cross holders
Seven Old Alleynians have won the Victoria Cross, five in the First World War, 1914–18 (of whom four were killed in action) and two in the Second World War, 1939–45. Also in the Second World War one OA won the George Cross.
Victoria CrossFirst World War
Vice-Admiral Gordon Campbell (1886–1953), VC, DSO
Lieutenant Richard Basil Brandram Jones (1897–1916), VC
Major Alexander Malins Lafone (1870–1917), VC
Major Stewart Walter Loudoun-Shand (1879–1916), VC
Lieutenant Cecil Harold Sewell (1895–1918), VC
Second World War
Lieutenant-Colonel Lorne McLaine Campbell (1902–1991), VC, DSO, TD, MA (he later achieved the rank of Brigadier and was awarded the OBE.)
Captain Philip John Gardner (1914–2003), VC, MC
George Cross Second World War
Major Herbert John Leslie Barefoot (1887–1958), GC, ARIBA
Philosophy and academe
C. D. Broad (1887–1971), epistemologist, historian of philosophy, and philosopher.
Robert Gildea, author and Professor of History at the University of Oxford
William Keith Chambers Guthrie (1906–1981), Scottish classical scholar, best known for his History of Greek Philosophy, in six volumes.
John Lewis (1889–1976), philosopher
K. B. McFarlane (1903–1966), historian
George Edward Moore (1873–1958), one of the founders of the Analytic tradition in philosophy
Arthur Lindsay Sadler (1882–1970), was Professor of Oriental Studies at the University of Sydney
Dominic Shellard, Vice Chancellor of De Montfort University (at the School 1977–1984)
Sir John Sheppard (1881–1968), classical scholar, the first non-Etonian to become Provost of King's College, Cambridge, and openly gay.
Alic Halford Smith, former Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University.
Michael Winterbottom, Classics scholar, Oxford University
Politics, law and business
Jonathan Bartley (born 1971), Co-Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, from September 2016– (at Dulwich from 1980–1989)
Jon Benjamin (born 1964), Former Chief Executive, Board of Deputies of British Jews (at Dulwich from 1974–1983)
Eric Arthur Cleugh (1894–1964), Diplomat and former Ambassador to Panama (at Dulwich from 1907–1913)
Sir Alexander Colin Cole (1922–2001), KCB, KCVO, long serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London and Garter Principal King of Arms, the highest heraldic office in England.
Mark Coombs, billionaire and CEO, Ashmore Group
William Leslie Comyn (1877– ), Shipbuilder and shipowner – built first concrete ship in California USA
Robert Craven, author and entrepreneur (at Dulwich from 1968-1977)
Sir Horatio Davies (1842–1912), KCMG, Victorian London Businessman and Lord Mayor of London.
Ian Frederic Hay Davison CBE (born 1931)
Edward James Dolman (born 1960), Chief Executive Officer, Christie's International
Nigel Farage (born 1964), Leader of the UK Independence Party and Member of the European Parliament (at Dulwich 1975–1982}
Sir George Vandeleur Fiddes, former Permanent Under Secretary for the Colonies (1916–1921).
David Ford, Leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland and Minister of Justice for Northern Ireland
Edward 'Eddie' George (1938–2009), Governor of the Bank of England: 49–57
Sir Edward Harding, former Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Dominions and High Commissioner in South Africa.
Sir Clement Hindley KCIE, former Chairman of the Race-course Betting Control Board and Chief Commissioner of Railways in India.
Sir Arthur Hirtzel (1870–1937), GCB, Permanent Secretary of State for India.
Sir William Searle Holdsworth (1871–1944), OM, KC, DCL, HON LL.D, FBA, legal historian and Vinerian Professor of English Law at Oxford University. Author of the 12 volume History of English Law.
Philip Hollobone, Member of Parliament: 1976–1983
Sir John Leonard Hunt (born 1929), British Conservative Party politician.
Peter Lilley (born 1943), Member of Parliament: 83-
Lord Luke of Pavenham KBE JP, businessman and did much for the British Charities Association
Alistair Macdonald, British Labour Party politician.
Horace Brooks Marshall, 1st Baron Marshall of Chipstead, Lord Mayor of London from 1918 to 1919
Chris Mole, Member of Parliament for Ipswich
Sir Ronald Norman OBE DL, businessman and author, honoured for services to urban regeneration in Newcastle and services to Teesside.
Sam Owens, Chief Executive Officer, Petit Tinqueur Holdings
His Excellency Anand Panyarachun (born 1932), Prime Minister of Thailand
Mr Justice Sir A F Peterson, Judge of the Chancery Division.
Peter Prescott (born 1943), barrister, Queen's Counsel and Deputy High Court Judge of England and Wales.
Raj Rajaratnam (born 1957), Chief Executive and Fund manager of New York-based Galleon Group
Sir Colin Rimer (born 1944), Lord Justice of Appeal.
Sir John Ritblat FRICS FSVA (born 1935), property tycoon, principal donor to the John Ritblat Gallery of the British Library
Hartley Shawcross (1902–2003), lawyer and Labour politician, lead British prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials
John Silkin (1923–1987), Member of Parliament, brother of the below
Samuel Silkin, Baron Silkin of Dulwich (1918–1988), Member of Parliament
Alex Singleton, Director-General of the Globalisation Institute
Sir Melford Stevenson, High Court judge
Philip Rutnam, Permanent Secretary to the Department for Transport
John Spellar (born 1947), Member of Parliament for Warley
Maung Tin Tut, first High Commissioner for Burma in London.
Iain Vallance, Baron Vallance of Tummel, a British businessman and a Liberal Democrat politician
Sir Nicholas Wall, President of the Family Division, a judge in England and Wales (at Dulwich from 1956–1963)
Cecil Whiteley (1875–1942), Common Serjeant of London; Judge at Mayor's and City of London Court
The Very Reverend John Chester Hughes (born 1923)
Right Reverend Reginald Herbert Owen, former Archbishop of New Zealand
The Very Reverend Arthur Wesley Carr (born 1941), KCVO, Dean of Westminster 1997–2006, Anglican divine.
Frank Weston, Missionary Bishop of Zanzibar.
Science and medicine
Dr Uli Arndt, FRS (1924–2006)
Dr Alec Coppen (born 1923), MD DSc FRCP FRCPsych
G. B. Dowling (1891–1976)
Dr James W Fellows-Smith
Laurence Gill (born 1968), B.Eng, M.Sc., Dip. Stat. Senior Lecturer and Head of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Department, Trinity College Dublin
Sir Richard Tetley Glazebrook KCB, KCVO FRS (1854 to 1935), physicist
Dr Joseph Harold Frederick Glover, doctor and eminent surgeon
Harold Hartley (1878–1972)
M. E. Hearn (1972–2005)
Colin Leslie Hewett FRSE (1909-1976) biochemist.
Sir Reginald Murley, KBE, TD, MS, FRCS (1916–1997)
Professor John McKay (born 1939), mathematician
E. H. Nicholls (born 1973)
Dr Brian D Owen-Smith (born 1938)
G. W. Pickering (1904–1980)
Sir Hugh M. Rigby Bart., KCVO, Serjeant-Surgeon to King George V and Surgeon-in-Ordinary to the Prince of Wales, the future King Edward VIII.
Robert Neal Rudmose-Brown (1879–1957)
S.O Shaheen Clinical Professor of Respiratory Epidemiology, Centre for Primary Care and Public Health. Blizard Institute Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry
Professor Karol Sikora, MA, PhD, MB BChir (born 1948)
Sidney Gilchrist Thomas (1850–1885), inventor of the process of eliminating phosphorus from iron by means of the Bessemer converter
A. P. Thomson (1890–1977)
R. R. Tilleard-Cole (1923–2013)
Colin Tudge (born 1943), British science writer
Peter Twinn, mathematician and cryptographer
H. M. Vernon (1870–1951)
Sir Cecil Wakeley, 1st Baronet KBE CB (1892–1979), President of the Royal College of Surgeons.
M. G. Glazebrook, one-time world record holder for the High Jump (in 1875 when he won the English Championships)
John Ratcliff, (born 1954), Schoolboy International at Athletics and Rugby. World Double Decathlon champion and World Record Holder 2000 (at School 1965–1973)
Emeka Udechuku, Olympic Discus thrower (left 1997)
R S Woods, twice represented Great Britain in the Olympics (in 1924 and 1928) in the shot-put.
Trevor Bailey (1923-2011), Essex and England cricketer: 37–42
Hugh Tryon Bartlett (1914-1988), England Cricketer (left-handed batsman who played for Sussex and England)
Monty Bowden (1865–1892), England cricket captain
James Douglas (1870-1958), England cricketer (Cambridge University (three blues) and Middlesex).
Robert Noel Douglas (1868–1957), England cricketer (represented Cambridge University (three blues), Surrey and Middlesex as a right-handed batsman.)
Archibald Philip Douglas (1867–1953), England cricketer (represented Europeans (India), Surrey and Middlesex as a right-handed batsman.)
Arthur Gilligan (1894–1976), England cricket captain: 06-14
The Reverend Frank Hay Gillingham (1875–1953), England cricketer (represented Essex as a right-handed batsman and wicketkeeper.)
Frank William Gilligan, OBE, MA (1906–1913), cricketer
Harold Gilligan (1896–1978), England cricket captain
Billy Griffith (Stewart Cathie Griffith), CBE, DFC, TD (1914–1993), an English cricketer and cricket administrator
Chris Jordan (born 1988), Barbados born cricket all-rounder playing for Surrey County Cricket Club, Sussex County Cricket Club and England
Frank King (1911–1996), represented Cambridge University and Dorset
Roger Knight (born 1946), Surrey, Sussex and Gloucestershire cricketer and Secretary of the Marylebone Cricket Club
Neville Knox (1884–1935), England cricketer (fast bowler)
Eoin Morgan, England cricketer, also plays for Middlesex and the *Bangalore Royal Challengers in the *Indian Premier League
Karl Nunes (1894–1958), West Indian cricketer who played in West Indies' first Test in their inaugural Test tour of England as wicketkeeper and captain.
W.V. Sherlock, Cricket International for Demerara (first represented Demerara in 1909) and British Guyana
Lionel Seymour Wells (1870–1928), England cricketer (represented London County, and Middlesex as a right-handed batsman and bowler.)
E.G.S.Hose, Hockey International for England (first represented England in 1897)
P. M. Rees, Hockey International for England (first represented England in 1905) and went on to win gold at the 1908 Olympics
Frank Solbé, Hockey International for England (first represented England in 1897)
See Also Old Alleynian Football Club
Henry Braddon, Rugby union international for New Zealand All Black, who represented Argentina in 1911
E. A. Cleugh, Rugby union international for Uruguay (first represented Uruguay in 1922)
Ian Coutts (born 1928), Scotland international (first capped 1951)
William David Doherty, Rugby union international for Ireland (first represented Ireland in 1921) Later captained Ireland
Grahame Donald, Rugby union international for Scotland (first represented Scotland in 1914)
K. G. Drysdale, Rugby union international for Argentina (first represented Argentina in 1911)
Mark Easter (born 1982), rugby union footballer (position No. 8 or Flanker) who plays for Northampton Saints
Nick Easter (born 1978),[2] professional rugby union footballer for Harlequins and England
S. Ellis, Rugby union international for England (first represented England in 1880)
David Flatman, prop for the England national rugby union team.
H.T.S. Gedge, Rugby union international for Scotland (first represented Scotland in 1894)
John Eric Greenwood, Rugby union international for England (first represented England in 1912) Later captained England.
Jock Hartley, Rugby union international for England (first represented England in 1902)
N.F.Henderson, Rugby union international for Scotland (first represented Scotland in 1892)
G. A. M. Isherwood, Rugby union international for Great Britain (first represented Great Britain in 1910)
William Leake, Rugby union international for England (first represented England in 1891)
Nick Lloyd (born 1976), rugby union player with Saracens; selected for Scotland in 2006 but had to withdraw due to injury
E.G. Loudoun-Shand, Rugby union international for Scotland (first represented Scotland in 1913)
Group Captain Cyril Nelson "Kit" Lowe MC DFC RAF (1891–1983), English rugby union footballer representing England in 25 consecutive matches, First World War flying ace, and supposedly the inspiration for W. E. Johns' character "Biggles".
Tom Mercey, rugby footballer, England Under 21s, club Saracens
C.T. Mold, Rugby union international for Argentina (first represented Argentina in 1911)
JEC 'Birdie' Partridge (1879–1965), Welsh born rugby international, capped for South Africa; founded Army Rugby Union
Andrew Sheridan (born 1979), rugby footballer for Sale Sharks and England: 90–98
Kendrick Stark (1904–1988), England international (first capped 1927)
David Trail (1875–1935), represented a forerunner of the British and Irish Lions, known as the Anglo-Welsh on their tour of Australasia in 1904
A.L Wade, Rugby union international for Scotland (first represented Scotland in 1908)
Cyril Mowbray Wells (1871–1963), played Rugby Union for England as well as being a first-class cricketer (represented Cambridge University, Surrey and Middlesex as a right-handed batsman and bowler.)
Eric Cyprian Perry Whiteley (1904–1973), England international (first capped 1931)
Old Alleynian International Rugby PlayersR. T. D. Alexander, Shooting International for India (first represented India in 1911)
J. W. Goulston (first represented England in 1923)
H. P. T. Lattey, Shooting International for Ireland (first represented Ireland in 1921)
H. M. Leake, Shooting International for India (first represented India in 1913)
Lieutenant Colonel A. F. Marchment DSO MC – Shooting International for England (first represented England in 1923). Won the King's Prize at Bisley in 1922.
C. W. Simpson, Shooting International for Scotland (first represented Scotland in 1923)
S. F. Thol, Shooting International for England (first represented England in 1905)
A. F. Engelbach, Badminton International for England (first represented England in 1921)
Raymond Dennis Keene, OBE (born 1948), Chess Grandmaster: 59–66
Captain D. S. Lister MC, English Amateur Heavy-Weight Boxing Champion in 1925
Kieran West MBE (born 1977), Olympic champion oarsman: 86–95
