The following is a list of some notable Old Ardinians, being former pupils of Ardingly College in the United Kingdom.
Diplomacy and International Relations
Robert Alston CMG - UK High Commissioner to New Zealand and UK Ambassador to Oman
Chris Gunness - UNRWA chief spokesperson
Sir Claude Hayes KCMG - civil servant for overseas territories
Sir Edward Jackson KCMG - UK Ambassador to Belgium and UK Ambassador to Cuba
Ian Mackley CMG, CVO - UK High Commissioner to Ghana and UK Chargé d'Affaires to Afghanistan
Sir David Manning GCMG, KCVO - UK Ambassador the United States and UK Ambassador to Israel
Sir Robin McLaren KCMG - UK Ambassador to China and UK Ambassador to the Philippines
Sir Andrew Wood GCMG - UK Ambassador to Russia and UK Ambassador to Yugoslavia
Lieutenant Commander Peter Piper DSO, DSC - submarine commander
Lieutenant Colonel George Starr DSO, MC - Special Operations Executive agent and leader
Major General Robert Whittaker CB, CBE - Anti Aircraft divisional commander
Walter Adams, Archbishop of British Columbia and Yukon
George Browning, Bishop of Canberra and Goulburn
Dennis Ede, Archdeacon of Stoke
Gordon Mursell, Bishop of Stafford
Andrew Norman, Principal of Ridley Hall, Cambridge
Harold Comber - botanist
Mike Pitts - archaeologist
John Paul Wild CBE, FRS - radio astronomer
Frank Cowell - Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics
Robert Foley - Leverhulme Professor of Human Evolution at the University of Cambridge
Patrick Hanks - lexicographer
Sir Bill Cotton CBE - controller of BBC One (1977–1981)
Colin Griffiths - broadcaster
Ian Hislop - editor of Private Eye and panelist on Have I Got News For You
Nick Newman - cartoonist and scriptwriter
Ed Petrie - children's television presenter
Paul Reynolds - BBC News correspondent
Owen Spencer-Thomas MBE - television and radio broadcaster
Jay Wynne - BBC weather forecaster
Stage and Screen
Dick Allen - film editor
Charles Bryant - actor and film director
Creighton Hale - actor
Alan Howard CBE - actor
Mark Letheren - actor
Ed Sanders - actor
Terry-Thomas - actor
Frank Williams - actor
Writers
Nicholas Fisk - children's author
Neil Gaiman - author and screenwriter
Thomas Meech - author and journalist
Ed Whitmore - screenwriter
Music
Alex Cartana - singer
Mike Christie - singer
Julian Clifford - conductor
James Lancelot - organist
Stephen Oliver - composer
Victor Silvester OBE - composer and band leader
Ed Welch - composer
Visual Arts
George Belcher - artist
John Hayes CBE - director of the National Portrait Gallery (1974–1994)
Motor Sports
Max Chilton - Formula One racing driver, then WEC
Clifford Earp - racing driver
Mike Hawthorn - Formula One racing driver and World Champion (1958)
Football
George Brann - England footballer and Sussex cricketer
Adam Virgo - footballer
Cricket
Walter Bettesworth - Scotland and Sussex cricketer
William Blackman - Sussex cricketer
Ben Brown - Sussex cricketer
Alex Gregory - South Australia cricketer
Arthur Kneller - Hampshire cricketer
Billy Newham - England and Sussex cricketer
Toby Peirce - Sussex cricketer
Paul Phillipson - Sussex cricketer
Abidine Sakande - Sussex cricketer
Valentine Sewell - Dorset cricketer
Thomas Symington - Rhodesia cricketer
Industry and Commerce
Sydney Allard - founder of Allard Motor Company
Charles Cruft - founder of Crufts dog show
Sir Charles Fairey MBE - founder of Fairey Aviation Company
Sir Richard Morris CBE - industrialist
John Hooper - President of the British Orthodontic Society
Felix Pery, Viscount Glentworth
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