List of Old Harrovians

Civil Service & Administration

Sir Alex Allan, Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee

Robin Butler, Baron Butler of Brockwell, Cabinet Secretary

Taylor Combe, Esq., M.A., Secretary of Royal Society, Director of Society of Antiquaries, Keeper of British Museum.

Walter Cunliffe, 1st Baron Cunliffe, Governor of the Bank of England

John Dalrymple, 10th Earl of Stair, Governor of the Bank of Scotland

John Saunders Gilliat, Governor of the Bank of England

Henry Grenfell, Governor of the Bank of England

Major Sir John Griffin, Courtier

Alexander Hardinge, 2nd Baron Hardinge of Penshurst, Private Secretary to Edward VIII and George VI

Stuart Holland, 2nd Baron Rotherham, Inspector, Ministry of Pensions

Sir William A. Baillie-Hamilton, Private Secretary to the Chief Secretary for Ireland and to the Secretary of State for the Colonies

Sir John Rupert "Jock" Colville

Sir Kenelm Edward Digby, Under Secretary of State at the Home Office

Diplomatic Service

John Harington Gubbins, linguist & diplomat

Prince Mozaffar Firouz, Iranian ambassador to the USSR

Sir Jeremy Greenstock, British ambassador to the United Nations

Sir Adrian Holman, British Ambassador to Cuba

Esme Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Penrith, Ambassador to the United States

Sir Frank Lascelles, Ambassador to Russia and Germany

Percy Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford, Irish ambassador to Portugal, Sweden, Turkey and Russia

Sir Roderick Barclay, Ambassador to Denmark and Belgium

Sir Brooke Boothby, 10th Baronet, diplomat & Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Chile

John Charles Brudenell-Bruce

Reginald Bridgeman

John Francis William, 6th Count de Salis-Soglio

Colonial Service & Imperial Administration

Sir Richard Temple, 2nd Baronet, Chief Commissioner of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands; soldier, folklorist & anthropologist

Sir Thomas Buxton, 3rd Baronet, Governor of South Australia

Sir William Chichele Plowden, Civil Servant and Member of the Legislative Council, India

James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie, Governor-General of India

Sir Charles Augustus Fitzroy, Governor of New South Wales

Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst, Viceroy of India

Sir William Henry Gregory, Anglo-Irish writer and politician, and Governor of Ceylon

Albert Henry Edward Grey, 4th Earl Grey, Governor-General of Canada

John Alsop King, 20th Governor of New York State

Uchter Knox, 5th Earl of Ranfurly, Governor of New Zealand

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, Viceroy of India

Sir Francis May, Governor of Hong Kong

William Plunket, 5th Baron Plunket, Governor of New Zealand

Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough, Governor General of Canada

John Dickson-Poynder, 1st Baron Islington, Governor of New Zealand

Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings, Governor General of India

Raja Maharaj Singh, First Indian Governor of Bombay

John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth, Governor General of India

Sir Reginald Talbot, Governor of Victoria in Australia

Sir Henry George Ward, Governor of Ceylon, and Madras

Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, Governor General of India and Foreign Secretary

Sir Spencer Harcourt Butler, Governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh

Sir Alexander Baird, 1st Baronet, President of the Permanent Arbitration Board in Egypt

Sir Percy Cox, High Commissioner of Iraq, Political Resident at Tehran

Charles Stanhope Foster Crofton, member of the Indian Civil Service and a philatelist

Sir Reginald Hugh Dorman-Smith, Governor of Burma

Royalty

Krishna Kumarasingh Bhavasingh, last Maharaja of Bhavnagar

Prince Chula Chakrabongse of Siam

Ali bin Hamud of Zanzibar

HH Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, current Emir of Qatar

Ghazi of Iraq

King Faisal II of Iraq

Prince Hamzah bin Al Hussein of Jordan

Prince Hassan bin Al Talal of Jordan

Prince Rashid bin Al Hassan

Prince Talal bin Muhammad

HRH Purachatra Jayakara

King Hussein of Jordan

Barkat Ali Khan Mukarram Jah, claimant Nizam of Hyderabad

Jagaddipendra Narayan, Maharaja of Cooch Behar

Lord Nicholas Windsor, younger son of the Duke of Kent

HSH Prince Mahidol Adulyadej of Songkhla of Thailand

His Highness, The Maharaja of Jaipur, Sawai Bhawani Singh Bahadur

HH Nawab Syed Shah Wajid Hussain Khan Bahadur of Khusrupur, Bihar

Wangchuk Namgyal, HM The Chogyal of Sikkim

Prince Thomas, Duke of Genoa, a prince of the House of Savoy

His Highness, Baron LPT B.A.Sforza, a prince of the house of Thurn und Taxis

The Honourable, D. Pedro Miguel Vasques Milhinhos, heir to the Marquis of Arronches title.

Augustus Frederick d'Este, grandson of King George III

Prime Ministers

Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Sir Winston Churchill, Conservative Prime Minister of the U.K., Nobel Laureate

George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Jawaharlal Nehru, First Prime Minister of India

Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Spencer Perceval, Tory (Conservative) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Whig (Liberal) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Politicians

Thomas Agar-Robartes, 6th Viscount Clifden, Liberal Member of Parliament

Sir James Agg-Gardner, Conservative Member of Parliament

Leo Amery, Conservative Secretary of State

Robert Allan, Baron Allan of Kilmahew, Financial Secretary to the Admiralty

Sir John Milne Barbour, 1st Baronet, Finance Minister, Northern Ireland

Thomas Baring, Conservative, Member of Parliament

Hamar Alfred Bass, Liberal politician from the Bass brewing family

Ivon Moore-Brabazon, 3rd Baron Brabazon of Tara, Tory Peer

Orlando Bridgeman, 3rd Earl of Bradford, Lord Chamberlain

Ewen Cameron, Baron Cameron of Dillington, Cross-bench Peer

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, prominent reformist

Evelyn Ashley Liberal Member of Parliament

Sir Kenneth Carlisle, Tory minister

William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, Lord Chamberlain

Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Francis Cowper, 7th Earl Cowper, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland

Harry Davenport, Conservative Member of Parliament

William Deedes, Baron Deedes of Aldington, Conservative Member of Parliament and editor of The Daily Telegraph

Sir Reginald Hugh Dorman-Smith, diplomat, soldier and Minister for Agriculture youngest brother of Eric ("Chink") Dorman-Smith

Alexander Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton, Ambassador to St. Petersburg

Thomas Slingsby Duncombe, Whig Member of Parliament

Lawrence Dundas, 1st Earl of Zetland, Whig Member of Parliament

Lawrence Dundas, 1st Marquess of Zetland, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Lawrence Dundas, 2nd Marquess of Zetland, Conservative Secretary of State

Thomas Dundas, 2nd Earl of Zetland, Whig Member of Parliament

Sir William Hart Dyke, Conservative Member of Parliament

William Edgcumbe, 4th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, Lord Chamberlain

William Lindsay Everard Brewer, Conservative MP, and philanthropist.

Femi Fani-Kayode, Minister of Aviation and Minister of Culture and Tourism, Nigeria

Gerald Gardiner, Baron Gardiner, Lord Chancellor

George Gordon, 2nd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair

Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, Liberal Member of Parliament, cofounder of the Scottish National Party

Robert Grosvenor, 2nd Baron Ebury, Liberal peer

Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster, Lord of the Admiralty

Lord Claud Hamilton (1813–1884), Conservative Member of Parliament

Lord Claud Hamilton (1843–1925), Conservative Member of Parliament

Lord Ernest Hamilton. Conservative Member of Parliament

Lord George Hamilton, Conservative Secretary of State

James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn, Conservative Member of Parliament

John Hamilton, 1st Marquess of Abercorn, Conservative Member of Parliament

William Hamilton, Esq., Under Secretary of State

George Hamilton-Gordon, 5th Earl of Aberdeen, Liberal Member of Parliament

Gilbert Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 1st Earl of Ancaster. Liberal Member of Parliament

Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea, Conservative Secretary of State

Henry Holland, 1st Viscount Knutsford, Secretary of State for the Colonies

Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood, Conservative cabinet minister

Sir John Hobson (politician), Attorney General

Edward Wingfield Humphreys, New Zealand MP representing Christchurch North

Sir Stanley Jackson, cricketer and Chairman of the Conservative Party

Sir Keith Joseph, Conservative Secretary of State

Sir John Burgess Karslake, Attorney General

Rodney Leach, Baron Leach of Fairford, Chairman of Open Europe

George Legge, 3rd Earl of Dartmouth, Lord Chamberlain

Sir Charles Lemon, 2nd Baronet Lemon of Carclew, Liberal Member of Parliament

Richard Long, 4th Viscount Long, Conservative peer

Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long, Conservative Secretary of State

Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury, Liberal Member of Parliament

William Henry Holmes Lyons, prominent Ulster unionist

Malcolm McCorquodale, 1st Baron McCorquodale, Conservative Member of Parliament

Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, Conservative policy advisor

Walter Monckton, 1st Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, Conservative Minister of Defence

Anthony Nelson, Conservative Member of Parliament

Noel Noel-Buxton, 1st Baron Noel-Buxton, Liberal, and then Labour Member of Parliament

William Smith O'Brien, Irish nationalist Member of Parliament

Cranley Onslow, Baron Onslow of Woking, Conservative Member of Parliament

Charles Lindsay Orr-Ewing, Conservative Member of Parliament

Ian Orr-Ewing, Baron Orr-Ewing, Conservative Member of Parliament

Sir Frederick Peel, Under-Secretary of State for War and Secretary to the Treasury

Sir Robert Peel, 3rd Baronet, Chief Secretary for Ireland

William Yates Peel, Lord of the Treasury

Charles Pepys, 1st Earl of Cottenham, Twice Lord Chancellor

Constantine Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby, Home Secretary and Ambassador at Paris

Morgan Philips Price, Liberal and Labour Member of Parliament

John Profumo, 5th Baron Profumo, Conservative Secretary of State, known for the Profumo Affair

Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley, Home Secretary

Wyn Roberts, Baron Roberts of Conwy, Welsh Tory

Mark Robinson, Conservative Member of Parliament

Anthony Royle, Baron Fanshawe of Richmond, Conservative Member of Parliament

Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby, Foreign Secretary

Richard Ryder (19th century politician), Home Secretary

Robert Sanders, 1st Baron Bayford, Conservative Member of Parliament

J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone, Conservative and Liberal Member of Parliament

Madron Seligman, MEP

Francis Seymour, 5th Marquess of Hertford, Lord Chamberlain

Ughtred James Kay-Shuttleworth, 1st Baron Shuttleworth, Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty

Thomas H. Sotheron-Estcourt, Home Secretary

Tim Smith, Conservative Member of Parliament

Sir Peter Smithers, Secretary General of the Council of Europe

George Smythe, 7th Viscount Strangford, Conservative Member of Parliament

George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer, Whig Home Secretary

John Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer, Chancellor of the Exchequer

John Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Charles Spencer, 6th Earl Spencer, Lord Chamberlain

Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer, Conservative councillor, also grandfather of Diana, Princess of Wales

Sir Douglas Straight, Conservative Member of Parliament

Henry Strutt, 2nd Baron Belper, Liberal Member of Parliament

Sir Charles Trevelyan, 3rd Baronet, Liberal Member of Parliament

Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet, Liberal Member of Parliament

Edward Villiers, 5th Earl of Clarendon, Lord Chamberlain

George Child Villiers, 5th Earl of Jersey, Lord Chamberlain

Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, Governor General of India and Foreign Secretary

Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 10th Baronet Tory Politician & Baronet

Richard Drax, Conservative Member of parliament for Weymouth and Portland

Guy Opperman, Conservative Member of parliament for Hexham

Peter Aldous, Conservative Member of parliament for Waveney

Alexander James Beresford Beresford Hope, supporter of the Confederate States of America

Naval and Military

Admiral of the Fleet Sir James Erskine

Admiral of the Fleet Sir George Seymour

Field Marshal Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, Governor General of Canada

Field Marshal John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, Chief of Imperial General Staff

Field Marshal Charles Guthrie, Baron Guthrie of Craigiebank, Chief of the General Staff (1994–1997) and Chief of the Defence Staff (1997–2001)

Admiral George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney

Admiral Sir Augustus Clifford

Admiral Sir Henry Codrington

Admiral Sir Michael Culme-Seymour, 3rd Baronet

Admiral Sir Eliab Harvey, Battle of Trafalgar

Admiral Manningham

Admiral George Perceval, 6th Earl of Egmont, served on HMS Orion at Trafalgar aged eleven

Admiral Rowley

General Sir Thomas Riddell-Webster

General Sir Walter Norris Congreve, VC

General Sir Edward Bowater

General Sir Alexander Robert Badcock

General Sir William John Codrington

General Sir George Berkeley

General Sir Robert Brownrigg, Quartermaster-General and Governor of Ceylon

General Sir Peter de la Billière

General Sir George Alexander Weir

General Sir Lashmer Whistler

General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien

General Sir James Newton Rodney Moore

General Lord Alexander Russell

General Edward Henry Clive

General Montague Matthew

General Francis Seymour, 5th Marquess of Hertford, Lord Chamberlain to Queen Victoria

Vice-Admiral the Hon. Richard Saunders Dundas, First Sea Lord

Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Berger

Vice-Admiral the Hon. Charles Orlando Bridgeman,

Lieutenant General James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, Leader of the Charge of the Light Brigade

Lieutenant General Sir Brian Kimmins

Lieutenant General Sir Anthony Arthur Denison-Smith

Lieutenant General William Gott, Appointed commander of Eighth Army before dying in air crash

Lieutenant General Sir Chandos Blair

Lieutenant General Sir Alfred Edward Codrington

Lieutenant General Sir George Sidney Clive

Lieutenant General Sir Harry Calvert, 1st Baronet

Lieutenant General Sir Richard Butler

Major General Sir John Humphrey "Tavish" Davidson

Major-General Sir James Arthur "Jack" d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, 3rd Baronet

Major-General Sir Henry Joseph d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, 2nd Baronet

Major-General Sir Percy Zachariah Cox

Major-General Charles Richard Sackville-West, 6th Earl De La Warr

Major General Sir George Cooke

Major General John Talbot Coke

Major General Sir Andrew Hamilton Russell, New Zealand commander at Gallipoli

Major General Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

Air Vice-Marshal Charles Hubert Boulby Blount

Brigadier General Walter Long

Brigadier Cecil Arthur Harrop Chadwick

Brigadier Archer Francis Lawrence Clive

Brigadier-General Francis Charles Bridgeman

Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen CBE, DSO

Colonel Guy Brownlow

Colonel Sir William Howe De Lancey

Colonel Frederick Gustavus Burnaby

Colonel Ponsonby, killed at Battle of Waterloo

Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart

Lieutenant Colonel Henry George Orlando Bridgeman

Lieutenant Colonel Dudley Gordon, 3rd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair

Lieutenant Colonel Ivan Lyon, commander Operation Jaywick

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Fleetwood Isham Edwards, Keeper of the Privy Purse

Lieutenant Colonel Robert Sanders, 1st Baron Bayford

Wing Commander Archie Boyd

Major Hugh Wyld, British Army officer and cricketer

Major Eric Buller, British Army officer and cricketer

Major Johnnie Cradock

Major Sir Charles James Buchanan, 4th Baronet

Major Sir Robert Lister Bower, British Army and Colonial Police Officer

Major Allan John Cameron, British Army officer and curler

Major David Gordon, 4th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair

Squadron Leader Gordon Cleaver

Squadron Leader Lord David Douglas-Hamilton

Squadron Leader John Crampton

Captain George Whatford, cricketer and British and Indian Army officer

Second Lieutenant Orlando Clive Bridgeman, World War I flying ace credited with five aerial victories

Lieutenant George Byron, 9th Baron Byron

Eyre Crabbe

Victoria Cross Holders

Twenty Old Harrovians have been awarded the Victoria Cross:

Crimean War

Captain William Peel (naval officer)

Lieutenant Alexander Roberts Dunn

Lieutenant William James Montgomery Cuninghame

Second Opium War

Colonel John Worthy Chaplin

First Ashanti Expedition

Major The Lord Edric Gifford

Zulu War

Lieutenant Teignmouth Melvill

Sudan Campaign

Lieutenant Percival Scrope Marling

South African War

Captain Walter Congreve

Lieutenant John Peniston Milbanke

Third Somaliland Expedition

Captain George Murray Rolland

First World War

Acting Major George de Cardonnel Elmsall Findlay

Second Lieutenant William Rhodes-Moorhouse

Major Ernest Wright Alexander

Captain Garth Walford

Acting Captain Thomas Riversdale Colyer-Fergusson

Acting Captain Walter Napleton Stone

Acting Lieutenant Colonel John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker

Captain Richard Raymond Willis

Major Eric Buller M.C.

Second World War

Temporary Captain Ian Oswald Liddell

George Cross Holder

Lt. Ellis Edward Arthur Chetwynd Talbot

Church

Revd. Robert Bland, author

Edward Burroughs, Bishop of Ripon

Richard Chenevix Trench, Anglican Archbishop of Dublin

Robert Coffin (bishop), Roman Catholic Bishop of Southwark

Randall Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury

Paul de Labilliere, Dean of Westminster

Archdeacon Eyre

Frederick William Faber, Roman Catholic convert, author, and hymn-writer

Edward Glyn, Bishop of Peterborough

Charles Gore, English divine and Anglican bishop

Bernard Heywood, Bishop of Ely

Nugent Hicks, Bishop of Gibraltar, later Bishop of Lincoln

Archdeacon Law

Angus Campbell MacInnes, Archbishop of Jerusalem

Michael Ashley Mann, Emeritus Dean of Windsor

Henry Edward Manning, Cardinal and second Archbishop of Westminster

Henry Hutchinson Montgomery, Anglican Bishop of Tasmania and father of Field Marshal Montgomery

George Murray, bishop of Rochester

Ashton Oxenden, Bishop of Montreal

The Revd. Samuel Parr, LL.D., Headmaster of Harrow

Charles Perry, Bishop of Melbourne

Benjamin Plunket, Anglican Bishop of Meath

Horatio Powys, Bishop of Sodor and Man

John Ronald Angus Stroyan, Anglican Bishop of Warwick

Robert Selby Taylor, Archbishop of Cape Town

Power Le Poer Trench, Archbishop of Tuam

Stephen Verney, Anglican Bishop of Repton

Ernest Wilberforce, Bishop of Chichester

Thomas William Wilkinson, Roman Catholic Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle

Isaac Williams, theologian

Writers

William Baxter, philologist and antiquarian

Nicholas Bethell, 4th Baron Bethell, historian, politician and translator

Bernard Bosanquet, philosopher

Arthur Bryant, historian and columnist

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, poet, commonly known as Lord Byron

Charles Stuart Calverley, poet

Francis Chenevix Trench, author and divine

Wilfred Rowland Childe, poet

Sir Jock Colville, Diarist at 10 Downing Street

Richard Curtis, scriptwriter & film director

Alain de Botton, author

John Dennis, poet and critic

Henry Drury, classical scholar

Julian Charles Fane, author

Alastair Fothergill, British Producer

John Galsworthy, dramatist and Nobel Prize–winning novelist

Augustus Hare, author

L. P. Hartley, author

Theodore Hook, author

Gervase Jackson-Stops, Art historian and journalist

Rowley Lascelles, archivist

Sir Arnold Lunn, skiing pioneer & writer

Herman Charles Merivale, dramatist and poet

E. H. W. Meyerstein poet and writer

Simon Sebag Montefiore, journalist and historian

Sir John Mortimer, dramatist and author

Robert Orme, historian

John Thomas Perceval, writer and campaigner

Marmaduke Pickthall, Islamic and Middle-Eastern scholar

Jason Pontin, editor, publisher, and journalist

Bryan Procter, alias "Barry Cornwall" [friend of Keats]

Sir Terence Rattigan, dramatist

Mark Sedgwick, historian

William Seward, anecdotist

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, playwright & politician

William Sotheby, poet and translator

Percy Smythe, 8th Viscount Strangford, British Nobleman & man of letters

Hon. William Spencer, author

Douglas Straight, journalist, MP, judge

John Addington Symonds, poet and literary critic

G.M. Trevelyan, historian

R.C. Trevelyan, poet

Anthony Trollope, novelist

Francis Wheen, writer and journalist

Peter Williams, author, editor and critic of ballet

Dornford Yates (Cecil William Mercer), novelist

Visual arts

Hercules Brabazon Brabazon, 19th century artist

Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield, photographer

Sir Cecil Beaton, photographer and costume designer

Sir Oswald Birley, portraitist

Rodney Joseph Burn, artist

Damian Elwes, artist

Michael Farrar-Bell, stained glass and postage stamp designer

Richard Foster (painter), portraitist

Spencer Gore (artist)

Sir Francis Grant, artist and President of the Royal Academy

Bendor Grosvenor, art historian

General Douglas Hamilton, artist and game hunter

Nicholas Hely Hutchinson, artist

Eliot Hodgkin, artist

Victor Pasmore, artist

Hugh Riddle, RAF pilot and portraitist

Lincoln Seligman, artist

Sir Geoffrey Adam Shakerley, 6th Baronet Shakerley, photographer

William Fox Talbot, photographer

John Frederick Tayler, President of the Royal Watercolour Society

Theatre/Film

Max Benitz, actor

Tim Bentinck, 12th Earl of Portland, actor

Andrew Birkin, screenwriter, director

Adrian Brunel, film director

James Callis, actor

Peter Cellier, actor

Benedict Cumberbatch, actor

Michael Denison, actor

James Dreyfus, actor

Sir Gerald du Maurier, actor, producer

Valentine Dyall, radio voice actor

Cassian Elwes, film producer

Cary Elwes, Actor

Alastair Fothergill, producer of nature documentaries

Edward Fox, actor

James Fox, actor

Laurence Fox, actor (expelled)

Robert Fox, film producer

Nicholas Frankau, actor

John Gore, theatrical producer

Joel Hopkins, film director

Peter Jeffrey, actor

Sir Nigel Playfair, actor and manager

Tate Wilkinson, actor and manager

Simon Williams, film, television and radio actor

Music

Chris Blackwell, founder of Island Records

James Blunt, musician

Mike d'Abo, lead singer, Manfred Mann

Simon Toulson-Clarke, Red Box

Lord David Dundas, film scorer

General John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland, Founder of the Royal College of Music

Ian Parrott, composer

Henry Hugh Pearson, composer

James Rhodes, pianist

James Ross, conductor

Aristo Sham, pianist

Ben Wallers, musician

Sandy Wilson, composer and lyricist

Sciences

Francis Maitland Balfour, professor of animal morphology at Cambridge

Sir Joseph Banks, botanist

Sir Gavin de Beer

James Bond, ornithologist

Raol Shri Dharmakumarsinhji, prince, ornithologist, environmentalist

Sir Henry Wentworth Dyke-Acland, 1st Baronet, KCB, Professor of Medicine, Physician to Prince of Wales, King Edward VIII

Sir Arthur Evans, archaeologist

Sir Ronald Fisher, pioneer of statistics

Aubrey de Grey, science of aging

Henry Bence Jones, Physician and chemist

Sir William Jones, philologist

Thomas Henry Manning, Arctic zoologist

St. George Jackson Mivart, biologist

Nicholas Patrick, NASA astronaut

Arthur Cecil Pigou, Economist

George Julius Poulett Scrope, Geologist

Charles Rothschild, Entomologist

Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild, scientist & civil servant

William Spottiswoode, President of the Royal Society

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, physicist & Nobel Prize laureate, Chancellor of Cambridge University

William Fox Talbot, pioneer of photography

Fereydoun Ala, Iranian physician and academician

Dr Thomas Monro, Physician to King George III

Anthony Butterworth FRS, immunologist

Robert Dyke Acland, FRCS, Pioneer of Microsurgery

Sports

C. W. Alcock, creator of the FA Cup

Richard Attwood, former-Formula One driver

Nick Leventis, racing driver

Edward Baily, English cricketer

Gary Ballance, England Test Cricketer

John Barham, Athlete

Morton Betts, 19th Century sportsman

Guy Butler (athlete), Olympic gold medalist

Major Allan Cameron (soldier), Founder of the International Curling Federation

Nick Compton, England Test Cricketer

Michael Doughty (English footballer)

Tom French, rugby footballer of London Wasps

Spencer Gore, tennis player, first Wimbledon champion

Douglas Robert Hadow, died on Matterhorn first ascent

Patrick Francis Hadow, tennis player, Wimbledon champion

Edward Harrison, cricketer and squash doubles champion

Sir William Hart Dyke, 7th Baronet, Racquets World Champion 1862

Arthur Haygarth, cricketer

Damian Hopley, England rugby team, and Chief Executive of Professional Rugby Players' Association

A. N. Hornby, Only one of two men to have captained England at cricket and rugby

David Ireland, equestrian and horse breeding expert

Maro Itoje, England rugby squad and Saracens squad

Charles Leaf, Olympic gold medallist

Douglas Lowe, Olympic gold medallist

Alastair McCorquodale, Olympic silver medallist

Archie MacLaren, cricketer

Sir Rupert Mackeson, racing author

Charles Morice (footballer), played for England as a forward in the first international match against Scotland.

Tony Nash (bobsleigh), Olympic gold medallist

Sam Northeast, cricketer

Walter Paton (1853–1937), English barrister who played for Oxford University in the 1873 FA Cup Final

Gareth Rees (rugby player), Canadian fly-half

Sir Lancelot Royle KBE, Olympian & businessman, Governor of Harrow School

Billy Vunipola, member of England rugby squad and Saracens squad

Fraser Waters, member of the London Wasps rugby union team and England centre

Reginald de Courtenay Welch, England international footballer

Dorian Williams, Equestrian broadcaster

Julian Wilson, racing commentator

George Whatford, cricketer and British and Indian Army officer

Major Hugh Wyld, cricketer and British Army officer

Anshuman Rath, Hong Kong cricketer

Business

Apcar Alexander Apcar, merchant and racehorse owner

Gregory Apcar, merchant and philanthropist

Simon Astaire

Thomas Baring of Barings Bank

Sir John Lionel Beckwith

Edward Bonham Carter, Fund manager

Malcolm Couch, Former Latin America regional manager for Shell Oil Company, now Assessor of Income Tax for the Isle of Man

Sir Dermot de Trafford, 6th Baronet

Edward Grenfell, 1st Baron St Just, banker

Nubar Gulbenkian, Oil magnate

Neil Heywood, British businessman, found dead in his hotel room in Chongqing, China under suspicious circumstances

Leonard Lyle, 1st Baron Lyle of Westbourne, Chairman of Tate and Lyle

J. Bruce Ismay, of RMS Titanic infamy

Yıldırım Ali Koç, Koç Holding member and Turkish multisport club Fenerbahçe S.K. vice-president.

Sir Herbert Mackworth-Praed, 1st Baronet, Politician and banker

Paul Manduca, chairman of Prudential plc

Julian Metcalfe, founder of Pret a Manger

Russi Mody, Chairman of Tata Steel

Crispin Odey, hedge fund manager

Nicky Oppenheimer, South African Chairman of De Beers

Anthony Gustav de Rothschild

Edmund Leopold de Rothschild

Sir Evelyn Robert de Rothschild

Timothy Royle, founding chairman of Control Risks Group

James Cholmeley Russell, barrister, financier, property developer,railway entrepreneur

Sir Victor Sassoon, businessman, hotelier from the banking family

Chatumongol Sonakul, Governor of the Bank of Thailand

John Strange Spencer-Churchill

Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot, industrialist

Henry Yates Thompson, Newspaper proprietor

George Townshend, 7th Marquess Townshend, Chairman of Anglia Television

Law

Peter Millett, Baron Millett, Lord of Appeal

Donald Somervell, Baron Somervell of Harrow, Attorney General, Home Secretary, Lord of Appeal

Rt. Hon. Sir William Aldous, Lord Justice of Appeal

Sir Dunbar Barton, High Court judge

Sir Reginald Bray, High Court judge

Rt. Hon. Sir Felix Cassel 1st Baronet, Judge Advocate General

Sir Arthur Moseley Channell, oarsman and High Court judge

Sir Michael Connell, High Court judge

Sir H. S. Cunningham, Advocate General of the Madras Presidency and High Court judge in Bengal

Sir Edward East, 1st Baronet, Chief Justice of Bengal

Sir Michael Eastham, High Court judge

Sir Gerald Howard, High Court judge

David Hunter, Court of Appeal judge, Hong Kong

Sir Henry Jackson, 2nd Baronet, MP and High Court judge

Miles Jackson-Lipkin, disgraced Hong Kong High Court judge

Francis Jeune, 1st Baron St Helier, President of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division

Sir Adrian Knox, Second Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia

Simon Mayo, Vice President of the Court of Appeal, Hong Kong

Henry Moncreiff, 2nd Baron Moncreiff, Senator to the Court of Justice, Scotland

Andrew Murray, 1st Viscount Dunedin, Lord of Appeal

Sir Basil Nield, MP and High Court judge

Sir Peter Openshaw, High Court judge

Sir Thomas Joshua Platt, Baron of the Exchequer

Sir Henry Plowden, High Court judge in the Punjab and cricketer

Sir John Richardson, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas

Sir Ronald Roxborough, High Court judge

Sir Lancelot Sanderson, MP and Chief Justice at Bengal

Thomas Tomlin, Baron Tomlin, Lord of Appeal

Sir Timothy Walker, High Court judge

Sir Jean-Pierre Warner, High Court judge

Sir Joshua Strange Williams, Judge of the Supreme Court New Zealand

Walter Augustus de Havilland, patent attorney

Other Nobility

The Marquess of Abercorn

Sir Henry Wentworth Acland, 1st Baronet

Sir Fulque Agnew, 10th Baronet

Shane Alexander, 2nd Earl Alexander of Tunis

The Earl of Ancram

The Lord Arden

Sir Alexander Baird, 1st Baronet

The Earl of Bandon

Earl Bective

Henry Bentinck, 11th Earl of Portland

Tim Bentinck, 12th Earl of Portland

William Bentinck, Viscount Woodstock

The Viscount Bolingbroke

John Boyle, 14th Earl of Cork

Alan Brooke, 3rd Viscount Alanbrooke

Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, acquired the Elgin Marbles

Lord Burghershe

The Earl of Clare

Lord Cremorne

The Marquis of Douglas

Mark Dundas, 4th Marquess of Zetland

The Duke of Hamilton

Sir Adrian Fitzgerald, 24th Knight of Kerry

Henry FitzRoy, 12th Duke of Grafton

Alexander Gordon, 7th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair

David Gordon, 4th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair

Dudley Gordon, 3rd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair

Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster

Hugh Richard Louis Grosvenor, 7th Duke of Westminster

The Earl of Harrowby

Hugh William Osbert Molyneux, 7th Earl of Sefton

William Pleydell-Bouverie, 9th Earl of Radnor

Frederick Ponsonby, Viscount Duncannon

The Earl of Mount Edgecumbe

Lord Rancliffe

Andrew Russell, 15th Duke of Bedford

Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset

George John Spencer, Earl Spencer

Alan Stewart, 10th Earl of Galloway, Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland

Jamie Spencer-Churchill, 12th Duke of Marlborough

George Spencer-Churchill, Marquess of Blandford

John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute

John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute, Scottish Peer

The Earl of Tyrconnel

The Viscount Valletort

The Earl of Verulam

Earl of Winterton

Other

George Askew, contestant on Big Brother 7 UK

John Amery, pro-Nazi fascist, hanged for treason, whose brainchild was the British Free Corps

Edward Aveling, English Marxist

Tom Avery, explorer

Sir William Bass, 2nd Baronet, race horse owner and supporter of the film industry

John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara, Aviation pioneer

James Bruce, explorer and traveller

Henry Montagu Butler, Headmaster of Harrow School and Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University

Sir James Ramsay Montagu Butler, politician and academic

Thorold Coade, Headmaster of Bryanston

William Cooke (Provost of King's College), and Headmaster of Eton

Aidan Crawley, TV executive, journalist, politician

John Robert Godley, founder of Canterbury, NZ

Sir Alexander Grant, 10th Baronet, Principal of Edinburgh University

Pen Hadow, explorer

Walter George Headlam, poet and classical scholar

Charles Buller Heberden, Vice Chancellor of Oxford University

Sir Basil Henriques, philanthropist

Charles James (designer)

William Jaggs, manslaughter (diminished responsibility due to mental illness).

Charles King (academic), President of Columbia College (now Columbia University)

Hugh Massingberd, The Telegraph obituaries writer

John McCririck, horse racing pundit

Sir Anthony Minoprio, architect and town planner

Dr. Samuel Parr, Whig pamphleteer

Gerald Henry Rendall, Vice-Chancellor of Victoria University (UK), and Headmaster of Charterhouse

Henry Stuart Russell, explorer

Richard Gilbert Scott, architect

Hugh Spencely, architect

Sir Peter Malden Studd, Lord Mayor of London

Charles Sturt, explorer

Sir Mark Thatcher, son of former British Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher

Philip Vincent, motorcycle designer and manufacturer, founder of Vincent Motorcycles

Sir Thomas Wade, sinologist

Sir John Watney, Honorary Secretary of the City and Guilds of London Institute for the Advancement of Technical Education

Sir John Gardner Wilkinson, father of British Egyptology

Charles Wordsworth, Bishop of St. Andrew's and Headmaster of Glenalmond

Old Harrovians in fiction

Sir Nigel Thonberry from The Wild Thornberrys

Major-General Candy from The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

Colonel Pickering in Pygmalion

Lord Brett Sinclair from The Persuaders!

Paul Marshall, antagonist from novel Atonement and the film of the same name

Withnail and Uncle Monty from Withnail and I

Winston Yu from novel Snakehead.

Septimus Hodge from Arcadia by Tom Stoppard

Sir Percy Blakeney from The Scarlet Pimpernel novels by Baroness Emma Orczy

Sherlock Holmes in the 2009 film is an Old Harrovian.

In the BBC TV Series, Sherlock, Eddie Van Coon from "The Blind Banker" is an old Harrovian.

Banyard in Porridge is a former dentist gaoled for interfering with a female patient whilst under anesthetic who states at 12:10 minutes in a discussion about the poor quality of the meals served "...I am well used to this kind of food, I went to Harrow".