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Alumni of Oakham School are known as Old Oakhamians.

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Oakham School is a British co-educational independent school in the market town of Oakham in Rutland, with a school role of about 1,000 pupils, aged from 10 to 18. The school was founded in 1584 by Archdeacon Robert Johnson, along with Uppingham School, a few miles away.

Notable former pupils include:

Academics

  • John Henry Pratt, mathematician
  • Joseph George Cumming, geologist and archaeologist, Professor of Classical Literature and of Geology
  • Horace Donisthorpe, entomologist, myrmecologist and coleopterist
  • Peter North, Kt., CBE, DCL, Principal of Jesus College and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford

    • The Armed Forces

  • Rear Admiral Philip Wilcocks, CB DSC DL

    • Ecclesiastics

  • John Henley, clergyman, commonly known as 'Orator Henley'
  • Thomas Merton, writer and Trappist monk
  • James Atlay, 98th Bishop of Hereford
  • Leonard Hawkes, Archdeacon of Lindisfarne
  • John Godfrey FitzMaurice Day, Bishop of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin 1920-1938 & Archbishop of Armagh 1938

    • Politics, the Colonial Service & the Law

  • Anthony Clarke, Baron Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
  • Lord Cope of Berkeley, Conservative Member of Parliament for South Gloucestershire 1974-1983 & Northavon 1983-1997 during this time he was Paymaster-General 1992-1994
  • William George "Bill" O'Chee, Australian politician (Senator for Queensland)
  • Paul Filing, Australian politician (Member of the House of Representatives for Moore, Western Australia)
  • William Allmond Codrington Goode GCMG, the last Governor of Singapore 1957-1959 and the last Governor of North Borneo 1959-1963
  • Stuart Trought. President of the States of Alderney 2011-Present

    • The Arts

  • Annabelle Apsion, actress
  • Charlie Bewley, actor
  • Andy Harries, UK producer, Left Bank Pictures
  • Greg Hicks, actor
  • Richard Hope (actor)
  • Richard Hurst, writer and director
  • Jason Kay, singer (Jamiroquai)
  • Matthew Macfadyen, actor
  • Matthew Manning, psychic
  • China Miéville, novelist
  • Katie Mitchell, OBE, theatre director
  • Alfred Young Nutt, Victorian artist and architect
  • Malcolm Rogers, director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
  • Kwame Ryan, Conductor and Musician
  • Janek Schaefer, Sound Artist, British Composer of the Year in Sonic Art
  • Indra Sinha, novelist
  • Tom Wiggall, composer
  • Miles Jupp, actor/comedian

    • Broadcasting and Media

  • Tom Heap, BBC News Rural Affairs Correspondent (formerly BBC News's Science and Environment Correspondent)
  • Charlotte Uhlenbroek, Biologist and Broadcaster

    • Sports

  • Charlie Beech, professional rugby union player with Bath Rugby and England U19s
  • Matthew Boyce, cricketer (Leicestershire)
  • Roderick Bradley, player of American football
  • J.W.M. Bradshaw, cricketer (Leicestershire)
  • Stuart Broad,England international cricketer cricketer and England T20 captain
  • Percy Chapman, England cricketer (captain)
  • Josh Cobb, cricketer (Leicestershire)
  • Rob Cook, rugby union player for Gloucester Rugby
  • Tom Croft, British and Irish Lions and England player
  • Crista Cullen, England and Great Britain field hockey player
  • Arthur Cursham, England footballer and county cricketer (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire)
  • Ron Jacobs, rugby union player, England International and captain
  • Frank Jerwood, Olympic Oarsman
  • Alex Goode, rugby union player for Saracens RFC and England Saxons
  • Lewis Moody, British and Irish Lions, England Rugby, Leicester Tigers and Bath Rugby rugby union player; England captain
  • Lucy Pearson, England women's cricket captain
  • Matt Smith, rugby union player, England Saxons
  • James Alexander Simpson Taylor, cricketer (Leicestershire and Scotland)
  • Alex Wyatt, cricketer (Leicestershire)

    • Royalty & Nobility

  • Prince Alexander of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (Alexander Friedrich Antonius Johannes), next in line to succeed as Head of the House of Hohenzollern

    • Others

  • Richard Profit, polar explorer
  • John Jerwood, founder of the Jerwood Foundation
  • Thomas Merton, writer and religious figure.

    • References

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