List of Old Paulines

16th century

John Leland (c.1503–1555); antiquary

George Lily (died 1559); Catholic priest, biographer and topographer

Peter Carew (1514–1575); adventurer

Thomas Gresham (1519–1579); founder of the Royal Exchange

William Harrison (1534–1593); clergyman and author of The Description of England

William Camden (1551–1623); antiquary

17th century

John Milton (1608–1674); poet

Samuel Pepys (1633–1703); civil servant and diarist

James Hayes (1637–1694); Prince Rupert's secretary and first Deputy Governor, Hudson's Bay Company.

George Jeffreys (1645–1689); Lord Chief Justice

Samuel Johnson (pamphleteer) (1649-1703) English political writer

John Churchill (1650–1722); army officer and 1st Duke of Marlborough

Edmond Halley (1656–1742); astronomer, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist

Spencer Compton (1674–1743); Earl of Wilmington and Prime Minister of Great Britain

Roger Cotes (1682–1716); mathematician

18th century

Joshua Toulmin (1740–1815); Dissenting minister

George Dance the Younger (1741–1825); architect

John André (1750–1780); army officer and spy

Thomas Taylor (1758–1835); scholar and translator

Thomas Clarkson (1760–1846); anti-slavery campaigner

Daniel Alexander (1768–1846); architect

19th century

Richard Ryan (1797–1849); biographer, poet and playwright

Joseph Blakesley (1808–1885); clergyman

Benjamin Jowett (1817–1893); Master of Balliol College, Oxford

Henry Baden-Powell KC (1847–1921); older brother of Robert Baden-Powell, founder of Sea Scouts, angler and notable canoe author & designer

Ray Lankester (1847-1929); zoologist

Cecil Clementi Smith (1849–1916); colonial administrator

Bertrand Dawson, 1st Viscount Dawson of Penn (1864–1945); Royal physician

Sidney Alexander (1866–1948); Newdigate Prize Winner and Canon, St. Paul's

Gilbert Walker (1868–1958); Physicist and Statistician

Charles Beazley (1868–1955); Historian and academic

Laurence Binyon (1869–1943); poet

Sidney Barton (1876–1946); diplomat

William Martin Geldart (1870–1922); jurist

Aurobindo Ghose (1872–1950); Indian mystic, philosopher, poet, yogi and guru

G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936); writer

Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875–1956); journalist and poet

Edward Thomas (1878–1917); poet

Ernest Shepard (1879–1976); illustrator of Winnie the Pooh and The Wind in the Willows

James Garnett (1880–1958); educationist, barrister, and peace campaigner

Leonard Woolf (1880–1969); civil servant and political theorist

Edward Ayrton (1882–1914); Egyptologist and archaeologist

Compton Mackenzie (1883–1972); writer

Otto Niemeyer (1883–1971), director at the Bank of England

Archibald Comley Vivian (1884–1968); metallurgist

John Littlewood (1885–1977); mathematician

Philip Clayton (1885–1972), founder of Toc H

Duncan Grant (1885–1978), Bloomsbury painter

Valentine Vivian (1886–1969); vice-chief of SIS; head of counter-espionage

George Watson (1886–1965); mathematician

Bernard Law Montgomery (1887–1976), World War II General and Field Marshall

Archibald Low, (1888–1956); scientist and inventor

G. D. H. Cole (1889–1959), political philosopher

Leonard Hodgson (1889–1969), theologian

Paul Nash (1889–1946); artist

Isaac Rosenberg; (1890–1918);poet

John Armstrong (1893-1973); artist

Victor Gollancz (1893–1967); publisher

Baron Hannen ; judge

Walter Sterndale Bennett, DSO and bar (1893–1917), Commander Royal Naval Divisions

Ewart Alan Mackintosh MC (1893-1917),war poet and an officer in the Seaforth Highlanders

Henry Daniell (1894–1963); actor

Leonard Barnes (1895–1977); anticolonialist writer and educationalist

B. H. Liddell Hart (1895–1970); military strategist

George Catlin (1896–1979); political scientist and philosopher

Indra Lal Roy (1898–1918); World War I fighter ace

20th century

Hugh Schonfield (1901–1988); biblical scholar, critic of St Paul

Desmond Nethersole-Thompson (1908-1989); renowned British ornothologist, naturalist and authour

Magnus Pyke (1908–1992); author, scientist

Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997); political philosopher and historian of ideas

Max Beloff (1913–1999); historian

George Ignatieff (1913–1989); Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations

Eric Newby (1919–2006); writer

John Russell (born 1919); chief art critic, NY Times

John Chadwick (1920–1998); linguist, assisted Michael Ventris in the 1953 decipherment of Linear B.

Dennis Brain (1921–1957); horn player

Anthony Hinds (born 1922); film producer and scriptwriter, known for Hammer Films

Lister Sinclair (1921–2006); writer, actor, playwright and presenter with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Ian Allan, OBE (1922-2015); book publisher and railwayman

Sir Ninian Stephen (born 1923); Governor-General of Australia, Justice of the High Court of Australia

Pete Murray (born 1923); disc jockey and broadcaster

Donald Nicol (1923–2003); byzantinist

Nicholas Parsons (born 1923); actor and television presenter

James Moorhouse (born 1924); politician

Peter Hilton (1923–2010); mathematician

Clement Freud (1924–2009); writer, broadcaster and politician

Klaus Roth (born 1925); mathematician, Fields medallist

John Thorn (born 1925); headmaster of Repton and Winchester, chairman of the Headmasters' Conference for 1981

Anthony Shaffer (1926–2001); author, playwright

Richard Wilson (born 1926); physicist

Peter Shaffer (born 1926); author, playwright

Alexis Korner (1928–1984); blues musician

Ioan James (born 1928); mathematician

Greville Janner (1928-2015), politician (Labour)

John Dunwoody (1929–2006); politician (Labour)

John Cahill (1930-1995); businessman; Chairman British Aerospace, Chairman Trans World Airlines (TWA), CEO BTR

Stanley Sadie (1930–2005); musicologist, editor of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

Chris Barber (born 1930); trombonist, jazz band leader

Antony Jay (1930–2016); writer of Yes Minister, broadcaster

Brian Widlake (1931-2017); presenter of The World at One and PM (BBC Radio 4) and The Money Programme (BBC Two)

Oliver Sacks (1933-2015); neurologist, author

Julian Bream (born 1933); classical guitarist

Kenneth Baker (born 1934); politician (Conservative)

Jonathan Miller (born 1934); theatre and opera director

Basil Moss (born 1935); television and radio actor

Robert Jeffery (1935 - 2016), Dean Emeritus of Worcester

Richard Gombrich (born 1937), professor of Sanskrit

Benjamin Zander (born 1939); conductor

Robert Winston (born 1940); biologist and television presenter

Neil Trevor Kaplan, (born 1942) High Court judge, Hong Kong

Chris Green (born 1943); railway manager

John Gilbert (born 1943), television writer, director and producer

Tim Razzall (born 1943), politician (Liberal Democrat) and solicitor

John Simpson (born 1944); journalist

Serge Lourie (born 1946); local politician and Leader of London Borough of Richmond upon Thames (Liberal Democrat)

Paul Cartledge (born 1947); Levantis Professor of Greek Culture, Cambridge University

Jon Blair (born 1950); television & film writer, director and producer

Tim Hunkin (born 1950); inventor

Lloyd Dorfman (born 1951); billionaire, philanthropist

Terence Etherton (born 1951); Master of the Rolls

Tim Fywell (born 1951), television and film director

Philip Hardie (born 1951), professor and specialist in Latin literature, Cambridge University

Duncan Haldane (born 1951), 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics laureate

Richard Davenport-Hines (born 1953); historian, writer

Roly Bain (1954-2016), clown-priest

David Bean (born 1954), judge

Rob Manzoli (born 1954); musician, lead guitarist Right Said Fred

Glen Oglaza (born 1955); political correspondent of Sky News

Tom Hayhoe (born 1956); director of healthcare organisations, offshore racing sailor

David Shilling (born 1956); hat designer

Luke Hughes (born 1957); furniture designer

Maxwell Caulfield (born 1959); actor

Iain Gale (born 1959); journalist and author

Euclid Tsakalotos (born 1960); Greek economist and politician, current Minister of Finance

Simon Milton (1961–2011); politician (Conservative)

David Levin (born 1962); businessman, CEO of McGraw-Hill Education

Ian Livingstone (born 1962); chairman and co-owner, London & Regional Properties

Ben Watt (born 1962); musician

Imre Leader (born 1963): mathematician, Othello player

James Reed (born 1963); chairman, Reed Group

William Goodchild (born 1964); composer and orchestrator

James Kennard (born 1964); rabbi and educationalist

Patrick Marber (born 1964); playwright

Stephen Greenhalgh (born 1967); Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime in London since June 2012

Shanker Singham (born 1967); author, trade adviser, economist

Robert Asch (born 1968); journalist and author; co-editor of St Austin Review

Neil Jones ; academic at Cambridge University

Hal Cruttenden (born 1969); actor and comedian

James Harding (born 1969); editor of The Times newspaper (Dec 2007 – 2012)

Alan Cox (born 1970); actor

James Hyman (born 1970); presenter

Saul Klein (born 1970); venture capitalist

James Max (born 1970); broadcaster, journalist

George Osborne (born 1971); M.P. (Conservative) June 2001, Chancellor of the Exchequer May 2010 – July 2016

Sam Houser (born 1971); president of Rockstar Games

Patrick Neate (born 1971); novelist

Sacha Tarter (born 1972); actor and screenwriter

Theo Hobson (born 1972); theorist

Jamie Bamber (born 1973); actor

Dan Houser (born 1974); vice-president of Rockstar Games

Simon Dennis (born 1976); rower and Olympic gold medalist

Rory Kinnear (born 1978); actor

Dan Snow (born 1978); journalist & television presenter

Robin Walker (born 1978); M.P. (Conservative) May 2010 – present

Blake Ritson (born 1980); actor

Tim Kash (born 1982); television presenter

Robin Ticciati (born 1983); conductor

Henry Lloyd-Hughes, (born 1985) actor

Charlie Fink (born 1986); musician and member of folk band Noah and the Whale

Winston Marshall (born 1988); musician and member of folk band Mumford & Sons

George Burgess (born 1992); entrepreneur, Founder and CEO of Gojimo

Victoria Cross holders

Three Old Paulines have been awarded the Victoria Cross.

Captain Randolph Cosby Nesbitt, VC, (1867–1956), British South Africa Police. Later promoted to Major during the South African War. Awarded for act that took place during the Mashona Rebellion (Rhodesia) of 1896–1897. (OP 1880–1882)

Major Cuthbert Bromley, VC, (1878–1915) 1st Lancashire Fusiliers. Awarded for act that took place during the First World War. (OP 1890–1895)

Major Oliver Cyril Spencer Watson, VC, DSO, (1876–1918), Yeomanry, attached King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. Later promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel. Awarded for act that took place during the First World War. (OP 1888-95)