List of Old Salopians is a list of some of the many notable alumni of Shrewsbury School, a leading UK independent boarding and day school in Shrewsbury, in Shropshire, England. They have excelled or gained fame in such fields as business, culture, the military, politics, science, or sport.
Francis William Lauderdale Adams (1862–1893), writer
John Adams, (before 1670−1738), cartographer
Sir Thomas Adams, 1st Baronet (1586–1668), Lord Mayor of the City of London 1654–65
John Langshaw Austin (1911-1960), philosopher of language, White's Professor of Moral Philosophy
William Henry Bateson, (1812–1881), college head
Sir Cecil Beadon (1816–1880), administrator in India
Henry Edward James Bevan (1854–1935), Archdeacon of Middlesex
Tim Bewley, High Court judge, Hong Kong
Christopher Booker, journalist
Tim Booth, lead singer of the band James
John Breynton (1719–1799), minister and missionary in Nova Scotia
John Brockbank, (1848–1896), footballer who played for England as a forward in the first international match against Scotland.
Peter Brown, historian of Late Antiquity, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
Samuel Browne, (1574/5–1632), Church of England clergyman
Donald Boumphrey MC, (1892–1971), cricketer, educator and British Army officer
Charles Burney (1726–1814), music historian
Omar 'Ali Bolkiah (1986–), Crown Prince of the Sultanate of Brunei
Samuel Butler (1835–1902), iconoclastic author of Erewhon and The Way of All Flesh.
Philip Campbell Editor in Chief of Nature
George Sidney Roberts Kitson Clark (1900–1975), historian
William George Clark (1821–1878), literary and classical scholar
William Clarke (1695–1771), antiquary
Richard Charles Cobb (1917–1996), historian and essayist
Edward Meredith Cope (1818–1873), classical scholar
Edward Corbet, (1601x3–1658), Anglican clergyman
John Corbet (Corbett) (1609–1670), politician and judge
Sir Randolph Crewe (Crew) (bap. 1559, d. 1646), judge
Julian Critchley (1930–2000), politician
Henry Page Croft, 1st Baron Croft (1881–1947), politician
Francis Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 8th Baron Thurlow (1912–2013), diplomat
Roualeyn Cumming-Bruce (1912–2000), judge
Charles Darwin (1809–1882), naturalist, geologist, and originator of the theory of natural selection
Peter Davis (1941–), former chairman Sainsbury's
Francis Day (1829–1889), military surgeon and ichthyologist
Paul Edward Dehn (1912–1976), writer and film critic
Miles Dempsey (1896–1969), army officer
Hal Dixon (1928–2008), biochemist and Vice Provost of King's College Cambridge
John Freeman Milward Dovaston, (1782–1854), naturalist and poet
Andrew Downes (c.1549–1628), Greek scholar
Sir Henry Edward Leigh Dryden, Fourth Baronet of Ambrosden, Seventh Baronet of Canons-Ashby, archaeologist and antiquary
Humphrey Edwards (1582–1658), politician and regicide
Alexander John Ellis (formerly Sharpe), (1814–1890), phonetician and mathematician
Sir (Robert) Charles Evans (1918–1995), surgeon and mountaineer
William Addams Williams Evans (1853–1919), Wales international footballer
Freddie Fisher (1985–), Big Brother 10 contestant
Paul Foot (1937-2004), journalist
James Fraser (1818–1885), bishop of Manchester
Abraham Fraunce (France) (1559?–1592/3?), poet and lawyer
David Gay MC (1920–2010), British Army officer awarded the Military Cross in World War II, cricketer, and educator
Arthur Herman Gilkes (1849–1922), headmaster, Dulwich College
Geoffrey Green (1911–1990), football writer
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court (1554–1628), courtier and author
Sir George Abraham Grierson (1851–1941), administrator in India and philologist
George Gore (1675–1753) Attorney-General for Ireland
Henry Melvill Gwatkin (1844–1916), historian and theologian
Nick Hancock (1962–), actor and TV presenter
John Hanmer (1575/6–1629), bishop of St Asaph
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook (1814–1906), politician
Thomas Emerson Headlam (1813–1875), barrister and politician
William Henry Herford (1820–1908), educationist
Michael Heseltine (1933–), politician
Richard Henry Heslop (alias Xavier) (1907–1973), army officer and resistance organiser
Sir Thomas Hewett, (1656–1726), architect and landowner
Edward Hewetson (1902-1977) cricketer
Sir John Tomlinson Hibbert (1824–1908), politician
James Hildyard, (1809–1887), classical scholar
Richard Hillary (1919–1943), air force officer and author
Hubert Ashton Holden (1822–1896), classical scholar
William Walsham How (1823–1897), bishop of Wakefield
Robert Hudson (1920–2010), BBC broadcaster and administrator
James Humphreys (1768–1830), law reformer
Sir Travers Humphreys (1867–1956), judge
Brian St John Inglis (1916–1993), journalist
Richard Ingrams (1939- ), journalist
Andrew Irvine (1902–1924), mountaineer
Frederick John Jackson (1860–1929), colonial governor and naturalist
William Godfrey Fothergill Jackson (1917–1999), army officer and military historian
George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys (1645–1689), judge
(William) Basil Jones (1822–1897), bishop of St David's
John Jones of Gellilyfdy (before 1585 − in or before 1658), copyist and manuscript collector
Sir Thomas Jones (1614–1692), judge and law reporter
Thomas Jones (1756–1807), college teacher
Benjamin Hall Kennedy (1804–1889), headmaster and classical scholar
Charles Rann Kennedy (1808–1867), lawyer and classical scholar
Bryan King (1811–1895), Church of England clergyman
Lord Lane (1918–2005), Law Lord, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
Richard Law, 1st Baron Coleraine (1901–1980), politician
Aubrey Trevor Lawrence (1875–1930), barrister and author
Sir William Leighton (c.1565–1622), poet and composer
Herbert Mortimer Luckock (1833–1909), dean of Lichfield
Sir Daniel Lysons (1816–1898), army officer
Humphrey Mackworth (1603–1654), member of Shropshire parliamentary committee in English Civil War, governor of Shrewsbury, member of Protector's Council, MP
Thomas Mackworth (1627–1696), Parliamentarian soldier and MP
Humphrey Mackworth (1631–?), military governor of Shrewsbury under Protectorate, MP
Richard Madox (1546–1583), Church of England clergyman and diarist
George Augustus Chichester May (1815–1892), judge
Terry Milewski, journalist
George Osborne Morgan (1826–1897), lawyer and politician
Henry Whitehead Moss (1841–1917), headmaster 1866–1908
Gerard Moultrie (1829–1885), third master, chaplain, hymnographer
Douglas Muggeridge Controller, BBC Radio 1 between 1968 and 1976
Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro (1819–1885), classical scholar
Christopher Nevinson (1889-1946), artist
Henry Woodd Nevinson (1856–1941), social activist and journalist
Charles Thomas Newton (bap. 1816, d. 1894), archaeologist
Nevil Shute Norway (1899–1960), novelist as Nevil Shute and aeronautical engineer
Sir Charles Oakeley, 1st Baronet (1751–1826), administrator in India
William Chichester O'Neill, 1st Baron O'Neill (1813–1883), Church of Ireland clergyman and composer
Julian Orchard (1930–1979), film and television actor
Sir Roger Ormrod (1911–1992), judge
Sir Francis Ottley (1601–1649), royalist politician and soldier, military governor of Shrewsbury
Richard Ottley (1626–1670), royalist soldier and Restoration MP
Hugh Owen (1760–1827), Church of England clergyman and antiquary
Thomas Owen (d. 1598), judge
Thomas Ethelbert Page (1850–1936), classicist
Bernard Charles Tolver Paget (1887–1961), army officer
Edward Francis Paget (1886–1971), archbishop of central Africa
Francis Paget (1851–1911), bishop of Oxford
Stephen Paget (1855–1926), writer and pro-vivisection campaigner
Frederick Apthorp Paley (1815–1888), classical scholar and writer
Michael Palin, CBE (1943– ), member of Monty Python comedy troupe, writer, actor and world traveller
John Peel (1939–2004), DJ and journalist
Sir Nicholas Penny (1949- ), art historian, Director of the National Gallery
Lieutenant General Sir Arthur Purves Phayre GCMG KCSI CB, British Indian Army officer; 1st Commissioner of British Burma (1862–1867) and Governor of Mauritius (1874–1878)
Ambrose Philips (bap. 1674, d. 1749), poet and playwright
John Arthur Pilcher (1912–1990), diplomatist
(Henry) Graham Pollard (1903–1976), bookseller and bibliographer
Sir Thomas Powys (1649–1719), judge and politician
Henry Cecil Raikes (1838–1891), politician
Martin Rees (President of Royal Society, Astronomer Royal, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge)
John Hamilton Reynolds (1794–1852), poet
George Rudé (1910–1993), British Marxist Historian
Willie Rushton (1937–1996), cartoonist, comedian, founder of Private Eye
Ed Reardon fictional character
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (1633–1695)
Desmond Shawe-Taylor (1907–1995), music critic
Desmond Shawe-Taylor (1955- ), art historian, Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures
Nevil Shute (1899–1960), writer
Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586), poet, courtier and soldier
Sandy Singleton (1914–1999), cricketer
John Stuttard (1945– ), Lord Mayor of the City of London 2006–07
John Taylor (bap. 1704, d. 1766), classical scholar and Church of England clergyman
Oliver Thomas (1599/1600–1652), nonconformist minister and author
William Thomson (1819–1890), archbishop of York
Godfrey Thring (1823–1903), hymn writer
Henry Thring, 1st Baron Thring (1818–1907), parliamentary draftsman
J. C. Thring, Together with Henry de Winton, he published the Cambridge rules which formed the basis of Association football
Richard Todd (1919 – 2009), Actor
Anthony Chenevix-Trench (1919–1979), headmaster of Eton College and Fettes College
Sir Thomas Trevor (c.1573–1656), judge
James Taylor (cricketer) (1990–)
Sir William Vaughan (d. 1649), royalist army officer
Alan Wace (1879–1957), archaeologist
Henry Wace (1853–1947), England international footballer
Henry William Rawson Wade (1918–2004), academic lawyer
Graham Wallas (1858–1932), political psychologist and educationist
John Wood Warter (1806–1878), Church of England clergyman and antiquary
John Weaver (1673–1760), dancer and choreographer
Stanley J. Weyman (1855–1928), novelist
Edgar Whitehead (1905–1971), prime minister of Rhodesia
Charles Wicksteed (1810–1885), Unitarian minister
Sir Kyffin Williams (1918–2006), Landscape & Portrait Artist
Sir William Williams (1633/4–1700), lawyer and politician
Dare Wilson (1919-2014), SAS officer who introduced attack helicopters to the British military
H. de Winton
John Wylie, (1854–1924), 1878 FA Cup winner and England international
Charles Edward Yate (1849–1940), administrator in India and politician
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