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[edit] Academia
- Stewart Adams - Inventor of Ibuprofen
- Professor Bob Boucher - Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield
- Professor Arthur Carty - National Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of Canada
- Sir Bernard Crossland - President of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers
- Professor Louis Essen - physicist
- Sir Clive Granger - 2003 Nobel Laureate, Economics
- Gerald Hawkins - Professor of astronomy, noted for his interest in Stonehenge
- Sir Brian Heap - Master of St Edmund's College, Cambridge, and former Vice-President of the Royal Society
- Professor Reginald Hugh Hickling - Lawyer, colonial civil servant, law academic and author
- Emma J King - physicist & science communicator
- JProfessor James Kinsley - a professor of linguistics who was called as an expert witness in a case about the use of the word 'bollocks' in the Sex Pistols' album title 'Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols'
- Lord Lewis of Newnham - chemist
- Sir Keith O'Nions - geologist, Director-General UK Research Councils
- Professor Austin Quigley - Dean, Columbia College of Columbia University
- Roger Tomlinson - "Father of GIS"
- Professor Ian Wilmut - embryologist who managed the team who cloned Dolly the sheep
- Rev Dr Riad Kassis - Lebanese/Syrian theologian specializing in the Old Testament
[edit] Arts and media
- Matthew Bannister - BBC broadcaster and administrator
- Professor Robert Brustein - Harvard English professor, founder of Yale University repertory theatre and the American Repertory theatre
- Michael Coren - author and broadcaster
- Ian Dickson - judge of Australian Idol
- Graham Fitkin - composer
- Daniel Gerroll - actor
- Elliott Gotkine - BBC South America correspondent
- Haydn Gwynne - actress
- Chris Hawkins - radio personality
- Oliver James - Psychologist and TV presenter
- Colin Matthews - composer
- James Moir - former controller of BBC Radio 2
- Richard Northedge - business journalist
- Jeff Randall - Daily Telegraph editor-at-large and Sky television presenter
- James Robinson - The Observer media correspondent
- |Tracie]] - pop singer
- Ruth Wilson - actress
- Helen Willetts - BBC weather presenter
- Alasdair Grant - Actor - Golden Globe winner for "Rasputin" (1996)
- Tim Walklate - Musician - pioneered creating music on mobiles, famous for the song 'Arabian Hedgehogs'
[edit] Business
- Jonathan Browning - Chairman, Vauxhall Motors
- Michael Carpenter - Chairman & CEO, Citigroup Global Investments
- John Coomber - CEO, Swiss Re
- Kuok Khoon Ean]] - Chairman, South China Morning Post
- Anne Gunther - CEO, Standard Life
- Keith Hamill - Chairman, Moss Bros, Go Airline, Collins Stewart and Luminar
- Michael Hodgkinson|Sir Michael Hodgkinson]] - Chairman, Post Office Ltd; former CEO, BAA Plc
- Clive Hollick - Former owner of United News
- Judith McHale - President and CEO, Discovery Communications
- Tim Martin - Chairman of Wetherspoons
- Oliver Pawle - Vice-Chairman of UBS Investment Bank
- Sir Robert Phillis - Chief Executive, Guardian Media Group
- Peter Rice - President, Fox Searchlight Pictures
- John Timpson - Chairman, Timpson
- Andrew Witty - CEO, Glaxo Smithkline
[edit] International politics and royalty
- Rt. Hon Peter Ala Adjetey - Speaker of the Ghanaian Parliament
- Zainab Bangura - Human rights campaigner, former Sierra Leone Presidential Candidate
- Najib Tun Razak|Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak - Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia
- His Majesty Sultan Tuanku Ja'afar, Tenth Yang di-Pertuan Agong, King of Malaysia, Yang Dipertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan
- His Majesty Sultan Raja Azlan Shah - Ninth King of Malaysia, Sultan of Perak
- Tengku Tan Sri Ahmad Rithaudden - former Minister of Defence of Malaysia
- Tuanku Bahiyah - the fifth Queen of Malaysia
- Tun Dato Seri Dr. Haji Hamdan Bin Sheik Tahir - Governor of Penang province, Malaysia
- Tunku Tan-Sri Imran ibni Tuanku Jaafar - Prince of Negeri Sembilan, President of the Olympic Council of Malaysia
- Zara Salim Davidson - tha Crown Princess of Perak and the grandniece of the first Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman.
[edit] Members of UK Parliament, as of 2005
- Jeremy Browne MP - Liberal Democrat
- Parmjit Dhanda MP - Labour
- David Drew MP - Labour
- John Henry Hayes MP - Conservative
- Jimmy Hood MP - Labour
- Kelvin Hopkins MP - Labour
- Tony Lloyd MP - Labour, former Minister of State at the Foreign Office
- Meg Munn MP - Labour, Minister for Women and Equality
- John Pugh MP - Liberal Democrat
- Angela Smith MP - Labour
- Dari Taylor MP - Labour
- Paddy Tipping MP - Labour
- Bob Allcock, Solicitor General, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government
- Richard Best, Baron Best|Lord Best of Godmanstone]] - Director, Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Andrew Colquhoun - Director-General, The Royal Horticultural Society
- Frank Halford - aircraft engine designer
- Sir Anthony Holland - Chairman of Northern Ireland Parades Commission
- The Rt Revd and Rt Hon. Lord Hope of Thornes - former Archbishop of York|Lord Archbishop of York
- The Rt Hon. Sylvia, Baroness Jay of Ewelme - Director-General, Food and Drink Federation
- Air Vice Marshal Johnnie Johnson - pilot, Second World War flying ace
- Mary Marsh - Director of the NSPCC
- John Monks - Former General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress
- Dame Helen Reeves - Chief Executive of Victim Support
- Sir John Sawers - Diplomat
- Sir Richard Tilt - Social Fund Commissioner, former Director General HM Prison Service
- Sir Mike Tomlinson - Chief Inspector of Schools
- Greville Wynne - British spy, imprisoned by the KGB
- Kristan Bromley - Bob Skeleton World Cup winner 2003/2004
- Sir Denis Follows - General Secretary, The Football Association and Chairman, British Olympic Association
- Brian Moore - England rugby player
- Deryck Murray - Former Trinidad and Tobago and West Indies wicketkeeper
- Lynn Simpson - Former world champion canoeist
- Deng Yaping - four times Olympic table tennis champion, voted Chinese female athlete of the century
- Campbell Walsh - Athens 2004 Canoe Slalom(K1)Olympic Silver medilist, and Canoe Slalom World Cup Champion 2004
- Keith Wyness - Chief Executive, Everton FC
- Edward Shield - Former junior world champion, ten pin bowling
- Lawrence Palk - Former World Champion Surfer (Fiji, 1998). Nickname - Crazy Larry
- Matt Smith - Leicester Tigers rugby player
[edit] Writers
- Meena Alexander - writer and poet
- Christopher Bigsby - novelist and literary critic
- Peter Boardman - mountaineer and writer
- Michael Bracewell - novelist
- Idris Davies - poet
- Jill Dawson - novelist
- Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal - novelist
- John Harvey - crime writer
- Michael Hirst - screenwriter, Elizabeth
- Alan Jones (priest), author and Dean of Grace Cathedral, San Francisco
- Bert Keizer - author of Dancing with Mister D: Notes on Life and Death
- D. H. Lawrence - novelist
- Stanley Middleton - novelist, winner of the Booker Prize
- Blake Morrison - novelist, poet, critic and journalist
- Michael Scammell - biographer, translator, Professor of Writing at Columbia University