List of Old Greshamians
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The following is a list of notable Old Greshamians, former pupils of Gresham's School, an independent coeducational boarding school in Holt, Norfolk, England.
Public life
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- James Allan – British High Commissioner in Mauritius and ambassador to MozambiqueLidell, Charles Lawrence Scruton & Douglas, A. B., The History and Register of Gresham's School, 1555-1954 (Ipswich, 1955)Old Greshamian Club Address Book (Cheverton & Son Ltd., Cromer, 1999)Who's Who 2003 (A. & C. Black, London, 2003)
- Duncan Baker (born 1979) – Conservative Member of Parliament.{{cite web |last1=Anderson |first1=Stuart |title=Profile of North Norfolk's new MP |url=https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/politics/north-norfolk-election-winner-2019-profile-duncan-baker-1-6423091 |website=Eastern Daily Press |accessdate=18 December 2019 |language=en |date=13 December 2019}}
- Jeremy Bamber (born 1961) - British convicted mass murderer, apprehended 29 September 1985. [http://www.Wikipedia.org/Jeremy_Bamber]
- Sir Eric Berthoud – British ambassador to Denmark and PolandOxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004)
- Robert Brightiffe (c. 1666–1749) barrister and Member of Parliament
- Derek Bryan – Diplomat, sinologist, writer
- Erskine Childers – fourth President of IrelandI Will Plant Me a Tree: an Illustrated History of Gresham's School by S.G.G. Benson and Martin Crossley Evans (James & James, London, 2002)Young, John N., Erskine H. Childers, President of Ireland: a Biography (Gerrards Cross and Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Colin Smythe, 1985, {{ISBN|978-0-86140-195-6}}), page 18
- Sir Stewart Crawford – diplomat
- Kenelm Hubert Digby (1912–2001), proposer of the notorious 1933 "King and Country" debate and later Attorney General and judge in Sarawak
- Bernard Floud – Labour politician
- Sir Cecil Graves – Director-General of the BBC
- Thomas George Greenwell – National Conservative member of parliament"Greenwell, Col. Thomas George", in Who Was Who (A. & C. Black, 1920–2008; [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U51650 online edition] by Oxford University Press, December 2007, accessed 3 December 2011 (subscription required)
- Sir Christopher Heydon – 16th century member of parliament
- Paul Howell – Conservative Member of the European Parliament for Norfolk
- Robert Lymbery - Common Serjeant of London
- Donald Maclean – diplomat and spy
- 11th Earl of Northesk – parliamentarian
- Terence O'Brien – British ambassador to Nepal, Burma and Indonesia
- John Playfair Price – diplomat, a President of the Oxford Union
- Laurance Reed – Conservative politician
- Lord Reith – first Director-General of the BBC – politician
- Wilfrid Roberts – Liberal politician
- Christian Schiller – HM Inspector of Schools
- 11th Lord Strabolgi – Labour politician
- Dr Thomas Stuttaford – Conservative politician and journalist
- C. G. H. Simon (1914–2002), Income Tax General Commissioner
- Lord Simon of Glaisdale – Conservative politician and law lord
- Lord Simon of Wythenshawe – socialist and journalist
- Sir Edward Blanshard Stamp – Lord Justice of Appeal
- Sir William Royden Stuttaford – President of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations"Stuttaford, Sir William (Royden)", in Who Was Who, A. & C. Black, 1920–2008, online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2007 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U182194 STUTTAFORD, Sir William (Royden)] (subscription site) accessed 5 January 2009
- Sir Gerald Thesiger – High Court JudgeBurke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, ed. Charles Mosley (107th edition, 3 volumes, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 759
- Sir John Tusa – Director of BBC World Service
- Lord Wilson of High Wray – governor of the BBC and Lord Lieutenant of Westmorland and of Cumbria[http://www.xreferplus.com/entry.jsp?xrefid=6209274 WILSON OF HIGH WRAY, Paul Norman Wilson, Baron cr 1976 (Life Peer), of Kendal, Cumbria]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} in Who's Who online at Credo Plus (accessed 30 November 2007)
- Sir Percy Wyn-Harris – governor of The Gambia
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Armed forces
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- General Sir Terence Airey – soldier, GOC Hong Kong
- Captain Joe Baker-Cresswell – Royal Navy officer, aide-de-camp to George VI
- Peter Beck – soldier and schoolmasterThe London Gazette dated 9 December 1938, [http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/34578/pages/7787/page.pdf p. 7,787]"PETER BECK Headmaster who caned Prince Charles — twice" (obituary) in The Times dated 4 June 2002, p. 27, from The Times Digital Archive, accessed 16 September 2013
- General Sir Robert Bray – Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe
- Sir Stephen Bull, 2nd Baronet – killed on active service in Java, 1942[http://www.credoreference.com/entry/6134351 "Bull, Sir Stephen John"] in Who Was Who 1897-2006, retrieved August 16, 2007
- Donald Cunnell – First World War fighter pilot
- Air Vice-Marshal Sir William Cushion – Royal Air Force officer and British Overseas Airways Corporation executive"Cushion, Air Vice-Marshal Sir William Boston", in Who Was Who, A. & C. Black
- Major-General Guy Gregson – soldierWho's Who 1969 (A. & C. Black, London, 1969)
- Sir Christopher Heydon – took part in the capture of Cádiz, 1596J. Venn and J. A. Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses: a biographical list of all known students, graduates, and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900, 2 pts in 10 vols.(1922–54); repr. in 2 vols.(1974–8)
- General Sir William Holmes – Second World War generalSpeech Days: A New Tradition At Gresham's in The Times, Monday, June 27, 1938, page 20
- Henry Howard – Second World War commander of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry"Lt. Colonel Henry Howard DSO MC" (obituary) in The Herald (Glasgow) dated 27 May 2000
- Brigadier Julian Jefferson, British Army officer{{cite news|url=https://www.greshams.com/wp-content/uploads/EDP_WW1CricketMatch_July2014.pdf|title=Former Gresham's Pupils Remembered in Centenary Match|last=Meddings|first=Sabah|date=2014-07-18|work=Eastern Daily Press|accessdate=2019-03-15}}
- Major-General John Lethbridge – soldier
- Rear Admiral Martin Lucey (1920–1992), Flag Officer, Scotland and Northern Ireland and Admiral President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich"Lucey, Rear-Adm. Martin Noel", in Who Was Who 1991–1995 (A. & C. Black, 1996)
- Major-General Patrick Marriott – Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst 2009–2012'MARRIOTT, Major-General Patrick Claude' in Who's Who 2012 (London: A. & C. Black, 2012)
- Rear-Admiral Brian Perowne – Chief of Fleet Support, Royal Navy'Perowne, Rear-Adm. (Benjamin) Brian (born 24 July 1947)' in Who's Who 2011 (A. & C. Black, 2011)
- Brigadier Sir Philip Toosey – Bridge on the River Kwai commander
- Tom Wintringham – soldier, military historian, journalist, poet, communist
- Major-General A. E. Younger – soldier
- Major General Alastair Duncan – soldier
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Church
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- John Astley – 18th-century Norfolk pluralistJohn Archibald Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses: Part II. 1752–1900, Vol. I (1940), [https://archive.org/details/p2alumnicantabri01univuoft/page/88/mode/2up p. 88]
- Edwin Boston – founder of the Cadeby Light Railway, "the Fat Clergyman" in the books of the Rev. W. AwdryScott, Peter, A History of the Alton Towers Railway: Including Other Railways & Transport [https://books.google.com/books?id=xsVyeQh3_GUC&dq=Boston&pg=PA68 Appendix Eight: Cadeby Light Railway] online at books.google.co.uk (accessed 13 April 2008)
- John Bradburne – Franciscan
- John Burrell (1762–1825), clergyman and entomologistJohn Venn, 'Burrell, John', in Alumni Cantabrigienses (Part II, 1752–1900, vol. I Abbey–Challis, 1940), unique identifier BRL779J
- John Daly – bishop of The Gambia, Accra, Korea and Taejon
- Colin Forrester-Paton – missionary and Chaplain to H.M. The Queen in Scotland
- Most Rev. David Hand – Archbishop of Papua New Guinea[http://www.smh.com.au/news/obituaries/gods-colourful-and-inspirational-soldier/2006/04/27/1145861482101.html God's colourful and inspirational soldier] Obituary in the Sydney Morning Herald, 28 April 2006 (accessed 21 October 2007)
- Dr John Johnson (1769–1833) – clergyman and editorCatharine Bodham Johnson, Introduction to Letters of Lady Hesketh to the Rev. John Johnson LL.D. (1901), pp. 5–7
- Peter Lee – bishop of the diocese of Christ the King, Johannesburg
- William Lubbock – 18th-century divine, Fellow of Caius College, Cambridge
- Charles Abdy Marcon – Master of Marcon's Hall, Oxford, 1891 to 1918'Marcon, Rev. Charles Abdy, M.A.' in Who's Who, vol. 60 (1908)
- John Moorman – Bishop of Ripon
- Thomas Pyle – 18th-century clergyman and writer
- Herbert Reeve – Church of England missionary and clergyman in New ZealandJohn Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses, Part II. 1752–1900, vol. v (1953), p. 268
- Robin Woods – Dean of Windsor and Bishop of Worcester
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Medicine
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- Richard Battle – plastic surgeon"Battle, Richard John Vulliamy" in Who Was Who 1897-2006, from [http://www.credoreference.com/entry/6128288 Battle, Richard John Vulliamy] (accessed 22 August 2007)
- Arthur Doyne Courtenay Bell – consultant paediatrician[https://history.rcplondon.ac.uk/inspiring-physicians/arthur-doyne-courtenay-bell "Arthur Doyne Courtenay Bell"], rcplondon.ac.uk, accessed 30 October 2023
- Roger Carpenter – neurophysiologist
- Major-General Joseph Crowdy – Commandant of the Royal Army Medical Corps
- Michael Fordham – psychiatrist
- Douglas Gairdner, paediatrician'D. M. T. Gairdner' (obituary) in British Medical Journal, vol. 304, no. 6839 (1992), [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1882198/pdf/bmj00075-0052.pdf p. 1438]
- Thomas Girdlestone – physician and writer
- John Grange – immunologist
- William Henry Kelson, physician, president of the Hunterian Society[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U212216 "Kelson, William Henry"] in Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2007; online edition by OUP, December 2007 (subscription required)accessed 23 August 2008
- Dermod MacCarthy – paediatrician"Dermod De La Chevallerie MacCarthy" in Munks Roll – Lives of the Fellows volume VIII, Royal College of Physicians, 2011, [http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/2843 page 300]
- William Rushton FRS – physiologist
- Thomas Stuttaford – doctor and politician
- Hugh Christian Watkins – cardiologist'WATKINS, Prof. Hugh Christian', in Who's Who 2012 (London: A. & C. Black, 2012)
- Anthony Yates – rheumatologist
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=Nobel Prize-winner=
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- Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin – Nobel Prize for Medicine, President of the Royal Society, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge
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Academics
=Arts=
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- John Bensusan-Butt – landscape painter"BENSUSAN-BUTT, John Gordon, landscape painter" in Bernard Dolman, ed., Who's Who in Art, Vol. 26 (Art Trade Press, 1994), p. 36
- Norman Cohn – historianNorman Cohn: Historian who drew parallels between apocalyptic medieval movements and Marxism and nazism, The Guardian (London, England) Obituary August 9, 2007
- Oliver Elton – literary critic, translator
- Boris Ford – literary critic, editor
- Alfred Gissing – biographer
- John Davy Hayward – editor and critic
- Andrew Hurrell - Professor of International Relations, Oxford University
- Michael Kitson – art historian
- James Klugmann – Communist historian
- 2nd Baron Lindsay of Birker – political scientist
- W. Wesley Pue – academic lawyer[http://faculty.law.ubc.ca/ilac/Profiles/pue.htm W. Wesley Pue (Canada)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706210837/http://faculty.law.ubc.ca/ilac/Profiles/pue.htm |date=2011-07-06 }}, profile at faculty.law.ubc.ca, accessed 17 July 2008
- Sir James Maude Richards – architectural historian
- E. Clive Rouse – archaeologist
- John Saltmarsh – historian
- Brian Simon – educational historian
- Peter J N Sinclair – economist
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=Sciences=
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- L. E. Baynes – aeronautical engineer
- Arnold Beck – electrical engineer, Professor of Engineering at Cambridge'BECK, Prof. Arnold Hugh William', in Who's Who 1997 (London: A. & C. Black, 1997)'CONTRIBUTORS: Arnold Hugh William Beck' in New Scientist, issue dated 19 September 1963 (Vol. 19, no. 357), [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0b0LymLjLD0C&pg=PA627#v=onepage&q&f=false|p. 627]
- David Bensusan-Butt – economist
- Derek Bryan – sinologist
- Anthony Bull – transport engineer
- Sir Henry Clay, 6th Baronet – engineer
- Sir Christopher Cockerell – inventor of the hovercraft
- Nicholas Day - statistician and epidemiologist
- James Durrant - FRS Professor of Photochemistry, Imperial College
- C. H. Gimingham – botanist
- Dr Hildebrand Hervey FRS – marine biologist
- Sir John Hammond – agricultural research scientist
- Ian Hepburn, botanist and schoolteacher{{cite journal|last1=Walter|first1=S. M.|title=Ian Hepburn|journal=Nature in Cambridgeshire|date=1975|volume=18|pages=4–5|url=http://www.natureincambridgeshire.org.uk/volumes/nature-in-cambs-vol-18-1975.pdf|publisher=Cambridgshire and Isle of Ely Naturalists' Trust Ltd |accessdate=25 June 2017}}
- Harry Hodson – economist
- G. Evelyn Hutchinson – zoologist
- Bryan Keith-Lucas – political scientist
- David Keith-Lucas – aeronautical engineer
- David Lack – evolutionary biologist
- David Layton – economist and industrial relations specialistAlastair Hatchett, [https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/sep/29/david-layton-obituary David Layton obituary] in The Guardian dated 29 September 2009
- Dr Colin Leakey – botanist
- Maurice Lister – chemist
- Jonathan Partington – mathematician
- Frank Perkins – engineer
- Henry Snaith - FRS Professor of Physics, Oxford University
- Christopher Strachey – computer scientist
- Sir Owen Wansbrough-Jones – chemist, weapons research scientist
- Sir Martin Wood – engineer
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Writers
=Poets=
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- W. H. Auden – poet
- John Henry Colls, 18th century poetChambers, John, ed., A General History of the County of Norfolk Volume II (Norwich & London, 1829) pp. 781-782
- Andrew Jefford – poet and wine writer[http://www.andrewjefford.com/cv.htm Andrew Jefford CV] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070913140818/http://www.andrewjefford.com/cv.htm |date=2007-09-13 }} at andrewjefford.com (accessed 15 October 2007)
- Michael Laskey – poet[http://www.michael-laskey.co.uk/#bio Biography of Michael Laskey] at michael-laskey.co.uk (accessed 9 September 2007)
- John Pudney – poet and novelist
- Sir Stephen Spender – poet
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=Novelists=
=Journalists=
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- Matt Arnold – journalist and television presenter
- Bruce Belfrage - BBC Radio newsreader and actor
- Cedric Belfrage – journalist and author
- Mark Brayne – BBC foreign correspondent and psychotherapistDebrett's People of Today 2011, p. 189
- Rupert Hamer – journalist killed in Afghanistan
- Alastair Hetherington – journalist, editor of The Guardian
- Paddy O'Connell – journalist and main presenter of BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House
- Edmund Rogers – journalist
- Philip Pembroke Stephens – journalist
- Sir John Tusa – BBC journalist
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=Other=
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- Maurice Ash – environmentalist writer
- Sir Christopher Heydon – 17th century writer on astrology
- Lady Flora McDonnell – children's author
- Pat Simon – wine writer and Master of Wine[http://www.masters-of-wine.org/MembersWhoAre.aspx Pat Simon at Masters of Wine] (accessed 8 September 2007)
- Kenneth Taylor – television scriptwriterInternational Who's Who 2004, [https://books.google.com/books?id=jn_GG55gKm8C&dq=Taylor&pg=PA1658 p. 1658] at books.google.com, accessed 10 January 2009
- William Osborne — screenwriter
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Music
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- Richard Austin – conductor"Austin, Richard", in Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2007; online edition by Oxford University Press (subscription required) December 2007: [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U161620 AUSTIN, Richard], accessed 23 August 2008
- Benjamin Britten, Lord Britten of Aldeburgh – composer
- Sir Lennox Berkeley – composer
- Richard Hand – classical guitarist[http://www.richardhand.net/ Biography at richardhand.net] official web site (accessed 8 September 2007)
- Christopher J. Monckton – organist and conductor
- Heathcote Dicken Statham – composer and organist
- George Stiles – composer
- Roderick Watkins – composer
- Hammond Witherley – singer"Witherley, Hammond" in C. L. S. Linnell, History and Register of Gresham's School 1555–1954 (Ipswich: W. S. Cowell Ltd, 1955), p. 39
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Artists
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- Michael Cummings – cartoonist
- Richard Chopping – book cover illustrator, painter and novelist [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/richard-chopping-versatile-illustrator-best-known-for-his-distinctive-bond-book-jackets-813974.html Richard Chopping: Versatile illustrator best known for his distinctive Bond book jackets – Obituaries, News – The Independent]
- William Lionel Clause, landscape artist[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U223830, "Clause, William Lionel"]{{Dead link|date=March 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} in Who Was Who 1920–2007; online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2007, accessed 6 May 2008
- Sir Philip Dowson – architect and president of the Royal Academy
- Edward Frank Gillett – sporting artist[https://suffolkartists.co.uk/index.cgi?choice=painter&pid=270 GILLETT Edward Frank 1874-1927] at suffolkartists.co.uk, accessed 27 March 2019
- Robert Medley RA – artist
- Ben Nicholson, OM – artist
- Christopher Nicholson – architect
- Christopher Perkins – artist
- Humphrey Spender – photographer"Humphrey Spender: Artist whose photographs of the working classes became regarded as an invaluable historical record", The Daily Telegraph (London, England) March 15, 2005, from [http://find.galegroup.com/itx/start.do?prodId=SPN.SP00 "Humphrey Spender"] at Newspapers Online Gale (accessed 22 August 2007)
- Tony Tuckson – artist
- Charles Mayes Wigg – artist
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Sport
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- Giles Baring – cricketer
- Glyn Barnett – rifleman, Commonwealth Games gold medallist 2006
- Tom Bourdillon – mountaineerAudrey Salkeld, "Bourdillon, Thomas Duncan (1924–1956)" in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edition, 2007)
- Gawain Briars – British No. 1 squash player
- 11th Earl of Northesk – Olympic medallist (skeleton, 1928)
- Andrew Corran – cricketer
- Peter Croft – cricketer and Olympic field hockey player
- Matthew Dickinson – mountaineer and adventurer
- Dennis Eagan – field hockey player, bronze medallist in the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Natasha Firman – Formula Woman racing driver
- Ralph Firman – Formula One racing driver
- Julian Jefferson – cricketer
- Richard Leman – hockey player and Olympic gold medallist
- Peter Lloyd – mountaineer
- Richard Millman - Squash national champion and coach
- Andy Mulligan – captain of Ireland and the British and Irish Lions Rugby XV
- Tom Percival (1943–1984) – powerboat racer
- Ben Pienaar – rugby union player and Junior National Champion at judo[http://www.tigers.co.uk/9660_3255.php Ben Pienaar] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071123100606/http://www.tigers.co.uk/9660_3255.php |date=2007-11-23 }} at Leicester Tigers profiles online (accessed 20 February 2008)
- Harry Simmons – rugby footballer
- Pat Symonds – Formula One racing
- Nick Youngs – England rugby union footballer
- Ben Youngs – England Rugby Team, British Lion and member of Leicester Tigers and Heineken Cup medal winner
- Tom Youngs – England Rugby Team, British Lion
- Sir Percy Wyn-Harris – mountaineer
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Performing arts
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- Kat Alano – model, actress[http://www.katalano.com/profile.html Biography of Kat Alano] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929154123/http://www.katalano.com/profile.html |date=2007-09-29 }} at her official web site, katalano.com (accessed 5 September 2007)
- Michael Aldridge – actor
- Bruce Belfrage – actor, news reader, politician
- Peter Brook – theatre director
- Olivia Colman (Sarah Colman) – actress
- Michael Culver – actor"Michael Culver", Movie Database, accessed 9 February 2023
- Henry Daniell – actor
- Nigel Dick – music video and film director
- Stephen Frears – film director
- Sienna Guillory – actress
- Geoffrey Gwyther – singer, actor, and song-writerNathan Waring, "Gresham's", in Bernarr Rainbow, Andrew Morris, Music in Independent Schools (2014), [https://books.google.com/books?id=CRMABQAAQBAJ&pg=PA270 p. 270]
- Julian Jarrold – television and film director
- Ben Mansfield – actor
- Robert Mawdesley – actor
- Bill Mason – documentary film maker
- Paddy O'Connell – television presenter
- Miranda Raison – actress
- Sebastian Shaw – actor
- Patrick Waddington – actor
- Peter Whitbread – actor and scriptwriter
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Business
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- Sir Harold Atcherley – Royal Dutch Shell executive; Chairman of Tyzack & Partners[https://www.ukwhoswho.com/display/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-5916 "Atcherley, Sir Harold Winter"] in Who's Who online, accessed 21 October 2023 {{subscription required}}
- Randal McDonnell, 10th Earl of Antrim – Chairman of Sarasin and Partners LLP"DUNLUCE, Viscount" in Lucy Hume, ed., Debrett's People of Today (London: Debrett's, 2017), p. 1882
- Sir James Dyson – inventor and entrepreneur
- Sir Nigel Foulkes –Chairman of the British Airports Authority and the Civil Aviation Authority[https://www.ukwhoswho.com/display/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-16236 "Foulkes, Sir Nigel (Gordon)" in Who's Who online, accessed 21 October 2023 {{subscription required}}
- Anthony Habgood – Chairman of Court, Bank of England. Chairman of Reed Elsevier and past chairman Whitbread
- Sir Robin Ibbs – banker'IBBS, Sir (John) Robin', in Who's Who 2009, A. & C. Black, London, 2008
- Charles Kearley – property developer and art collector
- Sir Christopher Howes – chief executive of the Crown Estate
- Sir William Stuttaford – stockbroker and business man
- John L. Marden – Chairman of Wheelock and Marden Co. Ltd
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Other
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- Robert Aagaard – furniture maker and founder of the youth movement Cathedral Camps"[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U4890 Aagaard, Robert]", in Who Was Who, A. & C. Black, 1920–2007; online edition by Oxford University Press, December 2007: (subscription required), accessed 10 August 2008
- Theodore Acland – headmaster of Norwich School"[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U233888 Acland, Rev. Theodore William Gull]", in Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2007; online edition by Oxford University Press, December 2007 (subscription required), accessed 23 August 2008
- Sir John Agnew, 6th Baronet – landowner, festivals organizer
- Sir George Anthony Agnew, 7th Baronet – landowner
- Jeremy Bamber – convicted murdererAllison, Eric. [https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/apr/26/jeremy-bamber-murder-appeal-thrown-out?newsfeed=true "Jeremy Bamber murder appeal bid thrown out], The Guardian, 26 April 2012.Powell, Claire, Murder at White House Farm (Headline Book Publishing, 1994)
- Bill Bell – chief legal adviser to Lloyds Bank[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/army-obituaries/9814456/Colonel-Bill-Bell.html Colonel Bill Bell], from The Daily Telegraph dated 20 January 2013, accessed 3 February 2013
- Thomas Blanco White QC, British patent lawyer
- John Bradbury, 3rd Baron Bradbury
- Martin Burgess FSA – master clockmaker
- Rupert Byron, 11th Baron ByronByron, Rupert Frederick George Byron in Who Was Who 1897-2006 online, from [http://www.credoreference.com/entry/6135341 Byron, Rupert Frederick George Byron] (accessed 22 August 2007)
- Trevor Roberts, 2nd Baron Clwyd"[http://www.credoreference.com/entry/6138957 Clywd, John Trevor Roberts]" in Who Was Who 1897-2006 online, from(accessed 22 August 2007)
- Anthony Coke, 6th Earl of LeicesterWho's Who 1993 (A. & C. Black, London, 1993)
- Sir Weldon Dalrymple-Champneys CB DM FRCP
- David W. Doyle – CIA officer and author{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}
- James Halman (died 1702), Master of Gonville and Caius College, CambridgeVenn, James, Biographical History of Gonville and Caius College vol. 1 (Cambridge, 1898) [https://books.google.com/books?id=0m08AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA110 p. 110] at books.google.com, accessed 27 January 2009
- Christopher Newbury – Council of Europe[http://www.westwilts-communityweb.com/site/Christopher-Newbury/CV.htm Biography] at westwilts-communityweb.com (accessed 5 September 2007)
- John Carnegie, 12th Earl of Northesk"Northesk, 12th Earl of" in Who Was Who, A. & C. Black, 1920–2007; online edition by Oxford University Press, December 2007 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U158040 NORTHESK, 12th Earl of], accessed 11 August 2008
- Ian Proctor – yacht designer
- 8th Baron Suffield[http://www.xreferplus.com/entry.jsp?xrefid=6199904 "Suffield, John Harbord, 8th baron"]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} in Who Was Who 1897-2006 (A. & C. Black, London)
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In fiction
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Among fictional OGs, John Mortimer's television barrister Rumpole sent his son Nick to the school during the 1970s.
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Notable Gresham's masters
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- Logie Bruce Lockhart – Scotland rugby footballer, headmaster
- Warin Foster Bushell – later headmaster of Michaelhouse and Birkenhead School and president of the Mathematical AssociationBUSHELL, Warin Foster, in Who Was Who 1897-2007 online, retrieved 24 May 2008 from [http://www.credoreference.com/entry/7335507 BUSHELL, Warin Foster] (2008).
- Antony R. Clark – headmaster since 2002, first-class cricketer
- C. V. Durell – writer of mathematics textbooks
- Graeme Fife – writer – playwright and broadcaster
- Walter Greatorex – composer
- Dalziel Llewellyn Hammick – research chemistDalziel Llewellyn Hammick, 1887–1966 by E. J. Bowen in Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, vol. 13, November 1967, pp. 107–124.
- John Holmes – writer of textbooks on grammar, rhetoric and astronomy
- George Howson – headmaster, 1900-1919
- Charles W. Lloyd – Master of Dulwich CollegeWho's Who 1997 (A. & C. Black, London, 1997) p. 1186.
- Frank McEachran – authorAccording to W. H. Auden's The Map of All My Youth (Clarendon Press, 1990, p. 117), McEachran arrived at Gresham's as a master in September 1924. His books include The Civilized Man (1930), The Destiny of Europe (1932), The Life and Philosophy of Johann Gottfried Herder (1939), Freedom – The Only End, Spells for Poets, and More Spells.
- Geoffrey Shaw – organist and composer[http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Shaw-Geoffrey.htm Geoffrey Shaw (Composer, Arranger)].
- Patrick Thompson – Conservative Member of Parliament
- Hugh Wright – Headmaster 1985–1991, later Chairman of the Headmasters' Conference
- Professor Richard D'Aeth (later Master of Hughes Hall, Cambridge)Professor Richard D'Aeth, obituary in The Independent dated May 5, 2008.
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Notable governors of the school
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- Graham George Able, 2013–2020"Able, Graham George (born 28 July 1947)" in Who's Who, online edition, accessed 30 October 2023 {{subscription required}}
- Theodore Dyke Acland"Acland, Theodore Dyke (14 Nov. 1851–16 April 1931), Consulting Physician" in Who's Who, online edition, accessed 30 October 2023 {{subscription required}}
- A. C. BensonThe Times newspaper, October 22, 1906, p. 6, col. C
- Field Marshal Sir Evelyn WoodJ. R. Eccles, One Hundred Terms at Gresham's School (1934)
- Sir Richard Carew Pole, 13th BaronetWho Was Who
- Pauline Perry, Baroness Perry of Southwark'Baroness Perry of Southwark' in House of Lords Register of Interests
- Sir Angus Stirling'Stirling, Sir Angus (Duncan Æneas)' in Who's Who 2009 (A. & C. Black, London, 2008) {{ISBN|978-0-7136-7164-3}}
- David Cairns, 5th Earl Cairns
- Anthony Duckworth-Chad
- Anne, Princess Royal
- James Dyson
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See also
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References
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