- Source: List of Old Uppinghamians
Alumni of Uppingham School are known as Old Uppinghamians.
Uppingham School is a co-educational independent school situated in the small market town of Uppingham, in Rutland, England. The school was founded in 1584 by Robert Johnson, the Archdeacon of Leicester, who also established Oakham School.
Notable former pupils include:
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Patrick Abercrombie, architect and town planner
William Mitchell Acworth, British railway economist, barrister and politician
Robert Adley, Member of Parliament for Bristol North East and Christchurch
Crispin Agnew, Rothesay Herald and former explorer and mountaineer.
Jonathan Agnew, England, Leicestershire cricketer and chief cricket correspondent for BBC Radio (The Lodge)
John Aldam Aizlewood, Major-General, British Army officer in World War I and World War II
John Aldridge, Royal Academician
Anthony Armstrong, author, essayist, dramatist
Anthony Nightingale, Taipan
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Tristan Ballance, cricketer
Hagan Bayley, Prof. of Chemical Biology, Oxford University and inventor
Adrian Bell, author of Corduroy
Robin Blaze, countertenor
Brian Boobbyer, England rugby player and evangelist for Moral Re-Armament
Thomas George Bonney, geologist
Ernle Bradford, historian and writer
Katie Breathwick, broadcaster, Classic FM
Edward Brittain, younger brother of Vera Brittain, whose stories are told in her autobiography Testament of Youth (The Lodge)
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Everard Calthrop, railway engineer and inventor
Donald Campbell, World Land and Water Speed record holder, killed on Coniston Water in Bluebird (West Deyne)
Sir Malcolm Campbell, holder of World Land and Water Speed records in 1920s and 1930s (West Deyne)
Archie Cochrane, medic, researcher and pioneer of evidence-based medicine
Holden Chow, solicitor and politician, vice-chairman of the Democratic Alliance of the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB).
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Johnny Dawes, rock climber
Adrian Dixon, Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge University
Eric Dorman-Smith, British Army officer and Irish nationalist
Stephen Dorrell, Health Secretary 1995–97
Norman Douglas, novelist and travel writer
Charles Dunstone, co-founder of Carphone Warehouse (Lorne House)
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John H. Edwards, geneticist, and his brother A. W. F. Edwards, statistician
Dan Everard, British inventor, engineer and author
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William Fawcett, writer on horses, hunting and racing
Ronald Firbank, novelist
Pat Fish, songwriter and musician
James Elroy Flecker, poet and dramatist
Thomas Fowler, cricketer
Richard Francis, broadcaster
Nick Freeman, "Mr Loophole", celebrity lawyer
Edward Fowler, cricketer
Stephen Fry, actor, comedian (Blackadder) and writer (Fircroft), expelled in 1972
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Christopher Gabbitas, baritone for The King's Singers
William Garforth, cricketer and soldier
Andrew Gimson, political journalist (West Bank)
Piers Gough, architect (West Bank)
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John Hare, cricketer
Walter Abel Heurtley, classical archaeologist
Johnny Hon, entrepreneur and founder of The Global Group
Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Russell Harmer, Olympic gold medalist
George Harris, cricketer
Oliver Hill, architect (Hall)
E. W. Hornung, author
Danny Hipkiss, professional rugby player, Leicester Tigers and England
Brian Horrocks, British Army general, corps commander in the Second World War
Henry Hughes, cricketer
Balfour Oliphant Hutchison, Lieutenant-General, British Army officer in World War I and World War II
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George Ivatt, mechanical engineer
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Hugh Jackman, actor (former teaching assistant)
Christian Jessen, doctor and television presenter (Fircroft)
Harry Judd, musician and member of McFly (Fircroft)
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Boris Karloff, actor
Dominic Keating, actor
Andrew Kennedy, tenor (Winner of Rosenblatt Song Prize at Cardiff Singer of the World 2005) (Fircroft)
Patrick Kinmonth, opera director, stage designer, writer
Norman Knight, cricketer and colonial administrator
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Edward Thurlow Leeds, archaeologist, keeper of the Ashmolean Museum 1928–1945
John Lees, cricketer
David Li, current chairman and chief executive of the Bank of East Asia in Hong Kong
Roland Leighton, fiancé of Vera Brittain, whose stories are told in her autobiography Testament of Youth (The Lodge)
John O. Lyle, chairman and president of Tate & Lyle, businessman
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Claude Maxwell Macdonald, soldier-diplomat
Gregor MacGregor, England, Scotland, Cambridge University, Middlesex cricketer and rugby player
Charles Mallam, cricketer
Lionel Martineau, cricketer
John McIver, Scottish cricketer
Tim McMullan, actor (School House)
Roger Miller, cricketer
Sir Dermot Milman, 8th Baronet, rugby union international and first-class cricketer
Ed Minton and Alex Davies, members of rock band Elliot Minor (School House)
Ernest John Moeran, composer
Cecil Moon, cricketer
Godfrey Morgan, cricketer
Oscar Murton, Baron Murton of Lindisfarne, politician
John Manzoni. First chief executive officer of the civil service.
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Richard Lewis Nettleship, philosopher
C. R. W. Nevinson, war artist in both world wars
Ernest Newton, architect, president RIBA
Anthony Nightingale, Taipan, Jardine Matheson & Co., Hongkong.
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William Pershke, cricketer
Dickson Poon, businessman and non-executive Chairman of Harvey Nichols
Peter Powell, Radio One disc jockey
William Henry Pratt, who achieved fame under his stage name, Boris Karloff
James Purves, cricketer
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Charles E. Raven, Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, theologian, intellectual, preacher
Hardwicke Rawnsley, co-founder of the National Trust
Mark Redhead, Producer
Victor Richardson, associate of Vera Brittain, whose stories are told in her autobiography Testament of Youth (The Lodge)
Edward Riddell, cricketer
Thomas Ridley, cricketer, barrister and clergyman
Sam Riley, actor
David Ross, co-founder of Carphone Warehouse (Constables)
Alan Rotherham, (left in 1881), former England rugby union international, captain of England, and inductee into the IRB Hall of Fame
Guy Rowlands, historian (The Lodge)
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William Sansom, author
Reginald Savory, British Indian Army Officer in World War I and World War II
John Schlesinger, film director
Cecil Sharp, musician, collector and populariser of English folk song and dance
Charlie Simpson, musician in Busted (2002–2005, 2015–present), Fightstar (2003–present) and as a solo artist (2011–present) (Meadhurst)
Arthur Somervell, composer
Toby Spence, tenor
Phil Spencer, property expert, Channel 4 television (The Lodge)
Ed Stafford, explorer, walking the length of the Amazon River
Rick Stein, chef and restaurateur (West Deyne)
George Martin Stephen, former High Master of St Paul's School
John Suchet, journalist and broadcaster (Farleigh)
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Shiv Thakor, cricketer
Richard Thorp, actor ('Emergency Ward 10'; 7 years, 'Emmerdale'; 30 years), writer
Robert Thorogood, actor (Cambridge Footlights), writer Death in Paradise (Fircroft)
Richard Tice, Reform UK Member of Parliament for Boston and Skegness
Edward Timpson Conservative Member of Parliament for Crewe and Nantwich
Edward Titley, cricketer
Arthur Treacher, film and stage actor
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Johnny Vaughan, television and radio presenter
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Anthony Way, former chorister, St Paul's Cathedral (School House)
James Whitaker, Leicestershire and England cricketer (The Lodge)
Jenny Willott, Member of Parliament for Cardiff Central
Charles Plumpton Wilson (1859–1938), England footballer
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William Yates, former member of both British and Australian Parliaments
See also
Category:People educated at Uppingham School
