List of Old Oundelians

The following is a list of some notable Old Oundelians (alumni of Oundle School):

Christopher Alexander (Architect, Academic and Author) Al Alvarez (Poet) Luqman Arnold (Former CEO of Abbey National PLC) Michael Ashby (Neurologist, witness in John Bodkin Adams case) Michael Wentworth Beaumont (Former British Member of Parliament for Aylesbury) John Davys Beresford (Author) Michael Broadbent MW (Influential wine critic and auctioneer) Lucy Brown (Actress) Sir Alan Budd (Economist) Charles Crichton (Film Director) Sir Cyril Clarke (Physician) Richard Dawkins (Ethologist and Science Theorist/Writer) Bruce Dickinson (Singer in Iron Maiden) Robert Dixon-Smith, Baron Dixon-Smith (Politician) Kuok Khoon Ean (Chairman, South China Morning Post) David Edgar (Playwright) Frederick James Erroll, 1st Baron Erroll of Hale (Politician) Adrian Fisher (Maze Designer) Jason Gissing (Entrepreneur) Nicholas Greenwood [Burma Author & Historian] Sir Alister Hardy (Marine Biologist) John B. Harman (Former Chairman of the British National Formulary) Anthony Holden (Biographer) Maxwell Hutchinson (Architect and broadcaster) Reggie Ingle (Cricketer) Will Jefferson (Professional Cricketer) Richard Keynes (Physiologist) Frederick Knott (Playwright) Andrew Lane (Founder of Loch Fyne restaurants) Thomas Layng (Educator and Church of England Priest) Cecil Lewis (Co-Founder of the BBC) William Howard Livens (Soldier and inventor)

Sir Harry Morton Llewellyn, 3rd Baronet of Bwllfa (Showjumper) Arthur Marshall (Writer and Broadcaster) Clive Minton (Ornithologist) Michael Mustill, Baron Mustill (Law Lord) David Nabarro (Senior UN System Coordinator) Joseph Needham (Biochemist) Pownoll Pellew, later the ninth Viscount Exmouth (founder of the Vale Motor Company) David Pickering (Writer) Ralph Bonner Pink (Politician) Sir Charles Pollard (Police Chief) David Reddaway (Diplomat) David Lockhart-Mure Renton, Baron Renton (Politician) The Rt. Hon. Kenneth Robinson (Minister of Health 1964-1968) George Sassoon (Writer) Sir Peter Scott (Conservationist and Painter) Paul Seabright (Academic and writer) Sir Joseph Simpson (Met Police Commissioner) Susie Shinner (Actress) Chris Judge Smith (Musician, Van Der Graaf Generator) Tom Stallard (Olympic Rower) Sir Howard Stringer (Chairman and CEO, Sony Corporation) Tim Swinson (Rugby Player) Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia Sir (Charles) Geoffrey Vickers (Soldier and Systems Thinker) Elliot Viney (Scholar, Bibliophile & High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire) Dave Walder (Professional Rugby Player) Ian G Walker (Industrialist) Ivo Watts-Russell (Music Producer, President 4AD Records) Sir Bertram Clough Williams-Ellis (Architect) Gavin Wilson (Analyst) Bill Ward (Actor) Maj Gen Sir John Winterton (Governor and Commander of Trieste) Michael Wynn, 7th Baron Newborough (Royal Naval Officer)