List of Old Oundelians

The following is a list of some notable Old Oundelians, alumni of Oundle School in Northamptonshire, England:

Armed forces

Air Vice Marshal David Atcherley, senior Royal Air Force officer
Air Marshal Sir Richard Atcherley, senior Royal Air Force officer. He served as Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Pakistan Air Force between 1949 and 1951
Bernard Paul Gascoigne Beanlands, Canadian World War I flying ace credited with eight aerial victories
Patrick Beesly, wartime intelligence officer and author
Count Manfred Beckett Czernin, World War II Royal Air Force Pilot and later in the war an operative with the Special Operations Executive
Denis Eadie MC, British Army officer who was awarded the Military Cross by Field Marshal Lord Wavell for his conduct during the relief of Kohima during the Second World War
Alan Jerrard VC, recipient of the Victoria Cross for action during the Great War
Cecil Leonard Knox VC, recipient of the Victoria Cross for action during the Great War
John Langdon, Royal Marine officer at D-Day, later became an Anglican priest^[1]
William Howard Livens, soldier and inventor
Norman Jewell, World War II Royal Navy officer
Sir (Charles) Geoffrey Vickers VC, lawyer, administrator, writer and pioneering systems scientist
Air Commodore John Whitworth, Royal Air Force pilot in the 1930s and a commander during and after the Second World War
Major General Sir John Winterton, Governor and Commander of Trieste
Michael Wynn, 7th Baron Newborough, Royal Navy officer
Rear Admiral Benjamin Bryant CB DSO** DSC, the most successful British submarine ace to survive the war

Christopher Alexander, architect, academic and author
Al Alvarez, poet
John Davys Beresford, author
Michael Broadbent MW, wine critic and auctioneer
Lucy Brown, actress
George Blagden, actor, singer
Victor Branford, Sociologist
Joanna Christie, actress
Jim Clark, Academy Award-winning film editor
Charles Crichton, film director
Bruce Dickinson, author, commercial pilot, singer in Iron Maiden
David Edgar, playwright
Adrian Fisher, maze designer
Colin Franklin writer, bibliographer, book-collector and antiquarian bookseller
Fred Inglis, professor of Cultural Studies
Anthony Holden, biographer
Maxwell Hutchinson, architect, broadcaster and former President of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)
Jon Jones, BAFTA winning film and television director
Frederick Knott, playwright
David Pickering, writer
George Sassoon, writer
Sir Peter Saunders, theatrical impresario
Sir Peter Scott, conservationist and painter
Paul Seabright, academic and writer
Keith Shackleton, conservationist and painter
Judge Smith, musician, Van der Graaf Generator
Bill Ward, actor
Ivo Watts-Russell, music producer, president 4AD Records
Sir Bertram Clough Williams-Ellis, architect
John Maxwell Edmonds, poet, dramatist and writer of celebrated epitaphs

Raymond Mays, racing driver, engineer and entrepreneur, co-founder of ERA and BRM
Amherst Villiers, engineer (automotive, aeronautical, astronautical), portrait painter

Baron Allan of Hallam, Liberal Democrat M.P.
Michael Beaumont, Conservative M.P.
Sir Roy Beldam, Lord Justice of Appeal
Caroline Criado Perez, feminist campaigner and writer
Robert Dixon-Smith, Baron Dixon-Smith, Conservative M.P.
Frederick Erroll, 1st Baron Erroll of Hale, Conservative M.P.
Donald Gorrie, Scottish Liberal Democrat M.P. and former M.S.P. for Central Scotland
David Kitchin, Lord Kitchin, UK Supreme Court Justice
Sir Herbert Palmer, Governor of Gambia and Cyprus
Ralph Bonner Pink, Conservative M.P.
David Reddaway, diplomat
David Lockhart-Mure Renton, Baron Renton, Conservative M.P.
The Rt. Hon. Kenneth Robinson, Labour M.P. and Minister of Health 1964-1968
Sir Colin Shepherd, Conservative M.P.
Sir Joseph Simpson, Metropolitan Police commissioner
Peter Thurnham, Conservative and Liberal Democrat M.P.
Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia
Michael Mustill, Baron Mustill, Law Lord
Jihadi Con, Islamic fundamentalist (for some) and freedom fighter (for others), Best Shooter in Hamas (2020)

Richard Beesly, Olympic gold medal, 1928 Coxless fours rowing
Rollo Brandt, bobsledder, competed for Great Britain at 1956 Winter Olympics^[2]
Bill Elsey, racehorse trainer^[3]
Patrick Foster, cricketer
Reggie Ingle, cricketer
Will Jefferson, professional cricketer
David Jennens, Olympic rower
Sir Harry Morton Llewellyn, 3rd Baronet of Bwllfa, showjumper
Robert Martin, cricketer
Michael Maw, cricketer
Peter Morley, president Crystal Palace Football Club
Greg Smith, cricketer
Tom Stallard, Olympic rower
Tim Swinson, rugby player
Dave Walder, professional rugby player
Tom Curry, England rugby player