List of Old Harrovians
The following is a list of some notable Old Harrovians, former pupils of Harrow School in the United Kingdom.
Civil Service & Administration
- Sir Alex Allan, Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee
- Robin Butler, Baron Butler of Brockwell, Cabinet Secretary
- Walter Cunliffe, 1st Baron Cunliffe, Governor of the Bank of England
- John Dalrymple, 10th Earl of Stair, Governor of the Bank of Scotland
- John Saunders Gilliat, Governor of the Bank of England
- Henry Grenfell, Governor of the Bank of England
- Alexander Hardinge, 2nd Baron Hardinge of Penshurst, Private Secretary to Edward VIII and George VI
- Stuart Holland, 2nd Baron Rotherham, Inspector, Ministry of Pensions
- Sir William A. Baillie-Hamilton, Private Secretary to the Chief Secretary for Ireland and to the Secretary of State for the Colonies
- Sir John Rupert "Jock" Colville
- Sir Kenelm Edward Digby, Under Secretary of State at the Home Office
Diplomatic Service
- John Harington Gubbins, linguist & diplomat
- Prince Mozaffar Firouz, Iranian ambassador to the USSR
- Sir Jeremy Greenstock, British ambassador to the United Nations
- Sir Adrian Holman, British Ambassador to Cuba
- Esme Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Penrith, Ambassador to the United States
- Sir Frank Lascelles, Ambassador to Russia and Germany
- Percy Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford, Irish ambassador to Portugal, Sweden, Turkey and Russia
- Sir Roderick Barclay, Ambassador to Denmark and Belgium
- Sir Brooke Boothby, 10th Baronet, diplomat & Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Chile
- John Charles Brudenell-Bruce
- Reginald Bridgeman
- John Francis William, 6th Count de Salis-Soglio
Colonial Service & Imperial Administration
- Sir Richard Temple, 2nd Baronet, Chief Commissioner of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands; soldier, folklorist & anthropologist
- Sir Thomas Buxton, 3rd Baronet, Governor of South Australia
- Sir William Chichele Plowden, Civil Servant and Member of the Legislative Council, India
- James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie, Governor-General of India
- Sir Charles Augustus Fitzroy, Governor of New South Wales
- Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst, Viceroy of India
- Sir William Henry Gregory, Anglo-Irish writer and politician, and Governor of Ceylon
- Albert Henry Edward Grey, 4th Earl Grey, Governor-General of Canada
- John Alsop King, 20th Governor of New York State
- Uchter Knox, 5th Earl of Ranfurly, Governor of New Zealand
- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, Viceroy of India
- Sir Francis May, Governor of Hong Kong
- William Plunket, 5th Baron Plunket, Governor of New Zealand
- Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough, Governor General of Canada
- John Dickson-Poynder, 1st Baron Islington, Governor of New Zealand
- Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings, Governor General of India
- Raja Maharaj Singh, First Indian Governor of Bombay
- John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth, Governor General of India
- Sir Reginald Talbot, Governor of Victoria in Australia
- Sir Henry George Ward, Governor of Ceylon, and Madras
- Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, Governor General of India and Foreign Secretary
- Sir Spencer Harcourt Butler, Governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh
- Sir Alexander Baird, 1st Baronet, President of the Permanent Arbitration Board in Egypt
- Sir Percy Cox, High Commissioner of Iraq, Political Resident at Tehran
- Charles Stanhope Foster Crofton, member of the Indian Civil Service and a philatelist
- Sir Reginald Hugh Dorman-Smith, Governor of Burma
Royalty
- Krishna Kumarasingh Bhavasingh, last Maharaja of Bhavnagar
- Prince Chula Chakrabongse of Siam
- Ali bin Hamud of Zanzibar
- HH Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, current Emir of Qatar
- Ghazi of Iraq
- King Faisal II of Iraq
- Prince Hamzah bin Al Hussein of Jordan
- Prince Hassan bin Al Talal of Jordan
- Prince Rashid bin Al Hassan
- Prince Talal bin Muhammad
- HRH Purachatra Jayakara
- King Hussein of Jordan
- Barkat Ali Khan Mukarram Jah, claimant Nizam of Hyderabad
- Jagaddipendra Narayan, Maharaja of Cooch Behar
- Lord Nicholas Windsor, younger son of the Duke of Kent
- HSH Prince Mahidol Adulyadej of Songkhla of Thailand
- His Highness, The Maharaja of Jaipur, Sawai Bhawani Singh Bahadur
- HH Nawab Syed Shah Wajid Hussain Khan Bahadur of Khusrupur, Bihar
- Wangchuk Namgyal, HM The Chogyal of Sikkim
- Prince Thomas, Duke of Genoa, a prince of the House of Savoy
- His Highness, Baron LPT B.A.Sforza, a prince of the house of Thurn und Taxis
- The Honourable, D. Pedro Miguel Vasques Milhinhos, heir to the Marquis of Arronches title.
- Augustus Frederick d'Este, grandson of King George III
Prime Ministers
- Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- Sir Winston Churchill, Conservative Prime Minister of the U.K., Nobel Laureate
- George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- Jawaharlal Nehru, First Prime Minister of India
- Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- Spencer Perceval, Tory (Conservative) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Whig (Liberal) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Politicians
- Thomas Agar-Robartes, 6th Viscount Clifden, Liberal Member of Parliament
- Sir James Agg-Gardner, Conservative Member of Parliament
- Leo Amery, Conservative Secretary of State
- Robert Allan, Baron Allan of Kilmahew, Financial Secretary to the Admiralty
- Sir John Milne Barbour, 1st Baronet, Finance Minister, Northern Ireland
- Thomas Baring, Conservative, Member of Parliament
- Hamar Alfred Bass, Liberal politician from the Bass brewing family
- Ivon Moore-Brabazon, 3rd Baron Brabazon of Tara, Tory Peer
- Orlando Bridgeman, 3rd Earl of Bradford, Lord Chamberlain
- Ewen Cameron, Baron Cameron of Dillington, Cross-bench Peer
- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, prominent reformist
- Evelyn Ashley Liberal Member of Parliament
- Sir Kenneth Carlisle, Tory minister
- William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, Lord Chamberlain
- Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
- Francis Cowper, 7th Earl Cowper, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland
- Harry Davenport, Conservative Member of Parliament
- William Deedes, Baron Deedes of Aldington, Conservative Member of Parliament and editor of The Daily Telegraph
- Sir Reginald Hugh Dorman-Smith, diplomat, soldier and Minister for Agriculture youngest brother of Eric ("Chink") Dorman-Smith[1]
- Alexander Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton, Ambassador to St. Petersburg
- Thomas Slingsby Duncombe, Whig Member of Parliament
- Lawrence Dundas, 1st Earl of Zetland, Whig Member of Parliament
- Lawrence Dundas, 1st Marquess of Zetland, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
- Lawrence Dundas, 2nd Marquess of Zetland, Conservative Secretary of State
- Thomas Dundas, 2nd Earl of Zetland, Whig Member of Parliament
- Sir William Hart Dyke, Conservative Member of Parliament
- William Edgcumbe, 4th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, Lord Chamberlain
- William Lindsay Everard Brewer, Conservative MP, and philanthropist.
- Femi Fani-Kayode, Minister of Aviation and Minister of Culture and Tourism, Nigeria
- Gerald Gardiner, Baron Gardiner, Lord Chancellor
- George Gordon, 2nd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
- Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, Liberal Member of Parliament, cofounder of the Scottish National Party
- Robert Grosvenor, 2nd Baron Ebury, Liberal peer
- Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster, Lord of the Admiralty
- Lord Claud Hamilton (1813–1884), Conservative Member of Parliament
- Lord Claud Hamilton (1843–1925), Conservative Member of Parliament
- Lord Ernest Hamilton. Conservative Member of Parliament
- Lord George Hamilton, Conservative Secretary of State
- James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
- James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn, Conservative Member of Parliament
- John Hamilton, 1st Marquess of Abercorn, Conservative Member of Parliament
- George Hamilton-Gordon, 5th Earl of Aberdeen, Liberal Member of Parliament
- Gilbert Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 1st Earl of Ancaster. Liberal Member of Parliament
- Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea, Conservative Secretary of State
- Henry Holland, 1st Viscount Knutsford, Secretary of State for the Colonies
- Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood, Conservative cabinet minister
- Sir John Hobson (politician), Attorney General
- Edward Wingfield Humphreys, New Zealand MP representing Christchurch North
- Sir Stanley Jackson, cricketer and Chairman of the Conservative Party
- Sir Keith Joseph, Conservative Secretary of State
- Sir John Burgess Karslake, Attorney General
- Rodney Leach, Baron Leach of Fairford, Chairman of Open Europe
- George Legge, 3rd Earl of Dartmouth, Lord Chamberlain
- Sir Charles Lemon, 2nd Baronet Lemon of Carclew, Liberal Member of Parliament
- Richard Long, 4th Viscount Long, Conservative peer
- Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long, Conservative Secretary of State
- Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury, Liberal Member of Parliament
- William Henry Holmes Lyons, prominent Ulster unionist
- Malcolm McCorquodale, 1st Baron McCorquodale, Conservative Member of Parliament
- Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, Conservative policy advisor
- Walter Monckton, 1st Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, Conservative Minister of Defence
- Anthony Nelson, Conservative Member of Parliament
- Noel Noel-Buxton, 1st Baron Noel-Buxton, Liberal, and then Labour Member of Parliament
- William Smith O'Brien, Irish nationalist Member of Parliament
- Cranley Onslow, Baron Onslow of Woking, Conservative Member of Parliament
- Charles Lindsay Orr-Ewing, Conservative Member of Parliament
- Ian Orr-Ewing, Baron Orr-Ewing, Conservative Member of Parliament
- Sir Frederick Peel, Under-Secretary of State for War and Secretary to the Treasury
- Sir Robert Peel, 3rd Baronet, Chief Secretary for Ireland
- William Yates Peel, Lord of the Treasury
- Charles Pepys, 1st Earl of Cottenham, Twice Lord Chancellor
- Constantine Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby, Home Secretary and Ambassador at Paris
- Morgan Philips Price, Liberal and Labour Member of Parliament
- John Profumo, 5th Baron Profumo, Conservative Secretary of State, known for the Profumo Affair
- Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley, Home Secretary
- Wyn Roberts, Baron Roberts of Conwy, Welsh Tory
- Mark Robinson, Conservative Member of Parliament
- Anthony Royle, Baron Fanshawe of Richmond, Conservative Member of Parliament
- Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby, Foreign Secretary
- Richard Ryder (19th century politician), Home Secretary
- Robert Sanders, 1st Baron Bayford, Conservative Member of Parliament
- J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone, Conservative and Liberal Member of Parliament
- Madron Seligman, MEP
- Francis Seymour, 5th Marquess of Hertford, Lord Chamberlain
- Ughtred James Kay-Shuttleworth, 1st Baron Shuttleworth, Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty
- Thomas H. Sotheron-Estcourt, Home Secretary
- Tim Smith, Conservative Member of Parliament
- Sir Peter Smithers, Secretary General of the Council of Europe
- George Smythe, 7th Viscount Strangford, Conservative Member of Parliament
- George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer, Whig Home Secretary
- John Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer, Chancellor of the Exchequer
- John Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
- Charles Spencer, 6th Earl Spencer, Lord Chamberlain
- Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer, Conservative councillor, also grandfather of Diana, Princess of Wales
- Sir Douglas Straight, Conservative Member of Parliament
- Henry Strutt, 2nd Baron Belper, Liberal Member of Parliament
- Sir Charles Trevelyan, 3rd Baronet, Liberal Member of Parliament
- Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet, Liberal Member of Parliament
- Edward Villiers, 5th Earl of Clarendon, Lord Chamberlain
- George Child Villiers, 5th Earl of Jersey, Lord Chamberlain
- Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, Governor General of India and Foreign Secretary
- Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
- Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 10th Baronet Tory Politician & Baronet
- Richard Drax, Conservative Member of parliament for Weymouth and Portland
- Guy Opperman, Conservative Member of parliament for Hexham
- Peter Aldous, Conservative Member of parliament for Waveney
- Alexander James Beresford Beresford Hope, supporter of the Confederate States of America
Military
- Admiral of the Fleet Sir James Erskine
- Admiral of the Fleet Sir George Seymour
- Field Marshal Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, Governor General of Canada
- Field Marshal John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, Chief of Imperial General Staff
- Field Marshal Charles Guthrie, Baron Guthrie of Craigiebank, Chief of the General Staff (1994–1997) and Chief of the Defence Staff (1997–2001)
- Admiral George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney
- Admiral Sir Augustus Clifford
- Admiral Sir Henry Codrington
- Admiral Sir Michael Culme-Seymour, 3rd Baronet
- Admiral Sir Eliab Harvey, Battle of Trafalgar
- Admiral George Perceval, 6th Earl of Egmont, served on HMS Orion at Trafalgar aged eleven
- General Sir Thomas Riddell-Webster
- General Sir Walter Norris Congreve, VC
- General Sir Edward Bowater
- General Sir Alexander Robert Badcock
- General Sir William John Codrington
- General Sir George Berkeley
- General Sir Robert Brownrigg, Quartermaster-General and Governor of Ceylon
- General Sir Peter de la Billière
- General Sir George Alexander Weir
- General Sir Lashmer Whistler
- General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien
- General Sir James Newton Rodney Moore
- General Lord Alexander Russell
- General Edward Henry Clive
- General Francis Seymour, 5th Marquess of Hertford, Lord Chamberlain to Queen Victoria
- Vice-Admiral the Hon. Richard Saunders Dundas, First Sea Lord
- Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Berger
- Vice-Admiral the Hon. Charles Orlando Bridgeman,
- Lieutenant General James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, Leader of the Charge of the Light Brigade
- Lieutenant General Sir Anthony Arthur Denison-Smith
- Lieutenant General William Gott, Appointed commander of Eighth Army before dying in air crash
- Lieutenant General Sir Chandos Blair
- Lieutenant General Sir Alfred Edward Codrington
- Lieutenant General Sir George Sidney Clive
- Lieutenant General Sir Harry Calvert, 1st Baronet
- Lieutenant General Sir Richard Butler
- Major General Sir John Humphrey "Tavish" Davidson
- Major-General Sir James Arthur "Jack" d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, 3rd Baronet
- Major-General Sir Henry Joseph d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, 2nd Baronet
- Major-General Sir Percy Zachariah Cox
- Major-General Charles Richard Sackville-West, 6th Earl De La Warr
- Major General Sir George Cooke
- Major General John Talbot Coke
- Major General Sir Andrew Hamilton Russell, New Zealand commander at Gallipoli
- Major General Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
- Air Vice-Marshal Charles Hubert Boulby Blount
- Brigadier General Walter Long
- Brigadier Cecil Arthur Harrop Chadwick
- Brigadier Archer Francis Lawrence Clive
- Brigadier-General Francis Charles Bridgeman
- Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen CBE, DSO
- Colonel Guy Brownlow
- Colonel Sir William Howe De Lancey
- Colonel Frederick Gustavus Burnaby
- Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart
- Lieutenant Colonel Henry George Orlando Bridgeman
- Lieutenant Colonel Dudley Gordon, 3rd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
- Lieutenant Colonel Ivan Lyon, commander Operation Jaywick
- Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Fleetwood Isham Edwards, Keeper of the Privy Purse
- Lieutenant Colonel Robert Sanders, 1st Baron Bayford
- Wing Commander Archie Boyd
- Major Hugh Wyld, British Army officer and cricketer
- Major Eric Buller, British Army officer and cricketer
- Major Johnnie Cradock
- Major Sir Charles James Buchanan, 4th Baronet
- Major Sir Robert Lister Bower, British Army and Colonial Police Officer
- Major Allan John Cameron, British Army officer and curler
- Major David Gordon, 4th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
- Squadron Leader Gordon Cleaver
- Squadron Leader Lord David Douglas-Hamilton
- Squadron Leader John Crampton
- Captain George Whatford, cricketer and British and Indian Army officer
- Second Lieutenant Orlando Clive Bridgeman, World War I flying ace credited with five aerial victories
- Lieutenant George Byron, 9th Baron Byron
- Eyre Crabbe
Victoria Cross Holders
Twenty Old Harrovians have been awarded the Victoria Cross:[2]
Crimean War
Second Opium War
First Ashanti Expedition
- Major The Lord Edric Gifford[7]
Zulu War
- Lieutenant Teignmouth Melvill[8]
Sudan Campaign
- Lieutenant Percival Scrope Marling[9]
South African War
- Captain Walter Congreve[10]
- Lieutenant John Peniston Milbanke[11]
Third Somaliland Expedition
First World War
- Acting Major George de Cardonnel Elmsall Findlay[13]
- Second Lieutenant William Rhodes-Moorhouse[14]
- Major Ernest Wright Alexander[15]
- Captain Garth Walford[16]
- Acting Captain Thomas Riversdale Colyer-Fergusson[17]
- Acting Captain Walter Napleton Stone[18]
- Acting Lieutenant Colonel John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker[19]
- Captain Richard Raymond Willis[20]
- Major Eric Buller M.C.
Second World War
- Temporary Captain Ian Oswald Liddell[21]
George Cross Holder
- Lt. Ellis Edward Arthur Chetwynd Talbot
Church
- Edward Burroughs, Bishop of Ripon
- Richard Chenevix Trench, Anglican Archbishop of Dublin
- Robert Coffin (bishop), Roman Catholic Bishop of Southwark
- Randall Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury
- Paul de Labilliere, Dean of Westminster
- Frederick William Faber, Roman Catholic convert, author, and hymn-writer
- Edward Glyn, Bishop of Peterborough
- Charles Gore, English divine and Anglican bishop
- Bernard Heywood, Bishop of Ely
- Nugent Hicks, Bishop of Gibraltar, later Bishop of Lincoln
- Angus Campbell MacInnes, Archbishop of Jerusalem
- Michael Ashley Mann, Emeritus Dean of Windsor
- Henry Edward Manning, Cardinal and second Archbishop of Westminster
- Henry Hutchinson Montgomery, Anglican Bishop of Tasmania and father of Field Marshal Montgomery
- George Murray, bishop of Rochester
- Ashton Oxenden, Bishop of Montreal
- Charles Perry, Bishop of Melbourne
- Benjamin Plunket, Anglican Bishop of Meath
- Horatio Powys, Bishop of Sodor and Man
- John Ronald Angus Stroyan, Anglican Bishop of Warwick
- Robert Selby Taylor, Archbishop of Cape Town
- Power Le Poer Trench, Archbishop of Tuam
- Stephen Verney, Anglican Bishop of Repton
- Ernest Wilberforce, Bishop of Chichester
- Thomas William Wilkinson, Roman Catholic Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle
- Isaac Williams, theologian
Arts
Writers
- Bernard Bosanquet, philosopher
- Mark Sedgwick, historian
- Nicholas Bethell, 4th Baron Bethell, historian, politician and translator
- Arthur Bryant, historian and columnist
- George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, poet, commonly known as Lord Byron
- Charles Stuart Calverley, poet
- Francis Chenevix Trench, author and divine
- Wilfred Rowland Childe, poet
- Sir Jock Colville, Diarist at 10 Downing Street
- Richard Curtis, scriptwriter & film director
- Alain de Botton, author
- Henry Drury, classical scholar
- Julian Charles Fane, author
- John Galsworthy, dramatist and Nobel Prize–winning novelist
- Augustus Hare, author
- L. P. Hartley, author
- Theodore Hook, author
- Gervase Jackson-Stops, Art historian and journalist
- Rowley Lascelles, archivist
- Sir Arnold Lunn, skiing pioneer & writer
- Herman Charles Merivale, dramatist and poet
- E. H. W. Meyerstein poet and writer
- Simon Sebag Montefiore, journalist and historian
- Sir John Mortimer, dramatist and author
- John Thomas Perceval, writer and campaigner
- Marmaduke Pickthall, Islamic and Middle-Eastern scholar
- Jason Pontin, editor, publisher, and journalist
- Bryan Procter, alias "Barry Cornwall" [friend of Keats]
- Sir Terence Rattigan, dramatist
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan, playwright & politician
- William Seward, anecdotist
- William Sotheby, poet and translator
- Percy Smythe, 8th Viscount Strangford, British Nobleman & man of letters
- Douglas Straight, journalist, MP, judge
- John Addington Symonds, poet and literary critic
- G.M. Trevelyan, historian
- R.C. Trevelyan, poet
- Anthony Trollope, novelist
- Francis Wheen, writer and journalist
- Peter Williams, author, editor and critic of ballet
- Dornford Yates (Cecil William Mercer), novelist
- Alastair Fothergill, British Producer
Visual arts
- Hercules Brabazon Brabazon, 19th century artist
- Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield, photographer
- Sir Cecil Beaton, photographer and costume designer
- Sir Oswald Birley, portraitist
- Rodney Joseph Burn, artist
- Damian Elwes, artist
- Michael Farrar-Bell, stained glass and postage stamp designer
- Richard Foster (painter), portraitist
- Spencer Gore (artist)
- Sir Francis Grant, artist and President of the Royal Academy
- Bendor Grosvenor, art historian
- General Douglas Hamilton, artist and game hunter
- Nicholas Hely Hutchinson, artist
- Eliot Hodgkin, artist
- Victor Pasmore, artist
- Hugh Riddle, RAF pilot and portraitist
- Lincoln Seligman, artist
- Sir Geoffrey Adam Shakerley, 6th Baronet Shakerley, photographer
- William Fox Talbot, photographer
- John Frederick Tayler, President of the Royal Watercolour Society
Theatre/Film
- Max Benitz, actor
- Tim Bentinck, 12th Earl of Portland, actor
- Andrew Birkin, screenwriter, director
- Adrian Brunel, film director
- James Callis, actor
- Peter Cellier, actor
- Benedict Cumberbatch, actor
- Michael Denison, actor
- James Dreyfus, actor
- Sir Gerald du Maurier, actor, producer
- Valentine Dyall, radio voice actor
- Cassian Elwes, film producer
- Cary Elwes, Actor
- Alastair Fothergill, producer of nature documentaries
- Edward Fox, actor
- James Fox, actor
- Laurence Fox, actor (expelled)
- Robert Fox, film producer
- Nicholas Frankau, actor
- John Gore, theatrical producer
- Joel Hopkins, film director
- Peter Jeffrey, actor
- Sir Nigel Playfair, actor and manager
- Tate Wilkinson, actor and manager
- Simon Williams (actor)
Music
- Chris Blackwell, founder of Island Records
- James Blunt, musician
- Ben Wallers, musician
- Mike d'Abo, lead singer, Manfred Mann
- Simon Toulson-Clarke, Red Box
- Lord David Dundas, film scorer
- General John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland, Founder of the Royal College of Music
- Ian Parrott, composer
- Henry Hugh Pearson, composer
- James Ross, conductor
- Sandy Wilson, composer and lyricist
- James Rhodes, pianist
- Aristo Sham, pianist
Sciences
- Francis Maitland Balfour, professor of animal morphology at Cambridge
- Sir Joseph Banks, botanist
- Sir Gavin de Beer
- James Bond, ornithologist[22]
- Raol Shri Dharmakumarsinhji, prince, ornithologist, environmentalist
- Sir Arthur Evans, archaeologist
- Sir Ronald Fisher, pioneer of statistics
- Aubrey de Grey, science of aging
- Henry Bence Jones, Physician and chemist
- Sir William Jones, philologist
- Thomas Henry Manning, Arctic zoologist
- St. George Jackson Mivart, biologist
- Nicholas Patrick, NASA astronaut
- Arthur Cecil Pigou, Economist
- George Julius Poulett Scrope, Geologist
- Charles Rothschild, Entomologist
- Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild, scientist & civil servant
- William Spottiswoode, President of the Royal Society
- John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, physicist & Nobel Prize laureate, Chancellor of Cambridge University
- William Fox Talbot, pioneer of photography
- Fereydoun Ala, Iranian physician and academician
- Sir Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland, 1st Baronet, KCB, Professor of Medicine, Physician to Prince of Wales, King Edward VIII
- Dr Thomas Monro, Physician to King George III
- Anthony Butterworth FRS, immunologist
Sports
- C. W. Alcock, creator of the FA Cup
- Richard Attwood, former-Formula One driver
- Nick Leventis, racing driver
- Edward Baily, English cricketer
- Gary Ballance, England Test Cricketer
- John Barham, Athlete
- Morton Betts, 19th Century sportsman
- Guy Butler (athlete), Olympic gold medalist
- Major Allan Cameron (soldier), Founder of the International Curling Federation
- Nick Compton, England Test Cricketer
- Michael Doughty (English footballer)
- Tom French, rugby footballer of London Wasps
- Spencer Gore, tennis player, first Wimbledon champion
- Douglas Robert Hadow, died on Matterhorn first ascent
- Patrick Francis Hadow, tennis player, Wimbledon champion
- Edward Harrison, cricketer and squash doubles champion[23]
- Sir William Hart Dyke, 7th Baronet, Racquets World Champion 1862
- Arthur Haygarth, cricketer
- Damian Hopley, England rugby team, and Chief Executive of Professional Rugby Players' Association
- A. N. Hornby, Only one of two men to have captained England at cricket and rugby
- David Ireland, equestrian and horse breeding expert
- Maro Itoje, England rugby squad and Saracens squad
- Charles Leaf, Olympic gold medallist
- Douglas Lowe, Olympic gold medallist
- Alastair McCorquodale, Olympic silver medallist
- Archie MacLaren, cricketer
- Sir Rupert Mackeson, racing author
- Charles Morice (footballer), played for England as a forward in the first international match against Scotland.
- Tony Nash (bobsleigh), Olympic gold medallist
- Sam Northeast, cricketer
- Walter Paton (1853–1937), English barrister who played for Oxford University in the 1873 FA Cup Final
- Gareth Rees (rugby player), Canadian fly-half
- Sir Lancelot Royle KBE, Olympian & businessman, Governor of Harrow School
- Billy Vunipola, member of England rugby squad and Saracens squad
- Fraser Waters, member of the London Wasps rugby union team and England centre
- Reginald de Courtenay Welch, England international footballer
- Dorian Williams, Equestrian broadcaster
- Julian Wilson, racing commentator
- George Whatford, cricketer and British and Indian Army officer
- Major Hugh Wyld, cricketer and British Army officer
- Anshuman Rath, Hong Kong cricketer
Business
- Apcar Alexander Apcar, merchant and racehorse owner
- Gregory Apcar, merchant and philanthropist
- Simon Astaire
- Thomas Baring of Barings Bank
- Sir John Lionel Beckwith
- Edward Bonham Carter, Fund manager
- Malcolm Couch, Former Latin America regional manager for Shell Oil Company, now Assessor of Income Tax for the Isle of Man
- Sir Dermot de Trafford, 6th Baronet
- Edward Grenfell, 1st Baron St Just, banker
- Nubar Gulbenkian, Oil magnate
- Neil Heywood, British businessman, found dead in his hotel room in Chongqing, China under suspicious circumstances
- Leonard Lyle, 1st Baron Lyle of Westbourne, Chairman of Tate and Lyle
- J. Bruce Ismay, of RMS Titanic infamy
- Yıldırım Ali Koç, Koç Holding member and Turkish multisport club Fenerbahçe S.K. vice-president.
- Sir Herbert Mackworth-Praed, 1st Baronet, Politician and banker
- Paul Manduca, chairman of Prudential plc
- Julian Metcalfe, founder of Pret a Manger
- Russi Mody, Chairman of Tata Steel
- Crispin Odey, hedge fund manager
- Nicky Oppenheimer, South African Chairman of De Beers
- Anthony Gustav de Rothschild
- Edmund Leopold de Rothschild
- Sir Evelyn Robert de Rothschild
- Timothy Royle, founding chairman of Control Risks Group
- James Cholmeley Russell, barrister, financier, property developer,railway entrepreneur
- Sir Victor Sassoon, businessman, hotelier from the banking family
- Chatumongol Sonakul, Governor of the Bank of Thailand
- John Strange Spencer-Churchill
- Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot, industrialist
- Henry Yates Thompson, Newspaper proprietor
- George Townshend, 7th Marquess Townshend, Chairman of Anglia Television
Law
- Peter Millett, Baron Millett, Lord of Appeal
- Donald Somervell, Baron Somervell of Harrow, Attorney General, Home Secretary, Lord of Appeal
- Rt. Hon. Sir William Aldous, Lord Justice of Appeal
- Sir Dunbar Barton, High Court judge
- Sir Reginald Bray, High Court judge
- Rt. Hon. Sir Felix Cassel 1st Baronet, Judge Advocate General
- Sir Arthur Moseley Channell, oarsman and High Court judge
- Sir Michael Connell, High Court judge
- Sir H. S. Cunningham, Advocate General of the Madras Presidency and High Court judge in Bengal
- Sir Edward East, 1st Baronet, Chief Justice of Bengal
- Sir Michael Eastham, High Court judge
- Sir Gerald Howard, High Court judge
- David Hunter, Court of Appeal judge, Hong Kong
- Sir Henry Jackson, 2nd Baronet, MP and High Court judge
- Miles Jackson-Lipkin, disgraced Hong Kong High Court judge
- Francis Jeune, 1st Baron St Helier, President of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division
- Sir Adrian Knox, Second Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia
- Simon Mayo, Vice President of the Court of Appeal, Hong Kong
- Henry Moncreiff, 2nd Baron Moncreiff, Senator to the Court of Justice, Scotland
- Andrew Murray, 1st Viscount Dunedin, Lord of Appeal
- Sir Basil Nield, MP and High Court judge
- Sir Peter Openshaw, High Court judge
- Sir Thomas Joshua Platt, Baron of the Exchequer
- Sir Henry Plowden, High Court judge in the Punjab and cricketer
- Sir John Richardson, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas
- Sir Ronald Roxborough, High Court judge
- Sir Lancelot Sanderson, MP and Chief Justice at Bengal
- Thomas Tomlin, Baron Tomlin, Lord of Appeal
- Sir Timothy Walker, High Court judge
- Sir Jean-Pierre Warner, High Court judge
- Sir Joshua Strange Williams, Judge of the Supreme Court New Zealand
- Walter Augustus de Havilland, patent attorney
Other Nobility
- Sir Henry Wentworth Acland, 1st Baronet
- Shane Alexander, 2nd Earl Alexander of Tunis
- Sir Alexander Baird, 1st Baronet
- Henry Bentinck, 11th Earl of Portland
- Tim Bentinck, 12th Earl of Portland
- William Bentinck, Viscount Woodstock
- John Boyle, 14th Earl of Cork
- Alan Brooke, 3rd Viscount Alanbrooke
- Mark Dundas, 4th Marquess of Zetland
- Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, acquired the Elgin Marbles
- Sir Adrian Fitzgerald, 24th Knight of Kerry
- Henry FitzRoy, 12th Duke of Grafton
- Alexander Gordon, 7th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
- David Gordon, 4th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
- Dudley Gordon, 3rd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
- Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster
- Hugh William Osbert Molyneux, 7th Earl of Sefton
- William Pleydell-Bouverie, 9th Earl of Radnor
- Frederick Ponsonby, Viscount Duncannon
- Andrew Russell, 15th Duke of Bedford
- Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset
- Alan Stewart, 10th Earl of Galloway, Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
- Sir Fulque Agnew, 10th Baronet
- Jamie Spencer-Churchill, 12th Duke of Marlborough
- George Spencer-Churchill, Marquess of Blandford
- John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute
- John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute, Scottish Peer
Other
- George Askew, contestant on Big Brother 7 UK
- John Amery, pro-Nazi fascist, hanged for treason, whose brainchild was the British Free Corps
- Edward Aveling, English Marxist
- Tom Avery, explorer
- Sir William Bass, 2nd Baronet, race horse owner and supporter of the film industry
- John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara, Aviation pioneer
- James Bruce, explorer
- Henry Montagu Butler, Headmaster of Harrow School and Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University
- Sir James Ramsay Montagu Butler, politician and academic
- Thorold Coade, Headmaster of Bryanston
- William Cooke (Provost of King's College), and Headmaster of Eton
- Aidan Crawley, TV executive, journalist, politician
- John Robert Godley, founder of Canterbury, NZ
- Sir Alexander Grant, 10th Baronet, Principal of Edinburgh University
- Pen Hadow, explorer
- Walter George Headlam, poet and classical scholar
- Charles Buller Heberden, Vice Chancellor of Oxford University
- Sir Basil Henriques, philanthropist
- Charles James (designer)
- William Jaggs, manslaughter (diminished responsibility due to mental illness).
- Charles King (academic), President of Columbia College (now Columbia University)
- Hugh Massingberd, The Telegraph obituaries writer
- John McCririck, horse racing pundit
- Sir Anthony Minoprio, architect and town planner
- Dr. Samuel Parr, Whig pamphleteer
- Gerald Henry Rendall, Vice-Chancellor of Victoria University (UK), and Headmaster of Charterhouse
- Henry Stuart Russell, explorer
- Richard Gilbert Scott, architect
- Hugh Spencely, architect
- Sir Peter Malden Studd, Lord Mayor of London
- Charles Sturt, explorer
- Sir Mark Thatcher, son of former British Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher
- Philip Vincent, motorcycle designer and manufacturer, founder of Vincent Motorcycles
- Sir Thomas Wade, sinologist
- Sir John Watney, Honorary Secretary of the City and Guilds of London Institute for the Advancement of Technical Education
- Sir John Gardner Wilkinson, father of British Egyptology
- Charles Wordsworth, Bishop of St. Andrew's and Headmaster of Glenalmond
Old Harrovians in fiction
- Sir Nigel Thonberry from The Wild Thornberrys
- Major-General Candy from The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
- Colonel Pickering in Pygmalion
- Lord Brett Sinclair from The Persuaders!
- Paul Marshall, antagonist from novel Atonement and the film of the same name
- Withnail and Uncle Monty from Withnail and I
- Winston Yu from novel Snakehead.
- Septimus Hodge from Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
- Sir Percy Blakeney from The Scarlet Pimpernel novels by Baroness Emma Orczy
- Sherlock Holmes in the 2009 film is an Old Harrovian.
- In the BBC TV Series, Sherlock, Eddie Van Coon from "The Blind Banker" is an old Harrovian.
- Banyard in Porridge is a former dentist gaoled for interfering with a female patient whilst under anesthetic who states at 12:10 minutes in a discussion about the poor quality of the meals served "...I am well used to this kind of food, I went to Harrow".
References
- ↑ Greacen, Lavinia (1991). Chink: A Biography. London: Papermac. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-333-55693-1.
- ↑ Harrow School website: History
- ↑ Sir John George Smyth, (1963), The Story of the Victoria Cross, 1856-1963, page 33 (F. Muller:London)
- ↑ Harrow School, (1911), The Harrow School Register, 1800-1911, page 209, (Longmans, Green, and Co)
- ↑ Harrow School, (1911), The Harrow School Register, 1800-1911, page 212, (Longmans, Green, and Co)
- ↑ Reginald de Courtenay Welch, Harrow School, (1894), The Harrow School Register, 1801-1893, page 208, (Longmans, Green)
- ↑ Reginald Courtenay Welch, Harrow School, (1894), The Harrow School Register, 1801-1893, page 304, (Longmans, Green)
- ↑ Reginald Courtenay Welch, Harrow School, (1894), The Harrow School Register, 1801-1893, page 232, (Longmans, Green)
- ↑ Reginald Courtenay Welch, Harrow School, (1894), The Harrow School Register, 1801-1893, page 445, (Longmans, Green)
- ↑ Reginald Courtenay Welch, Harrow School, (1894), The Harrow School Register, 1801-1893, page 470, (Longmans, Green)
- ↑ Reginald Courtenay Welch, Harrow School, (1894), The Harrow School Register, 1801-1893, page 578, (Longmans, Green)
- ↑ Reginald Courtenay Welch, Harrow School, (1894), The Harrow School Register, 1801-1893, page 551, (Longmans, Green)
- ↑ Harrow School, (1951), The Harrow School Register, 1885-1949, page 234, (Rivingtons)
- ↑ Harrow School, (1951), The Harrow School Register, 1885-1949, page 220, (Rivingtons)
- ↑ Sir John George Smyth, (1963), The Story of the Victoria Cross, 1856-1963, page 159 (F. Muller:London)
- ↑ Harrow School, (1911), The Harrow School Register, 1800-1911, page 766, (Longmans, Green, and Co)
- ↑ Harrow School, (1951), The Harrow School Register, 1885-1949, page 281, (Rivingtons)
- ↑ Harrow School, (1951), The Harrow School Register, 1885-1949, page 277, (Rivingtons)
- ↑ Harrow School, (1951), The Harrow School Register, 1885-1949, page 205, (Rivingtons)
- ↑ Harrow School, (1911), The Harrow School Register, 1800-1911, page 708, (Longmans, Green, and Co)
- ↑ Harrow School, (1951), The Harrow School Register, 1885-1949, page 564, (Rivingtons)
- ↑ Parkes, Kenneth (1989). "In Memoriam: James Bond" (PDF). The Auk. 106 (4): 718–70.
- ↑ de Lisle, Tim (2003). Wisden Cricketer's Almanack 2003 (140 ed.). Alton, Hampshire: John Wisden & Co. Ltd. ISBN 0-947766-77-4.
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