Batley Grammar School - Notable Old Batelians

Notable Old Batelians

Former pupils of the school are referred to as Old Batelians.

• Theodore Cooke Taylor (1850-1952), Businessman, Liberal politician, Profit-sharing pioneer
• Benjamin Ingham (1712–1772), Methodist and Moravian evangelist and preacher
• William Margetson Heald (1767–1837), writer and churchman
• Joseph Priestley (1733–1804), theologian, natural philosopher, and discoverer of oxygen
• Thomas Wormald (1802–1873), surgeon
• Sir Titus Salt (1803–1876), textile manufacturer and politician
• Sir Mark Oldroyd (1843–1927), woollen manufacturer, politician and philanthropist
• Sir Owen Willans Richardson (1879–1959), Professor of Physics, Princeton University, 1906–1914, Wheatstone Professor of Physics, King's College London, 1914–1924, and Yarrow Research Professor, Royal Society, 1924–1959, Nobel Prize in Physics (1928)
• Sir Herbert Holdsworth, 1890–1949, Liberal and later Liberal National MP
• Samuel Sugden (1892–1950), Professor of Physical Chemistry, Birkbeck College, London, 1932–1937, and Professor of Chemistry, University College London, 1937–1950
• Horace Waller (died 1917), World War I Victoria Cross winner
• Cecil Grayson (1920–1998), Serena Professor of Italian, University of Oxford, 1958–1988
• Godfrey Lienhardt (1921–1993), anthropologist
• Andrew Milner, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Monash University
• Paul Trepte, Organist of Ely Cathedral
• Richard Pearson, former English county cricketer
• Richard Reed, co-founder of innocent Drinks
• Richard Dawson, former English county cricketer
• Ismail Dawood, former English county cricketer
• Lukas Wooller, keyboardist with the band Maxïmo Park
• Andrew Firth, Michael Brooke and Ben Davies, members of indie-pop band The Dandys
• David Peace, Author
• Tim Fountain, Writer
• David Stiff, professional cricketer