Old Goreans
See also: Category:People educated at Bishop Gore SchoolNotable Old Goreans have included:
- Martin Amis, novelist and journalist
- Donald Anderson, Baron Anderson of Swansea, Labour MP for Swansea East 1974–2005
- Gareth Armstrong, actor
- George Bell CBE, Director of the Plant Breeding Institute at the University of Cambridge 1947–71
- Timothy Beynon, President from 2000-4 of the British Dragonfly Society
- Kenneth Bryn Thomas, anaesthetist
- Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare, Home Secretary 1868–73
- Prof Sir John Cadogan CBE, Director General of Research Councils UK 1994-8, Forbes Professor of Organic Chemistry 1969-79 at the University of Edinburgh, former BP executive, and President of the Royal Society of Chemistry 1982-4
- Rt Rev Graham Chadwick, bishop and anti-apartheid campaigner
- Ronald Cour, sculptor
- Sir George Curtis CB, Chief Land Registrar at HM Land Registry 1947-63
- Glyn Davies, Marxist-Leninist thinker and Socialist worker
- David Dykes, Director of the National Museum of Wales 1986-9, and President of the British Numismatic Society 1999–2003
- Prof Sir Sam Edwards (physicist) FRS, President of the Institute of Physics 1972-4, Vice-Chancellor of the University of London 1985–90
- Paul Ferris (author), journalist, novelist and biographer
- Charles Fisher (poet), journalist
- Brian Flowers, Baron Flowers, physicist
- John Ford CBE, Chief Executive of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency, and the Driving Standards Agency 1993-2000
- Dr Hywel Davies, cardiologist and author
- Thomas George, Professor of Geology at the University of Glasgow 1947–74, President of the Geological Society of London 1968–70 and the Palaeontological Association 1962-4
- Sir Alexander Gordon CBE, architect and President of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) 1971-3
- Sir William Grove, chemist, barrister and judge
- Rt Rev Llewellyn Henry Gwynne, Bishop of Egypt and the Sudan
- Prof John Howell CBE, Professor of Medicine at the University of Southampton 1969–91, and Dean of the Medical School 1978-83, and President of the British Thoracic Society 1988-9, and President of the British Medical Association 1989-90.
- Alfred Janes, artist
- Daniel Jones, composer
- Ernest Jones, founder of British Psycho-Analytical Society, biographer of Sigmund Freud
- John Jones, Professor of Economics from 1919-46 at the University of Leeds
- Mervyn Jones, Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands 2000-2
- Peter Jones (broadcaster), BBC Sports Announcer
- The Kardomah Gang, 1930s Swansea literary and cultural circle
- Prof. Gail Kinman, Professor of Occupational Health Psychology at the University of Bedfordshire
- Timothy Knowles, Group Managing Director of HTV Group 1986-8
- Sir Archie Lamb MBE CMG DFC, Ambassador to Kuwait 1974-7, and to Norway 1978–80
- Mervyn Levy, artist and critic
- Prof Patrick McGorry AO, Professor of Youth Mental Health University of Melbourne; 2010 Australian of the Year.
- Prof Leonard Maunder OBE, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Newcastle University 1967-92
- John Metcalf, composer
- David Miles, chief UK economist at Morgan Stanley, author of the Miles Report for HM Treasury
- Hugh David Morgan, philosopher, raconteur and wit
- Sir Gwilym Morris CBE, Chief Constable of South Wales Constabulary (since 1996 known as South Wales Police) 1971-9
- Sir Douglas Owen CB, Commissioner of HM Customs and Excise 1949–65
- Prof Dewi Zephaniah Phillips - Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Swansea University and Claremont Graduate University California, author and minister
- Colin Phipps, Labour MP for Dudley West 1974-9
- Prof William Price, Wheatstone Professor of Physics at King's College London 1955-76
- Sion Probert, actor
- Prof Lewis Roberts CBE, President of the British Nuclear Energy Society 1985-7
- Sir Melvyn Rosser, Chairman of HTV Group 1986–91 and
- Dylan Thomas, poet, playwright and author
- Prof Leslie Vaughan, Professor of Veterinary Surgery at the Royal Veterinary College 1974-91
- Wynford Vaughan-Thomas, World War 2 war reporter, journalist, founder of HTV
- Prof Dominic Welsh, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford 1992-2005
- Prof. Rhys Williams, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at Swansea University
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