Culford School - Notable Old Culfordians

Notable Old Culfordians

See also Category:People educated at Culford School

• Paul Adams (Chief Executive of British American Tobacco 2004-2011)

• Lt Col Charles Appleby (first Director, National Army Museum (d. 1975))
• Colin Archer (Secretary-General, International Peace Bureau)
• Judy Aslett (foreign correspondent for Channel 4 News)
• Rev. Dr John C. A. Barrett (President, World Methodist Council and former Headmaster of sister school The Leys)
• Bob Blizzard (Labour MP 1997-2010; Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury 2008-2010)
• The Hon. Ashley Rupert Brodrick, Heir Apparent, Viscount Middleton
• Professor Stephen Challacombe (former Head of Oral Medicine, Pathology & Postgraduate Studies, KCL School of Medicine)
• Peter Clarke (Chief Executive of Man Group, sponsors of the Man Booker Prize)
• Sir Robert Crawford CBE (former Director General of the Imperial War Museum)
• I Grenville Cross QC, SC, SBS (Director of Public Prosecutions, Hong Kong, China 1997-2009)
• Josh Davey (Cricketer, Middlesex and Scotland)
• Nick de Bois (Conservative MP 2010- )
• Professor Ian Dowman (UCL geospatial engineer; Vice-President, International Society for Photogrammetry)
• Hugh Falkus (writer and film maker (d.1996))
• Jayne-Anne Gadhia (Chief Executive of Virgin Money)

• Matthew Grinham (Welsh Hockey International)
• Ian Hendry (actor, most notably The Avengers (d.1984))
• Ralph Hodge CBE (former Chief Executive of ICI Chemicals)
• Philip Howard (leader writer and Modern Times columnist, The Times)
• Sharon Hunt (Great Britain 3-Day Eventing Bronze Medalist, 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics)
• Kate Jackson (singer, formerly of The Long Blondes)
• Erica Jeal (classical music critic, The Guardian and Deputy Editor of Opera Magazine)
• Peter Jenkins (political columnist and Associate Editor, The Independent (d.1992))
• Andrew Johnson-Laird (pioneer in computer forensics, software reverse engineering and forensic software analysis)
• Lucy Johnston (Health Editor, The Daily Express)
• Professor Philip Johnson-Laird (Stuart Professor of Psychology, Princeton University)
• Robert Knight (former Chairman, Aviva Life Insurance, Asia and Executive Director, Hong Kong Rugby Football Union)
• Simon Lowden (CMO, PepsiCo Americas Beverages)
• Sarah Matthias (children’s author)
• General Sir John McColl KCB CBE DSO (Lieutenant Governor of Jersey; Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe 2007-2011)
• William McFee (Anglo-American novelist, especially of sea-tales, and essayist (d.1966))
• William R. Miller CBE (former Vice Chairman of Bristol-Myers Squibb and benefactor to Culford and St Edmund Hall, Oxford)
• John Motson OBE (sports commentator, BBC)
• Gary Newbon (Sky Sports presenter)
• Jackie Orme (Chief Executive of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development 2008-2012 (d.2012))
• Lord Phillips of Sudbury OBE (Liberal Democrat politician and Chancellor of the University of Essex)
• Peter Phillips (Chief Executive, Cambridge University Press)
• Sir David Plastow (former Chairman of Rolls-Royce Motors & Chairman & Chief Executive of Vickers)
• Paula Pryke (noted floral artist and author)
• Admiral Sir Derek Reffell KCB (former Controller of the Navy and Governor of Gibraltar)
• Freddie Sore (longest-serving umpire at Wimbledon and designer of Concorde's dropped nose (d.2004))
• John Taylor (first Chief Justice of Lagos (d.1973))
• Dr Colin White (eminent Nelson scholar and Director of the Royal Naval Museum (d. 2008))