Former Pupils
See also: Category:People educated at Douai SchoolFormer pupils are known as Old Dowegians and are eligible to join the Douai Society, founded in 1868.
Those educated at Douai School include:
- Lieutenant Colonel Charles Antelme DSO
- Michael Blower, architect
- A.M. Burrage, author
- Sir Edward William Dutton Colt, Bt
- Simon Craven, 8th Earl of Craven
- J. A. Cuddon, writer
- Christopher Derrick, writer
- Michael Derrick, journalist
- Michael Geoghegan, Chief Executive of HSBC
- Sir Brandon Gough DL, businessman
- Lord Harvington (Sir Robert Grant-Ferris), Conservative politician
- Rev Professor Adrian Hastings, historian
- Paul Jennings, journalist and humorist
- P. J. Kavanagh, poet
- Frank Keating, journalist, The Guardian
- Colonel Chris Keeble, DSO. Soldier. The Parachute Regiment.
- Jonny Kight, Director
- HRH Prince Ludwig of Bavaria
- Norbert Lynton, art historian
- Patrick Malahide, actor
- Most Rev Joseph Masterson, Archbishop of Birmingham
- Professor Henry Mayr-Harting, historian
- Vice Admiral Sir Timothy McClement KCB OBE
- Squadron Leader Robin McNair DFC, pilot and businessman
- Anthony Milner, composer
- Professor D.P. O'Brien, economist
- Kevin Porée, composer and producer
- Christopher Rudd, cricketer
- Cyril Stanley Smith, metallurgist
- Michael Sutty, sculptor
- Colonel 'Tod' Sweeney, MC
- Michael Tuffrey, Liberal Democrat politician
- Sir Stephen Wall GCMG LVO, diplomat
- Louis Wharton, cricketer
The Douai Society tie is black with thin multiple stripes of yellow, red, yellow, navy, yellow.
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