Dragon School - Notable Old Dragons

Notable Old Dragons

Former pupils of the Dragon School are referred to as Old Dragons. The following people were students at one time:

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  • Poppy Adams, writer
  • Alexander Aris, elder son of Nobel Prize-winning democracy and human rights campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi and Michael Aris
  • Kim Aris, younger son of Aung San Suu Kyi and Michael Aris
  • Robert Armstrong, Baron Armstrong of Ilminster (born 1927), civil servant
  • Henry Barratt (born 1983), rugby union player
  • Sir Gawain Bell (1909–1995), colonial administrator, Governor of Northern Nigeria
  • Michael Beloff QC (born 1942), barrister, President of Trinity College, Oxford
  • Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984), poet, Poet Laureate from 1972
  • Sir Lennox Berkeley (1903–1989), composer
  • Alain de Botton (born 1969), writer and television producer
  • Humphry Bowen (1929–2002), chemist and botanist
  • Jonathan Bowen (born 1956), computer scientist
  • Julian Brazier (born 1953), politician
  • Henry Brett, polo player, captain England polo team 2003–06
  • Sandy Bruce-Lockhart, Baron Bruce-Lockhart (1942–2008), politician
  • William Buchan, 3rd Baron Tweedsmuir (1916–2008), novelist, poet and statesman
  • Sir Giles Bullard (1926–1992), diplomat
  • Sir Julian Bullard (1928—2006), diplomat
  • John Campbell (born 1958), economist
  • Humphrey Carpenter (1946–2005), journalist, author, and musician
  • Tristram Cary (1925–2008), composer.
  • Simon Cawkwell, aka "Evil Knievil", stock market commentator
  • Hal Cazalet, musician
  • Christopher Cazenove (1943–2010), actor
  • Jonathan Cecil (1939-2011), actor
  • Leonard Cheshire VC (1917–1992), World War II RAF pilot and activist for the disabled
  • Colin Clark (1905–1989), economist
  • Hugh Dancy (born 1975), actor
  • Jack Davenport (born 1973), actor
  • Quentin Davies, politician
  • Ralph Henry Carless Davis (1918–1991), historian
  • Cressida Dick (born 1960), senior police officer
  • Oliver Dimsdale (born 1972), actor
  • Lady Antonia Fraser (born 1932, née Pakenham), historical author
  • Tim Fry, (1934–2004), designer of the Hillman Imp
  • Cyril Gadney, rugby player and president of the RFU
  • Douglas Gairdner, (1910-1979), pediatrician
  • The Rt. Hon. Hugh Gaitskell (1906–1963), politician, leader of the Labour Party from 1955–1963
  • J. B. S. Haldane (1892–1964), geneticist and evolutionary biologist
  • Air Chief Marshal Sir Donald Hardman
  • Tim Henman (born 1974), tennis player
  • Emma Hiddleston, actor
  • Tom Hiddleston (born 1981), actor
  • Brent Hoberman, co-founder of lastminute.com
  • Tom Hollander (born 1967), actor
  • Peter Hopkirk (born 1930), journalist, author
  • Air Marshal Sir Peter Horsley (1921–2001), Royal Air Force commander
  • Frances Houghton (born 1980), rower and Olympic silver medallist
  • Lord Hunt (born 1942), leading authority on turbulence modelling
  • Sir Tim Hunt, biochemist and Nobel laureate
  • Brian Inglis (1916–1993), journalist and historian
  • Max Irons (born 1985), actor
  • Pico Iyer (born 1957), journalist and author
  • Peter Jay (born 1937), television journalist, and former BBC economics editor
  • Patrick Jenkin PC (Lord Jenkin of Roding, born 1926), politician
  • David Jessel, journalist
  • Stephen Jessel, journalist
  • Dom Joly (born 1968), comedian
  • Sir John Kendrew (1917–1997), molecular biologist and Nobel Laureate
  • Andrew Lack (born 1953), biologist and botanist
  • Hugh Laurie (born 1959), British comedian and actor
  • David Lewis (born 1947), Lord Mayor of London 2007–08
  • Alan Macfarlane, anthropologist and historian
  • Lancelot Mallalieu, politician
  • Oliver Milburn, actor
  • Hugh Miles (born 1977), journalist and author
  • Naomi Mitchison (née Haldane, 1897–1999), British novelist and poet
  • Philip Moore, Baron Moore of Wolvercote (1921–2009),Civil servant and personal private secretary to the Queen
  • Robert Moore, ITN correspondent
  • John Paul Morrison (born 1937), inventor of flow-based programming
  • Sir John Mortimer (1923–2009), playwright (his time at the school in the 1930s is fictionalised as "Cliffhanger School" in his play "A Voyage Round My Father"), barrister and novelist
  • Sir Peter Newsam (born 1928), educator (also staff)
  • Sir Roger Norrington (born 1934), musician and conductor
  • Ed O'Brien (born 1968), musician (member of Radiohead)
  • Rageh Omaar (born 1967), journalist and writer
  • Julian Opie (born 1958), artist
  • Stephen Oppenheimer (born 1947), genetic researcher and author
  • Ronnie Poulton-Palmer (born c.1890), killed in the First World War, rugby player
  • Jonathan Pugh (born 1962), cartoonist
  • Sir Timothy Raison (born 1929), politician, journalist and author
  • Jack Randle VC (1917–1944), distinguished serviceman, T/Captain, 2nd Bn. The Royal Norfolk Regiment
  • Adrian Rawlins (born 1958), film and television actor
  • Andrew Robinson (born 1957), author and editor
  • William Leefe Robinson VC (1895–1918), lieutenant, 39 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps
  • Aubrey de Sélincourt (1894–1962), writer
  • Nicholas Shakespeare (born 1957), journalist and novelist
  • David Shukman
  • Nevil Shute (1899–1960), novelist
  • Frank Sidgwick (1879–1939), founder of publishers Sidgwick and Jackson
  • Sir John Slessor, Marshal of the Royal Air Force
  • Sir John Smyth VC, distinguished serviceman, lieutenant, 15th Ludhiana Sikhs, Indian Army
  • Richard Sorabji (born 1934), academic and historian of classical philosophy
  • Timothy Sprigge (1932–2007), philosopher
  • Jon Stallworthy (born 1935), academic and poet
  • Clive Stanbrook OBE QC (born 1948), international lawyer and African biofuel pioneer
  • Rory Stewart (born 1973), politician, author and diplomat
  • Galen Strawson (born 1952), philosopher and literary critic
  • Christopher Tolkien, son of J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Peter Tranchell (1922–1993), musician, composer, and teacher
  • Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt, Royal Navy admiral
  • Sam Waley-Cohen (born 1982), jockey and businessman
  • Tom Ward (born 1971), actor
  • Paul Watkins (born 1963), Booker Prize-nominated author
  • Emma Watson (born 1990), actress
  • Admiral Sir Hugo White (born 1939), Royal Navy admiral, Commander-in-Chief Fleet 1992–95
  • Jack Whitehall (born 1988), comedian
  • Conrad Wolfram (born 1970), technologist
  • Stephen Wolfram (born 1959), physicist, computer programmer
  • Shaun Wylie (1913–2009), mathematician and World War II codebreaker
  • Baroness Young (1926–2002), politician

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