Music & The Arts
- Ralph Allwood - Director of Music at Eton College
- Frederic Austin - English baritone singer, musical teacher and composer in the period 1905–30.
- Jon Boden - English fiddle player and folk singer
- Sir Edward Bairstow - organist and composer in the Anglican church music tradition.
- H. Hugh Bancroft - British organist and composer who was organist of five cathedrals.
- Thomas Frederick Handel Candlyn - Organist and choirmaster, St. Thomas Church, New York
- King Charles (musician) - indie rock artist
- Andrew Cantrill - Organist and choirmaster, St. Paul's Cathedral, Buffalo, New York
- J. Michael Clarke (St Chad's) - composer and musician
- (Alfred) Melville Cook, British organist and conductor
- Justin Chancellor, bassist, Tool
- Jonathan Darlington - conductor and Music Director of Vancouver Opera
- Bryan Ferry - Roxy Music singer (only for one year before moving to Newcastle)
- Joseph Crabtree (Collingwood) - drummer, Wishbone Ash
- Dame Margot Fonteyn - ballet dancer
- Noel Forster (King's) - British artist
- Ruth Gipps - British composer, oboist and pianist
- Dan "Nu:Tone" Gresham - drum and bass musician
- Ted Harrison - Canadian artist
- Patrick Hawes - composer and Classic FM's Composer in Residence.
- Arthur Hutchings - professor of music in Durham, author of books on Mozart Piano Concertos and Jean-Philippe Rameau
- John Joubert - composer of choral music
- James MacMillan - composer.
- Anthony Payne - Composer famed for his work on the sketches of Elgar's Third Symphony
- Charles Sansbury (King's) - sculptor and artist
- Sir Harold Malcolm Watts Sargent - English conductor, organist and composer
- Robert Simpson - composer, writer, BBC producer
- Ronald Smith - English classical pianist, composer and teacher
- Tim "Exile" Shaw, drum and bass and IDM musician
- Alan Walker - musicologist and biographer of Franz Liszt
- John B. Williams - drum and bass musician
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