Others
- Actors George Coulouris, Sir Ben Kingsley, Robert Powell and Ashley Margolis
- Broadcaster James H. Reeve
- Businessman and politician Lord Woolton
- Chemists Frederick Kipping (1863–1949), developer of silicone compounds, John Charles Polanyi (1929-), Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry, Herbert Brereton Baker, and Sir James Baddiley FRS FRSE (1918–2008) biochemist
- Civil servant John Swanwick Bradbury, 1st Baron Bradbury
- Chief Executive of Arsenal Football Club, Ivan Gazidis
- Classical scholar A. A. Long
- Clergyman and politician, Rev. Joseph Diggle
- Comedian Laurence Howarth
- Director of the London School of Economics and former Chairman of the Financial Services Authority, Lord Davies
- Economist Paul Ormerod
- Fashion designer, theatrical director and stylist William Baker known for his work with Kylie Minogue
- Footballer Oliver Gill
- Hedge Fund entrepreneur Stanley Fink
- Historians Donald Adamson and Michael Wood
- Journalists Mark Chapman, Michael Crick, Faisal Islam, Alexander Gault MacGowan, Tim Samuels and Jim White
- Judge Sir Robert Booth (judge)
- John Bamber Stipendiary Magistrate for Manchester 1965–1976
- Master of University College, Oxford, Sir Ivor Martin Crewe
- Opera and theatre director Steven Pimlott
- Poet Samuel Bamford
- Principal of King's College London, Sir Ernest Barker
- Theatre and film director Nicholas Hytner
- Theatre director and Shakespearian academic Ben Iden Payne
- Vice-Chancellor of the University of York Professor Brian Cantor
- Victoria Cross recipient, William Thomas Forshaw was a teacher at the School
- Simon Walsh, Barrister and Alderman of the City of London
- Haddon Hwang, King of Sesh Aston University
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