Academics and Scientists
- Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton FRS, Chemist and Nobel Laureate
- William Thomas Clifford Beckett, CBE, DSO (1862–1956) Brigadier-General in British Army and notable Civil Engineer
- Herbert Edward Douglas Blakiston, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford (1917–1920)
- Roland Bond, Locomotive engineer
- Ian Bradley, writer, academic and theologian
- Owen Chadwick - Order of Merit, Vice Chancellor of University of Cambridge, Master of Selwyn Cambridge, Regius Professor of Modern History, Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Chancellor of University of Anglia, President of British Academy, and a Rugby Union International.
- John George Children FRS British chemist, mineralogist and zoologist
- Peter Fisher (physician), personal physician to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
- W. D. Hamilton, devisor of "Red Queen Theory"
- Norman Heatley, the man who, having been on the team of Oxford scientists which discovered penicillin, turned it into a usable medicine
- Sir Arthur Marshall, aviation engineer
- Carl Pantin FRS, Professor of zoology, Cambridge University
- Colin Patterson, palaeontologist and reformer of the fossil record
- Sir David Randall Pye FRS, Mechanical engineer and Provost of University College London
- W.H.R Rivers, Cambridge neurologist, psychologist, anthropologist and World War One psychiatrist
- Dr Anthony Seldon, historian, political commentator and educationalist (current Master of Wellington College)
- Claud Buchanan Ticehurst, ornithologist
- Ernest Basil Verney, Fellow of the Royal Society
- Thomas Dewar Weldon philosopher
- Maurice Frank Wiles - Regius Professor Emeritus of Divinity at Oxford and one of the leading theologians of the Church of England
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