Journalists and Writers
- Mark Church, sports commentator
- Rupert Croft-Cooke, author
- Albany Fonblanque, journalist
- E. M. Forster, novelist
- Frederick Forsyth, novelist
- Sidney Keyes, poet
- Christopher Reid, poet
- Vikram Seth, novelist
- Ken Wiwa, journalist and author. Son of Nigerian campaigner, Ken Saro-Wiwa.
- William Woodfall, (at the school in 1760), pioneer of the (then illegal) practice of reporting Parliamentary debates
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