Notable Old Boys
See also Category:People educated at Sir Walter St John's Grammar School For Boys
- Martin Amis (1949-) - British novelist
- Roger Glover Musician, Deep Purple
- Paul Bailey, writer
- John Balchin, General Manager from 1969-76 of Stevenage Development Corporation
- Peter Black, Chairman from 1973-8 of the Thames Water Authority, and had a role on the development of the Thames Barrier
- Allan Brown, organist and Professor from 1931-64 at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
- Clifford Chapman - Dean of Exeter
- Francis Cole (1872–1959) - British zoologist
- Thomas Drakeley CBE, Principal from 1932–55 and from 1958-61 of the Northern Polytechnic, and Director from 1948-55 of the National College of Rubber Technology
- Prof Marcel Escudier, Harrison Professor of Mechanical Engineering from 1989-2008 at the University of Liverpool
- Brigadier Sir Lionel Harris CBE, Engineer-in-Chief from 1954-60 of the GPO, worked on early teleprinters in the 1930s resulting of a forerunner of the telex system in 1937, and Chief of Telecommunications from 1943-5 at SHAEF
- Prof Geoffrey Haselden, Brotherton Professor of Chemical Engineering from 1960-86 at the University of Leeds
- Melvyn Hayes (1935-) - British actor
- Basil Hone, cartoonist for the Peterborough column in the Daily Telegraph
- Maj-Gen Mervyn Janes CB MBE, Colonel Commandant from 1973-81 of the Royal Artillery
- Fred Landeg CBE, Chief Veterinary Officer from 2007-8
- John Nichols, Director from 1976-9 of the National Maritime Institute in Feltham
- Prof David Phillips, Professor of Comparative Education since 2000 at the University of Oxford
- Albert Samuels, Chairman from 1958-9 of London County Council
- E.R. Thompson OBE, the BBC's first parliamentary correspondent
- Michael Webb OBE, Director-General from 1996-9 of the St John Ambulance in England
- Stanley Whitehead (physicist) (1902–56) - British physicist
- Walter Wooldridge CBE, President from 1954-5 of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
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