Stowe School - Old Stoics

See also: Category:People educated at Stowe School

Former pupils of Stowe School are known as Old Stoics and include:

• Michael Alexander
• Geoffrey Russell, 4th Baron Ampthill
• Major Jack Anderson, Victoria Cross recipient
• Lord Annan (author and Provost of King's College, Cambridge)
• 3rd Earl Attlee (House of Lords)
• Alexander Bernstein, Baron Bernstein of Craigweil (former television executive and a Labour Party member of the House of Lords)
• Oliver Bertram (Motor racing driver)
• Richard Boston (English journalist and author)
• John Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter (British Conservative Party politician)
• Sir Richard Branson (business man)
• Marilyn Okoro (British 400m Athlete)
• Lord Justice Simon Brown (law lord)
• Florence Brudenell-Bruce, actress and model
• Martin Buckmaster, 3rd Viscount Buckmaster OBE
• James Burnell-Nugent, (Admiral in the Royal Navy)
• Henry Cavill (actor)
• Leonard Cheshire VC (airman and founder of the Cheshire Foundation)
• Simon Clegg (Former CEO of the British Olympic Association and current CEO of Ipswich Town Football Club)
• Oliver Colvile, MP
• John C. Corlette, became an architect and later teacher at Gordonstoun; founded Aiglon College, Switzerland, in 1949.
• John Cornford (poet)
• Andrew Croft (explorer and SOE agent)
• Alki David (Director, Actor, Screenwriter, Businessman, Philanthropist and Explorer)
• Chelsy Davy (Former girlfriend of HRH Prince Henry of Wales)
• Simon Digby, oriental scholar
• John David Eaton (Merchant – Canada)
• Martin Edwards (former chairman of Manchester United)
• Thomas Firbank originator of P Company
• Howard Goodall (Musician)
• Michael Grade (TV executive)
• Harry Gregson-Williams (Composer and 1st Music Scholar 1975)
• 2nd Earl Haig
• Edward Hardwicke, (actor)
• Lee Harris (musician and manager of The Blockheads)
• Sir Jack Hayward – (entrepreneur and former owner of Wolverhampton Wanderers)
• Sir Nicholas Henderson (British diplomat)
• John Henniker-Major, 8th Baron Henniker (British diplomat)
• Roger Hodgson (musician) – founding member and vocalist of Supertramp
• Oscar Humphries (Journalist)
• Marc Koska, OBE (Inventor) (Designed K1 auto-disable syringe and credited with saving in excess of one million lives)
• Laddie Lucas CBE, DSO, DFC, airman, golfer, author and Member of Parliament (MP).
• Nicholas Walter Lyell, Baron Lyell of Markyate (former Solicitor-General and Attorney-General)
• Gavin Maxwell, author and naturalist
• Alistair McAlpine, Baron McAlpine
• George Melly (jazz singer & art historian)
• Crispian Mills (musician)
• Christopher Robin Milne (son of A.A Milne)
• George Monbiot (left-wing journalist and political activist)
• Sir Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk – herald
• Chandos Morgan, priest
• David Niven, (actor)
• Toby O'Brien, journalist and public relations expert
• Anthony Quinton, Baron Quinton, political and moral philosopher, metaphysician, and materialist philosopher of mind.
• HSH Prince Rainier III of Monaco
• Miranda Raison (actor)
• James Reeves (poet)
• Graham Riddick (British Conservative Party politician)
• John Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Preston Candover (Grocer)
• David Shepherd (artist)
• Henrik Takkenberg (singer, songwriter)
• Karan Thapar (journalist)
• Michael Ventris (linguist who deciphered Linear B)
• Rollo Weeks (actor)
• Graeme White, (Cricketer, Northamptonshire)
• Sir Nicholas Winton MBE, British humanitarian, nicknamed the British Schindler
• Peregrine Worsthorne (journalist)