Alumni
- Greg Lake — Former cast member of Geordie Shore
- Karl Andrew Mennear - Conservative candidate for Finchley at the 2005 election.
- Peter Ramage - current Crystal Palace defender.
- Lucy Ratcliffe - model and Britain's Next Top Model, Cycle 1 winner.
- Ben Smith - current Rochdale goalkeeper.
- Prof Arthur Darling CBE, Professor of Dental Medicine from 1959-82 at the University of Bristol
- Vilyam Genrikhovich Fisher, Soviet intelligence officer
- Greg Rutherford, current Hartlepool United footballer
- Prof Sir Lawrence Freedman CBE, Professor of War Studies since 1982 at King's College London, and one of the inquirers of The Iraq Inquiry
- John Thomas Young Gilroy - English artist and illustrator, best known for his advertising posters for Guinness, the Irish stout.
- Joyce Quin - Baroness Quin of Gateshead, former MP for Gateshead East, also former prisons minister and deputy agriculture minister.
- Maj-Gen Roy Marshal CB OBE, Colonel Commandant from 1972 of the Royal Artillery
- John Sands, Chief Executive from 1991-2003 of Pubmaster (based in Hartlepool)
- Dame Ethel Wormald, Labour councillor and Lord Mayor of Liverpool
- Keith Yeates, urologist, President from 1980-2 of The British Association of Urological Surgeons, and Editor from 1973-8 of the British Journal of Urology
- Alan Campbell - MP for Tynemouth, taught History at the school from 1980-9, and married a former pupil.
- Steven Tupling - former Middlesbrough, Hartlepool United and Cardiff City player, currently teaches PE at the school.
- Michael Shanks - British archaeologist who taught Latin, Greek and Ancient History 1983-1988.
- Roger Uttley - former English rugby union player. Taught PE in the 1970s.
- Andrea Rea, aka Huffty - presenter of The Word (TV series).
- Graham Fenton - footballer who formerly played for Aston Villa, Blackburn Rovers and Leicester City.
- Edward Olive - photographer & screen actor (based in Madrid).
- Paul Noble - artist, creator of Nobson Newtown, an ongoing series of drawings of an imaginary surrealist city.
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