Berkhamsted School - Old Berkhamstedians

Old Berkhamstedians

See also: Category:People educated at Berkhamsted Collegiate School
  • Henry Atkins (1554/5–1635), President of the College of Physicians, 1606–1635
  • Richard Field (1561–1616), clergyman and theologian
  • Sir Algernon Methuen (1856–1924), founder and owner, Methuen & Co, publishers, 1889–1924
  • Clementine Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill (1885–1977), wife of Winston Churchill
  • Charles Seltman (1886-1957), author and archeologist
  • Clifford Allen, 1st Baron Allen of Hurtwood (1889–1939), politician and peace campaigner
  • Sir Donald Fergusson (1891–1963), Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, 1936–1945, and Ministry of Fuel and Power, 1945–1952
  • H. W. Tilman (1898–1977), mountaineer and sailor
  • A. K. Chesterton (1899–1973), fascist, and first Chairman, National Front, 1967–1971
  • F. S. Smythe (1900–1949), mountaineer and author
  • Raymond Greene (1901–1982), endocrinologist and mountaineer
  • Hubert Hastings (1902–1986), Editor, Architectural Review, 1927–
  • Claud Cockburn (1904–1981), writer and journalist
  • Graham Greene (1904–1991), author
  • Bill Fiske, Baron Fiske (1905–1975), first leader of the Greater London Council, 1964–1967, and Chairman of the Decimal Currency Board
  • Sir Peter Quennell (1905–1993), writer and editor
  • Rex Tremlett (1903–1986) author and prospector
  • Sir Colin Buchanan (1907–2001), town planner
  • Richard Perry (1909–1982), writer/naturalist
  • Sir Hugh Greene (1910–1987), Director-General of the BBC, 1960–1969
  • Sir Kenneth Cork (1913–1991), accountant, and Lord Mayor of the City of London, 1978–1979
  • Alan Pennington (1916–1961), Olympic athlete
  • Margot Jefferys (1916–1999), Professor of Medical Sociology, Bedford College, London, 1968–1982
  • Antony Hopkins (born 1921), composer
  • Robert Simons (1922-2011), cricketer
  • Stephen Dodgson (born 1924), composer and broadcaster
  • Victor Silvester, Jr. (1924–1999), clarinettist and band leader
  • Paul Sieghart (1927–1988), law reformer
  • Mark Boxer (Marc) (1931–1988), cartoonist and magazine editor
  • Michael Podro (1931–2008), art historian
  • Alexander Goehr (born 1932), composer and 1987 Reith Lecturer
  • Sir Anthony Cleaver (born 1938), Chairman of the Medical Research Council, 1998–2006
  • Sir Robin Knox-Johnston (born 1939), yachtsman
  • Michael Meacher (born 1939), politician
  • Richard Mabey (born 1941), nature writer
  • Kit Wright (born 1944), children's poet
  • Keith Mans (born 1946), politician
  • Tim Binding (born 1947), novelist
  • John Bly, antiques expert
  • Lieutenant General Mark Mans, Adjutant-General to the Forces
  • Brigadier Lance Mans ,Former Director Special Forces,Nato Special Operations Command
  • Sarah Brightman (born 1960), singer
  • Stuart Gyngell (born 1963), athlete
  • Roger Moorhouse (born 1968), historian and author
  • Emma Fielding (born 1966), actress
  • Stephen Campbell Moore (born 1977 Stephen Thorpe), actor
  • Patrick Hennessey (born 1982), author of The Junior Officers' Reading Club
  • Carla Chases (born 1984), actress
  • Talulah Riley (born 1985), actress
  • Paul Jefferys (born 1986), mathematician and computer programmer
  • Alan Goldberg (born 1954), warden of western marble arch synagogue

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