Notable Alumni
See also: Category:People educated at Chigwell School- Eric Bailey OBE, journalist, broadcaster and colonial administrator
- George Baker OBE CBE, High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea (1974–1977)
- Peter Beckingham, Ambassador to the Philippines since 2005
- Prof Sir John Boardman (born 1927), classical archaeologist
- Sir Michael Bonallack, golfer
- Prof Percy Brandon, Professor of Electrical Engineering from 1971-84 at the University of Cambridge
- Ken Campbell, actor
- Edward Caswall, classical scholar and writer of hymns, music master at Chigwell.
- Peter Collecott CMG, Ambassador to Brazil from 2004-8
- Richard Collins FRCS, Vice-President, Royal College of Surgeons 2010
- Tim Collins, Conservative politician, MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale from 1997–2005
- William Cotton, Governor of the Bank of England, who famously set fire to the Headmaster’s garden.
- Sir Richard Dales CMG, former Ambassador to Norway from 1998–2002
- Paul Farmer (1961–68), former Headmaster of London comprehensive schools, including Dick Sheppard School; developed use of pop music in schools, including the first CSE examination in pop music
- Vice-Adm Sir Robert Gerken KCB CBE, Captain of the Fleet from 1978–81
- Sir Arthur Grimble, colonial governor
- Sir Austin Bradford Hill, pioneering medical researcher who discovered the link between smoking and cancer
- Steriker Hare, cricketer
- Sir Ian Holm, actor
- Anthony Hossack (1882–1886) England footballer of the 1890s.
- David Landsman OBE, Ambassador to Greece since 2009, and to Albania from 2001-3
- Prof David Matthews, Professor of Diabetes Medicine since 2002 at the University of Oxford
- William Penn, Quaker leader and founder of the state of Pennsylvania in the United States of America
- Sir David Pepper, Director of GCHQ from 2003-8
- Prof James B. Ramsey, Professor of Economics at New York University
- Timothy Rollinson, Director-General of the Forestry Commission since 2004, and President from 2000-2 of the Institute of Chartered Foresters
- Rt Rev Thomas Joseph Savage
- Ben Shephard, television presenter
- Horace Smith, poet
- Michael Marshall Smith, novelist
- Jordan Spence, footballer, West Ham 2010
- Rt Rev Tim Stevens, Bishop of Leicester since 1999
- Col Bob Stewart MP DSO
- Sir Edward Albert Stone, Chief Justice of Western Australia, 1901–06
- Michael Thomas, former Attorney General of Hong Kong
- Sir Colin Thornton-Kemsley, MP for Kincardine and Western Aberdeenshire from 1939–50 and North Angus and Mearns from 1950–64
- Colin Wilcockson, English scholar and Emeritus Fellow of Pembroke, Cambridge
- Sir Bernard Williams, philosopher and Provost of King's College, Cambridge
- Prof Nicholas Williams, scholar of the Irish and Cornish languages.
- Timothy Williams, crime novelist
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