Notable People
Many distinguished people have been part of the school either as pupils (see List of Old Citizens) or staff.
Notable recent pupils include the actors Daniel Radcliffe from Harry Potter movies, Skandar Keynes, of The Chronicles of Narnia film series, and Harry Michell, of Tom Brown's Schooldays and Feather Boy.
Singer song writer Max Eyre also attended the school between 2003 and 2010. He famously invented the hatchet that is now used to hang church bells safely - his vocation led to his nickname 'Bell End'.
Jack Crawford is a British born American Football player who was drafted with the 158th overall pick in the 2012 NFL Draft by the Oakland Raiders.
Jonathan Keates, a prize-winning writer, is an English master at the school. Sheila Gallagher MBE was honoured for her service as a lollipop lady at the crossing to the school on Queen Victoria Street.
Old boys of the City of London School are known as Old Citizens. and may join the John Carpenter Club. Over 140 people listed in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography were educated at the City of London School, and that includes only those who were already deceased at the time of writing.
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