City of Oxford High School For Boys - Alumni

Alumni

• John Adams, Editor from 1958-73 of Country Life
• Comedian Ronnie Barker
• Philip Bee, one of the town planners of Hemel Hempstead
• Dr. Cyril Beeson, entomologist and antiquarian horologist
• Prof. Rupert E. Billingham, Professor of Cell Biology from 1971-86 at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, did important early work with Sir Peter Medawar on organ transplantation, and President from 1974-6 of the Transplantation Society
• Sir John Carter, Chief Executive from 1994-8 of Commercial Union plc (became CGU plc in 1998), and Chairman from 1995-7 of the Association of British Insurers
• Brian Cobby, voice of the British speaking clock.
• Stephen Coppock, mathematician and designer of anti-tank shells (armour-piercing discarding sabot shot - APDS) at Fort Halstead for the Army in the Second World War which proved devastating to German Tiger II and Panther tanks after D-Day
• the poet John Drinkwater
• Philip Hunt, Baron Hunt of Kings Heath OBE, Labour peer and former Minister in DEFRA and the DECC, and President from 1998-9 of the Family Planning Association
• Anthony Jarvis, Headmaster since 1994 of St Olave's Grammar School
• Professor John Krebs (now Lord Krebs), Principal since 2005 of Jesus College, Oxford and President from 1993-4 of the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour
• Prof. A.W. Lawrence, Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology from 1944-51 at the University of Cambridge
• Lt. Col. T.E. Lawrence, better known as 'Lawrence of Arabia', and his youngest brother Prof. A.W. Lawrence, Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology at Cambridge University
• Heinz Wolff, scientist
• Kenneth Ray OBE, President from 1985-6 of the British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
• Prof. Thomas Thacker, Professor of Semitic Philology from 1951-77 and Professor of Hebrew and Oriental Languages from 1945-51 at Durham University
• Rt. Rev. Russell Berridge White, Bishop of Tonbridge from 1959-68
• Peter Williams, Chief Executive from 2002-9 of the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, and President from 2005-8 of the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA)

One of the four school houses was named after Lawrence. Large photographs of Lawrence and Drinkwater were displayed to the right and left of the main hall, to inspire pupils during morning assembly — Lawrence is now above the main staircase.