Desborough School - Alumni

Alumni

Notable alumni include:

• Nick Hornby, best selling author whose novels have been adapted into film (About a Boy, High Fidelity)
• Countdown director Derek Hallworth
• John O'Farrell, author
• Mark Richardson, GB 400 m runner
• Guy Fletcher, Dire Straits keyboard player
• Charles Hart, lyricist (Aspects of Love, The Phantom of the Opera, Love Never Dies)
• Peter Jones, multi-millionaire entrepreneur who returned to the school in September 2008
• Toby Anstis, radio DJ for London's Heart FM. Recently Toby Anstis visited the school to take part in the BBC school report.
• John B, Drum and bass DJ and graduate of molecular biology
• A former pupil, Dicky Patounas, became one of the youngest ever Red Arrows in 1997 at the age of 27.
• Stuart Manning, actor best known for playing the role of Russ Owen in the British Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks.