Eltham College - Notable Old Elthamians

Notable Old Elthamians

See also: Category:People educated at Eltham College

(in alphabetical order)

• Sir John Bailey CB, HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor from 1984-8, and Chief Adjudicator from 1989-2000 of ICSTIS
• Statistician Philip Bailey
• Mountaineer George Band
• Assoc. Prof. Simon Batterbury, University of Melbourne
• Philosopher Piers Benn
• Criminologist Sir Anthony Bottoms
• Politician Fenner Brockway - one of the last pupils to attend the school when it was located in Blackheath
• Sir Michael Buckley (civil servant)
• Author and broadcaster Charlie Connelly
• Prof Bill Deakin, Professor of Psychiatry since 1990 at the University of Manchester
• Prof Stephen Dunnett, neuroscientist, and Professor of Biosciences since 2005 at Cardiff University
• Physicist Frank Farmer
• Organist Stephen Farr
• Nick Ferrari, radio broadcaster
• Alan Furness CMG, Ambassador to Senegal from 1993-7
• Sir Simon Gass KCMG CVO, Senior Diplomat, Ambassador to Iran 2009-11, and to Greece from 2004-9
• Jamie Harris, Newport Gwent Dragons rugby player
• Stephen Hockman, QC
• Prof Martin Jones, George Pitt-Rivers Professor of Archaeological Science since 1990 at the University of Cambridge
• Jim Knight former Labour MP, Minister of State for Schools in the UK Government, MP from 2001-2010 for South Dorset
• Olympic athlete Eric Liddell, after whom the sports hall is named
• Peter Luff (campaigner)
• Johan Malcolm, Leicestershire county cricket player
• Rear Adm Philip Marrack CB, commanded the Admiralty Reactor Test Establishment, Dounreay from 1967–70
• Prof Alan Martin, Professor of Theoretical Physics from 1978-2003 at the University of Durham
• Prof Bob Mash, Stellenbosch University
• Dr Andrew McCulloch, Chief Executive since 2002 of the Mental Health Foundation
• Jack Oliver - Great Britain Weightlifter
• Phil Packer, MBE - Former soldier turned fundraiser
• Gormenghast author Mervyn Peake, after whom the library is named
• Prof Robert Pounder, Professor of Medicine from 1992-2005 at the University College London Medical School
• Prof Geoffrey K. Pullum, Professor of General Linguistics since 2007 at the University of Edinburgh
• Caitlin Reiger, lawyer and author of "Prosecuting Heads of State"
• Organist David Sanger
• Anglican priest and hymn writer, Rev Canon Michael Saward
• Dr Andrew Sentance, Member, Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee, 2006-11, and Chief Economist from 1998-2006 at British Airways
• Brian Southam, academic publisher and authority on Jane Austen
• Revolutionary human geneticist and genealogist Bryan Sykes, known for discovering the genes which bear the cause of diseases such as muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis.
• Prof Geoffrey Waywell, Professor of Classical Archaeology from 1987-2004 at King's College London, and Director from 1996-2004 of the Institute of Classical Studies
• K P Witney, C.V.O., M. A. Under Secretary in the Home Office, retiring in 1976. Distinguished historian of Kent in the Anglo-Saxon period. His books include "The Jutish Forest" and "The Kingdom of Kent". Chairman of the Federation of Amenities Societies in 1981. Born 1916, now deceased.