Notable Alumni
The school has an active Old Boy's society that has football, cricket and water polo teams. Old boys are known as Old Handsworthians.
Notable alumni include:
- Brian Bowsher, Director of the National Physical Laboratory, UK from 2009
- Prof Sir David Cox, Professor of Statistics at Imperial College London from 1966-88, and President of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability from 1979-81
- Roy Fisher (b.1930), poet and jazz musician
- Dr Nigel Fortune, musicologist
- Denis Howell (1923–1998), Labour MP
- Larry (cartoonist)
- Dave Martin (screenwriter), wrote for Doctor Who, and created the canine character K-9
- Siôn Simon (b.1968), Labour MP
- Geoffrey Templeman CBE, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Kent from 1963-80
- Robert Weir, 1982 Commonwealth Games winning discus thrower
- Prof John Whitfield, Serena Professor of Italian Language and Literature at the University of Birmingham from 1946-74
- Harry B. Whittington, paleontologist and Woodwardian Professor of Geology at the University of Cambridge from 1966-83
- Joe Wilson, footballer
- Jack Payne, bandleader
- Adil Ray, Actor, Radio/Television presenter
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