King Edward VI Camp Hill School For Boys - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

See also: Category:People educated at King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys

• Stanley Barnes, neurologist, former Dean from 1931-42 of the University of Birmingham Medical School, and fourth President from 1931-2 of the Association of British Neurologists
• Jim Beeston OBE, Chief Executive of the Birmingham Heartlands Development Corporation from 1992-8
• Mark Billingham, author, Crime Fiction
• Richard Boot OBE (2011), Ernst & Young, Chair of IoD national Council
• Keith Campbell member of the team that cloned Dolly the sheep
• Fintan Coyle, co-creator of TV gameshow "Weakest Link"
• Roger Cotterrell, Anniversary Professor of Legal Theory since 2005 at Queen Mary, University of London
• Arthur Cox, Professor of Geology from 1918–49 at University College, Cardiff
• Andrew Crawford, Professor of Neurophysiology since 1992 at the University of Cambridge
• Alan Dedicoat, BBC announcer and newsreader
• Christopher Edmunds, Principal from 1945-56 of Birmingham School of Music (now called Birmingham Conservatoire), and composer
• Reginald Eyre, Conservative MP for Birmingham Hall Green from 1965–87 and Chairman of the Birmingham Heartlands Development Corporation from 1987–98
• Clifford Grey (real name Percival Davis), composer who wrote If You Were the Only Girl (In the World), and won Olympic gold medals in 1928 and 1932 for the USA bobsleigh team
• Nicholas Green QC, UK Permanent Representative to the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe from 2000-2 and Vice-Chairman of the Bar Council of England and Wales since 2009
• Frank Heaven
• Richard Hobbs, Professor of Primary Care Clinical Sciences since 1992 at the University of Birmingham
• Harry Jephcott, President of the Royal Institute of Chemistry from 1953–5, and Chairman of Glaxo Group from 1950–64y
• John Light, actor.
• Richard Mottram GCB, former Permanent Secretary in the UK civil service, and Chairman of Amey plc since 2008
• Charles Talbut Onions CBE, lexicographer, contributed to the history of the Oxford English Dictionary
• Ronald Pearsall, author
• Robert Pickard, Vice-Chancellor of the University of London from 1937–9, Director of the British Cotton Industry Research Association from 1927–43, and President of the Royal Institute of Chemistry from 1936–9
• Chris Thorne, video producer
• Edward William Salt, Conservative MP for Birmingham Yardley from 1931–45
• Dave Wakeling, singer and songwriter, founder of The Beat (band)
• David Wheeler, helped invent the subroutine and some encryption algorithms, and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Cambridge from 1978–94
• Frank Wilson, Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford from 1947–57, President of the Malone Society from 1960-3 and the Bibliographical Society from 1950-2