Old Burians
See also: Category:People educated at King Edward VI School (Bury St Edmunds)- John Battely – Archdeacon of Canterbury
- John Burroughs – architect
- Robert Butts – Bishop of Ely
- Richard Cumberland – dramatist
- Roy Flatt – dean of Argyll and The Isles
- Edward Greene – founder of Greene King brewery
- John Mitchell Kemble – historian
- Charles Lee – general in US Continental Army
- Dudley Long North – politician
- William Sancroft (1617–1693) – 79th Archbishop of Canterbury
- Sir William Spring, Bt – politician
- Sir Thomas Watson, Bt – President of Royal College of Physicians, physician to queen
- John Winthrop the Younger – governor of Connecticut
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