Notable Former Pupils
See also: Category:People educated at Kingston Grammar School- Paul Butler (bishop) — Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham
- William Gilbert Chaloner — paleobiologist, Royal Holloway
- Richard Ian Cheetham — Bishop of Kingston upon Thames
- James Cracknell — Olympic rowing gold medallist, adventurer
- Philip Crosland — journalist
- Richard Dodds — captain of Great Britain Olympic 1988 gold medal hockey team
- Neil Fox — Dr Fox, radio DJ
- Michael Frayn — playwright and novelist
- Edward Gibbon — author, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Air Marshall Sir Gerald Gibbs (RAF officer) — RAF officer
- Tanya Gold — The Guardian journalist
- Jonathan Kenworthy, sculptor
- Sophie Hosking; Olympic rowing gold medallist
- Leif Mills — author and former trade unionist
- Neil Mullarkey — actor, writer and comedian
- Jonathon Riley — Director General and Master of the Armouries
- R. C. Sherriff — playwright, who donated five rowing "eight"s (named after his plays: "Journey's End", "White Carnation", "Home at Seven", "Long Sunset" and "Badger's Green") to the school boat club in the 1960s and 1970s
- Sir Denis Spotswood — Chief of the Air Staff, 1971-1974
- Howard Stoate — MP for Dartford
- Andy Sturgeon — garden designer
- Thomas Thynne, 1st Viscount Weymouth
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