The Arts Etc.
- Cecil Day-Lewis CBE, poet
- John Le Mesurier, actor, for example in Dad's Army
- David Cornwell, (a.k.a. John le Carré), writer, for example of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
- Jeremy Irons, actor, for example Brideshead Revisited and The Mission
- Hugh Bonneville, actor, for example Downton Abbey
- Alec Waugh, novelist
- Arthur Waugh, author, critic and publisher
- Clive Carey, baritone singer and composer
- Warren Chetham-Strode MC, author and playwright
- Charles Collingwood, actor
- Charlie Cox, actor, for example Stardust
- Sir Richard Eyre CBE, film and theatre director, artistic director of the National Theatre 1988–97
- Tim Heald, journalist and author
- Sir Michael Hopkins CBE, architect
- Anthony Lane, film critic
- Chris Martin, lead singer of rock band Coldplay
- Robert McCrum, writer and editor
- Ian Messiter, creator of Just a Minute
- Lance Percival, actor
- Jon Pertwee, actor
- Jonathan Powell, Controller of BBC One (1987–1992)
- John Cowper Powys, author, lecturer and philosopher
- James Purefoy, actor
- Jon Stock, journalist and author
- Roland Young, actor
- DJ Hamburgler, Funky House DJ
- MC Oligopoly, Garage MC
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“For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.”
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