Twentieth Century
- Douglas Jardine, cricketer
- John Firth, cricketer, clergyman and schoolmaster
- David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles, politician
- Cecil Harmsworth King, newspaper publisher
- Lancelot Joynson-Hicks, 3rd Viscount Brentford, politician
- Claude Ashton, Essex cricketer and England footballer
- Anthony Asquith, film director
- Francis Festing, Field Marshal
- George D'Oyly Snow, headmaster of Ardingly College and Bishop of Whitby
- Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross, writer
- John Snagge, World War II BBC announcer
- William Goodenough Hayter, diplomat, ambassador and Warden of New College, Oxford
- Roger Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield, ambassador
- Denis Nowell Pritt, barrister and politician
- Charles Francis Christopher Hawkes, archaeologist
- Charles Awdry, cricketer, British Army officer, High Sheriff of Wiltshire
- John Sparrow, literary critic and Warden of All Souls
- William Empson, literary critic
- Hugh Gaitskell, leader of the Labour Party
- Richard Wilberforce, Baron Wilberforce, Law Lord
- Richard Crossman, Labour politician and diarist
- Douglas Jay, Baron Jay, Labour politician
- Kenneth Younger, Labour MP
- Charles Scott Moncrieff, translator of Proust
- Edward Williams, British Army officer, cricketer
- Sir Basil Goulding, 3rd Baronet, sportsman and art collector
- Nicholas Monsarrat, naval officer, diplomat and author of The Cruel Sea
- Sir John Stephenson, Lord Justice of Appeal
- Ralph George Scott Bankes, barrister and Diocesan Chancellor
- Charles Madge, poet and Communist
- Roger Winlaw, Cambridge University and Surrey cricketer
- Christopher Dilke, writer
- Arthur Lionel Pugh Norrington, President of Trinity College, Oxford and originator of the Norrington Table
- Shaun Wylie, mathematician and World War II codebreaker
- Robert Irving, conductor
- Lord Aldington, politician and businessman
- Stormont Mancroft, 2nd Baron Mancroft, government minister
- Kenneth Clark, art historian and broadcaster
- Colin Clark, economist and statistician
- Archibald Wavell, 2nd Earl Wavell, soldier
- Robert Conquest, historian specialising in Joseph Stalin's purges
- Monty Woodhouse, Philhellene and politician
- James Joll, historian
- Willie Whitelaw, politician
- George Jellicoe, aka Viscount Brocas, soldier-statesman, businessman-diplomat
- M. R. D. Foot, historian
- Lord Brandon, Law Lord
- Frank Thompson, SOE officer
- Mark Bonham Carter, publisher and politician
- John Latham, artist
- Tony Pawson, cricketer
- Paul Britten Austin, translator of Swedish literature
- Alfonso of Orleans-Borbón, Duke of Galliera
- Freeman Dyson, physicist and mathematician
- H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins, theoretical chemist and cognitive scientist
- Geoffrey Warnock, philosopher and academic
- Michael Carver, Baron Carver, soldier and philosopher
- Daniel Awdry, politician
- Hubert Doggart cricketer and schoolmaster
- Michael Dummett, philosopher
- Sir John Balcombe, High Court judge
- Martin Wright (Basil Martin Wright), inventor of the Peak flow meter
- Geoffrey Howe, Lord Howe of Aberavon, politician
- Martin Beale applied mathematician and statistician
- Sir Jeremy Morse, banker and university chancellor
- John Lucas (philosopher)
- Raymond Bonham Carter, banker
- Robert Shirley, 13th Earl Ferrers, politician
- Alasdair Milne, BBC Director General
- Ian Buist, diplomat
- George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, politician
- John Eccles, 2nd Viscount Eccles, peer and businessman
- Edward Lucas, philosopher
- Reginald Bosanquet, ITN newscaster
- William Donaldson, writer and satirist; creator of Henry Root
- Julian Mitchell, writer
- David Hannay, Baron Hannay of Chiswick, ambassador to the United Nations
- Giles Radice, Baron Radice of Chester-le-Street, politician
- Jonathan D. Spence, historian and sinologist
- Paul Bergne, intelligence officer, linguist and diplomat
- Peter Jay, economist, journalist and ambassador
- Iain Sproat, politician
- Anthony Gifford, 6th Baron Gifford, barrister
- Richard Williamson, bishop
- Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, cricketer
- Ambrose Greenway, 4th Baron Greenway, marine photographer
- Shane Gough, 5th Viscount Gough, stockbroker
- Richard Jefferson, cricketer
- Tim Brooke-Taylor, comedian
- Andrew Large, banker and businessman
- Christopher Makins, 2nd Baron Sherfield, diplomat and author
- Patrick Minford, economist
- Hew Pike, General
- Geoffrey Rowell, Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe
- Andrew Longmore, Lord Justice of the Court of Appeal
- Andro Linklater, writer
- George Magan, Baron Magan of Castletown, businessman
- Lord Jay of Ewelme, head of the Foreign Office
- Jonathan Dancy, philosopher
- Christopher Woodhouse, 6th Baron Terrington, urologist and peer
- Antony Beevor, historian
- Richard Noble, designer of the ThrustSSC
- David Clementi, financier
- Christopher Suenson-Taylor, 3rd Baron Grantchester, Labour peer
- Anthony Pawson, scientist
- Robyn Hitchcock, singer, songwriter
- Francis Baring, 6th Baron Northbrook, Conservative peer
- John Stevens, politician
- David McCue, founder of McCue Corp
- Nicholas Shepherd-Barron, mathematician
- Peter Bennett-Jones, TV producer and talent agent
- Richard Stagg, ambassador
- Nicholas Shakespeare, novelist and journalist
- Wesley Kerr, BBC Newsnight correspondent
- Michael Hofmann, poet
- William Gaminara, actor
- J.G. Sandom, author and interactive advertising pioneer
- Francis Pott, composer and pianist
- Jeremy Asher, businessman, investor and company director
- John Whittingdale, Conservative MP
- John Campbell, economist
- Seumas Milne, aka Seamus Milne, journalist
- Jon Leyne, BBC foreign correspondent
- James Bucknall, British Army officer
- Peter Neyroud, police chief
- Nick Carter, soldier
- Japhet Asher, film and television producer
- Patrick Gale, novelist
- Edward Lucas, journalist
- Adrian Adlam, violinist and conductor
- Korn Chatikavanij, banker and politician, finance minister of Thailand
- Joss Whedon, screenwriter and film director
- Saif Ali Khan, actor
- Alistair Potts, World Champion cox
- Jon Wright, co-founder of Innocent Smoothies
- Paul Churchill, co-founder of Leslie and Godwin
- Hugh Dancy, actor
- Peter Momtchiloff, pop musician
- Robin Saikia, author and actor
- Braund Reynolds, AKA Ben Braund, pop musician
- Tom Hurndall, journalist and photographer
- Johnny Acton, writer and farmer
- Archie Bland, deputy editor of The Independent
- Tom Sturridge, actor
- Jack Lucien, pop musician and songwriter
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