Plymouth College - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

See also: Category:People educated at Plymouth College

Former pupils of Plymouth College are known as OPMs (Old Plymothians and Mannameadians). Former pupils of St Dunstan's are now included. The OPM Club has rooms on the campus including a large bar and its own catering facilities with a balcony overlooking the cricket pitches and seaward.

• Sir Alfred Woodley Croft (1841–1925), Director of Public Instruction, Bengal, Vice-Chancellor of Calcutta University (Old Mannameadian)
• William Crossing (1847–1928), antiquary of Dartmoor (Old Mannameadian)
• Sir Leonard Rogers (1868–1962), tropical medicine specialist, Professor of Pathology, Bengal Medical College, 1906–1920, and founder of the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine and the British Empire Leprosy Relief Association (now LEPRA)
• Walter Stoneman (1876–1958), photographer and contributor of some 7,000 portrait photographs to the National Photographic Record
• Sir Alexander Maxwell (civil servant) (1880–1963), Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Home Office, 1938–1948
• Wilson Harris (1883–1955), journalist and author
• Alexander Macklin (1889–1967), surgeon on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition
• Stuart Hibberd (1893–1983), BBC announcer and presenter, 1924–1964
• David Forbes Martyn (1906–1970), radiophysicist
• J. C. Trewin (1908–1990), writer and drama critic
• Sir Rolf Dudley-Williams (1908–1987), co-founder and Managing Director, Power Jets Ltd, 1936–1944, and MP for Exeter, 1951–1966
• Frank Hoar (1909–1976), architect, cartoonist (as Acanthus) and architectural historian
• Michael Foot (1913–2010) (Prep School only), Leader of the Labour Party 1980–1983.
• Ronald Jasper (1917–1990), Dean of York Minster, 1975–1984, theologian and ecclesiastical historian
• John Trevaskis (1923–2002), classicist
• David King (medical engineer) (1947–2004), developer of the CT scanner
• Richard Deacon (born 1949), sculptor and Turner Prize winner
• Paul Seymour (born 1950), Professor of Mathematics, Princeton University, 1996–
• Mark Tavener (1954–2007), novelist and scriptwriter
• Chris Constantinou, musician
• Dawn French (born 1957), comedian and scriptwriter (St Dunstan's Abbey)
• Paul Ackford (born 1958), England rugby union player and rugby journalist
• Michael Ball (born 1962), singer, actor and presenter
• Steve Banyard (born 1963), football commentator
• Milos Stankovic (born c.1963), army officer accused of treason, writer
• Miles Tunnicliff (born 1968), golfer
• Kavus Torabi (born 1971), rock musician
• Simon Edwards (born 1972), journalist and author
• Finn Peters (born 1974), jazz musician
• John Fabian (born 1976), England 7s rugby union player
• William James (born 1976), Wales rugby union player
• Stephen Davies (born 1976), children's author
• Patrick K Collins (born 1977), Munster rugby union coach
• Cassie Patten (born 1987), 2008 Olympic bronze medallist swimmer
• Tom Daley (born 1994), diver, 2009 FINA World Champion and 2012 Olympic bronze medallist in 10m platform
• Jade Howard (born 1995), swimmer, 2012 Olympian
• Rūta Meilutytė (born 1997), swimmer, 2012 Olympic gold medalist in 100m breaststroke
• Jamila Lunkuse (born 1997), swimmer, 2012 Olympian