Notable People
Alphabetically:
- Mike Bennett (businessman), award winning serial entrepreneur, E3 Media (digital agency) went to school at Woldgate between 1987–1992
- Matt Brash, celebrity vet, Zoo Vet at Large (TV series)
- Thomas Cooke, 19th century instrument maker, born in nearby Allerthorpe
- Adrian Edmondson, comedian, The Young Ones and Bottom
- Richard Herring, comedian, was born in Pocklington
- Ralph Ineson, comedian, and actor The Office and Game of Thrones
- Joseph Malet Lambert, 19th century author and social reformer
- Xavier Pick, English artist
- Neil Saunders, businessman, property developer, and Mayor of Pocklington.
- George Herbert Stancer, cyclist, cycling journalist and administrator
- Sir Tom Stoppard OM, CBE, contemporary playwright, Shakespeare in Love
- Andy Strangeway, decorator, first man to visit and sleep on all of Scotland's notable islands
- Rob Webber, Wasps and England rugby union player
- William Wilberforce, 18th century anti-slavery campaigner
- Michael Woods, Fourth youngest to ever play for Chelsea.
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