Ripon Grammar School - Old Riponians

Old Riponians

Former pupils are known as Old Riponians. Notable old Riponians include:

• William Hague, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
• Katharine Viner, deputy editor of The Guardian
• Richard Hammond, television presenter - Top Gear/Total Wipeout/Richard Hammond's Blast Lab
• David Curry, former Member of Parliament for Skipton & Ripon (head boy in 1962)
• Bruce Oldfield, fashion designer
• Matthew Hutton (Archbishop of Canterbury)
• Prof David George Kendall, statistician, Professor of Mathematical Statistics from 1962-85 at the University of Cambridge
• Peter Squires, British Lion & England Rugby Union International/Yorkshire County Cricketer
• Prof Peter Toyne, CBE, 1st Vice-Chancellor from 1992-2000 of Liverpool John Moores University, and Rector from 1986-92 of Liverpool Polytechnic
• Paul Hullah, writer
• Peter Marshall CMG, Ambassador to Algeria from 1995-6
• The Venerable Maurice Edwards OBE, Chaplain-in-Chief of the RAF from 1940-4
• Francis Pigou, Dean of Bristol from 1891 to 1916
• Beilby Porteus, Georgian Bishop of Chester and London
• Rt Rev William Stubbs the Victorian Bishop of Oxford from 1889–1901, and Regius Professor of Modern History (Oxford) from 1866–84