St Olave's Grammar School - Notable Old Olavians

Notable Old Olavians

See also: Category:People educated at St Olave's Grammar School

This is a partial list. For a more comprehensive one see: List of notable Old Olavians

  • H. B. Acton, philosopher
  • Sir William Ashley, economic historian
  • Samuel Laman Blanchard, author and journalist
  • William Cole, composer, organist and conductor, and Master of the Music at the Queen's Chapel of the Savoy
  • Lawrence Durrell, novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer
  • Abba Eban, Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations; Israeli Minister for Foreign Affairs; Israeli Deputy Prime Minister
  • Mark Ellis, known as "Flood", record producer (U2, Depeche Mode, The Killers)
  • Henry Hartley Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton, (1830–1911), politician †
  • Andy Green, past team leader of RAF Red Arrows Display Team; current holder of the world land speed record
  • Edmund Gwenn, Academy Award-winning actor
  • John Harvard, first benefactor of Harvard University
  • William Heberden, physician, coined the term "Angina pectoris" †
  • Charles Hill, Baron Hill of Luton, Chairman of the BBC and ITA
  • William Sherlock, English church leader
  • Sir Desmond Arthur Pond, Professor of Psychiatry, Chief Scientist at the Department of Health and Social Security.
  • George Tomlinson, Bishop of Gibraltar, founder of the Cambridge Apostles †
  • Thomas Frederick Tout, historian
  • William Van Mildert, Bishop of Durham; founder of the University of Durham †
  • Sir Sydney Waterlow, 1st Baronet, Lord Mayor of London, MP †

† Alumni of St Saviour's Grammar School prior to the merger

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