Notable Old Olavians
See also: Category:People educated at St Olave's Grammar SchoolThis 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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