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