Pupils and Staff of Note
See also: Category:People educated at Wallington County Grammar School- Chris Bates, BBC Television Show 'The Apprentice', contestant.
- Paul Deighton, Investment Banker and Chief Executive of the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games.
- John Marco Allegro, biblical scholar and BBC broadcaster.
- Philip Yea, businessman, Director of Vodafone group plc., Chairman of the British Heart Foundation and Senior Business Adviser to Prince Andrew, Duke of York
- Douglas Allen, Baron Croham, former Head of the British Civil Service and Permanent Secretary, Civil Service Department, and President of the Institute for Fiscal Studies from 1979-92.
- Prof Harold Barlow, Professor of Electrical Engineering at UCL from 1950–67
- Steve Brown, Professional darts player.
- Angus Calder, Historian, writer and poet.
- Timothy Chambers OBE JP FRCP, physician; High Sheriff (2009-10) and Vice Lord-Lieutenant (2012-) of the County and City of Bristol
- Ryan Cummins, Leicestershire and Northamptonshire cricketer.
- Peter Loader, Surrey and England cricketer, last English bowler before Dominic Cork to take a test hat-trick on home soil, against the West Indies in 1957.
- Arnold Long, Surrey and Sussex cricketer.
- Nick Ross, television personality and ex-presenter of Crimewatch.
- Malcolm Savidge, Member of Parliament for Aberdeen North 1997 to 2005.
- M. J. Seaton FRS, mathematician, atomic physicist and astronomer, Professor of Physics UCL 1963-88 (Emeritus 1988-2007) and President of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1979-81.
- Rear-Adm Philip Wilcocks CB.
- Chris Woodhead, formerly HM Chief Inspector of Schools.
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