Notable Alumni (Old Wulfrunians)
See also: Category:People educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School- John Abernethy, F.R.C.S. English surgeon - founder of the school of medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital
- Thomas Attwood - founder of the Birmingham Political Union and National Political Union (1829) in 1829, which pushed for democratic reform, feted as a hero after the Great Reform Act 1832, later an MP for Birmingham.
- Sir Arthur Benson 1907-1987, Chief Secretary to Central African Council, Governor of North Rhodesia 1954 - 1959
- Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet (1772-1828), inventor and rocket designer.
- Robert William Felkin, 1853-1926, LRCS (Edinburgh), MD (Marburg), FRSE, FRGS, medical missionary, ceremonial magician and member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, author on Uganda and Central Africa, early anthropologist.
- Chris Kelly, Conservative MP for Dudley South at 2010 general election, attended from 1989 to 1996 including sixth form.
- Mervyn Allister King - Current Governor of the Bank of England and Chairman of the Monetary Policy Committee.
- Sir David Wright, a British diplomat, ambassador to Japan 1996-1999.
- Sir Norman Brook, 1st Baron Normanbrook of Chelsea 1902-1967, Head of the British Civil Service in the late 1950s and 1960s. Described by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography as "the great technician of cabinet government in the mid twentieth century", also Chairman of the BBC Board of Governors 1963-1967.
- Augustus Edward Hough Love, Mathematician. Developer of the theory of Love Waves.
- Mark Moore, headmaster of Clifton College.
- Sathnam Sanghera, Times journalist and author.
- Jacqui Oatley, first female football commentator on television.
- Sir Alfred Hickman, MP, benefactor and leading businessman
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