List of Old King's Scholars

Academic

• Catherine Conybeare, academic and philologist
• Sir Tony Hoare, computer scientist
• Jeremy Lawrance, linguist and historian
• William Wyse

  Business

• Ian Cheshire, Chief Executive, Kingfisher

  Clergy

• Gavin Ashenden
• Richard Boys
• William Grant Broughton
• David L. Edwards
• Michael Mayne
• Howard Mowll, Anglican Archbishop of Sydney

  Explorers

• Gregory Blaxland
• John Blaxland
• Michael Foale

  Film directors

• Michael Powell
• Carol Reed

  Government

• Sir Patrick Walker, former Director general of MI5
• Sir Anthony Parsons
• Natascha Engel
• Tristan Garel-Jones
• George Gipps
• Charles Powell
• Jonathan Powell
• Hugh Robertson

  Military

• John Day
• Harry Gardner , British Army officer and first-class cricketer
• Field-Marshal Montgomery

  Music

• Stephen Barlow
• Simon Carrington
• Harry Christophers
• John Wesley Harding
• George Miles
• Stephen Varcoe
• Christopher Seaman
• Andrew Marriner

  Science and engineering

• Roger C. Field
• William Harvey
• Thomas Linacre
• John Tradescant the younger

  Sport

• Harry Gardner , first-class cricketer and British Army officer
• Reginald Glennie, cricketer
• David Gower, England cricketer
• Bob Haines, cricketer
• Frances Houghton, Olympic rower
• Tom Ransley, Olympic rower
• Fred Scarlett, Olympic rower
• Millie Knight, Paralympic skier

  Writers, poets, playwrights and journalists

• Sebastian Barker
• Oz Clarke
• Michael Cordy
• David L. Edwards
• Patrick Leigh Fermor
• Dyneley Hussey
• Alaric Jacob
• John Lloyd
• Edward Lucie-Smith
• Christopher Marlowe
• W. Somerset Maugham
• Leslie Mitchell
• Michael Morpurgo
• Walter Pater
• James Hamilton-Paterson
• Anthony Price
• Shoo Rayner
• Edmund de Waal
• Hugh Walpole
• Alan Watts
• Tom Ward

  Other

• Charles Abbott, 1st Baron Tenterden, barrister and judge
• Hubert Chesshyre, retired British officer of arms found to have committed child sexual abuse
• Myles Jackman, lawyer
• Sir Fairfax Luxmoore, Lord Justice of Appeal
• George Sale
• Antony Worrall Thompson
• Jacquetta Wheeler
• Peter, Hereditary Prince of Yugoslavia

  Victoria Cross

• Victoria Cross
• *Second Afghan War
• **Captain William John Vousden, VC, CB. He later achieved the rank of major general.
• *First World War
• **Second lieutenant Alfred James Terence Fleming-Sandes, VC. He later achieved the rank of Major.
• *Second World War
• **Lieutenant Peter Scawen Watkinson Roberts, VC.