List of Old Uppinghamians
Alumni of Uppingham School are known as Old Uppinghamians.
Uppingham School is a co-educational independent school situated in the small market town of Uppingham in Rutland, England. The school was founded in 1584 by Robert Johnson, the Archdeacon of Leicester who also established Oakham School.
Notable former pupils include:
A
- Robert Adley, Member of Parliament for Bristol North East and Christchurch
- Sir Crispin Agnew of Lochnaw Bt, QC, Rothesay Herald and former explorer and mountaineer.
- Jonathan Agnew, England, Leicestershire cricketer and Chief Cricket Correspondent for BBC Radio
- John Aldridge, Royal Academician
- Anthony Armstrong, author, essayist, dramatist
- Sir William Mitchell Acworth KCSI, British railway economist, barrister and politician
B
- Tristan Ballance, cricketer
- Adrian Bell, author of Corduroy
- Robin Blaze, countertenor
- Brian Boobbyer, England rugby player and evangelist for Moral Re-Armament
- Thomas George Bonney, geologist
- Ernle Bradford, historian and writer
- Katie Breathwick, broadcaster, Classic FM
- Captain Edward Brittain MC, younger brother of Vera Brittain, whose stories are told in her autobiography Testament of Youth
C
- Everard Calthrop, railway engineer and inventor
- Donald Campbell, World Land and Water Speed record holder, killed on Coniston Water in Bluebird
- Sir Malcolm Campbell, holder of World Land and Water Speed records in 1920s and 1930s
- William Henry Charsley, Master of Charsley's Hall, Oxford
- Archie Cochrane, medic, researcher and pioneer of evidence-based medicine
- Holden Chow, solicitor and politician. He is the Vice-Chairman of the Democratic Alliance of the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong.
- Jonathan Crick, English barrister
D
- Johnny Dawes, rock climber
- Adrian Dixon, Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge University
- Eric Dorman-Smith, British Army officer and Irish nationalist
- Rt Hon Stephen Dorrell, MP PC, Health Secretary 1995–97, current Chair of the Health Select Committee
- Norman Douglas, novelist and travel writer
- Charles Dunstone, co-founder of Carphone Warehouse
E
- John H. Edwards and his brother A. W. F. Edwards
- Dan Everard, British inventor, engineer and author
F
- William Fawcett, writer on horses, hunting and racing
- Ronald Firbank, novelist
- Pat Fish, songwriter and musician
- James Elroy Flecker, poet and dramatist
- Nick Freeman "Mr Loophole", celebrity lawyer
- Edward Fowler, cricketer
- Stephen Fry, actor, comedian and writer, expelled in 1972
G
- Christopher Gabbitas, baritone for The King's Singers
- William Garforth, cricketer and soldier
- Andrew Gimson, political Journalist
- Piers Gough, architect
H
- John Hare, cricketer
- Johnny Hon, Entrepreneur and Founder of The Global Group
- Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
- William Frederick Hartman, founder of Lendrum & Hartman Limited prestigious London importer of US cars
- E. W. Hornung, author
- Danny Hipkiss, professional Rugby player, Leicester Tigers and England
- Lieutenant-General Sir Brian Horrocks, British Army general, distinguished corps commander in the Second World War
- Henry Hughes, cricketer
I
- George Ivatt, mechanical engineer
J
- Hugh Jackman, actor
- Christian Jessen, doctor and television presenter
- Harry Judd, musician and member of McFly
K
- Boris Karloff, actor Frankenstein
- Dominic Keating, actor
- Andrew Kennedy, Tenor
- Patrick Kinmonth, opera director, stage designer, writer
- Norman Knight, cricketer and colonial administrator
L
- Edward Thurlow Leeds, archaeologist, Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum 19281945
- John Lees, cricketer
- Sir David Li, current chairman and chief executive of the Bank of East Asia in Hong Kong
- Lieutenant Roland Leighton, fiancé of Vera Brittain, whose stories are told in her autobiography Testament of Youth
- Hugh Lamberton, scientist and co-developer of the Pearson Lamberton TEA laser
M
- Sir Claude Maxwell Macdonald, soldier-diplomat
- Gregor MacGregor, England, Scotland, Cambridge University, Middlesex cricketer and rugby player
- Sir Frederick Orridge MacMillan, Publisher.
- Maurice Crawford MacMillan, Publisher.
- Charles Mallam, cricketer
- Tim McMullan, actor
- Tim Melville-Ross, head of CBI and Institute of Directors
- Sir Dermot Milman, 8th Baronet, rugby union international and first-class cricketer
- Ed Minton and Alex Davies, members of rock band Elliot Minor
- Ernest John Moeran, composer
- Oscar Murton, Baron Murton of Lindisfarne, politician
N
- Richard Lewis Nettleship, philosopher
- C. R. W. Nevinson, Official War Artist in both World Wars
- Ernest Newton, architect, President RIBA
O
P
- Canon Jeremy Pemberton, the first Church of England priest to marry his same-sex partner
- William Pershke, cricketer
- Dickson Poon, businessman and non-executive Chairman of Harvey Nichols
- Peter Powell, Radio One disc jockey
- William Henry Pratt, who achieved fame under his stage name, Boris Karloff
- James Purves, cricketer
Q
R
- Professor Canon Charles E. Raven Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, Theologian, Intellectual, Preacher
- Canon H. D. Rawnsley, co-founder of the National Trust
- Mark Redhead, Producer
- Lieutenant Victor Richardson MC, associate of Vera Brittain, whose stories are told in her autobiography Testament of Youth
- Edward Riddell, cricketer
- Thomas Ridley, cricketer, barrister and clergyman
- Sam Riley, Actor
- David Ross, co-founder of Carphone Warehouse
- Alan Rotherham,, former England rugby union international, captain of England, and inductee into the IRB Hall of Fame
- Guy Rowlands, Historian
S
- Sir Reginald Savory, British Indian Army Officer in World War I and World War II
- John Schlesinger, film director
- Cecil Sharp, musician, collector and populariser of English folk song and dance
- Charlie Simpson, Musician in Busted, Fightstar and as a solo artist
- Sir Arthur Somervell, composer
- Toby Spence, tenor
- Phil Spencer, property expert, Channel 4 television
- Ed Stafford, Explorer, walking the length of the Amazon River
- Rick Stein, chef and restaurateur
- George Martin Stephen, Headmaster of St Paul's School
- John Suchet, journalist and broadcaster
T
- Shiv Thakor, cricketer
- Richard Thorp, actor, writer
- Robert Thorogood, actor, writer Death in Paradise
- Richard Tice, businessman and politician
- Edward Timpson Conservative Member of Parliament for Crewe and Nantwich
U
V
- Johnny Vaughan, TV presenter
W
- Anthony Way, former chorister, St Paul's Cathedral
- James Whitaker, Leicestershire and England cricketer
- Jenny Willott, Member of Parliament for Cardiff Central
- Charles Plumpton Wilson, England footballer
X
Y
- William Yates, former member of both British and Australian Parliaments
Z