This is a list of Old Rugbeians, former students of Rugby School in Rugby, Warwickshire, England.
Academia L.A. Adamson, Headmaster of Wesley College, Melbourne Donald Beves (1896–1961), English modern linguist'Mr. D. H. Beves' (obituary) in The Times, issue 55127 dated 7 July 1961, p. 18 R. G. Collingwood, English historian and Professor of Metaphysics at the University of Oxford Richard Congreve (1818–1899), English philosopher Marcus Flather, Clinical Professor in Medicine at the University of East Anglia Henry Watson Fowler, English lexicographer, author of Fowler's Modern English Usage T. H. Green, moral and political philosopher and reformer R. M. Hare, English moral philosopher Fenton John Anthony Hort, English theologian F. L. Lucas, Reader in English Literature at the University of Cambridge, scholar, critic and writer Edward Ellis Morris, Educationist, second Headmaster of Melbourne Grammar School (1875–83), and miscellaneous writer Edward Samuel Morris (1940–2016), art historian Frederick York Powell, Regius Professor of Modern History (Oxford) Henry John Stephen Smith, Irish mathematician Jon Stallworthy, Professor of English at the University of Oxford Sir Percy Sykes soldier, diplomat, writer and scholar Richard Henry Tawney, one of Britain's leading Christian Socialist thinkers and writers, and a prominent British economic and social historian Henry Wace, Principal of King's College London (1883–1897), former Dean of Canterbury Wynne Godley, economist Sir Will Spens, educationalist and Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (1927-1952) Sir Hew Francis Anthony Strachan, Chichele Professor of the History of War
Military Field Marshal Sir Archibald James Cassels, former Chief of the General Staff & Commander-in-Chief of the British Army of the Rhine Admiral Granville Proby, 3rd Earl of Carysfort, fought during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars Admiral Sir Geoffrey Oliver, British officer during the Second World War Admiral Sir Guy Grantham, Vice Chief of the Naval Staff; Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet; Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth and Governor of Malta General Arthur Clifton, general who was a regimental commander during the Napoleonic Wars, and took over command of the Union Brigade during the Battle of Waterloo General Sir Ivor Maxse, General Officer Commanding XVIII Corps during World War I; renown for his innovative and effective training methods General Sir James Marshall-Cornwall, General Officer Commanding, British Troops in Egypt during World War II General Sir George Giffard, Commander-in-Chief, 11th Army Group in World War II General Sir Thomas Astley Cubitt, commanded 57th Brigade and then 38th (Welsh) Division during World War I and later was appointed Governor of Bermuda General Sir Harold Edmund Franklyn, General Officer Commanding, 5th Infantry Division during the withdrawal to Dunkirk & later Commander-in-Chief, Home Forces General John Proby, 2nd Earl of Carysfort, British General during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars; also a Whig politician General Sir Richard Wakefield Goodbody, Commander-in-Chief, Northern Command and Adjutant General General Sir Horatio Shirley, fought in the Crimean War Vice Admiral Sir Ian Corder, UK Military Representative to NATO Lieutenant General Sir Ralph Abercromby, General during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars who was Commander-in-Chief, Ireland; he was also MP for Clackmannanshire, and Governor of Trinidad Lieutenant General William Augustus Johnson, fought as a junior officer in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars Lieutenant General Arthur Ernest Percival, the General Officer Commanding, Malaya during World War II who surrendered Singapore to the Imperial Japanese Army Lieutenant General Sir Henry Royds Pownall, former Vice Chief of the Imperial General Staff & Chief of Staff for the British Expeditionary Force during the Battle of France Lieutenant General Henry Andrew Sarel fought in the Indian Mutiny and Second Opium War; later Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey Lieutenant General Jonathan Peel, general and politician Lieutenant General Henry Hope Crealock, commanded a division in the Anglo-Zulu War Lieutenant General Sir Lewis Pelly, East India Company army officer and Conservative MP Lieutenant General Sir Charles Arbuthnot, Commander-in-Chief, Bombay Army and Commander-in-Chief, Madras Army Lieutenant General Sir Robin Carnegie, a former Military Secretary Lieutenant General Timothy Radford, current Commander, Allied Rapid Reaction Corps Lieutenant General Willoughby Cotton Commander-in-Chief, Bombay Army Major-General Sir George Forestier-Walker, commanded 21st Division and 27th Division on the Western Front and as part of the British Salonika Army during World War I Major-General William Donovan Stamer, commanded 161st Infantry Brigade, Sudan Defence Force and 131st Infantry Brigade during World War II Major-General Sir Charles Sim Bremridge Parsons, Commander of the British Troops in Canada Major-General Sir Harcourt Mortimer Bengough, fought in the Crimean War, Anglo-Zulu War and Third Anglo-Burmese War Major-General Sir William Eyre, commanded 3rd Brigade and later 3rd Division in the Crimean War; later Commander-in-Chief, North America Major-General Sir Ernest Dunlop Swinton, instrumental in the development of the tank Major-General Philip de Fonblanque, commanded the Lines of Communication for the British Expeditionary Force during the Battle of France Major-General Geoffrey Bruce, Deputy Chief of Staff of the British Indian Army; also a member of the 1922 British Mount Everest expedition and 1924 British Mount Everest expedition Major-General Horatio Pettus Mackintosh Berney-Ficklin, Divisional Commander in Persia, Iraq, Madagascar and Italy during World War II Major General John Fielden Brocklehurst, 1st Baron Ranksborough Major-General Sir William Godwin Michelmore, commanded Devon and Cornwall County Division, 77th Infantry Division and 45th Holding Division during World War II; later Lord Mayor of Exeter Major-General Victor Campbell Air Vice Marshal Augustus Henry Orlebar, British Army and Royal Air Force officer who served in both world wars Brigadier-General Sir Percy Molesworth Sykes, soldier, diplomat, and scholar with a considerable literary output Brigadier-General John Tyson Wigan, commanded 12th Cavalry Brigade. After the war he was the MP for Abingdon, 1918–1921 Brigadier-General George MacLeay Macarthur-Onslow, commanded 5th Light Horse Brigade of the Australian Army during World War I Brigadier-General Sir Alexander Gibb, Chief Engineer Ports Construction to the British Army in France and Civil Engineer-in-Chief to the Admiralty Brigadier-General Anthony Courage, Regimental Colonel of the 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars. Brigadier Philip Bowden-Smith, Commander of 125th Infantry Brigade which later became 10th Armoured Brigade; he also represented Great Britain at the 1924 Olympic Games Brigadier Raymond Ladais Sandover, Commander 2/11th Battalion (Australia) and 6th Australian Infantry Brigade Colonel Sir Henry Wilmot, 5th Baronet, awarded the Victoria Cross during the Indian Mutiny Colonel Osmond Barnes, Chief Herald of the Indian Empire Colonel Lionel Beaumont-Thomas, British Army officer during both World Wars and Conservative Member of Parliament for Birmingham King's Norton Colonel James Duff Army Officer who fought in the Crimean War and later became a Conservative MP Colonel Evan Henry Llewellyn, commander of the 2nd (Central African) Battalion, King's African Rifles Colonel Robin Evelegh, British Army officer who authored 'Peace-Keeping in a Democratic Society' William Proby, Lord Proby, a British Royal Navy officer and Whig politician Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Bushell, won the Victoria Cross and Distinguished Service Order during World War I Lieutenant-Colonel Gerald Rufus Isaacs, 2nd Marquess of Reading, Liberal then Conservative politician and barrister who fought in World War I Lieutenant-Colonel Kanwar Shumshere Singh, doctor in the Indian Medical Service Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander "Alec" Ogilvie, early aviation pioneer Lieutenant Colonel Henry Bruce, 2nd Baron Aberdare, British officer during the First World War Lieutenant Commander Robert Selby Armitage, won both the George Cross and George Medal for his bomb disposal work during the Second World War Lieutenant Commander John Bryan Peter Duppa-Miller, Royal Navy officer who was awarded the George Cross for bomb disposal work during the Blitz Major Arthur Willan Keen, British World War I flying ace credited with fourteen aerial victories William Hodson, commander during the 1857 Indian mutiny and founder of Hodson's Horse Major Bruce Shand, officer in the British Army and father of Camilla, HRH The Duchess of Cornwall Squadron Leader William Spurrett Fielding-Johnson MC and Bar, DFC, army officer in World War I before joining the RFC and RAF in both World Wars Squadron Leader Hedley Fowler, RAF officer who escaped from Colditz Captain John Norwood won the Victoria Cross during World War I Captain Charles Roger Lupton, British World War I flying ace credited with five aerial victories Captain Kenneth Barbour Montgomery, British World War I flying ace credited with twelve aerial victories Lieutenant Frank Alexander de Pass, the first Jew and the first officer of the Indian Army to receive the Victoria Cross during World War I Lieutenant Alfred Gordon Clark, won the Victoria Cross during World War I Lieutenant Arthur Conolly, British Officer in 6th Bengal Native Light Cavalry. Coined the phrase 'The Great Game' Lieutenant Donald Hankey, wrote two volumes of essays about the British volunteer army in World War I both titled 'A Student in Arms' Sir James Arnold Stacey Cleminson Edmund Musgrave Barttelot, British Army officer who was part of Henry Stanley's Emin Pasha Relief Expedition of 1886-89 Henry Ward, 5th Viscount Bangor British Army Officer who fought in the Xhosa Wars
Aviation Christopher Orlebar, British Concorde pilot, aviation lecturer and writer John Gillespie Magee, Junior, Anglo-American poet and aviator
Building, engineering and architecture Sir Charles Brett, architectural historian Will Butler-Adams, managing director of Brompton Bicycle Limited William Grierson, civil engineer Sir Charles Nicholson, ecclesiastical designer and architect David Ogle, industrial designer and car designer Thomas Henry Poole, architect of numerous churches and schools in New York City Reid Railton, automotive engineer and designer of land and water speed record vehicles Sir Harry Ricardo, designer of the internal combustion engine and patentee of the two-stroke engine Clement E. Stretton, consulting engineer and author.
Business William Henry Goschen (1870-1943) KBE, businessman and banker Richard Jewson, businessman and Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk Charles Tertius Mander, first baronet, manufacturer, public servant and philanthropist. Clive Schlee, businessman, CEO of Pret a Manger Nusli Wadia, businessman, Chairman of the Wadia Group, son of Neville Wadia and Dina Wadia, grandson of Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Rattanbai Jinnah
Civil Service Sir Christopher Bullock, Permanent Under-Secretary at the Air Ministry Sir Bertram Blakiston Cubitt, civil servant in the War Office Sir George Coldstream, Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Office Sir Arthur Franks, Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service Sir Ernest Gowers, civil servant and author of The Complete Plain Words Sir Godfrey Lushington, Permanent Under-Secretary of the Home Office 1886–1895; championed prison reform Sir Nicholas Montagu, Chairman of H.M. Inland Revenue, 1997–2004 Maurice Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey, Secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence; and 1st Cabinet Secretary