The following is a list of some notable Old Oundelians, alumni of Oundle School in Northamptonshire, England:

Armed forces Air Vice Marshal David Atcherley, senior Royal Air Force officer Major-General Llewellyn William Atcherley, British army officer and Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Constabulary Air Marshal Sir Richard Atcherley, senior Royal Air Force officer. He served as Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Pakistan Air Force between 1949 and 1951 Bernard Beanlands, Canadian World War I flying ace credited with eight aerial victories Patrick Beesly, wartime intelligence officer and author James Bradley, prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II Rear Admiral Benjamin Bryant CB DSO** DSC, the most successful British submarine ace to survive the war Count Manfred Beckett Czernin, World War II Royal Air Force Pilot and later in the war an operative with the Special Operations Executive Denis Eadie MC, British Army officer who was awarded the Military Cross by Field Marshal Lord Wavell for his conduct during the relief of Kohima Gerald Edge, British World War II flying ace credited with 20 aerial victories Wing Commander Patrick Gibbs, RAF pilot and journalist Alan Jerrard VC, recipient of the Victoria Cross for action during the Great War Norman Jewell, World War II Royal Navy officer Cecil Knox VC, recipient of the Victoria Cross for action during the Great War John Langdon, Royal Marine officer at D-Day, later became an Anglican priest William Howard Livens, soldier and inventor Sir Rhys Llewellyn, 2nd Baronet, soldier and mining executive General Sir Richard Shireff, British army officer and former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe Air Marshal Sir Charles Steele, former Commander-in-Chief of RAF Coastal Command Sir (Charles) Geoffrey Vickers VC, lawyer, administrator, writer and pioneering systems scientist Vice Admiral Sir John Michael Villiers, Royal Navy officer and Fourth Sea Lord General Sir Charles John Waters, former Commander-in-Chief, Land Forces Harold Whistler, fighter pilot and flying ace Air Commodore John Whitworth, Royal Air Force pilot in the 1930s and a commander during and after the Second World War Sir Charles Rodger Winn, Royal Navy intelligence officer and judge Major General Sir John Winterton, Governor and Commander of Trieste Captain William Wright, WW1 flying ace and civil servant Michael Wynn, 7th Baron Newborough, Royal Navy officer

Arts Christopher Alexander, architect, academic and author Al Alvarez, poet John Davys Beresford, author Peter Bicknell, architect and art historian George Blagden, actor, singer Michael Broadbent MW, wine critic and auctioneer Lucy Brown, actress Thomas Carr, artist Allan Chappelow, writer and photographer Joanna Christie, actress Jim Clark, Academy Award-winning film editor Peter J. Conradi, writer and academic Charles Crichton, film director Bruce Dickinson, lead singer in the band Iron Maiden, commercial pilot, fencer John Dreyfus, book designer and historian of printing David Edgar, playwright John Maxwell Edmonds, poet, dramatist and writer of celebrated epitaphs Adrian Fisher, maze designer Colin Franklin, writer, bibliographer, book-collector and antiquarian bookseller Roderick Gordon, author Anthony Holden, biographer Maxwell Hutchinson, architect, broadcaster and former President of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Fred Inglis, professor of Cultural Studies Christopher Joll, historian and author Jon Jones, BAFTA winning film and television director Frederick Knott, playwright Andrew Pettegree, historian and professor at St Andrews University David Pickering, writer George Sassoon, writer Sir Peter Saunders, theatrical impresario Sir Peter Scott, conservationist and painter Paul Seabright, academic and writer Keith Shackleton, conservationist and painter Judge Smith, musician, Van der Graaf Generator Robert Speechly, architect John Charles Traylen, architect Kenneth Hotham Vickers, historian Bill Ward, actor Ivo Watts-Russell, music producer, president 4AD Records Thomas Wide, historian, author, and entrepreneur Sir Bertram Clough Williams-Ellis, architect, designer of Portmeirion Martin Woodhouse, author and scriptwriter

Business and finance John Allwood, businessman Alex Baldock, businessman, banker, CEO of Currys Alan Budd, economist Geoffrey Crowther, Baron Crowther, businessman, economist and journalist David Fleming, economist and environmental writer Sir Roland Franklin, Antigua and Barbuda-based merchant banker Jason Gissing, entrepreneur, co-founder of Ocado Group Colin Matthews, businessman and Chairman of Highways England Sir David Newbigging, businessman and Hong Kong politician Nazir Razak, banker Sir Howard Stringer, chairman and CEO Sony Corporation Sir John Timpson, founder of British retailer Timpson John Ward, economist and trade union leader James Kenneth Weir, peer and businessman

Engineering Tony Blackman, aviator and test pilot for Avro James Boyd (1904–1987), American mining engineer and director of the United States Bureau of Mines; did not graduate Major Patrick Hunter Gordon, soldier and electrical engineer Sir Richard O'Brien, engineer and industrial relations expert Raymond Mays, racing driver, engineer and entrepreneur, co-founder of ERA and BRM Kenyon Taylor, electrical engineer and inventor Amherst Villiers, engineer (automotive, aeronautical, astronautical), portrait painter Rex Wailes, engineer and historian

Media Barrie Edgar, TV producer Damian Grammaticas, BBC Europe Correspondent Cecil Lewis, co-founder of the BBC, flying ace and author of 'Sagittarius Rising' David Loyn, International Development Correspondent of BBC News Arthur Marshall, writer and broadcaster Rufus Pollock, economist and founder of Open Knowledge International Norman Smith, Assistant Political Editor of BBC News Charles Wintour, newspaper editor

Politics, civil service and the law Baron Allan of Hallam, Liberal Democrat M.P. Major Basil Barton, solicitor and M.P. Michael Beaumont, Conservative M.P. Sir Roy Beldam, Lord Justice of Appeal Caroline Criado Perez, feminist campaigner and writer Robert Dixon-Smith, Baron Dixon-Smith, Conservative M.P. Frederick Erroll, 1st Baron Erroll of Hale, Conservative M.P. Ailwyn Fellowes, 3rd Baron de Ramsey, peer and Lord-lieutenant of Huntingdonshire Charles Finch-Knightley, 11th Earl of Aylesford, peer styled "Lord Guernsey", Justice of the peace and Deputy lieutenant for Warwickshire Gary Flather, judge and disability campaigner Abraham Flint, barrister and judge Donald Gorrie, Scottish Liberal Democrat M.P. and former M.S.P. for Central Scotland John Grimston, 6th Earl of Verulam, peer and M.P. John Hanscomb, politician Denis Keegan, barrister and M.P. Alastair John Naisbitt King, Financier and 696th Lord Mayor of London David Kitchin, Lord Kitchin, UK Supreme Court Justice Owen Lloyd George, 3rd Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, peer Sir William Laxton, Lord Mayor of London, grocer and school founder Sir William Montagu, judge Michael Mustill, Baron Mustill, Law Lord Mark Ormerod, civil servant and chief executive of The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom Sir Herbert Palmer, Governor of Gambia and Cyprus Ralph Bonner Pink, Conservative M.P. Christian Herbert, 6th Earl of Powis“Powis, 6th Earl of (Christian Victor Charles Herbert)” in Who Was Who 1981–1990 (1991) , p. 321 James Provan, farmer, businessman and M.E.P. Janil Puthucheary, Malaysian-born Singaporean politician and paediatrician David Reddaway, diplomat David Lockhart-Mure Renton, Baron Renton, Conservative M.P. Sir David Richards, UK Supreme Court Justice John Vernon Rob, diplomat and first High Commissioner to Singapore The Rt. Hon. Kenneth Robinson, Labour M.P. and Minister of Health 1964-1968 Sir Colin Shepherd, Conservative M.P. Sir Joseph Simpson, Metropolitan Police commissioner Michael Tatham, diplomat Peter Thurnham, Conservative and Liberal Democrat M.P. Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia Sir George Mark Waller, judge and former Lord Justice of Appeal Arthur Wynn, civil servant and recruiter of Soviet spies, known as "Agent Scott"

Science, medicine and religion Michael Ashby, neurologist, witness in John Bodkin Adams case David Barker, epidemiologist Colin Bibby, ornithologist and conservationist Sir Cyril Clarke, physician Richard Dawkins, ethologist, evolutionary biologist and science writer George Dawson Preston, physicist and crystallographer William Dillingham, clergyman and academic Charles Fagge, surgeon Hartley T. Ferrar, geologist who accompanied Captain Scott's First Antarctic Expedition Alister Hardy, marine biologist John B. Harman, former chairman of the British National Formulary Leslie Hilton Brown, ornithologist and agriculturalist Hugh Jackson, paediatrician Richard Keynes, physiologist Stephen Keynes, chairman of the Charles Darwin Trust Milo Keynes, doctor and author Thomas Layng, clergyman and soldier Alan Lindsay Mackay, crystallographer Bobby Milburn, clergyman Clive Minton, ornithologist David Nabarro, senior UN system coordinator C. H. Nash, clergyman and founder of the Melbourne Bible Institute Joseph Needham, biochemist Guy Newton, biochemist and rower Robin Nicholson, metallurgist, Chief Scientific Advisor to cabinet David Oates, archaeologist and Ancient Near East specialist P. D. Orton, mycologist Derek Richter, neuroscientist John Smith, clergyman and philosopher, one of the Cambridge Platonists John Speechly, bishop Simon Tavaré, founding director of the Herbert and Florence Irving Institute of Cancer Dynamics Ronald F. Tylecote, archaeologist and metallurgist

Sport Matthew Austin, cricketer Richard Beesly, Olympic gold medal, 1928 Coxless fours rowing Rollo Brandt, bobsledder, competed for Great Britain at 1956 Winter Olympics Farn Carpmael, rower Carston Catcheside, former England rugby player Alexander Crawford, cricketer Ben Curry, England rugby player Tom Curry, England rugby player Bill Elsey, racehorse trainer Patrick Foster, cricketer Christopher Gimson, cricketer and civil servant Eric Gore-Browne, cricketer Tom Harrison, fmr. cricketer and current CEO of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) Iain Henderson, cricketer Reggie Ingle, cricketer Will Jefferson, professional cricketer David Jennens, Olympic rower Sir Harry Morton Llewellyn, 3rd Baronet, showjumper Robert Martin, cricketer Michael Maw, cricketer John Michael Mills, cricketer Peter Morley, president Crystal Palace Football Club Sam Olver, rugby player Richard Pearsall, cricketer Mark Phythian, cricketer Alfred Graham Skinner, cricketer Greg Smith, cricketer John Willoughby Dixie Smith, cricketer Tom Stallard, Olympic rower Arthur Sutthery, cricketer Tim Swinson, rugby player Cameron Wake, cricketer Dave Walder, professional rugby player Legh Winser, cricketer and golfer Arthur Woodhouse, cricketer James Wykes, cricketer and schoolmaster Norman Wykes, cricketer

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