David Capel
and there were rumours Jay Kay went there for a bit. i doubt the last one, the other two have sports halls named after them, Kay got nothing.
england rugby captain in the 60s....erm pete doherty's sister emily doherty, i know her, she's really nice....my school is 200 years old so im not really sure!
two cricketers who played in last year's World Cup.
That's about as famous as it gets! Although the school building was the homestead of Cecil Frances Alexander..
The guitarist from Catatonia (Owen Powell) was my Welsh teacher until he had a nervous breakdown (or so the rumour went). The next time I saw him was on Top Of The Pops.
* Douglas Bennett, author The Encyclopaedia of Dublin
* Lionel Booth, TD
* Bishop Donald Caird
* Chaim Herzog, sixth President of Israel
* David Foster, Show jumping 1984, 1988, 1996 World Championships. Also 3 European Gold team medals (1979)
* Harry Furniss, caricaturist
* Sir Robert Hart, 1st Baronet, Inspector General of China's Imperial Maritime Custom Service (1863)
* H.B. Higgins, Attorney General of the Australian Government in 1904
* Sir Harold J Maguire, Director-General of Intelligence at the British Ministry of Defence (1968–1972)
* Bill McCormack, literary historian
* Eric Miller, Irish Rugby
* George Bernard Shaw, playwright, Nobel Prize for Literature
* Nick Sweeney, triple Olympian Disscus
* Mervyn Taylor, TD, Irish Minister for Equality & Law Reform
* Senator Gordon Wilson
* James Nelson, tenor
* Niall Morris, tenor
* Dermot FitzGerald, Irish businessman and philanthropist
* Stanley Townsend, Television, Film and Stage Actor (Most recently in the BBC's "Rough Diamond")
was in my english class at college, the only memory i have of speaking to her really is her not lending me a pencil because i would chew it :( haha also him from the verve richard ashcroft went my college but a few years before i did, they had his picture on the wall.
dont think anyone famous went to my school though
Professor Sir John Arbuthnott, Microbiologist
Linda Fabiani, Member of the Scottish Parliament
Jamie Hepburn, Member of the Scottish Parliament
James Kelman, Booker Prize-winning author
Maurice Roëves, Actor
Spencer Railton, Fashion Designer
i don't think i was ever there when he was. :(
my hatred's probably better directed at the entire maths department. or just mrs short, who i would enjoy watching trying to battle tigers. whilst on fire.
* Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984), British poet, Poet Laureate from 1972
* Sir Lennox Berkeley (1903–1989), composer
* Humphry Bowen (1929–2002), British chemist and botanist
* Jonathan Bowen (born 1956), British computer scientist
* Henry Brett, English polo player, Captain England polo team 2003-2006
* Humphrey Carpenter (1946–2005), British journalist, author, and musician
* Christopher Cazenove (born 1945), actor
* Leonard Cheshire VC (1917–1992), WWII RAF pilot and activist for the disabled
* Jack Davenport (born 1973), British actor
* Quentin Davies MP, Member of Parliament 1987-present (Labour convert from Conservative Party 2007).
* R. H. C. Davis (1918-1991), mediaeval historian
* Cressida Dick (born 1960), senior police officer
* Lady Antonia Fraser (born 1932), British historical author
* Cyril Gadney, rugby player and president of the RFU
* The Rt. Hon. Hugh Gaitskell (1906–1963), British politician, leader of the Labour Party from 1955 to 1963
* J.B.S. Haldane (1892–1964), geneticist and evolutionary biologist
* Tim Henman OBE (born 1974), British tennis player
* Tom Hollander (born 1967), British actor
* Lord Hunt (born 1942),leading British authority on turbulence modelling
* Sir Tim Hunt, British biochemist and Nobel laureate
* Pico Iyer (born 1957), British-born journalist and author
* Peter Jay, British television journalist, and former Economics Editor for the BBC
* Patrick Jenkin PC (Lord Jenkin of Roding, born 1926), British politician
* David Jessel, journalist
* Stephen Jessel, journalist
* Dom Joly (born 1968), comedian
* Sir John Kendrew (1917–1997), molecular biologist and Nobel Laureate
* Hugh Laurie (born 1959), British comedian and actor
* David Lewis (born 1947) Lord Mayor of the City of London 2007-2008
* Naomi Mitchison (nee Haldane, 1897–1999), British novelist and poet
* John Paul Morrison (born 1937) Inventor/discoverer of Flow-based programming
* Sir John Mortimer (born 1923), British playwright, barrister, and novelist
* Sir Roger Norrington (born 1934), musician and conductor
* Rageh Omaar (born 1967), journalist and writer
* Julian Opie (born 1958), contemporary artist
Joe Cole
Peter Sellers
Other people too
Ooo a girl in..
my science class was seeing Joe Cole for a while..
Cathy Burke went to mine... glamorous.
some girl who boffed Ryan Giggs
that's it
Danni Behr?
Tim Henman, Jamie T, Hammond Innes (novelist)
Jack Dee, Alexa Chung and the drummer from Razorlight
posh bastard
was that the Dragon school? I know that Timmy went there
Reeds School - top line
Peter Symonds - bottom line
That's
where I went to school. Dom Joly also went there. I'll think of others in a minute.
JM Barrie
and......eh.....Darius.
and a link...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_Academy
Derek Redmond
David Capel
and there were rumours Jay Kay went there for a bit. i doubt the last one, the other two have sports halls named after them, Kay got nothing.
Moriss colclough
england rugby captain in the 60s....erm pete doherty's sister emily doherty, i know her, she's really nice....my school is 200 years old so im not really sure!
Is she hot?
yeah sh eis
ever tried it on?
You could take her to the old barn!
No one especially famous
Ryan Kankowski - SA rugby international (current)
Nick Mallett
Sir Basil Schonland
Nick Mallet, what a ledge!
Ian Curtis
The inventor of the door sill
The inventor of the tog system on quilts
^5
AND US!
Ian Curtis invented the door sill and the tog system?
wow!
Graeme Dawe
80's Bath rugby legend for those not in the know.
And Dick from Dick and Dom
David Mcalmont
And the last person to ever be hanged, apparently went to my school apparently.
Apparently
JRR Tolkein, Bill Oddie and Enoch Powell
Probably a load of rich business type men too.
hmmm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Edward's_School,_Birmingham#Notable_Old_Edwardians
bah
http://tinyurl.com/6pvh98
Hugh Alexander
sounds like a laugh a minute.
oh yes
i didn't realise a guy from my old school basically invented the microwave.
So, responsible for xenophobic right wing rants (a la Powell) and deteriorating health standards. Figures.
William Porterfield and Boyd Rankin
two cricketers who played in last year's World Cup.
That's about as famous as it gets! Although the school building was the homestead of Cecil Frances Alexander..
some or all
of ocean colour scene.
Gavin Henson
was in my class.
Rob Howley went to my school when he was younger.
The guitarist from Catatonia (Owen Powell) was my Welsh teacher until he had a nervous breakdown (or so the rumour went). The next time I saw him was on Top Of The Pops.
Me.
Brynteg boy - Boo
;o)
And somehow
Never played rugby.
Well, not since being forced to at Primary School anyway.
I don't mind watching the game, but can't understand why anyone would actually want to play it.
Because it it the awesome
Oh I also forgot
Nicole Cook the cyclist who was in my maths class after being moved up a year due to superpowered cleverness.
Evidently talented, intelligent but tragically the face was permanent.
Just remembered Sian Lloyd the weathergirl as well.
she wasn't the school bike then ?
.
Brynteg r gay
Cowbridge FTW
One Night Only
thankfully I left long before that happened. In other related news I think Shed 7 bought our old school mini bus.
Apparently, not many famous women
went to school.
heh!
from Wiki
* Douglas Bennett, author The Encyclopaedia of Dublin
* Lionel Booth, TD
* Bishop Donald Caird
* Chaim Herzog, sixth President of Israel
* David Foster, Show jumping 1984, 1988, 1996 World Championships. Also 3 European Gold team medals (1979)
* Harry Furniss, caricaturist
* Sir Robert Hart, 1st Baronet, Inspector General of China's Imperial Maritime Custom Service (1863)
* H.B. Higgins, Attorney General of the Australian Government in 1904
* Sir Harold J Maguire, Director-General of Intelligence at the British Ministry of Defence (1968–1972)
* Bill McCormack, literary historian
* Eric Miller, Irish Rugby
* George Bernard Shaw, playwright, Nobel Prize for Literature
* Nick Sweeney, triple Olympian Disscus
* Mervyn Taylor, TD, Irish Minister for Equality & Law Reform
* Senator Gordon Wilson
* James Nelson, tenor
* Niall Morris, tenor
* Dermot FitzGerald, Irish businessman and philanthropist
* Stanley Townsend, Television, Film and Stage Actor (Most recently in the BBC's "Rough Diamond")
so George Bernard Shaw then
and a president of Israel!
Didn't you say Eric Miller came to speak to you school
My God, he was a hard bastard of a flanker. Dunno why he played for Leinster *zing*
yeah he did.
in one of our 'look what this person does for a living, questions?' lectures. his sister was in the year above me.
Yeah I got a questionm why do Munster pwn you?
...
what school did you go to?
Some of Del Amitri
Lorraine Kelly
John Deacon from Queen
And sometime England rugbyist Leon Lloyd.
i was going to post this
i assume you went to beauchamp or gartree. or even both.
Timmy Vincents
Mine
Anthony Hopkins
Aneka (sp) Rice
Rhys Williams (current welsh rugby player)
Cowbridge boy - La de da
;o)
Mark Oaten
I think that's about it.
mandy from hollyoaks
was in my english class at college, the only memory i have of speaking to her really is her not lending me a pencil because i would chew it :( haha also him from the verve richard ashcroft went my college but a few years before i did, they had his picture on the wall.
dont think anyone famous went to my school though
rubbish people
Professor Sir John Arbuthnott, Microbiologist
Linda Fabiani, Member of the Scottish Parliament
Jamie Hepburn, Member of the Scottish Parliament
James Kelman, Booker Prize-winning author
Maurice Roëves, Actor
Spencer Railton, Fashion Designer
DAISY!
from Spaced :)
Radiohead
a couple of people from foals
probably more important people that i dont care about.
.
i went to abingdon too!
zing!
The ginger one who was in the first Sugababes line up
and then went solo.
She used to sit in front of me in science.
Also Marco from Big Brother
eh
do you know a guy called elliott dobbs?
3/5's
of the original line-up of Westlife.
Tears of pride.
Annie Lennox
(but that's when it was still a girls' school)
shame*
No one as far as I know
My school's only about 15 years old. But I was in the same class as Simon Amstell's brother, and he was a nob.
Dane Bowers
No-one I know of.
Where would you find out?
Wikipedia?
There's nothing listed on there
maybe there aren't any!
hahah, that's where i went.
urgh, graham brady.
well, for sixth form
i'll keep the interesting stories rolling.
you went to alty boys?
how long ago?
Oh and yeahm Graham Brady
is everything the conservatives embody, the slimy bastard.
Oh and yeahm Graham Brady
is everything the conservatives embody, the slimy bastard.
yeah
i finished last summer. it was shit, y/n?
y!
Y, although I was pretty sad Mr Coleman died
ah
i don't think i was ever there when he was. :(
my hatred's probably better directed at the entire maths department. or just mrs short, who i would enjoy watching trying to battle tigers. whilst on fire.
why set yourself on fire?
pwn
Hugh Grant
Alan Rickman
Mel Smith
Keith Vaz
Lilly Cole
Imogen Poots
Dan Luger
Heston Blumenthal
imogen poots is pretty
Nick Baker
from the Really Wild Show OMGZ.
J.K. Rowling.
win.
i know the los camp! crew
Katie Price (Jordan)
and world-class fotballer Michael Standing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Standing_(footballer)
Adam Ant
Giles Brandreth
Alan Titchmarsh
Peter Sutcliffe
Arthur Scargill
Mark Speight
Sonya
Glenn Hoddle
David Baddiel
God
David Baddiel is such a school slut.
Bobby Robson
depending which local legends/rumours you choose to believe
The singer from Garbage
and Finley Quaye! Oh yes, high standards round my way.
Sir Michael Caine
He was bullied. He doesn't want to talk about it. So just leave him alone. Seriously.
Jennifer Ellison
Sir Terry Leahy
Kyran Bracken
dame judi dench
the woman who discovered pulsars, and some other people i've never heard of.
and sean connery at my other school.
Maid Marian
of Maid Marian and Her Merry Men fame.
the drama teacher was also in a Burger King advert once.
some girls went on Wackaday too.
One of Hundred Reasons too.
gail porter
apparently part of her documentary about alopecia was filmed here too. EXCITING STUFF. that's all.
Pizza express creater
aka Peter Boizot
Andy Bell from Erasure
*creator
*slaps self round the face for poor spelling*
Bananarama
(original line-up)
and that's it.
-
Lewis Hamilton and Ashley Young.
My first school
* Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984), British poet, Poet Laureate from 1972
* Sir Lennox Berkeley (1903–1989), composer
* Humphry Bowen (1929–2002), British chemist and botanist
* Jonathan Bowen (born 1956), British computer scientist
* Henry Brett, English polo player, Captain England polo team 2003-2006
* Humphrey Carpenter (1946–2005), British journalist, author, and musician
* Christopher Cazenove (born 1945), actor
* Leonard Cheshire VC (1917–1992), WWII RAF pilot and activist for the disabled
* Jack Davenport (born 1973), British actor
* Quentin Davies MP, Member of Parliament 1987-present (Labour convert from Conservative Party 2007).
* R. H. C. Davis (1918-1991), mediaeval historian
* Cressida Dick (born 1960), senior police officer
* Lady Antonia Fraser (born 1932), British historical author
* Cyril Gadney, rugby player and president of the RFU
* The Rt. Hon. Hugh Gaitskell (1906–1963), British politician, leader of the Labour Party from 1955 to 1963
* J.B.S. Haldane (1892–1964), geneticist and evolutionary biologist
* Tim Henman OBE (born 1974), British tennis player
* Tom Hollander (born 1967), British actor
* Lord Hunt (born 1942),leading British authority on turbulence modelling
* Sir Tim Hunt, British biochemist and Nobel laureate
* Pico Iyer (born 1957), British-born journalist and author
* Peter Jay, British television journalist, and former Economics Editor for the BBC
* Patrick Jenkin PC (Lord Jenkin of Roding, born 1926), British politician
* David Jessel, journalist
* Stephen Jessel, journalist
* Dom Joly (born 1968), comedian
* Sir John Kendrew (1917–1997), molecular biologist and Nobel Laureate
* Hugh Laurie (born 1959), British comedian and actor
* David Lewis (born 1947) Lord Mayor of the City of London 2007-2008
* Naomi Mitchison (nee Haldane, 1897–1999), British novelist and poet
* John Paul Morrison (born 1937) Inventor/discoverer of Flow-based programming
* Sir John Mortimer (born 1923), British playwright, barrister, and novelist
* Sir Roger Norrington (born 1934), musician and conductor
* Rageh Omaar (born 1967), journalist and writer
* Julian Opie (born 1958), contemporary artist