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Which famous people went to your school?

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by moousee

I had the Games Workshop creators, John Squire, and a kid who held the Tiddlywinks world record:

http://tinyurl.com/4jexyq

moousee | 17 Apr '08, 13:29 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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.


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.


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?


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


Ian Curtis

The inventor of the door sill
The inventor of the tog system on quilts


^5

AND US!


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.


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


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.


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.


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")


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.


...

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.


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!


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.


pwn

Hugh Grant
Alan Rickman
Mel Smith
Keith Vaz
Lilly Cole
Imogen Poots
Dan Luger
Heston Blumenthal


Nick Baker

from the Really Wild Show OMGZ.


J.K. Rowling.

win.


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