List of Old Alleynians

The following is a list of notable Old Alleynians, former pupils of Dulwich College, in south London, England.

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Years of birth and death (when listed) are given in full. Years at the college are given last, using two digits if unambiguous. All entries are placed in alphabetical order by surname, paying particular attention to any double-barrelled surnames, in which the letters of the first surname take priority.

Arts and entertainment

Art and photography

Jeremy Deller, artist

Gabriele Finaldi (born 1965), art historian and curator, director of the National Gallery

Stephen Finer, artist

Stanhope Forbes (1857–1947), artist and member of the once influential Newlyn school of painters

Stephen Gardiner, OBE (1924–2007), British architect, teacher and writer

Walter Hodges (1909–2004), English illustrator and author

James Jarvis, graphic artist

Anthony F. Kersting (1916–2008), photographer

Henry Herbert La Thangue RA (1857–1929), artist

Gavin Stamp (1948 – 2017), writer and architectural historian

C. F. A. Voysey (1857–1941), English architect and furniture designer (FRIBA, RDI)

Drama

Clive Brook (1887–1974), actor

Richard Caldicot (1908–1995), actor

Chiwetel Ejiofor (born 1976), film actor: 1990–1995

Nicholas Galitzine (born 1994), actor

Nigel Harman (born 1973), actor

Jeremy Howe, BBC Radio 4 Drama Commissioning Editor, editor of The Archers

Angus Imrie (born 1994), television, radio and stage actor: 2001–2012 (and son of the actress Celia Imrie)

Raza Jaffrey (born 1975), actor

Jamie Thomas King (born 1981), actor

John Francis Lane (1928–2018), actor

Rupert Penry-Jones (born 1970), actor: 1982–1989

Michael Powell (1905–1990), film director

Mel Raido (born 1977), actor: 1989–1994

Ben Turner (born 1980), actor

Derek Waring (1927–2007), actor

Arthur Wimperis (1874–1953), script and screenplay writer; won Academy Award (Oscar) in 1942 for Best Screenplay for the film Mrs. Miniver

Ekow Quartey (2001-2008), actor

Entertainment & media

Rowan Ayers (1922–2008), television producer

Lionel Barber, Financial Times editor

Godfrey Barker, journalist and author

Peter Bazalgette, television producer: 64–71

Rob Bonnet, TV sports journalist: 64–71

Clive Bull (born 1959), broadcaster, narrator: 1970–1977

Gordon Burns (born 1942), British journalist and television presenter; host of Granada TV's popular game show The Krypton Factor

Nat Coombs, television presenter, comedian and comedy writer

Peter Dimmock, sports broadcaster

Peter Ettedgui, film maker

Denis Gifford (1927–2000), film historian, comics historian, cartoonist: 1939–41

Jonathan Head, BBC South Asia correspondent: 74–78

David Heycock, television producer

Adam Kay (born 1980), writer and comedian

Bob Monkhouse (1928–2003), comedian: 42–45 (expelled)

Adam Shaheen, president, executive producer, Cuppa Coffee Studios

Paul Sinha, comedian

David Thomson, film critic

Peter Warren (born 1939), Canadian investigative journalist, private investigator, former talk radio host and member of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters' Hall of Fame

Martin Young, TV reporter and media trainer

Literature

George Bedborough (1868–1940), English bookseller, journalist and writer

Simon Brett (born 1945), writer

Raymond Chandler (1888–1959), writer: 1900–1905

Hugh de Selincourt (1878–1951), English author and journalist, chiefly remembered today for his tale of village cricket, The Cricket Match (1924)

C. S. Forester (1899–1966), writer: 15–16

Denis Goodwin, script writer: 41(?)-44(?)

Hamish Henderson (1919–2002), Scottish poet, songwriter, socialist, humanist, soldier, and intellectual

Nigel Hinton (born 1941), writer

Claude Houghton (1889–1961), writer

G. Wilson Knight (1897–1985), English literary critic and academic

Andrew George Lehmann, English art and literary critic

Ian MacCormick (aka Ian MacDonald) (1948–2003), author (Revolution in the Head, The New Shostakovich)

A. E. W. Mason (1865–1948), writer

Tom McCarthy (born 1969), writer short-listed for the Booker Prize

Michael Ondaatje (born 1943), writer winner, of Booker Prize

Jon Silkin (1930–1997), poet

Thomas Sturge Moore (1870–1944), poet and artist

Graham Swift (born 1949), writer

Alexander Turnbull (1868-1918), bibliophile

Dennis Wheatley, occultist writer

P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975), writer: 1894–1900

Music

John Amis, broadcaster and critic (at Dulwich 1936–1939)

Peter Branscombe (1929–2008), musicologist

Harold Fraser-Simson (1872–1944), British composer, famous for The Maid of the Mountains

Alan Ray Hacker, OBE (born 1938)

Gordon Jacob (1895–1984), composer

Rupert Jarvis, bassist for The Maccabees (expelled after one term, 1999)

Bill MacCormick, musician (Quiet Sun, Random Hold, 801)

Phil Manzanera (P. G. Targett-Adams) (born 1951), musician with Roxy Music (at Dulwich 1960–1969)

Ray Noble, bandleader and composer

Anthony Payne (1936–2021), composer, elaborated the sketches of Elgar's Third Symphony

David Rhodes, musician, member of 1970s band Random Hold, long-serving collaborator with Peter Gabriel

Max Sedgley, music producer, drummer, DJ

Ed Simons, one half of the Chemical Brothers (at Dulwich 1986–1991)

Neil Thomson, conductor at Philharmonic Orchestra of Goiás. * [John Ratcliff (Music Producer/Singer/Songwriter/Actor), discovered produced and managed the Norwegian group ‘a-ha’/ Former World Double Decathlon Champion and World record holder.

Exploration

Stanley Portal Hyatt (1877–1914) 1885–92 #3817 African explorer and war correspondent

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton CVO, OBE (1874–1922) 1887–90 was a British Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic. He was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. During the Nimrod expedition of 1907–1909, he and three companions established a new record Farthest South latitude at 88°S, only 97 geographical miles (112 statute miles or 180 kilometres) from the South Pole, the largest advance to the pole in exploration history.