List of Old Paulines
The following is a list of notable former pupils, known as Old Paulines, of St Paul's School (London). The abbreviation OP is sometimes used.
16th century
- John Leland ; antiquary
- George Lily ; Catholic priest, biographer and topographer
- Peter Carew ; adventurer
- Thomas Gresham ; founder of the Royal Exchange
- William Harrison ; clergyman and author of The Description of England
- William Camden ; antiquary
17th century
- John Milton ; poet
- Samuel Pepys ; civil servant and diarist
- James Hayes ; Prince Rupert's secretary and first Deputy Governor, Hudson's Bay Company.
- George Jeffreys ; Lord Chief Justice
- Samuel Johnson English political writer
- John Churchill ; army officer and 1st Duke of Marlborough
- Edmond Halley ; astronomer, geophysicist, meteorologist and
- William Nicholls ; theologian, an author on the Book of Common Prayer
- Spencer Compton ; Earl of Wilmington and Prime Minister of Great Britain
- Roger Cotes ; mathematician, invented and popularised the idea of "Radians"
18th century
- Joshua Toulmin ; Dissenting minister
- George Dance the Younger ; architect
- John André ; army officer and spy
- Thomas Taylor ; scholar and translator
- Thomas Clarkson ; anti-slavery campaigner
- Daniel Alexander ; architect
19th century
- Richard Ryan ; biographer, poet and playwright
- Joseph Blakesley ; clergyman
- Benjamin Jowett ; Master of Balliol College, Oxford
- Henry Baden-Powell KC ; older brother of Robert Baden-Powell, founder of Sea Scouts, angler and notable canoe author & designer
- Ray Lankester ; zoologist
- Cecil Clementi Smith ; colonial administrator
- Bertrand Dawson, 1st Viscount Dawson of Penn ; Royal physician
- Sidney Alexander ; Newdigate Prize Winner and Canon, St. Paul's
- Gilbert Walker ; Physicist and Statistician
- Charles Beazley ; Historian and academic
- Laurence Binyon ; poet
- Sidney Barton ; diplomat
- Sir Walter Willson, member of the Legislative Assembly of India.
- William Martin Geldart ; jurist
- Aurobindo Ghose ; Indian mystic, philosopher, poet, yogi and guru
- G. K. Chesterton ; writer
- Edmund Clerihew Bentley ; journalist and poet
- Leslie Mathews ; cricketer and educator
- Edward Thomas ; poet
- Ernest Shepard ; illustrator of Winnie the Pooh and The Wind in the Willows
- James Garnett ; educationist, barrister, and peace campaigner
- Leonard Woolf ; civil servant and political theorist
- Edward Ayrton ; Egyptologist and archaeologist
- Compton Mackenzie ; writer
- Otto Niemeyer, director at the Bank of England
- John Littlewood ; mathematician
- Philip Clayton, founder of Toc H
- Duncan Grant, Bloomsbury painter
- Theodore Just, Olympic athlete
- Valentine Vivian ; vice-chief of SIS; head of counter-espionage
- George Watson ; mathematician
- Bernard Law Montgomery, World War II General and Field Marshal
- E. V. Rieu, classicist.
- Archibald Low, ; scientist and inventor
- Eric Kennington, ; artist
- G. D. H. Cole, political philosopher
- Leonard Hodgson, theologian
- Paul Nash ; artist
- Isaac Rosenberg, ; poet
- Roualeyn Cumming ; cricketer and colonial police officer
- John Armstrong ; artist
- Victor Gollancz ; publisher
- Baron Hannen ; judge
- Ewart Alan Mackintosh MC, war poet and an officer in the Seaforth Highlanders
- Henry Daniell ; actor
- Leonard Barnes ; anticolonialist writer and educationalist
- B. H. Liddell Hart ; military strategist
- George Catlin ; political scientist and philosopher
- Indra Lal Roy ; World War I fighter ace
- Paul Shuffrey ; colonial administrator, editor and publisher
20th century
- John Charles Burkill ; mathematician.
- Hugh Schonfield ; biblical scholar, critic of St Paul
- Desmond Nethersole-Thompson ; renowned British ornithologist, naturalist and author
- Magnus Pyke ; author, scientist
- Isaiah Berlin ; political philosopher and historian of ideas
- Arthur Barmby ; cricketer
- Max Beloff ; historian
- George Ignatieff ; Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations
- Buzzer Hadingham ; Chairman of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club
- Frederick Valentine Atkinson ; mathematician.
- Eric Newby ; writer
- John Russell ; chief art critic, NY Times
- Leonard Berney ; Bergen-Belsen concentration camp liberator
- John Chadwick ; linguist, assisted Michael Ventris in the 1953 decipherment of Linear B.
- Norman Mischler ; cricketer
- Dennis Brain ; horn player
- Lister Sinclair ; writer, actor, playwright and presenter with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Anthony Hinds ; film producer and scriptwriter, known for Hammer Films
- Ian Allan ; book publisher and railwayman
- Sir Ninian Stephen ; Governor-General of Australia, Justice of the High Court of Australia
- Donald Nicol ; byzantinist
- Nicholas Parsons ; actor and television presenter
- Peter Hilton ; mathematician
- Clement Freud ; writer, broadcaster and politician
- James Moorhouse ; politician
- Pete Murray (DJ) ; broadcaster and disc jockey
- Klaus Roth ; mathematician, Fields medallist
- Patrick David Wall ; neuroscientist
- John Thorn ; headmaster of Repton and Winchester, chairman of the Headmasters' Conference for 1981
- Anthony Shaffer ; author, playwright
- Richard Wilson ; physicist
- Peter Shaffer ; author, playwright
- Alexis Korner ; blues musician
- Ioan James ; mathematician
- Greville Janner, politician
- John Dunwoody ; politician
- Stanley Sadie ; musicologist, editor of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
- Chris Barber ; trombonist, jazz band leader
- Antony Jay ; writer of Yes Minister, broadcaster
- Graeme MacDonald ; television producer and executive
- Brian Widlake ; presenter of The World at One and PM and The Money Programme
- Oliver Sacks ; neurologist, author
- Julian Bream ; classical guitarist
- Kenneth Baker ; politician
- Jonathan Miller ; theatre and opera director
- Basil Moss ; television and radio actor
- Bob Jeffery, Dean Emeritus of Worcester
- Richard Gombrich, professor of Sanskrit
- Benjamin Zander ; conductor
- Robert Winston ; biologist and television presenter
- Nicolas Belfrage, Master of Wine
- Neil Trevor Kaplan, High Court judge, Hong Kong
- Chris Green ; railway manager
- John Gilbert, television writer, director and producer
- Rooney Massara ; Olympian
- Tim Razzall, politician and solicitor
- John Simpson ; journalist
- Serge Lourie ; local politician and Leader of London Borough of Richmond upon Thames
- Paul Cartledge ; Levantis Professor of Greek Culture, Cambridge University
- Duncan Fallowell ; author
- David Abulafia ; historian
- Jon Blair ; television & film writer, director and producer
- Tim Hunkin ; inventor
- Lloyd Dorfman ; billionaire, philanthropist
- Terence Etherton ; Master of the Rolls
- Tim Fywell, television and film director
- Philip Hardie, professor and specialist in Latin literature, Cambridge University
- Duncan Haldane, 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics laureate
- Richard Davenport-Hines ; historian, writer
- Roly Bain, clown-priest
- Sir David Bean, Lord Justice of Appeal
- Nicholas Kroll civil servant
- Rob Manzoli ; musician, lead guitarist Right Said Fred
- Matilda Simon, 3rd Baroness Simon of Wythenshawe, transgender peeress
- Glen Oglaza ; political correspondent of Sky News
- Tom Hayhoe ; director of healthcare organisations, offshore racing sailor
- David Shilling ; hat designer
- Luke Hughes ; furniture designer
- Simon Fraser ; Diplomat, Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs July 2010 – July 2015
- Francis Wright ; actor and puppeteer
- Maxwell Caulfield ; actor
- Iain Gale ; journalist and author
- Euclid Tsakalotos ; Greek economist and politician, former Greek Minister of Finance
- Simon Milton ; politician
- David Levin ; businessman, CEO of McGraw-Hill Education
- Ian Livingstone ; chairman and co-owner, London & Regional Properties
- Ben Watt ; musician
- Julian Hodgson ; grandmaster and former British chess champion
- Imre Leader ; mathematician, Othello player
- Peter Morgan ; screenwriter.
- James Reed ; chairman, Reed Group
- William Goodchild ; composer and orchestrator
- James Kennard ; rabbi and educationalist
- Patrick Marber ; playwright
- Jonathan Foreman ; journalist
- Stephen B. Streater ; entrepreneur, founder of Eidos
- Stephen Greenhalgh ; Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime in London since June 2012
- Robert Asch ; journalist and author; co-editor of St Austin Review
- Ed Vaizey ; M.P. May 2005 – November 2019
- Neil Jones; Director of Studies in Law at Magdalene College, Cambridge
- Hal Cruttenden ; actor and comedian
- Dominic Frisby ; author, actor and comedian
- James Harding ; editor of The Times newspaper
- Nick Quested ; filmmaker
- Alan Cox ; actor
- Jonny Dymond ; BBC correspondent and radio presenter
- James Hyman ; presenter
- James Max ; broadcaster, journalist
- Alex Chesterman ; entrepreneur
- George Osborne ; M.P. June 2001, Chancellor of the Exchequer May 2010 – July 2016
- Sam Houser ; president of Rockstar Games
- Patrick Neate ; novelist
- Sam Bain ; screenwriter; co-creator of Peep Show
- Sacha Tarter ; actor and screenwriter
- Theo Hobson ; theorist
- Jamie Bamber ; actor
- Tom Tugendhat ; M.P. May 2015 – present
- Dan Houser ; vice-president of Rockstar Games
- Simon Dennis ; rower and Olympic gold medalist
- Rory Kinnear ; actor
- Blake Ritson ; actor
- Dan Snow ; journalist & television presenter
- Robin Walker ; M.P. for Worcester 2010 – 2024
- Alex Edmans ; economist
- Tim Kash ; television presenter
- Hassan Damluji, author and international development expert
- Robin Ticciati ; conductor
- Henry Lloyd-Hughes, actor
- Charlie Fink ; musician and member of folk band Noah and the Whale
- Ben Lloyd-Hughes, actor
- Winston Marshall ; musician and member of folk band Mumford & Sons
- Mark-Francis Vandelli ; television personality known for his role in Made in Chelsea
- Will Attenborough ; actor
- Sam Cato ; cricketer
- Arty Froushan ; actor
- David Ambler (rower) ; rower
- Freddie Davidson ; rower
- Tom Powe ; cricketer
- Richard Nartey ; footballer
- Hugo Lowell ; congressional reporter for Guardian US in Washington DC
21st century
- Krish Patel ; cricketer
- Captain Randolph Cosby Nesbitt, British South Africa Police. Later promoted to major during the South African War. Awarded for act that took place during the Mashona Rebellion of 1896–1897.
- Major Cuthbert Bromley 1st Lancashire Fusiliers. Awarded for act that took place during the First World War.
- Major Oliver Cyril Spencer Watson, Yeomanry, attached King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. Later promoted to lieutenant-colonel. Awarded for act that took place during the First World War.