List of people educated at Ampleforth College

Arts, entertainment, writing

• Michael Abney-Hastings, 14th Earl of Loudoun, British-Australian farmer made famous in the documentary Britain's Real Monarch
• Peter Bergen, author, print and TV journalist, CNN, adjunct professor, Johns Hopkins University
• Ian Birrell, former Deputy Editor-in-Chief, The Independent; Contributing Editor, The Mail on Sunday
• Mark Burns, actor
• John Bunting, sculptor and teacher
• Mark Coreth, animal sculptor
• Lord Anthony Crichton-Stuart, art historian
• Vincent Cronin, historical writer and biographer
• Lu Edmonds, musician
• Rupert Everett, actor
• Mark Ezra, film producer and writer
• Julian Fellowes, Baron Fellowes of West Stafford, actor, writer and creator of Downton Abbey; Conservative peer of the House of Lords
• Andrew Festing, British Royal Portrait painter
• Sir Antony Gormley, sculptor
• Harman Grisewood, Chief Assistant to the Director-General of the BBC, 1955–1964
• Albert Read, newspaper and magazine executive for Condé Nast
• Patrick Reyntiens, stained glass artist
• Edward Holcroft, film, television and stage actor
• James Honeyborne, TV and film director
• Henry Hudson, artist
• Geoffrey Huskinson, cartoonist
• Martin Jennings, sculptor
• Andrew Knight, journalist, editor, and media magnate
• Guy Mankowski, writer
• John Micklethwait, editor-in-chief of The Economist
• Red Morris, 4th Baron Killanin, film producer
• Paul Morrissey, film director, best known for his association with Andy Warhol.
• James Norton, film, television and stage actor
• James O'Brien, radio presenter and journalist
• Roderic O'Conor, artist
• Herbert Railton, illustrator
• Benedict Read, art historian, Senior Lecturer in Art History at the University of Leeds. Brother of Piers Paul Read.
• Piers Paul Read, writer
• Stuart Reid, journalist, pundit
• Joe Simpson, mountaineer and autobiographer
• Edward Stourton, journalist
• Julian Wadham, actor
• David Esdaile Walker, journalist, author
• Tom Waller, film producer
• Michael Whitehall, producer, agent, television personality; father of comedian Jack Whitehall
• Hugo Young, journalist

Politics, law, business and nobility

• Michael Ancram, 14th Marquess of Lothian, Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party, 2001–2005
• Dominic Asquith, Ambassador to Iraq, 2006—2007, Ambassador to Egypt, 2007–present.
• Julian Asquith, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Asquith, diplomat
• Raymond Asquith, 3rd Earl of Oxford and Asquith, former diplomat and businessman
• Anthony Bamford, Lord Bamford, Chairman, J.C.Bamford (Excavators) Ltd.
• Andrew Bertie, first British Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller since 1258
• Richard Bertie, 14th Earl of Lindsey, soldier and hereditary peer
• John Burnett, Baron Burnett, Liberal Democrat MP for Torridge and West Devon, 1997–2001, 2001–5, Life Peer
• John Crichton-Stuart, 6th Marquess of Bute, Chairman, Historic Buildings Council for Scotland, 1983–1988, and National Museums of Scotland, 1985–1993
• Alexander Fermor-Hesketh, 3rd Baron Hesketh, landowner and UKIP politician
• Matthew Festing, second British Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller since 1258
• Edward Fitzalan-Howard, 18th Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal
• Major-General Miles Fitzalan-Howard, 17th Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal
• Francis Fitzherbert, 15th Baron Stafford, landowner, peer and deputy lieutenant
• Sir Hugh Fraser, Secretary of State for Air, 1962–1964
• David Hennessy, 3rd Baron Windlesham, Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords, 1973–1974
• Auberon Herbert, campaigner for Eastern European causes
• Peter Kerr, 12th Marquess of Lothian, Scottish peer, landowner and politician
• John George, HM Kintyre Pursuivant of Arms, herald and author
• Sir Arthur Goodall, GCMG, British diplomat, High Commissioner to India 1987–1991
• Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, 1964–2000
• Don Agustín Jerónimo de Iturbide y Huarte, Prince Imperial of Mexico
• Sir Jeremy Johnson, High Court judge
• King Letsie III of Lesotho, King of Lesotho
• Paul Moore,, whistleblower sacked from HBOS
• King Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho, King of Lesotho
• George Nelson, 8th Earl Nelson
• Michael Nolan, Baron Nolan, Law Lord and first chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life
• Richard Norton, 8th Baron Grantley, banker and politician
• William Peel, 3rd Earl Peel, Lord Chamberlain
• Peter Hope, 4th Baron Rankeillour, Scottish landowner and peer
• Nick Read, business executive, CEO of Post Office Limited
• John Home Robertson, former Labour MP and currently Member of the Scottish Parliament
• John Scott, 4th Earl of Eldon
• John Scott, 5th Earl of Eldon
• Charles Stourton, 26th Baron Mowbray, a representative hereditary peer
• Edward Stourton, 27th Baron Mowbray
• Sir Swinton Barclay Thomas, British judge, privy councillor, and the Interception of Communications Commissioner

Military

• Michael Allmand, Victoria Cross recipient. Killed In Action on 24 June 1944, in Burma
• Brigadier Andrew Parker Bowles, soldier
• Brigadier Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat, pioneering officer of the British Army's commandos
• Major General Lord Michael Fitzalan-Howard, Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps 1972–1981
• Major General Christopher John Ghika, Major-General commanding the Household Division 2019-present
• Major-General Sir Freddie de Guingand, Chief of Staff to Field Marshal Montgomery, 1942–1945
• Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Johnston, Comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain's office
• Wing Commander Tony Lovell, flying ace of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War
• Captain Robert Nairac, George Cross, intelligence officer murdered by the Provisional Irish Republican Army
• Major-General Peter Grant Peterkin, Sergeant at Arms of the House of Commons
• Major General Sir Sebastian Roberts, GOC The Household Division 2003–2007
• Colonel Sir David Stirling, founder of the SAS
• Major Gus March-Phillipps, founder of No. 62 Commando

Philosophy, history and academia

• Michael Clanchy, Professor of Medieval History, University of London
• William Dalrymple, historian
• John Keay, historian, journalist and radio presenter
• Angus Loughran, journalist, commentator and pundit
• Robert Maximilian de Gaynesford, philosopher
• Fred Halliday,, academic, Fellow of the British Academy, Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at London School of Economics
• Philip Lawrence, headmaster and murder victim
• Gabriel Turville-Petre, Professor of Ancient Icelandic Literature and Antiquities, University of Oxford, 1953–1975
• Henry Wansbrough, Master of St Benet's Hall, Oxford, 1990–2004

Religion

• Athanasius Allanson, Benedictine monk, and Abbot of Glastonbury, 1874–1876
• Thomas Burgess, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clifton, 1851–1854
• Columba Cary-Elwes, monastery founder, ecumenist and author
• Sheikh Abdur Raheem Green, convert to Islam and founder of the iERA
• Ambrose Griffiths, Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle
• John Cuthbert Hedley, Roman Catholic Bishop of Newport, 1881–1915
• Basil, Cardinal Hume, Abbot of Ampleforth Abbey, 1963–1975, and Archbishop of Westminster, 1975–1999

Science and medicine

• Peter Christopher Caldwell, zoologist
• Thomas Cecil Gray, pioneered modern anaesthetic techniques
• Bill Inman, pharmacovigilance pioneer
• John William Polidori, physician and writer
• William Claude Angel Lane Inventor of the reach around.

Sport

• Christopher Bartle, equestrian, member of the GB team at the 1984 Summer Olympics
• John Bean, first-class cricketer and British Army officer
• John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute, a Scottish peer and former racing driver
• Lawrence Dallaglio, former captain of the English national rugby team
• John Dalrymple, cricketer
• Howard Dunbar, cricketer
• Simon Easterby, former member of the Ireland national rugby union team
• Guy Easterby, former member of the Ireland national rugby union team
• Maurice Fitzgerald, former rugby player for Biarritz and England A
• Tomas Francis, rugby player for Wales national rugby union team
• Charles Grieve, cricketer who played for Oxford University and Guernsey
• Edward O'Donovan Crean, English rugby union player who was part of the first official British and Irish Lions team that toured South Africa in 1910
• Jonathan Pearce, cricketer