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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.[
citation needed]
16th century
17th century
18th century
19th century
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Richard Ryan (1797–1849); biographer, poet and playwright
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Joseph Blakesley (1808–1885); clergyman
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Benjamin Jowett (1817–1893); Master of Balliol College, Oxford
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Henry Baden-Powell KC (1847–1921); older brother of
Robert Baden-Powell, founder of
Sea Scouts, angler and notable canoe author & designer
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Ray Lankester (1847–1929); zoologist
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Cecil Clementi Smith (1849–1916); colonial administrator
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Bertrand Dawson, 1st Viscount Dawson of Penn (1864–1945); Royal physician
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Sidney Alexander (1866–1948); Newdigate Prize Winner and Canon, St. Paul's
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Gilbert Walker (1868–1958); Physicist and Statistician
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Charles Beazley (1868–1955); Historian and academic
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Laurence Binyon (1869–1943); poet
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Sidney Barton (1876–1946); diplomat
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Sir Walter Willson (1876–1952), member of the Legislative Assembly of India.
[2]
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William Martin Geldart (1870–1922); jurist
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Aurobindo Ghose (1872–1950); Indian mystic, philosopher, poet, yogi and guru
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G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936); writer
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Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875–1956); journalist and poet
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Leslie Mathews (1875–1946); cricketer and educator
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Edward Thomas (1878–1917); poet
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Ernest Shepard (1879–1976); illustrator of Winnie the Pooh and The Wind in the Willows
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James Garnett (1880–1958); educationist, barrister, and peace campaigner
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Leonard Woolf (1880–1969); civil servant and political theorist
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Edward Ayrton (1882–1914); Egyptologist and archaeologist
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Compton Mackenzie (1883–1972); writer
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Otto Niemeyer (1883–1971), director at the Bank of England
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John Littlewood (1885–1977); mathematician
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Philip Clayton (1885–1972), founder of Toc H
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Duncan Grant (1885–1978), Bloomsbury painter
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Valentine Vivian (1886–1969); vice-chief of
SIS; head of counter-espionage
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George Watson (1886–1965); mathematician
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Bernard Law Montgomery (1887–1976), World War II General and Field Marshal
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Archibald Low, (1888–1956); scientist and inventor
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G. D. H. Cole (1889–1959), political philosopher
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Leonard Hodgson (1889–1969), theologian
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Paul Nash (1889–1946); artist
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Isaac Rosenberg, (1890–1918); poet
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Roualeyn Cumming (1891–1981); cricketer and colonial police officer
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John Armstrong (1893–1973); artist
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Victor Gollancz (1893–1967); publisher
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Baron Hannen ; judge
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Ewart Alan Mackintosh MC (1893–1917), war poet and an officer in the Seaforth Highlanders
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Henry Daniell (1894–1963); actor
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Leonard Barnes (1895–1977); anticolonialist writer and educationalist
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B. H. Liddell Hart (1895–1970); military strategist
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George Catlin (1896–1979); political scientist and philosopher
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Indra Lal Roy (1898–1918); World War I fighter ace
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Paul Shuffrey (1889-1955); colonial administrator, editor and publisher
20th century
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Hugh Schonfield (1901–1988); biblical scholar, critic of St Paul
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Desmond Nethersole-Thompson (1908–1989); renowned British ornithologist, naturalist and author
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Magnus Pyke (1908–1992); author, scientist
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Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997); political philosopher and historian of ideas
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Arthur Barmby (1909–1976); cricketer
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Max Beloff (1913–1999); historian
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George Ignatieff (1913–1989); Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations
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Frederick Valentine Atkinson (1916–2002); mathematician.
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Eric Newby (1919–2006); writer
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John Russell (1919–2008); chief art critic, NY Times
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Leonard Berney (1920–2016);
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp liberator
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John Chadwick (1920–1998); linguist, assisted Michael Ventris in the 1953 decipherment of Linear B.
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Norman Mischler (1920–2009); cricketer
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Dennis Brain (1921–1957); horn player
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Lister Sinclair (1921–2006); writer, actor, playwright and presenter with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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Anthony Hinds (1922–2013); film producer and scriptwriter, known for Hammer Films
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Ian Allan (1922–2015); book publisher and railwayman
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Sir Ninian Stephen (1923–2017); Governor-General of Australia, Justice of the High Court of Australia
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Donald Nicol (1923–2003); byzantinist
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Nicholas Parsons (1923–2020); actor and television presenter
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Peter Hilton (1923–2010); mathematician
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Clement Freud (1924–2009); writer, broadcaster and politician
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James Moorhouse (1924–2014); politician
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Pete Murray (DJ) (born 1925); broadcaster and disc jockey
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Klaus Roth (1925–2015); mathematician, Fields medallist
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Patrick David Wall (1925–2001); neuroscientist
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John Thorn (1925–2023); headmaster of Repton and Winchester, chairman of the Headmasters' Conference for 1981
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Anthony Shaffer (1926–2001); author, playwright
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Richard Wilson (1926–2018); physicist
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Peter Shaffer (1926–2016); author, playwright
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Alexis Korner (1928–1984); blues musician
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Ioan James (born 1928); mathematician
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Greville Janner (1928–2015), politician (Labour)
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John Dunwoody (1929–2006); politician (Labour)
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Stanley Sadie (1930–2005); musicologist, editor of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
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Chris Barber (1930–2021); trombonist, jazz band leader
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Antony Jay (1930–2016); writer of
Yes Minister, broadcaster
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Graeme MacDonald (1930–1997); television producer and executive
[3]
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Brian Widlake (1931–2017); presenter of
The World at One and
PM (
BBC Radio 4) and
The Money Programme (
BBC Two)
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Oliver Sacks (1933–2015); neurologist, author
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Julian Bream (1933–2020); classical guitarist
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Kenneth Baker (born 1934); politician (Conservative)
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Jonathan Miller (1934–2019); theatre and opera director
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Basil Moss (1935–2020); television and radio actor
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Bob Jeffery (1935–2016), Dean Emeritus of Worcester
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Richard Gombrich (born 1937), professor of Sanskrit
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Benjamin Zander (born 1939); conductor
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Robert Winston (born 1940); biologist and television presenter
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Nicolas Belfrage (1940–2022),
Master of Wine
[4]
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Neil Trevor Kaplan, (born 1942) High Court judge, Hong Kong
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Chris Green (born 1943); railway manager
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John Gilbert (born 1943), television writer, director and producer
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Rooney Massara (born 1943); Olympian
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Tim Razzall (born 1943), politician (Liberal Democrat) and solicitor
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John Simpson (born 1944); journalist
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Serge Lourie (born 1946); local politician and Leader of
London Borough of Richmond upon Thames (Liberal Democrat)
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Paul Cartledge (born 1947); Levantis Professor of Greek Culture,
Cambridge University
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Duncan Fallowell (born 1948); author
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David Abulafia (born 1949); historian
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Jon Blair (born 1950); television & film writer, director and producer
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Tim Hunkin (born 1950); inventor
[5]
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Lloyd Dorfman (born 1951); billionaire, philanthropist
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Terence Etherton (born 1951);
Master of the Rolls
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Tim Fywell (born 1951), television and film director
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Philip Hardie (born 1951), professor and specialist in Latin literature, Cambridge University
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Duncan Haldane (born 1951), 2016
Nobel Prize in Physics laureate
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Richard Davenport-Hines (born 1953); historian, writer
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Roly Bain (1954–2016), clown-priest
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David Bean (born 1954), judge
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Nicholas Kroll (born 1954)
CB civil servant
[6]
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Rob Manzoli (born 1954); musician, lead guitarist
Right Said Fred
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Matilda Simon, 3rd Baroness Simon of Wythenshawe (born 1955), transgender peeress
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Glen Oglaza (born 1955); political correspondent of
Sky News
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Tom Hayhoe (born 1956); director of healthcare organisations, offshore racing sailor
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David Shilling (born 1956); hat designer
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Luke Hughes (born 1957); furniture designer
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Simon Fraser (born 1958) ; Diplomat,
Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs July 2010 – July 2015
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Francis Wright (born 1958); actor and puppeteer
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Maxwell Caulfield (born 1959); actor
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Iain Gale (born 1959); journalist and author
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Euclid Tsakalotos (born 1960); Greek economist and politician, former
Greek Minister of Finance
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Simon Milton (1961–2011); politician (Conservative)
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David Levin (born 1962); businessman, CEO of
McGraw-Hill Education
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Ian Livingstone (born 1962); chairman and co-owner,
London & Regional Properties
[7]
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Ben Watt (born 1962); musician
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Julian Hodgson (born 1963);
grandmaster and former
British chess champion
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Imre Leader (born 1963); mathematician, Othello player
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Peter Morgan (born 1963); screenwriter.
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James Reed (born 1963); chairman, Reed Group
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William Goodchild (born 1964); composer and orchestrator
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James Kennard (born 1964); rabbi and educationalist
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Patrick Marber (born 1964); playwright
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Jonathan Foreman (born 1965); journalist
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Stephen B. Streater (born 1965); entrepreneur, founder of Eidos
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Stephen Greenhalgh (born 1967);
Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime in
London since June 2012
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Robert Asch (born 1968); journalist and author; co-editor of
St Austin Review
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Ed Vaizey (born 1968); M.P. (Conservative) May 2005 – November 2019
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Neil Jones; Director of Studies in Law at
Magdalene College, Cambridge
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Hal Cruttenden (born 1969); actor and comedian
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Dominic Frisby (born 1969); author, actor and comedian
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James Harding (born 1969); editor of
The Times newspaper (Dec 2007–2012)
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Nick Quested (born 1969); filmmaker
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Alan Cox (born 1970); actor
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Jonny Dymond (born 1970); BBC correspondent and radio presenter
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James Hyman (born 1970); presenter
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James Max (born 1970); broadcaster, journalist
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Alex Chesterman (born 1970); entrepreneur
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George Osborne (born 1971); M.P. (Conservative) June 2001,
Chancellor of the Exchequer May 2010 – July 2016
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Sam Houser (born 1971); president of
Rockstar Games
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Patrick Neate (born 1971); novelist
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Sam Bain (born 1971); screenwriter; co-creator of Peep Show
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Sacha Tarter (born 1972); actor and screenwriter
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Theo Hobson (born 1972); theorist
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Jamie Bamber (born 1973); actor
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Tom Tugendhat (born 1973); M.P. (Conservative) May 2015 – present
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Dan Houser (born 1974); vice-president of Rockstar Games
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Simon Dennis (born 1976); rower and Olympic gold medalist
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Ben Jones (born 1976); evangelist
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Rory Kinnear (born 1978); actor
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Dan Snow (born 1978); journalist & television presenter
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Robin Walker (born 1978); M.P. (Conservative) May 2010 – present
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Alex Edmans (born 1980); economist
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Blake Ritson (born 1980); actor
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Tim Kash (born 1982); television presenter
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Robin Ticciati (born 1983); conductor
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Henry Lloyd-Hughes, (born 1985) actor
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Charlie Fink (born 1986); musician and member of folk band
Noah and the Whale
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Winston Marshall (born 1988); musician and member of folk band
Mumford & Sons
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Mark-Francis Vandelli (born 1989); television personality known for his role in
Made in Chelsea
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Will Attenborough (born 1991); actor
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Sam Cato (born 1992); cricketer
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Tom Powe (born 1998); cricketer
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Hugo Lowell (born 1999); congressional reporter for Guardian US in Washington DC
Three Old Paulines have been awarded the
Victoria Cross.
References
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^ Bussey, David (2009). John Colet's Children: The Boys of St Paul's School in Later Life 1509–2009. Gresham Books.
ISBN
978-0946095568.
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^ Bernard Burke, Charles Harry Clinton Pirie-Gordon, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, Vol. 3 (Shaw, 1937), p. 2455
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^ Granger, Derek (7 October 1997).
"Obituary: Graeme McDonald".
The Independent. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
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^ Obituary in
The Times,
London, 11 October 2022
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^
http://www.stpaulsschool.org.uk/academic/departments/technology/tim-hunkin[
permanent dead link]
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^ Anon (2017).
"Kroll, Nicholas James".
Who's Who (online
Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black.
doi:
10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U23451. (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)
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^
"Ian Livingstone". Questex Hospitality+Travel Group. Archived from
the original on 8 February 2015. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
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^ Pauline Magazine No 452, (November 1956), p. 154 and p. 161
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^ Pauline Magazine No 231, (April 1917), p. 29 and Pauline Magazine No 220, (October 1915), pages 183
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^ Pauline Magazine No.239, (June 1918), page 59 and 64 and 71