List of Old Emanuels

This is a list of notable former pupils and staff of Emanuel School, London, England.

Notable Old Emanuels

Armed forces

• Colonel William Bailey OBE
• Sholto Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Kirtleside GCB, MC, DFC – Marshal of the Royal Air Force, at Emanuel 1904–1905
• Major Edward Thomas MC – noted for his part in the Battle of Halfaya Pass

Arts and entertainment

• Naveen Andrews – actor, star of Lost, and The English Patient
• John Banting – artist
• Alan Caddy – guitarist with The Tornados
• Derek Davis – ceramic artist
• Rupert Degas – actor
• Hero Fiennes-Tiffin
• Tallulah Haddon - actor and model
• Jack Hedley – actor
• Leslie Henson – actor
• Douglas Hickox – film director
• Chris Hughes – record producer, and Adam and the Ants drummer, aka Merrick
• William Lovelock – composer and pedagogue
• Richard Marquand – film director, director of Return of the Jedi
• Ben Moore – artist and curator
• Gordon Murray – puppeteer (Camberwick Green, Chigley, Trumpton)
• Joseph Quinn – actor (Stranger Things, Catherine the Great)
• Mick Rock – rock photographer
• Sadie Soverall - actor (Saltburn, Fate: The Winx Saga)
• Ben Wilkins - BAFTA and Oscar-winning sound editor

Clergy

• Barney Hopkinson – formerly Rector of Wimborne Minster 1981–1986; Archdeacon of Sarum 1986–1998; and Archdeacon of Wilts 1998–2004
• J. B. Phillips – theologian and clergyman

Industry

• Neil Carson OBE – formerly CEO Johnson Matthey PLC

Law

Laurie Shaffi OBE

Literature

• Vernon Richards – anarchist writer and photographer
• N. F. Simpson – dramatist
• Michael Vince – poet and author
• Clive Wilmer – poet and Fellow of Fitzwilliam College and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

Media

• Michael Aldred – co-presenter of Ready Steady Go!
• Michael Aspel OBE – broadcaster
• Mark Baker - animator and Peppa Pig creator
• Clive Barnes – theatre critic
• Simon Barnes – chief sports correspondent for The Times
• Bill Boorne – Theatre Critic & Journalist
• Andi Peters – television presenter and producer
• Paul Rambali – Music journalist & author

Other professions

• Charles Walter Clark FRIBA – main architect for the Metropolitan Line on the London Underground
• Michel Roux Jr – Two-starred Michelin chef and restaurateur and presenter of Masterchef
• Tomasz Starzewski – designer

Politics, public administration, and diplomacy

• The Rt Hon Richard Adams MP – politician, formerly Lord Commissioner of the Treasury
• Sir Alfred Butt MP – politician, theatre manager, race horse owner and breeder
• Ernest Crutchley CB, CMG, CBE – Minister (Political)/Deputy High Commissioner Australia
• Sir Arthur Galsworthy KCMG – British Ambassador to Ireland and formerly British High Commissioner to New Zealand
• Sir John Galsworthy KCVO, CMG – British Ambassador to Mexico
• Baron Hain of Neath, PC – formerly Secretary of State for Wales; previously Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland; Leader of the House of Commons and Lord Privy Seal
• The Rt Hon Geoffrey Robinson MP – formerly Paymaster General
• Mark MacGregor – politician, formerly Conservative Party chief executive
• Matthew Taylor – chief executive of the Royal Society of Arts
• Charles Wilfrid Scott-Giles OBE, FSA – Fitzalan Pursuivant of Arms Extraordinary
• Sir Sebastian Wood KCMG – British Ambassador to Germany; formerly British Ambassador to China, and Principal Private Secretary to the Cabinet

Professors and distinguished thinkers

• Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee OM, KBE, FRS, FRSA, FREng, DFBCS – inventor of the World Wide Web, recipient of the Millennium Technology Prize and professor at MIT
• Edward Bowell – astronomer, Lowell Observatory
• Professor Tony Brooker – Emeritus Professor of Computer Science, University of Essex
• Professor J Duncan M Derrett – Emeritus Professor of Oriental Laws, University of London
• Professor Derek Fray FRS, FREng – Professor of Materials Chemistry, and Fellow, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge; formerly Assistant Professor of Metallurgy at MIT
• Professor Robert Gibson – Emeritus Professor of Engineering Science, King's College, London
• A. C. Gimson – phonetician and head of the department of phonetics and linguistics, UCL
• Professor Peter Goddard CBE, FRS – mathematical physicist, director of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; formerly Master of St John's College, Cambridge; Honorary Fellow Isaac Newton Institute
• Professor Ivor James – professor of cello, Royal College of Music
• Professor Tony Judt FBA – historian, and Erich Maria Remarque Professor in European Studies, New York University. Nominated for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.
• Tom Kemp – Marxist economic historian and political theorist; formerly Reader in Economic History at the University of Hull
• William Lovelock – composer
• George Lyward OBE – educationalist, psychotherapist, (Emanuel School, Glenalmond College, and The Perse School under W. H. D. Rouse), and founder of Finchden Manor therapeutic community for young people
• Professor David Marquand FBA, FRSA, FRHistS – academic, visiting fellow and formerly principal of Mansfield College, Oxford; ex-Labour Party MP and SDP co-founder
• Professor Mark Miodownik MBE – materials scientist, University College London
• Professor Denis Noble CBE, FRS, FRCP (Hon), Emeritus Professor and co-Director of Computational Physiology, Balliol College, Oxford; formerly Burdon Sanderson Professor of Cardiovascular Physiology
• Professor John Paynter OBE, FRSA – composer and Emeritus Professor of Music University of York
• Edward P.F. Rose – paleontologist and geologist
• Professor Sir Owen Saunders Kt, FRS, FREng – Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Fellow, and formerly Rector of Imperial College, London and Vice-Chancellor of the University of London

Royalty and other nobility

• His Royal Highness Prince Abdul Hakeem Jefri Bolkiah of Brunei

Sport

Rowing

• Clint Evans – member of the 2005 Atlantic Rowing Race, overall winning crew and winning pairs team: C²
• Malcolm McGowan – Great Britain Olympic oarsman 1980; silver medalist men's eight & 1984 Finalist
• Anton Obholzer – Great Britain Olympic oarsman in Seoul (1988). Member of GB Eight that came 4th.
• Clive Roberts – Great Britain Olympic oarsman in Los Angeles (1984). Member of GB Eight that came 5th.

Rugby

• George Littlewood Hirst – Wales and Barbarians rugby international 1912–1914
• Tom Smith – Scotland and Lions rugby International

Cricket

• John Cole (1907–1997), first-class cricketer and British Army officer
• Ian Payne – cricketer
• Stuart Surridge – cricketer
• Leonard Shelton Heath Summers – cricketer

Notable Masters

• J. A. Cuddon – Writer, works include A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory
• Tristram Jones-Parry – Headmaster of Emanuel School 1994–1998; Headmaster of Westminster School 1998–2004