Brentwood School (Essex) - Notable Old Brentwoods

Notable Old Brentwoods

See also: Category:People educated at Brentwood School (Essex)

Also see the school's own list of Old Brentwoods at

• David Acfield (born 1947), cricketer and Olympic fencer
• Douglas Adams (1952–2001), author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Keith Allen (born 1953), comedian, actor, singer and writer (father of the singer Lily Allen)
• Peter Allen (born 1946), BBC broadcaster and journalist,
• Sir Hardy Amies (1909–2003), Couturier and Dressmaker by Appointment to Her Majesty The Queen
• Peter Barker (born 1983), squash player and influential member of winning English team in European Team Championships 2006
• Charles Bean (1879–1963), historian of Australian Forces in World War I.
• Charlie Bean (born 1953), Executive Director and Chief Economist of the Bank of England
• Lord Black of Brentwood, (Guy Black) (born 1964), former Press Secretary to Michael Howard, and Director of PCC
• George Cansdale (1909-1993), zoologist and broadcaster
• Patrick Carter, Baron Carter of Coles (born 1946), politician and life peer
• Colonel Sir Neville Chamberlain (1856–1944), army officer, Inspector-General of the Royal Irish Constabulary and inventor of snooker
• Philip Arthur William Collins (1923–2007), Dickensian scholar and emeritus professor of English, Leicester University
• Roger Cowley (born 1939), professor of experimental philosophy at the University of Oxford
• Sir Robin Day (1923–2000), broadcaster (attended the school 1934 - 1938)
• Ralph Dellor, (born 1952), cricket broadcaster, journalist and first chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board Coaches Association
• Hugo Drayton, former Managing Director of The Daily Telegraph newspaper
• Sir David Eady (born 1943), High Court Judge
• David Eldridge (born 1973), playwright
• Noel Edmonds (born 1948), disc jockey and broadcaster
• Dr Stephen Fleet (1936–2006), Master of Downing College, Cambridge
• Howard Flight (born 1948), Conservative politician
• Prof. Sir Roderick Floud (born 1942), academic, Vice-President of the European Universities Association
• Fabian Hamilton (born 1955), Labour politician
• Stuart Hamilton (born 1964), British Champion weightlifter
• Neil Harris (born 1977), footballer
• Keith Hopkins (1934–2004), Influential historian and sociologist, professor of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge
• David Irving (born 1938), controversial historian
• Chris Jarvis (born 1969), television presenter
• Paul Neil Milne Johnstone (1952–2004) poet and butt of Douglas Adams' jokes in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Nic Jones (born 1947), musician
• Frank Lampard (born 1978), footballer
• Andrew Lansley (born 1956), Conservative politician, Leader of the House of Commons 2012 - present, former Secretary of State for Health
• Frank Godbould Lee (1903–1971), civil servant and Master of Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge
• Sir Ralph Murray, (1908–1983), diplomat
• Jodie Marsh (born 1978), glamour model
• Ian Martin (born 1948), Special Representative of the Secretary General of the UN & Secretary-General of Amnesty International
• Jake Maskall (born 1971), actor
• Alexander O'Connell (born 1988), Sabre Fencing Individual World and Commonwealth Champion
• Robert Andrew Muter Macindoe Ogilvie (1853–1938), England international footballer
• Hal Ozsan (born 1976), actor
• Michael Peppiatt (born 1941), Writer and Art Historian
• Eric Peters (born 1969), rugby player
• Mark Philpott (born 1965), Oxford academic and Principal of the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Oxford
• Ian Pont (born 1961), Professional cricketer, international coach and author
• David Pickthall (born 1958), conductor and composer
• Penny Rimbaud (born Jeremy Ratter 1943), drummer, poet and founder of punk band Crass
• Griff Rhys Jones (born 1953), comedian and actor
• Stewart Robson (born 1964), footballer
• Sir John Rogers (1928), Air Chief Marshall in the Royal Air Force and member of the FIA World Motor Sport Council
• Vivian Rosewarne (1917 - May 1940) Wellington bomber pilot memorialised in the 1941 film An Airman's Letter to His Mother,
• Sir Nick Scheele (born 1943), former President of the Ford Motor Company
• Daryl Selby (born 1982), Professional Squash player
• Asad Shan model and actor
• Bob Simpson, (1944–2006), BBC journalist
• Sir Peter Stothard (born 1951), Former editor of The Times
• Jack Straw (born 1946), Labour politician & Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain 2007-2010
• Charles Thomson (born 1953), founder of the Stuckists art movement
• Michael Francis Tompsett (born 1939), inventer of CCD imagers
• Paul Wickens (born 1956) musician, usually known as "Wix"
• Teerathep Winothai (born 1985), Thai footballer
• Sir Denis Wright (born 1911, died 2005) ambassador and author
• Stephen Yardley (born 1942), actor