List of People Educated at Westminster School - 20th Century

20th Century

• R.A. Bevan (1901–1974), media pioneer
• Gregory Dix (1902–1952), liturgical scholar
• C. W. A. Scott (1903–1946) pioneer Aviator
• Patrick Hamilton (1904–1962), novelist and playwright
• Sir John Gielgud (1904–2000), actor and director
• Sir John Aitken (1910–1985), Conservative newspaper owner
• H. A. R. "Kim" Philby (1912–1988), agent who defected to USSR 1963
• Professor Sir Richard Doll, CH FRS (1912–2005), epidemiologist
• Sir Richard Stone (1913–1991), Nobel prizewinner
• Angus Wilson (1913–1991), novelist
• Norman Parkinson (1913–1990), photographer
• Sir William Deakin (1913–2005), historian and literary assistant to Winston Churchill
• John Freeman (born 1915), Labour politician, broadcaster, diplomat and television chairman
• Jack Simmons (1915–2000), historian
• Sir Andrew Huxley FRS (1917–2012), scientist
• Cecil Gould (1918–1994), art historian
• Brian Urquhart (born 1919) UN undersecretary-general and pioneer of peacekeeping
• Sir Peter Ustinov (1921–2004), actor, writer and director
• Michael Flanders and Donald Swann (1922–1975 and 1923–1994), performers, writers and musicians
• Neville Sandelson (1923–2002), founder member of the Social Democratic Party
• Michael Havers (1923–1992), lord chancellor
• Richard Wollheim (1923–2003), philosopher
• Michael Hamburger (1924–2007), literary critic
• Colin Turnbull (1924–1994), anthropologist
• Tony Benn (born 1925), politician
• Peter Brook (born 1925), theatre director
• Tristram Cary (born 1925), composer
• Anthony Sampson (1926–2004), author, founder member of the Social Democratic Party
• Edward Enfield (born 1929), broadcaster
• Sir Crispin Tickell (born 1930), environmentalist, diplomat and academic
• Nigel, Lord Lawson (born 1932), former Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer
• Anthony Howard (born 1934), journalist
• Sir Roger Norrington (born 1934), musician
• Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware), (born 1934), theologian
• Simon Gray (1936–2008), playwright
• William Cookson (1939–2004), literary critic
• Jonathan Fenby (born 1942), journalist, writer and former Editor of The Observer and the South China Morning Post
• Julian, Lord Hunt,(born 1942), climate change authority and Labour peer
• Sir Peter Bottomley (born 1944), Conservative politician
• Peter Asher and Gordon Waller (born 1944 and 1945), musicians
• William, Baron Bach (born 1946), Labour politician
• David Neuberger, Baron Neuberger of Abbotsbury (born 1948) Master of the Rolls
• Andrew, Lord Lloyd-Webber (born 1948), musician and producer
• Martin Amis (born 1949), novelist
• Michael Attenborough (born 1950), theatre director
• Philip Bowman (born 1952), Chief Executive of Smiths Group
• Tim Sebastian (born 1952), television correspondent and interviewer
• Stephen Poliakoff (born 1952), playwright
• Nigel Planer (born 1953), novelist and actor
• Chris Huhne (born 1954), Liberal Democrat politician
• Adam Mars-Jones (born 1954), novelist and critic
• Patrick Wintour (born 1954), journalist
• James Robbins (born 1955), diplomatic correspondent
• Tim Gardam (born 1955), journalist and educator, former director of Channel 4
• Andrew Graham-Dixon (born 1956), broadcaster and art historian
• Dominic Grieve (born 1956), shadow Attorney-General
• Dominic Lawson (born 1956), journalist
• Shane McGowan (born 1957), musician
• James Lasdun (born 1957), poet and novelist
• Thomas Dolby (born 1958), musician
• Nigella Lawson (born 1960), broadcaster
• Edward St Aubyn (born 1960), author
• Tom Holt (born 1960), novelist
• Timothy Winter (born 1960), Islamic scholar
• Michael Reiss (born 1960), Anglican bioethicist
• George Benjamin (born 1960), composer
• David Heyman (born 1961), film producer
• Imogen Stubbs (born 1961), actress
• Matt Frei (born 1963), foreign correspondent
• Ian Bostridge (born 1964), tenor
• Lucasta Miller (born 1966), literary critic
• Helena Bonham Carter (born 1966), actress
• Noreena Hertz (born 1967), economist and author
• Jason Kouchak (born 1967), musician and composer
• Gavin Rossdale (born 1967), musician and actor
• Julian Anderson (born 1967), composer
• Nick Clegg (born 1967), British Deputy Prime Minister and Liberal Democrat leader
• Alexander Williams (born 1967), artist and animator
• Richard Harris (born 1968), composer and pianist
• Ruth Kelly MP (born 1968), former Education Secretary
• Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish (born 1968 and 1969), TV performers and journalists
• Giles Coren (born 1969), journalist
• Marcel Theroux (born 1969), novelist
• Louis Theroux (born 1970), broadcaster
• Tobias Hill (born 1970), poet and novelist
• Jonathan Yeo (born 1970), artist
• Dido Armstrong (born 1971), musician under the name of "Dido"
• Jamie McCartney (born 1971), artist and sculptor
• Martha Lane Fox (born 1973), public servant and dot.com entrepreneur
• James Reynolds (born 1974), BBC Beijing Correspondent
• Conrad Shawcross (born 1977), artist
• Christian Coulson (born 1978), actor
• Pinny Grylls (born 1978), filmmaker
• Benjamin Yeoh (born 1978), playwright
• Clemency Burton-Hill (born 1981), novelist and violinist
• Alice Eve (born 1982), actress
• Mica Penniman (born 1983), musician under the name "Mika"
• Alfred Enoch (born 1988), actor
• Alexander Guttenplan (born 1990), captain of winning University Challenge team 2010