Notable OBs
- Adrian Heath (1920–1992), painter
- Amy Studt (born 1986), singer
- Angus John Mackintosh Stewart (born 1936), author of Sandel
- Ben Fogle (born 1973), television presenter, adventurer
- Cerys Matthews (born 1969), singer, songwriter
- Charles Handley-Read (born 1916) architectural critic
- Drummond Matthews (1931–1997), geologist and marine geophysicist
- Eliot Paulina Sumner (born 1990), singer
- Emilia Fox (born 1974), actress
- Freddie Fox (actor) (born 1989), actor
- Roger Hammond (1936-2012), actor
- Frederick Sanger (born 1918), biochemist and the fourth person to become a double Nobel Laureate
- Geoffrey Hoyle (born 1942), science fiction writer (son of Fred Hoyle)
- HRH Princess Haya of Jordan (born 1974), daughter of King Hussein I of Jordan
- Huw Bennett (born 1983), rugby player for Ospreys and Wales, 18 caps
- Iain Tuckett, pioneer in urban regeneration
- Jasper Conran (born 1959), fashion designer (son of Sir Terence Conran)
- Jasper Morrison (born 1959), designer
- John Eliot Gardiner (born 1943), conductor
- John Nissen (born 1942), founder of Cloudworld
- Jonathan Bowen (born 1956), computer scientist
- Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy (born 1933), author
- Julian Vereker (1945–2000), electronic engineer
- Kevin Crossley-Holland (born 1941), children's author and poet
- Kwame Anthony Appiah (born 1954), philosopher and novelist
- Lara Cazalet (born 1971), actress
- Lucian Freud (born 1922), painter
- Mark Elder (born 1947), conductor
- Michael Yates (1919–2001), stage and television designer and executive
- Myles Burnyeat (born 1939), classicist and philosopher
- Nicholas Phillips, Baron Phillips of Worth Matravers (born 1938), Master of the Rolls, 2000–2005, and Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales from 2005
- Nicholas Ross (born 1980), TV contestant on "Men are better than Women"
- Nigel Barker (born 1972), fashion photographer, judge on America's Next Top Model
- Paul Thompson (born 1959), Rector of the Royal College of Art
- Phil De Glanville (born 1968), rugby player for Bath and England, 38 caps, captain of England
- Philip Trevelyan (born 1943), film director
- Prince Alastair of Connaught (1914–1943), member of the British Royal Family
- Quinlan Terry (born 1937), architect
- Robert Saxton (born 1953), composer
- Saira Shah (born 1964), journalist and documentary filmmaker
- Simon Napier-Bell (born 1939), pop group manager, writer and journalist
- Sir Howard Hodgkin (born 1932), painter
- Sir Terence Conran (born 1931), designer, restaurateur and retailer
- Sir Tony Durant (born 1928), politician
- Tahir Shah (born 1966), writer and television presenter
- William Herbert, 18th Earl of Pembroke (born 1978)
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