Notable Alumni
- Lloyd Best - economist, essayist, politician, scholar. Founder of the 'Plantation school' of Economics.
- Ralph de Boissière - novelist.
- Marc Burns- athlete and 2008 Olympic medallist - 4x100m relay
- Rudranath Capildeo- mathematician, politician.
- Karl Hudson-Phillips - jurist, politician; former judge of the International Criminal Court and former Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago.
- C. L. R. James - pre-eminent Caribbean philosopher, historian, novelist, essayist, political theorist and cricket writer.
- Peter Minshall - artist, Trinidad carnival masman, designer of opening ceremony for the Olympic Games of Atlanta 1996, Emmy Award-winner.
- Wendell Mottley - 1964 Olympic silver medallist and politician. Former Minister of Finance.
- Deryck Murray - West Indian wicket-keeper in cricket.
- Shiva Naipaul - novelist and journalist
- Sir Vidia Naipaul - Nobel-prize winning author. QRC is memorialised in his masterpiece, A House for Mr. Biswas.
- George Maxwell Richards - engineer, academician, President of Trinidad and Tobago.
- Richard Thompson- Athlete and 2008 Olympic medallist - 100m; 4x100m relay
- Eric A. Williams - geologist, former politician and Minister of Energy.
- Eric Eustace Williams - historian, first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago.
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