Queen's Royal College - Notable Alumni

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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