# List of people educated at Ampleforth College

This is a list of notable people educated at Ampleforth College in Yorkshire, England.

## Arts, entertainment, writing

* Michael Abney-Hastings, 14th Earl of Loudoun (1942–2012), British-Australian farmer made famous in the documentary Britain's Real Monarch
* Peter Bergen (born 1962), author, print and TV journalist, CNN, adjunct professor, Johns Hopkins University
* Ian Birrell, former Deputy Editor-in-Chief, The Independent; Contributing Editor, The Mail on Sunday
* Mark Burns (1936–2007), actor
* John Bunting (1927–2002), sculptor and teacher
* Mark Coreth (born 1959), animal sculptor
* Lord Anthony Crichton-Stuart (born 1961), art historian
* Vincent Cronin (1924–2011), historical writer and biographer
* Lu Edmonds (born 1957), musician (Public Image Ltd., The Damned, The Mekons, The Spizzles, The Waterboys, among others)
* Rupert Everett (born 1959), actor
* Mark Ezra (born 1950), film producer and writer
* Julian Fellowes, Baron Fellowes of West Stafford (born 1949), actor, writer and creator of Downton Abbey; Conservative peer of the House of Lords (2011–)
* Andrew Festing (born 1941), British Royal Portrait painter
* Sir Antony Gormley (born 1950), sculptor
* Harman Grisewood (1906–1997), Chief Assistant to the Director-General of the BBC, 1955–1964
* Albert Read, newspaper and magazine executive for Condé Nast
* Patrick Reyntiens (born 1925), stained glass artist
* Edward Holcroft (born 1987), film, television and stage actor
* James Honeyborne (born 1970), TV and film director
* Henry Hudson (born 1982), artist
* Geoffrey Huskinson (1935–2018), cartoonist
* Martin Jennings (born 1957), sculptor
* Andrew Knight (born 1939), journalist, editor, and media magnate
* Guy Mankowski (born 1983), writer
* John Micklethwait (born 1962), editor-in-chief of The Economist
* Red Morris, 4th Baron Killanin (born 1947), film producer
* Paul Morrissey (born 1938), film director, best known for his association with Andy Warhol.
* James Norton (born 1985), film, television and stage actor
* James O'Brien (born 1972), radio presenter and journalist
* Roderic O'Conor (1860–1940), artist
* Herbert Railton (1857–1910), illustrator
* Benedict Read (1945–2016), art historian, Senior Lecturer in Art History at the University of Leeds. Brother of Piers Paul Read (see below).
* Piers Paul Read (born 1941), writer
* Stuart Reid (born 1942), journalist, pundit
* Joe Simpson (born 1960), mountaineer and autobiographer
* Edward Stourton (born 1957), journalist
* Julian Wadham (born 1958), actor
* Tom Waller (born 1974), film producer
* Michael Whitehall (born 1940), producer, agent, television personality; father of comedian Jack Whitehall
* Hugo Young (1938–2003), journalist

## Politics, law, business and nobility

* Michael Ancram, 14th Marquess of Lothian (1945–2024), Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party, 2001–2005
* Dominic Asquith (born 1957), Ambassador to Iraq, 2006—2007, Ambassador to Egypt, 2007–present.
* Julian Asquith, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Asquith (1916–2011), diplomat
* Raymond Asquith, 3rd Earl of Oxford and Asquith (born 1952), former diplomat and businessman
* Anthony Bamford, Lord Bamford (born 1945), Chairman, J.C.Bamford (Excavators) Ltd.
* Andrew Bertie (1929–2008), first British Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller since 1258 (1988–2008)
* Richard Bertie, 14th Earl of Lindsey (born 1931), soldier and hereditary peer
* John Burnett, Baron Burnett (born 1945), Liberal Democrat MP for Torridge and West Devon, 1997–2001, 2001–5, Life Peer (2006–present)
* John Crichton-Stuart, 6th Marquess of Bute (1933–1993), Chairman, Historic Buildings Council for Scotland, 1983–1988, and National Museums of Scotland, 1985–1993
* Alexander Fermor-Hesketh, 3rd Baron Hesketh (born 1950), landowner and UKIP politician
* Matthew Festing (born 1949), second British Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller since 1258 (2008–2017)
* Edward Fitzalan-Howard, 18th Duke of Norfolk (born 1956), Earl Marshal
* Major-General Miles Fitzalan-Howard, 17th Duke of Norfolk (1915–2002), Earl Marshal
* Francis Fitzherbert, 15th Baron Stafford (born 1954), landowner, peer and deputy lieutenant
* Sir Hugh Fraser (1918–1984), Secretary of State for Air, 1962–1964
* David Hennessy, 3rd Baron Windlesham (born 1932), Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords, 1973–1974
* Auberon Herbert (1922–1974), campaigner for Eastern European causes
* Peter Kerr, 12th Marquess of Lothian (1922–2004), Scottish peer, landowner and politician
* John George (1930–2012), HM Kintyre Pursuivant of Arms, herald and author
* Sir Arthur Goodall, GCMG (born 1931), British diplomat, High Commissioner to India 1987–1991
* Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg (1921–2019), Grand Duke of Luxembourg, 1964–2000
* Don Agustín Jerónimo de Iturbide y Huarte (1807–1866), Prince Imperial of Mexico
* Sir Jeremy Johnson (born 1971), High Court judge
* King Letsie III of Lesotho (born 1963), King of Lesotho (1990–1995, 1996–present)
* Paul Moore, (born 1958), whistleblower sacked from HBOS
* King Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho (1938–1996), King of Lesotho (1966–1970, 1970–1990, 1995–96)
* George Nelson, 8th Earl Nelson (1905–1981)
* Michael Nolan, Baron Nolan (1928–2007), Law Lord and first chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life
* Richard Norton, 8th Baron Grantley (born 1956), banker and politician
* William Peel, 3rd Earl Peel (born 1947), Lord Chamberlain
* Peter Hope, 4th Baron Rankeillour (1935–2005), Scottish landowner and peer
* Nick Read (born 1966), business executive, CEO of Post Office Limited
* John Home Robertson (born 1948), former Labour MP and currently Member of the Scottish Parliament
* John Scott, 4th Earl of Eldon (1899–1976)
* John Scott, 5th Earl of Eldon (1937–2017)
* Charles Stourton, 26th Baron Mowbray (1923–2006), a representative hereditary peer
* Edward Stourton, 27th Baron Mowbray (1953–2021)
* Sir Swinton Barclay Thomas (1931–2016), British judge, privy councillor, and the Interception of Communications Commissioner

## Military

* Michael Allmand (1923–1944), Victoria Cross recipient (posthumous). Killed In Action on 24 June 1944, in Burma
* Brigadier Andrew Parker Bowles (born 1939), soldier
* Brigadier Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat (1911–1995), pioneering officer of the British Army's commandos
* Major General Lord Michael Fitzalan-Howard (1916–2007), Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps 1972–1981
* Major General Christopher John Ghika, Major-General commanding the Household Division 2019-present
* Major-General Sir Freddie de Guingand (1900–1979), Chief of Staff to Field Marshal Montgomery, 1942–1945
* Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Johnston, Comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain's office
* Wing Commander Tony Lovell (1919–1945), flying ace of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War
* Captain Robert Nairac (1948–1977), George Cross, intelligence officer murdered by the Provisional Irish Republican Army
* Major-General Peter Grant Peterkin (born c.1947), Sergeant at Arms of the House of Commons
* Major General Sir Sebastian Roberts (1954–2023), GOC The Household Division 2003–2007
* Colonel Sir David Stirling (1915–1990), founder of the SAS

## Philosophy, history and academia

* Michael Clanchy (1936–2021), Professor of Medieval History, University of London
* William Dalrymple (born 1965), historian
* John Keay (born 1941), historian, journalist and radio presenter
* Angus Loughran (born 1966), journalist, commentator and pundit
* Robert Maximilian de Gaynesford (born 1968), philosopher
* Fred Halliday, (1946–2010), academic, Fellow of the British Academy, Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at London School of Economics
* Philip Lawrence (1947–1995), headmaster and murder victim
* Gabriel Turville-Petre (1908–1978), Professor of Ancient Icelandic Literature and Antiquities, University of Oxford, 1953–1975
* Henry Wansbrough (1934), Master of St Benet's Hall, Oxford, 1990–2004

## Religion

* Athanasius Allanson (1804–1876), Benedictine monk, and Abbot of Glastonbury, 1874–1876
* Thomas Burgess (1791–1854), Roman Catholic Bishop of Clifton, 1851–1854
* Columba Cary-Elwes (1903–1994), monastery founder, ecumenist and author
* Sheikh Abdur Raheem Green (born 1962), convert to Islam and founder of the iERA
* Ambrose Griffiths (1928–2011), Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle
* John Cuthbert Hedley (1837–1915), Roman Catholic Bishop of Newport, 1881–1915
* Basil, Cardinal Hume (1923–1999), Abbot of Ampleforth Abbey, 1963–1975, and Archbishop of Westminster, 1975–1999

## Science and medicine

* Peter Christopher Caldwell (1927–1979), zoologist
* Thomas Cecil Gray (1913–2008), pioneered modern anaesthetic techniques
* Bill Inman (1929–2005), pharmacovigilance pioneer
* John William Polidori (1795–1821), physician and writer

## Sport

* Christopher Bartle, (born 1952) equestrian, member of the GB team at the 1984 Summer Olympics
* John Bean (1913–2005), first-class cricketer and British Army officer
* John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute (1958–2021), a Scottish peer and former racing driver ("Johnny Dumfries")
* Lawrence Dallaglio (born 1972), former captain of the English national rugby team
* John Dalrymple (born 1957), cricketer
* Howard Dunbar (1904–1942), cricketer
* Simon Easterby (born 1975), former member of the Ireland national rugby union team
* Guy Easterby (born 1972), former member of the Ireland national rugby union team
* Maurice Fitzgerald (born 1976), former rugby player for Biarritz and England A
* Tomas Francis, rugby player for Wales national rugby union team
* Charles Grieve (1913–2000), cricketer who played for Oxford University and Guernsey
* Edward O'Donovan Crean (born 1887), English rugby union player who was part of the first official British and Irish Lions team that toured South Africa in 1910
* Jonathan Pearce (born 1957), cricketer