# List of Old Emanuels

This is a list of notable former pupils and staff of Emanuel School, London, England.

## Notable Old Emanuels
### Armed forces

* Colonel William Bailey OBE
* Sholto Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Kirtleside GCB, MC, DFC – Marshal of the Royal Air Force, at Emanuel 1904–1905
* Major Edward Thomas MC – noted for his part in the Battle of Halfaya Pass

### Arts and entertainment

* Naveen Andrews – actor, star of Lost, and The English Patient
* Nick Annand - DJ and producer under the stage name Deekline
* John Banting – artist
* Alan Caddy – guitarist with The Tornados
* Derek Davis – ceramic artist
* Rupert Degas – actor
* Hero Fiennes-Tiffin
* Tallulah Haddon - actor and model
* Jack Hedley – actor
* Leslie Henson – actor
* Douglas Hickox – film director
* Chris Hughes – record producer, and Adam and the Ants drummer, aka Merrick
* William Lovelock – composer and pedagogue
* Richard Marquand – film director, director of Return of the Jedi
* Ben Moore – artist and curator
* Gordon Murray – puppeteer (Camberwick Green, Chigley, Trumpton)
* Joseph Quinn – actor (Stranger Things, Catherine the Great)
* Mick Rock – rock photographer
* Sadie Soverall - actor (Saltburn, Fate: The Winx Saga)
* Ben Wilkins - BAFTA and Oscar-winning sound editor

### Clergy

* Barney Hopkinson – formerly Rector of Wimborne Minster 1981–1986; Archdeacon of Sarum 1986–1998; and Archdeacon of Wilts 1998–2004
* J. B. Phillips – theologian and clergyman

### Industry

* Neil Carson OBE – formerly CEO Johnson Matthey PLC

### Law

Laurie Shaffi OBE

### Literature

* Vernon Richards – anarchist writer and photographer
* N. F. Simpson – dramatist
* Michael Vince – poet and author
* Clive Wilmer – poet and Fellow of Fitzwilliam College and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

### Media

* Michael Aldred – co-presenter of Ready Steady Go!
* Michael Aspel OBE – broadcaster
* Mark Baker - animator and Peppa Pig creator
* Clive Barnes – theatre critic
* Simon Barnes – chief sports correspondent for The Times
* Bill Boorne – Theatre Critic & Journalist
* Andi Peters – television presenter and producer
* Paul Rambali – Music journalist & author

### Other professions

* Charles Walter Clark FRIBA – main architect for the Metropolitan Line on the London Underground
* Michel Roux Jr – Two-starred Michelin chef and restaurateur and presenter of Masterchef
* Tomasz Starzewski – designer

### Politics, public administration, and diplomacy

* The Rt Hon Richard Adams MP – politician, formerly Lord Commissioner of the Treasury
* Sir Alfred Butt MP – politician formerly Director of Food Rationing at the Ministry of Food, theatre manager, race horse owner and breeder
* Ernest Crutchley CB, CMG, CBE – Minister (Political)/Deputy High Commissioner Australia
* Sir Arthur Galsworthy KCMG – British Ambassador to Ireland and formerly British High Commissioner to New Zealand
* Sir John Galsworthy KCVO, CMG – British Ambassador to Mexico
* Baron Hain of Neath, PC – formerly Secretary of State for Wales; previously Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland; Leader of the House of Commons and Lord Privy Seal
* The Rt Hon Geoffrey Robinson MP – formerly Paymaster General
* Mark MacGregor – politician, formerly Conservative Party chief executive
* Matthew Taylor – chief executive of the Royal Society of Arts
* Charles Wilfrid Scott-Giles OBE, FSA – Fitzalan Pursuivant of Arms Extraordinary
* Sir Sebastian Wood KCMG – British Ambassador to Germany; formerly British Ambassador to China, and Principal Private Secretary to the Cabinet

### Professors and distinguished thinkers

* Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee OM, KBE, FRS, FRSA, FREng, DFBCS – inventor of the World Wide Web, recipient of the Millennium Technology Prize and professor at MIT
* Edward Bowell – astronomer, Lowell Observatory
* Professor Tony Brooker – Emeritus Professor of Computer Science, University of Essex
* Professor J Duncan M Derrett – Emeritus Professor of Oriental Laws, University of London
* Professor Derek Fray FRS, FREng – Professor of Materials Chemistry, and Fellow, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge; formerly Assistant Professor of Metallurgy at MIT
* Professor Robert Gibson – Emeritus Professor of Engineering Science, King's College, London
* A. C. Gimson – phonetician and head of the department of phonetics and linguistics, UCL
* Professor Peter Goddard CBE, FRS – mathematical physicist, director of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; formerly Master of St John's College, Cambridge; Honorary Fellow Isaac Newton Institute
* Professor Ivor James – professor of cello, Royal College of Music
* Professor Tony Judt FBA – historian, and Erich Maria Remarque Professor in European Studies, New York University. Nominated for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.
* Tom Kemp – Marxist economic historian and political theorist; formerly Reader in Economic History at the University of Hull
* William Lovelock – composer
* George Lyward OBE – educationalist, psychotherapist, (Emanuel School, Glenalmond College, and The Perse School under W. H. D. Rouse), and founder of Finchden Manor therapeutic community for young people
* Professor David Marquand FBA, FRSA, FRHistS – academic, visiting fellow and formerly principal of Mansfield College, Oxford; ex-Labour Party MP and SDP co-founder
* Professor Mark Miodownik MBE – materials scientist, University College London
* Professor Denis Noble CBE, FRS, FRCP (Hon), Emeritus Professor and co-Director of Computational Physiology, Balliol College, Oxford; formerly Burdon Sanderson Professor of Cardiovascular Physiology
* Professor John Paynter OBE, FRSA – composer and Emeritus Professor of Music University of York
* Edward P.F. Rose – paleontologist and geologist
* Professor Sir Owen Saunders Kt, FRS, FREng – Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Fellow, and formerly Rector of Imperial College, London and Vice-Chancellor of the University of London

### Royalty and other nobility

* His Royal Highness Prince Abdul Hakeem Jefri Bolkiah of Brunei
* His Royal Highness Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah Bolkiah of Brunei

### Sport
#### Rowing

* Clint Evans – member of the 2005 Atlantic Rowing Race, overall winning crew and winning pairs team: C$^2$
* Malcolm McGowan – Great Britain Olympic oarsman 1980; silver medalist men's eight & 1984 Finalist
* Anton Obholzer – Great Britain Olympic oarsman in Seoul (1988). Member of GB Eight that came 4th.
* Clive Roberts – Great Britain Olympic oarsman in Los Angeles (1984). Member of GB Eight that came 5th.

#### Rugby

* George Littlewood Hirst – Wales and Barbarians rugby international 1912–1914
* Tom Smith – Scotland and Lions rugby International
* Bruce Neale - England rugby international

#### Cricket

* John Cole (1907–1997), first-class cricketer and British Army officer
* Ian Payne – cricketer
* Stuart Surridge – cricketer
* Leonard Shelton Heath Summers – cricketer

#### Athletics

* Peter Reed - Great Britain Olympic long jumper in the 1968 Summer Olympics

## Notable Masters

* J. A. Cuddon – Writer, works include A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory
* Tristram Jones-Parry – Headmaster of Emanuel School 1994–1998; Headmaster of Westminster School 1998–2004