# List of Old Ardinians

The following is a list of some notable Old Ardinians, being former pupils of Ardingly College in the United Kingdom.

## Politics

* Sir Andrew Bowden - Member of Parliament (Conservative)
* Sir Robert Cary, 1st Baronet - Member of Parliament (Conservative)
* Jack Easter - Member of the Legislative Assembly in New South Wales
* Sir John Gorst - Member of Parliament (Conservative)
* Sir James Simpson - Cabinet Minister in Uganda
* Sir Robert Tasker - Member of Parliament (Conservative)

## Diplomacy

* Robert Alston - UK High Commissioner to New Zealand and UK Ambassador to Oman
* Chris Gunness - UNRWA chief spokesperson
* Sir Claude Hayes - civil servant for overseas territories
* Sir Edward Jackson - UK Ambassador to Belgium and UK Ambassador to Cuba
* Ian Mackley - UK High Commissioner to Ghana and UK Chargé d'Affaires to Afghanistan
* Sir David Manning - UK Ambassador the United States and UK Ambassador to Israel
* Sir Robin McLaren - UK Ambassador to China and UK Ambassador to the Philippines
* Sir Andrew Wood - UK Ambassador to Russia and UK Ambassador to Yugoslavia

## Sciences

* John Ackroyd - engineer
* Harold Comber - botanist
* Mike Pitts - archaeologist
* John Paul Wild - radio astronomer

## Academia

* Mark Bevir - Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley and the United Nations University
* Frank Cowell - Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics
* Robert Foley - Leverhulme Professor of Human Evolution at the University of Cambridge
* Sue Hamilton - Professor of Prehistory at (and former director of) the UCL Institute of Archaeology
* Patrick Hanks - lexicographer

## Arts
### Stage and screen

* Dick Allen - film editor
* Charles Bryant - actor and film director
* Josh Dylan - actor
* Creighton Hale - actor
* Alan Howard - actor
* Suhana Khan - actress
* Mark Letheren - actor
* Ed Sanders - actor
* Terry-Thomas - actor
* Frank Williams - actor

### Writers

* Nicholas Fisk - children's author
* Neil Gaiman - author and screenwriter
* Thomas Meech - author and journalist
* Ed Whitmore - screenwriter

### Music

* Alex Cartana - singer
* Mike Christie - singer
* Julian Clifford - conductor
* James Lancelot - organist
* Stephen Oliver - composer
* Victor Silvester - composer and band leader
* Ed Welch - composer

### Visual arts

* George Belcher - artist
* John Hayes - director of the National Portrait Gallery (1974–1994)

## Media

* Sir Bill Cotton - controller of BBC One (1977–1981)
* Colin Griffiths - broadcaster
* Ian Hislop - editor of Private Eye and panelist on Have I Got News For You
* Nick Newman - cartoonist and scriptwriter
* Ed Petrie - children's television presenter
* Paul Reynolds - BBC News correspondent
* Jay Wynne - BBC weather forecaster

## Sport
### Motor sports

* Max Chilton - Formula One, WEC, and IndyCar racing driver
* Clifford Earp - racing driver
* Mike Hawthorn - Formula One racing driver and World Champion (1958)

### Football

* George Brann - England footballer and Sussex cricketer
* Donald Coles - footballer
* Adam Virgo - footballer

### Cricket

* Walter Bettesworth - Scotland and Sussex cricketer
* William Blackman - Sussex cricketer
* Ben Brown - Sussex and Hampshire cricketer
* Dale de Neef - Scotland cricketer
* Alex Gregory - South Australia cricketer
* Arthur Kneller - Hampshire cricketer
* Billy Newham - England and Sussex cricketer
* Toby Peirce - Sussex cricketer
* Paul Phillipson - Sussex cricketer
* Abidine Sakande - Sussex and Leicestershire cricketer
* Valentine Sewell - Dorset cricketer
* Thomas Symington - Rhodesia cricketer

## Industry and commerce

* Sydney Allard - founder of Allard Motor Company
* Charles Cruft - founder of Crufts dog show
* Sir Charles Fairey - founder of Fairey Aviation Company
* Sir Richard Morris - industrialist

## Military

* Peter Piper - submarine commander
* George Reginald Starr - Special Operations Executive agent and leader
* Robert Whittaker - Anti Aircraft divisional commander

## Ecclesiastical

* Walter Adams, Archbishop of British Columbia and Yukon
* George Browning, Bishop of Canberra and Goulburn
* Dennis Ede, Archdeacon of Stoke
* Gordon Mursell, Bishop of Stafford
* Andrew Norman, Suffragan Bishop in Europe

## Other

* John Hooper - President of the British Orthodontic Society