# Old Etonians

This is a list of notable former pupils of Eton College, a 13–18 public fee-charging and boarding secondary school for boys in Eton, Berkshire, England. Former pupils of the school are known as Old Etonians.

## Former pupils
### Politics

* Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, first Prime Minister of Great Britain
* William Pitt the Elder, 1st Earl of Chatham, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
* William Ewart Gladstone, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
* Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
* Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
* Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
* Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
* Alec Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
* David Cameron, Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
* Boris Johnson, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
* Abhisit Vejjajiva, former Prime Minister of Thailand
* Kwasi Kwarteng, former Chancellor of the Exchequer
* Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
* Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
* Lord Curzon, former Viceroy of India
* Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire, former Governor General of Canada
* Tam Dalyell, former Labour MP
Eton has produced twenty British prime ministers. Eleven of them are shown above.

### Royalty and nobility

This is an incomplete list of pupils from aristocratic and royal families, some of whom have been sending their sons to Eton for generations.

#### British

* Lord William Beauchamp Nevill (1860–1939)
* Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster (1879–1953)
* Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (1900–1974)
* George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood (1923–2011), son of Mary, Princess Royal and Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood
* John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough (1926–2014)
* Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (born 1935)
* Prince William of Gloucester (1941–1972)
* Prince Michael of Kent (born 1942)
* Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester (born 1944)
* Henry Alan Walter Richard Percy, 11th Duke of Northumberland (1953 – 1995)
* George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews (born 1962)
* James Ogilvy (born 1964), son of Princess Alexandra and the Rt Hon. Sir Angus Ogilvy
* Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer (born 1964), brother of Diana, Princess of Wales
* Alexander Windsor, Earl of Ulster (born 1974)
* Lord Frederick Windsor (born 1979)
* William, Prince of Wales (born 1982)
* Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex (born 1984)
* Edward Windsor, Lord Downpatrick (born 1988)
* Lord Max Percy (born 1990), son of Ralph Percy, 12th Duke of Northumberland
* Samuel Chatto (born 1996), son of Lady Sarah Chatto and Daniel Chatto
* Arthur Chatto (born 1999), son of Lady Sarah Chatto and Daniel Chatto
* Charles Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley (born 1999)

#### Foreign

* Prince Tokugawa Iesato (1863–1940)
* Aga Khan III (1877–1957)
* Prince Eustachy Sapieha (1881–1963)
* Prajadhipok, King Rama VII of Siam (1893–1941)
* Leopold III of Belgium (1901–1983)
* Prince Nicholas of Romania (1903–1978)
* Prince Bira of Siam (1914–1985), Formula One driver from 1950 to 1954
* Birendra of Nepal (1945–2001)
* Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia (born 1945)
* Zera Yacob Amha Selassie, Head of the Imperial House of Ethiopia
* Dipendra of Nepal (1971–2001)
* Prince Nirajan of Nepal (1978–2001)

### Writers

* Robert Bridges
* John Carter
* Cyril Connolly
* William Douglas Home
* Henry Fielding
* Ian Fleming
* Gilbert Frankau
* Thomas Gray
* Aldous Huxley
* Pico Iyer
* Montague Rhodes James
* Ronald Knox
* Richard Mason
* Douglas Murray
* Musa Okwonga
* Dillibe Onyeama
* George Orwell
* Anthony Powell
* Benedict Rattigan
* Leslie Stephen
* Andrew Robinson
* Percy Bysshe Shelley
* Osbert Sitwell
* Sacheverell Sitwell
* Horace Walpole
* Guy Walters

### Scientists

* Robert Boyle, chemist
* John Gurdon, biologist and Nobel laureate
* J. B. S. Haldane, biologist and statistician
* Henry Moseley, physicist
* John Maynard Smith, biologist and geneticist
* John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, physicist
* Stephen Wolfram, computer scientist
* Richard Wrangham, biological anthropologist

### Journalists

* Timothy Brinton, 1950s BBC newsreader and 1960s ITN newscaster
* Nicholas Coleridge, president of Conde Nast International and managing director of Condé Nast UK
* Geordie Greig, current editor of The Mail on Sunday
* Julian Haviland, former political editor of ITN and The Times
* David Jessel, BBC current affairs presenter
* Ludovic Kennedy, former ITN newscaster and BBC Panorama presenter
* James Landale, current BBC diplomatic correspondent
* Charles Moore, Baron Moore of Etchingham, former editor of The Daily Telegraph
* Ferdinand Mount, former editor of The Spectator
* John Oaksey, former chief ITV and Channel 4 racing commentator
* David Shukman, BBC science editor
* Corbet Woodall, 1960s BBC newsreader

### Actors

* Amrou Al-Kadhi (born 23 June 1990) is a British-Iraqi writer, actor, drag performer, and filmmaker whose work primarily focuses on queer identity, cultural representation and racial politics.
* Sebastian Armesto
* Michael Bentine
* Jeremy Brett
* John R. Buckmaster$^{:238–240}$
* Christopher Cazenove
* Jeremy Child
* Jeremy Clyde
* Adetomiwa Edun
* Clement von Franckenstein
* Harry Hadden-Paton
* Nyasha Hatendi
* Jonah Hauer-King
* Charles Hawtrey
* Tom Hiddleston
* Hugh Laurie
* Damian Lewis
* Harry Lloyd
* Patrick Macnee
* Ian Ogilvy
* Julian Ovenden
* Eddie Redmayne
* John Standing
* Freddie Thorp
* Moray Watson
* Dominic West

### Music

* Thomas Arne, composer
* Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt, 14th Lord Berners, composer and novelist
* George Butterworth, composer
* John Macleod Campbell Crum, priest and hymnwriter
* Thomas Dunhill, composer
* Victor Hely-Hutchinson, composer and conductor
* Frederick Septimus Kelly, musician and composer
* Humphrey Lyttelton, jazz trumpeter
* Hubert Parry, writer of the hymn "Jerusalem" and the coronation anthem "I was glad"
* Roger Quilter, composer
* Donald Tovey, musicologist
* Frank Turner, musician
* Atticus Ross, musician and film composer
* Philip Heseltine, Anglo-Welsh composer and writer (pseudonym Peter Warlock)
* David Watson, music producer

### Others

* Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Nazi SA Obergruppenführer
* Francis Bertie, 1st Viscount Bertie of Thame, ambassador
* Henry Blofeld, cricket commentator
* Beau Brummell, dandy
* Guy Burgess, diplomat and spy
* Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, WWI commander and Governor-General of Canada
* Alan Clark, MP and author
* John Collier, painter
* James Colthurst, radiologist and friend of Diana, Princess of Wales
* Piers Courage, Formula 1 racing driver
* Charles Douglas-Home, 13th Earl of Home, father of Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home
* Ranulph Fiennes, explorer
* Alexander Fiske-Harrison, bullfighter and author
* Timothy Gowers, mathematician
* Ivo Graham, comedian
* Bear Grylls, adventurer
* William Inge, Dean of St Paul's Cathedral
* John Maynard Keynes, economist
* Richard Layard, Baron Layard, economist
* Oliver Leese, WWII commander 8th Army
* Frederick Stanley Maude, WWI commander
* Stewart Menzies, WWII head of MI6
* Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica
* Nigel Oakes, CEO of Behavioural Dynamics Institute and SCL Group
* Lawrence Oates, Antarctic explorer
* Derek Parfit, philosopher
* Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer, WWI commander
* Paul Raison, art historian and former Chairman of Christie's
* Timothy Raison, MP and Government minister
* Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson, WWI commander, ultimately Commander in Chief India
* Charles Studd, cricketer and missionary
* Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury
* Henry Maitland Wilson, WWII commander
* Timothy Yeats, theologian, vicar and historian
* Humphrey Smith – owner of Samuel Smith Old Brewery
Thirty-seven Old Etonians have been awarded the Victoria Cross—the largest number to alumni of any school (see List of Victoria Crosses by school).