Notable alumni of Morpeth School include Dr Derek Plumb, an authority on the Lollards and the English Reformation, Cheryl Baker, of Bucks Fizz, and Stephen Bush, a journalist at the "New Statesman", and in recent times Ashley Facey Thompson, a paralympian who took part in the Rio 2016 Summer Paralympics, and Elliot Ferguson-Dillon, a current assistant coach at Tottenham Hotspur F.C.