page_title: List of Old Shirburnians
section_title: Entertainment & the Arts
hierarchical_section_title: List of Old Shirburnians / Entertainment & the Arts
caption_attribution_description: English: Chris Martin, performing with Coldplay, at the Naeba Ski Resort, Niigata, Japan, as part of the 2011 Fuji Rock Festival.
context_page_description: Sherborne is a British full boarding Public School located in the town of Sherborne in north-west Dorset.
  This list comprises predominantly 20th century notable Old Shirburnians organised by profession. For information on earlier Old Shirburnians:
context_section_description: Hugh Bonneville, actor, for example Downton Abbey
  Christopher Bowerbank, architect and raconteur
  Clive Carey, baritone singer and composer
  Charles Collingwood, actor
  Charlie Cox, actor
  Sir Richard Eyre CBE, film and theatre director, artistic director of the National Theatre 1988–97
  Sir Michael Hopkins CBE, architect
  Jeremy Irons, actor, for example Brideshead Revisited and The Mission
  Rupert Maas English painting specialist & gallery owner
  Chris Martin, lead singer of rock band Coldplay
  Ian Messiter, creator of Just a Minute
  John Le Mesurier, actor, for example in Dad's Army
  Herbert Arnould Olivier, artist
  Lance Percival, actor
  Jon Pertwee, actor
  Jonathan Powell, Controller of BBC One (1987–1992)
  Albert Reginald Powys, architect and longtime Secretary of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings
  James Purefoy, actor
  Roland Young, actor
caption: Lead singer and co-founder of the rock band Coldplay Chris Martin
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