List of Stonyhurst Alumni
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This article lists some notable alumni of Stonyhurst College, Lancashire.
- Alfred Austin, Poet Laureate
- Iain Balshaw, English Rugby International, British and Irish Lion and World Cup Winner
- Joseph Cyril Bamford, Founder of the JCB company, manufacturing heavy plant
- Kyran Bracken, English Rugby International, British and Irish Lion and World Cup Winner
- Charles Carroll of Carrollton, signed the American Declaration of Independence
- Daniel Carroll, helped draft the US Constitution
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Author of Sherlock Holmes
- Patrick Devlin, British judge; legal and moral philosopher
- Macdonald Hastings, British journalist and war correspondent
- Vyvyan Holland, son of Oscar Wilde
- Roger Crispian Hollis, current R.C. Bishop of Portsmouth (UK)
- Bruce Kent, Former RC priest; leader of the CND
- Charles Laughton, actor, director; winner of the Best Actor "Oscar" in 1933
- Emmanuel Lobb, SJ, received King James II into the Catholic Church
- Eduardo López de Romaña, President of Peru from 1899 to 1903
- Thomas Francis Meagher, Irish rebel; introduced the tricolour to Ireland from France; General in the US Civil War; Governor of Montana
- Chris Morris, satirist and comedian; creator of "Brass Eye"
- Joseph Mary Plunkett, Irish rebel; signed the Irish Proclamation of Independence (Easter Rising)
- Ambrose Rookwood, Gunpowder Plot
- Louis Sabran, SJ, Chaplain to James III, the Old Pretender
- Charles Sturridge, TV and film director (most notably for the TV adaptation of Brideshead Revisited)
- Mark Thompson, Current Director of the BBC
- Herbert Cardinal Vaughan, Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster
- General Vernon A. Walters, General US Army; Deputy Director of the CIA; US Ambassador to the United Nations
- Charles Waterton, Naturalist
- Frederick Weld, Prime Minister of New Zealand
