List of notable Old Brightonians

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This article is about alumni of a school. For past & present inhabitants of the town of Brighton, see List of notable Brighton and Hove inhabitants.

The following are notable old boys and girls of Brighton College, Brighton, United Kingdom, known as Old Brightonians.

James Mangles (1832–1884), horticulturalist
Brooke Lambert (1834–1901), clergyman and social reformer
General Sir Harry Prendergast (1834–1913), Victoria Cross, Indian Army soldier, commander of the Burma Field Force, 1885–86
Sir Charles Elliott (1835–1911), Indian civil servant, Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal
Sir Thomas Erskine Holland (1835–1926), Chichele Professor of International Law and Diplomacy, University of Oxford and legal historian
Sir Thomas Graham Jackson (1835–1924), architect and architectural historian, RA
Sir Edward Poynter (1836–1919), painter, art educator and President of the Royal Academy
Alsager Hill (1839–1906), social reformer
Denzil Onslow (1839–1908), cricketer and unsuccessful Conservative politician
Sir George Savage (1842–1921), psychiatrist
Colonel Sir Malcolm Fox (1843–1918), army officer and proponent of physical training
William Gill (1843–1882), soldier and explorer, Founders Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society, 1879
Major-General Sir Herbert Stewart (1843–1885), army staff officer
Edward Carpenter (1844–1929), socialist writer and campaigner for homosexual rights
Sir Francis Fox (1844–1927), civil engineer
Sir Henry Cotton (1845–1915), Indian civil servant, President of the Indian National Congress and Liberal MP
Walford D. Selby (1845–1889), archivist and historian
Augustus Margary (1846–1875), Chinese Consular Service officer and explorer in China
Frederick Meyer (1847–1929), Baptist minister
F. N. Charrington (1850–1936), philanthropist and temperance reformer
Colonel Sir Charles Boxall (1851–1914), volunteer army officer and proponent of railway artillery
Sir Joseph Montagu Cotterill (1851–1933), surgeon, President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, cricketer for Sussex and the Gentlemen
Henry Henfrey (1852–1881), numismatist
Sir Edmund Barnard (1856–1930), Chairman of the Metropolitan Water Board, Chairman of Hertfordshire County Council, Liberal MP
Claude Wilson (1858–1881), England footballer
Cuthbert Heath (1859–1939), insurance pioneer
Admiral Sir Herbert Heath (1861–1954), Rear-Admiral Commanding 2nd Cruiser Squadron at Jutland in 1916 and Second Sea Lord
Sir Hubert Murray (1861–1940), Lieutenant-Governor of Papua New Guinea
Francis Llewellyn Griffith (1862–1934), Egyptologist and pioneer of Nubian archaeology, first Professor of Egyptology, University of Oxford
Douglas Earle Marsh (1862–1933), railway engineer
Sir George Reeves-Smith (1863–1941), Managing Director of the Savoy Company (1862– 1933), railway engineer
Leonard Merrick (1864–1939), writer
John Neville Figgis (1866–1919), Anglican church historian, theologian and political theorist
Sir Arthur Pease (1866–1927), coal magnate
General Sir William Peyton (1866–1931), Military Secretary to Sir Douglas Haig, 1916–1918
Herbert Pike Pease, 1st Baron Daryngton (1867–1949), Liberal Unionist MP, Assistant Postmaster-General and Ecclesiastical Commissioner
Sammy Woods (1867–1931), county cricketer, Australian footballer and England rugby player
Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen (1870–1947), Chairman of British American Tobacco
Wilfred de Glehn (1870–1951), impressionist painter, RA
Sir Harry Moorhouse (1872–1934), Lieutenant-Governor of Nigeria
Air Commodore Lionel Charlton (1879–1958), Royal Air Force officer and author
Brigadier-General Frank Crozier (1879–1937), commander of the British Mission to Lithuania, 1919–20, commander of the Black and Tans, 1920–21, military author and co-founder of the Peace Pledge Union
Sir Ronald Hatton (1886–1965), horticulturist
Sir Sydney Roberts (1887–1966), Dr Johnson scholar, Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, Secretary of Cambridge University Press and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
Miles Malleson (1888–1969), actor, playwright and scriptwriter
Harold Fox (1889–1967), Professor of Zoology, Birmingham University and then Bedford College, London, Darwin Medal winner, Fellow of the Royal Society
John Alfred Ryle (1889–1950), physician and Regius Professor of Physic, University of Cambridge
Noel Ewart Odell (1890–1987), geologist and mountaineer
Sir Vincent Glenday (1891–1970), colonial administrator, Governor of British Somaliland, Resident at Zanzibar
Douglas Overall (1892–1978), surveyor and property developer
Ewart Mackintosh (1893–1917), First World War poet
Eric Gandar Dower (1894–1987), air pioneer and Conservative MP
G. B. Harrison (1894–1991), Shakespeare scholar
Lieutenant-General Sir Francis Tuker (1894–1967), Indian Army officer and military historian
Francis St. Vincent Morris (1896–1917), poet
Angus Nicholl (1896–1977), naval officer, Captain HMS Penelope, BBC Defence Correspondent
Leonard Strong (1896–1958), writer and poet
John Combridge (1897–1986), mathematician and Registrar of King's College London
Gilbert Ryle (1900–1976), philosopher and Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy, University of Oxford
John Simmons (1902–1985), office systems pioneer
Frederick Dillistone (1903–1993), Dean of Liverpool and theologian
General Sir Cecil Sugden (1903–1963), Quartermaster-General to the Forces and Master-General of the Ordnance
Tom Conway (1904–1967), actor
Francis Noel Davey (1904–1973), Anglican priest, theologian and Director of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
Charles Herbert (1904–1988), soldier, Director of Transportation at the War Office
Air Marshal Sir Humphrey Edwardes Jones (1905–1987), Commander-in-Chief, RAF Germany
George Sanders (1906–1972), actor
Sir Vivian Fuchs (1908–1999), geologist, explorer and Director of the British Antarctic Survey, Fellow of the Royal Society
Hopper Levett (1908–1995), England and Kent cricketer
Michael Roberts (1908–1996), historian of Sweden, Professor of History at Queen's University Belfast, Fellow of the British Academy
Mervyn Cowie (1909–1996), founding Director of the Kenya National Parks Service
John Denison (1911–2006), first Music Director of the Arts Council, Director of the South Bank Concert Halls
Alan Green (1911–1991), Conservative MP for Preston South, 1955–1964, 1970–1974, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, 1963–1964
Sir Michael Hordern (1911–1995), actor
Raymond Cooper (1912– 2005), progressive schoolmaster, Headmaster of The Hall School Hampstead, founder of the Aberfan Trust and the IAPS Orchestra
Anthony Dale (1912–1989), architectural historian, historian of Brighton and saviour of Regency Brighton
Air Vice-Marshal Geoffrey Eveleigh (1912–2006), Director-General of Signals, Royal Air Force
Christopher Hassall (1912–1963), writer and librettist
Ian Serraillier (1912–1994), writer, poet and editor
Frank Wilson (born 1914), abstract expressionist painter
MacDonald Hobley (1917–1987), actor and radio presenter, popularly remembered as BBC's 'Uncle Mac'
Gordon Viner (1918–2005), soldier, Commander of the Federal Regular Army, Aden and art dealer
John Worsley (1919–2000), artist and illustrator, World War II official war artist and creator of Albert RN
Duncan Hamilton (1920–1994), racing driver
Ken Stevens (1922– 2005), Chief Executive The Scout Association
Roland Curram (born c.1932) actor and novelist
Sir Richard Jolly (born 1934), development economist
Graham Kerr (born 1934), author, chef and television presenter
Timothy Bavin (born 1935), Anglican priest and Benedictine monk, Bishop of Johannesburg and then of Portsmouth
Simon Dee (born 1935), television interviewer and radio disk jockey
Robert Alexander, Baron Alexander of Weedon (1936–2005), barrister, banker, politician and Chancellor of the University of Exeter
Neville Abraham (born 1937), restaurateur, founder of Chez Gerard
Sir Richard Buxton (born 1938), Lord Justice of Appeal
Sir John Chilcot (born 1939), Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Northern Ireland Office, 1990–1997
Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky of Tilton (born 1939), Professor of Political Economy, University of Warwick, SDP and Conservative politician
John Castle (born 1940), actor
David Nash (born 1945), sculptor, RA
Andrew Gamble (born 1947), Professor of Politics, University of Sheffield, Fellow of the British Academy
Gavin Henderson (born c.1947), Principal of Trinity College of Music and Chairman of Youth Music
Clive Gamble (born 1951), Profesor of Archaeology, University of Southampton, Fellow of the British Academy
Jonathan Palmer (born 1956), racing driver
Tony Hawks (born c.1960), comedian and author
Peter Copley (born 1962), composer and cellist
Andrew Cayley (born 1964), solicitor and war crimes prosecutor
Kelvin Tatum (born 1964), British speedway captain
Ewan Bailey (born c.1966), actor and writer
Menhaj Huda (born 1967), film producer and director
Dave Clarke (born c.1969), techno producer and disc jockey
Oliver Heath (born c.1970), interior designer and presenter featuring on the BBC's Changing Rooms
Ayan Panja (born 1973), doctor, author and presenter on BBC1's Street Doctor
Alex King (born 1975), Wasps and England rugby union player
Clare Connor (born 1976), England female cricket captain
Bazid Khan (born 1981), Pakistan cricketer ^[1]
John Hart (born c.1982), Wasps rugby union player
Ollie Phillips (born 1982), Newcastle Falcons rugby union player
Matthew Prior (born 1982),^[2] England cricketer^[3]
Joe Gatting (born 1987), footballer for Brighton and Hove Albion
Holly Colvin (born 1989), England cricketer

Claims have been made that the following attended the school, although the College's admissions registers show that this was not so:

Sir Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), writer, poet, educator and Nobel laureate
Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen (1889–1939), art dealer and funder of numerous galleries