List of Old Blues
Alumni of Christ's Hospital school are known as Old Blues. They include :
General
- Roger Allam - Actor
- "Attila the Stockbroker" (real name John "Basil" Baine) - Musician and songwriter
- Joshua Barnes - English scholar
- Thomas Barnes - Journalist
- John Beazley - Classical scholar
- Tim Benjamin - Composer
- Edmund Blunden - Poet, author and critic
- Arthur Lyon Bowley - Statistician and economist
- William Burnside - Mathematician
- John Butler
- Cyril Burt - Psychologist
- Taio Cruz - Musician
- William Camden - Antiquarian and historian
- Edmund Campion - Jesuit priest and martyr
- Sydney Carter - Poet, songwriter, musician
- Mordecai Cary - Bishop
- Pierre Louis Napoleon Cavagnari - Military administrator
- Richard Clarke - Civil servant
- John Colborne, 1st Baron Seaton - British Army Field Marshal
- Henry Cole - Civil servant and inventor
- Jenkin Coles - Australian politician
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Poet, romantic, literary critic and philosopher
- Edward Colston - Slave trader
- James Coomarasamy - Correspondent
- Edgar William Cox - Intelligence officer
- James D'Arcy - Actor
- Howard Davies - Theatre and television director
- Sir Colin Davis - Conductor
- Ruth Deech - Academic, lawyer and bioethicist
- Keith Douglas - Poet
- Jeremiah Duggan, who died in disputed circumstances in 2003
- George Dyer - Poet
- Tenniel Evans - Actor
- Thomas Everard - Mayor
- Jason Flemyng - Actor
- Robert Newton Flew - Methodist theologian
- Vincent Frank - Musician
- Rob Gauntlett - Adventurer, explorer and motivational speaker
- Louis Harold Gray - Physicist
- General Sir Michael Gray - soldier
- Jasper Griffin - Professor of Classics at Oxford
- Dom Bede Griffiths, O.S.B. Cam. - Monk, mystic, theologian, leader in the study of East-West religious dialogue
- Francis Seymour Haden - Surgeon
- Philip Hall - Mathematician
- Caesar Henry Hawkins - Surgeon
- Samuel Hayden - Canadian politician
- Thomas Hartwell Horne - Theologian and librarian
- Charles Hazlewood - Conductor and broadcaster
- Percy Henn - Clergyman and schoolmaster
- Steve Hilton - Conservative Party director of strategy
- Stuart Holland - Labour politician and academic
- James Hooper - Adventurer
- Leigh Hunt - Critic, essayist, and poet
- Rupert Jackson - Lord Justice of Appeal
- Philip Kitcher - Professor of philosophy
- Charles Lamb - Essayist
- Constant Lambert - Composer and conductor
- Bernard Levin - Journalist, author and broadcaster
- Martin Linton - Labour Member of Parliament
- Bryan Magee - Broadcaster, politician, and author
- Jeremiah Markland - Classical scholar
- Russell Meiggs - Ancient historian
- Henry James Sumner Maine - Comparative jurist and historian
- Philip Mayne - Soldier
- Aylmer Maude - Translator
- John Middleton Murry - Writer
- Berkeley Moynihan, 1st Baron Moynihan - Abdominal surgeon
- David Norgrove - Business man
- Phillip Osborne - Explorer
- Rex Paterson - Agricultural researcher
- George Peele - Dramatist
- Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin - Architect, designer, and theorist of design
- Percy Pyne - President of City National Bank in the United States
- Tony Ray-Jones - Photographer
- John Septimus Roe - Surveyor-General of Western Australia
- Alan Ryan - Professor
- James Scholefield - Classical scholar
- Stephan Shakespeare - Business man and entrepreneur
- Dennis Silk - Schoolmaster and international cricketer
- David Simon, Baron Simon of Highbury - Business man
- Charles Robert Smith - Governor of North Borneo
- John Snow - Cricketer
- Chris Steele-Perkins - Photographer
- John Robin Stephenson - British Army officer and cricket administrator
- Michael Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham - Labour politician
- William Alder Strange - Headmaster and author
- Mark Thomas - Comedian
- Rupert Thomson - Novelist
- Richard Thornton - Merchant and trader
- Sir Ian Trethowan - Former Director-General of the BBC and journalist
- Keith Vaughan - Painter
- Alexander Vidal - US Land surveyor, banker and political figure
- Barnes Wallis - Scientist, engineer and inventor
- Holly Walsh - Comedian
- E F Watling - Schoolmaster, classical scholar and translator
- James White (1775-1820) - Advertising agent
- Air Marshal Sir Harold Edward Whittingham - Director General of RAF Medical Services in the Second World War
- Gerald James Whitrow - Mathematician, cosmologist and science historian
- Michael Wilding - Actor
- Erik Christopher Zeeman - Mathematician
- Edward Thornton - Diplomat
Victoria Cross and George Cross Holders
Three Old Blues have won the Victoria Cross[1] and two the George Cross.
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