Famous People Who Went To Your School

[Carrie]

Hi Louisiana

I left in 1981 so a few years behind you - Aggie left the year before I started! Challoners is the main reason I did not want my daughters to go to an all girls school - or indeed Habs which had too much of a grammar school smug vibe to it when I went to look round!

[buggie]

There's a rumour that Nick Hancock did one of his teacher training placements at my old secondry school.

There was a girl in the year below me who's now a Britney Spears impersonator: Lorna from the yr below me - 'fraid I'm not in touch with her (before anyone asks!).

[david_carnell]

Meh....not bad....considering they let me go there:

Robin Gorham - former British Deputy High Commissioner, Lusaka and former Head of Protocol Department and Assistant Marshal of Diplomatic Corps, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

David Malcolm McBain LVO - former Ambassador to Madagascar

Brian Paddick - Liberal Democrat candidate in the London Mayoral election, 2008, former Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Metropolitan Police, and I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! contestant

Peter Alfred Penfold CMG OBE - former British High Commissioner, Sierra Leone and former Governor of the British Virgin Islands

Richard James Ayre - former Deputy Chief Executive, BBC News

Professor David Bellamy OBE - famous botanist, broadcaster, author, LSD-taker and environmental campaigner

Roger Parry - media tycoon

Christopher Bigsby - novelist and BBC Radio broadcaster

Eric Radley-Smith - surgeon (carried out some of the first lobotomy and hypophysectomy procedures) and former President of Brentford FC

Dr Lancelot Lionel Ware OBE - co-founder of MENSA

David J. Farrar - engineer, OBE

[Santerme]

louisiana Wrote:

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> Roger Moore

> Fern Britton

> Kim Taylor AKA Magenta Devine (described in

> Wikipedia as "an independently wealthy heroin

> addict and publicity agent" before her move to TV

> under Janet Street Porter)

> Rick Warden (Band of Brothers)

> Greg Hands (MP)

> Roger Hammond (cyclist)

> Donald Stewert-Whyte AKA Abdul Waheed ("Two years

> after leaving was arrested in connection with the

> 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot")

Roger Moore went to my Uni, but obviously considerably before my time.

[mockney piers]

"environmental campaigner" I'm not sure arguing against wind power counts, but heh.

Stevie V and Matt Oakley, err that's it; very slim pickings down my way.

[will dex]

john motson - commentator

kate jackson - lead singer of The Long Blondes 9also famed for calling the killers shi** on never mind the buzzcocks

pete boland - for trying to sue ron dennis last year

[SimonM]

>>kate jackson - lead singer of The Long Blondes 9also famed for calling the killers shi** on never mind the buzzcocks <<

Liked her in "Charlie's Angels" too!:))

[benjaminty]

Derren Brown (fraudster)

Danny Cipriani (overrated England rugby player)

Andy Duncan (Chief Exec of Channel 4)

Steve Punt (funny man, author)

Pete Wiggs (founder of St Etienne)

Peter Ling (creator of Crossroads)

think I might have been scraping the barrel with a few of those...

[ThinLizzy]

Jim Dale, of Carry On fame

His brother is married to the blonde Philadelphia woman from the 90s -- also lives near my old town

[Michael Palaeologus]

Ian "Sludge" Lees

Mel Galley

Glenn Hughes

[Mikecg]

Glenn Hughes, top bass player/singer from the David Coverdale era Deep Purple.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Dame Sybil Thorndyke

Sir Henry Fielding Dickens (son of Charles)

Evelyn Dunbar

[Huggers]

Hey Benjaminty, I went to school with Peter Ling's daughter Vicky.

[Dr Proctor]

AA Gill

Michael Winner

Paul Hamlyn (Publisher)

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.

[benjaminty]

Huggers Wrote:

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> Hey Benjaminty, I went to school with Peter Ling's

> daughter Vicky.

Ha ha .... I had the huge displeasure of staying in the hotel/motel in Gloucestershire that inspired him/it. A bed that came out of the cupboard and fag ash all over the side boards ... lovely! The one night was enough

[Huggers]

doctor proctor I think I went to the same school as you to do my A levels when they first began to take girls in the sixth form. I went to Paul Hamlyns house once and he had squash courts inside it. But maybe it wasnt Paul Hamlyn I was at school with but Michael Hamlyn- whichever one was the son. I went to a lot of schools altogether- three primaries and three secondaries.

[dulwichdreadlocks]

AA Gill is so awful

Dr Proctor Wrote:

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> AA Gill

> Michael Winner

> Paul Hamlyn (Publisher)

>

> Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.

[Dr Proctor]

Hi Dulwichdreads, I agree he is terrible, as is Mr Winner. Not very prestigious alumni are they !

Hello Huggers, I also went to a good few schools and educational establishments in my youth, and I'm sure we can sort out whether we attended the same one.

Was your sixth form school vegetarian ?

To further my list of shame, another school I attended counted, Stevie V (Had a 'hit' with Dirty Cash in 1991) and Ben Hull(Played Lewis Richardson in Hollyoaks 1996-2001) as former pupils. Ben was a very nice chap until fame 'changed' him :-S

[Huggers]

No doctor Proctor, it was not, so perhaps the father having been to a very establishment school (mine)then sent his son to a progressive school (yours) or the father, having been irredeemably damaged by a freudian (humus)dip, then sent the son to something a bit more conventional. But a girl from my other secondary school (the one Vicky Ling daughter of Crossroads inventor went to)went out with the younger Hamlyn for a very long time-that is if the younger Hamlyn is still the younger one.I am nowadays rather ancient so I spose he probably is too.

[ibilly99]

Russell Harty,Michael Winterbottom (my class) ,Wayne Hemingway (my year) ,Nick Dougherty,Krishnan Guru-Murthy

[bignumber5]

My wonderous institution produced a footballer, a few right wing politicians, the highest ranking black officer in the British forces (which we appear to be quite proud of, a bit "see, we've got black friends") and a lot of early C.20 cricketers, plus significantly before my time:

Bill Wyman (Ex-Rolling Stone) and, the one that I found the most interesting, Harold Sydney Bride: Wireless operator on the RMS Titanic.

Plus, I can't help mentioning, the infamous headmaster of more recent years. After a decade in post, did a runner with funds intended for new classroom block construction, and subsequent investigation revealed that he wasn't actually qualified to teach, just creative on CV day...