The following is a list of some notable Old Ardinians, being former pupils of Ardingly College in the United Kingdom.
Politics
- Sir Andrew Bowden MBE - Member of Parliament (Conservative)[1]
- Sir Robert Cary, 1st Baronet - Member of Parliament (Conservative)[2]
- Jack Easter - Member of the Legislative Assembly in New South Wales
- Sir John Gorst - Member of Parliament (Conservative)[3]
- Sir James Simpson KBE - Cabinet Minister in Uganda
- Sir Robert Tasker - Member of Parliament (Conservative)[4]
Diplomacy
- Robert Alston CMG - UK High Commissioner to New Zealand and UK Ambassador to Oman
- Chris Gunness - UNRWA chief spokesperson
- Sir Claude Hayes KCMG - civil servant for overseas territories
- Sir Edward Jackson KCMG - UK Ambassador to Belgium and UK Ambassador to Cuba
- Ian Mackley CMG, CVO - UK High Commissioner to Ghana and UK Chargé d'Affaires to Afghanistan
- Sir David Manning GCMG, KCVO - UK Ambassador the United States and UK Ambassador to Israel
- Sir Robin McLaren KCMG - UK Ambassador to China and UK Ambassador to the Philippines
- Sir Andrew Wood GCMG - UK Ambassador to Russia and UK Ambassador to Yugoslavia
Sciences
- John Ackroyd - engineer
- Harold Comber - botanist
- Mike Pitts - archaeologist
- John Paul Wild CBE, FRS - radio astronomer
Academia
- Mark Bevir - Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley and the United Nations University
- Frank Cowell - Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics
- Robert Foley - Leverhulme Professor of Human Evolution at the University of Cambridge
- Sue Hamilton - Professor of Prehistory at (and former director of) the UCL Institute of Archaeology[5]
- Patrick Hanks - lexicographer
Arts
- Stage and screen
- Dick Allen - film editor
- Charles Bryant - actor and film director
- Josh Dylan - actor
- Creighton Hale - actor
- Alan Howard CBE - actor
- Mark Letheren - actor
- Ed Sanders - actor
- Terry-Thomas - actor
- Frank Williams - actor
- Suhana Khan - actress
- Writers
- Nicholas Fisk - children's author
- Neil Gaiman - author and screenwriter
- Thomas Meech - author and journalist
- Ed Whitmore - screenwriter
- Music
- Alex Cartana - singer
- Mike Christie - singer
- Julian Clifford - conductor
- James Lancelot - organist
- Stephen Oliver - composer
- Victor Silvester OBE - composer and band leader
- Ed Welch - composer
- Visual arts
- George Belcher - artist
- John Hayes CBE - director of the National Portrait Gallery (1974–1994)
Media
- Sir Bill Cotton CBE - controller of BBC One (1977–1981)
- Colin Griffiths - broadcaster
- Ian Hislop - editor of Private Eye and panelist on Have I Got News For You
- Nick Newman - cartoonist and scriptwriter
- Ed Petrie - children's television presenter
- Paul Reynolds - BBC News correspondent
- Jay Wynne - BBC weather forecaster
Sport
- Motor sports
- Max Chilton - Formula One, WEC, and IndyCar racing driver
- Clifford Earp - racing driver
- Mike Hawthorn - Formula One racing driver and World Champion (1958)
- Football
- George Brann - England footballer and Sussex cricketer
- Donald Coles - footballer
- Adam Virgo - footballer
- Cricket
- Walter Bettesworth - Scotland and Sussex cricketer
- William Blackman - Sussex cricketer
- Ben Brown - Sussex and Hampshire cricketer
- Dale de Neef - Scotland cricketer
- Alex Gregory - South Australia cricketer
- Arthur Kneller - Hampshire cricketer
- Billy Newham - England and Sussex cricketer
- Toby Peirce - Sussex cricketer
- Paul Phillipson - Sussex cricketer
- Abidine Sakande - Sussex and Leicestershire cricketer
- Valentine Sewell - Dorset cricketer
- Thomas Symington - Rhodesia cricketer
Industry and commerce
- Sydney Allard - founder of Allard Motor Company
- Charles Cruft - founder of Crufts dog show
- Sir Charles Fairey MBE - founder of Fairey Aviation Company
- Sir Richard Morris CBE - industrialist
Military
- Lieutenant Commander Peter Piper DSO, DSC - submarine commander
- Lieutenant Colonel George Starr DSO, MC - Special Operations Executive agent and leader
- Major General Robert Whittaker CB, CBE - Anti Aircraft divisional commander
Ecclesiastical
- Walter Adams, Archbishop of British Columbia and Yukon
- George Browning, Bishop of Canberra and Goulburn
- Dennis Ede, Archdeacon of Stoke
- Gordon Mursell, Bishop of Stafford
- Andrew Norman, Principal of Ridley Hall, Cambridge
Other
- John Hooper - President of the British Orthodontic Society
References
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- ^ ‘BOWDEN, Sir Andrew’, Who's Who 2016, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2016
- ^ ‘CARY, Sir Robert’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016
- ^ ‘GORST, Sir John (Michael)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016
- ^ ‘TASKER, Major Sir Robert Inigo’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016
- ^ "Flipsnack". cdn.flipsnack.com. Retrieved 13 December 2022.