List of Old Ardinians

The following is a list of some notable Old Ardinians, being former pupils of Ardingly College in the United Kingdom.

Typical Old Ardinian blazer in school colours. These garments may be worn by men who attended the school

Politics

Conservative MP Sir Robert Tasker

• Sir Andrew Bowden MBE - Member of Parliament (Conservative)
• Sir Robert Cary, 1st Baronet - Member of Parliament (Conservative)
• Jack Easter - Member of the Legislative Assembly in New South Wales
• Sir John Gorst - Member of Parliament (Conservative)
• Sir James Simpson KBE - Cabinet Minister in Uganda
• Sir Robert Tasker - Member of Parliament (Conservative)

Diplomacy

Former UK Ambassador the United States Sir David Manning

• 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
• Patrick Hanks - lexicographer

Arts

Actor Terry-Thomas

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

Author and screenwriter Neil Gaiman

• 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

Satirist Ian Hislop

• 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

England footballer and Sussex cricketer George Brann

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

Founder of Crufts dog show Charles Cruft

• 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