List of people educated at Christ's Hospital

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
• Cyril Burt - Psychologist
• William Camden - Antiquarian and historian
• Edmund Campion - Jesuit priest, martyr and saint
• Sydney Carter - Poet, songwriter, musician
• Mordecai Cary - Bishop
• Lucy Caslon - Founder and director of charity Msizi Africa
• Pierre Louis Napoleon Cavagnari - Military administrator
• Richard Clarke - Civil servant
• Kira Cochrane - Journalist and Author
• 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
• Alan Fletcher – Designer and founder of Pentagram
• 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
• Arthur Norman Guthkelch - First British Paediatric Neurosurgeon
• 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
• Andrew Higgins - Rugby union player
• 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
• Edward Lambert - Composer
• Joe Launchbury - Rugby Union player
• Bernard Levin - Journalist, author and broadcaster
• Martin Linton - Labour Member of Parliament
• Bryan Magee - Broadcaster, politician, and author
• Jeremiah Markland - Classical scholar
• Russell Meiggs - Historian

Lisa Meiling Emily Fordham - Creative wrtiter

• 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 - Businessman
• William Nye - Principal Private Secretary to HRH The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall, 2011–present
• Phillip Osborne - Explorer
• Rex Paterson - Agricultural researcher
• George Peele - Dramatist
• Tayo Popoola - Musician and DJ
• Piano Donkey - Punk Rock Band
• 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
• Edward Thornton - Diplomat
• 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

Victoria Cross and George Cross Holders

Three Old Blues have won the Victoria Cross and two the George Cross.

• Victoria Cross
  • Umbeyla Campaign
    • Major Henry William Pitcher, VC (1841–1875) (CH 1848–1856)
  • First World War
    • Lieutenant-Colonel Wilfrith Elstob VC, (1889–1918) (CH 1898–1905)
    • Second Lieutenant Edward Felix Baxter VC, (1885–1916) (CH 1896–1901)
  • War in Afghanistan
    • Lance Corporal Joshua Leakey, VC (CH 1999–2006)

• George Cross
  • Non Military
    • Charles William Tandy Green GC (CH 1898–1904)
  • Second World War
    • Air Vice Marshal Sir Laurence Sinclair GC, KCB CBE DSO and Bar, (1908–2001) (CH 1919–1924)