Notable Old Bradfordians

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Notable Old Bradfordians

For over four centuries, BGS has provided the foundations for inspirational Old Bradfordians to excel in their chosen fields. We are proud of the leaders, innovators, and creators who continue to shape the world around them.

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Name Notable success/es
Abby-Mae Parkinson Team GB cyclist
Abraham Sharp Mathematician and scientific instrument maker
Adrian Moorhouse MBE Olympic, Commonwealth and European Champion (Swimming)
Aidy Smith Award-winning TV presenter and wine and spirits journalist
Alastair Campbell British journalist, broadcaster, political aide and author
Albert Rutherston Painter and illustrator
Alistair Brownlee MBE Olympic, World, Commonwealth and European Champion Triathlon
Andrew Jones Member of Parliament: Harrogate and Knaresborough
Arthur Raistrick Civil engineer, industrial archaeologist and pacifist
Ashley Metcalfe Yorkshire Cricketer
Baron Bullock of Leafield Historian
C J Cutcliffe-Hyne Novelist
Charles Fairburn Railway engineer
Charles Wilson Physicist
Charlie Hodgson British Lions and England Rugby Union
Colin Lawson Musician and Director at the Royal College of Music
Dan Scarbrough England Rugby Union
David Hartley Philosopher and physician
David Hockney OM CH RA Artist
Deborah Sides Cycling Performance Analyst (Team GB)
Dylan Wilk Humanitarian and entrepreneur
Dr Amir Khan GP, TV doctor, best selling author and senior lecturer
Enzo Cilenti Actor and producer
Frank Lowson English Cricketer
Frederick Delius Composer
Geoffrey Barraclough Historian
Georgie Henley British actress
H L A Hart Legal philosopher
Harry McEvoy Breakfast cereal manufacturer
Henry Snowden Ward  Photographer and author
Hudson Shaw Historian and orator
Humbert Wolfe Poet and civil servant
Jacob Rowan England U20 Rugby Union
James Scott Writer
John Hollingworth Actor and playwright
John Lawrence Hammond Historian and journalist
John Mann Member of Parliament: Bassetlaw
John Rawlings Rees Psychiatrist
John William Whittaker Clergyman
Jonathan Silver Entrepreneur and art gallery owner
Jonny Brownlee World Sprint Champion, Olympic Silver and Bronze medallist, Commonwealth Silver
medallist Triathlon
Kenneth Garside Academic librarian and military intelligence officer
Malcolm Laycock Radio broadcaster
Michael Jack CBE Politician
Michael Wharton Columnist “Peter Simple”
Mockbul Ali OBE British Ambassador to the Dominican Republic and British Ambassador to Haiti
Nick Toczek Writer and performer
Paul Slack FBA Historian
Professor Boris Rankov Professor of Roman History at Royal Holloway, University of London and 6-time
Boat Race winner with Oxford
Professor John Bainbridge Webster FRSE Chair of Divinity at the University of St Andrews
Reginald Grange Brundrit Artist
Richard Eurich Painter
Richard Hawley Actor
Richard Nerurkar Marathon and 10,000 metres runner
Robert ‘Bob’ Hardy Musician
Roger Mosey Master of Selwyn College, Cambridge
Ronald Illingworth Paediatrician
Ross Raisin Award-winning author and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
Rt Rev Alan Smithson Bishop of Jarrow
Rt Revd John Sharp Archbishop of York
Rudi Leavor Jewish community leader
Sian Morgan Wales Swimming
Sir Charles Harris Civil servant
Sir David Wootton Former Lord Mayor of London and current member of the Bradford Grammar School
Governing Body
Sir Edward Keeling Conservative Party politician (1935 – 1954) and Mayor of Westminster (1945 – 1946)
Sir Frank Watson Dyson Astronomer Royal
Sir Henry Clay Economist and warden of Nuffield College, Oxford
Sir James Clarke Holt Historian
Sir Ken Morrison CBE Executive Chairman of Morrisons Supermarkets
Sir Mortimer Wheeler Archaeologist and broadcaster
Sir Nigel Poole QC Justice of the High Court (Family Division)
Sir Roger Tomkys KCMG Retired British diplomat, and former Master of Pembroke College, at the
University Cambridge
Sir Stephen Morris QC Justice of the High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Sir William Rothenstein Artist
The Lord Healey CH MBE PC FRSL Secretary of State for Defence (1964 – 1970)
Chancellor of the Exchequer (1974 – 1979)
The Ven Paul Ayres Archdeacon of Leeds
Vivian Nutton Classicist and medical historian
William Arthur Speck Historian
William Binnie Civil engineer
William Henry Walsh Philosopher

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