Old Harrovians
As Old Harrovians refers to the former students of the English public school Harrow .
Well-known former Harrow School students include:
Members of royalty and kings
- Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani , Emir of Qatar
- King Faisal II of Iraq
- Prince Hamzah bin Al Hussein of Jordan
- Prince Hassan bin Al Talal of Jordan
- King Hussein of Jordan
prime minister
- Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley , Conservative Party
- Sir Winston Churchill , Conservative Party
- George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen , Conservative Party
- Jawaharlal Nehru , first Prime Minister of India
- Sir Robert Peel , Conservative Party
- Spencer Perceval , Conservative Party
- Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich , Conservative Party
- Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston , Whig (Liberal Party)
Other politicians
- Sir John Milne Barbour , Northern Ireland Secretary of the Treasury
- Sir Thomas Buxton , Governor of South Australia
- Charles Augustus Fitzroy , Governor of New South Wales
- Gerald Gardiner, Baron Gardiner , Lord Chancellor
- Robert Cunninghame Graham , co-founder of the Scottish National Party
- Sir Jeremy Greenstock , UK Ambassador to the United Nations (UN)
- Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst , Viceroy of India
- Sir Stanley Jackson , Chairman of the Conservative Party of Great Britain
- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton , Viceroy of India
- William Plunket, 5th Baron Plunket , Governor of New Zealand
- Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough , Governor General of Canada
- John Dickson-Poynder, 1st Baron Islington , Governor of New Zealand
- John Profumo, 5th Baron Profumo , best known for the Profumo affair
- Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings , Governor General of India
- Percy Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford , Irish Ambassador to Portugal , Sweden , Turkey and Russia
Military
- Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis , British Field Marshal , Governor General of Canada and British Secretary of Defense
- James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan , British general and leader of the famous Light Brigade attack in the Crimean War .
- John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort , British Field Marshal, Governor of Gibraltar and Malta and High Commissioner in Palestine and Transjordan
Church dignitaries
- Randall Thomas Davidson , Archbishop of Canterbury
- Henry Edward Manning , Cardinal , Archbishop of Westminster
- Henry Hutchinson Montgomery , Anglican Bishop of Tasmania and father of Field Marshal Archibald Montgomery Massingberd
- John Ronald Angus Stroyan , Anglican Bishop of Warwick
Writers and journalists
- Bernard Bosanquet , philosopher
- Arthur Bryant , historian
- George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron , poet known as Lord Byron
- Charles Stuart Calverley , poet
- Wilfred Rowland Childe , poet
- Richard Curtis , screenwriter and director
- Alain de Botton , writer
- Julian Charles Fane , writer
- John Galsworthy , writer and Nobel Prize winner
- Augustus Hare , writer
- LP Hartley , writer
- Theodore Hook , writer
- Gervase Jackson-Stops , Art Historian
- Sir Arnold Lunn , writer
- EHW Meyerstein writer
- Simon Sebag-Montefiore , historian
- Sir John Mortimer , writer
- John Thomas Perceval , writer
- Jason Pontin , publisher
- Bryan Procter , aka "Barry Cornwall" friend of Keats
- Sir Terence Rattigan , playwright
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan , playwright
- William Sotheby , poet and translator
- John Addington Symonds , poet and literary critic
- GM Trevelyan , historian
- RC Trevelyan , poet
- Anthony Trollope , poet
- Francis Wheen , writer and journalist
- Dornford Yates (Cecil William Mercer), writer
Visual artist
- Hercules Brabazon Brabazon , artist
- Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield , photographer
- Sir Cecil Beaton , photographer and costume designer
- Alex Chamberlin , artist
- Damian Elwes , artist
- Simon Fujiwara , artist
- Spencer Gore , artist
- Sir Francis Grant , artist and President of the Royal Academy
- Nicholas Hely Hutchinson , artist
- Eliot Hodgkin , artist
- Jamie Lumley , photographer
- Victor Pasmore , artist
- Lincoln Seligman , artist
- Geoffrey Adam Shakerley , photographer
- William Fox Talbot , photographer
Actors and directors
- Max Benitz , actor
- Timothy Bentinck, 12th Earl of Portland , actor
- Adrian Brunel , director
- James Callis , actor
- Peter Cellier , actor
- Benedict Cumberbatch , actor
- Michael Denison , actor
- James Dreyfus , actor
- Sir Gerald du Maurier , theater manager, stage and film actor
- Cassian Elwes , film producer
- Cary Elwes , actor, film producer and screenwriter
- Edward Fox , actor
- James Fox , actor
- Laurence Fox , film and stage actor and singer
- Robert Fox , film producer
- Nicholas Frankau , actor
- Lorcan O'Toole , actor
Musician
- Chris Blackwell , founder of Island Records
- James Blunt , singer
- Mike d'Abo , singer of Manfred Mann
- Simon Toulson-Clarke , from Red Box
- James Keen , singer with Magazine Gap
- Dan Marshall , grime / hip-hop poet
- Ian Parrott , composer
- Sandy Wilson , composer
scientist
- Francis Maitland Balfour , Professor at Cambridge University
- Sir Joseph Banks , botanist and participant in James Cook's first world tour
- Sir Gavin de Beer , English zoologist and morphology (biology)
- Sir Arthur Evans , archaeologist
- Aubrey de Gray , co- founder of the SENS Foundation and donor of the Methuselah Mouse Prize
- John G. Hurst , archaeologist
- Henry Bence Jones , clinical chemistry representative and physician
- Zain Khawaja , chemist
- Thomas Henry Manning , Arctic Zoologist
- St. George Jackson Mivart , biologist
- Nicholas Patrick , NASA astronaut
- Arthur Cecil Pigou , economist
- Charles Rothschild , entomologist
- Victor Rothschild , British biologist
- William Spottiswoode , President of the Royal Society
- John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh , physicist and Nobel Prize winner
- William Fox Talbot , photography pioneer
athlete
- CW Alcock , founder of the FA Cup
- Guy Butler , Olympic gold medalist
- Spencer Gore , tennis player, First Wimbledon Champion
- Douglas Robert Hadow , died on the first ascent of the Matterhorn
- Patrick Francis Hadow , tennis player, Wimbledon champion
- Sir William Hart Dyke , Racquets World Champion 1862
- Douglas Lowe , Olympic gold medalist
- Reginald de Courtenay Welch , national soccer player
Entrepreneur
- Thomas Baring from Barings Bank
- Walter Cunliffe, 1st Baron Cunliffe , 'Governor' of the Bank of England
- John Saunders Gilliat , Governor of the Bank of England
- Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster , real estate entrepreneur
- Patrick Douglas Hadow , formerly Chairman of P&O
- Julian Metcalfe , founder of Pret a Manger
- Nicky Oppenheimer , South African chairman of De Beers
- Henry Yates Thompson , newspaper owner
Other former students
- John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara , aviation pioneer
- John Robert Godley , Canterbury founder
- J. Bruce Ismay , White Star Line Director
- Richard Meinertzhagen , British officer and ornithologist
- Richard Gilbert Scott , architect
- Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer , grandfather of Diana, Princess of Wales
- Mark Thatcher , son of former British Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher
- Philip Vincent , motorcycle designer and producer. Vincent Motorcycles founder .