Notable Old Johnians

• David Alesworth
  David Alesworth
  David Chalmers Alesworth, was born 1957 in Oxshott in Surreynot far from Wimbledon, London UK.He is a Pakistan-based English artist. Trained originally as a sculptor, he moved to Pakistan in 1987...
  
  , ARBS, distinguished artist, based in Pakistan.
• Sir Paul Bryan
  Paul Bryan
  Sir Paul Elmore Oliver Bryan DSO MC was a British Conservative politician.Bryan was born in Karuizawa, Japan, the seventh of nine children of The Rev Ingram Bryan. He lived in Japan until he was eight and then returned to England and was educated at St John's School, Leatherhead...
  
   DSO MC, Conservative MP who came into politics after distinguished service in the Second World War
• Sir Henry Calley
  Henry Calley
  Sir Henry Algernon Calley DSO DFC DL , known as Henry Algernon Langton until 1974, was an English pilot, owner and manager of a stud farm, and Conservative politician.-Life:The son of the Rev. A. C. M...
  
   DL
  Deputy Lieutenant
  In the United Kingdom, a Deputy Lieutenant is one of several deputies to the Lord Lieutenant of a lieutenancy area; an English ceremonial county, Welsh preserved county, Scottish lieutenancy area, or Northern Irish county borough or county....
  
   DFC
  Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom)
  The Distinguished Flying Cross is a military decoration awarded to personnel of the United Kingdom's Royal Air Force and other services, and formerly to officers of other Commonwealth countries, for "an act or acts of valour, courage or devotion to duty whilst flying in active operations against...
  
   DSO
  Distinguished Service Order
  The Distinguished Service Order is a military decoration of the United Kingdom, and formerly of other parts of the British Commonwealth and Empire, awarded for meritorious or distinguished service by officers of the armed forces during wartime, typically in actual combat.Instituted on 6 September...
  
  
• John Cook
  John Cook (musician)
  John Ernest Cook was an Anglo-American organist, composer and church musician.-Early life, education and early career:...
  
  , Prolific 20th-century Anglo-American composer, organist and church musician.
• Kenneth Durham
  Kenneth Durham
  Kenneth Durham is a prominent British educator.Kenneth was educated at St John's School, and studied at Brasenose College, Oxford. He taught economics at St. Albans School, before becoming Director of Studies and Head of Economics at King's College School...
  
  
• Peter Drury
  Peter Drury
  Peter Drury, born 1968, is ITV Sport's number two football commentator, a role he has held since joining the network in 1998.A politics graduate from Hull University, Peter began his career as a journalist with Hayters sports agency before joining BBC Radio Leeds in 1990 as a football and cricket...
  
  
• Basil Ede
  Basil Ede
  Basil Ede is a British wildlife artist specialising in avian portraiture.-Early life:Ede's interest in drawing began early in life. As a schoolboy growing up during the Second World War, he filled his exercise books with sketches of military aircraft and unflattering caricatures of his school...
  
  , wildlife artist specialising in avian portraiture.
• Ronald Goodchild
  Ronald Cedric Osbourne Goodchild
  Ronald Cedric Osbourne Goodchild was the seventh Anglican Bishop of Kensington between 1964 and 1980. Born in 1910 he was educated at St. John's School, Leatherhead and Trinity College, Cambridge and ordained priest in 1934. After a Curacy at Ealing he was Chaplain at Oakham School before wartime...
  
    Bishop of Kensington between 1964 and 1980
• Geoffrey Grigson
  Geoffrey Grigson
  Geoffrey Edward Harvey Grigson was a British writer. He was born in Pelynt, a village near Looe in Cornwall.-Life:...
  
  , poet, anthologist and critic
• David Hatch
  David Hatch
  Sir David Hatch was involved in production and management at BBC Radio, where he held many executive positions, including Head of Light Entertainment , Controller of BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 4 and later Managing Director of BBC Radio.- Education :He attended St John's School, Leatherhead and...
  
  
• Gavin Hewitt
  Gavin Hewitt
  Gavin Hewitt is a British journalist and presenter, currently BBC News's Europe Editor, a post he has held since September 2009.-Life and career:...
  
  
• Peter Bruinvels
  Peter Bruinvels
  Peter Nigel Edward Bruinvels is a British Conservative Party politician.Surrey-born, he was educated at St. John's School, Leatherhead, an independent school...
  
  
• Mohamed A. El-Erian
  Mohamed A. El-Erian
  Dr. Mohamed A. El-Erian is the CEO and co-CIO of PIMCO, a global investment management firm and one of the world’s largest bond investors with approximately US$1.34 trillion of assets under management as of June 30, 2011....
  
  , CEO and CIO of PIMCO - a company of Allianz SE
• Sir Anthony Hope
  Anthony Hope
  Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope , was an English novelist and playwright. Although he was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels, he is remembered best for only two books: The Prisoner of Zenda and its sequel Rupert of Hentzau...
  
  , author of adventure novel
  Adventure novel
  The adventure novel is a genre of novels that has adventure, an exciting undertaking involving risk and physical danger, as its main theme.-History:...
  
  s such as The Prisoner of Zenda
  The Prisoner of Zenda
  The Prisoner of Zenda is an adventure novel by Anthony Hope, published in 1894. The king of the fictional country of Ruritania is drugged on the eve of his coronation and thus unable to attend his own coronation. Political forces are such that in order for the king to retain his crown his...
  
  
• Major General Malcolm Hunt OBE RM, CO
  Commanding officer
  The commanding officer is the officer in command of a military unit. Typically, the commanding officer has ultimate authority over the unit, and is usually given wide latitude to run the unit as he sees fit, within the bounds of military law...
  
   40 Commando
  40 Commando
  40 Commando RM is a battalion sized formation of the British Royal Marines and subordinate unit within 3 Commando Brigade, the principal Commando formation, under the Operational Command of Commander in Chief Fleet....
  
   RM during Op Corporate
  Falklands War
  The Falklands War , also called the Falklands Conflict or Falklands Crisis, was fought in 1982 between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the disputed Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands...
  
  
• Humfrey Malins
  Humfrey Malins
  Humfrey Jonathon Malins CBE is a British Conservative Party politician, who was Member of Parliament for Croydon North West and later Woking.-Early life:...
  
   CBE MP
• Christopher Matthews, "online dating millionaire"
• The Right Reverend Morris Maddocks
• Guy Michelmore
  Guy Michelmore
  -Education:Michelmore was educated at the independent St John's School in Leatherhead, Surrey.-News presenter:Michelmore began reporting on Anglia TV's About Anglia before joining the BBC programme Newsroom South East in 1993. Guy left the programme to be replaced by Tim Ewart from ITN. His mother...
  
  
• Peter Rothwell
  Peter Rothwell
  Squadron Leader Peter Rothwell was an English bomber pilot in World War II.Rothwell was born in Bristol, the son of a vicar. He was the eldest of 7 children and was educated at St John’s,Leatherhead...
  
   World War II pilot
• Reverend Vivian Redlich, a missionary in Papua New Guinea
  Papua New Guinea
  Papua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands...
  
   when the Japanese invaded in 1942. The decision to remain at his post led to his beheading in August that year. The Chapel is dedicated to the martyr who attended St John's from 1916 to 1917. The island's Martyr's Memorial School was founded in 1948 as a memorial. In a new development on September 2, 2006, the Sydney Morning Herald reported that it is now believed that Vivian, instead of dying at the hands of the Japanese, may have been murdered by the tribal people he had sought refuge with.
• Lord Richard Rogers
  Richard Rogers
  Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside CH Kt FRIBA FCSD is a British architect noted for his modernist and functionalist designs....
  
  
• Victor Silvester
  Victor Silvester
  Victor Marlborough Silvester OBE was an English dancer, author, musician and dance band leader. He was a significant figure in the development of ballroom dance during the first half of the 20th century, and his records sold 75 million copies from the 1930s through to the 1980s.- Early life...
  
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• Nicholas Smith, actor
• Air Commodore Ian Stewart
  Ian Stewart (RAF)
  Air Commodore Ian R W Stewart, BSc FRAeS RAF, is the United Kingdom National Military Representative, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe.- Military career :...
  
  
• Simon Thomas (television presenter)
  Simon Thomas (television presenter)
  Simon Thomas is a British television presenter, who worked on Blue Peter for six years.-Early life:Simon Thomas was born in Norwich, Norfolk to Andrew and Gill Thomas. He has two sisters called Hannah and Rebecca...
  
  
• The Venerable Ted Ward, Archdeacon of Sherborne and Chaplain of the Royal Chapel in Windsor Great Park
• Upali Wijewardene
  Upali Wijewardene
  Philip Upali Wijewardene was a well-known businessman in Sri Lanka who established the Upali Group. At the time of his death, Wijewardene had branched in to newspapers, confectionery and even started a domestic air line named Upali Air...
  
  , a prominent Sri Lankan business man who established Upali Group. Upali disappeared in his private Learjet in straits of Malacca creating wider specualtions throughout Asia.
• Lieutenant Geoffrey Harold Woolley
  Geoffrey Harold Woolley
  Geoffrey Harold Woolley VC OBE MC was the first Territorial Army officer to be awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.Woolley was the son of a clergyman, Rev...
  
   VC, The first Territorial Army Officer to win the VC.
• Sir Leonard Woolley