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Major Lionel Wigram, (1907–1944) was a British soldier, who played a significant part in developing British infantry fighting tactics in World War 2, killed in action in Italy
Rt Rev Leslie Stradling (1908–1998), Bishop of Johannesburg 1961–1974
Sir Harold Warris Thompson CBE (1908–1983) – English physical chemist; Chairman of the Football Association
Gordon Nornable MC (1915–2002) won the Military Cross and Croix de Guerre in 1944 fighting with the French Maquis in eastern France.[17]
Sir Peter Youens (1916–2000) – British administrator in Nyasaland and Malawi, and director of Lonrho
Sir Robert Scholey (1921–2014), Bob Scholey, known as 'Black Bob', deputy chairman and chief executive of British Steel (1976–1986), Chairman of British Steel (1986–1992), succeeding Sir Robert Haslam[18][19]
Prof Adrian Horridge (born 1927) – FRS, neurobiologist, professor at Australian National University
Prof John Philipps Kenyon (1927–96), Joyce and Elizabeth Hall Distinguished Professor in Early Modern British History at the University of Kansas from 1987 to 1994
Ian Strachan MBE AFC FRAeS (born 1938) RAF Chief Test Pilot at Farnborough and founder Chairman of the International GPS Flight Recorder Approval Committee
Sir Eric Dancer KCVO CBE JP (born 1940), Managing Director of Dartington Crystal from 1986 to 2000, and Lord Lieutenant of Devon 1998–2015
Ted Powell (1940–2005), amateur footballer who went on to coach the Malawi national football team and the England Under–18 side which won the European Championship in 1993.[24]
Roy Galley (born 1947) – Conservative MP for Halifax from 1983 to 1987
John Ramsden (1947–2009), Professor of History at Queen Mary College, an authority on the history of the Conservative party[25]
Bob Davies (born 1948) – CEO of Arriva Plc until April 2006
Prof Paul Collier CBE (born 1949), Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford since 1993, and Director since 1991 of the Centre for the Study of African Economies
Peter Horbury (born 1950), car designer, Executive Design Director of all Ford's American brands from 2004
Martin Smith (born 1949) – Car designer (Porsche, Audi, Ford)
Matthew Bannister (born 1957) – British radio administrator and broadcaster
John Rawling (born 1957) - Sports journalist and broadcaster
Simon Wessely (born 1956) – professor of epidemiological and liaison psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London and Director of the King's Centre for Military Health Research.
