List of Old Worthians

The following is a list of some notable Old Worthians, former pupils of Worth School in the United Kingdom.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Arts and entertainment

• Robert Bathurst – actor
• Harry Enfield – comedian and actor
• Peter Jonas – manager of the English National Opera, director of Bavarian State Opera, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
• Philip Mould – art dealer, art historian, and art adviser to the House of Commons and the House of Lords ^[1]
• Jim Piddock – actor and author
• Matt Preston – MasterChef Australia judge, journalist for City Limits, and restaurant critic
• Luke Elwes – artist

Broadcasting and journalism

• James Longman – BBC journalist and foreign correspondent for ABC News
• Christopher Price – journalist, presenter, and original host of Liquid News
• Andrew Murray – chair of the Stop the War Coalition, member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, and journalist with the RIA Novosti, Morning Star, and Tribune
• Charles Rangeley-Wilson OBE , author of three works of non-fiction; writes for the The Field , The Times and The Daily Telegraph ; has written and presented for the BBC; ^[2] was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2022 Birthday Honours for services to chalk stream conservation. ^[3]
• Dominic Waghorn – journalist, diplomatic editor of Sky News, and the Royal Television Society's Television Journalist of the Year, the Foreign Press Association's Journalist of the Year, and One World Media's Journalist of the Year

David Bell

Business

• David Bell – director of Pearson Group, chairman of the Financial Times , and chair of the Syndicate of Cambridge University Press
• John Chisholm – chairman of the Medical Research Council and QinetiQ
• Michael Spencer – richest self-made person in the City of London and recipient of a peerage
• Fernando Zobel de Ayala – director of the Bank of the Philippine Islands, member of the World Economic Forum, and president of Ayala Corporation ^[4]
• Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala – chairman of Ayala Corporation, the Bank of the Philippine Islands, and Globe Telecom ^[5]

Education

• Michael Aris – Buddhist historian, husband of Aung San Suu Kyi, and tutor to the Bhutanese royal family ^[6]
• Michael Questier – academic, historian, postdoctoral fellow at King's College London, and Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford

Military

• David Hawkins – air vice-marshal, Commandant-General of the RAF Regiment, an officer of the Royal Household, and Deputy Lord-Lieutenant for Greater London ^[7]
• Neil Laughton – former officer of the Royal Marines, entrepreneur, and adventurer who has completed the Explorers Grand Slam
• Patrick Sanders – British Army General, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, and Commander of the Joint Forces Command

Nobility

• Dermot de Trafford – 6th Baronet, a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and director of Imperial Continental Gas Association
• Anthony Noel – 5th Earl of Gainsborough, president of the British Association, and recipient of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and Knight of the Venerable Order of St John
• Francis Ormsby-Gore – 6th Baron Harlech and Conservative member of the House of Lords
• Rhodri Philipps – 4th Viscount St Davids, Baron Strange of Knockin, Baron Hungerford, and Baron de Moleyns
• Prince Robert of Luxembourg – a member of the Grand Ducal Family of Luxembourg and twelfth in the line of succession to the Luxembourger throne
• Prince Dominique de La Rochefoucauld-Montbel; direct descendent of François de La Rochefoucauld (writer), highly influential French moralist of the era of French Classical literature and author of Maximes and Memoirs , whose importance as a social and historical figure is overshadowed by his towering stature in French literature. His most influentual literary works are his Maximes, and his letters; ^[8] member of the ancient French House of La Rochefoucauld, grand hospitaller of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and as such in charge of all worldwide humanitarian activities of this Catholic organisation

Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

Politics

• Ferdinand “Bongbong” Romualdez Marcos Jr. – son of Ferdinand Marcos and Imelda Marcos, Governor of Ilocos Norte, member of the Philippine House of Representatives, senator in the 16th Congress of the Philippines, and 17th President of the Philippines ^[9]
• Ferdinand Alexander “Sandro” Araneta Marcos III – Senior Deputy Majority Floor Leader of the Philippine House of Representatives
• Andrew Murray (trade unionist); Labour Party activist; was adviser to Jeremy Corbyn  ; senior official for various trade unions; ^[10] was chair of Stop the War Coalition; was member of Communist Party of Great Britain; ^{[11] [12]} contributor to the radical Socialist activist far-left journals, Morning Star and Tribune ; ^{[13] [14]} worked for the Soviet RIA Novosti news agency; ^[15] contributor to The Guardian . ^[16]

Religion

• Austen Ivereigh – founder of Catholic Voices, former deputy editor of The Tablet , and fellow at Campion Hall, Oxford University
• Michael Questier – academic, scholar, author, and historian focusing on early modern politico-religious history
• John MacWilliam – Bishop of Laghouat in Algeria, the Superior Provincial for North Africa, and a member of the White Fathers

Henry Surtees

Sports

• Onochie Achike – track and field athlete who represented Great Britain in the 2008 Olympics
• Tim Hutchings – medal-winning middle and long-distance runner who represented Great Britain in the 1986 European Athletics Championship, the 1986 Commonwealth Games, and the 1984 Olympic Games
• Nigel Laughton – Director of the Board of Control for Cricket in India and leader of Team GB at the 2014 Winter Olympics
• Tom Mitchell – England rugby sevens captain who won a silver medal representing Great Britain in the 2016 Summer Olympics ^[17]
• Henry Surtees – a racing driver in the Formula Renault UK series ^[18]
• Nick Walshe – rugby union scrum-half for England and the England A national rugby union team ^[19]

See also

• Category:People educated at Worth School

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