The following is a list of some notable Old Oundelians, alumni of Oundle School in Northamptonshire, England:
Armed forces
Air Vice Marshal David Atcherley, senior Royal Air Force officer
Major-General Llewellyn William Atcherley, British army officer and Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Constabulary Air Marshal Sir Richard Atcherley, senior Royal Air Force officer. He served as Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Pakistan Air Force between 1949 and 1951 Bernard Paul Gascoigne Beanlands, Canadian World War I flying ace credited with eight aerial victories Patrick Beesly, wartime intelligence officer and author James Bradley MBE, prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II Rear Admiral Benjamin Bryant CB DSO** DSC, the most successful British submarine ace to survive the war Count Manfred Beckett Czernin, World War II Royal Air Force Pilot and later in the war an operative with the Special Operations Executive Denis Eadie MC, British Army officer who was awarded the Military Cross by Field Marshal Lord Wavell for his conduct during the relief of Kohima Wing Commander Patrick Gibbs, RAF pilot and journalist Alan Jerrard VC, recipient of the Victoria Cross for action during the Great War Norman Jewell, World War II Royal Navy officer Cecil Leonard Knox VC, recipient of the Victoria Cross for action during the Great War John Langdon, Royal Marine officer at D-Day, later became an Anglican priest William Howard Livens, soldier and inventor Sir Rhys Llewellyn, 2nd Baronet, soldier and mining executive General Sir Richard Shireff, KCB, CBE, British army officer and former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe Air Marshal Sir Charles Steele, former Commander-in-Chief of RAF Coastal Command Sir (Charles) Geoffrey Vickers VC, lawyer, administrator, writer and pioneering systems scientist Vice Admiral Sir John Michael Villiers, Royal Navy officer and Fourth Sea Lord General Sir Charles John Waters, former Commander-in-Chief, Land Forces Harold Whistler, fighter pilot and flying ace Air Commodore John Whitworth, Royal Air Force pilot in the 1930s and a commander during and after the Second World War Sir Charles Rodger Winn, Royal Navy intelligence officer and judge Major General Sir John Winterton, Governor and Commander of Trieste Captain William Wright, WW1 flying ace and civil servant Michael Wynn, 7th Baron Newborough, Royal Navy officer
Arts
Christopher Alexander, architect, academic and author
Al Alvarez, poet
John Davys Beresford, author
Peter Bicknell, architect and art historian
George Blagden, actor, singer
Michael Broadbent MW, wine critic and auctioneer
Lucy Brown, actress
Thomas Carr, artist
Allan Chappelow, writer and photographer
Joanna Christie, actress
Jim Clark, Academy Award-winning film editor
Charles Crichton, film director
Bruce Dickinson, lead singer in the band Iron Maiden, commercial pilot, fencer
John Dreyfus, book designer and historian of printing
David Edgar, playwright
John Maxwell Edmonds, poet, dramatist and writer of celebrated epitaphs
Adrian Fisher MBE, maze designer
Colin Franklin, writer, bibliographer, book-collector and antiquarian bookseller
Roderick Gordon, author
Anthony Holden, biographer
Maxwell Hutchinson, architect, broadcaster and former President of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Fred Inglis, professor of Cultural Studies Christopher Joll, historian and author Jon Jones, BAFTA winning film and television director Frederick Knott, playwright Andrew Pettegree, historian and professor at St Andrews University David Pickering, writer George Sassoon, writer Sir Peter Saunders, theatrical impresario Sir Peter Scott, conservationist and painter Paul Seabright, academic and writer Keith Shackleton, conservationist and painter Judge Smith, musician, Van der Graaf Generator Robert Speechly, architect John Charles Traylen, architect Kenneth Hotham Vickers, historian Bill Ward, actor Ivo Watts-Russell, music producer, president 4AD Records Sir Bertram Clough Williams-Ellis, architect, designer of Portmeirion Martin Woodhouse, author and scriptwriter