Owls on every post along the school's playing fields fence. This is a List of Old Mancunians , former pupils of The Manchester Grammar School , in Manchester , England .
Henry Clarke (died 1818), mathematics teacher in Manchester, Salford and Liverpool.
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah (born 1929) is a prolific geometer who studied at the school for two years as preparation for Cambridge. He went on to attain a Fields Medal , the Abel Prize and the Order of Merit , as well as the positions of President of the Royal Society and Master of Trinity , his former college.
Clifford Cocks and Malcolm J. Williamson were peers at the school and also Maths students at Cambridge. They achieved silver and gold medals respectively at the 1968 IMO in Moscow while studying at MGS. They both went on to become cryptographers at GCHQ , a British intelligence agency, dealing with security of communications. While both made their own contributions to cryptography in the mid 70s, their results were considered national secrets and when they were discovered independently (about four years later in both cases) they received no credit for their work. It was only in 1997 that GCHQ chose to reveal their achievements. Clifford Cocks had developed RSA encryption, used in all online commerce, but named after the three men who first published the work; likewise, Malcolm J. Williamson had developed what is now known as Diffie–Hellman key exchange , a cryptographic key-agreement protocol, named after the original publishers of the work.
Jonathan Mestel (born 1957) is an applied mathematician at Imperial College who works on magnetohydrodynamics and biological fluid dynamics . He was the first person to be awarded chess International Grandmaster titles by FIDE in both over-the-board play and problem solving.
John Frankland Rigby (1933–2014) was an academic at Cardiff University , a specialist in complex analysis [1]
Edmund Taylor Whittaker (1873–1956) also went on to study at Trinity settling at Edinburgh to make significant contributions to Mathematical Physics.Members of Parliament [ edit ] Members of the European Parliament [ edit ] Donald Adamson (born 1939), Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, historian and biographer
William Harrison Ainsworth (1805–1882) Author of popular historical romances
Samuel Ogden Andrew (1868-1952) Headmaster, translator of Homer, and Old English scholar
Robert Bolt (1924–1995) Playwright; mostly remembered for A Man for All Seasons , for which he received one of his two Academy Awards
Harold Brighouse (1882–1958) Novelist and playwright; together with Stanley Houghton and Allan Monkhouse a member of the Manchester School of early 20th-century dramatists. Author of Hobson's Choice
Gilbert Cannan (1884–1955) Novelist and translator
Brian Clegg (born 1955) Author of popular science books
Henry Winram Dickinson (1870–1952) Engineering historian and biographer of engineers
Alan Garner (born 1934) Children's author after whom the school's Junior Library is named. He was the first member of his family to go to a secondary school and received a full scholarship. Whilst there he was a keen sprinter
Paul Harrison Founder of the World Pantheist Movement. Award-winning author of six books on environment and world poverty including the international bestseller Inside the Third World (Penguin 1979–1993)
Thomas Kibble Hervey (1799–1859) Poet and critic
Stanley Houghton (1881–1913) Playwright; together with Harold Brighouse and Allan Monkhouse a member of the Manchester School of early 20th-century dramatists. Hindle Wakes is his best-known play.
Thomas Tendron Jeans (1871–1938), a Royal Navy medical officer who wrote juvenile fiction to show boys what life in the modern navy was really like.[2]
Stephen Leather , thriller writer
Lawrence Lever Journalist and editor for The Times . Founder of Citywire .
Frank McEachran (1900–1975), translator and writer on philosophy[3]
Lance Parkin (born 1971) Author and scriptwriter
Thomas de Quincey (1785–1859) Author and intellectual
Derek Senior , planning correspondent for the Manchester Guardian
Martin Sixsmith (born 1954) Author, journalist and radio/television presenter
Guy Thorne pseudonym of Cyril Arthur Edward Justice Waggoner Ranger Gull (1876–1923) Journalist and novelist
Michael Wood (born 1948), Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and broadcasterPoster for a dramatic performance from 1920 featuring actor George Coulouris ; his stage debut Academic Alan Bookbinder , administrator and, latterly, Master of Downing College
Actors George Coulouris , Sir Ben Kingsley , Robert Powell and Ashley Margolis
Artist Thomas Cantrell Dugdale , John Mansbridge (1901–1981), World War II official war artist and Head of Fine Art at Goldsmiths College
Arts Manager Alex Beard (arts manager)
Aviator Howard Pixton , winner of the 1914 Schneider Trophy
Broadcasters James H. Reeve , Mark Chapman
Businessman and politician Lord Woolton
Chemists Frederick Kipping (1863–1949), developer of silicone compounds, John Charles Polanyi (born 1929), Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry, Herbert Brereton Baker , and Sir James Baddiley FRS FRSE (1918–2008) biochemist
Civil servant John Swanwick Bradbury, 1st Baron Bradbury
Chief Executive of Arsenal Football Club , Ivan Gazidis
Classical scholar A. A. Long
Clergyman and politician, Rev. Joseph Diggle
Diplomat Leigh Turner
Diplomat Sir John Hanson
Director of the London School of Economics and former Chairman of the Financial Services Authority , Lord Davies
Doctors Rangan Chatterjee , David Oliver . Former Older Peoples Tsar in the Department of Health, President of British Geriatrics Society . Senior Visiting Fellow at the King's Fund , Professor at City University, London.
Economist Paul Ormerod
Fashion designer, theatrical director and stylist William Baker known for his work with Kylie Minogue
Footballer Oliver Gill
Hedge Fund entrepreneur Stanley Fink
Historians Donald Adamson , Michael Wood , Victor G Kiernan
Richard Hollins Murray , inventor of the reflective lens (the inspiration for cat's eyes used in road markings), owner and restorer of Dinmore Manor , Herefordshire .[4]
Journalists Dominic Carman , Michael Crick , Faisal Islam , Alexander Gault MacGowan , Tim Samuels and Jim White
Judge Sir Robert Booth (judge)
Judge Sir Charles Mantell
Master of University College, Oxford , Sir Ivor Martin Crewe
Musicologist, critic and actor Christopher Webber
Opera and theatre director Steven Pimlott
Poets Samuel Bamford and Mobeen Altaf [citation needed ]
Principal of King's College London , Sir Ernest Barker
Principal of Brasenose College , Classical Scholar Alan Bowman
Psychologist and philosopher Daniel Berlyne [5]
Theatre and film director Nicholas Hytner
Theatre director and Shakespearian academic Ben Iden Payne
Vice-Chancellor of the University of York , Professor Brian Cantor
Victoria Cross recipient, William Thomas Forshaw was a teacher at the school
Leon Simon , President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Simon Walsh , Barrister and Alderman of the City of London
Joseph Wood , headmaster of Tonbridge School and Harrow School [6]
^ John Frankland Rigby (obituary) at cardiff.ac.uk, accessed 2 May 2019
^ University of London (487). "Graduates and Undergraduates". University of London: General Register: Part III: May 1st 1901 . London: University of London. p. 324.
^ On Translating Nietzsche into English at archiveshub.ac.uk, accessed 1 May 2012
^ Dinmore Manor and the Commandery of the Knights Hospitaller od St John of Jerusalem at Dinmore, Herefordshire (4th ed.). Hereford: The Trustees of Dinmore Manor. 1991. p. 33.
^ Konečni, Vladimir J. (1978). "Daniel E. Berlyne (1924–1976)". American Journal of Psychology 91 (1): 133–137. Retrieved 2014-03-29.
^ "The Rev. Joseph Wood, D. D." in The Spectator dated 5 November 1898, p. 3