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Mar 2020
1:25pm, 3 Mar 2020
45,633 posts
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Diogenes
Not many, given an extensive history. A number of actors.
Sir Michael Caine – (hated the school)
Stephen Beckett - actor (Coronation Street, The Bill) (a classmate of mine, real name Stephen Jenkins)
Andrew Kazamia – actor (London’s Burning), playright and filmmaker
John Galliano – fashion designer
Harry Golombek – chess grandmaster
Roy Porter – Historian
Sir Norman Reid – former director of The Tate
Sir Alan Cobham – aviation pioneer
Simon Furman = comic book artist
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Mar 2020
1:27pm, 3 Mar 2020
45,634 posts
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Diogenes
JL Carr is my favourite so far
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Mar 2020
2:13pm, 3 Mar 2020
15 posts
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Chris Worthers
Danny Boyle
Damon Gough (Badly Drawn Boy)
Brian Jackson who was The Man from Del Monte on the ads!
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Mar 2020
2:31pm, 3 Mar 2020
43,656 posts
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McGoohan
Intriguingly, Byron Rogers who wrote the definitive biography of J L Carr, for his next work wrote 'Me: The Authorised Biography' about himself.
That link from Badger on the prev page is properly bonkers.
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Mar 2020
2:36pm, 3 Mar 2020
192 posts
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PK
Wiki gives me, not exactly setting the heather on fire:
Kevin Guthrie, actor (??)
Christopher Brookmyre, author
Barrie McKay, footballer
Jon McShane, footballer (??)
Mark O'Hara, footballer (??)
However, my mum went to school with Gregor Fisher 
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Mar 2020
2:45pm, 3 Mar 2020
1,824 posts
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PenW
My old school:
Gwendoline Christie, actress
Richard Osman, television presenter
James Thorpe, cricketer for Sussex
Roy Winters, ex-professional rugby union player for England, Harlequins, Bristol
Ross Chisholm, professional rugby union player for Harlequins
James Chisholm, professional rugby union player for Harlequins and England Saxons
Chris Warburton, radio presenter
Tom George, lead guitarist of the Living Lies
Don’t recognise any apart from Richard Osman!
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Mar 2020
2:47pm, 3 Mar 2020
45,642 posts
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Diogenes
I think a lot of people add themselves to their school's wiki page
There were quite a few of dubious celebrity on mine.
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Mar 2020
2:51pm, 3 Mar 2020
25,707 posts
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Wriggling Snake
I periodically add my name, it gets removed swftly after.
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Mar 2020
2:52pm, 3 Mar 2020
4,426 posts
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Raemond
Well, you learn something every day - the comedian Phil Wang went to my school, though after me rather than before.
One I did know but then forgot about was the historian E P Thompson (before me, rather than after).
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Mar 2020
2:56pm, 3 Mar 2020
26,352 posts
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HellsBells
I live and learn - I never knew these 2 went to my old school
Stella Rimmington - head of MI5
June Spencer - Peggy Woolley in the ARchers and the only character who’s been in it since the first episode!
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