David Hockney, CH, RA, (born July 9, 1937) is an English artist, based in Los Angeles, California, United States. An important contributor to the British Pop Art of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century.

Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey, CH, MBE, PC (born 30 August 1917), is a British Labour politician. He was the UK Defence Secretary in the late 1960s and Chancellor of the Exchequer in the late 1970s.

Sir Kenneth Duncan Morrison CBE (born 20 October 1931) is the executive chairman of Morrisons (Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc), the fourth largest supermarket group in the United Kingdom. He is the youngest child of the late William Murdoch Morrison and Hilda Morrison, who owned a small grocery chain set up in 1899. He was born in Bradford, and was brought up by five elder sisters. Whilst the family business was named after his father, …

H. L. A. Hart (Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart) (1907-1992) is widely regarded as the most important English-speaking legal philosopher of the twentieth century. He is the author of "The Concept of Law" and was Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford University. Hart developed a sophisticated theory of legal positivism within the framework of analytic philosophy. Hart also made major contributions to political philosophy.

Charles Christopher Hodgson (born 12 November 1980 in Halifax, England) is an English rugby union footballer. He plays fly-half for Sale and England. He is engaged to long-term girlfriend Daisy Hartley, who he met at school. Charlie was educated at Bradford Grammar School. He was a huge Halifax rugby league fan long before he ever played rugby union. A family friend invited him to Old Brodleians rugby club and his first game was for the opposition, as they were short.

John Michael Jack (born September 17, 1946 in Folkestone, Kent, England) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He has been Member of Parliament for Fylde since the 1987 election, and served at various junior ministerial posts during the John Major administration.

Michael Bernard Wharton (born Michael Bernard Nathan) (April 19, 1913 - January 23, 2006) was a newspaper columnist who wrote under the pseudonym Peter Simple in the British "Daily Telegraph". He began work on the "Way of the World" column with the illustrator Michael ffolkes (sic) three times a week at the beginning of 1957. In 1990 he began a weekly "Peter Simple" column in the "Sunday Telegraph", …

Adrian David Moorhouse MBE (born 24 May, 1964) is a British former swimmer who dominated British swimming in the late 1980s. He won the 100 m breaststroke gold medal at the Seoul Olympics. Since then Moorhouse, a former pupil of Bradford Grammar School, has translated his sporting success to a successful career in the business world, as Managing Director of Lane 4 Management Group. He is also a swimming commentator for BBC television.

Alan Louis Charles Bullock, Baron Bullock (December 13 1914 - February 2 2004), was a British historian, who wrote an influential biography of Adolf Hitler and many other works. Bullock was born near Trowbridge in Wiltshire, England, where his father worked as a gardener and a Unitarian preacher. He won a scholarship to Oxford University, where he studied classics and modern history. After graduating in 1938, he worked as a research assistant for Winston Churchill, …

John Lawrence Le Breton Hammond was a British journalist and writer on social history and politics. A number of his best-known works were jointly written with his wife, Barbara Hammond (née Bradby, 1873-1961). He was educated at Bradford Grammar School and St John's College, Oxford, where he read classics. He was editor of the Liberal weekly "The Speaker" from 1899 to 1906. He was later on the staff of the "Manchester Guardian".

Brigadier Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler CH, CIE, MC, FBA, FSA (September 10, 1890 Glasgow – July 22, 1976 London), was one of the best-known British archaeologists of the twentieth century. He was educated at Bradford Grammar School and London University where he achieved an MA degree in 1912. In 1913 he won the studentship for archaeology established jointly by the London University and the Society of Antiquaries in memory of Augustus Wollaston Franks.

Jon Sen is a British television and film director born in Bradford in 1973. Sen attended Bradford Grammar School between the 1984 and 1992. He read Political Philosophy at Trinity College, Cambridge and graduated in 1995. After training at ARTTS International in Bubwith, East Riding of Yorkshire, he became an accomplished documentary editor between 1996 and 2000, editing landmark British documentary series including Secret History, Witness and The Real... In 2000, …

Abraham Sharp was a schoolmaster of Liverpool, and subsequent bookkeeper in London, whose wide knowledge of mathematics, astronomy, etc., attracted John Flamsteed, by whom he was invited in 1688 to enter the Greenwich Royal Observatory, where he did notable work, improving instruments, and showing great skill as a calculator; published "Geometry Improved," logarithmic tables, etc. The Sharp crater on the Moon is named after him.

Roger Mosey (born 1958) is a British broadcasting executive who has served as Head of BBC Television News and BBC's Director of Sport. He took up the role in August 2005. His previous jobs include being Editor of Today on BBC Radio 4; Controller of BBC Radio Five Live; and, most recently, Head of BBC Television News.

David Hartley (June 21, 1705-August 28, 1757) was an English philosopher and founder of the Associationist school of psychology.

Richard Thomas France, MA BD PhD is a New Testament scholar and Anglican Rector. He was Principal of Wycliffe Hall Oxford from 1989 to 1995. He has also worked for the London School of Theology.

Charles Edward Fairburn (5 September 1887 - 12 October 1945) was Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.

Henry de Beltgens Gibbins (1865-1907) was a popular historian of 19th century England whose books were bestsellers in the late Victorian period; his "Industry in England" went to ten editions over fifteen years, and was published internationally. On his father's side he was from a Huguenot family which had moved from Hampshire to London in the late 18th century; his maternal grandfather Jean de Beltgens was a member of the House of Assembly in Dominica, West Indies.

Sir Charles Harris GBE KCB (2 March 1864-10 June 1943) was a senior civil servant in the British War Office. Harris was born in Ivybridge, Devon, and was educated at Bradford Grammar School and Balliol College, Oxford. He joined the War Office in 1887, being promoted to Principal Clerk in 1900 and Assistant Financial Secretary, in charge of the Finance Department, in 1908. He held the latter position until his retirement in 1924, …

Matt Bielby is the Managing Director and proprietor of Blackfish Publishing, a specialist magazine and internet publishing company based in Bath, UK. He is best known as a magazine editor, launching many successful titles in assorted markets during the 1990s, mostly on the subjects of computer and video games, and film and television. These include "Total Film", "SFX", and "PC Gamer". Bielby was born in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, in 1965, …

Francis Henry Durbridge (25 November 1912 - 11 April 1998) was an English playwright and author born in Hull.

Walter Spencer Stanhope (1749 - 1822), of Horsforth and Leeds, Yorkshire, was a politician and industrialist whose family fortune had been made through the iron trade. in 1775 Stanhope inherited Cannon Hall from his uncle, John Spencer, and changed his name from Stanhope to Spencer-Stanhope. Stanhope was educated at Bradford Grammar School and went up to University College, Oxford, and later studied law at the Middle Temple, London.

Douglas Calder Mason (September 30, 1941 - December 13, 2004) was a British policymaker, writer and antiquarian bookseller. He came to be known as the "father of the poll tax"