1. Richard Wright

    Richard William "Rick" Wright is a self-taught pianist and keyboardist best known for his long career with Pink Floyd. Though not as prolific a songwriter as his bandmates Roger Waters and David Gilmour, Wright’s richly textured keyboard layers have been a vital ingredient and a distinctive characteristic of Pink Floyd’s sound.

  2. Simon Schama

    Simon Michael Schama, CBE (born 13 February 1945) is a British professor of history and art history at Columbia University. His many works on history and art include "Landscape and Memory", "Dead Certainties", "Rembrandt's Eyes", and his history of the French Revolution, "Citizens". He is best known for writing and hosting the 15-part BBC documentary series "A History of Britain".

  3. Martin Sorrell

    Sir Martin Sorrell (born 14 February, 1945 in London) is an English businessman, currently the chief executive officer of WPP Group and has served in that role since he started the company in 1986.

  4. Paul Darrow

    Paul Darrow (born Paul Birkby on May 21941) is a British character actor best known for his portrayal of Kerr Avon in the BBC science fiction television series "Blake's 7". He also guest starred twice on "Doctor Who", most notably playing Tekker in the serial "Timelash". Darrow was born in Surrey, England, and attended Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School before studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

  5. Alan Whicker

    Alan Donald Whicker, CBE (born August 2, 1921, Cairo, Egypt) is a British journalist and broadcaster.

  6. Peter Kellner

    Peter Kellner is a journalist, political commentator and President of the YouGov opinion polling organisation. He is known for his appearances on TV, especially at election times. He was educated at Minchenden Grammar School, London and the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne, and has an MA in Economics and Statistics from Cambridge University. Formerly the political analyst of the BBC Newsnight current affairs programme, Kellner was engaged by YouGov's founders, …

  7. David Lidington

    David Roy Lidington (born 30 June 1956) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom, and has been Member of Parliament for Aylesbury since 1992. He had previously been a special advisor to Douglas Hurd. He is currently Shadow Minister of State at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office. Mr Lidington was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's School, Elstree, and at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, …

  8. Brian Sewell

    Brian Sewell (born 15 July 1931) is an English art critic. He writes for the "Evening Standard" and is noted for his artistic conservatism and acerbic reviews of the Turner Prize and conceptual art. These and his upper class demeanor have also made him into a frequent figure of fun.

  9. Sacha Baron Cohen

    Sacha Noam Baron Cohen (born October 13, 1971) is an English comedian and actor most noted for his comic characters Borat (a Kazakh reporter), Ali G (a junglist from Staines, England) and Bruno (a flamboyantly gay Austrian fashion reporter). All three characters are featured in "Da Ali G Show", a programme in which Cohen conducts interviews while dressed as one of his three characters.

  10. Leon Brittan Baron Brittan of Spennithorne

    Leon Brittan, Baron Brittan of Spennithorne, QC, PC (born 25 September 1939 in London to parents of Lithuanian Jewish extraction) is a barrister, a British politician, and a former Conservative Member of Parliament and former member of the European Commission. His brother is Sir Samuel Brittan, an economics commentator at the Financial Times and financial journalist. Brittan was educated at the Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School and then Trinity College, …

  11. Damon Hill

    Damon Graham Devereux Hill OBE (born 17 September 1960 in London) is a British former racing driver from England. He was the 1996 Formula One World Champion. As the son of the late double Formula One world champion Graham Hill, he is the only son of a world champion to win the title. Damon Hill came to professional motorsports relatively late: he began racing motorcycles in 1983 at the age of 23. The following year, he won the 350 cc Clubman's cup at Brands Hatch.

  12. Sir Ralph Freeman

    Sir Ralph Freeman (27 November 1880 - 11 March 1950) was an English civil engineer, responsible for the design of several of the world's most impressive bridges. Born in London, England, he studied at the Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School and the City and Guilds of London Institute, and in 1901 joined Douglas Fox & Partners, a firm of consulting engineers specialising in the design of steel bridges.

  13. Michael Bukht

    Michael Bukht OBE (born 10 September 1941, in Kent) is a British chef and television personality who was a regular co-presenter on the BBC2 television show "Food and Drink" under the pseudonym Michael Barry. From 1967 to 1997 he was the Programme controller for Capital Radio, GWR Group Radio, Classic FM, Jamaica Broadcasting and the Principal of the National Broadcasting School. The first programme controller of Capital Radio and of Classic FM, …

  14. F. A. Voigt

    Frederick Augustus Voigt (1892-1957), British journalist and author of German ancestry, most famous for his work with the "Manchester Guardian" and his opposition to dictatorship and totalitarianism on the European Continent.

  15. Darien Angadi

    Darien Angadi (born-c.1948, Died-12 January 1984, Suicide) was an English actor. Darien attended Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School where he was a prolific performer in school plays. While at the school, he was also a member of the school team for BBC Television's "Television Top of the Form". He achieved some fame as a boy soprano, recording Benjamin Britten's "Noye's Fludde" with the Wandsworth School Boys' Choir. After his voice broke he turned to acting, …

  16. Nicholas Serota

    Sir Nicholas Andrew Serota (born April 27, 1946) is a curator, and is currently Director of the Tate Gallery, the United Kingdom's national gallery of modern and British art. As such he is often involved in controversy. He was the driving force behind the creation of Tate Modern.

  17. George Foulkes Baron Foulkes of Cumnock

    George Foulkes, Baron Foulkes of Cumnock, PC (born 21 January, 1942 in Oswestry, Shropshire) is a politician in the United Kingdom. His political career began in 1963, when he became Senior President of Edinburgh University Students’ Representative Council. He later moved on to become full time President of the Scottish Union of Students. Foulkes was first elected in the 1979 general election, as Labour and Co-operative Member of Parliament for South Ayrshire.

  18. Lionel Kochan

    Lionel Edmond Kochan (August 201922-September 252005) was a British historian, who before coming to academia worked in journalism and publishing. He was a doctoral student of Sir Charles Webster. His first post in 1959 was at Edinburgh University; he became Bearsted Reader in Jewish History at Warwick University in 1969. He was born in London into a secular Jewish family. His scholarly writing became increasingly concerned with Jewish history.

  19. Alan J. Charig

    Alan Jack Charig (July 1 1927 - July 15 1997) was an English palaeontologist and writer who popularised his subject on television and in books at the start of the wave of interest in dinosaurs in the 1970s. Charig was, though, first and foremost a research scientist in the Department of Palaeontology at the Natural History Museum, London. There he worked on dinosaurs and their immediate Triassic ancestors, …

  20. Michael Green

    Michael Philip Green (born 2 December 1947) is an British businessman. He attended Haberdashers' Aske's where he achieved only three O-Levels. After a period working in Public relations, he went into business with his brother, founding the printing and direct mail firm Tangent Industries, making him a millionaire by the time he was 21. In 1987, Green purchased part of Carlton TV and in 1990 the company purchased the US firm Technicolor.

  21. Michael L. Levin

    Michael Levin has given 25 years of loyal service to Haberdashers' after some years in industry with the Coal Board. He is an Old Haberdasher educated at Westbere Road. Michael has taught physics throughout the School and for a number of years he has taught junior chemistry. He has been a member of the careers team for 11 years specialising in applications to medical schools.