- James Cracknell
James Cracknell, OBE (born 5 May 1972) is an English rowing champion and double Olympic gold medallist. He began rowing whilst attending Kingston Grammar School and rowed at the Junior World Championships in 1989 and 1990 — winning a gold medal in the latter. Moving into the senior squad, Cracknell had numerous World Championship appearances — but no medal wins. He qualified in the double scull for the 1996 Summer Olympics, but fell ill and was unable to race.
- John Burn
John Southerden Burn (born June 25, 1884 - died August 28, 1958) was a British rower who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. He was a crew member of the British boat, which won the bronze medal in the eights.
- Cath Bishop
Catherine (Cath) Bishop (born 22 November 1971) is a former British rower. Bishop has a BA in modern languages from Pembroke College, Cambridge, a master's in international politics from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and a Ph.D. in contemporary German literature from the University of Reading. Bishop won medals at the World Championships twice, a silver in 1998 in the women's pair with Dot Blackie, and then in 2003 she won the gold, again in the pair, …
- Harry Blackstaffe
Henry Thomas "Harry" Blackstaffe (born July 28, 1868 - died August 22, 1951) was a British rower who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. He won the gold medal in the single sculls.
- Steve Williams
Steve Williams MBE (born April 15, 1976 in Warwick) is an English rower and Olympic champion. Williams started rowing aged 13 while at Monkton Combe School, Bath, and attended Oxford Brookes University to study History and Town planning. In 2000 he was part of the Great Britain and Northern Ireland team that won the men's coxed four at the Rowing World Championships. The following year he was again world champion, this time in the coxless four, …
- Richard Beesly
Richard Beesly (27 July 1907 - 28 March 1965) was a British rower. He attended Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the First Trinity Boat Club. First Trinity represented Great Britain at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, where, at the age of 21, Richard won an Olympic gold medal rowing in a coxless four with John Lander, Michael Warriner and Edward Bevan. They recorded a time of 6:36.0 in the final to beat the USA crew by 1 second.
- Matthew Pinsent
Sir Matthew Clive Pinsent CBE (born 10 October, 1970) is an English rowing champion, four-time Olympic gold medallist and broadcaster. Pinsent was born in Holt, Norfolk, and began rowing at Eton College. He began his international career at the Junior World Rowing Championships in 1987. He raced again in 1988, winning the junior coxless pairs with Tim Foster. After finishing school, Pinsent studied Geography at St Catherine's College, Oxford.
- Duncan MacKinnon
Duncan Mackinnon (born September 29, 1887 - died October 9, 1917) was a British rower who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. He was a crew member of the British boat, which won the gold medal in the coxless fours.
- Simon Dennis
Simon Dennis MBE (born 24 August 1976 in Henley-on-Thames) is a British rower and Olympic gold medalist. He started rowing at St Paul's School, London and his first international appearance was in 1994 in the GB eight at the Junior World Rowing Championships, winning a bronze medal. After school he attended Imperial College London, winning two Henley Royal Regatta races with them. He raced in the eight at the World Champs in 1997 and 1998, …
- Gilchrist MacLagan
Gilchrist Stanley Maclagan (born October 5, 1879 - died April 25, 1915) was a British rower who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. He was the coxswain of the British boat, which won the gold medal in the eights.
- Steve Redgrave
Sir Stephen Geoffrey Redgrave CBE (born on 23 March, 1962, in Marlow, England) is a British rower who won a gold medal at five consecutive Olympic Games from 1984 to 2000, as well as an additional bronze medal in 1988. As the only Briton ever to achieve this feat, Redgrave is widely considered to be Britain's greatest Olympian. Only four other Olympians achieved the same: Pál Kovács, Aladár Gerevich (the only one to surpass it with 6 consecutive golds), Reiner Klimke, …
- Kieran West
Kieran West, MBE is a British rower and Olympic champion. An Olympic oarsman for Great Britain in the 2000 Sydney Olympics, he won gold in the Men's Eight (after winning silver in the 1999 World championships). In the following years, he became World Champion with the coxed four in 2002 and won silver in 2003. He also rowed in the 2004 Summer Olympics. He was awarded the MBE for "services to rowing" in the New Year’s Honours list in 2001.
- Ed Coode
Ed Coode, MBE (born June 19, 1975 in Indian Queens, Cornwall) is a British rower, twice World Champion and Olympic Gold medalist. Educated at Papplewick School, Ascot, Eton College, University of Newcastle upon Tyne (studying marine biology) and Oxford University, he rowed in the Oxford crew at the 1998 Boat Race. Coode won his first World Championship in 1999, as a substitute in the British men's coxless four, rowing with Steve Redgrave, …
- Colin Moynihan
Colin Berkeley Moynihan, 4th Baron Moynihan (born 13 September, 1955) is a former Olympic coxswain who became a politician. Colin Moynihan was educated at Monmouth School, and went up to University College, Oxford, in the 1970s. He coxed for victorious Oxford University in the 1977 Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race. He was also the first but short-lived pianist for the Oxcentrics jazz band.
- Greg Searle
Greg Searle (born 20 March 1972) is a British Olympic rower educated at Hampton School and London South Bank University. Greg Searle is an Olympic gold medalist, winning the coxed pairs event at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics with his brother Jonny Searle. He also won a World Championships gold medal in 1993. In the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, he finished third in the coxless four event. He was a finalist in the coxless pairs at the 2000 Sydney Olympics with Ed Coode, …
- Debbie Flood
Debbie Flood (born 27 February, 1980 in Harrogate) is a British female rower who won Silver medal in the Quadruple Scull at the 2004 Olympics. At the 2006 World Championships, Flood origingally finished in the silver medal position in the Quadruple Scull, but was elevated to Gold after one of the Russian crew failed a drugs test.
- Jack Beresford
Jack Beresford, CBE, (January 1, 1899-December 3, 1977) was one of the most accomplished rowers of his generation. He won medals at 5 straight Olympics, which was an Olympic record in rowing (since tied by Steven Redgrave). Beresford would have been a favorite for a medal in the 1940 Olympics in the Double Scull event, but those games were cancelled because of World War II. Beresford's race against John B. Kelly, Sr. in the single scull event at the 1920 Summer Olympics, …
- Gordon Thomson
Gordon Lindsay Thomson (born March 27, 1884 - died July 8, 1953) was a British rower who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. He was the strokeman of the British boat, which won the gold medal in the coxless pairs. Also in the coxless fours he was the strokeman of the British boat, which won the silver medal.
- Collier Cudmore
Sir Collier Robert Cudmore (born June 13, 1885 - died May 16, 1971) was an Australian lawyer, politician and Olympic rower. After attending the Unversity of Adelaide, he went to England to continue his Education at Magdalen College, Oxford. In 1908 Summer Olympics he rowed in for Great Britain. He was the bowman of the British boat, which won the gold medal in the coxless fours. He studied law at the Inner Temple and was called to the bar in 1910, …
- John Fenning
John Reginald Keith Fenning (born June 23, 1885 - died January 3, 1955) was a British rower who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. He was the bowman of the British boat, which won the gold medal in the coxless pairs. In the coxless fours he was a crew member of the British boat, which won the silver medal.
- Martin Cross
Martin Cross is an Olympic gold medal-winning oarsman. He won the gold medal in the coxed four at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics with Steve Redgrave, Richard Budget and Andy Holmes. He published an autobiography entitled 'Olympic Obsession', in 2001, and is currently working part-time as a History teacher at Hampton School, infamous for his loud dress sense.
- Karl Vernon
Karl Vernon (born June 19, 1880 - died July 11, 1973) was a British rower. He joined Thames Rowing Club in around 1904, first appearing at Henley Royal Regatta in 1906, in both a Goblets pair with Julius Beresford and a Thames Cup eight (which also included Bruce Logan). In the Autumn of 1907, having become frustrated by their inability to impress the Thames coaches, Vernon and Beresford formed a new four with Charlie Rought and Bruce Logan.
- Jonny Searle
Jonathan Searle MBE (born 8 May 1969) is a British Olympic rower. Searle was educated at Hampton School and Christ Church, Oxford. Whilst at Oxford University, he competed in the Boat Race in 1988, 1989, and 1990. Oxford triumphed in all three races. Searle was President of the Oxford University Boat Club in the 1989-1990 academic year. Jonny Searle is an Olympic gold medalist, winning the coxed pairs event at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics with his brother Greg Searle.
- Guin Batten
Guin Batten is a British rower. She won silver at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the quadruple scull. In 2003, she set the record for the fastest solo crossing of the English Channel in a rowing shell (Olympic Class) and became the first solo female crossing, in a time of 3 hours and 14 mintues. She is a member of Thames Rowing Club and Leander Club.
- Elise Laverick
Elise Laverick (born 27 July 1975) is a British rower. She won bronze at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the double scull with Sarah Winckless. She is a member of Thames Rowing Club in Putney, London.
- Katherine Grainger
Katherine Grainger MBE (born 11 December 1975) is a Scottish rower. She won silver at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the coxless pair with Cath Bishop, and silver at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the women's quadruple sculls. Grainger has also won two medals at World Championships, a bronze in 1997 in the eight and a gold with Bishop in 2003. Grainger has a Honours law degree from Edinburgh University, …
- Frederick Kelly
Frederick Septimus Kelly (born May 29, 1881 - died November 13, 1916) was a British rower who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. He was a crew member of the British boat, which won the gold medal in the eights.
- Sidney Swann
Sidney Ernest Swann (born June 24, 1890 - died September 19, 1976) was a British rower who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics and in the 1920 Summer Olympics. He was a crew member of the British boat, which won the gold medal in the eights. Eight years later he won a silver medal in the eights as part of the Bristish team.
- Oswald Carver
Oswald Armitage Carver (born February 2, 1887 - died June 7, 1915) was a British rower who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. He was a crew member of the British boat, which won the bronze medal in the eights.
- Eric Powell
Eric Walter Powell (born May 6, 1886 - died August 17, 1933) was a British rower who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. He was a crew member of the British boat, which won the bronze medal in the eights.
- Banner Johnstone
Banner Carruthers Johnstone (born November 11, 1882 - died June 20, 1964) was a British rower who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. He was a crew member of the British boat, which won the gold medal in the eights.
- Ronald Sanderson
Ronald Harcourt Sanderson (born December 11, 1876 - died April 17, 1918) was a British rower who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. He was a crew member of the British boat, which won the gold medal in the eights.
- Raymond Etherington-Smith
Raymond Broadley Etherington-Smith (born April 11, 1877 - died April 19, 1913) was a British rower who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. He was a crew member of the British boat, which won the gold medal in the eights.
- Henry Bucknall
Henry Cresswell Bucknell (born July 4, 1885 - died January 1, 1962) was a British rower who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. He was the strokeman of the British boat, which won the gold medal in the eights.
- Harold Kitching
Harold Edward Kitching (born August 31, 1885 - died August 18, 1980) was a British rower who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. He was a crew member of the British boat, which won the bronze medal in the eights.
- Charles Burnell
Charles Desborough Burnell (born January 13, 1876 - died October 3, 1969) was a British rower who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. He was a crew member of the British boat, which won the gold medal in the eights.
- John Somers-Smith
John Robert Somers-Smith (born December 15, 1877 - died July 1, 1916) was a British rower who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. He was the strokeman of the British boat, which won the gold medal in the coxless fours.
- James Angus Gillan
James Angus Gillan (born October 11, 1885 - died April 23, 1981) was a British rower who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics and in the 1912 Summer Olympics. In 1908 he was a crew member of the British boat, which won the gold medal in the coxless fours. Four years later he was a crew member of the British boat, which won the gold medal in the eights.
- Edward Williams
Edward Gordon Williams (born July 20, 1888 - died August 12, 1915) was a British rower who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. He was a crew member of the British boat, which won the bronze medal in the eights.
- Douglas Stuart
Douglas Cecil Rees Stuart (born March 1, 1885 - died ?) was a British rower who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. He was the strokeman of the British boat, which won the bronze medal in the eights.