OLD WILSONIANS

The school has a large number of distinguished old boys, including:




Entertainment

Sir Maurice Joseph Micklewhite, better known as the actor Michael Caine (second row, left)
Stephen Jenkins, stage name Stephen Beckett, actor with regular roles in Coronation Street and The Bill (top row, left)
Andrew Kazamia, actor with a regular role in London's Burning, playwright and film-maker (second row, third from left)
Tim Hudson, actor

Academic and Arts

John Galliano, CBE, RDI, fashion designer (top row, second from left)
Mark Stone, opera singer (baritone) (second row, second from left) (Guest of Honour, Prizegiving 2010)
Simon Furman, comic book writer, particularly associated with Transformers
Harry Golombek, OBE, Chess Grandmaster
Roy Porter, historian (top row, right)
Simon Smith, Painter, Writer, Photographer, Singer / Songwriter
Sir Norman Reid, former director of the Tate Gallery
Peter Walcot, Professor of Classics

Science

Stephen Barker, MB BS BSc MS FRCS, Senior Lecturer in Surgery and Consultant Vascular Surgeon, University College London
Dr Nicholas Losseff, MD FRCP, neurologist
Paul Deegan, mountaineer and environmentalist
Sir Lewis Fermor, OBE DSc FRS
Sir James Jeans, OM, MA, DSc, ScD, astronomer (second row, right)
George Barker Jeffery, mathematician
Dr George Druce Lander, FRS, chemist
R. H. J. Swan, FRCS, eminent surgeon of Guy's and the Royal Cancer Hospital

Law

Trevor Hunter, QC and County Court Judge
Alexander Walker, Assessor of the City of Glasgow

Military

Capt. Harold Auten, VC, DSC, RD, "Q-Ship" commander in the First World War, author of "Q" Boat Adventures and later executive Vice-President of the Rank Organisation
Sir Alan Cobham, KBE, AFC, pioneer aviator (first flight from Britain to Australia in 1926 and pioneer of air-to-air refuelling)
H. E. Funnell, DSO
H. Harbord, DSO
Major-General H. A. J. Sturge, CB, former Vice-Chairman of the Governors

Industry and Government

Lt. Col. W. R. Bowden, Founder Master of the Worshipful Company of Marketors
F. L. Brown, CMG, MC and bar, secretary to the Duke of Windsor during the Duke's period as Governor-General of the Bahamas
Mr Deputy C. G. Dickson, former Sheriff of the City of London
Charles Samuel Garland, MP and industrialist
B. A. Glanvill, JP, former mayor of Bromley and High Sheriff of Kent
Ernest Partridge, MP and industrialist

Church

The Rt. Revd. Dr. Brian Colin Castle, Bishop of Tonbridge and Governor of Sevenoaks School
Dr W. R. Matthews, KCVO, DD, DLitt, former Dean of St Paul's Cathedral
The Rt. Revd. H. A. Wilson, CBE, DD, former Bishop of Chelmsford

There is also a thriving Old Boys’ Club. The Old Wilsonians’ Association has a club house and sports ground in Hayes.