Ampleforth College

Ampleforth College in North Yorkshire is the largest private Catholic boarding school in the UK, and it is sometimes referred to as the "Catholic Eton", a moniker also attached at different times to Beaumont (no longer open) and Stonyhurst College (both Jesuit schools) and which was Cardinal Newman's aim in founding the Oratory School. It first opened in 1802 and is run by the Benedictine monks of Ampleforth Abbey (the community of St Laurence).

Notable Old Amplefordians

• Thomas Burgess (1791–1854), Roman Catholic Bishop of Clifton, 1851–1854
• John Polidori (1795–1821), physician and writer
• Athansius Allanson (1804–1876), Benedictine monk, and Abbot of Glastonbury, 1874–1876
• Leonard Calderbank (1809–1864), Roman Catholic priest
• Francis Salvin (1817–1904), falconer
• Cuthbert Hedley (1837–1915), Roman Catholic Bishop of Newport, 1881–1915
• Joseph Turner (1853–1897), composer and organist
• Herbert Railton (1857–1910), illustrator
• Roderic O'Conor (1860–1940), artist
• Major-General Sir Freddie de Guingand (1900–1979), Chief of Staff to Field Marshal Montgomery, 1942–1945
• Harman Grisewood (1906–1997), Chief Assistant to the Director-General of the BBC, 1955–1964
• Gabriel Turville-Petre (1908–1978), Professor of Ancient Icelandic Literature and Antiquities, University of Oxford, 1953–1975
• Brigadier Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat (1911–1995), commando officer
• Colonel Sir David Stirling (1915–1990), founder of the SAS
• Sir Hugh Fraser (1918–1984), Secretary of State for Air, 1962–1964
• Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg (born 1921), Grand Duke of Luxembourg, 1964–2000
• Auberon Herbert (1922–1974), campaigner for Eastern European causes
• Basil Cardinal Hume (1923–1999), Abbot of Ampleforth Abbey, 1963–1975, and Archbishop of Westminster, 1975–1999
• Neville Braybrooke (1923–2001), writer and editor
• John Crichton-Stuart, 6th Marquess of Bute (1933–1993), Chairman, Historic Buildings Council for Scotland, 1983–1988, and National Museums of Scotland, 1985–1993
• Hugo Young (1938–2003), journalist
• Brigadier Andrew Parker Bowles (born 1939), soldier
• Piers Paul Read (born 1941), writer
• Michael Ancram, 14th Marquess of Lothian (born 1945), Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party, 2001–
• Philip Lawrence (1947–1995), Headmaster, St Joseph's School, Maida Vale, 1993–1995, and murder victim
• Captain Robert Nairac (1948–1977), George Cross, intelligence officer murdered by the Irish Republican Army
• John Home Robertson (born 1948), former Labour MP and currently Member of the Scottish Parliament
• Julian Fellowes (born 1949), actor and writer
• Antony Gormley (born 1950), sculptor
• Edward Fitzalan-Howard, 18th Duke of Norfolk (born 1956)
• Julian Wadham (born 1958), actor
• Rupert Everett (born 1959), actor
• Lawrence Dallaglio (born 1972), England rugby player
• Tom Waller (born 1974), film producer
• Simon Easterby (born 1975), Ireland rugby player