King Edward's School, Birmingham

King Edward's School (KES) is an independent secondary school in Birmingham, England, founded by King Edward VI in 1552. It is part of the Foundation of the Schools of King Edward VI in Birmingham and one of the most academically successful schools in the country. It was ranked 10th for A-Level results http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4170185.stm and 40th for GCSE results http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4170183.stm out of all schools in England in 2004. The school has been located in Edgbaston since 1940, but this was not the original site; King Edward's used to be situated on New Street in Birmingham city centre.

Old Edwardians

• Richard Ewen Borcherds (Mathematician; winner of the 1998 Fields Medal for the proof of the Monstrous moonshine conjecture)
• Sir Edward Burne-Jones
• Henry Cary (Translator of Dante)
• Jonathan Coe (novelist - one of his best known works, The Rotters Club, based on his time at KES, has recently been televised on the BBC)
• John Hemming (MP)
• Tony Miles
• David Munrow (early music pioneer)
• Bill Oddie
• Enoch Powell
• J. R. R. Tolkien
• Kenneth Tynan
• Sir John Vane (1982 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine)
• Maurice Wilkins
• David Willetts (MP)