Rugby School

Rugby School, located in the town of Rugby in Warwickshire, is one of the oldest public schools in the United Kingdom and is perhaps one of the top co-educational boarding schools in the country.

Alumni of the Rugby School

• Matthew Arnold, Victorian poet and critic
• Robert Barton, Irish lawyer and statesman who worked on the Anglo-Irish Treaty
• William Bateson, English geneticist
• The Lord Bowen, a lawyer and judge
• Humphry Bowen, British botanist and chemist
• Rupert Brooke, English poet
• William Butterfield, English architect of the Gothic revival
• Lewis Carroll, British writer, famous for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• Neville Chamberlain, politician and former Prime Minister
• Arthur Hugh Clough, English poet
• The Earl of Derby, prominent 19th century statesman
• William Webb Ellis, the credited inventor of rugby football
• Henry Watson Fowler, English lexicographer, author of Fowler's Modern English Usage
• The Viscount Goschen, Liberal Unionist statesman and businessman
• Sir Charles Hawtrey, Victorian-era stage actor
• Fenton John Anthony Hort, English theologian
• The Rt Hon The Lord King of Bridgwater CH, British politician
• Walter Savage Landor, English writer and poet
• Wyndham Lewis, British painter and author
• William Charles Macready, English stage actor
• David Marr, British psychologist
• Sydney Nicholson, British musician
• Luke Pebody, British mathematician and child prodigy
• Arthur Ransome, British children's author
• Sir Harry Ricardo, a foremost designer of the internal combustion engine and patentee of the two-stroke engine
• Salman Rushdie, Indian author and essayist
• George Mitchell Seabroke, British astronomer
• Henry John Stephen Smith, Irish mathematician
• William Henry Waddington, French statesman (eventually Prime Minister of France)
• Tom Wills, the inventor of Australian rules football
• Robert Hardy, English stage and film actor