Famous folks from your school?

[Gostevie]

A handful of semi-professional footballers, none of whom I have ever heard of. All well after my time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northolt_High_School

Steve Perryman was a well known footballer playing for Spurs. The others I haven't heard of.

He was an Elliots Green grammar school boy before its merger with Vincent secondary modern in 1974, the year before I started there.

[brightncheerful]

At my school, inter alia:
Mike Brearley (cricketer)
Kingsley Amis (author)
Julian Barns (author)
Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter)
John Altman (musician and composer)
Skandar Keynes (The Chronicles of Narnia film series)
Harry Michell (Tom Brown's Schooldays)
Denis Norden
Arthur Rackham
Gerald Hitman https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/4423244.ribble-valley-property-tycoon-dies-aged-59/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:People_educated_at_the_City_of_London_School

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Old_Citizens

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London_School

[Clitheroekid]

His Excellency John Duncan Former Governor of the British Virgin Islands and - although not a contemporary - Al Stewart.

You omitted the most famous by far (at least amongst us steam buffs) - Sir William Arthur Stanier, designer of (amongst many other great locomotives) the Stanier Black Five - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stanier

[Lootman]

His Excellency John Duncan Former Governor of the British Virgin Islands and - although not a contemporary - Al Stewart.

You omitted the most famous by far (at least amongst us steam buffs) - Sir William Arthur Stanier, designer of (amongst many other great locomotives) the Stanier Black Five - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stanier

Interesting that you would single out the Black Five. It was produced in great numbers and was versatile in that it could be used for both passenger and freight traffic.

But wouldn't most anoraks instead cite the more prestigious Jubilee, Royal Scot, Princess and Coronation locomotives? All of which were named unlike (almost all of) the Black Fives?

[Clitheroekid]

His Excellency John Duncan Former Governor of the British Virgin Islands and - although not a contemporary - Al Stewart.

You omitted the most famous by far (at least amongst us steam buffs) - Sir William Arthur Stanier, designer of (amongst many other great locomotives) the Stanier Black Five - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stanier

Interesting that you would single out the Black Five. It was produced in great numbers and was versatile in that it could be used for both passenger and freight traffic.

But wouldn't most anoraks instead cite the more prestigious Jubilee, Royal Scot, Princess and Coronation locomotives? All of which were named unlike (almost all of) the Black Fives?

Not being an anorak myself I really couldn't comment! But although those locomotives are all more impressive than a Black Five it's only the Black Five that Stanier's name is always attached to - nobody says `the Stanier Coronation' for example.

I'd also take the view that it takes possibly more skill to design such a fantastically versatile locomotive as the Black Five than to design one that's only intended for one purpose.

[kempiejon]

Is it famous when it makes the news? Where I work now we've only had 1 teacher convicted of inappropriate sexual behaviour in the 5 years I've been around. We are a big school mind, big in lot of students and staff.