This is a list of notable Old Derbeians, former pupils and masters of Derby School (from the 12th century to 1989) and of Derby Grammar School (since 1994), in Derby, England.
Notable old boys
Born in the 16th century
Blessed Edward James (1557–1588), Roman Catholic martyr
John Cotton (1585–1652), New England Puritan
Born in the 17th century
George Sitwell (c.1600-1667), Ironmaster and High Sheriff
John Flamsteed (1646–1719), England's first Astronomer Royal
Anthony Blackwall (1672–1730), classical scholar
Henry Cantrell (1684–1773), clergyman and religious controversialist
William Budworth (c. 1699–1745), schoolmaster
Born in the 18th century
Sir John Eardley Wilmot (1709–1792), Chief Justice of the Common Pleas
Joseph Wright (1734–1797), artist
Daniel Coke (1745–1825), barrister and member of parliament
Alleyne FitzHerbert, 1st Baron St Helens (1753–1839), diplomat
Joseph Strutt (1765–1844), cotton manufacturer and philanthropist
Sir William Gell (1777–1836), archaeologist
Born in the 19th century
Sir Francis Seymour Haden (1818–1910), surgeon and artist
Henry Howe Bemrose (1827–1911), member of parliament for Derby
Unwin Sowter (1839–1910), maltster, cricketer and Mayor of Derby
John Cook Wilson (1849–1915), philosopher
J. M. J. Fletcher (1850–1934), historian
Frank Styant Browne, chemist and photographer
E. W. Hobson FRS (1856–1933), mathematician
Richard Mansfield (1857–1907), actor
John Atkinson Hobson (1858–1940), social theorist and economist
Walter Weston (1860–1940), missionary and mountaineer
Frederic Creswell (1866–1948), mining engineer and South African Minister of Defence Christopher Wilson (1874-1919), composer of theatre music and author, Shakespeare and Music (1922) Lawrence Beesley (1877–1967), RMS Titanic survivor and author William Henry Ansell (1872–1959), architect, President of the Royal Institute of British Architects from 1940 to 1943 Walter Greatorex (1877–1949), composer Charles Tate Regan (1878–1943), ichthyologist Sir George Simpson FRS (1878–1965), meteorologist Geoffrey Shaw (1879–1943), composer and musician Guy Wilson (1882–1917), cricketer and soldier William George Constable (1887–1976), art historian Frank Conroy (1890–1964), actor Robert Howe (1893–1981), last British Governor-General of the Sudan, 1947-1955 Ernest Sterndale Bennett (1884-1982), Theatre Director and member of the Order of Canada
Born in the 20th century
Max Bemrose (1904–1986), Chairman of Bemrose Corporation and High Sheriff of Derbyshire George Timms (1910–1997), clergyman P. G. Ashmore (1916–2002), academic chemist Gilbert Hodgkinson (1913–1987), cricketer Spencer Barrett (1914–2001), classical scholar, Fellow and Sub-Warden of Keble College, Oxford George Bacon (1917-2011), nuclear physicist Ted Moult (1926–1986), farmer & TV personality Alexander Morrison (1927-2012), judge John Stobart (born 1929), maritime artist Robert Grimley (born 1943), Dean of Bristol since 1997
Notable masters of Derby School
John Meade Falkner, novelist and poet
Rev. Robert de Courcy Laffan (Senior Classical Master, 1880–1884), principal of Cheltenham College, member of the International Olympic Committee Henry Judge Hose (Maths master, 1867–1874), mathematician