Sir Richard Olaf Winstedt, authority on Malayan history Noel Chavasse VC & Bar – the most highly decorated soldier in British history. Sir Henry John Stedman Cotton, KCSI, Chief Commissioner of Assam; Cotton College, Guwahati is named after him Sir George Bonner - King's Remembrancer, legal scholar and Senior Master of the High Court of Justice Ivor Novello – singer/songwriter and actor Sir Ivo Rigby, Chief Justice of Hong Kong Stewart Pether - cricketer John Caird – director of Les MisérablesChristopher Peacocke – philosopher Nigel Starmer-Smith – BBC rugby correspondent Jim Rosenthal – TV sports commentator Adam Lively – contemporary novelist Martin Jones – concert pianist Will Wyatt - television executive Tim Hunt – Nobel Prize recipient and scientist Rick Fenn – rock guitarist, member of 10cc Wayne Masterson – scientist Guy Browning – humorous writer and business guru Giles Borg – film director Charles Lonsdale – British Ambassador to Armenia Sam Mendes – Oscar-winning film and stage director, best known for directing the Bond film Skyfall. Misha Glenny – BBC Eastern Europe correspondent Rob Leslie-Carter – engineer Ben Goldacre – journalist Daniel Sandford – BBC News Home Affairs Correspondent Kenneth G. Wilson – Nobel Prize winner and scientist John Kasmin – Art dealer who promoted David Hockney Alexander Aris – elder son of Nobel Prize-winning democracy and human rights campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi and Michael Aris Julian Opie – modern artist Jeremy R. Knowles – Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Harvard University Jonathan Bailey – actor Yannis Philippakis – frontman of the band Foals Robert Steadman – drummer for the band Stornoway Oliver Steadman – bassist for the band Stornoway Jon Briggs – television and radio presenter Lawrence Booth (cricket writer) - editor of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack Tom Scriven – Cricketer Omid Scobie – journalist and writer Martin Reynolds – Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister Roland Fleming – scientist Bibliography Several books have been written about the school, including: 2019: Bebbington, David. Goodbye Shirley: The Wartime Letters of an Oxford Schoolboy 1939-1947. [Grosvenor House Publishing]. 2016: Brockliss, Lawrence. Magdalen College School. [Shire Publications]. 2014: Bebbington, David. Mister Brownrigg's Boys: Magdalen College School and The Great War. London: [Pen and Sword Books]. . 1988: Orme, Nicholas Education in Early Tudor England: Magdalen College Oxford and its School, 1480–1540 [Magdalen College]. 1980: Clarke, D. L. L. Magdalen School: Five Hundred Years on [Blackwell]. 1977: Hey, Colin Magdalen