antiques writer Jamie Bamber, actor Sir Cecil Beaton, renowned photographer, Academy Award winner, and one of the Bright Young Things Rodney Bennett, television director Chris Brasher, Olympic gold medallist runner, founder of the London Marathon Mike Brearley, cricketer, England Captain Patrick Brontë, father of the Brontë sisters Samuel Butler, author Sir Hugh Casson, president of the Royal Academy of Arts, 1974–84 Sir John Clements, actor and theatrical producer Emma Corrin, actress Jin Yong, Chinese novelist and newspaper editor Paul Dempsey, TV presenter Hugh Dennis, actor, comedian Jimmy Edwards, comedy actor Jennifer Egan, author, winner of 2011 Pulitzer Prize for fiction James Ogilvie Fairlie, Scottish landowner, known as the 'Father of the Open Championship' John Gardner, author Andrew Gilligan, controversial journalist Robert Greene, arguably the first professional English author of plays, poems and novels Tony Hendra, actor, comedian Sir Derek Jacobi, actor Logie Bruce Lockhart, Scotland rugby footballer Ben Macintyre, author and journalist Jonathan Miller, physician, theatre and opera director, television presenter Thomas Nashe, pamphleteer, satirist and playwright Frederic Raphael, screenwriter, novelist and journalist, received Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, 1965 Piers Paul Read, novelist and historian Paul Ritter, actor Sir Charles Aubrey Smith, cricket player and prominent 1930's Hollywood actor Tom Rob Smith, award nominee author of Soviet-era novels; erstwhile writer for Channel 5's defunct soap opera Family Affairs Robert Stevenson, nominated for Academy Award for Best Director, 1964 Paul Sussman, author, archaeologist and journalist James St Clair Wade, Architect Sid Waddell, darts commentator Peter Warfield, England rugby player Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, patron of William Shakespeare Poets William Barnes, poet Richard Eberhart, poet, winner of 1966 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, United States Poet Laureate, 1969-61 Robert Herrick, author of renowned poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" Ben Jonson (statutably admitted), poet Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, courtier and poet, subject of the Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship William Wordsworth, major English Romantic poet and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, 1843–50 Thomas Wyatt, courtier and poet Musicians William Sterndale Bennett, 19th-century composer Andrew Carwood, Director of Music St Paul's Cathedral (2007), tenor and conductor Christopher Gabbitas, singer Andrew Gant, chorister and composer Harry Gregson-Williams, film score composer and Golden Globe nominee Rupert Gregson-Williams, film score composer and recipient of the European Film composer award George Guest, Welsh choral conductor, college organist 1951–91 Herbert Howells, English composer, college organist Geoffrey Paterson, conductor,