writer and illustrator, creator of Jane and the Dragon books and TV series Francis Berry, poet and university professor at Royal Holloway, University of London James Bevan, rugby player and first Welsh international captain Alan Bruce Blaxland, major-general Kate Bliss, antiques expert Arthur Boycott, scientist, particularly notable as in 2016 his granddaughter returned a book he borrowed sometime between 1886 and 1894 John Bradford (dissenting minister), dissenting minister John Bull (composer), organist and composer John Bury (theatre designer), theatre designer and Tony Award winner Henry Bulmer, cider-maker Fitzwilliam Coningsby, MP and Royalist leader Sir John Cotterell, 1st Baronet, MP and landowner David Cox Jr., painter Sir Horace Cutler, Conservative politician and leader of the Greater London Council David Darg, Oscar nominated film director Andrew Davies, politician, formerly Minister for Enterprise, Innovation & Networks John Davies of Hereford, writing master and Anglo-Welsh poet Geoffrey Dhenin, physician and senior Royal Air Force officer John Du Buisson, Dean of St Asaph Pete Farndon, (1952–1983) Bass Guitarist of The Pretenders rock group Edward Garbett, theologian James Garbett, clergyman and Oxford professor of poetry Richard Gardiner (English divine), theologian and benefactor Peter George (author), author of Red Alert, the inspiration for Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove Richard Gething, writing master Michael Goaman, postage stamp designer William Gregory, Speaker of the House of Commons Silvanus Griffiths, Dean of Hereford Cathedral John Guillim, herald Matthew Hall, barrister, screenwriter and novelist John Hardy (composer), composer Robert Hollingworth, musician and choral director Charles Hopton, Archdeacon of Birmingham James Howell, historian, political writer, and first historiographer royal Sir Hungerford Hoskyns, 4th Baronet, army officer and MP Percy Hull, organist at Hereford Cathedral David Keyte, former chairman of Hereford United F.C. William Lambe, physician and pioneer of veganism Edward William Lane, orientalist Thomas Lewis (controversialist), High Church polemicist Arthur Machen, supernatural and horror fiction author Francis Mansell, Principal of Jesus College, Oxford John Mayo (physician), physician Richard Newman (priest), Archdeacon of Blackburn Howard Nicholls, Welsh rugby player Anthony Nuttall, literary critic and academic Francis Oakeley, England rugby player Sir Michael Parker (event organizer), military officer and organiser of large scale productions, such as the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo Matthew Parry, Warwickshire and Ireland cricketer Arthur Peppercorn, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London North Eastern Railway G. H. Pember, theologian Jemima Phillips, former Royal Harpist William Powell (English actor), 18th century actor Harry Ragg, Bishop of Calgary E. J. Rapson, numismatist and professor