People educated at The Dragon School

Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson is an English actress. In the 2010s, she was ranked among the world's highest-paid actresses by Forbes and Vanity Fair, and was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2015.

James Hugh Calum Laurie is an English actor, comedian, and musician. Laurie first gained professional recognition as a member of the English comedy double act Fry and Laurie with Stephen Fry. Fry and Laurie acted together in several projects during the 1980s and 1990s, including the BBC sketch comedy series A Bit of Fry & Laurie and the P. G. Wodehouse adaptation Jeeves and Wooster. From 1986 to 1989, Laurie appeared in three series of the period comedy Blackadder.

Thomas William Hiddleston is a British actor. He gained international fame portraying Loki in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), beginning with Thor in 2011 and including the Disney+ series Loki (2021–2023).

English biochemist and crystallographer (1917–1997)

Geneticist and evolutionary biologist (1892-1964)

Biochemist; Nobel laureate

British computer scientist

literary scholar, writer, and editor (1924–2020)

Swiss-born British philosopher and writer

Hugh Michael Horace Dancy is an English actor who rose to prominence for his role as the title character in the television film adaptation of David Copperfield (2000) as well as for roles in feature films as Kurt Schmid in Black Hawk Down (2001) and Prince Charmont in Ella Enchanted (2004). Other film roles include Joe Conner in Shooting Dogs (2005), Grigg Harris in The Jane Austen Book Club (2007), Luke Brandon in Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009), Adam Raki in Adam (2009) and Ted in Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011). On television, he portrayed criminal profiler Will Graham in the NBC television series Hannibal (2013–2015), Cal Roberts in the Hulu original series The Path (2016–2018) and Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, in the Channel 4 miniseries Elizabeth I (2005); the latter role earned him a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. Dancy currently portrays Senior Assistant District Attorney Nolan Price on NBC's revival of the original Law & Order (2022–present).

Thomas Anthony Hollander is an English actor. He trained with National Youth Theatre and won the Ian Charleson Award in 1992 for his performance as Witwoud in The Way of the World. He made his Broadway debut in the David Hare play The Judas Kiss in 1998. His performance as Henry Carr in a revival of the Tom Stoppard play Travesties earned nominations for both the Olivier Award and Tony Award.

British-American scientist and businessman (born 1959)

British tennis player

British writer and engineer (1899–1960)

British historian & peace activist (1924-1993)

British actor

English poet, writer and broadcaster (1906–1984)

Maximilian Paul Diarmuid Irons is an English actor. Following a bit part in the 2004 film Being Julia, he has gone on to major roles in films such as Red Riding Hood (2011), The Host (2013), Bitter Harvest (2017), and The Wife (2018). On television, he has had lead roles in The White Queen (2013) and Condor (2018–2020).

British physiologist (1860–1936)

British independent politician

British politician (1906-1963)

Scottish novelist and poet (1897–1999)

British comedian, television presenter and actor

British conductor (1934–2025)

British writer and broadcaster (1946–2005)

British actor (1945–2010)

British author and novelist

British barrister, dramatist, screenwriter and author (1923-2009)

British actor

British economist (1905–1989)

British composer (1903–1989)

English actor (1937–2017)

English neurosurgeon and non-fiction writer

British rower

British computer scientist

British geneticist

British writer, grandson of J. R. R. Tolkien

Recipient of the Victoria Cross (1917-1992)

British philosopher

British artist (born 1958)

British actor

British peer

school in Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK

British musician

British police officer

British Conservative politician (1926-2016)

British author (1930–2014)

British politician (born 1953)

Rupert James Graham Lowe is a British politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Great Yarmouth since 2024. Elected for Reform UK, he sat as an independent from March 2025 to March 2026 following the suspension of the party whip. Lowe founded the political organisation Restore Britain on 30 June 2025, and registered it as an official political party on 20 March 2026, becoming the party's sole MP on the same day. He was a member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the West Midlands from 2019 to 2020.

British novelist, historian, biographer, critic and filmmaker (1935–2019)

British actor

Novelist and journalist

British anthropologist

British writer

British actor

British journalist and writer

British politician (1929-2011)

English composer (1925–2008)

British politician (born 1944)

British politician (1926-2002)