People educated at Bootham School

British athlete, politician, Cabinet minister, life peer and Nobel Peace Prize winner (1889–1982)

English historian (1906-1990)

UK mathematician & polymath (1881–1953)

British-Canadian science philosopher (1940–2024)

British Radical and Liberal statesman (1811–1889)

British botanist (1834-1920)

American historian

British cyclist

British academic physicist (1851-1916)

British politician (born 1956)

language scholar from England (1918-1990)

English ornithologist and entomologist (1885–1965)

British Quaker teacher and writer, pacifist and ornithologist (1889-1989)

British psychiatrist (1933–2021)

British botanist (1864-1951)

English chemist and open knowledge activist

British diplomat (1948- )

British actor (1924-2016)

British philanthropist industrialist and sociologist writer (1871–1954)

British biologist (1902-1988)

English botanist and author (1895-1990)

English philosopher and ethicist (1900–1990)

British businessman

British geologist (1917-2003)

British historian (1904–1984)

English historian (1890-1979)

British writer (1885–1937)

English singer-songwriter

British engineer and activist

English botanist, archaeologist, and geologist (1825–1890)

British electrical engineer (1874–1940)

British palaeobotanist (1903–1983)

historian and banker (1833-1912)

British politician (1872-1951)

English artist (1886-1935)

politician (1837-1911)

British philanthropist (1836-1925)

British politician (1875-1955)

British civil servant (1961-2018)