People educated at Downside School

Irish politician and human rights activist (1904-1988)

British actor

British film writer and playwright

English actor

Roman Catholic priest and Dominican friar

English actor and director (1926–2009)

Catholic cardinal (1832–1903)

Catholic cardinal (1846–1929)

British screenwriter, playwright and novelist (1948-)

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

historian

British-Canadian painter, writer, sound poet, and performance artist (1916-1986)

Welsh cinematographer, producer, and director (1968–2003)

British actor

British art historian and museum director (1913–1994)

Catholic archbishop

author and literary critic

English author

British prelate of the Roman Catholic Church (1930–2019)

English musician and producer; drummer (1961–1989)

British filmmaker

Roman Catholic archbishop (1806–1889)

British diplomat (1897–1964)

British political scientist (born 1952)

Cricket player of England. (1906-1944)

British Army general (1907–1991)

British politician (1897-1957)

British politician (1936–2023)

South African businessman and writer (1862-1931)

Catholic archbishop (1929–2007)

Irish baronet and cricket player of England (1861-1948)

Vicar Apostolic of England and Wales

businessperson (1947–2017)

English playwright and novelist

British ornithologist and librarian (1841–1928)

British skier

English cricketer, and rugby union footballer (born 1960)

British surveyor and peer (born 1950)

British politician (born 1951)

British theologian

British professor

English-American novelist and essayist

English Benedictine monk and historian (1858–1934)

Monegasque royal

cricketer (born 1958)

British art historian

Australian writer

Benedictine monk and historian (1896-1974)

British journalist (1936-2021)

Irish politician (1908-1970)

English writer

Anglo-Irish baron; WWII POW