Topic summary
Queen's Scholar
Extracted from the Wikipedia article King's Scholar (Westminster School).
Notable King's or Queen's Scholars
- Richard Hakluyt (1553–1616), Elizabethan writer
- George Herbert (1593–1633), poet and priest
- William Cartwright (1611–1643), poet and dramatist
- Abraham Cowley (1618–1667), poet
- John Dryden (1631–1700), poet and playwright
- John Locke (1632–1704), philosopher
- Robert South (1634–1716), priest and Latin poet
- Robert Hooke (1635–1703), scientist and polymath
- Warren Hastings (1732–1818), Governor of Calcutta
- George Cotton (1813–1866), headmaster and Bishop
- A. A. Milne (1882–1956), children's author
- John Spedan Lewis (1885–1963), founder of the John Lewis Partnership
- Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian (1889–1977), Nobel Prize-winning scientist
- Sidney Frank Waterson (1896–1978), South African politician
- Kim Philby (1912–1988), Russian spy
- Jonathan Ashmore (born 1948), physicist
- Andrew Lloyd Webber (born 1948), composer
- David Neuberger (born 1948), President of the Supreme Court
- Dominic Grieve (born 1956), barrister and former MP
- Ian Bostridge (born 1964), tenor
- Alastair Sooke (born 1981), art critic