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List of people educated at Whitgift School

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This is a list of Old Whitgiftians (abbreviated OWs), former pupils of Whitgift School, which is a British private boys' day school in South Croydon in London.

Academia, medicine and science

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Business

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Law, government and politics

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Media, music and the arts

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Military

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Sport

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Other

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A One Puffin coin of 1929, bearing the portrait of Martin Coles Harman, Old Whitgiftian and self-styled King of Lundy.

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