Dover College's famous alumni - called Old Dovorians - include a range of war heroes, politicians, actors, film directors, business tycoons, television personalities and a choreographer to name but a few. To find out more about each person, please click on the names and you will be directed to Wikipedia.

Richard Arthur (1865–1932); Australian politician

Frederic Maugham, 1st Viscount Maugham (1866–1958); Lord Chancellor

Tyrone Power, Sr. (1869–1931), Anglo-American actor

Francis Newton Parsons (1875–1900); Victoria Cross recipient (Second Boer War)

Robert John Tillyard FRS (1881–1937); entomologist and geologist

H. P. M. Beames (1875–1948); engineer

Adrian Stoop (1883–1957); Rugby player after whom the Stoop Memorial ground is named

Arthur Leyland Harrison (1886–1918); Victoria Cross recipient (Zeebrugge Raid.) and England Rugby International

The Most Reverend Howard West Kilvinton Mowll DD (1890-1958); Archbishop of Sydney and Primate of Australia

Richard Aldington (1892–1962); writer and poet

Wilfred Neville (1894–1916); led the East Surrey’s “Football Charge” at the Somme

General Sir Dallas Brooks (1896–1966); DSO - Zeebrugge Raid; Governor of Victoria - 1949-1963

Air Marshal Sir Hugh Walmsley KCB, KCIE, CBE, MC, DFC (1898-1985); Chief of the Air Staff (India)

Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald (1900-1981); writer of books about British wildlife

Sir Frederick Ashton OM, CH, CBE (1904–1988); choreographer of the Royal Ballet

Edgar Christian (1908–1927); see Cold Burial published in 2002

Group Captain John Hamar "Johnnie" Hill CBE (1912-1997); Squadron Commander of 504 Squadron and 222 Squadron RAF in 1940

Squadron Leader Michael Casano MC (1913-2006); Commander of No 2 Armoured Car Company RAF

Colonel Terence Otway DSO (1914–2006); CO of 9 Para on D-Day (Merville Battery)

J. Lee Thompson (1914–2002); film director

Sir Derek Palmar (1919–2006); chairman of Bass Brewery

Admiral Sir Peter White GBE (b. 1919); Chief of Fleet Support

Sir Donald Luddington KBE, CMG, CVO (1920-2009); British colonial government official

The Reverend Mark Turnham Elvins, OFMCap (b. 1939); acting Warden of Greyfriars, Oxford 2007/8

Michael Welsh (b. 1942); Conservative politician

George Lam (b. 1947); Hong Kong film star and singer

Sir Peter Torry GCVO, KCMG (b. 1948); British Ambassador to Germany

Michael Kuhn (b. 1949); film director

Guy East (b. 1951); film producer

Simon Cowell (b. 1959); TV personality

Achim Steiner (b. 1961); executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme

Dai Fujikura (b. 1977); composer of contemporary classical music