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Captain Richard Wallace Annand VC, ERD, DL was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

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Brigadier General Roland Boys Bradford, VC, MC was a British Army officer and an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. His elder brother, Lieutenant Commander George Bradford, was also awarded the Victoria Cross, making them the only pair of brothers to be awarded the medal during the First World War.

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Colonel Rowland Burdon, VD, DL, JP was an English landowner and Conservative Party politician from County Durham. He sat in the House of Commons from 1918 to 1922.

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George Sainton Kaye Butterworth, MC was an English composer who was best known for the orchestral idyll The Banks of Green Willow and his song settings of A. E. Housman's poems from A Shropshire Lad.

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General Sir Henry de Beauvoir De Lisle was a British Army General who served in the Second Boer War and World War I.

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William Morgan Fletcher-Vane, 1st Baron Inglewood, TD, was a British Conservative Party politician.

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(Alfred) Morris Gelsthorpe, DSO, DD was an English Anglican priest and missionary. Known popularly as 'Gelly', he was the first Bishop in the Sudan.

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Major John Waller Hills PC was a British Liberal Unionist and Conservative politician.

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Arthur Moore Lascelles VC MC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was educated at Uppingham School and attended the University of Edinburgh but abandoned his medical studies in 1902 and emigrated to South Africa.

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Percy Hugh Beverley Lyon MC (1893–1986) was a 20th-century British poet and educator, a winner of the Newdigate Prize and headmaster of Rugby School from 1931 to 1948.

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General Sir Herbert John Mogg, was a senior British Army officer who also held the NATO position of Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe (DSACEUR) and was "in his time, probably the British army's most popular general".

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Air Marshal Sir Lawrence Arthur Pattinson, was a Royal Air Force officer who became Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Flying Training Command from 1940 to 1941.

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Leslie Samuel Phillips is an English actor known for his work in the Carry On, Doctor in the House, and Harry Potter film series, as well as the long-running BBC radio comedy series The Navy Lark. With the passing of Heather Chasen on 22 May 2020, Phillips is now the only surviving regular cast member from the latter series.

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General Sir Joseph Howard Nigel Poett, was a British Army officer who commanded the 5th Parachute Brigade during the Second World War.

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Edward Watson Short, Baron Glenamara,, often known as Ted Short, was a British Labour politician and deputy leader of the Labour Party. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Newcastle upon Tyne Central and served as a minister during the Labour governments under Harold Wilson, before being appointed to the House of Lords shortly after James Callaghan became Prime Minister.

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Major General George William Symes, was a senior British Army officer who served in the First World War, in which he was twice awarded the Military Cross. During the Second World War he commanded the 70th Infantry Division in India, and was deputy commander of the Special Force, commonly known as the Chindits, in Burma. He was Deputy Commander of the lines of communication of the 21st Army Group from May to November 1944, and then commanded the lines of communication in South East Asia Command (SEAC). In June 1945, he became General Officer Commanding (GOC) in Southern Burma.

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Lieutenant-Colonel Ernest Vaux, was a business man from County Durham and a distinguished officer in the Volunteer Force and Territorial Force during the Second Boer War and World War I.

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Sir Godfrey Russell Vick QC was an English lawyer, judge and Liberal Party politician.

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Frederick Youens VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.