Brookfield Community School, Chesterfield

Chesterfield Grammar School

• Chris Adams, former Derbyshire and England cricketer.^[14]
• Jeffery Aldam CBE MC, County Education Officer from 1973-83 of Hampshire, and Suffolk from 1962–71
• Sir Alfred Arnold, Conservative MP from 1895-1900 for Halifax
• Frank Atkinson, Professor of Mining from 1954-65 at the University of Sheffield, and Manager from 1927-35 of the Hatfield Main Colliery
• Tom Bailey of the Thompson Twins
• Charles Balguy, physician
• Prof Geoffrey Bennington, Professor of French from 1983-99 at the University of Sussex
• Prof John Birds, Professor of Law since 2006 at the University of Manchester
• B. V. Bowden, Baron Bowden, Principal of UMIST 1953-76
• Henry Bradley, lexicographer, President from 1891-3 of the Philological Society
• Francis Chavasse, Bishop of Liverpool from 1900–23
• Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles Darwin
• Robert Waring Darwin of Elston, botanist
• Prof Alan Day, Professor of Economics from 1964-83 at the London School of Economics
• Sir Andrew Derbyshire, architect
• Sir John Fretwell, UK Ambassador to France from 1982-7
• Ken Gibbons, Archdeacon of Lancaster from 1981–97
• Terry Gilbert, ballet dancer
• Richard Gillingwater CBE, Dean from 2007-2012 of the Cass Business School, Chief Executive from 2003-6 of Credit Suisse First Boston
• Rt Rev William Godfrey (bishop), Bishop of Peru since 1998
• Prof John Goodman CBE, Frank Thomas Professor of Industrial Relations from 1975-2002 at UMIST
• Prof Michael Gunn, Vice-Chancellor since 2011 of Staffordshire University, and Professor of Law from 1997-2006 at Nottingham Trent University
• Prof Kenneth Hambleton, Professor of Defence Engineering from 1991-2001 at University College London, Director General of Air Weapons and Electronic Systems from 1986-90 at the MoD
• Archie Heath, Professor of Philosophy from 1925-52 at University College, Swansea
• Ralph Heathcote, writer
• Alan Hoole OBE, Governor of Anguilla from 1995-7
• Prof David Hopkinson, Professor of Human Biochemical Genetics from 1993-2000 at University College London
• Richard Kirk CBE, Chief Executive from 2012 of Poundstretcher, and from 1996-2012 of Cardiff-based Peacocks
• Prof David Lowe, Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, Aston University.
• Prof Sir William McCrea, astronomer
• Geoff Miller, England cricketer
• Charles Newcombe, cricketer
• Professor Ian Newton, OBE FRS FRSE, former Deputy Chief Scientific Officer, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Monks Wood
• Josiah Pearson, Bishop of Newcastle (Australia) from 1880–90
• Sir Robert Robinson FRSE, Nobel-prize winning organic chemist, and discoverer of the structure of morphine and penicillin, and invented the symbol for benzene in 1923
• Christopher Rowland, former Labour MP from 1964-7 for Meriden
• Sir Robin Saxby, former Chief Executive of ARM Holdings, who made it into a global giant
• Nick Scholte, Chief Executive since 2006 of the NHS Business Services Authority
• Thomas Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1758–68
• Prof Edwin Smith, Professor of Metallurgy from 1968-88 at UMIST
• Captain Edwin Swale CBE DFC, WWI flying ace
• Peter Ullathorne FRSA, architect^[15]
• Sir Brian Unwin, President from 1993-99 of the European Investment Bank, and from 2001-13 of the European Centre for Nature Conservation, and Chairman from 1987-93 of HM Customs and Excise
• Sir David Walker (banker), Chairman since 2012 of Barclays, and Morgan Stanley International from 1995-2001, and of the Securities and Investments Board (became the Financial Services Authority) from 1988–92
• Air Marshal Philip Wigglesworth
• Prof Derrick Willmott, Professor of Orthodontics at the University of Sheffield, Dean from 2008-11 of the Faculty of Dental Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS)
• Bob Wilson, goalkeeper and former BBC presenter of Football Focus
• John Fawcett Wilson, BBC radio producer
• Charles Wood, scriptwriter, who co-wrote the 1967 How I Won the War and the 1988 Tumbledown