Balderstone Technology College

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• Fusilier Conrad Cole, youngest British soldier to die in the Gulf War on 26 February 1991 aged 17, when nine British soldiers of the 3rd Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers were killed by an American missile fired from an A-10 which hit a Warrior tracked armoured vehicle.

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• , Professor of Greek and Latin at Queens' College, University of Cambridge since 1995
• Sir Leslie Fowden, Professor of Plant Science from 1964–73 at University College London, and Director from 1973–86 of the Rothamsted Experimental Station, discovered two plant amino acids not part of proteins, and became a world authority on plant amino acids
• Glynn Boyd Harte, artist
• Sir Peter Ogden, businessman who founded Computacenter in 1981 and Dealogic in 1983
• Sir Joseph Pilling, KCB, Identity Commissioner since 2009, and Director General from 1991–92 of HM Prison Service
• Christopher Ray, High Master since 2004 of Manchester Grammar School
• Frederick Llewellyn Smith CBE, Chairman from 1967–71 of Rolls Royce Motor Cars, and President from 1955–56 of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders
• John Sykes, General Editor of English Dictionaries from 1992–94 at the Oxford University Press
• Philip Tinker OBE, President from 1983–84 of the British Society of Soil Science, and Deputy Director from 1981–85 of the Rothamsted Experimental Station
• Cyril Smith MP