Batley Grammar School

Notable Old Batelians

• Theodore Cooke Taylor, Businessman, Liberal politician, Profit-sharing pioneer
• Benjamin Ingham, Methodist and Moravian evangelist and preacher
• Joseph Priestley, theologian, natural philosopher, and discoverer of oxygen
• Thomas Wormald, surgeon
• Sir Titus Salt, textile manufacturer and politician
• Sir Mark Oldroyd, woollen manufacturer, politician and philanthropist
• Sir Owen Willans Richardson, Professor of Physics, Princeton University, 1906–1914, Wheatstone Professor of Physics, King's College London, 1914–1924, and Yarrow Research Professor, Royal Society, 1924–1959, Nobel Prize in Physics
• Sir Herbert Holdsworth, 1890–1949, Liberal and later Liberal National MP
• Samuel Sugden, Professor of Physical Chemistry, Birkbeck College, London, 1932–1937, and Professor of Chemistry, University College London, 1937–1950
• Horace Waller VC, World War I Victoria Cross recipient
• Cecil Grayson, Serena Professor of Italian, University of Oxford, 1958–1988
• Godfrey Lienhardt, anthropologist
• Andrew Milner, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Monash University
• Paul Trepte, Organist of Ely Cathedral
• Lawrence Tomlinson, businessman and philanthropist
• Richard Pearson, former English county cricketer
• Richard Reed, co-founder of innocent Drinks
• Richard Dawson, former English county cricketer
• Ismail Dawood, former English county cricketer
• Lukas Wooller, keyboardist with the band Maxïmo Park
• Andrew Firth, Michael Brooke and Ben Davies, members of indie-pop band The Dandys
• David Peace, Author
• Tim Fountain, Writer
• Lee Goddard - former English County Cricketer
• David Stiff, professional cricketer