Notable former students include Paul Addison, Tony Brindle-Wills, comedians Kenny Everett, Tom O ' Connor and Johnny Vegas, the libel lawyer George Carman, pop musician Paddy McAloon of Prefab Sprout, the editor of the Jerusalem Bible and British Member of Parliament John Battle.

Frontman Paddy McAloon has been hailed as one of the great songwriters of his era.

Prefab Sprout debuted in 1982 with their self-released single, " Lions In My Own Garden: Exit Someone "-songwriter Paddy McAloon wanted a song title where the first letters of the words spelled out Limoges, the French city where his former girlfriend was staying at the time.

After being diagnosed with a medical disorder that seriously impaired his vision, Paddy McAloon released the album I Trawl The Megahertz under his own name in 2003 on the EMI Liberty label.

According to the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles & Albums, the band's name was a mondegreen from the Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood song, " Jackson ", misheard by frontman Paddy McAloon.

* Paddy McAloon ( born Patrick Joseph McAloon, 7 June 1957, Durham ); vocals / guitars / keyboards

They have cited a wide variety of musical likes and influences ranging from Berlioz to Outkast, citing among others Barrett, Paddy McAloon, New Order, The Smiths, Brian Wilson, Momus.

Group members Paddy and Martin McAloon were brought up in the nearby village of Witton Gilbert.

Paddy McAloon of Prefab Sprout supplied five original songs to the two series, all of them recorded by Jimmy Nail.

Their first child, Patricia " Paddy " Costello, was born in 1936, followed by Carole on December 23, 1938, and Lou Jr. ( nicknamed " Butch ") on November 6, 1942.

Patrick John Hillery, more popularly known as Paddy Hillery, was born in Spanish Point, Miltown Malbay, County Clare in 1923.

Jeremy John Durham Ashdown, Baron Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon, GCMG, KBE, PC ( born 27 February 1941 ), usually known as Paddy Ashdown, is a British politician and diplomat.

* Paddy Driver ( born 1934 ), South African motorcyclist and racing driver

* Paddy Ashdown ( born 1941 ), British politician and diplomat

* Paddy Barnes ( born 1987 ), Irish amateur boxer

* Paddy Bradley ( born 1981 ), Gaelic footballer from Northern Ireland

* Paddy Considine ( born 1973 ), English actor, filmmaker, screenwriter and musician

* Paddy Corrigan ( born 1962 ), Irish retired hurling player

* Paddy Glackin ( born 1954 ), Irish fiddler

* Paddy Harte ( born 1931 ), Irish retired politician

* Paddy Henderson ( footballer ) ( born 1938 ), Irish football goalkeeper

* Paddy Keenan ( born 1950 ), Irish player of the uilleann pipes

* Paddy Kenny ( born 1978 ), Premier League football goalkeeper

* Paddy McCarthy ( born 1983 ), Irish footballer

* Paddy McCourt ( born 1983 ), Northern Irish footballer

* Paddy McGuinness ( born 1973 ), English sit-down comedian, actor, television personality and presenter

* Paddy Moloney ( born 1938 ), founder and leader of the Irish musical group The Chieftains

* Paddy Wallace ( born 1979 ), Irish rugby union footballer

* Paddy Ashdown ( born 1941 ), Baron Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon

The footstone of Paddy ChayefskyPaddy and Susan Sackler Chayefsky's son Dan was born six years after their 1949 marriage.

* Paddy, Lord Ashdown ( born 1941 ) was raised on a farm near Donaghadee.

Paddy Doyle ( born United Kingdom ) is a professional multi-disciplinary athlete.

* Paddy Boom ( born Patrick Seacor ): drums, electronic drums, percussion ( 2001 – 2008 )

In the U. S., a post-WW2 tendency toward questioning the establishment and societal norms and the early activism of the Civil Rights Movement was reflected in Hollywood films such as Blackboard Jungle ( 1955 ), On the Waterfront ( 1954 ), Paddy Chayefsky's Marty and Reginald Rose's 12 Angry Men ( 1957 ).

* Lester Piggott – Never Say Die ( 1954 ), Crepello ( 1957 ), St. Paddy ( 1960 ), Sir Ivor ( 1968 ), Nijinsky ( 1970 ), Roberto ( 1972 ), Empery ( 1976 ), The Minstrel ( 1977 ), Teenoso ( 1983 )

During the 1950s, Bogarde came to prominence playing a hoodlum who shoots and kills a police constable in The Blue Lamp ( 1950 ) co-starring Jack Warner and Bernard Lee ; a handsome artist who comes to rescue of Jean Simmons during the World's Fair in Paris in So Long at the Fair, a film noir thriller ; an accidental murderer who befriends a young boy played by Jon Whiteley in Hunted ( aka The Stranger in Between ) ( 1952 ); in Appointment in London ( 1953 ) as a young Wing-Commander in Bomber Command who, against orders, opts to fly his 90th mission with his men in a major air offensive against the Germans ; an unjustly imprisoned man who regains hope in clearing his name when he learns his sweetheart, Mai Zetterling, is still alive in Desperate Moment ( 1953 ); Doctor in the House ( 1954 ), as a medical student, in a film that made Bogarde one of the most popular British stars of the 1950s, and co-starring Kenneth More, Donald Sinden and James Robertson Justice as their crabby mentor ; The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ), playing a neurotic criminal with co-star Alexis Smith, and Bogarde's first film for American expatriate director Joseph Losey ; Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ), co-starring Brigitte Bardot in one of her first film roles ; as a returning Colonial who fights the Mau-Mau with Virginia McKenna and Donald Sinden in Simba ( 1955 ); Cast a Dark Shadow ( 1955 ), as a man who marries women for money and then murders them ; The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ), co-starring Michael Hordern, Jon Whiteley, and Cyril Cusack ; Doctor at Large ( 1957 ), again with Donald Sinden, another entry in the " Doctor films series ", co-starring later Bond-girl Shirley Eaton ; the Powell and Pressburger production Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1957 ) co-starring Marius Goring as the German General Kreipe, kidnapped on Crete by Patrick " Paddy " Leigh Fermor ( Bogarde ) and a fellow band of adventurers based on W. Stanley Moss ' real-life account of the WW2 caper ; A Tale of Two Cities ( 1958 ), a faithful retelling of Charles Dickens ' classic ; as a Flt.

* Paddy Daly ( 1888 – 1957 ), member of the Irish Republican Army and major-general in the Irish National Army

* Lester Piggott – Mystery IX ( 1951 ), Darius ( 1955 ), Arctic Explorer ( 1957 ), St Paddy ( 1961 ), Pieces of Eight ( 1966 ), Wolver Hollow ( 1969 ), Artaius ( 1977 )

* Lester Piggott – Pinched ( 1957 ), St Paddy ( 1959 ), Casabianca ( 1963 ), Soft Angels ( 1965 ), Royal Palace ( 1966 ), Remand ( 1967 ), Sir Wimborne ( 1975 ), Dunbeath ( 1982 )

* Noel Murless – Pinched ( 1957 ), St Paddy ( 1959 ), Casabianca ( 1963 ), Soft Angels ( 1965 ), Royal Palace ( 1966 ), Domineering ( 1969 ), Yaroslav ( 1971 ), Adios ( 1972 )

A teenage sensation, he rode his first winner of the Epsom Derby on Never Say Die in 1954 aged 18 years and went on to win eight more, on Crepello ( 1957 ), St. Paddy ( 1960 ), Sir Ivor ( 1968 ), Nijinsky ( 1970 ), Roberto ( 1972 ), Empery ( 1976 ), The Minstrel ( 1977 ) and Teenoso ( 1983 ).

* Derby-( 9 )-Never Say Die ( 1954 ), Crepello ( 1957 ), St Paddy ( 1960 ), Sir Ivor ( 1968 ), Nijinsky ( 1970 ), Roberto ( 1972 ), Empery ( 1976 ), The Minstrel ( 1977 ), Teenoso ( 1983 )

* Eclipse Stakes-( 7 )-Mystery IX ( 1951 ), Darius ( 1955 ), Arctic Explorer ( 1957 ), St Paddy ( 1961 ), Pieces of Eight ( 1966 ), Wolver Hollow ( 1969 ), Artaius ( 1977 )

The Bachelor Party is a 1953 teleplay by Paddy Chayefsky which was adapted by Chayefsky for a 1957 film.

Of these there were three Epsom Derby wins, with Crepello ( 1957 ), St. Paddy ( 1960 ) and Royal Palace ( 1967 ).