Famous Alumni
- J K Banyard – OBE (Services to the Water Industry – Severn Trent)
- Professor Ian Bateman OBE, Professor of Environmental Economics, Director of the Land, Environment, Economics and Policy Institute (LEEP) and Director of the South West Partnership for Environment & Economic Prosperity (SWEEP) at the University of Exeter
- Corey Blackett-Taylor, Charlton Athletic footballer
- Brian Bowsher, Director of the National Physical Laboratory, UK from 2009
- Alpesh Chauhan – Musician and Conductor
- Prof Sir David Cox, Professor of Statistics at Imperial College London from 1966-88, and President of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability from 1979-81
- Sir Edmund Crane (1886-1957), Chairman and founder of Hercules Cycles – once the largest cycle manufacturer in the world.
- Prof Adam Cunningham, Professor of Functional Immunity at the University of Birmingham
- Roy Fisher (b.1930), Poet and jazz musician
- Dr Nigel Fortune, Musicologist
- Aden George, Birmingham City footballer
- Abdul Hafeez, Cricketer
- Denis Howell (1923–1998), Labour MP
- Eddie Hughes, Conservative MP
- Dr Brian Robert James, Professor Emeritus at The University of British Columbia
- Jason John GB 100m Athletics team 1992 Barcelona Olympics
- S Lucas – Chairman WBAFC
- Dave Martin (screenwriter), wrote for Doctor Who, and created the canine character K-9
- Terry “Larry” Parkes, Cartoonist
- Jack Payne, Bandleader
- Adil Ray, Actor, Radio/Television presenter
- Sir Mark Rowley, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police
- John Salisbury, Athlete
- Siôn Simon (b.1968), Labour MP for Erdington, Minister under Tony Blair.
- N L Smith – Chairman AVFC
- Jay Singh-Sohal – Journalist
- Geoffrey Templeman CBE, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Kent from 1963-80
- Dr John Tooze (b. 1938), microbiologist, Fellow of the Royal Society.
- Jay Webster, Cricketer
- Robert Weir, 1982 Commonwealth Games winning discus thrower, was named captain of the Great Britain track and field team at the Sydney Games in 2000
- Prof John Whitfield, Serena Professor of Italian Language and Literature at the University of Birmingham from 1946-74
- Harry B. Whittington, Paleontologist and Woodwardian Professor of Geology at the University of Cambridge from 1966-83
- Joe Wilson, Footballer