page_title: Luton Sixth Form College
section_title: Luton Grammar School
hierarchical_section_title: Luton Sixth Form College / Notable former pupils / Luton Grammar School
caption_attribution_description: English: Sir Alec Jeffreys
context_page_description: Luton Sixth Form College is a sixth form college situated in Luton, Bedfordshire.
context_section_description: Anthony Cave Brown, writer
  Laurie Brown, Bishop of Birmingham from 1969 to 1977
  Ivor Clemitson, Labour MP from 1974 to 1979 for Luton East
  Graham Collier OBE, jazz bandleader
  James Dyer, archaeologist, writer and author of the school centenary history Rhubarb and Custard (2004)
  Philip Eden, weather forecaster (last three years at the comprehensive)
  Stephen Evans, who set up Renaissance Films
  Dennis Farr CBE, Director from 1980 to 1993 of the Courtauld Institute Galleries
  Prof Francis Goodyear, Hildred Carlile Professor of Latin from 1966 to 1983 at Bedford College, London
  John Gosling, keyboardist from 1969 to 1979 in The Kinks
  Alfred Hayes (wrestler)
  John Hegley, performance poet (briefly)
  Sir Colin Humphreys CBE, FRS FREng FIMMM FInstP, Goldsmiths' Professor of Materials Science from 1992 to 2008 at the University of Cambridge, and Director since 1994 of the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre
  Sir Alec Jeffreys FRS, discoverer of DNA fingerprinting (last two years at the comprehensive)
  William Harry Manning FSA Emeritus Professor of Archaeology from 1983 to 2000 at Cardiff University
  Graham Miller (sports presenter), on the News at Ten in the 1990s
  Rear Adm Robin Musson CB, Chief of Naval Supply from 1991 to 1993
  Michael Peters (designer) OBE
  David Renwick, TV writer of One Foot in the Grave and Jonathan Creek (last four years at the comprehensive)
  Neil Shand, TV comedy writer
  Steven M. Smith, Professor of Plant Genetics and Biochemistry and 'High-End Foreign Expert’ of the People's Republic of China (last two years at the comprehensive)
  David Stephen, Director from 1983 to 1984 of the UK Immigrants Advisory Service (the Immigration Advisory Service from 1993 to 2011), and from 2002 to 2004 of European Movement UK
  Ian Thompson, 1974 Christchurch Commonwealth Games Champion (still holds the record time) and 1974 European Marathon Champion
  Des Turner, Labour MP from 1997 to 2010 for Brighton Kemptown
  Peter Rolfe Vaughan, Professor of Ground Engineering from 1987 to 1994 at Imperial College London
  David Webb (anti-censorship campaigner), actor
  Denis Wick, trombonist
  Dudley Wood CBE, Secretary of the RFU from 1986 to 1995, and President of Bedfordshire CCC from 1998 to 2006
caption: Sir Alec Jeffreys, Wolfson Research Professor of the Royal Society since 1991 at the University of Leicester
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