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Leighton Park School is an independent coeducational Quaker secondary school for both boarding and day pupils in Reading, Berkshire, England.

The school is located next to the Whiteknights Park campus of University of Reading, situated in a parkland setting close to Reading town centre.

Leighton Park's Headmaster is John Dunston.

Notable Old Leightonians include:

• Ronald Allen, Crossroads and Shakespearian actor
• Sir John Adye, Head of GCHQ, Chairman of Country Houses Association; Governor of Dean Close School, Cheltenham
• Maxwell Armfield, Watercolour Artist early to mid 20th Century
• Tony Baldry, Conservative Politician; Former Front Bench Spokesman
• Giles Barber, Librarian, The Taylor Institute, University of Oxford. Musicologist
• Andrew Barker, Chairman Bankers Trust
• Sir John Barlow Bt., Liberal and Conservative politician; Company Chairman
• Quentin Bell, Son of Clive and Vanessa Bell; Writer and Art historian at Sussex University; Lived at Charleston nearby
• Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, World renowned Composer/pianist
• Christopher, 2nd Lord Brain, Peer, Photographic Administrator and Senior member of City Livery Companies
• James Shields, South African football player
• Hon Michael Brain, Professor McMaster University, Canada
• David Buxton, Entomologist and British Council Worker, writer and anthropologist; Son of Roden Buxton, Labour MP. Mother set up Save the Children Fund
• Robert Gillmor, President of wildlife artists; Artist and illustator
• Jim Broadbent, Hollywood Oscar winning Actor
• Basil Bunting, North East born poet
• Peter Cadbury, Television entrepreneur
• Quentin Davies, Labour (was Conservative) politician; Former Banker and Diplomat
• Richard Drabble QC, Government Council; Member of Council of the Bar; Leading QC
• R. H. C. Davis, Mediaeval historian at Birmingham University
• Prys Edwards, Architect, member of Eisteddfod and senior figure in Welsh affairs
• Owen Edwards, Founder Director of Welsh Channel 4
• Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon, Life Peer, former Governor of Cyprus and West Indies and UK's Ambassador to the United Nations
• Robert Gavron, Baron Gavron, Printer and founder of St Ives Printing firm; Owner of Folio Books and active member of the House of Lords
• Michael Foot, Former Labour politician, Party Leader. Also a writer (biographer) and former journalist
• Sir Lawrence Gowing , painter and art historian.
• Martin Griffits, UN Senior Advisor on World Affairs
• Robert Hodgkin, Provost Queen's College, Oxford, Professor of History
• Canon Rodney Hunter, Scholarly priest turned missionary of great integrity who was devoted to Central Africa; Ex Chaplain to Exeter College, Oxford died 2006, Malawi Africa
• Andrew Forge, Painter, Art Critic and Former Dean of Yale School of Art
• Sir Lancelot Fox, Editor of The Lancet
• Robert Fox, Editor Various Scholarly Medical Reviews
• Prince Hassan Aziz Hassan, Egyptian Prince who remained in Cairo after Farouk's fall; Writer and Highly Accomplished pianist and painter
• John Hall, Wartime Fighter Ace and modern day Barrister QC and Head of Chambers
• John Heap, Diplomat, polar scientist and Architect of the Polar Treaties
• Robin Hodgkin, Mountainer, Headmaster of Abbotsholme School and Writer on education
• Tim Horder, Jesus College Oxford, Academic
• John Hoyland, Contemporary artist
• Noah Huntley, Actor
• Paul Huson, Writer and member of Writers Guild of America, west, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Authors Guild of America, and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
• Robin Langdon-Davies, Air Force pilot, Governor of Oxfam (Honorary Treasurer)
• Peter Landon-Davies, Barrister, Head of Chambers. Air Force pilot
• Sir David Lean, Oscar-winning film director, Director of Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge on the River Kwai and Brief Encounter
• David Loewi, Managing Director Conran Restaurants
• Noel Marshall, Diplomat — Ambassador to Europe
• Uday Mehta, MIT teacher — Dept of Political Science
• David McFarland, Balliol College, Oxford — Fellow in Animal Behaviour.
• Avrion Mitchison, Professor at University College London - physiologist
• Nicholas Moore, Poet
• Sir Oscar Morland, Diplomat, Ambassador to Japan after WWII
• Lesslie Newbigin, World respected missionary and theologian who worked for forty years in Southern India
• Nathaniel Parker, Film and television actor
• Justin Pearson, principal 'cellist, National Symphony Orchestra
• Arthur Vercoe Pedlar, Circus clown
• Alexander Penrose, Fellow King's College, Cambridge Deputy Lieutenant Cambridgeshire. Restorer of Country Houses
• Sir Roland Penrose, Surrealist painter and Art Collector; Friend of Picasso, Miro, and most of ther fashionable artists of the day, Penrose set up the Institute of Contemporary Arts in Piccadily, London; An avid collector with his brother, Beacus Penrose, most of Roland's collection now is housed in Tate Modern at Bankside in London
• Matthew Ponsonby, 2nd Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede, Member of House of Lords
• Karel Reisz, film director
• Marshall Sissons, Early to mid British 21st Century Artist
• John Whitney, Company Chairman — Friends Provident and Really Useful Group Plc; Theatre Director and former Managing Director of Capital Radio in 1980s
• Professor Tim Williamson, Wykeham Professor of Logic at Oxford University
• John Wolfers, Famous Literary Agent of 1950s and 1960s based in London's Bedford Square
• Stuart Zender, Musician; Founder member of Jarimoquai (bassist)
• Slynus, aka Linus O'Brien, Musician — Vancouver-based Techno writer and performer
• Laura Marling, a folk-pop singer-songwriter

• Brown, S.W. Leighton Park: A history of the school. (Pub. 1952).
• Leighton Park School, Leighton Park: The first 100 years. (Pub. 1990).
• The Leightonian [school magazine]. (Pub. 1895).
• Old Leightonians Club. A list of names and addresses of the old boys of Leighton Park School. (Pub. 1945, 1957, 1973, 1990).

• List of Friends Schools
• Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference

• School website
• Old Leightonians website
• Old Leightonians Cricket Club website
• ISBI entry

Coordinates: 51°26′15″N, 0°56′51″W