The King Alfred School is a co-educational independent day school in Golders Green in North West London. It was founded in London in 1898 by Charles E. Rice, a former teacher at Bedales School . The school was considered "radical" for its era, as it provided a secular education in a co-educational setting.
Notable former pupils
Ian Aitken, journalist and political commentator
Pegaret Anthony, artist and lecturer
Nora Beloff, journalist
Richard Clements, journalist and political adviser
Nina Conti, actress, ventriloquist and comedian
A. G. Cook, musician and founder of the web label PC Music
Richard Gregory, experimental psychologist
J. B. Gunn, physicist
Dylan Howe, musician and composer
Lucy Jones, artist
Alexis Korner, pop musician
Paul Kossoff, pop musician
Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, geometer
Danny Kustow, pop musician
Chloe Madeley, television host, journalist and ice skater
Juliet Mitchell, psychologist
Heydon Prowse, actor and activist
Gaby Roslin, television presenter
Jolyon Rubinstein, actor and activist
Raphael Samuel, historian
Peggy van Praagh, ballet dancer, teacher and director
Zoë Wanamaker, actor
Bonnie Wright, actress
Emily Young, sculptor
Jonathan Rietti, rabbi
and several alumni associated with the Hyperpop musical genre, including PC Music founder A. G. Cook, songwriter Finn Keane, singer GFOTY and producer/composer Danny L Harle.