Notable Students and Staff
See also: Category:People educated at Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar School- Lt Gen Dick Applegate OBE, Quartermaster-General to the Forces
- Peter Birks, Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford from 1989–2004
- Quentin Blake, illustrator, attended Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar School and opened up the Quentin Blake Building, the new Art and Technology block in 2007.
- Air Vice-Marshal Michael Donaldson MBE, Station Commander of RAF Wattisham from 1987-9, and Principal of Yorkshire Coast College from 1996–2003
- Paul Durrington FMedSci, Professor of Medicineat the University of Manchester 1995-present
- Air Vice-Marshal John Ernsting CB OBE.
- Morris Gleitzman, writer of popular stories for young people, attended the school from 1964 till his family emigrated to Australia in 1969.
- Will Hutton, economics writer and columnist
- Peter Longworth CMG, High Commissioner to Zimbabwe from 1998–2001
- Julian Spalding, art critic, curator and broadcaster
- Nigel Williamson, former Times journalist
- Karl Glazebrook, astronomer
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