People educated at Wolstanton Grammar School

Lieutenant-General Sir Derek Boorman (30 September 1930 – 25 April 2025) was a senior British Army officer.

Christopher Paul Farrelly (born 2 March 1962) is a British Labour Party politician, corporate banker and financial journalist, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Newcastle-under-Lyme from 2001 to 2019.

Professor Brian Scarlett FREng (11 July 1938–2 September 2004) was a British academic noted for his contributions to particle technology

Bernard Fernyhough (2 September 1932) was an Anglican priest. He was the Archdeacon of Oakham from 1977 to 1999.

Nicholas H. "Nick" Foskett is Vice-Chancellor at Keele University in Staffordshire (August 2010- ). He was formerly a Professor of Education at the University of Southampton and Dean of the Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences.

Robert Clifford Latham, (b Audley, Staffordshire, England, (11 March 1912 - 4 January 1995), aged 82, Cambridge) CBE (1973), MA, FBA (1982) was Fellow and Pepys Librarian of Magdalene College, Cambridge and joint author of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1970-83.

Neil William Burnett (born 16 December 1961) is an English-born Scottish former cricketer.

Reginald Moss (5 December 1913 – 28 May 1995) was a British schoolteacher and Labour politician. After fighting an energetic campaign in Hemel Hempstead in the 1950 general election, he was elected as the first Member of Parliament for Meriden in 1955. As a backbencher he had a low profile but managed some achievements in House of Commons committees. Moss lost the highly marginal constituency after a single term and was forced to return to his previous career. He died many years later in obscurity.

The Orme Academy, previously known as Wolstanton High School and Wolstanton County Grammar School, is a high school in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire.