This is a list of the founders of English schools, colleges, and universities.
Oxford Colleges
Colleges of the University of Oxford were founded by:
Cambridge Colleges
Colleges of the University of Cambridge were founded by:
English schools
English schools were founded by:
| Founder | College | Year of foundation | 
| St Augustine | The King's School, Canterbury | 597 AD | 
| St Justus | The King's School, Rochester | 604 AD | 
| St Paulinus | St Peter's School, York | 627 AD | 
| Herbert de Losinga | Norwich School | 1096 | 
| Walkelin de Derby | Derby School | c. 1165 | 
| Isabella of France | Bablake School | 1344 | 
| William of Wykeham | Winchester College | 1382 | 
| Katherine, Lady Berkeley | Katharine Lady Berkeley's School | 1384 | 
| Henry VI of England | Eton College | 1440 | 
| Joan Greyndour | Newland Grammar School | c. 1445 | 
| John Colet | St Paul's School | 1509 | 
| Hugh Oldham | Manchester Grammar School | 1515 | 
| Thomas Horsley | Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne | 1525 | 
| William Radcliffe | Stamford School | 1532 | 
| John Incent | Berkhamsted Collegiate School | 1541 | 
| King Henry VIII | Durham School 
 The King's School, CanterburyKing's Ely
 The King's School, Chester
 The King's School, Gloucester
 The King's School, Peterborough
 The King's School, Rochester
 The King's School, Worcester
 | 1541 (refounded) 
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| William Dauntesey | Dauntsey's School | 1542 | 
| King Edward VI | Sherborne School King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford
 King Edward VI Grammar School, Louth
 Shrewsbury School
 King Edward's School, Bath
 King Edward's School, Birmingham
 Christ's Hospital
 
 | 1550 1551
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| King Edward VI and Nicholas Ridley
 | King Edward's School, Witley | 1553 | 
| William Harpur | Bedford School | refounded 1552 | 
| Sir John Gresham | Gresham's School | 1555 | 
| Sir William Laxton | Oundle School | 1556 | 
| Queen Elizabeth I | Westminster School | 1560 (refounded) | 
| Lawrence Sheriff | Rugby School | 1562 | 
| Sir Roger Cholmeley | Highgate School | 1565 | 
| Robert Harvard (Father of John Harvard - founder of Harvard University)
 One of four founders
 | St. Olave's and St. Saviour's Grammar School | 1571 | 
| John Lyon | Harrow School | 1572 | 
| Thomas Aldersey | Aldersey Grammar School | 1575 | 
| William Lambe | Sutton Valence School | 1576 | 
| Edmund Grindal | St Bees School | 1583 | 
| John Whitgift | Whitgift School | 1596 | 
| Sir Thomas Gresham | Gresham College | 1597 | 
| Richard Platt | Aldenham School | 1597 | 
| Henry Lee of Ditchley | Aylesbury Grammar School | 1598 | 
| Peter Blundell | Blundell's School | 1604 | 
| Thomas Sutton | Charterhouse School | 1611 | 
| Stephen Perse | The Perse School | 1615 | 
| Edward Alleyn | Dulwich College | 1619 | 
| Robert Chaloner | Dr Challoner's Grammar School | 1624 | 
| William Glegg | Calday Grange Grammar School | 1636 | 
| Robert Aske | Haberdashers' Aske's School | 1690 | 
| William Palmer | Palmer's School | 1706 | 
| Thomas Thynne, 1st Viscount Weymouth | Lord Weymouth's School now Warminster School | 1707 | 
| John Wesley | Kingswood School | 1748 | 
| Moses Benson | St. James's School, Liverpool | 1802 | 
| Andrew Reed | London Asylum for Orphans (later Reed's School)
 | 1813 | 
| William Sewell | Radley College | 1847 | 
| Nathaniel Woodard | Lancing College, 1848 Hurstpierpoint College, 1849
 Ardingly College, 1858
 Denstone College, 1868
 Abbots Bromley School for Girls, 1874
 King's College (Taunton), 1880
 Ellesmere College, 1884
 Worksop College, 1890
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| Queen Victoria | Wellington College | 1853 | 
| John Percival | Clifton College | 1862 | 
| Francis Pocock | Monkton Combe School | 1868 | 
| Frederick Savage | Seaford College | 1884 | 
| John Haden Badley | Bedales School | 1893 | 
| Olive Willis | Downe House | 1907 | 
| Alexander Nikitich | Carfax College | 2008 | 
English schools and colleges outside England
See also
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