Actor and lead singer with the band Years & Years. Olly Alexander A former Monmouthshire Comprehensive School student, studied AS French at Hereford Sixth Form College during 2006/07. Olly first appeared in the BBC television drama Summerhill in 2008 followed by many and varied television and film roles including Le Week-end released in 2013, the 2014 film God Help the Girl and the 2015 film Funny Bunny. The band Years & Years formed in 2010 with their single King making it to number one in March 2015. Their debut album, Communion, also made number one in the UK Album Chart in July 2015. Olly has become a great ambassador for the LGBT community and recently added his backing to the Stonewall anti-bullying campaign.

Ben Jones, a former Aylestone School pupil, studied A Levels in Chemistry, Computing, Further Mathematics, General Studies and Physics. After leaving Hereford Sixth Form College, Ben took up a place at the University of Cambridge, where he gained a First Class degree in Natural Sciences. Since then, he has worked, for a year, on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN and then went to Massachusetts Institute of Technology to get a PhD in High Energy Physics. Ben's Doctoral research focussed on the Physics of Neutrinos, both in particle accelerator experiments at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) and using the IceCube Neutrino Telescope at the South Pole. Now he is a Professor of Physics at the University of Texas at Arlington. Ben recently received the Mitsuyoshi Tanaka Dissertation Award in Experimental Particle Physics for his thesis research.

Ellie Goulding was signed to Polydor Records and released her first album in 2009. In 2010, she won the Critics Choice Award at the BRIT Awards and in the same year her next album Lights reached Number 1 in the UK Charts. Ellie's version of Elton John's Your Song (with some footage from her own video shot in Herefordshire) made her a household name after it featured on the John Lewis Chistmas advert that year. Ellie was invited to sing at the Royal Wedding in April 2011. She has made many TV appearances during her career including performing and being interviewed on Alan Carr's Chatty Man to appearing as a model in an advert for Marks & Spencer. Ellie's a regular headliner at festivals and performed an outstanding set at Glastonbury in 2014 and among many other accolades, she received the award for Best British Female at the 2014 BRIT Awards. Ellie' s career continues to grow in Europe and America and I'm sure there's plenty more to come from our Herefordshire starlet.