Heads of schools in Yorkshire

James Kyle Dall was the first headmaster of Elmfield College, Heworth, York (Booth 1990:29). Born at Preston in Lancashire, the son of John Dall, he entered Trinity College, Dublin in October 1845 at the age of 21, and graduated BA in 1850. He had been a schoolmaster in Leeds before moving to Elmfield, where he worked closely with John Petty, its first Governor.

Jane Procter (2 November 1810 – 5 January 1882) was a British headmistress, suffragist and temperance campaigner. She founded what would become the Quaker Polam Hall School in Darlington.

Charles Hoole (1610–1667) was an English cleric and educational writer. He produced a visually-improved English translation of the Orbis Pictus of Comenius, a year after its original publication in 1658.

Gertrude Maretta Paul (6 September 1934 –7 January 1992) was a teacher and advocate for the British Caribbean community in Yorkshire. She was the first black teacher in Leeds, and the city's first black headteacher. She was one of the founders of the Leeds West Indian Carnival, one of the longest running West Indian carnivals in Europe. She was a co-founder and President of the United Caribbean Association in Leeds, and also served on the Commission for Racial Equality.

Doctor John Robinson Airey, BSc, BA, (1868–1937) was a British schoolteacher, mathematician and astrophysicist.

Bernard Cecil Gadney (16 July 1909 – 15 November 2000) was an English rugby union footballer who played as a scrum-half for Leicester Tigers, England and the British Lions. Gadney won 14 England caps between 1932 and 1938 and was captain on eight occasions.

Arthur Jewitt (1772–1852) was an English topographer.

Arthur Willoughby Barton (14 September 1899 – 24 August 1976) was a noted headmaster, academic author and top-class football referee. He was educated at Nottingham High School and then Trinity College, Cambridge, after military service with the Royal Engineers. His father was Professor Edwin H Barton, FRS, Professor of Physics, University College, Nottingham.

Richmal Mangnall (1769–1820) was an English schoolmistress and writer of a famous schoolbook, Mangnall's Questions. This had gone through 84 editions by 1857. She remained the headmistress of a successful Yorkshire school until her death.

Joseph Milner (1744–1797), an English evangelical divine, has a reputation particularly for his work on The History of the Church of Christ (1794–1809).