Cardiff High School is a comprehensive school in the Cyncoed area of the city of Cardiff in South Wales. A Comprehensive school is a type of school providing secondary level education in England or Wales. ... Cyncoed is a district of the city of Cardiff, Wales. ... Cardiff (English:  Welsh: ) is the capital of Wales and its largest city. ... This article is about the country. ...

In the early and mid twentieth century, the school was a selective grammar school with separate establishments for boys and for girls situated to the east of Cardiff city centre. Grammar school can refer to various types of schools in different English-speaking countries. ...

Famous former pupils include the physicist Brian Josephson, popular writer Craig Thomas, politician Tom Horabin and newsreaders John Humphrys and Jeremy Bowen. Brian David Josephson (born Cardiff, Wales, UK, January 4, 1940) is a British physicist whose discovery of the Josephson effect as a 22-year-old graduate student won him the 1973 Nobel Prize for Physics, which he shared with Leo Esaki and Ivar Giaever. ... for other people of the same / or similar name Craig Thomas Craig David Thomas (born 24 November 1942) is a Welsh author of thrillers, notably the Mitchell Gant series. ... Thomas Lewis Horabin was MP for Cornwall North from 1939-50 Following the death of Liberal MP, Sir Francis Acland, Horabin was selected by Cornwall North Liberals to defend the marginal seat at the following by-election. ... John Humphrys John Humphrys (born 17 August 1943) is a British radio and television presenter. ...