Shrewsbury School is an English co-educational independent school for pupils aged 13 to 18 in Shrewsbury, founded by Royal Charter in 1552. The present campus, to which the school moved in 1882, is on the banks of the River Severn.

The school's famous old boys include naturalist Charles Darwin; poet Sir Philip Sidney;  Astronomer Royal Martin Rees; broadcaster John Peel and comedian and writer Michael Palin.