Django print sqlite db data in template

I'm new to django and I'm having a little difficulty getting my database data to print onto my page. I'd appreciate help - and I know I'm doing something silly but I've kinda hit the wall.

I have the DB set up and I can access the data in it without any issues:

python manage.py shell

>>> from homepage.models import User, Oncall
>>> user_data = User.objects.all()
>>> names = []
>>> for x in user_data:
...  names.append(x.first_name + ' ' + x.last_name)
>>> names
[u'Arthur Mencke', u'John Doe']

So then in my views.py I have:

from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.shortcuts import render, get_object_or_404, render_to_response
from django.utils import timezone
import datetime
from homepage.models import User, Oncall
from django.template import RequestContext, loader
from django.template import Template, Context
from django.template.defaulttags import register

def index(request):
        now = timezone.now()
        users = User.objects.all()
        return render(request, 'homepage/index.html')

def getUsers(request):
        users = User.objects.all()
        name_list = []
        for x in users:
                name_list.append(x.first_name + ' ' + x.last_name)
        return name_list

And in my index.html file:

{% if name_list %}
        {% for x in name_list %}
                {{ name_list.x }}
        {% endfor %}
{% else %}
        <b>no users</b>
{% endif %}

{{name_list|length}}

This will always show up in the browser with:

no users 0

I've also tried name_list[x] and mucked around with it quite a bit with no luck

Any ideas?

Cheers, Arthur