List of people from Basingstoke

This is a list of notable people who were born in or near, or have been residents of the Basingstoke, Hampshire, England.

Bold text denotes a person who was born in Basingstoke.

Arts and humanities

• Jane Austen, author (born and wrote many of her major works in nearby Steventon)
• Grace Blakeley , economics and political journalist and commentator
• Lucy Coats , author
• Alma Deutscher , British composer, pianist, violinist and conductor.
• John Gardner, spy novelist
• Macdonald Hastings, journalist and war correspondent
• E O Higgins, author
• John James, architect
• Waldemar Januszczak , art critic and filmmaker
• Sima Kotecha , journalist
• Robert Steadman, composer and conductor
• Julian Stockwin , author
• Alex Thomson, presenter and chief correspondent for Channel 4 News
• Joseph Warton, academic, literary critic and poet
• Thomas Warton , academic and poet, Poet Laureate 1785–1790
• Chuck Whelon , creator, artist and co-writer of the Pewfell comic strip

Entertainment

• Daisy May Cooper , actress and writer
• John Arlott , cricket journalist, writer and commentator
• Sam Attwater , actor
• Carl Barât , lead singer and guitarist with The Libertines and Dirty Pretty Things
• Christian Brassington , actor
• Shelley Conn, actress
• Mark Griffin , actor, played Action Man in the Action Man films and Trojan in the TV series Gladiators
• Max Harwood, actor
• Elizabeth Hurley , actress and model
• Steve Lamacq , DJ
• Ian McNeice , actor
• Tara Palmer-Tomkinson , socialite, "it girl", television presenter, model and charity patron
• Pete Staples, bassist for the 1960s supergroup The Troggs
• Sarah Sutton , actress and former Doctor Who companion
• Ramon Tikaram, actor
• Tanita Tikaram, singer-songwriter
• Gabriella Wilde, actress
• Christine Williams , former Playboy centerfold

Sport

• Dominic Solanke, professional footballer for Bournemouth FC
• Joel Bagan , professional footballer for Cardiff City
• Sal Bibbo , former professional footballer for Reading
• Alex Bogdanovic, tennis player
• Sid Castle , former professional footballer for Tottenham Hotspur, Charlton Athletic and Chelsea, and former manager of Ajax
• Tom Cleverley , professional footballer for Watford
• Georgina Corrick, professional softball player
• Tom Croft, flanker/second row for the England national rugby union team and Leicester Tigers
• Matt Crossley , former professional footballer for Wycombe Wanderers
• Harlee Dean , professional footballer for Birmingham City
• Sean Doherty , former professional footballer for clubs including Blackpool and Port Vale
• Darren Flint , Hampshire cricketer
• Dean Francis , professional boxer
• Leanne Ganney , ice hockey player and captain of the Great Britain women's national ice hockey team
• Joshua Goodall , tennis player
• Paul Hogan , darts player
• Dave Holby , endurance athlete, holder of nine world indoor rowing records
• Aaron Jarvis , professional footballer for Scunthorpe United F.C.
• Liam Kelly, professional footballer for Feyenoord, currently on loan at Oxford United F.C.
• Mark Kelly , former professional footballer for Portsmouth and Republic of Ireland
• Olly Lancashire , professional footballer for Swindon Town
• Joe McDonnell , professional footballer for Eastleigh F.C.
• Mike McMeeken English rugby league footballer
• Lee Nurse , former Berkshire cricketer
• Josh Payne , professional footballer for Ebbsfleet United F.C.
• Tom Rees, English rugby union footballer for England and the London Wasps
• Justin Rose, golfer who grew up in the area
• Lee Sandford , former professional footballer for clubs including Portsmouth, Stoke City and Sheffield United
• Will Smallbone , professional footballer for Southampton F.C.
• Kathy Smallwood-Cook, bronze medal-winning Olympic sprinter
• Dominic Solanke, professional footballer for AFC Bournemouth
• Mitchell Stokes , Hampshire cricketer
• Kit Symons , football coach and former player
• Robert Tobin, athlete and sprinter
• Shaun Udal, former England test cricketer
• Rowan Vine , former professional footballer for clubs including Portsmouth, Birmingham City and Queens Park Rangers
• Jock Wallace Jr., former professional footballer and manager who spent the last part of his life living in the town
• Thomas White , Sussex cricketer

Other

• Arron Fraser Andrew Banks, British businessman and political donor
• Hubert Broad, test pilot for the de Havilland and Hawker aircraft companies
• Laurie Brown , former Bishop of Birmingham
• Thomas Burberry, founder of the Burberry clothing empire
• Charls Butler, writer, grammarian, theologist, naturalist, musical theorist
• Ruth Ellis, last woman to be hanged in Great Britain
• Joseph Storrs Fry, founder of Fry's chocolate company
• George Cecil Jones, chemist and occultist
• Hilary Jones, celebrity doctor
• Sir James Lancaster , 16th-century navigator and statesman
• John Aidan Liddell, First World War pilot, Victoria Cross recipient
• Walter de Merton, Bishop of Rochester and founder of Merton College, Oxford
• William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester, Statesman
• David Pawson, Baptist minister, Bible teacher and author
• William Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys of the Vyne, Tudor diplomat and Lord Chamberlain
• Sarah, Duchess of York and former wife of The Duke of York, raised in nearby Dummer
• L.E. Timberlake , Los Angeles City Council member, 1949–69
• Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, and his successors (from 1817).