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
• Hannah Berry, comic artist and author
• Grace Blakeley , economics and political journalist
• Callum Cant , author and researcher
• Lucy Coats , author
• Alma Deutscher , composer and conductor
• L. Grace Dibble , teacher and travel writer
• John Gardner, author
• Steve Harris , author
• Macdonald Hastings, journalist and war correspondent
• E O Higgins, author
• Paul Hockings, author, professor of anthropology
• Gwyther Irwin , abstract artist
• John James, architect
• Waldemar Januszczak , art critic and filmmaker
• Sima Kotecha , journalist
• AJ Pearce, author
• C. Bernard Rutley, author
• Christopher Sclater Millard , author
• Tim Shipman , journalist
• Nora Stanton Barney , civil engineer and suffragist
• Robert Steadman, composer and conductor
• Julian Stockwin , author
• Alex Thomson, journalist and newscaster
• Joseph Warton, academic and poet
• Thomas Warton , academic and poet
• Chuck Whelon , comic author and cartoonist

Entertainment

• John Arlott , cricket journalist and commentator
• Sam Attwater , actor
• Carl Barât , musician
• Christian Brassington , actor
• James Bye , actor
• Shelley Conn, actress
• Daisy May Cooper , actress and writer
• Mark Griffin , actor
• Max Harwood, actor
• Steve Hewlett , ventriloquist
• Elizabeth Hurley , actress and model
• Steve Lamacq , DJ
• Tristan Myles, visual effects artist
• Ian McNeice , actor
• Tara Palmer-Tomkinson , socialite and television personality
• Gabriella Slade , musical costume designer
• Lisbee Stainton, musician
• Pete Staples, musician
• Jodie Steele , actress
• Sarah Sutton , actress
• Ramon Tikaram, actor
• Tanita Tikaram, musician
• Gabriella Wilde, actress
• Christine Williams , model
• Xerath, ^[1] metal band
• Bob Young , musician

Sport

• Joel Bagan , footballer
• Sal Bibbo , footballer
• Alex Bogdanovic, tennis player
• Nick Buchanan , cricketer
• Sid Castle , footballer and football manager
• Travis Clayton , NFL player
• Tom Cleverley , international footballer and football manager
• Georgina Corrick, international softball player
• Tom Croft, international rugby union player
• Matt Crossley , footballer
• Harlee Dean , footballer
• Sean Doherty , footballer
• Darren Flint , cricketer
• Dean Francis , boxer
• Leanne Ganney , international ice hockey player
• Joshua Goodall , tennis player
• Robert Heywood , cricketer
• Paul Hogan, darts player
• Dave Holby, endurance athlete
• Simon Humberstone , rugby union player
• Aaron Jarvis , footballer
• Liam Kelly, footballer
• Mark Kelly , international footballer
• Matt King , cricketer
• Olly Lancashire , footballer
• Joe McDonnell , footballer
• Mike McMeeken , international rugby league player
• Colin Monk, darts player
• Lee Nurse , cricketer
• Josh Payne , footballer
• Tom Rees, international rugby union player
• Kurt Reynolds , ice hockey player
• Justin Rose, golfer
• Lee Sandford , footballer
• Will Smallbone , international footballer
• Kathy Smallwood-Cook, Olympic sprinter
• Dominic Solanke, international footballer
• Mitchell Stokes , cricketer
• Kit Symons , international footballer and football manager
• Robert Tobin, Olympic athlete
• Shaun Udal, international cricketer
• Rowan Vine , footballer
• Jock Wallace Jr., footballer and football manager
• Thomas White , cricketer
• Chris Wood , cricketer
• Ross Wood , cricket umpire
• Ben Wright , footballer

Other

• Arron Fraser Andrew Banks, businessman and political donor
• Alice Blunden , premature burial subject
• Hubert Broad, noted test pilot
• Laurie Brown , former Bishop of Birmingham
• Thomas Burberry, founder of Burberry clothing business
• Charles Butler, beekeeper, logician and grammarian
• David Chidgey, Baron Chidgey , politician
• H. E. J. Cowdrey , historian
• William Dicey , newspaper proprietor
• John Freeman Dunn , politician
• Ruth Ellis, last woman to be hanged in Great Britain
• Joseph Storrs Fry, founder of Fry's chocolate company
• Rebecca George , President of British Computer Society
• Andrew Holding , scientific researcher
• George Cecil Jones, chemist and occultist
• Hilary Jones, celebrity doctor
• James Ketchell, adventurer
• Sir James Lancaster , privateer and trader
• John Aidan Liddell, Victoria Cross recipient
• Cecil Lowther, politician
• Charles Massey , psychical researcher
• Walter de Merton, founder of Merton College, Oxford
• William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester, Statesman
• David Pawson, Baptist minister and author
• William Plowden, politician
• William Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys of the Vyne, Tudor diplomat and Lord Chamberlain
• Sarah, Duchess of York, former wife of The Duke of York
• L.E. Timberlake , American politician
• Lady Anne Wallop, aristocrat
• Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

References

1. Rivadavia, Eduardo. "II review". Allmusic . Rovi Corporation . Retrieved 17 October 2011.