List of people from Gloucestershire

A list of notable people from the county of Gloucestershire:

• Sean Arnold, actor
• Sir Robert Atkyns, baron of the Exchequer
• Sir Robert Atkyns, author of a history of Gloucestershire
• Thomas Aufield, Roman Catholic martyr
• Charles Bannister, actor and singer
• Steve Banyard, football commentator, lives in the Cotswolds
• Wayne Barnes, international rugby union referee
• John Bayliss, poet
• Joseph Bennett, music critic and librettist, born in Berkeley
• Siân Berry, politician and Green Party member
• John Biddle, Unitarian
• Hubert Cecil Booth, engineer and inventor, founder of Goblin Vacuum Cleaners
• Lorraine Bowen, singer and songwriter
• Matthew Boyce, cricketer
• Herbert Brewer, organist and composer, Gloucester Cathedral
• Edwin Beard Budding, inventor of the lawnmower
• John Canton, physicist
• Cornelius Cardew, composer, ^[1] born in Winchcombe
• Johnny Coppin, folk musician and composer, lives in the county ^[2]
• Ernest Cossart, Hollywood actor; brother of Gustav Holst
• P. J. Crook, artist, born and lives near Cheltenham
• William Davis, miner, shot dead by police during a miners' demonstration in Canada and commemorated by Davis Day
• Ian Dench, musician and songwriter
• Sir George Dowty, founder of Dowty Rotol
• David Drew, MP for Stroud
• Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards, born in Cheltenham
• Air Chief Marshal Sir Basil Embry
• Sir Martin Evans, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Mabel FitzRobert of Gloucester, heiress and wife of Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester
• Winifred Foley, writer, best known for her autobiography A Child in the Forest
• Richard Freeman, judge
• Gabrielle Glaister, actress
• W. G. Grace, cricketer
• Christopher Gunning, composer
• Ivor Gurney, composer and poet ^[3]
• Button Gwinnett, second of the signatories (first signature on the left) on the United States Declaration of Independence
• Sir Frederick Handley Page, aircraft designer, best known for WW2 aircraft, including the Halifax bomber
• Robert Hardy, actor
• Ricci Harnett, actor
• Sir Arthur Harris, head of RAF Bomber Command during WWII
• William Ernest Henley, poet, author of Invictus
• William Stephen Raikes Hodson, soldier and commander of Hodson's Horse during the Indian Mutiny
• Gustav Holst, composer, born in Cheltenham
• Imogen Holst, composer and conductor
• Lionelle Howard, silent era film actor, born in Cirencester
• Herbert Howells, composer
• Wilfrid Hyde-White, actor, born in Bourton-on-the-Water
• Edward Jenner, discovered vaccination, initially against smallpox, lived in Berkeley
• Brian Jones, ex-guitarist of the Rolling Stones
• Alex Kapranos, lead singer and guitarist for the band Franz Ferdinand
• Martin Kent ("Ace"), guitarist and vocals with Skunk Anansie, born in Cheltenham
• H. D. F. Kitto, classical scholar
• Laurie Lee, poet and author of Cider with Rosie and other autobiographical works
• Jackie Lewis, motor racing driver
• Thomas Linley the elder, composer
• David Loder, racehorse trainer
• Emma McClarkin, politician
• Joe Meek, 1960s pop record producer and pioneer, born in Newent
• Christopher Merret, physician and scientist
• Henry Miles, dissenting minister and writer on science
• Royce Mills, actor
• Ben Morgan, Gloucester and England Rugby player
• William Moseley, actor best known for Peter in The Chronicles of Narnia
• Richard O'Brien, of the Rocky Horror Show
• J. I. Packer, theologian
• Simon Pegg, actor and comedian
• Emily Pidgeon, athlete
• Dennis Potter, dramatist
• Cozy Powell, rock drummer, born in Cirencester
• Michael Praed, actor
• Zac Purchase, Olympic gold medallist
• Robert Raikes, founder of the Sunday School movement
• Scott Redding, British Superbike Champion 2019
• William Reynolds, footballer
• Frederick C. Roberts, cricketer
• Jeremy Dale Roberts, composer
• J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books
• Samuel Rudder, topographer, printer and antiquarian, born in Uley
• Robert Charles "Jack" Russell, former Gloucestershire and England cricketer, now an artist
• Frederick Sanger, double winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, born in Rendcomb
• John Stafford Smith, composer of the tune "The Star-Spangled Banner"
• Jonathan Smith, novelist
• Tom Smith, lead singer of the rock band Editors
• Nathan Sykes, former member of The Wanted
• Bert Tayler, cricketer
• John Taylor, the "Water Poet"
• Kate Thornton, TV presenter born in Cheltenham
• Keith Tippett, pianist and improviser
• Edith Tolkien, née Bratt, wife of J. R. R. Tolkien
• FKA Twigs, singer, producer
• William Tyndale, Bible translator
• Thomas Twining, tea merchant, born in Painswick
• Abel Wantner (c. 1639–1714) Historian ^[4]
• Christopher Warren-Green, violinist and conductor
• Oliver Weeks, composer and arranger
• Fred West, one of Britain's most notorious serial killers
• Sir Charles Wheatstone, physicist
• George Whitefield, preacher
• Richard Whittington, four times Lord Mayor of London, and inspiration for the pantomime character Dick Whittington
• Ralph Vaughan Williams, composer, born in Down Ampney
• Edward Adrian Wilson, Antarctic explorer
• James (Jemmy) Wood, banker
• James Wood-Mason, zoologist
• John Woolrich, composer, ^[5] born in Cirencester
• Jimmy Young, singer and radio DJ, born in Cinderford

See also

• List of freemen of the City of Gloucester
• Category:People from Gloucestershire

References

1. "Cornelius Cardew (biography, works, resources)" (in French and English). IRCAM.
2. "Official Homepage". Johnny Coppin. Retrieved 8 May 2010.
3. "Ivor Gurney biography". Archived from the original on 6 March 2015. Retrieved 13 November 2014.
4. Gray, Irvine. (1981) Antiquaries of Gloucestershire and Bristol. Bristol: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. pp. 45–46. ISBN   0900197145
5. "John Woolrich | Faber Music".