List of people from St Albans

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A list of people from St Albans, Hertfordshire, England.

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Nicholas Bacon (1510–1579)
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Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
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William, Earl Cowper (1665–1723)
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Thomas S. Wells (1818–1897)
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Stephen Hawking (1942–2018)
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Alan Smith (b.  1957)
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Peter Mensah (b.  1959)
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Nigel Marven (b.  1960)
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Helen Wyman (b.  1980)

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