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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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