List of people from Dover

Dover is a town and seaport in Kent, England. The following is a list of those people who were born and/or have lived extensively in Dover.


 * Frederick Arnold (1899–1980), cricketer and British Army officer
 * James Barber (1923–2007), cookbook author and host of CBC's The Urban Peasant
 * Tammy Beaumont (born 1991), England cricketer
 * Charlotte Bellamy (born 1973), TV actress
 * Edward Betts (1815–1872), civil engineer and contractor
 * Bob Bolder: Footballer.
 * Alan Clayson (born 1951), musician
 * Charlie Connelly (born 1970), journalist and nonfiction writer
 * Wayne Couzens (born 1972), police officer, Sarah Everard's killer.
 * Sir Alfred Dyer (1865–1947), journalist, chief executive, and Conservative Party politician
 * Colin Greenland (born 1954), novelist
 * David Elleray (born 1954), FA football referee
 * Wally Hammond (1903–1965), cricketer
 * Topper Headon (born 1955), drummer
 * Rob Henderson (born 1972), rugby union player
 * White Kennett (1660–1728), Anglican Bishop of Peterborough and antiquarian
 * Jim Leverton (born 1946), rock musician
 * John Lloyd (born 1951), comedy writer and TV producer
 * Rhys Lloyd (born 1982), American football player
 * E. J. Lowe (1950–2014), philosopher and academic
 * Miriam Margolyes (born 1941), actress (Professor Sprout in Harry Potter and The Spanish Infanta in Blackadder)
 * Sammy Moore (born 1987), football player
 * Howard Mowll (1890–1958), Anglican Archbishop of Sydney and Primate of Australia
 * Andrea Newman (1938–2019), author and television screenwriter
 * Cuthbert Ottaway (1850–1879), first captain of the England football team
 * Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth (1757–1833), naval commander
 * Frank Rutley (1842–1904), geologist
 * Patrick Saul (1913–1999), sound archivist
 * Henry Hawley Smart (1833–1893), army officer and prolific novelist
 * Joss Stone (born 1987), soul and R and B singer/songwriter, and occasional actress
 * Neil Stuke (born 1966), actor
 * John Russell Taylor (born 1935), critic and author
 * Carl Thompson (1981/2–2015), heaviest man in the United Kingdom
 * Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690–1764), politician and Lord Chancellor
 * Shane Taylor (born 1974), actor