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, born in Winchcombe

• Johnny Coppin, folk musician and composer, lives in the county

• 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

• 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

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• 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

• 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, born in Cirencester

• Jimmy Young, singer and radio DJ, born in Cinderford