List of people from Kent

This is a list of notable residents of the county of Kent in England who have a Wikipedia page. Persons are grouped by occupation and listed in order of birth. Kent is defined by its current boundaries.

Academics, engineers and scientists

 * Charles Culmer (c. 1300s) – supposedly built the fishermen's stairs which Broadstairs is named after
 * William Caxton (c. 1420 – c. 1492) – first person to introduce a printing press into England
 * Richard Knolles (c. 1545–1610) – Ottoman Empire historian
 * Richard Baker (1568–1645) – historian
 * Robert Fludd (1574–1637) – physicist and astrologer
 * John Tradescant the elder (c. 1575–1638) – gardener and botanist
 * John Tradescant the Younger (1608–1662) – gardener and botanist
 * William Harvey (1578–1657) – anatomist
 * John Wallis (1616–1703) – mathematician given partial credit for the development of modern calculus
 * Robert Plot (1640–1696) – naturalist and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford
 * Stephen Gray (1666–1736) – physicist and astronomer
 * Thomas Steers (1672–1750) – civil engineer and canal builder
 * Stephen Hales (1677–1761) – physiologist and chemist
 * George Sale (1697–1736) – Islamic studies scholar
 * Thomas Bayes (c. 1702–1761) – mathematician and formulator of Bayes' theorem
 * Edward Jacob – antiquary and naturalist
 * Edward Nairne (1726–1806) – scientific instrument maker
 * James Six (1731–1793) – meteorologist and inventor of the maximum minimum thermometer
 * Catharine Macaulay (1731–1791) – historian
 * Edward Hasted (1732–1812) – Kent historian
 * Lionel Lukin (1742–1834) – possible inventor of the lifeboat
 * William Congreve (1772–1828) – inventor and rocket pioneer
 * Thomas Frederick Colby (1784–1852) – director of the Ordnance Survey
 * Richard Jones (1790–1855) – economist
 * Joshua Trimmer (1795–1857) – geologist
 * John Stevens Henslow (1796–1861) – botanist and geologist
 * Anna Atkins (1799–1871) – botanical photographer
 * George Finlay (1799–1875) – Greek historian
 * George Newport (1803–1854) – entomologist
 * Robert Main (1808–1878) – astronomer
 * Edmund Law Lushington (1811–1893) – Greek scholar and Rector of Glasgow University
 * Joseph Prestwich (1812–1896) – geologist
 * Edward Betts (1815–1872) – railway civil engineering contractor
 * Thomas Russell Crampton (1816–1888) – engineer and designer of the Crampton locomotive
 * Charles Kettle (1821–1862) – New Zealand town planner
 * Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister (1827–1912) – surgeon and President of the Royal Society
 * Nathaniel Barnaby (1829–1915) – Chief Constructor of the Royal Navy
 * Edward James Reed (1830–1906) – Chief Constructor of the Royal Navy
 * John Hulke (1830–1895) – surgeon and geologist
 * Alexander Henry Green (1832–1896) – geologist
 * Fleeming Jenkin (1833–1885) – Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh
 * Robinson Ellis (1834–1913) – Professor of Latin at Trinity College, Oxford
 * James Holden (1837–1925) – locomotive engineer
 * Frank Rutley (1842–1904) – geologist and petrographer
 * William Robert Brooks (1844–1922) – American astronomer
 * Henry George Smith (1852–1924) – chemist
 * James Fletcher (1852–1908) – Canadian entomologist, botanist and writer
 * Aubyn Trevor-Battye (1855–1922) – zoologist and writer
 * Henry Watson Fowler (1858–1933) – lexicographer
 * Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) – mathematician and philosopher
 * Herbert Baker (1862–1946) – South Africa architect
 * Baillie Scott (1865–1945) – architect
 * Patrick Young Alexander (1867–1943) – aeronautical pioneer
 * Frank Finn (1868–1932) – ornithologist
 * Reginald Punnett (1875–1967) – geneticist and creator of the Punnett square
 * William Sealy Gosset (1876–1937) – chemist and statistician
 * Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962) – novelist, traveller and gardener
 * Henry Tizard (1885–1959) – chemist and inventor
 * John Edensor Littlewood (1885–1977) – mathematician
 * Verena Holmes (1889–1964) – mechanical engineer and multi-field inventor
 * Arthur Waley (1889–1966) – orientalist and sinologist
 * Reg Balch (1894–1994) – ecologist and photographer
 * A. J. Arkell (1898–1980) – North African scholar
 * Stanley Hooker (1907–1984) – jet engine engineer
 * Simone Weil (1909–1943) – French philosopher and mystic
 * Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching (1913–1985) – engineer and chairman of British Railways
 * Maurice Lister (1914–2003) – chemist
 * Sheila Sherlock (1918–2001) – physician and hepatologist
 * George E. P. Box (1918–2001) – statistician
 * John Aspinall (1926–2000) – zoo owner
 * Peter Hemingway (1929–1995) – architect
 * David Harvey (born 1935) – Professor of Anthropology at the City University of New York
 * Michael Pearson (1936–2017) – expert on clocks and clock-making
 * David L. Clarke (1937–1976) – archaeologist noted for his work on processual archaeology
 * Diarmaid MacCulloch (born 1951) – Professor of 'the History of the Church' at the University of Oxford
 * Daniel Tammet (born 1979) – autistic savant and record pi reciter
 * Sonia Chadwick Hawkes (1933–1999) – archaeologist specialising in the early Middle Ages

Actors

 * Thomas Robson Brownhill (1821–1864) – theatre actor and comedian
 * Ellen Ternan (1839–1914) – actress and mistress of Charles Dickens
 * Francis Robert Benson (1858–1939) – actor and theatre manager
 * Lilian Braithwaite (1873–1948) – actress and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
 * Sydney Greenstreet (1875–1954) – actor in films such as Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon
 * Philip Hewland (1876–1953) – stage and film actor
 * Victor McLaglen (1886–1956) – 1935 Academy Award winner for Best Actor
 * Ballard Berkeley (1904–1988) – actor noted for his role as Major Gowen in TV's Fawlty Towers
 * Margot Grahame (1911–1982) – actress in films such as The Informer and The Crimson Pirate
 * Harry Andrews (1911–1989) – actor in films such as Superman and Watership Down
 * Trevor Howard (1913–1988) – Academy Award nominated film actor
 * Peter Cushing (1913–1994) – film actor of the Hammer Films, Star Wars and Dr Who and the Daleks
 * Bob Todd (1922–1992) – comedy actor and sidekick of Benny Hill and Spike Milligan
 * Hattie Jacques (1924–1980) – comedy actress of the Carry On films and TV's Sykes
 * Frederick Treves (born 1925) – prolific TV actor
 * Alec McCowen (1925–2017) – Golden Globe nominated film, theatre and TV actor
 * Peter Barkworth (1929–2006) – BAFTA winning actor
 * Dinsdale Landen (1932–2003) – TV actor
 * Lance Percival (1933–2015) – comedy actor
 * Patsy Byrne (1933–2014) – actress noted for her role as Nursie in TV's Blackadder II
 * Tom Baker (born 1934) – actor in TV's Doctor Who and Little Britain
 * Joanna Van Gyseghem (born 1941) – actress in TV's Duty Free and Rumpole of the Bailey
 * Michael Crawford (born 1942) – Tony Award-winning comedy, film and musical actor
 * Brenda Blethyn (born 1946) – Academy Award nominated actress
 * Rusty Goffe (born 1948) – dwarf actor in the films Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory and Willow
 * Fiona Reid (born 1951) – Canadian TV and film actress
 * Mark Rylance (born 1960) – theatre actor
 * Jack Dee (born 1962) – TV actor and comedian
 * Martin Ball (born 1964) – theatre and TV actor
 * Shaun Williamson (born 1964) – TV presenter and actor in TV's Eastenders
 * Paul Ritter (1966–2021) – actor in TV's Friday Night Dinner, No Offence
 * Tamsin Greig (born 1966) – actress in TV's Friday Night Dinner
 * Naomi Watts (born 1968) – Academy Award nominated actress
 * Matthew Holness (born c. 1968) – comedy writer and actor in TV's Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
 * Ben Moor (born 1969) – comedy writer, and actor in TV's Fist of Fun
 * Mackenzie Crook (born 1971) – actor in TV's The Office
 * Shane Taylor (born 1973) – actor in TV's Band of Brothers
 * Chris Simmons (born 1975) – actor in TV's The Bill
 * Orlando Bloom (born 1977) – actor in the film series The Lord of the Rings and Pirates of the Caribbean
 * Oliver Chris (born 1978) – actor in TV's Green Wing, The Office and Rescue Me
 * Kevin Bishop (born 1980) – actor in the film Muppet Treasure Island and TV's Grange Hill
 * Tom Riley (born 1981) – actor in TV's Da Vinci's Demons and The Nevers
 * Gemma Arterton (born 1986) – actress
 * Dominic Sherwood (born 1990) – actor in TV's Shadowhunters
 * Joseph McManners (born 1992) – musical theatre actor and singer
 * Tommy Knight (born 1993) – actor in TV's The Sarah Jane Adventures
 * Jack Scanlon (born 1998) – TV and film actor
 * Isaac Hempstead-Wright (born 1999) – actor in TV's Game of Thrones
 * Hrvy (born 1999) – presenter from Friday Download

Artists

 * William Woollett (1735–1785) – engraver
 * William Alexander (1767–1816) – painter and illustrator
 * J. M. W. Turner (c. 1775–1851) – landscape painter
 * Thomas Sidney Cooper (1803–1902) – painter
 * Elizabeth Gould (1804–1902) – illustrator
 * Samuel Palmer (1805–1881) – landscape painter
 * Richard Dadd (1817–1886) – painter
 * John Hassall (1868–1948) – illustrator
 * Mary Tourtel (1874–1948) – artist and creator of Rupert Bear
 * Margaret Beale (1886–1969) – marine artist
 * Colin Gill (1892–1940) – painter
 * Hugh Cecil (1889–c. 1939) – photographer
 * Compton Bennett (1900–1974) – film director and producer
 * Tyrone Guthrie (1900–1971) – Tony Award-winning theatre director
 * Don Potter (1902–2004) – sculptor
 * Michael Powell (1905–1990) – film director
 * Peter Rogers (1914–2009) – film producer of the Carry On series
 * Oliver Postgate (1925–2008) – animator and co-creator of Bagpuss, The Clangers and Ivor the Engine
 * Peter Firmin (1928–2018) – animator and co-creator of Basil Brush, Bagpuss and The Clangers
 * Frank Auerbach (born 1931) – painter
 * Peter Blake (born 1932) – pop artist, designer of the Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album sleeve
 * Mary Quant (born 1930) – fashion designer; inventor of the miniskirt and hot pants
 * Antoinette Sibley (born 1939) – ballerina
 * Zandra Rhodes (born 1940) – fashion designer
 * Tim Page (born 1944) – Vietnam War photojournalist
 * Roger Dean (born 1944) – album cover artist
 * Dick Pope (born 1947) – cinematographer
 * Bill Lewis (born 1953) – founder member of the Stuckists art group
 * Mike Bernard (born 1957) – painter
 * Gary Hume (born 1962) – painter
 * Tracey Emin (born 1963) – Royal Academy artist
 * Tacita Dean (born 1965) – visual artist
 * Angus Fairhurst (born 1966) – photographic and visual artist
 * Joe Machine (born 1973) – founder member of the Stuckists art group
 * Remy Noe (born 1974) – founder member of the Stuckists art group
 * George Henry Horton (born 1993) – filmmaker

Clergy

 * Laurence of Canterbury (?–619) – saint and the second Archbishop of Canterbury
 * Paulinus of York (?–644) – first Bishop of York
 * Edith of Wilton (961–984) – saint and illegitimate daughter of King Edgar the Peaceful
 * William Addison (1883–1962) – recipient of the Victoria Cross
 * Thomas Becket (c. 1118–1170) – saint and Archbishop of Canterbury
 * John Kemp (c. 1380–1454) – Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancellor
 * John Morton (c. 1420–1500) – Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancellor
 * John Frith (1503–1533) – Protestant priest and writer, executed for heresy
 * Roger Filcock (c. 1553–1601) – executed for preaching Catholicism
 * Dudley Fenner (c. 1558–1587) – puritan theologian
 * Edmund Duke (1563–1590) – martyr, executed for preaching Catholicism
 * Richard Clarke (?–1634) – Anglican scholar and preacher
 * John Lothropp (1584–1653) – Anglican minister and founder of Barnstable, Massachusetts
 * Robert Abbot (c. 1588–c. 1662) – Puritan theologian
 * Peter Gunning (1614–1684) – Royalist and Bishop of Chichester
 * William Wall (1647–1728) – Anglican theologian
 * White Kennett (1660–1728) – Bishop of Peterborough
 * Nathanial Lardner (1684–1768) – theologian
 * Edward Perronet (1726–1792) – Anglican preacher
 * George Horne (1730–1792) – Bishop of Norwich
 * Charles Thomas Longley (1794–1868) – Archbishop of Canterbury
 * Henry Edward Manning (1808–1892) – cardinal
 * Alfred Saker (1814–1880) – Baptist missionary
 * George Hills (1816–1895) – Bishop of British Columbia
 * Christopher Newman Hall (1816–1902) – Anglican abolitionist
 * John R. Winder (1821–1910) – leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
 * Edward King (1829–1910) – Anglican bishop
 * E. W. Bullinger (1837–1913) – Anglican clergyman, Biblical scholar, and dispensationalist theologian
 * Arthur Tooth (1839–1931) – Anglican clergyman, prosecuted under the Public Worship Regulation Act 1874
 * John Neale Dalton (1839–1931) – chaplain to Queen Victoria and tutor to George V of the United Kingdom
 * Charles Bousfield Huleatt (1863–1908) – Anglican priest and discoverer of the Magdalen papyrus
 * Nelson Wellesley Fogarty (1871–1933) – Bishop of Damaraland, Namibia
 * Frank W. Boreham (1871–1959) – Baptist theologian
 * Edward Knapp-Fisher (1915–2003) – Sub-Dean of Westminster Abbey
 * John A. T. Robinson (1919–1983) – Bishop of Woolwich

Entrepreneurs

 * William Adams (1564–1620) – trader and first British navigator to reach Japan
 * William Claiborne (c. 1600-c. 1677) – early settler of Virginia and Maryland
 * Christopher Branch (c. 1600–1682) – early settler of Virginia
 * Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron (1692–1781) – landowner in Virginia
 * William Colgate (1783–1857) – founder of the Colgate toothpaste company
 * Gregory Blaxland (1788–1852) – settler of Australia and wine-maker
 * Thomas Fletcher Waghorn (1800–1850) – postal pioneer who developed a new route from Great Britain to India
 * Darrell Duppa (1832–1892) – co-founder of Phoenix, Arizona
 * Edward William Cole (1832–1918) – successful bookshop owner in Melbourne, Australia
 * Charles Elkin Mathews (1851–1921) – publisher and bookseller
 * George Marchant (1857–1941) – soft-drink manufacturer in Australia
 * Bronson Albery (1881–1971) – theatre director and impresario
 * Freddie Laker (1922–2006) – founder of Laker Airways
 * Ian Davis (born 1952) – Managing Director of McKinsey & Company
 * John Charman (born 1953) – CEO/President/Director of Bermuda-based Axis Capital Holdings Ltd

Musicians

 * John Ward (1571–1638) – composer
 * John Jenkins (1592–1678) – composer
 * John Gostling (1644–1733) – bass singer and a favourite of Charles II of England
 * Isaac Nathan (c. 1792–1864) – English-Australian musician
 * George Job Elvey (1816–1993) – organist and composer
 * Sydney Nicholson (1875–1947) – founder of the Royal School of Church Music
 * Edward Norman Hay (1889–1943) – composer and musicologist
 * Malcolm Sargent (1895–1967) – leading conductor of choral works
 * Percy Whitlock (1903–1946) – organist and composer
 * Roy Douglas (born 1907) – composer
 * Alfred Deller (1912–1979) – opera singer
 * Daphne Oram (1925–2003) – composer and electronic musician
 * Tony Coe (born 1934) – jazz musician
 * Bill Wyman (born 1936) – bassist for the band The Rolling Stones
 * Richard Rodney Bennett (1936-2012) – film score and jazz composer
 * Crispian St. Peters (1939–2010) – pop singer
 * Mick Jagger (born 1943) – singer and songwriter for the band The Rolling Stones
 * Keith Richards (born 1943) – guitarist and songwriter for the band The Rolling Stones
 * Dick Taylor (born 1943) – bassist for the band The Rolling Stones
 * Mike Ratledge (born 1943) – keyboardist for the band Soft Machine
 * Phil May (born 1944) – singer for the band The Pretty Things
 * Kevin Ayers (born 1944) – singer and bassist for the band Soft Machine
 * Judge Dread (1945–1998) – reggae and ska artist
 * Hugh Hopper (born 1945) – progressive rock and jazz bass guitarist and composer
 * Noel Redding (1945–2003) – bassist for the band The Jimi Hendrix Experience
 * John Paul Jones (born 1946) – bassist, keyboardist and co-songwriter for English rock band Led Zeppelin
 * Trevor Pinnock (born 1946) – conductor and harpsichordist
 * Richard Coughlan (born 1947) – drummer for the band Caravan
 * Dave Sinclair (born 1947) – keyboardist for the band Caravan
 * Gordon Giltrap (born 1948) – guitarist and composer
 * Richard Sinclair (born 1948) – guitarist for the band Caravan
 * Bill Bruford (born 1949) – drummer for the bands Yes and King Crimson
 * Nigel Egg (born 1949) – singer/songwriter
 * Peter Frampton (born 1950) – musician, most famous for Frampton Comes Alive!
 * Alan Clayson (born 1951) – record producer and songwriter
 * Harry Christophers (born 1953) – conductor
 * David Wright (born 1953) – New Age keyboard player and composer
 * Gary Barden (born 1955) – songwriter and guitarist for the band Michael Schenker Group
 * Anne Dudley (born 1956) – orchestral composer and pop musician
 * Sid Vicious (1957–1979) – bassist for the band The Sex Pistols
 * Shane MacGowan (1957-2023) – singer and songwriter for the band The Pogues
 * Kate Bush (born 1958) – pop musician
 * Billy Childish (born 1959) – singer, guitarist, artist and poet
 * Pete Tong (born 1960) – record producer and DJ for BBC Radio 1
 * Guy Fletcher (born 1960) – keyboardist for the band Dire Straits
 * Boy George (born 1961) – singer with the band Culture Club
 * Sexton Ming (born 1961) – musician, artist and poet
 * Andrew Giddings (born 1963) – keyboardist for the band Jethro Tull
 * Paul Oakenfold (born 1963) – record producer and DJ
 * Nitin Sawhney (born 1964) – songwriter and record producer
 * Jay Darlington (born 1968) – keyboardist for the band Kula Shaker
 * Omar Lye-Fook (born 1968) – soul singer, songwriter and musician
 * Justin Chancellor (born 1971) – bass player for the rock band Tool
 * Richard Hughes (born 1975) – drummer for the band Keane
 * Tom Perchard (born 1976) – musicologist
 * David Ford (born 1978) – singer-songwriter
 * Vicky Beeching (born 1979) – worship leader and musician
 * Ben Mills (born 1980) – singer and contestant on TV's The X Factor
 * Rik Waller (born 1980) – singer and contestant on TV's Pop Idol
 * Lee Ryan (born 1983) – member of the boy band Blue
 * Oliver Sykes (born 1986) – metal singer
 * Joss Stone (born 1987) – BRIT and Grammy Award-winning R&B singer/songwriter
 * Declan Galbraith (born 1991) – singer
 * PinkPantheress (born 2001) – pop musician

Politicians, statesmen and lawyers

 * Charles Abbott, 1st Baron Tenterden (1762–1832) – Lord Chief Justice
 * Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston (1851–1926) – Conservative Home Secretary
 * Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst (1717–1797) – Governor General of British North America
 * Josceline Amherst (1846–1900) – member of Western Australia's first Legislative Council under responsible government
 * Richard Ash Kingsford (1821–1902) – alderman and mayor of Brisbane Municipal Council, a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland, Australia, and a mayor of Cairns, Queensland
 * Bob Astles (1924–2012) – associate of Ugandan presidents Milton Obote and Idi Amin
 * Wallace Bickley (1810–1876) – early settler of Western Australia and Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council
 * Anne Boleyn (c. 1501–1536) – wife of King Henry VIII
 * Francis Bond Head (1793–1875) – Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada during the rebellion of 1837
 * Jonathan Bowden (1962–2012) – writer and political theorist
 * Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork (1566–1643) – Lord High Treasurer of the Kingdom of Ireland
 * Audrey Callaghan (1915–2005) – Greater London Councillor and wife of Prime Minister James Callaghan
 * Thomas Cheney (c. 1485–1558) – Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports
 * Martin Conway (1856–1937) – Member of Parliament and art critic
 * Nicky Crane (1958–1993) – neo-Nazi activist
 * Sackville Crowe (c. 1611 – c. 1683) – Member of Parliament and Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire
 * Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham (1621–1682) – Lord Chancellor
 * Sir John Peyton (died 1558) – Governor of Jersey
 * John Scott of Scott's Hall (died 1485) – Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports
 * William Scott of Scott's Hall (died 1524) – Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports
 * Miles Sindercombe (died 1657) – leader of a group that tried to assassinate Oliver Cromwell
 * Henry Stafford, 1st Baron Stafford (1501–1563) – peer
 * Roger Twysden (1597–1672) – politician and antiquarian
 * James Weaver (1800–1886) – Wisconsin State Assemblyman
 * The Countess of Wessex (Sophie, born 1965) – wife of The Earl of Wessex
 * Nicholas Wotton (c. 1497–1567) – ambassador to France
 * Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690–1764) – Lord Chancellor
 * Henry Young (1808–1870) – fifth Governor of South Australia
 * Thomas Hinckley, (Tenterden, Kent, England; (1618–1706) – Governor Plymouth Colonies (1680–1692)
 * Francis Lovelace (1621–1675) – second governor of the New York colony
 * Daniel Horsmanden (c. 1691 – c. 1778) – judge who tried the supposed conspirators in the New York Slave Insurrection of 1741
 * Thomas Paine (1737–1809) – revolutionary
 * Charles Larkin (1775–1833) – electoral reformer
 * Elizabeth Fry (1780–1845) – prison reformer
 * Sir Edward Knatchbull, 9th Baronet (1781–1849) – Conservative Member of Parliament for East Kent
 * George Gipps (1791–1847) – Governor of the colony of New South Wales, Australia
 * William Locke Brockman (1802–1872) – early settler of Western Australia and Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council
 * Edmund Walker Head (1805–1868) – Governor General of the Province of Canada
 * Charles Sladen (1816–1884) – sixth Premier of Victoria, Australia
 * Edith Pechey (1845–1908) – suffragette and one of the first UK female doctors
 * George Herbert Murray (1849–1936) – civil servant and Permanent Secretary of the Treasury
 * William Hall-Jones (1851–1936) – Prime Minister of New Zealand
 * Janet Stancomb-Wills (1851–1932) – mayor of Ramsgate and philanthropist
 * Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster (1866–1936) – seventh Governor-General of Australia
 * Grote Stirling (1875–1953) – Member of Parliament in Canada
 * Wendy Wood (1892–1981) – campaigner for Scottish independence
 * Philip Lucock (1916–1996) – Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives in Australia
 * Edward Heath (1916–2005) – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
 * Ron Ledger (1920–2004) – Labour Member of Parliament
 * John Vinelott (1923–2006) – High Court judge
 * Jeanne Hoban (1924–1997) – trade unionist in Sri Lanka
 * Geoff Braybrooke (1935–2013) – New Zealand Member of Parliament
 * Brian Haw (1949–2011) – anti-war protester
 * The Princess Royal (Anne; born 1950) – only daughter of The Queen
 * Nick Brown (born 1950) – Labour Member of Parliament
 * John Redwood (born 1951) – Conservative Member of Parliament
 * James Arbuthnot (born 1952) – Conservative Member of Parliament
 * Paul Clark (born 1957) – Labour Member of Parliament
 * Sean Gabb (born 1960) – director of the free market and civil liberties think-tank, Libertarian Alliance
 * Nigel Farage (born 1964) – leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP)

Presenters and entertainers

 * Kenneth Clark (1903–1983) – art historian and TV presenter
 * Frank Muir (1920–1998) – comedy writer and TV presenter
 * Michael Bentine (1922–1996) – comedian and member of the Goons
 * Tony Hart (1925–2009) – artist and children's TV presenter
 * Bob Holness (1928–2011) – presenter of TV's Blockbusters and Call My Bluff
 * Rod Hull (1935–1999) – TV entertainer, known for his puppet Emu
 * David Frost (1939–2013) – TV presenter, satirist and journalist
 * Jan Leeming (born 1942) – TV presenter and newsreader
 * Roger Day (born 1945) – radio presenter for BBC Radio Kent
 * David Starkey (born 1945) – historian and TV presenter
 * Reg Bolton (1945–2006) – circus clown and writer
 * Michael Hogben (born 1952) – antiques dealer and presenter of TV's Auction Man
 * Jilly Goolden (born 1956) – wine critic and TV presenter
 * Lorraine Michaels (born 1958) – Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for April 1981
 * Carol McGiffin (born 1960) – radio presenter and panellist on TV's Loose Women
 * Ian Hislop (born 1960) – TV presenter and editor of Private Eye magazine
 * Fiona Phillips (born 1961) – presenter of TV's GMTV
 * Mark Steel (born 1960) – socialist comedian and newspaper columnist
 * Anton Vamplew (born 1966) – astronomer and TV presenter
 * Nick Bateman (born 1967) – Big Brother contestant, TV presenter and writer
 * Nicki Chapman (born 1967) – TV presenter and judge on TV's Popstars and Pop Idol
 * Naomi Cleaver (born 1967) – interior designer and presenter of TV's Other People's Houses and Honey I Ruined the House
 * David Bull (born 1969) – doctor and guest on TV's Most Haunted Live, The Wright Stuff and Watchdog
 * Alistair Appleton (born 1970) – presenter of TV's Cash in the Attic and House Doctor
 * Melanie and Martina Grant (born 1971) – presenters of TV's Fun House
 * Alex Lovell (born 1973) – presenter of TV's Playhouse Disney and BrainTeaser
 * James Tanner (born c. 1976) – chef on TV's Ready Steady Cook
 * Luke Burrage (born 1976) – juggler
 * Matt Morgan (born 1977) – co-host of Russell Brand's BBC Radio 2 show
 * Kelly Brook (born 1979) – model, actress and TV presenter

Soldiers

 * Francis Thynne (c. 1544–1608) – officer of arms at the College of Arms, London
 * Samuel Argall (1580–1608) – Navy admiral and kidnapper of Pocahontas
 * Sir William Brockman (1595–1654) – politician and military leader during the English civil war
 * John Boys (1607–1664) – Royalist captain during the English Civil War
 * George Rooke (1650–1709) – naval commander during the Dutch Wars
 * George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington (1668–1733) – First Lord of the Admiralty
 * Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham (1726–1813) – First Lord of the Admiralty
 * James Wolfe (1727–1759) – military officer who defeated the French and established British rule in Canada
 * Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738–1805) – British general in the American War of Independence
 * Peter Rainier (1741–1808) – Royal Navy Admiral and Member of Parliament
 * John Nicholson Inglefield (1748–1828) – Royal Navy Captain of the Fleet
 * Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769–1852) – field marshal and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
 * Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge (1785–1856) – field marshal and Governor-General of India
 * James Mouat (1815–1899) – recipient of the Victoria Cross
 * John Miller Adye (1819–1900) – general
 * William Sutton (1830–1888) – recipient of the Victoria Cross
 * George Truman Morrell (1830–1912) – Royal Navy commander
 * John French, 1st Earl of Ypres (1852–1925) – World War I field marshal
 * Harold Stephen Langhorne (1866–1932) – brigadier-general
 * Alexander Godley (1867–1957) – World War I general
 * Henry Edward Manning Douglas (1875–1939) – recipient of the Victoria Cross
 * Arthur Borton (1883–1933) – recipient of the Victoria Cross
 * Thomas Highgate (1895–1914) – first British soldier to be convicted of desertion and executed during World War I
 * James McCudden (1895–1918) – recipient of the Victoria Cross
 * Dick White (1906–1993) – Head of the Secret Intelligence Service
 * Charles Henry Pepys Harington (1910–2007) – general
 * Roderick Alastair Brook Learoyd (1913–1996) – recipient of the Victoria Cross
 * Peter Allen Norton (born 1962) – awarded the George Cross for his service in Iraq
 * Sarah-Jayne Mulvihill (1973–2006) – Flight lieutenant in the Royal Air Force killed in Iraq

Sportsmen

 * Edwin Stead (1701–1735) – noted cricket patron and team captain in the 1720s and early 1730s
 * George Louch (1746–1811) – cricketer
 * Robert Clifford (1752–1811) – cricketer for Kent
 * Fuller Pilch (1804–1870) – cricketer for Kent and Norfolk
 * Henry Tracey Coxwell (1819–1900) – balloonist
 * H T Waghorn (1842–1930) – cricket statistician and historian
 * Spencer Gore (1850–1906) – first Wimbledon tennis champion
 * Cuthbert Ottaway (1850–1878) – England football captain
 * Frank Marchant (1864–1946) – cricketer for Kent
 * Fred Waghorne (1866–1956) – ice hockey referee in Canada
 * Douglas Carr (1872–1950) – cricketer for Kent and England
 * Syd King (1873–1932) – footballer and manager of West Ham United
 * Archie Cross (1881–unknown) – footballer for Woolwich Arsenal
 * Edward Walter Solly (1882–1966) – cricketer for Worcestershire
 * Frank Woolley (1887-1978) - cricketer for Kent and England
 * Walter Tull (1888–1918) – UK's second black professional footballer and first black infantry officer
 * John Stanton Fleming Morrison (1892–1961) – golf course architect
 * Louis Zborowski (1895–1924) – racing driver
 * Wally Hammond (1903–1965) – cricketer for Gloucestershire and England
 * Dick Edmed (1904–1983) – footballer for Liverpool
 * Les Ames (1905–1990) – cricketer for Kent and England
 * Alec Rose (1908–1991) – sailed single-handed around the world
 * Hopper Levett (1908–1995) – cricketer for England
 * Art Potter (1909–1998) – Canadian ice hockey administrator
 * Sam King (1911–2003) – golfer
 * Arthur Fagg (1915–1977) – cricketer for Kent and England
 * William Murray-Wood (1917–1968) – cricketer for Kent
 * Jack Conley (1920–1991) – footballer for Torquay United
 * Godfrey Evans (1920-1999) – cricketer for Kent and England
 * Ted Ditchburn (1921–2005) – footballer for Tottenham Hotspur and England
 * Malcolm Allison (1927–2010) – footballer for West Ham United and football manager
 * Colin Cowdrey (1932-2000) – cricketer for Kent and England
 * Brian Moore (1932–2001) – TV sports commentator
 * George Wright (1930–1992) – footballer for West Ham United
 * Brian Luckhurst (1939–2005) – cricketer for Kent and England
 * Mike Denness (1940-2013) – cricketer for Kent and England
 * Barry Davies (born 1940) – TV sports commentator
 * Bill Ivy (1942–1969) – motorcycle racer
 * John Shepherd (born 1943) – cricketer for Kent and West Indies
 * Asif Iqbal (born 1943) – cricketer for Kent and Pakistan
 * Alan Ealham (born 1944) – cricketer for Kent
 * Derek Underwood (born 1945) – cricketer for Kent and England
 * Alan Knott (born 1946) – cricketer for Kent and England
 * Bob Woolmer (1948-2007) – cricketer for Kent and England
 * Brian Rose (born 1950) – cricketer for Somerset and England
 * Bernard Julien (born 1950) – cricketer for Kent and West Indies
 * Paul Gilchrist (born 1952) – footballer for Southampton, Portsmouth and Swindon Town
 * Kevin Jarvis (born 1953) – cricketer for Kent and Gloucestershire
 * Tony Godden (born 1955) – footballer for West Bromwich Albion, Chelsea and Birmingham City
 * Dave Carr (1957–2005) – footballer for Luton Town and Torquay United
 * David Gower (born 1957) – England cricket captain and TV presenter
 * Bob Bolder (born 1958) – footballer for Charlton Athletic, Sunderland and Sheffield Wednesday
 * Graham Dilley (1959-2011) – cricketer for Kent and England
 * Richard Ellison (born 1959) – cricketer for Kent and England
 * Barry Knight (born 1960) – football referee
 * Steve Bennett (born 1961) – football referee
 * Gary Brazil (born 1962) – footballer for Fulham, Preston North End and Sheffield United
 * Jamie Spence (born 1963) – golfer
 * Andy Townsend (born 1963) – TV presenter; footballer for Aston Villa and Republic of Ireland
 * David Bowman (born 1964) – footballer for Heart of Midlothian, Dundee United and Scotland
 * Geoff Parsons (born 1964) – Commonwealth Games silver medal winning high jumper
 * Tim Berrett (born 1965) – Canadian Olympic race walker
 * Andy Hessenthaler (born 1965) – footballer and manager of Gillingham
 * Mark Ealham (born 1969) – cricketer for Nottinghamshire and England
 * Nigel Llong (born 1969) – cricketer for Kent
 * Doug Loft (born 1986) – footballer
 * Kelly Holmes (born 1970) – 800 metres and 1500 metres Olympic gold medalist
 * Mark Hammett (born 1972) – rugby union footballer for New Zealand
 * Rob Short (born 1972) – field hockey player for Canada
 * Jamie Staff (born 1973) – Commonwealth Games medal winning cyclist
 * Gary Breen (born 1973) – footballer for Coventry City, Sunderland and Republic of Ireland
 * Neil Shipperley (born 1974) – footballer for Crystal Palace, Chelsea and Wimbledon
 * Takaloo (born 1975) – Iranian boxer
 * Matthew Rose (born 1975) – footballer for Arsenal, QPR and Yeovil Town
 * Kevin Hunt (born 1975) – footballer for Gillingham, Hong Kong Rangers and Bohemians FC
 * Ed Smith (born 1977) – writer, and cricketer for Kent and England
 * Georgina Harland (born 1978) – 2004 Olympic bronze medallist in the Modern pentathlon
 * Peter Hawkins (born 1978) – footballer for Wimbledon, York City and Rushden & Diamonds
 * Jon Harley (born 1979) – footballer for Sheffield United, Fulham and Chelsea
 * David Flatman (born 1980) – rugby union footballer for Bath and England
 * Michael Yardy (born 1980) – cricketer for Sussex
 * Sarah Ayton (born 1980) – Olympic gold medal winning sailor
 * Gary Mills (born 1981) – footballer for Rushden & Diamonds
 * Danny Spiller (born 1981) – footballer for Gillingham
 * Richard Rose (born 1982) – footballer for Gillingham and Hereford United
 * James Tredwell (born 1982) – cricketer for Kent and England
 * Rhys Lloyd (born 1982) – American footballer for Frankfurt Galaxy
 * Lisa Dobriskey (born 1983) – Commonwealth Games 1500 metres gold medallist
 * Billy Jones (born 1983) – footballer for Leyton Orient and Kidderminster
 * Barry Fuller (born 1984) – footballer for Barnet and Stevenage
 * Adam Birchall (born 1984) – footballer for Mansfield Town, Barnet and Wales Under–21s
 * Andrew Crofts (born 1984) – footballer for Gillingham
 * Dave Martin (born 1985) – footballer for Crystal Palace
 * Tom Varndell (born 1985) – rugby union footballer for Leicester Tigers and England
 * Joe Denly (born 1986) – cricketer for Kent and England
 * Sammy Moore (born 1987) – footballer for Ipswich Town
 * Zack Sabre Jr (born 1987) – professional wrestler
 * Chris Smalling (born 1989) – footballer with Manchester United F.C.
 * Adrian Quaife-Hobbs (born 1991) – Formula BMW racing driver

Writers

 * Edwin Arnold (1832–1904) – poet and journalist
 * Edwin Lester Arnold (1857–1935) – author
 * Alfred Austin (1835–1913) – Poet Laureate
 * Enid Bagnold (1889–1981) – author and playwright
 * Rachel Beer (1858–1927) – editor of The Observer and The Sunday Times newspapers
 * Aphra Behn (1640–1689) – dramatist among earliest professional female writers
 * Robert Blatchford (1851–1943) – socialist author
 * Daniel Blythe (born 1969) – author
 * Robert Bridges (1844–1930) – Poet Laureate
 * Michael Busselle (1935–2006) – writer and photographer
 * Elizabeth Carter (1717–1806) – linguist
 * Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343–1400) – diplomat and author of The Canterbury Tales
 * Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) – novelist
 * Caroline Cornwallis (1786–1858)
 * Arthur Shearly Cripps (1869–1952) – poet, writer and Anglican priest
 * Rana Dasgupta (born 1971) – writer
 * Charles Dickens (1812–1870) – foremost Victorian novelist
 * Sarah Dixon (1671/2 – 1765) – poet
 * Keith Douglas (1920–1944) – poet
 * David Edwards (born 1962) – political journalist
 * Ernest Elmore (1901–1957) – writer of fantasy and (as John Bude) crime novels
 * U. A. Fanthorpe (1929–2009) – poet and recipient of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
 * Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661–1720) – poet
 * Robert Fisk (1946–2020) – journalist
 * Phineas Fletcher (1582–1650) – poet
 * Frederick Forsyth (born 1938) – author of thriller novels such as The Day of the Jackal and The Odessa File
 * Caroline Fry (1787–1846) – Christian writer
 * John Fuller (born 1937) – poet and author
 * John Gillespie Magee, Jr. (1922–1943) – Air Force pilot and poet
 * John Gower (c. 1330–1408) – poet
 * Thom Gunn (1929–2004) – Anglo-American poet
 * Christopher Harte (born 1947) - sports writer and bibliographer
 * William Hazlitt (1778–1830) – essayist and literary critic
 * Thomas Head Raddall (1903–1994) – historical fiction writer
 * David Hewson (born 1953) – crime and mystery novelist
 * Robert Holdstock (born 1948) – fantasy author
 * M. R. James (1862–1936) – mediaeval scholar and author
 * Lionel Johnson (1867–1902) – poet, essayist and critic
 * Sidney Keyes (1922–1943) – war poet
 * Winifred Mary Letts (1882–1972) – novelist and poet
 * Richard Lovelace (1618–1659) – poet and Royalist
 * John Lyly (c. 1553–1606) – writer and originator of the linguistic style Euphuism
 * John Lloyd (born 1951) – comedy writer, and TV producer for Blackadder, Spitting Image and Not the Nine O'Clock News
 * Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) – dramatist, poet and translator
 * Ronald James Marsh (1914–1987) – novelist
 * E. Nesbit (1858–1924) – children's author and poet
 * William Nicholson (born 1948) – Academy Award nominated screenwriter, playwright, and novelist
 * Alice Oseman (born 1996) – author
 * William Painter (1540–1594) – author
 * James Parton (1822–1891) – American biographer
 * Stel Pavlou (born 1970) – author and screenwriter
 * Mervyn Peake (1911–1968) – author of the Gormenghast books
 * Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany (1878–1957) – writer and dramatist
 * Dudley Pope (1925–1997) – author of nautical fiction
 * Peter Quennell (1905–1993) – poet and literary historian
 * Bruce Robinson (born 1946) – BAFTA award-winning screenwriter
 * George W. M. Reynolds (1814–1879) – author
 * William Pett Ridge (1857–1930) – author
 * Sarah Sands (born 1961) – editor of The Sunday Telegraph newspaper
 * Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) – war poet
 * Philip Sidney (1554–1606) – poet and military general
 * Christopher Smart (1722–1771) – poet
 * Robert Smythe Hichens (1864–1950) – journalist and novelist
 * W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) – playwright and novelist
 * David Lee Stone (born 1978) – fantasy author
 * John Russell Taylor (born 1938) – film critic
 * Russell Thorndike (1885–1972) – novelist and actor
 * Thomas Turner (1729–1793) – diarist
 * Gilbert Waterhouse (1883–1916) – war poet
 * H. G. Wells (1866–1946) – writer
 * John Wells (1936–1998) – satirical writer and comedy performer
 * Norman Worker (1927–2005) – comic book writer
 * Thomas Wyatt (1503–1400) – poet and diplomat
 * Dornford Yates (1885–1960) – novelist

Miscellaneous

 * Mary Carleton (1642–1673) – fraudster
 * Mary and Eliza Chulkhurst (1100–1134) – one of the earliest known sets of conjoined twins
 * Kevin Foster (born 1958/59) – investment fraudster
 * Frank John William Goldsmith (1902–1982) – survivor of the RMS Titanic disaster
 * Tony Hayward (born 1957) – CEO of BP Group (2007–2010)
 * Alice Liddell (1852–1934) – inspiration for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
 * Marcus Sarjeant (born 1964) – fired six blank shots at Elizabeth II
 * Sophia Stacey (1791–1874) – friend of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and writer Mary Shelley
 * Walter Tirel (1065–1134) – killed William II of England, possibly accidentally
 * John Ward (c. 1553–1622) – pirate