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Sir Philip Carteret of St Ouens, Jersey

quote from Henry de Vic

List
This is a selected list of notable people with links to the Bailiwick of Guernsey, in the Channel Islands.

16th Century

 * Catherine Cauchés, Guillemine Gilbert and Perotine Massey (?–1556), burned at the stake for heresy; Perotine Massey gave birth while tied to the stake
 * Sir Henry de Vic (1599–1671), a founding member of the Royal Society, Chancellor of the Order of the Garter

17th Century

 * Edmund Andros (1637–1714), colonial administrator, governor of the Dominion of New England in America

18th Century

 * Peter Perchard (1729–1806), privateer, goldsmith and merchant, served as Lord Mayor of London in 1806
 * Paul Le Mesurier (1755–1805), merchant, Lord Mayor of London 1793-4
 * James Saumarez (1757–1836), Vice Admiral of the Blue and first Baron de Saumarez
 * Major-General Sir Thomas Saumarez (1760–1845), commandant at [Nova Scotia|Halifax], commander-in-chief of New Brunswick during the War of 1812
 * Daniel de Lisle Brock (1762–1842), chief civic magistrate of Guernsey and brother of Sir Isaac Brock
 * Richard Saumarez (1764–1835), British surgeon and medical author
 * Major-General John Gaspard Le Marchant (1766–1812), founder of the first British military college
 * Sir Isaac Brock (1769–1812), Major General and Lieutant-Governor of Upper Canada, hero of Upper Canada
 * John MacCulloch (1773–1835), geologist
 * Thomas Mansell (1777–1858), Rear-Admiral
 * John Le Mesurier (1781–1843), Major General and governor of Alderney
 * Peter Paul Dobree (1782–1825), English classical scholar and critic
 * Frederick Corbin Lukis (1788–1871), antiquary and natural historian including botany, geology, conchology, and science
 * George Métivier (1790–1881), the island's national poet
 * Margaret Ann Neve (1792–1903), first validated female supercentenarian and oldest ever Guernsey-born person, 110 years 321 days
 * John Lihou (1792–1840), inventor and naval explorer
 * Thomas de la Rue (1793–1866), printer and stationer
 * John Jeremie (1795–1841), British judge, diplomat and abolitionist
 * Ferdinand Brock Tupper (1795–1874), historian
 * Peter Broun (1797–1846), the first Colonial Secretary of Western Australia, and a member of Western Australia's first Legislative Council
 * Samuel Elliott Hoskins (1799–1888), physician

19th century

 * Sampson Avard (1800-1869), leader of a band of Mormon vigilantes called the Danites


 * William Le Lacheur (1802-1863), sea captain and coffee merchant
 * James Jeremie (1802-1872), Dean of Lincoln
 * Bonamy Price (1807-1888), political economist
 * Peter Le Lievre (1812-1878), artist
 * George de Sausmarez (1814-1890), General commanding Hong Kong during war with China 1860-1
 * Warren De la Rue (1815-1889), astronomer and chemist, son of [[Thomas de la Rue}}
 * Thomas Sausmarez Lacy (1816-1884), garrison surgeon at Agra during 8-month siege during the Indian Mutiny
 * Richard Ashmore Powell (1816-1892), Vice-Admiral in British Navy
 * Francis Colborne (1817-1895), Commander of British Troops in China, Hong Kong and the Straits Settlements
 * Paul Jacob Naftel (1817-1891), artist
 * Edmund Kennedy (1818-1848), explorer
 * Jasper Hume Nicolls (1818-1877), Canadian Anglican priest and first Principal of Bishop's College
 * Edward Lacy (1818-1884), Vice-Admiral in the Royal Navy
 * Charles Betts (1818-18??), Lieutenant-General in Egyptian Government
 * Maria Rosetti (1819-1893) née Grant, political activist and journalist
 * Robert Carey (1821-1883), Major-General in the British Army
 * John Elias Collings (1821-1886), General in the British Army
 * George Jackson Carey (1822-1872), Major-General in the British Army
 * Peter Le Page Renouf (1822-1897), Egyptologist
 * Denys Corbet (1826-1909), Guernésiais poet
 * Thomas Augustus Carey (1827-1892), Major-General in the British Army
 * Duncan Charles Home (1828-1857), VC recipient
 * Terence O'Brien (1830-1903), surveyor, engineer and colonial governor of Newfoundland
 * Walter Wren (1833-1898), member of Parliament
 * John Richard Magrath (1839-1930), British academic
 * Frederick Moynihan (1843-1910), sculptor
 * Mabel Collins (1851-1927), theosophist and author
 * John Frederick McCrea (1854-1894), VC recipient
 * Nicholas Le Tocq (1854-1886), last person to see Louis Napoleon, Prince Imperial of France alive, in the Zulu Wars
 * Theodore Fink (1855-1942), elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly, Australia
 * Uchter Knox, 5th Earl of Ranfurly (1856-1933), Uchter Knox, Governor of New Zealand
 * Samuel Mauger (1857-1936), Australian social reformer and politician
 * James Frederick Arnold (1859-1929), New Zealand Member of Parliament
 * Fanny Davies (1861-1934), pianist
 * Havilland de Sausmarez (1861-1941), judge of various British courts in Africa and Asia, the Ottoman Empire and China
 * Sir Henry Beauvoir De Lisle (1864-1955), British Army general
 * Ernest Roberts (1868-1913), Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives
 * Lewis Stratford Tollemache Halliday (1870-1966), VC recipient
 * George Edward Nurse (1873-1945), VC recipient
 * Herbert John Fleure (1877-1969), zoologist and geographer
 * Ernest Martin Jehan (1878-1929), commander of a Q-Ship that sank German submarine UB-4 in 1915
 * Arthur Maurice Hocart (1883-1939), anthropologist
 * James Francis McCarthy (1885-1918), Albert Medal in Gold recipient
 * William Tongs (1888-1915), awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal
 * Ambrose Sherwill (1890-1968), President of the Controlling Committee during the German occupation of the Channel Islands, until he was deported
 * Major-General Sir Thomas MacDonald "Donald" Banks KCB DSO MC TD (1891-1975), Director-General of the Petroleum Warfare Department 1940-45
 * Barry Jones (1893-1981), actor
 * Herbert Jolly (1895-1983), professional golfer
 * James Parkes (1896-1981), clergyman, historian, and social activist
 * Michael Davidson (1897-1976), journalist
 * Wilfred Hansford Gallienne (1897-1956), British Ambassador to Cuba and Vice Consul at Los Angeles
 * Gerald Basil Edwards (1899-1976), author of The Book of Ebenezer Le Page
 * Beatrice Collenette (1899-2001), dancer and dancing school founder in Los Angeles, California

20th century

 * Ethel Wood (1901-2011), supercentenarian
 * John Harold Henry Coombes (1906-1978), Principal of Cadet College Petaro, one of the earliest public schools built in Pakistan
 * Marie Ozanne (1906-1943), protester against German occupying forces
 * Robert Morley (1908-1992), actor
 * John Le Patourel (1909-1981), historian
 * Philip Maitland Hubbard (1910-1980), writer
 * William "Billy" Spurdle (1911-2011), footballer, played for Manchester City FC
 * Wallace Le Patourel (1916-1979), Brigadier, VC recipient
 * John Marr (1918-2009), author
 * George Clarence Bassett Smith (1919-2001), footballer; played for Southampton F.C.
 * Hubert Nicolle (1919-1998), considered to be the first Commando of WW2, landed in occupied Guernsey in September 1940
 * Peter Brock (1920-2006), historian
 * Peter Le Cheminant (born 1920), Air Chief Marshal and Lieutenant-Governor of Guernsey
 * Frank Griffiths Caldwell (1921-2014), Major General OBE MC and bar
 * Roy Dotrice (1923-2017), actor, winner of Tony and BAFTA Awards
 * Sylvester Houédard (1924-1992), known as dsh, poet, literary editor and Benedictine monk
 * Len Duquemin (1924-2003), footballer, played for Tottenham Hotspur FC
 * William "Billy" Whare (1925-1995), footballer, played for Nottingham Forest FC
 * Frederick Charles Hurrell (1928-2008), Air Vice-Marshal and Director-General of RAF Medical Services from 1986 to 1988
 * Tony Fox (1928-2010), doctor and rower, represented Great Britain at the 1952 Summer Olympics and at the 1956 Summer Olympics
 * Charles Wood (born 1932), playwright and scriptwriter
 * John Savident (born 1938), actor, appears in many TV series, including Coronation Street
 * Peter Le Vasseur (born 1938), artist
 * Nicholas Edward Day (born 1939), statistician and cancer epidemiologist
 * Bruce Parker (born 1941), BBC television presenter, first presenter of Antiques Roadshow
 * Dick Le Flem (born 1942), footballer, played for Nottingham Forest FC and England U23
 * Noel Duquemin (born 1944), shooter, Commonwealth and Island Games
 * Chris Foss (born 1946), British artist and science fiction illustrator
 * George Torode (1946-2010), writer and radio host
 * Malcolm Wicks (1947-2012), Member of Parliament
 * Richard Doyle (born 1948), British author of thriller novels
 * Michele Dotrice (born 1948), actress, daughter of Roy Dotrice
 * Simon Kay (born 1952?), plastic surgeon
 * Adrian Fulford (born 1953), judge; formerly a member of the International Criminal Court in The Hague
 * Karen Dotrice (born 1955), actress
 * Linda Martel (1956-1961), religious healer
 * Aden Gillett (born 1959), actor
 * Andrew Lawrence-King (born 1959), baroque harpist, director of The Harp Consort
 * Craig Allen (born 1959), football player in North American Soccer League and Major Indoor Soccer League
 * Adrian Breton (1962-2007), 1990 Commonwealth Games gold medal, men's rapid fire pistol
 * Martine Le Moignan (born 1962), squash player
 * Lisa Opie (born 1963), squash player
 * Ashley Highfield (born 1965), digital communication
 * Sarah Montague (born 1966), BBC journalist and news presenter
 * Carl Hester (born 1967), dressage rider, Team GB Olympian and 2012 Summer Olympics gold medal winner
 * Jenny Kendall-Tobias (born 1967), radio presenter for BBC Radio Guernsey; known and loved locally as JKT
 * Matthew Le Tissier (born 1968), retired Southampton FC and England footballer
 * Martin Brady (born 1969), world record holder of the slowest heart ever recorded in a healthy human
 * Lee Luscombe (born 1971), footballer; played for Brentford FC
 * Alison Merrien (born 1971), indoor bowls player
 * Andrew Singleton (born 1972), human geneticist
 * Andy Priaulx (born 1973), four times touring car race champion
 * Lee Savident (born 1976), cricketer; played for Hampshire County Cricket Club
 * Chris Tardif (born 1979), footballer; played for Portsmouth FC
 * Dawn Porter (born 1979), BBC television presenter (born in Scotland but grew up in Guernsey)
 * Lee Merrien (born 1979), athlete and Team GB Olympian
 * Dale Garland (born 1980), athlete
 * Paul Le Tocq (born 1981), badminton player
 * Marco Silvestri (born 1983), actor
 * Tom Druce (born 1986), athlete
 * Chris Simpson (born 1987), squash player
 * Tobyn Horton (born 1989), the Channel Islands' first professional cyclist
 * Celia Jenkins (born 1989), author
 * Bradley Watson (born 1990), boxer
 * Fraser Ward (born 1990), former British National Sabre Team fencer
 * James McLaughlin (born 1990), professional cyclist
 * Kieran Guilbert (born 1991), news editor at Thomson Reuters, star player at Magicland FC , and Mexican chef.
 * Tim Ravenscroft (born 1992), cricketer; played for Hampshire County Cricket Club
 * Heather Watson (born 1992), tennis player, 2009 US Open Girls' singles champion, Team GB Olympian and Wimbledon champion.
 * Andrew Barnes (born 1995), first Guernsey born astronaut aboard Expedition 58 to the ISS. Conducting research at the University of Sheffield on the topic of Lunar Automotive Development.
 * Cameron Chalmers (born 1997), British track and field sprinter who specialises in the 400 metres, current British U20 champion and also holds the BUCS title.
 * Harry Lewis (born 1996), better known as W2S (a shortened version of his online alias wroetoshaw), YouTube personality.
 * Alex Crossan (born 1996), better known as [[Mura Masa, electronic music producer and DJ
 * Jack Oldfield (born 1998), tennis player and Commonwealth Youth Games gold medalist

21st Century

 * Brent Oldfield (born 2000), tennis player and Commonwealth Youth Games gold medalist

Moved to and lived in Bailiwick of Guernsey

 * General Sir John Doyle (1756-1834), Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey, drained Braye du Valle joining the north of Guernsey to the rest of the Island
 * John Wilson, architect from Cumberland, lived in Guernsey 1813-1830, and designed some of the island's most iconic buildings, including Elizabeth College, St James, Castle Carey and the market buildings.
 * Victor Hugo (1802-1885), author of The Hunchback of Notre Dame; lived in self-imposed exile on the island for 15 years, during which he wrote Les Misérables; Toilers of the Sea was dedicated to the island
 * John Tapner (1823-1854), last person executed by Guernsey
 * Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), artist; spent summer of 1883 in Guernsey
 * Henry Watson Fowler (1858-1933), lexicographer, moved to Guernsey in 1903
 * Francis George Fowler (1871-1918), lexicographer, moved to Guernsey in 1903
 * Compton Mackenzie (1883-1972), author, tenant of Herm
 * Guy John Nixon (born 1909), ski jumper, holder of British ski jump record for 56 years; worked as a teacher in Guernsey
 * Nicholas Monsarrat (1910-1979), author of The Cruel Sea and more than thirty other novels; lived in Guernsey from 1959-1963
 * John Le Mesurier (1912-1983), actor in Dad's Army; lived in Guernsey for the majority of his life
 * Cyril Fletcher (1913-2005), actor, comedian
 * Robert Farnon (1917-2005), conductor and composer; lived in Guernsey for 40 years
 * Derrick Bailey (1918-2009), founder of Aurigny Airlines
 * Desmond Bagley (1923-1983), best-selling writer of thriller novels; lived in Guernsey 1976–1983
 * Ronnie Ronalde (1923-2015), siffleur, lived in Guernsey from the 1960s to the 1980s
 * Eliza Beresford (1926-2010), writer, creator of children's characters The Wombles; lived in Alderney
 * G.N. Georgano (born 1932), author of reference books about motorcars
 * David and Frederick Barclay (both born 1934), businessmen in media, retail and property
 * Oliver Reed (1938-1999), actor in Gladiator, Oliver! and other films; lived in Guernsey for many years
 * Dawn Brooke (born 1938), world's oldest natural mother; gave birth in 1997 at the age of 59
 * John Templeton Smith (born 1943), author of "The John Winter trilogy" and other stories; founder Anglo Normandy Aeroengineering Ltd, lived in Guernsey for many years
 * Mary Perkins (born 1944), co-founder and a senior executive of Specsavers
 * Raymond Evison, (born 1944), nurseryman, lecturer, author and photographer
 * Norman Wood (born 1947), Scottish Ryder Cup player
 * Guy Hands (born 1959), financier and investor, former chairman of EMI
 * Wayne Bulpitt (born 1961), UK Chief Commissioner for The Scout Association
 * David Gilliver (born 1979), photographer known for his light painting work and "Small World" series
 * Jenson Button (born 1980), Formula One driver


 * Sam Lesley (born 1994), local runner and resident