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BATH
Most Famous People Born in Bath, United Kingdom
- Notable people
- 366
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- Median birth year
- 1916
- Most distinctive
- Cricket 7.7×
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Bath during each.
Notable Births by Decade
Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1980s with 35 notable births.
What Bath Is Known For
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Cricket is Bath's biggest profession — 10% of all notables (36).
Bath over-indexes on cricket — 7.7× the global rate.
Bath under-produces politician — only 0.4× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Bath's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Sports
- Film & TV
- Writing
- Art & Design
- Music
- Politics & Law
- Other
Bill Bailey
Born 1964
Indira Varma
Born 1973
Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury
1473 - 1541
Jacqueline Wilson
Born 1945
William Parry (explorer)
1790 - 1855
Curt Smith
Born 1961
Jonathan Lynn
Born 1943
Henry Cole
1808 - 1882
Adelard of Bath
1075 - 1160
Scott Sinclair
Born 1989
Arnold Ridley
1896 - 1984
Mary Berry
Born 1935
Adam Campbell (actor)
Born 1980
William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst
1773 - 1857
Ann Widdecombe
Born 1947
Charlie McDonnell
Born 1990
Thomas Bowdler
1754 - 1825
Kallistos Ware
Born 1934
Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Born 1935
Nora Swinburne
1902 - 2000
Richard Lovell Edgeworth
1744 - 1817
William Prynne
1600 - 1669
Thomas Linley the younger
1756 - 1778
Ashley Barnes
Born 1989
Raymond Carr
1919 - 2015
Benjamin Robins
1707 - 1751
Benjamin Baker (engineer)
1840 - 1907
Siobhan-Marie O'Connor
Born 1995
Tyrone Mings
Born 1993
Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long
1854 - 1924
Ælfheah of Canterbury
954 - 1012
Allegra Byron
1817 - 1822
Edwin Long
1829 - 1891
Jeremy Guscott
Born 1965
Michael Gwynn
1916 - 1976
Percy Pilcher
1866 - 1899
Jason Gardener
Born 1975
Peter Cathcart Wason
1924 - 2003
Angelica Mandy
Born 1992
Ian Stanley
Born 1957
Tony Book
Born 1934
Roy Ascott
Born 1934
Danny Byrd
Born 1979
Aylmer Bourke Lambert
1761 - 1842
Peter Salisbury
Born 1971
John Wood, the Younger
1728 - 1782
David Marshall Lang
1924 - 1991
Derek Humphry
Born 1930
Rob Fisher (British musician)
1956 - 1999
Nigel Thrift
Born 1949
Marcus Patrick
Born 1974
Ollie Barbieri
Born 1991
Thomas Haynes Bayly
1797 - 1839
Adam Marsh
1200 - 1259
Philip Jones (musician)
1928 - 2000
Matt Macey
Born 1994
John Roberts (historian)
1928 - 2003
Alberto Semprini
1908 - 1990
Janet Quin-Harkin
Born 1941
David Hartley (the Younger)
1732 - 1813
Thomas Jones Barker
1815 - 1882
Mike Cowlishaw
-
Ed McKeever
Born 1983
Peter Jenner
Born 1943
John Seymour, 19th Duke of Somerset
Born 1952
William Lonsdale
1794 - 1871
Lawrence James
Born 1943
John Hales
1584 - 1656
Meryle Secrest
Born 1930
Hugh Alexander Kennedy
1809 - 1878
C. P. Scott
1846 - 1932
Michael Spicer
1943 - 2019
Arthur Havelock
1844 - 1908
James FitzGerald (New Zealand politician)
1818 - 1896
Thomas Ley
1880 - 1947
Nicholas Ostler
Born 1952
Richard Guyon
1803 - 1856
Frederick William Stevens
1847 - 1900
Henry Digby (Royal Navy officer)
1770 - 1842
Michaela Tabb
Born 1967
Edward Hawkins
1789 - 1882
Jason Dodd
Born 1970
Benjamin Nottingham Webster
1797 - 1882
Charles Boner
1815 - 1870
Kyle Scott
Born 1997
Aaron Kuhl
Born 1996
Matt Perry (rugby union)
Born 1977
Edward Loder
1809 - 1865
Richard Hodges (archaeologist)
Born 1952
Edward Pigott
1753 - 1825
George Earle Buckle
1854 - 1935
Matt Green (footballer)
Born 1987
Sarah Ash
Born 1950
Thomas Chilcot
1700 - 1766
Edith Margaret Garrud
1872 - 1971
Kate Loder
1825 - 1904
Tim Weaver (author)
Born 1977
John Glen (politician)
Born 1974
Leon Reid
Born 1994
Thomas Hay-Drummond, 11th Earl of Kinnoull
1785 - 1866
Clara Vestris Webster
1821 - 1844
Hodgson Pratt
1824 - 1907
Arthur Hood, 1st Baron Hood of Avalon
1824 - 1901
Jane Mary Guest
1762 - 1846
James Hill (British Army officer)
1911 - 2006
Percival Spear
1901 - 1982
Rosalind Scott, Baroness Scott of Needham Market
Born 1957
Prince Hoare (younger)
1755 - 1834
Princess Claire of Belgium
Born 1974
Charles J. Phipps
1835 - 1897
John Palmer (postal innovator)
1742 - 1818
T. Tertius Noble
1867 - 1953
Freddie Burns
Born 1990
Jake Sinclair
Born 1994
Anya Shrubsole
Born 1991
Philip Filleul
1885 - 1974
Kerry Wilkinson
Born 1980
Alex Bray
Born 1995
Tabitha Wady
Born 1976
Edward Vansittart Neale
1810 - 1892
Verner Clarges
1846 - 1911
Henry Trollope
1756 - 1839
Fanny Vining Davenport
1829 - 1891
Jessica Jordan
Born 1984
Leanne Cope
Born 1983
Arthur Gore, 5th Earl of Arran
1839 - 1901
Melanie Gabriel
Born 1976
Giles Foster
-
Honora Sneyd
1751 - 1780
Rowland George
1905 - 1997
John Maggs
1819 - 1896
John Douglas Thompson
Born 1964
William Hone
1780 - 1842
Jon Hall (rugby union)
Born 1962
Thomas Seir Cummings
1804 - 1894
Charles S. Barker
1807 - 1879
Charlie Griffin
Born 1979
Emily Shard
Born 1975
Algernon Seymour, 15th Duke of Somerset
1846 - 1923
Ernest Bickham Sweet-Escott
1857 - 1941
Lucy Anderson
1797 - 1878
Alexander Lascelles, Viscount Lascelles
Born 1980
Ann Street Barry
1734 - 1801
Thomas Fuller (architect)
1823 - 1898
Innes Sibun
Born 1968
Jordan Smith (golfer)
Born 1992
Steve Phillips (footballer, born 1978)
Born 1978
Anthony Cave Brown
1929 - 2006
Adam Wicheard
Born 1985
Robert Orledge
Born 1948
Marguerite Patten
1915 - 2015
Leslie Hollis
1897 - 1963
William Nichols (architect)
1780 - 1853
Ellen Montalba
1842 - 1902
Violet Cliff
1916 - 2003
John Daniell (cricketer)
1878 - 1963
Leonard Raven-Hill
1867 - 1942
Emilia Aylmer Blake
1846 - 1905
Charles Henry Parry
1779 - 1860
Tristram Shapeero
Born 1966
Paul Mattick (rower)
Born 1978
Thelma Hulbert
1913 - 1995
Clive Deamer
-
Mary Elizabeth Duffield-Rosenberg
1819 - 1914
Joseph Brown (bishop)
1796 - 1880
Thomas Marden
1866 - 1951
J. A. Spender
1862 - 1942
John Holman (chemist)
Born 1946
Jennifer Biddall
Born 1980
John O'Brian
Born 1944
Edward Macarthur
1789 - 1872
Brian Osborne
Born 1940
Justin Webb
Born 1961
Benjamin Godwin
1785 - 1871
Alex Barrow
Born 1992
Jordan Tillson
Born 1993
Olive Wilton
1883 - 1971
Laura Maddox
Born 1990
George Bartley (comedian)
1782 - 1855
Jim Hosking
-
Derek Richter
1907 - 1995
William Eden Nesfield
1835 - 1888
Richard Laurence
1760 - 1838
Mike Mower
Born 1958
John Gully (artist)
1819 - 1888
Phil Waller
1889 - 1917
Michael P. Candy
1928 - 1994
Millie Brown (performance artist)
Born 1986
Janet Key
1945 - 1992
Sarah West (actress)
1790 - 1876
William Ormsby-Gore (1779–1860)
1779 - 1860
Pete Byrne
Born 1954
Albert Way
1805 - 1874
William Jay Bolton
1816 - 1884
Thomas Coxe
1615 - 1685
Constance Carpenter
1904 - 1992
Horace Twiss
1787 - 1849
Gwendolyn Osborne
Born 1978
Tony Spreadbury
Born 1962
Thomas Leeson Scrase Rowbotham
1782 - 1853
Henry Hammond (footballer, born 1866)
1866 - 1910
Stephen Carlile
Born 1978
Mike Hawker (songwriter)
1936 - 2014
Billy Burns (rugby union)
Born 1994
Norman Pounds
1912 - 2006
Diana Napier
1905 - 1982
Mike Gregory (darts player)
Born 1956
Annunziata Rees-Mogg
Born 1979
Naomi Chance
1930 - 2003
John Robert Baldwin
1918 - 1952
Mackenzie Walcott
1821 - 1880
Val May
1927 - 2012
William Duffield
1816 - 1863
Michael Please
Born 1984
Isabel Fay
Born 1979
Althea Gyles
1868 - 1949
Harriet Waylett
1798 - 1851
Charles Farr
Died 2019
Richard Dove (Lyriker)
Born 1954
Jamie Gosling
Born 1982
Jamie Chadwick
Born 1998
John Willes-Johnson
1793 - 1863
John Bowdler
1746 - 1823
Kayleigh Pearson
Born 1985
Gabby Young
Born 1984
Laurence Ovens
Born 1985
James Hawkins (artist)
Born 1954
Dave Ward (rugby union)
Born 1985
Percy Banks
1885 - 1915
John Charles Moore Grant, 9th Baron de Longueuil
1861 - 1935
Beaumont Cranfield
1872 - 1909
Oliver Park
Born 1986
Mandy Chessell
Born 1965
George Loder
1816 - 1868
Josh Cook
Born 1991
Stanley Brenton von Donop
1860 - 1941
Tamzin Brown
-
George Bayntun
1873 - 1940
Jordan James
Born 1980
Patricia Brake
Born 1942
Thomas Archer (actor)
1789 - 1848
Guy Harrison-Murray
Born 1997
Henry Kiddle
1824 - 1891
Michelle Coy
Born 1971
George Hankins
Born 1997
Stacey Tadd
Born 1989
Michael Gear (cricketer)
Born 1945
Alan Skirton
1939 - 2019
Paul A Shaw
Born 1947
Kathy Troutt
Born 1947
Edward Millard
1822 - 1906
William H. Fry
1830 - 1929
Jane Vezin
1829 - 1902
George Ralph Mines
1886 - 1914
Mary Spear
1913 - 2006
Kym Jackson
Born 1983
Natalia Warner
Born 1991
Frederick Parham
1901 - 1991
Viking Olsson
1921 - 2014
Alicia Tindal Palmer
1763 - 1822
Anne Raikes Harding
1779 - 1858
Mabel Lee Hankey
1863 - 1943
Lauren Shrubsole
Born 1993
John Wellesley Thomas
1822 - 1908
Jonathan N. Dixon
Born 1972
Thomas Phinn
1814 - 1866
Geoffrey Brooke
1920 - 2009
Edward Barnwell
1813 - 1887
Kim Oliver (rugby union)
Born 1983
George Augustus Graham
1833 - 1909
Keith Nugent
Born 1959
Patrick Grieshaber
Born 1996
Rod Adams
Born 1945
Steve Surry
Born 1982
Alfred Horsford
1818 - 1885
Eustace Wyatt
1882 - 1944
Arthur Garner
1851 - 1898
Ted Sainsbury
1851 - 1930
Paul Roebuck
Born 1963
Alexander Khateeb
Born 1984
George Attfield
1826 - 1925
Bernard Hall (footballer)
Born 1942
Stuart Barnes (cricketer)
Born 1970
Nora Drummond
1862 - 1949
Horatius Paulijn
1644 - 1691
John Morgan (footballer, born 1855)
1855 - 1937
Robert Yaxley
1912 - 1943
Tom Dunn (rugby union)
Born 1992
Ed Jackson (rugby player)
Born 1988
Hugh Owen (cricketer)
1859 - 1912
James Bell (reformer)
Died 1596
Pamela Vezey
1932 - 1992
Tom Young (cricketer)
1890 - 1936
Nick Harrison (cricketer)
Born 1992
Thomas Dempster Gordon
1811 - 1894
Jim Redman (cricketer)
1926 - 1981
Chris Cook (rugby union)
Born 1991
Henry Thomas Cole
1816 - 1885
George Thackeray
1806 - 1875
Kenelm Thomas Digby
Died 1883