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BRIGHTON
Most Famous People Born in Brighton, United Kingdom
- Notable people
- 538
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- Median birth year
- 1932
- Most distinctive
- Cricket 9.3×
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Brighton during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Brighton Is Known For
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Football is Brighton's biggest profession — 13% of all notables (68).
Brighton over-indexes on cricket — 9.3× the global rate.
Brighton under-produces politician — only 0.4× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Brighton's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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Aubrey Beardsley
1872 - 1898
Lesley Manville
Born 1956
Passenger (singer)
Born 1984
Bat for Lashes
Born 1979
Katie Price
Born 1978
Gilbert Ryle
1900 - 1976
Nigel Kennedy
Born 1956
Eric Gill
1882 - 1940
Martin Ryle
1918 - 1984
Bonobo (musician)
Born 1976
Peter James (writer)
Born 1948
Conor Maynard
Born 1992
Jack Clayton
1921 - 1995
Philip Reeve
Born 1966
Samantha Womack
Born 1972
Frank Bridge
1879 - 1941
David Garnett
1892 - 1981
Caitlin Moran
Born 1975
Lucy Griffiths (actress, born 1986)
Born 1986
Steve Ovett
Born 1955
Arthur Treacher
1894 - 1975
Fink (singer)
Born 1972
Pauline Baynes
1922 - 2008
Wanda Ventham
Born 1935
Max Miller (comedian)
1894 - 1963
Steve Ferrone
Born 1950
Sean Ellis
Born 1970
Amanda Redman
Born 1957
Ray Noble
1903 - 1978
James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn
1838 - 1913
Leon Garfield
1921 - 1996
Peter Hewitt (director)
Born 1962
Toby Hemingway
Born 1983
Herbert Rawlinson
1885 - 1953
Holly Willoughby
Born 1981
Constance Garnett
1861 - 1946
Russell Martin (footballer)
Born 1986
Lewis Dunk
Born 1991
Martin Wight
1913 - 1972
Adrian Brunel
1892 - 1958
Michael Fabricant
Born 1950
Dave Clarke (DJ)
Born 1968
Joan Riviere
1883 - 1962
Tommy Elphick
Born 1987
Dave Greenfield
1949 - 2020
Paul O'Grady
Born 1955
Mixmaster Morris
Born 1965
Charlotte Elliott
1789 - 1871
Ruth Lawrence
Born 1971
Graham Cutts
1885 - 1958
Cyriak
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Eva Moore
1870 - 1955
Francis Llewellyn Griffith
1862 - 1934
Pete Walker (director)
Born 1939
Peter Polycarpou
Born 1957
Michael Feast
Born 1946
Fiona McIntosh
Born 1960
Gazelle Twin
Born 2011
Tom Sayers
1826 - 1865
Allan Taylor (musician)
Born 1945
Paul Ifill
Born 1979
Adam El-Abd
Born 1984
Victor Campbell (Royal Navy officer)
1875 - 1956
George Ernest Shelley
1840 - 1910
Pascal Langdale
Born 1973
Tony Hawks
Born 1960
Philippa Fawcett
1868 - 1948
Natasha O'Keeffe
Born 1986
Gavin Flood
Born 1954
Harriet Howard
1823 - 1865
Emily Gravett
Born 1972
Rose Elinor Dougall
Born 1986
Charlie Grice
Born 1993
Roland Pertwee
1885 - 1963
Lionel Pape
1877 - 1944
Robert Herbert
1831 - 1905
Richard Asher
1912 - 1969
Trevor Brown
Born 1959
David Collings
1940 - 2020
Seamus Haji
Born 1968
Florence Marryat
1833 - 1899
Dudley Ryder, 3rd Earl of Harrowby
1831 - 1900
Christopher Gravett
Born 1951
Gary Windo
1941 - 1992
Nick Gillard
Born 1959
Barbara Hannah
1891 - 1986
Clementina Black
1853 - 1922
Ashleigh Ball (field hockey)
Born 1986
Johnny Wakelin
Born 1939
Charles Henry Stanley
1819 - 1901
John Wisden
1826 - 1884
Anthony French
1920 - 2017
Michael Kilgarriff
Born 1937
Robert Wisden
Born 1958
Michael Cochrane
Born 1947
Adrian Lambert
Born 1972
Thomas Erskine Holland
1835 - 1926
Mercedes Gleitze
1900 - 1981
John Nicks
Born 1929
Beth Cordingly
Born 1976
Nick Howard
Born 1982
David Pilbeam
Born 1940
Leo Stern
1862 - 1904
Jake Williams
Born 1974
Edward Marshall Hall
1858 - 1927
Peter Keevash
Born 1978
John Butcher (musician)
Born 1954
Alex King (rugby union)
Born 1975
William King (physician)
1786 - 1865
Rosie Rushton
Born 1945
Tom Blundell
Born 1942
David Winnick
Born 1933
Jenny Jones, Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
Born 1949
Maurice Tate
1895 - 1956
Rodney Soher
1893 - 1983
Grant Hall
Born 1991
The Rootsman
Born 1965
Arabella Buckley
1840 - 1929
Edgar Syers
1863 - 1946
Boy Capel
1881 - 1919
Ewart Alan Mackintosh
1893 - 1917
Daisy Rock
Born 1977
Richard Burchett
1815 - 1875
Sydney Cockerell
1867 - 1962
John Hathaway
Born 1987
Dave Richmond
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Chesney Allen
1894 - 1982
Glen Rea
Born 1994
Ada Ellen Bayly
1857 - 1903
Stephanie Parker
1987 - 2009
Colin Smith (Hispanist)
1927 - 1997
Somers Clarke
1841 - 1926
Louisa Montagu Douglas Scott, Duchess of Buccleuch
1836 - 1912
Norman Armour
1887 - 1982
Eric Jupp
1922 - 2003
Tasie Dhanraj
Born 1993
Leslie Godfree
1885 - 1971
George Burchett
1872 - 1953
Rebecca Stephens
Born 1982
Orlando Gough
Born 1953
Edgar Bundy
1862 - 1922
Sebastian Rodger
Born 1991
Edward Tyas Cook
1857 - 1919
Adam Virgo
Born 1983
Tommy Fraser
Born 1987
Tommy Wisdom
1906 - 1972
Ollie Phillips (rugby union)
Born 1982
Lloyd Russell-Moyle
Born 1986
John Bowis
Born 1945
Natasha Kaplinsky
Born 1972
Jennifer Nicks
1932 - 1980
John Roland Abbey
1894 - 1969
Christoph Röhl
Born 1967
Edith Rebecca Saunders
1865 - 1945
Sean Bury
Born 1954
John Garrick
1902 - 1966
Brian Hall (actor)
1937 - 1997
Sydney James Bounds
1920 - 2006
Eileen Sharp
1900 - 1958
Reginald Watson-Jones
1902 - 1972
Jake Robinson
Born 1986
Ben Sherman
1925 - 1987
Edward Bunbury
1811 - 1895
William Edward Shuckard
1803 - 1868
Konrad Jarnot
Born 1972
Felix English
Born 1992
Matt Mullan
Born 1987
Magnus Volk
1851 - 1937
Mike Gambrill
1935 - 2011
David Parkins
Born 1956
Rich Fownes
Born 1983
Fred Walton (actor)
1865 - 1936
Joe Gatting
Born 1987
Alfred Drayton
1881 - 1949
John Saxby
1821 - 1913
Simon Greatwich
Born 1988
Ralph Hone
1896 - 1992
Cecilia Maria de Candia
1853 - 1926
Ernest Henley (athlete)
1889 - 1962
Jessica Walker
Born 1990
Keith Simpson (pathologist)
1907 - 1985
Blue Boy (DJ)
Born 1997
John Ryle (physician)
1889 - 1950
Francesca Arundale
1847 - 1924
Amita Dhiri
Born 1966
Clare Connor
Born 1976
Louis Francis Salzman
1878 - 1971
Seymour King
1852 - 1933
Steve Palmer (footballer)
Born 1968
Henry More Smith
1785 - 1835
Chris Terrill
Born 1952
William Hewett
1834 - 1888
David Van Day
Born 1956
Rosie Taylor-Ritson
Born 1995
Willie Edouin
1846 - 1908
Ray Brooks (actor)
Born 1939
Wes Fogden
Born 1988
Howard Henry Tooth
1856 - 1925
John Okell
1934 - 2020
Joe El-Abd
Born 1980
Jacqueline Nearne
1916 - 1982
Frederick James Gould
1855 - 1938
Maui Taylor
Born 1981
Herbert G. Baker
1920 - 2001
Ivor Caplin
Born 1958
Tony Bloom
Born 1970
William Howship Dickinson
1832 - 1913
Ivan Samson
1894 - 1963
Anson Dyer
1876 - 1962
Frederick Akbar Mahomed
1849 - 1884
Fred Tate
1867 - 1943
George Hardy (artist)
1822 - 1909
Greg Luer
Born 1994
Lennie Lawrence
Born 1947
Walford Selby
1881 - 1965
Mervyn O'Gorman
1871 - 1958
Boyd Irwin
1880 - 1957
Dudley FitzGerald-de Ros, 23rd Baron de Ros
1827 - 1907
Howard William Kennard
1878 - 1955
Harvey Braban
1883 - 1943
Felix Markham
1908 - 1992
Joe Day (footballer)
Born 1990
Ann Quin
1936 - 1973
Ian Beck
Born 1947
Stan Willemse
1924 - 2011
Donald Hankey
1884 - 1916
Evelyn, Princess Blücher
1876 - 1960
Jocelyn Oxlade
Born 1987
Reynell Taylor
1822 - 1886
Lewis Dayton
Born 1889
David Wheeler (footballer)
Born 1990
Robert Charles Moon
1844 - 1914
Luke Cresswell
Born 1963
Sophie Coleman
Born 1990
Lou Fellingham
Born 1974
Adam Kay (writer)
Born 1980
Addison Cresswell
1960 - 2013
Matt Machan
Born 1991
Allanah Harper
1904 - 1992
Peter Self
1919 - 1999
Leslie Gay
1871 - 1949
Alex Brummer
Born 1949
Henry Philemon Attwater
1854 - 1931
Keith Tritton
Born 1944
Harry Lorraine (American actor)
1886 - 1934
Ryan Moore (jockey)
Born 1983
Lance Cronin
Born 1985
Derek Francis
1923 - 1984
Steve Brown (footballer, born 1972)
Born 1972
Geoff Smith (British musician)
Born 1966
Charlie Walker (footballer, born 1990)
Born 1990
Tom Campbell Black
1899 - 1936
Thomas Gandey
Born 1979
Terry Virgo
Born 1940
Alma Birk, Baroness Birk
1917 - 1996
Michael Trotobas
1914 - 1943
Gwen Moffat
Born 1924
Arthur Stanley Williams
1861 - 1938
Jennifer Durrant
Born 1942
Neville Figgis
1866 - 1919
Charles Justin MacCarthy
1811 - 1864
William Hodson Brock
Born 1936
Red Symons
Born 1949
Paul Massey (rower)
1926 - 2009
L. B. Billinton
1882 - 1954
Frederick Walker Mott
1853 - 1926
Ivan Lawrence
Born 1936
Decima Moore
1871 - 1964
Percy Horton
1897 - 1970
John Leopold Denman
1882 - 1975
Alice Dudeney
1866 - 1945
George Vesey Stewart
1832 - 1920
John Norton (journalist)
1858 - 1916
Shamir Fenelon
Born 1994
Laurence Rickard
Born 1975
Ruaraidh Erskine
1869 - 1960
Sybil Thomas, Viscountess Rhondda
1857 - 1941
Henry Longhurst (actor)
1891 - 1970
Phil Greatwich
Born 1987
Thomas White (musician)
Born 1984
Barbara Wyatt
1930 - 2012
Simon Lelic
Born 1976
Andrew Clarke (cricketer, born 1961)
Born 1961
Frank Brown (entertainer)
1858 - 1943
Barbara Willard
1909 - 1994
Mark Knight (musician)
Born 1973
Roger Steare
Born 1958
Steve Reeves (computer scientist)
Born 1957
Henry George Hine
1811 - 1895
Leighton Allen
Born 1973
Charles Watkins Merrifield
1827 - 1884
Paul Lewis (composer)
Born 1943
Ivan Massow
Born 1967
Jeffery Boswall
1931 - 2012
George Frederick Ives
1881 - 1993
Alexandra Brown
Born 2000
Hugh Harris
Born 1987
George Coppard
1898 - 1984
Andy Hurst
Born 1974
Lars Helminen
Born 1985