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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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Lesley Manville
Born 1956
Katie Price
Born 1978
Samantha Womack
Born 1972
Lucy Griffiths (actress, born 1986)
Born 1986
Arthur Treacher
1894 - 1975
Wanda Ventham
Born 1935
Sean Ellis
Born 1970
Amanda Redman
Born 1957
Toby Hemingway
Born 1983
Herbert Rawlinson
1885 - 1953
Adrian Brunel
1892 - 1958
Eva Moore
1870 - 1955
Peter Polycarpou
Born 1957
Michael Feast
Born 1946
Pascal Langdale
Born 1973
Natasha O'Keeffe
Born 1986
Harriet Howard
1823 - 1865
Roland Pertwee
1885 - 1963
Lionel Pape
1877 - 1944
David Collings
1940 - 2020
Michael Kilgarriff
Born 1937
Robert Wisden
Born 1958
Michael Cochrane
Born 1947
Beth Cordingly
Born 1976
Daisy Rock
Born 1977
Stephanie Parker
1987 - 2009
Tasie Dhanraj
Born 1993
Sean Bury
Born 1954
John Garrick
1902 - 1966
Brian Hall (actor)
1937 - 1997
Fred Walton (actor)
1865 - 1936
Alfred Drayton
1881 - 1949
Amita Dhiri
Born 1966
Rosie Taylor-Ritson
Born 1995
Willie Edouin
1846 - 1908
Ray Brooks (actor)
Born 1939
Ivan Samson
1894 - 1963
Boyd Irwin
1880 - 1957
Harvey Braban
1883 - 1943
Lewis Dayton
Born 1889
Harry Lorraine (American actor)
1886 - 1934
Derek Francis
1923 - 1984
Laurence Rickard
Born 1975
Henry Longhurst (actor)
1891 - 1970
Edward Smith Willard
1853 - 1915
Michael Nightingale
1922 - 1999
Shannon Tarbet
Born 1991
Kathleen Vaughan
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Sheila Kennelly
Born 1927
Tom Owen (actor)
Born 1949
Vicki Woolf
Born 1945
Geraldine Newman
Born 1934
Eve Lister
1913 - 1997
Symond Lawes
Born 1965
Jonathan Raggett
Born 1992
Aimée Campton
1882 - 1930
Lara Heller
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Phillip Hinton
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