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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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Brandon Joseph-Buadi
Born 1997
Dan Hipgrave
Born 1975
Kyla Greenbaum
1922 - 2017
Mark Pettini
Born 1983
Lily Agg
Born 1993
Edward Smith Willard
1853 - 1915
Angus Douglas-Hamilton
1863 - 1915
Alex White (musician)
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Robert Coffin (bishop)
1819 - 1885
Georgina Parkinson
1938 - 2009
John Volanthen
Born 1971
Michael Nightingale
1922 - 1999
David Butcher
Born 1948
Stuart Tuck
Born 1974
Sam Rents
Born 1987
George Garton
Born 1997
Barbara Diggens
Born 1949
Sara Brahms
Born 1978
Darren Freeman
Born 1973
Charles Stent
1807 - 1885
Tom Moores
Born 1996
Reginald Arbuthnot
1853 - 1917
Fiona Bennett
Born 1966
Tessie Reynolds
1876 - 1955
Georges, marquis d'Harcourt
1808 - 1883
Roy Cruttenden
1925 - 2019
Shannon Tarbet
Born 1991
Alistair Slowe
Born 1988
Charles Dealtry Locock
1862 - 1946
Bill Sellars
1921 - 2018
John Hawksworth (economist)
Born 1963
Leon Gordon (playwright)
1894 - 1960
Katherine Merchant
Born 1985
Conrad Heighton Leigh
Born 1883
Jill Day
1930 - 1990
Sam Gargan
Born 1989
Jay Lovett
Born 1978
Kathleen Vaughan
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Lynn Huggins-Cooper
Born 1964
Gary Elphick
Born 1985
George Le Brunn
1863 - 1905
Sheila Kennelly
Born 1927
Joe Cribb
-
Anna Dumitriu
Born 1969
Osmund Reynolds
1933 - 2017
Tom Owen (actor)
Born 1949
Sophie Perry
Born 1986
David Feldman (lawyer)
-
Vicki Woolf
Born 1945
Louis Clark (English footballer)
Born 1990
Ross Johnson (English footballer)
Born 1976
Mia Clarke
Born 1983
Sir Edward Kerrison, 2nd Baronet
1821 - 1886
Dainton Connell
1961 - 2007
Allen Timpany
Born 1956
Sheila Whiteley
1941 - 2015
Ernie Gates
Born 1909
Vivien Neves
1947 - 2002
Peter Spencer (Royal Navy officer)
Born 1947
Shaun Troke
Born 1978
Henry Richard Farquharson
1857 - 1896
Martin Bell (archaeologist)
Born 1953
Jesse Starkey
Born 1995
Peter Thomas Hay
1932 - 2018
Dennis Lyons, Baron Lyons of Brighton
1918 - 1978
Glen Davies (footballer)
Born 1976
Winifred Silverthorne
1925 - 1998
Steve Piper
1953 - 2017
Geraldine Newman
Born 1934
Eve Lister
1913 - 1997
Joe Collings
1865 - 1955
Marianne Allen Tasker
1852 - 1911
Miles Russell
Born 1967
Angela Banks
Born 1975
Peter Henry (bobsledder)
Born 1962
Charlie Bray
1898 - 1993
Lawrence E. Knox
1836 - 1873
Craig Whitington
Born 1970
Jerahl Hughes
Born 1989
Theodore Wright
1883 - 1914
Ernest Walter Histed
1862 - 1947
Dennis Silverthorne
1923 - 2004
Montagu Cotterill
1851 - 1933
Martin Bodenham
Born 1950
Shaun Smith (linebacker)
Born 1982
Peter Brackley
1951 - 2018
Gilbert Murray Simpson
1869 - 1954
Paula Gerard
1907 - 1991
Darren Baxter (English footballer)
Born 1981
Ernest Frederick Beal
1883 - 1918
Arthur St. Norman
1878 - 1956
Amy Turner (English rugby union)
Born 1984
Lionel Edward Gresley Carden
1851 - 1915
John Flett (fashion designer)
1963 - 1991
Arthur Neve
1859 - 1919
Carl Hopkinson
Born 1981
Barry Barnes (compositore di scacchi)
Born 1937
Sophia Mirza
1974 - 2005
Alexander Robert Reinagle
1799 - 1877
Robert Greenhalgh
Born 1978
Frederick P. Salvucci
Born 1940
Terence Thomas Quirke
1886 - 1947
Ian Chapman (footballer)
Born 1970
Aaron Thomason
-
John Wells-Thorpe
1928 - 2019
Keith Wilson (cricketer)
1894 - 1977
William Jones (English footballer, born 1876)
1876 - 1959
Paul Weller (footballer)
Born 1975
Wilfrid Payne
1894 - 1978
Henry Alexander (cricketer)
1841 - 1920
Herbert Yglesias
1867 - 1949
Geoffrey Collins (cricketer, born 1918)
1918 - 2008
Arthur Heatley
1865 - 1941
Alan Skinner (cricketer)
1913 - 1982
Noah Cato
Born 1988
Symond Lawes
Born 1965
Thomas Lainson
1825 - 1898
Albert Wensley
1898 - 1970
Robin Hayward
Born 1969
Alfred Tuppin
1911 - 2003
Jonathan Raggett
Born 1992
Gustavus Fowke
1880 - 1946
Steven Ades
Born 1982
Harry Leonard (rugby union)
Born 1992
Gord Mills
1928 - 2004
Helen David
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Percy F. Luck
1844 - 1915
Charles Carpenter (cricketer)
1837 - 1876
Barry Lillywhite
Born 1946
George Brown (cricketer, born 1821)
1821 - 1875
Mary Achenbach
1883 - 1975
Francis Foster (Tasmanian politician)
1888 - 1979
Richard Alexander Bevan
1834 - 1918
H. E. T. Haultain
1869 - 1961
Harold G. Stoner
1890 - 1971
Tom Williams (rugby player, born 1983)
Born 1983
Aimée Campton
1882 - 1930
Tony Towner
Born 1955
Tim Daniels
Born 1980
David Standing
Born 1963
David Manville
Born 1934
Christopher Mays
Born 1966
Ben Ryan (hockey sur glace)
Born 1988
John Albert Axel Gibson
1916 - 2000
Terry Hirst
1932 - 2015
George Humphreys (cricketer)
1845 - 1894
Calum Waters (rugby player)
Born 1996
Fred Monk
1920 - 1987
Ian Thwaites
1943 - 2015
George Salter (cricketer)
1834 - 1911
Kevin Smith (cricketer)
Born 1957
Henry Tamplin
1801 - 1867
Kate Oakenfold
Born 1984
John Pentecost
1855 - 1902
James Murdock (politician)
1871 - 1949
William Soames
1850 - 1916
Walter Humphreys Jr
1878 - 1960
Will Packham
Born 1981
Lara Heller
-
Phillip Hinton
-
James Botting
1783 - 1857
Laura-Mary Carter
Born 1987
John Davey (cricketer)
1847 - 1878
Sean Bonney
Died 2019
Philip Philips
-
Alan Saunders (cricketer)
1892 - 1957
Paul Stenning
Born 1976
John Comber
1861 - 1903
Ronald Winckworth
1884 - 1950
A.C. Williams
-
Lesley Cooke
Born 1963
John Paine (cricketer)
1829 - 1859
Joseph Shoesmith
1859 - 1901
Mike Hammond
Born 1990
Katie McGill
Born 1992
Andrew Brewin
1907 - 1983
Adrian Thorne
Born 1937
George Goad (cricketer)
1806 - 1878
Eustace Malden
1863 - 1947
Horatio Nelson Goulty
1832 - 1869
Isaiah Aram Minasian
Born 1986
David Smith (Sussex cricketer, born 1962)
Born 1962
Cecil Butcher
1872 - 1929
Christopher Scott-Malden
1890 - 1956
Adaline Weston Couzins
1815 - 1892
Eric Whitington
Born 1946
Neal McDonald
Born 1963
Arthur Ernest Hagg
1888 - 1985
Geoffrey Harley Mewton
1905 - 1998
Gordon Beves
1862 - 1927
George Goldsmith (cricketer)
1850 - 1916
Henry Budgen
1865 - 1929
Eliza Wyatt
-
John Anscombe
1838 - 1881
Maud Crofts
1889 - 1965
Gerry Gurr
Born 1946
Wilfrid Young
1867 - 1947
Ernest Warwick
1918 - 2009
Edward Zeff
1904 - 1974
Edward Pattenden
1842 - 1879
Felix Thorn
Born 1985
Eve Polycarpou
-
Frank Saunders (footballer)
1864 - 1905
Henry Harris (English cricketer)
1854 - 1923
Matt Thompson (rugby union)
Born 1982
Philip Vallance (cricketer, born 1803)
1803 - 1897
George Moore (fencer)
1906 - 1977
John Noel Ormiston Curle
1915 - 1997
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George Robathan
1878 - 1951
Jim Hammond
1907 - 1985
Alfred Ewer
-
Mike Ring
Born 1961
Charles Beard Izard
1829 - 1904
John Akister
Born 1937
Emma Lomax
1873 - 1963
Ollie Richards
Born 1992
Frank Grayer
1890 - 1961
Tommy Spicer (footballer)
1876 - 1958
Alan Willows
Born 1961
Tim Hollier
1947 - 2017
Alex South
Born 1931
Zack Henry
Born 1994
Nicholas Copeman
1906 - 1969
Natalia Arias
Born 1997
John Spencer (cricketer, born 1949)
Born 1949
Henry Soames
1843 - 1913
Arthur Marjeram
1877 - 1911
Paul Mooney (footballer)
1901 - 1980
Charlie Russell (cricketer)
Born 1988
Jack Duncliffe
Born 1947
Isaac Christie-Davies
Born 1998
Darren Newman
Born 1968
Frank Lambert (Ornithologe)
Born 1958
John Read (businessman)
1918 - 2015
Jack Ball (footballer, born 1923)
1923 - 1999
James Holmes (politician)
1831 - 1910
George Rampton
1888 - 1971