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BRISTOL

Most Famous People Born in Bristol, United Kingdom

Notable people
1,347
Peak decade
1980s
Median birth year
1935
Most distinctive
Cricket 8.6×

A West Country port whose modern bench is thick with cricketers at nearly nine times the global rate, music producers, botanists, and rugby players (grouped as 'player') — the footprint of a city that gave the world Cary Grant, Banksy, Massive Attack, and the trip-hop scene of the early 1990s. The 18th-century tail runs through the slave-trading merchant class that built Clifton, and the peak decade of births is the 1980s.

Through the Decades

One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Bristol during each.

Notable Births by Decade

Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1980s with 136 notable births.

What Bristol Is Known For

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Football is Bristol's biggest profession — 19% of all notables (255).

Bristol over-indexes on cricket8.6× the global rate.

Bristol under-produces politician — only 0.3× the global rate.

  1. Football255
  2. Cricket148
  3. Actor97
  4. Player69
  5. Politician46
  6. Painter42
  7. Writer41
  8. Singer23
  1. Cricket1488.6×
  2. Producer153.9×
  3. Botanist152.8×
  4. Player692.6×
  5. Football2551.7×
  1. Politician460.3×

Profession Mix Over Time

Each band shows a profession family's share of Bristol's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.

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Showing 36 of 1,347 notable people

0111 POLITICIAN

Theophilus Shepstone

1817 - 1893

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0130 BOTANIST

George Henry Kendrick Thwaites

1812 - 1882

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0151 PAINTER

William James Müller

1812 - 1845

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0188 DIPLOMAT

Lord Augustus Loftus

1817 - 1904

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0190 BOTANIST

William Munro

1818 - 1880

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0216 THEOLOGIAN

Philip Pearsall Carpenter

1819 - 1877

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0322 COMPOSER

Thomas German Reed

1817 - 1888

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0367 WRITER

Louisa Grace Bartolini

1818 - 1865

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0371 POLITICS

Emma Martin (socialist)

1812 - 1851

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0374 BOTANIST

Leopold Hartley Grindon

1818 - 1904

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0378 PAINTER

George Arthur Fripp

1813 - 1896

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0468 PALAEONTOLOGIST

William Hellier Baily

1819 - 1888

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0479 ACADEMIC

Joseph Griffiths Swayne

1819 - 1903

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0482 BOTANIST

William Freeman Daniell

1818 - 1865

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0502 POLITICIAN

Charles Gilpin (politician)

1815 - 1874

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0557 WRITER

Andrew Wynter

1819 - 1876

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0566 ENGINEER

Robert Rawlinson

1810 - 1898

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0633 PAINTER

Edwin Hayes

1819 - 1904

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0637 PAINTER

Thomas Danby (artist)

1818 - 1886

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0674 PAINTER

Henry Brittan Willis

1810 - 1884

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0676 PAINTER

James Francis Danby

1816 - 1875

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0740 SOCIAL REFORMER

Russell Lant Carpenter

1816 - 1892

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0764 PAINTER

Charles Branwhite

1817 - 1880

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0778 POLITICIAN

Edmund Heath

1813 - 1883

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0784 WRITER

John Ross Dix

1811 - 1863

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0812 MINISTER

George Gould (Baptist)

1818 - 1882

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0827 EXPLORER

Joseph Burke (botanist)

1812 - 1873

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0848 MISSIONARY

Vincent John Stanton

1817 - 1891

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0853 ARCHITECT

John Wind

1819 - 1863

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0901 PAINTER

William Gillard

1812 - 1897

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0938 OFFICER

Charles Pyndar Beauchamp Walker

1817 - 1894

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1063 MILITAR

Edmund Haythorne

1818 - 1888

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1181 INVENTOR

John Bethell (inventor)

1810 - 1867

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1240 ARCHDEACON

Samuel Boutflower

1815 - 1886

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1268 ARCHITECT

Samuel Burleigh Gabriel

1816 - 1866

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1328 MILITAR

George Colt Langley

1810 - 1896

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