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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.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Bristol during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Bristol Is Known For
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Football is Bristol's biggest profession — 19% of all notables (255).
Bristol over-indexes on cricket — 8.6× the global rate.
Bristol under-produces politician — only 0.3× the global rate.
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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Theophilus Shepstone
1817 - 1893
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
1812 - 1882
William James Müller
1812 - 1845
Lord Augustus Loftus
1817 - 1904
William Munro
1818 - 1880
Philip Pearsall Carpenter
1819 - 1877
Thomas German Reed
1817 - 1888
Louisa Grace Bartolini
1818 - 1865
Emma Martin (socialist)
1812 - 1851
Leopold Hartley Grindon
1818 - 1904
George Arthur Fripp
1813 - 1896
William Hellier Baily
1819 - 1888
Joseph Griffiths Swayne
1819 - 1903
William Freeman Daniell
1818 - 1865
Charles Gilpin (politician)
1815 - 1874
Andrew Wynter
1819 - 1876
Robert Rawlinson
1810 - 1898
Edwin Hayes
1819 - 1904
Thomas Danby (artist)
1818 - 1886
Henry Brittan Willis
1810 - 1884
James Francis Danby
1816 - 1875
Russell Lant Carpenter
1816 - 1892
Charles Branwhite
1817 - 1880
Edmund Heath
1813 - 1883
John Ross Dix
1811 - 1863
George Gould (Baptist)
1818 - 1882
Joseph Burke (botanist)
1812 - 1873
Vincent John Stanton
1817 - 1891
John Wind
1819 - 1863
William Gillard
1812 - 1897
Charles Pyndar Beauchamp Walker
1817 - 1894
Edmund Haythorne
1818 - 1888
John Bethell (inventor)
1810 - 1867
Samuel Boutflower
1815 - 1886
Samuel Burleigh Gabriel
1816 - 1866
George Colt Langley
1810 - 1896