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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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- Filtered to 1850s Clear ×
William Friese-Greene
1855 - 1921
William Allen Sturge
1850 - 1919
Sir George White, 1st Baronet
1854 - 1916
Lionel de Nicéville
1852 - 1901
Frank Edward Brightman
1856 - 1932
Edward R. Pease
1857 - 1955
Robert Edwin Bush
1855 - 1939
Thomas Herbert Warren
1853 - 1930
William Henry Warren
1852 - 1926
Francis Kelly (British Army officer)
1859 - 1937
Graham Clifton Bingham
1859 - 1913
George Somes Layard
1857 - 1925
Frank Froest
1858 - 1930
James Havard Thomas
1854 - 1921
Frederick Coneybeer
1859 - 1950
Alexander Kaye Butterworth
1854 - 1946
James Bloor
1857 - 1935
George Butterworth (tennis)
1858 - 1941
Alfred John Raymond
1856 - 1935
Emily J. Harding
1850 - 1940
Arthur Budd
1853 - 1899
Edward Innes Pocock
1855 - 1905
Samuel Loxton
1857 - 1922
Henry Gallop
1857 - 1940
Arthur Robinson (cricketer, born 1855)
1855 - 1913
Edmund Taylor (cricketer)
1853 - 1936
Arthur Serjeant
1856 - 1916
Barry Girling
1858 - 1948
Henry Hosey Davis
1855 - 1954