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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 29 of 1,347 notable people

0044 PHOTOGRAPHER

William Friese-Greene

1855 - 1921

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0267 ART HISTORIAN

William Allen Sturge

1850 - 1919

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0335 STOCKBROKER

Sir George White, 1st Baronet

1854 - 1916

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0336 CURATOR

Lionel de Nicéville

1852 - 1901

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0388 SCHOLAR

Frank Edward Brightman

1856 - 1932

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0490 WRITER

Edward R. Pease

1857 - 1955

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0617 EXPLORER

Robert Edwin Bush

1855 - 1939

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0657 POET

Thomas Herbert Warren

1853 - 1930

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0662 ENGINEER

William Henry Warren

1852 - 1926

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0699 MILITAR

Francis Kelly (British Army officer)

1859 - 1937

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0704 COMPOSER

Graham Clifton Bingham

1859 - 1913

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0716 MAN OF LETTERS

George Somes Layard

1857 - 1925

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0768 DETECTIVE

Frank Froest

1858 - 1930

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0779 SCULPTOR

James Havard Thomas

1854 - 1921

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0869 TRADE UNION

Frederick Coneybeer

1859 - 1950

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0923 KILLED

Alexander Kaye Butterworth

1854 - 1946

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0957 CRICKET

James Bloor

1857 - 1935

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1039 PLAYER

George Butterworth (tennis)

1858 - 1941

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1073 POLITICIAN

Alfred John Raymond

1856 - 1935

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1087 TRANSLATOR

Emily J. Harding

1850 - 1940

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1167 PLAYER

Arthur Budd

1853 - 1899

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1172 PLAYER

Edward Innes Pocock

1855 - 1905

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1173 ILLUSTRATOR

Samuel Loxton

1857 - 1922

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1196 CRICKET

Henry Gallop

1857 - 1940

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1217 CRICKET

Arthur Robinson (cricketer, born 1855)

1855 - 1913

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1276 CRICKET

Edmund Taylor (cricketer)

1853 - 1936

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1286 CRICKET

Arthur Serjeant

1856 - 1916

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1307 PLAYER

Barry Girling

1858 - 1948

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1331 CHESS

Henry Hosey Davis

1855 - 1954

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