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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 1860s Clear ×
Arthur Lyon Bowley
1869 - 1957
Reginald Innes Pocock
1863 - 1947
Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Baroness Pethick-Lawrence
1867 - 1954
Fabian Ware
1869 - 1949
Ben Tillett
1860 - 1943
William Lane
1861 - 1917
Adela Florence Nicolson
1865 - 1904
Stephen Troyte Dunn
1868 - 1938
James O'Grady
1866 - 1934
John Strachey (journalist)
1860 - 1927
Terrot R. Glover
1869 - 1943
Herbert William Pugsley
1868 - 1947
George Bellamy (actor)
1866 - 1944
Annette Meakin
1867 - 1959
Reginald Pinney
1863 - 1943
Martyn Jordan
1865 - 1902
Harry A. Hanbury
1863 - 1940
Charles Wreford-Brown
1866 - 1951
Millicent Mackenzie
1863 - 1942
Jack Board
1867 - 1924
Frederick Eyles
1864 - 1937
Henry Charles Innes Fripp
1867 - 1963
Edward Greenly
1861 - 1951
George Oatley
1863 - 1950
Walter Cave
1863 - 1939
J. Fisher White
1865 - 1945
Launcelot Percival
1869 - 1941
Billy Heath
1869 - 1895
Vaughan Nash
1861 - 1932
Robert O'Dwyer
1862 - 1949
William James Tutcher
1867 - 1920
Ted Howard (politician)
1868 - 1939
Florence Barrett
1867 - 1945
Ernest Evans (cricketer)
1861 - 1948
Audley Miller
1869 - 1959
Charles Lacy Sweet
1861 - 1892
Frederick Bracher
1868 - 1947
Clement Bengough
1861 - 1934
Kate Dobbin
1866 - 1955
Joseph Brain
1863 - 1914
Howard Francis
1868 - 1936
Herbert Chard
1869 - 1932
Ida Mary Roper
1865 - 1935
Llewellyn Thomas (English cricketer)
1865 - 1924
Herbert Gribble
1860 - 1943
Bill Murch
1867 - 1928
Hubert Prichard
1865 - 1942
Alfred Dearlove
1869 - 1955
Gerald Robert Poole
1868 - 1937