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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 1870s Clear ×
Nigel De Brulier
1877 - 1948
Thomas Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote
1876 - 1947
Cyril Rootham
1875 - 1938
Lucy Beaumont
1873 - 1937
Ernest Bethell
1872 - 1909
Sandy Wollaston
1875 - 1930
Edward H. Bennett
1874 - 1954
Edith Hannam
1878 - 1951
Arthur Charles Fox-Davies
1871 - 1928
Frank Calder
1877 - 1943
Frank Riseley
1877 - 1959
Florence Mary Taylor
1879 - 1969
Percy Nunn
1870 - 1944
Victor Bridges
1878 - 1972
Edith Claypole
1870 - 1915
Francis Burchell
1873 - 1947
Charlie Townsend
1876 - 1958
Elliott O'Donnell
1872 - 1965
Lionel Edwards
1878 - 1966
William D. Robbins
1874 - 1952
Agnes Claypole Moody
1870 - 1954
Katharine Furse
1875 - 1952
Maurice Blood
1870 - 1940
Norah Fry
1871 - 1960
Thomas Todhunter Shields
1873 - 1955
Lawrence Weaver
1876 - 1930
Henry Herbert Stevens
1878 - 1973
Archibald Fargus
1878 - 1963
William Richard Williamson
1872 - 1958
Albion Rajkumar Banerjee
1871 - 1950
Will Davis (cyclist)
Born 1877
Bert Hodge Hill
1874 - 1958
Julian Royce
1870 - 1946
William Wasbrough Foster
1875 - 1954
Joe Powell (English footballer)
1870 - 1896
Edgar Thomas
1875 - 1936
John Bucknell
1872 - 1925
William Mansfield Poole
1871 - 1946
Walter Bartley Wilson
1870 - 1954
Richmond Waller
1879 - 1950
Frank Townsend (cricketer, born 1875)
1875 - 1901
John Iles
1871 - 1951
Percy Sargent
1873 - 1933
Alfred Watson (actuary)
1870 - 1936
Oswald Wreford-Brown
1877 - 1916
Stanley Brown (cricketer, born 1877)
1877 - 1952
Albert Whittle
1877 - 1917
Henry Priaulx Cayley
1877 - 1942
Gerald Beloe
1877 - 1944
Talbot Lewis
1877 - 1956
Albert North
1877 - 1933
Thomas Toogood
1872 - 1953
Clifford Taylor (cricketer)
1875 - 1952
Frank Thomas (cricketer)
1877 - 1924
Alec Winstone
1879 - 1963
Lillian Dove-Willcox
1875 - 1963
Henry Wheeler (governor)
1870 - 1950
Alf Nelmes
1871 - 1940