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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 1880s Clear ×
Archibald Hill
1886 - 1977
Montague Summers
1880 - 1948
Malcolm Keen
1887 - 1970
Arnold Wilson
1884 - 1940
Roy Fedden
1885 - 1973
John Palmer (author)
1885 - 1944
Lawson Butt
1880 - 1956
Arthur Richards, 1st Baron Milverton
1885 - 1978
Stanley Anderson (artist)
1884 - 1966
Frank Merrick
1886 - 1981
House Peters Sr.
1880 - 1967
George Carney
1887 - 1947
Vivian Bartley Green-Armytage
1882 - 1961
Billy Wedlock
1880 - 1965
Ernest J. H. Mackay
1880 - 1943
Thomas Derrick (artist)
1885 - 1954
Arthur Mannering Tyndall
1881 - 1961
Winifred Harris
1880 - 1972
Albert Gingell
1883 - 1947
Steuart Wilson
1889 - 1966
Tom Purvis
1888 - 1959
Thomas Hunton
1885 - 1970
Charles Grace
1882 - 1938
Stanley Harris (footballer)
1881 - 1926
Art Satherley
1889 - 1986
Theodore Just
1886 - 1937
Thomas Edward Rendle
1884 - 1946
Arthur Eustace Morgan
1886 - 1972
Leigh Brownlee
1882 - 1955
Charles Taylor (cricketer, born 1881)
1881 - 1960
Ernest Alderwick
1886 - 1917
Anthony Hastings George
1886 - 1944
Douglas Reynolds
1882 - 1916
Percy Heming
1883 - 1956
George Scorey
1882 - 1965
Gerard Hodgkinson
1883 - 1960
Michael Byrne (footballer, born 1880)
1880 - 1931
Joe Cottle
1885 - 1958
Billy Gerrish
1884 - 1916
James Thompson (table tennis)
1889 - 1967
Brendel Anstey
1887 - 1933
Harry Dickason
1884 - 1943
William Meyer (cricketer)
1883 - 1953
Andrew Pope
1881 - 1942
Freddie Wilcox
1881 - 1958
Tommy Ware
1885 - 1915
Percy Down
1883 - 1954
Percy Robinson
1881 - 1951
Edward Spry
1881 - 1958
Jack Spoors
1886 - 1963
Wesley Harding
Born 1886
Frederick Chapple
1880 - 1965
Reginald Hewlett
1885 - 1950
Tom Herridge
1883 - 1930
Arthur Nott
1881 - 1959
Horace Merrick
1887 - 1961
Arthur Spear
1883 - 1946
Frank Rowlands
1889 - 1975
Mary Godwin (artist)
1887 - 1960
Ernest Staddon
1882 - 1965
William Rowlands (English cricketer)
1883 - 1948
Bill Pocock
1884 - 1959
Harold Uren
1885 - 1955
Gilbert Ovens
1884 - 1963
Helen Grace Culverwell Marsh-Lambert
1888 - 1981
Henry Haberfield Thomas
1886 - 1918