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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 1890s Clear ×
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim
1891 - 1970
Isaac Rosenberg
1890 - 1918
Beverley Nichols
1898 - 1983
Clement Martyn Doke
1893 - 1980
Janet Vaughan
1899 - 1993
Bertram Thomas
1892 - 1950
Boris Ord
1897 - 1961
Arthur Creech Jones
1891 - 1964
Billy Armstrong (actor)
1891 - 1924
Hilary Saint George Saunders
1898 - 1951
Paule Vézelay
1892 - 1984
Arthur Young (actor)
1898 - 1959
Dolly Tree
1899 - 1962
Desmond Chute
1895 - 1962
George Archer-Shee
1895 - 1914
Theodore Plucknett
1897 - 1965
Sam Tucker
1895 - 1973
Ruby Helder
1890 - 1938
Elsie Griffin
1895 - 1989
Charles Siepmann
1899 - 1985
Anne Harriet Fish
1890 - 1964
Phyllis Bedells
1893 - 1985
Frederick Wilton
1892 - 1958
Hal Bevan-Petman
1894 - 1980
Bill Ferrar
1893 - 1990
George Wood (British Army officer)
1898 - 1982
Hugh Clevely
1898 - 1964
Horace Batchelor
1898 - 1977
Leslie Frise
1897 - 1979
Hetty Kelly
1893 - 1918
Victor Eyles
1895 - 1978
Joe Walter (footballer)
1895 - 1995
Harry Thomas
1890 - 1941
Leonard Corbett
1897 - 1983
Edwin Cole (RAF officer)
1895 - 1984
Ted Davis (footballer)
Born 1892
Jerry Morgan
1897 - 1953
William Simmonds
1892 - 1957
Vivian Langrish
1894 - 1980
Sidney Arnold Pakeman
1891 - 1975
Ernest Blackmore
1895 - 1955
Harry Smith (cricketer, born 1891)
1891 - 1937
Herbert Blake
1894 - 1958
John Bessant
1892 - 1982
Vivian Robinson
1897 - 1979
Frederick George Room
1895 - 1932
Edward Sheppard
1891 - 1962
William Gouldsworthy
1892 - 1969
Henry Reed (cricketer)
1892 - 1963
Olivia Burges
1892 - 1930
Arthur Roper
1890 - 1956
Leslie Powell
1896 - 1960
Frank Vallis
1896 - 1957
Wilfred Brownlee
1890 - 1914
Bert Batten
1898 - 1956
Stephen Sims
1895 - 1973
Francis Rogers (cricketer)
1897 - 1967
George Smart (footballer)
1890 - 1941
Cecil M. Wills
1891 - 1966
Herbert J. Sadler
1894 - 1955