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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 1900s Clear ×
Cary Grant
1904 - 1986
Paul Dirac
1902 - 1984
Michael Redgrave
1908 - 1985
Christopher Fry
1907 - 2005
Gordon Welchman
1906 - 1985
Geoffrey Household
1900 - 1988
John Zachary Young
1907 - 1997
Allen Lane
1902 - 1970
Thorold Dickinson
1903 - 1984
Eddie Hapgood
1908 - 1973
Leonard Robert Palmer
1906 - 1984
George More O'Ferrall
1907 - 1982
MacDonald Critchley
1900 - 1997
John Redcliffe-Maud, Baron Redcliffe-Maud
1906 - 1982
L. Harrison Matthews
1901 - 1986
Ivor Jennings
1903 - 1965
Cliff Britton
1909 - 1975
Jimmy Brain
1900 - 1971
Ronald Melville
1903 - 1985
Robin Tanner
1904 - 1988
Robert Mortimer
1902 - 1976
Edgar Hunt
1909 - 2006
Jane Welsh
1905 - 2001
Mary Lobel
1900 - 1993
Bob Haines
1906 - 1965
Roy Lockwood
1907 - 2002
N. J. Berrill
1903 - 1996
John Richard Easonsmith
1909 - 1943
Monty Cranfield
1909 - 1993
Arthur Plummer
Born 1907
Jack Milsom
1907 - 1977
Thomas Owen Beachcroft
1902 - 1988
Wilfred Craddy
1905 - 1979
Noel Hood
1909 - 1979
John Robinson (cricketer, born 1909)
1909 - 1988
Edmund King (cricketer, born 1907)
1907 - 1990
Reggie Ford
1907 - 1981
Albert Waters
1902 - 1985
Fred Whitlow
1904 - 1978
Thomas Roberts (footballer)
Born 1903
Charlie Davis (footballer)
1904 - 1967
Frederick Weeks
1903 - 1990
Alf Matthews
1901 - 1979
G. Gordon Young
1908 - 1963
Kenneth Hunt (cricketer)
1902 - 1971
Fred Bennett (footballer)
1906 - 1990
Escott Loney
1903 - 1982
Billy Coggins
1901 - 1958
Donald Wilkins
1903 - 1972
Frank Harris (cricketer)
1907 - 1936
Walter Lock (cricketer)
1907 - 1980
John Stanton (cricketer)
1901 - 1973
Ernie Brinton
1908 - 1981
Maurice Dando
1905 - 1949
Wally Jennings
1909 - 1993
Edward Hill (New Zealand politician)
1907 - 2001
Thomas Edwin Nevin
1906 - 1986
Cyril Bridge
1909 - 1988
Jimmy Haydon
1901 - 1969