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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 1940s Clear ×
Robert Wyatt
Born 1945
Veronica Cartwright
Born 1949
Richard Long (artist)
Born 1945
Nigel Terry
1945 - 2015
Keith Tippett
1947 - 2020
Evan Parker
Born 1944
Ian Hodder
Born 1948
Alan Grant (writer)
Born 1949
Colin Pillinger
1943 - 2014
Brian Jones (aeronaut)
Born 1947
Larry Lloyd
Born 1948
Ralph Bates
1940 - 1991
T. J. Clark (art historian)
Born 1943
Dolly Martin
Born 1944
Philip Short
Born 1945
Susan Brown (English actress)
Born 1946
Nick Brimble
Born 1944
Rosalind Hursthouse
Born 1943
Phil Edwards (cyclist)
1949 - 2017
Brian Hoskins
Born 1945
Nigel Hall (sculptor)
Born 1943
Lynn Farleigh
Born 1942
Norman Eshley
Born 1945
Christina Scull
Born 1942
Christopher Robbins
1946 - 2012
Adrian Hollis
1940 - 2013
David Wilshire
Born 1943
John Challis
Born 1942
Cyd Hayman
Born 1944
Brian Barron
1940 - 2009
Simon Mitton
Born 1946
Lee Sheriden
Born 1949
Robert M. Grant (economist)
Born 1948
Paul Hutchins
1945 - 2019
Martin Vaughn-James
1943 - 2009
Larry Stabbins
Born 1949
Ray Graydon
Born 1947
Frank Hawthorne
Born 1946
Stephen Cox (sculptor)
Born 1946
Rollo Davidson
1944 - 1970
Ruth Flowers
1940 - 2014
K. David Elworthy
Born 1940
Ron Jones (television director)
1945 - 1993
John Saxbee
Born 1946
David Jenkins (footballer)
Born 1946
Fred Wedlock
1942 - 2010
Anita Mason
Born 1942
Brian Clark (footballer, born 1943)
1943 - 2010
Naomi Tsur
Born 1948
Cathy Bakewell, Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville
Born 1949
Jantzen Derrick
Born 1943
James King (Gloucestershire cricketer)
Born 1942
Colin Ernest Ridsdale
1944 - 2017
Barry Salvage
1948 - 1986
Chris Worthy
1947 - 2007
Chris Garland
Born 1949
Margaret Critchley
Born 1949
Steven Rumbelow
1949 - 2016
Chris Serle
Born 1943
Roger Tucker
Born 1945
Jeremy Mould
Born 1949
Dave Colman
Born 1944
Michael Hasted
Born 1945
Martyn Jarrett
Born 1944
Clive Stevens
1948 - 2019
Tony Powell (footballer)
Born 1947
Roger Walker (actor)
Born 1944
DJ Derek
1941 - 2015
Ian White (politician)
Born 1945
Jim Galley
1944 - 2012
Terry Batt
Born 1949
David A. Christie
Born 1945
David Stone (footballer)
Born 1942
Michael Julian Drake
1946 - 2011
Mary Perkins
Born 1944
Kenny Stephens
Born 1946
Steve Stacey (footballer)
Born 1944
Bobby Williams (footballer, born 1940)
Born 1940
Richard Wallace (rugby league)
Born 1944
Anthony Windows
Born 1942
Trevor Jacobs
1946 - 2014
Lindsay Parsons
1946 - 2019
Stuart Taylor (footballer, born 1947)
1947 - 2019
John Sullivan (Gloucestershire cricketer)
Born 1948
Trevor Tainton
Born 1948
Colin Waldron
Born 1946
Dick Sheppard (footballer)
1945 - 1998
John Macey
Born 1947
Valerie Mountain
Born 1942
David R. Jones (biologist)
1941 - 2010
Trevor Coates
Born 1940