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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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Gary Mortimer
Born 1967
Jon Vickers (rugby union)
Born 1988
William Falls
1825 - 1889
Vernon Samuels
Born 1964
Isaac Pearce
Born 1998
Donald Wilkins
1903 - 1972
Thomas Toogood
1872 - 1953
Ida Mary Roper
1865 - 1935
Peter Rothwell
1920 - 2010
Frederick George Room
1895 - 1932
David Jowett
1931 - 2000
Geoff Fox (footballer, born 1925)
1925 - 1994
Bert Hawkins
1923 - 2001
Frank Harris (cricketer)
1907 - 1936
Edward Sheppard
1891 - 1962
J. L. Manning
1914 - 1974
Arthur Robinson (cricketer, born 1855)
1855 - 1913
Edward Spry
1881 - 1958
Llewellyn Thomas (English cricketer)
1865 - 1924
Jack Spoors
1886 - 1963
Wesley Harding
Born 1886
William Gouldsworthy
1892 - 1969
Richard Bryan (rugby union)
Born 1977
Bryan Bush
1925 - 2008
Herbert Gribble
1860 - 1943
Clifford Taylor (cricketer)
1875 - 1952
Edward Prowse
1824 - 1862
George Honour
1918 - 2002
Brian Bevan (footballer)
Born 1937
Walter Lock (cricketer)
1907 - 1980
David Usher Barnwell
1921 - 1941
Julian Nott (balloonist)
Died 2019
Henry Reed (cricketer)
1892 - 1963
John Macey
Born 1947
Gronow Davis
1828 - 1891
Olivia Burges
1892 - 1930
Frederick Chapple
1880 - 1965
Bill Murch
1867 - 1928
Blanche Baker (painter)
1844 - 1929
Samuel Boutflower
1815 - 1886
Norman Sykes
1936 - 2009
Hubert Prichard
1865 - 1942
Frank Thomas (cricketer)
1877 - 1924
Arthur Roper
1890 - 1956
Alec Winstone
1879 - 1963
Leslie Powell
1896 - 1960
John Spiers (entrepreneur)
Born 1950
Peter Woon
1931 - 2014
Stu Megan
Born 1952
Bill Roost
1924 - 2013
Ian Davey
Born 1986
Frank Vallis
1896 - 1957
Reginald Hewlett
1885 - 1950
Terry Oldfield (footballer)
Born 1939
Diana Gould – Margaret Thatcher exchange
1926 - 2011
Wilfred Brownlee
1890 - 1914
Tom Herridge
1883 - 1930
Ernie Peacock
1924 - 1973
Arthur Nott
1881 - 1959
Michael Becher
1704 - 1758
Horace Merrick
1887 - 1961
Valerie Mountain
Born 1942
Richard Skuse
Born 1980
Dave Wiffill
Born 1958
Alfred Dearlove
1869 - 1955
Brian Shantry
Born 1955
Arthur Spear
1883 - 1946
Samuel Burleigh Gabriel
1816 - 1866
John Stanton (cricketer)
1901 - 1973
James Warren
Born 1951
Miles Normandale
Born 1991
Bert Batten
1898 - 1956
Stephen Sims
1895 - 1973
David R. Jones (biologist)
1941 - 2010
Francis Rogers (cricketer)
1897 - 1967
Edmund Taylor (cricketer)
1853 - 1936
James Mather (Sounddesigner)
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Adrian Bird (footballer)
Born 1969
Joe Joyce (rugby)
Born 1994
Frank Rowlands
1889 - 1975
Josser Watling
Born 1925
Mary Godwin (artist)
1887 - 1960
Ames Hellicar
1847 - 1907
Ernest Staddon
1882 - 1965
Gerald Robert Poole
1868 - 1937
Arthur Serjeant
1856 - 1916
Lillian Dove-Willcox
1875 - 1963
Colin Brittan
1927 - 2013
Dan Watchurst
Born 1990
Con Sullivan (footballer)
Born 1928
Les Skuse
1912 - 1973
David Bright (footballer)
Born 1972
Joe Davis (footballer, born 1938)
Born 1938
Nicholas Stovold
Born 1981
Henry Milford
1833 - 1888
Ernie Brinton
1908 - 1981
Betty Bryant
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Neil Stovold
Born 1983
Maurice Dando
1905 - 1949
George Smart (footballer)
1890 - 1941
William Rowlands (English cricketer)
1883 - 1948
Cecil M. Wills
1891 - 1966
Wally Jennings
1909 - 1993
Albert Banfield
1912 - 1970
William Henley Rawlings
1848 - 1906
Bryan Eley
Born 1939
Barry Girling
1858 - 1948
Bill Pocock
1884 - 1959
Barney Nightingale
Born 1996
Audley Richards
Born 1960
Edward Hill (New Zealand politician)
1907 - 2001
Thomas Edwin Nevin
1906 - 1986
Cyril Bridge
1909 - 1988
Alex Woodburn
Born 1992
Harold Uren
1885 - 1955
Graham Williams (cricketer)
Born 1985
Simon Winstone (footballer)
Born 1975
Jack Price (darts)
1928 - 2006
Alfred Henry Brown
1820 - 1908
Henry Wheeler (governor)
1870 - 1950
Jimmy Haydon
1901 - 1969
James Rendell
Born 1980
Paul Brown (lawn bowls)
Born 1978
Gilbert Ovens
1884 - 1963
Hiram Wakefield
1837 - 1905
Neil Shardlow
Born 1970
Stuart Priscott
Born 1971
George Colt Langley
1810 - 1896
Kevin Meacock
Born 1963
Chris McClaren
Born 1963
Henry Hosey Davis
1855 - 1954
Helen Grace Culverwell Marsh-Lambert
1888 - 1981
Ted Hathway
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Harold Plummer
-
Duncan Paveling
Born 1977
Richard Pannell
Born 1973
George William Paty
1788 - 1868
Mike Wyatt
Born 1974
Henry Haberfield Thomas
1886 - 1918
James Pearson (cricketer, born 1983)
Born 1983
Kath Wilkins
Born 1976
Katharine Winks
Born 1978
Herbert J. Sadler
1894 - 1955
Alf Nelmes
1871 - 1940
Trevor Coates
Born 1940
John Roberts (Ingenieur)
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Peter Allen (Fußballspieler, 1934)
Born 1934