List of people from Devon
This is a list of people from Devon, a county in South West England. The demonym of Devon is Devonian. This list is arranged alphabetically by surname:
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B
- Charles Babbage, inventor
- Baldwin of Exeter (d. 1190), Archbishop of Canterbury
- W. N. P. Barbellion: nom-de-plume of Bruce Frederick Cummings, diarist.
- Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet (1740–1810), banker
- Sabine Baring-Gould, scholar, clergyman, novelist and antiquary
- Sue Barker, tennis player and television presenter
- Kenneth Barnes (1878–1957), director of RADA
- Cliff Bastin (1912–1991), Arsenal and England footballer
- Phil Beer, musician and composer (born at Exminster)
- Matthew Bellamy (born 1978), guitarist, pianist, and vocalist of rock band Muse
- John Bidlake, clergyman, author, artist
- John Carne Bidwill (1815–1853), botanist, first Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney
- Sir Thomas Bodley (1545–1613), diplomat and founder of the Bodleian Library at Oxford
- Saint Boniface, 672-754, patron saint of the Netherlands and Germany
- Sir John Bowring (1792–1872), political economist and Governor of Hong Kong
- Henry de Bracton (d. 1268), jurist
- Eustace Budgell (1686–1737), writer
- Tony Burrows (born 1942), pop singer
- Richard Burton, explorer and linguist
C
- Michael Caines (b 1969), chef and restaurateur
- Edward Capern (1819–1894), poet
- Mary Carpenter (1807–1877), educational and social reformer
- William Benjamin Carpenter (1813–1885), physiologist and naturalist
- Raymond Cattell, psychology pioneer
- Jim Causley, folk singer & radio presenter (b. 1980, Heavitree)
- Jimmy Cauty, pop musician
- Henry Chadwick (1824–1908), journalist, "the father of baseball"
- Sir Francis Chichester (1901–1972), Aviator and Sailor.
- Agatha Christie, novelist
- Lady Mary Chudleigh (1656–1710), early feminist and poet
- William Kingdon Clifford (1845–1879), mathematician
- Eleanor Coade (1733–1821), inventor of Coade stone
- Lily Cole (born 1988), supermodel and actress
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet
- David Collins (1756–1810), first Governor of Van Diemens Land (Tasmania)
- Peter Cook (1937–1995), comedian, born in Torquay
- William Cookworthy, pharmacist and industrialist
- Tommy Cooper (1921–1984), comedian, was born in Caerphilly but lived in Exeter from the age of 3
- Samuel Cousins (1801–1887), engraver
- Edmund Crispin (1921–1978), novelist & composer
- William Crossing (1847–1928), author
D
- Thomas Daley, diver
- Sharon Davies, Olympic swimmer and television presenter
- Roger Deakins, cinematographer
- Kristian Digby, television presenter (b.1977 Torquay. d.2010 London)
- Sir Francis Drake, sailor
- Thomas D'Urfey (1653–1723), dramatist
E
- Charles Lock Eastlake, artist
- Marc Edworthy, footballer
- Samuel Eyles Pierce, preacher, theologian, and Calvinist divine
- Henry Every (c. 1653/59–?), pirate
- Sir Richard Eyre, theatre, television, and film director.
F
- Percy Fawcett, archaeologist and explorer
- Michael Foot, Labour politician
- Dawn French, comedienne
G
- John Gay, poet and dramatist
- Geraint, King of Dumnonia
- Beth Gibbons (born 1965), singer with Portishead
- Humphrey Gilbert, sailor and explorer
- Sheherazade and Zac Goldsmith, environmentalists
- Matthew Goode (b 1978), actor in such movies as Brideshead Revisited and Watchmen
- Francis Carruthers Gould, caricaturist and politician
- Richard Grenville, sailor and explorer
H
- George Hakewill (1578–1649), clergyman and author
- William Hakewill (1574–1655), legal antiquarian
- Carl Harbord (1908-1958), film actor
- Theodore Bayley Hardy (1863–1918), Army chaplain and VC
- Hannah Harper (born 1982), erotic actress
- Miranda Hart, actress and comedienne
- Matt Harvey, poet
- Benjamin Haydon, painter and writer
- Francis Hayman (1708–1776), Rococo artist
- Oliver Heaviside, mathematician
- Nicholas Hilliard (c1547-1619), portraitist
- Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011), writer, journalist, and literary critic
- James Holman (1786–1857), noted blind traveller
- John Hooker, constitutionalist
- Richard Hooker (1554–1600), Anglican theologian
- W. G. Hoskins (1908–1992), historian of the English landscape
- Dominic Howard (1977), Musician, drummer of rock band Muse
- Thomas Hudson (1701–1779), portrait painter
- Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, model
J
- Bradley James, actor
- Richard Roach Jewell, architect
- Joseph of Exeter (12th century), poet
K
- Fred Karno (1866–1941), comedy pioneer and impresario
- Benjamin Kennicott, Hebrew scholar
- Peter King, 1st Baron King (1669–1734), Lord Chancellor
- Charles Kingsley, novelist
- Steve Knightley, musician (born in Poole, Dorset)
L
- Seth Lakeman, folk musician
- Jon Lee singer with S Club 7 (b. 1982 Newton Abbott)
- Matthew Locke (ca. 1621-1677), baroque composer
M
- Chris Martin (b 1977), singer with Coldplay
- Jane McGrath (1966–2008), co-founder of the McGrath Foundation and late wife of fast bowler Glenn
- Clare Morrall (b 1952), novelist
- Ian Mortimer (b 1967), historian
- Dermot Murnaghan (b 1957), TV journalist & news presenter
O
- Simon Ockley (1678–1720), orientalist
- Ponsonby Ogle (1855–1902), British writer and journalist
P
- Richard Parker (1767–1797), sailor and mutineer
- James Parsons, physician, antiquary and author
- William Peryam (1534-after 1603), lawyer
- St Petroc, saint
- Sergio Pizzorno, guitarist from the band Kasabian
- John Prince, clergyman and biographer
- Poker Alice, American frontier gambler was born in Devon in 1851.
- John Skinner Prout, writer and artist in Tasmania
- Samuel Prout, water colour artist
R
- John Rainolds (1549–1605), Puritan scholar
- Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618), sailor and writer
- Chris Read (born 1978), English test cricket wicket-keeper
- Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792), influential English painter
- Peter Richardson (born 1952), actor, comedian, director and writer.
- Philip Hutchins Rogers (1794–1853), artist
- Sir Henry Rosewell (1590–1656), Puritan, of Forde Abbey, adventurer of the Dorchester Company
- John Rowe (1715–1787), merchant and owner of ship involved in the Boston Tea Party
- John "Jack" Russell (1795–1883), eponymous dog-breeder and a founder member of the Kennel Club
- Lobsang Rampa (1910–1981), Tibetan Lama
S
- Robert Falcon Scott, RN officer and Antarctic explorer
- Sir Nicholas Slanning, MP, Royalist soldier in the English Civil War
- Wayne Sleep (born 1948) dancer and choreographer
- Lilly Martin Spencer (1822–1902), US painter
- Samuel Stennett (1727–1795), Baptist minister and hymnwriter
- John Stockham (1765–1814), naval officer
- Robert Stone (1516–1613), composer and member of the Chapel Royal.
- Henrietta Anne Stuart (1644–1670), daughter of King Charles I
- Anthony Sullivan, TV commercial pitchman, and co-star of the show Pitchmen on Discovery Channel
T
- Liam Tancock (born 1985) Olympic swimmer
- William Temple (1881–1944), Archbishop of Canterbury
- Clive Toye, first general manager of New York Cosmos[1]
V
- Irene Vanbrugh (1872–1949), actress
- Phil Vickery, rugby player
- David Vine (1935–2009) TV sports presenter
W
- Snowy White, guitarist
- William John Wills, explorer
- Chris Wolstenholme (born 1978), musician, bass player for the band Muse
- Rebecca Worthley (born 1981), singer-songwriter
Further reading
- Burton, S. H. Great Men of Devon. (Men of the Counties Series; no. 8.) London: John Lane, 1956
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