List of people from Basingstoke

List of people from Basingstoke

This is a list of notable people who were born in or near, or have been residents of the Town of Basingstoke, England.

(Bold text denotes a person who was born in Basingstoke)

Arts and Humanities

* Jane Austen, author (born, and wrote many of her major works in nearby Steventon
* Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch, American writer and suffragist
* Lucy Coats, author
* John Gardner spy novelist
* Flora Gare, sculptor
* Macdonald Hastings, journalist and War Correspondent
* John James, architect
* Waldemar Januszczak, art critic and film maker
* Robert Steadman, composer and conductor
* Julian Stockwin, author
* Alex Thompson, Presenter and chief correspondent for Channel 4 News
* Joseph Warton, academic, literary critic and poet
* Thomas Warton, academic and poet, holder of the title of Poet Laureate from 1785
* Chuck Whelon, creator, artist and co-writer of the Pewfell comic strip

Entertainment

* John Arlott, cricket journalist, writer and commentator
* James Bailes, musician
* Carl Barât, lead singer and guitarist with The Libertines and Dirty Pretty Things
* Mark Griffin, played Action Man in the Action Man films and was also Trojan in the TV series Gladiators
* Bernadette Hunt, played Falcon in the TV series Gladiators
* Francesca Hunt, actress
* Elizabeth Hurley, actress and model
* Emily Jordan, actress
* Ian McNeice, actor
* Steve McAllister, session musician
* Pete Staples, bassist for the 1960's supergroup The Troggs
* Sarah Sutton, actress and former Doctor Who companion
* Ramon Tikaram, actor
* Tanita Tikaram, singer-songwriter
* Christine Williams, former Playboy centerfold

port

* Alex Bogdanovic, tennis player
* Matt Crossley former football player for Wycombe Wanderers F.C.
* Sean Doherty, professional football player
* Joshua Goodall, tennis player
* Oliver Lancashire, professional football player
* Tom Rees, Flanker for the England national rugby union team and the London Wasps
* Lee Sandford, professional footballer having played for Portsmouth,Stoke City and Sheffield United
* Kathy Smallwood-Cook, Bronze medal winning Olympic sprinter
* Mitchell Stokes, county cricketer
* Kit Symons, football coach and former player
* Robert Tobin, Athlete and sprinter
* Barry Truman, footballer
* Shaun Udal, England test cricketer and Hampshire county cricketer
* Rowan Vine, footballer for Queens Park Rangers
* Tom Croft, Flanker/Second Row for the England national rugby union team and Leicester Tigers

Other

* Chase Armitage, Freerunner, [http://www.3run.co.uk/ 3Run Media]
* Lawrence Ambrose Brown, former Bishop of Birmingham
* Thomas Burberry, founder of the Burberry clothing empire
* Charls Butler, writer, grammarian, theologist, naturalist, musical theorist
* Ruth Ellis, last woman to be hanged in Great Britain
* Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York and former wife of Prince Andrew, raised in nearby Dummer
* Joseph Storrs Fry, Founder of Fry's chocolate company
* George Cecil Jones, Chemist and occultist
* Sir James Lancaster, 16th century navigator and statesman
* John Aidan Liddell, VC, MC, First World War pilot
* Walter de Merton, Bishop of Rochester and founder of Merton College, Oxford
* William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester, Statesman
* David Pawson, Baptist Minister, Bible teacher and author
* William Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys of the Vyne, Tudor diplomat and Lord Chamberlain


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