List of people from Basingstoke
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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 = born in Basingstoke)
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[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] Sport
- Alex Bogdanovich, 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 Birmingham City
- Tom Croft, Flanker/Second Row for the England national rugby union team and Leicester Tigers
[edit] Other
- Chase Armitage, Freerunner, 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
