List of people from Bath

Looking south from the Pulteney Bridge in Bath

This article provides a non-exhaustive list of famous people born, educated or prominent in Bath, Somerset, England, or otherwise associated with the city. The list is alphabetical within each sub-section. Bathonian is the term for somebody who comes from Bath.

Acting

The Theatre Royal

• Ollie Barbieri – actor in Skins.^[1]
• Jennifer Biddall^[2]
• Adam Campbell – actor in Epic Movie and Date Movie.^[3]
• Julia Davis^[4]
• Anthony Head.^[5]
• Jonathan Hyde^[6]
• Andrew Lincoln^[7]
• Jonathan Lynn – actor, writer and director.^[8]
• Leo McKern – Rumpole actor.^[9]
• Tom Payne^[10]
• Arnold Ridley^[11]
• Sarah Siddons – 18th-century actress^[12]
• Indira Varma^[13]
• Angelica Mandy – in Vanity Fair and Harry Potter series as Gabrielle Delacour.

Architecture

The Palladian Bridge, Prior Park Gardens

• Robert Adam – architect of Pulteney Bridge, also produced unexecuted designs for the Assembly Rooms and Bathwick estate.^[14]
• Thomas Baldwin – architect of Great Pulteney Street and Bath Guildhall.^[15]
• Sir Reginald Blomfield – architect of the Bath War Memorial and extension of the Holbourne Museum.^[16]
• Thomas Fuller – emigrated to Canada, where he co-designed the Parliament House in Ottawa.^[17]
• Frederick Gibberd – architect of Bath Technical College.^[18]
• Henry Goodridge – architect of Beckford's Tower, Cleveland Bridge and The Corridor shopping arcade^[19]
• Sir Thomas Graham Jackson – architect of the World War I memorial aisle Bath Abbey.^[20]
• William Eden Nesfield – architect, one of the leaders of the Gothic revival in England
• John Palmer – architect of the Pump Room and Lansdown Crescent.^[21]
• C. J. Phipps – Theatre Royal, Bath and other theatres around Britain.^[22]
• John Pinch the elder – the original Royal United Hospital.^[23]
• John Pinch the younger – architect
• Charles Harcourt Masters – active in Bathwick including Sydney Gardens.^[24]
• Sir George Gilbert Scott – restoration of Bath Abbey, architect of St Andrew's church destroyed by bombs during World War II.^[25]
• Frederick William Stevens – architect, emigrated to India.^[26]
• John Wood, the Elder – architect of Queen Square and the Circus.^[27]
• John Wood, the Younger – architect of the Royal Crescent.^[28]

Art

• Roy Ascott – new media artist
• Daniel A. Baker – artist*
• Sir Peter Blake lived in Wellow village,near Bath, during the 1970s^[29]
• Peter Brown – painter^[30]
• Thomas Gainsborough – painter^[31]
• Sir Thomas Lawrence – painter^[32]

Education

• Marie Bethell Beauclerc – first female shorthand teacher and reporter in England.^[33]
• Sir Raymond Carr – historian.^[34]
• Roderick Kedward – British historian.^[35]
• Sir Isaac Pitman – inventor of shorthand.^[36]
• Robert Craven – author of business books^[37]
• William Harbutt – headmaster and inventor of Plasticine.^[38]

Entertainment (general)

Street performance near Bath Abbey

• Russell Howard – comedian.^[39]
• Jesse Honey – BBC Mastermind champion 2010.^[40]
• Beau Nash – master of ceremonies in Georgian Bath.^[41]
• Bill Bailey – comedian, musician, actor, TV and radio presenter and author.

Exiles

• Louis XVIII – prior to ascending the French throne.^[42]
• Haile Selassie I – during World War II^[43]

Fashion

• Manolo Blahnik – shoe designer^[44]
• James Buckley Thorp – founder of Bath clothing brand Rupert and Buckley

Filmmaking

• David Lassman – screenwriter^[45]
• Ken Loach – film director.^[46]
• Charlie McDonnell – YouTube star as "Charlieissocoollike".^[47]

Food

• Mary Berry CBE – food writer born in Bath and made a freeman of the city.^[48]
• Sally Lunn cake – probably a corruption of the French phrase "soleil et lune" referring to a type of cake originally made by Protestant refugees from France, but other derivations have been given.^[49] A Bath tea shop bears the name.^[50]
• Dr William Oliver – inventor of the Bath Oliver biscuit and a founder of the Royal Mineral Water Hospital.^[51]

Government

The Parade Gardens

• Sir Henry Cole – civil servant.^[52]
• William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham – prime minister and MP for Bath 1757 to 1766.^[53]
• William Pitt the Younger – prime minister.^[54]
• Sir William Tite – architect and MP for Bath 1855–1873.^[55]
• Chris Patten – MP for Bath 1979-1992.^[56] Governor of Hong Kong 1992-1997.
• Don Foster – MP for Bath 1992 to 2015.^[57]

Literature

• Jane Austen – novelist;^[58] Joan Aiken reports that Austen did not love the city; when she learned her family were moving to Bath, "she fainted dead away."^[59]
• William Thomas Beckford – wrote Vathek and a series of works on travel^[60]
• Henrietta Maria Bowdler – novelist and editor, died in Bath on 25 February 1830.^[61]
• Jane Bowdler – poet and essayist, was born at Ashley, near Bath, on 14 February 1743 and died there in 1784.^[62]
• John Bowdler – moral reformer and religious writer, born in Bath on 18 March 1746.^[63]
• Thomas Bowdler – physician and expurgator of Shakespeare, was born at Box, near Bath, on 11 July 1754.^[64]
• Charles Dickens – novelist, frequent visitor to the city and set much of the Pickwick Papers in the city.^[65]
• Henry Fielding – novelist^[66]
• "Rita" (Eliza Margaret Jane Humphreys. 1850–1938) – wrote A Grey life,a novel set in Bath. She lived at Combe Down from c. 1923, and is buried in Bath Abbey Cemetery.^[67]
• Morag Joss – novelist^[68]
• David Lassman – novelist born in Bath, co-author of the Regency Detective series.
• Richard Brinsley Sheridan – playwright^[69]
• Tobias Smollett – physician, surgeon and novelist, partly set The Expedition of Humphry Clinker in the city, wrote essay on the waters of Bath^[70]
• Geoffrey Trease – children's novelist, author of the Bannermere series^[71]
• Mary Shelley – novelist, author of Frankenstein.^[72]
• Jacqueline Wilson – children's author, born in Bath.^[73]

Modelling

• Kayleigh Pearson – Glamour Model.

Music

Beckford's Tower on Lansdown Hill

• Gabrielle Aplin – singer/songwriter^[74]
• Danny Byrd – Drum and Bass artist signed to Hospital Records^[75]
• Eddie Cochran – rock'n'roll musician, died in Bath^[76]
• Peter Gabriel – musician^[77]
• Interview – New Wave band
• Alison Goldfrapp – singer of Goldfrapp^[78]
• Peter Hammill – musician
• Raymond Leppard – conductor, educated Beechen Cliff School^[79]
• Naked Eyes – musical group^[80]
• Thomas Linley – musician^[81]
• Alberto Fernanco Riccardo Semprini – pianist^[82]
• Peter Salisbury – drummer and percussionist of The Verve
• Tears for Fears – musical group^[83]
• Midge Ure
• The Family Rain
• Propellerheads

Postal Service

• Ralph Allen (1693–1764) – postal reformer, quarry owner and mayor. Allen developed the first nationwide postal network that did not pass through London.^[84]
• John Palmer (1742–1818) – inventor of the lightweight mail coach^[85]

Science

• Adelard of Bath – astronomer, philosopher and mathematician^[86]
• Mike Cowlishaw – computer scientist and engineer^[87]
• Richard Lovell Edgeworth – writer and inventor^[88]
• David Hartley (the Younger) – philosopher and inventor^[89]
• William Herschel – astronomer, discoverer of Uranus and musician^[90]
• Thomas Robert Malthus – philosopher and economist^[91]
• Richard J. Roberts – Nobel-prize-winning biochemist^[92]

Sport

• George Attfield – first-class cricketer active in the 1840s and 1850s.^[93]
• Olly Barkley – England international rugby player^[94]
• Roger Bannister – athlete, first man to run sub-4-minute mile^[95]
• Tony Book – football player, former Manchester City captain and manager, part of the Bath-based Book footballing dynasty^[96]
• Jason Dodd – football player, former Southampton captain who holds the record for the most Premiership appearances by an English player without ever being named in an England squad^[97]
• Jason Gardener – British athlete, 4 × 100 m Olympic gold medallist^[98]
• Matt Green – professional footballer^[99]
• Jeremy Guscott – England and Bath rugby player^[100]
• Ed McKeever – kayak world champion (K1 200m)^[101]
• Andy Robinson – rugby coach, former England international team coach and Bath Rugby team coach^[102]
• Jack Rowell – Bath Rugby director, former England international team coach and Bath Rugby team coach^[103]
• Ben Rushgrove – paralympic athlete^[104]
• Scott Sinclair – Celtic F.C. player^[105]
• Talan Skeels-Piggins – Paralympic alpine skier^[106]
• Amy Williams – winter Olympic gold medallist.^[107]
• Clive Woodward – British Olympic Committee Director of Elite Performance, former England international team coach and Bath Rugby team coach^[108]

Holy Trinity Church, Combe Down

Religion

• John Hales – theologian^[109]
• William Jay – preacher^[110]
• Oliver King – bishop of Bath and Wells, rebuilt Bath Abbey^[111]
• Abraham Marchant – early Mormon leader, settler of Kamas, Utah^[112]

Royalty

• Queen Anne – visited the city for treatment for gout^[113]
• Edgar of England – crowned king of England in Bath Abbey in 973^[114]
• Queen Elizabeth I – on a visit to the city ordered the restoration of Bath Abbey^[115]
• Mary of Modena – stayed in Bath for treatment for infertility. After she gave birth to Prince James Francis Edward Stuart she paid for a cross to be erected in what became the Cross Baths^[116]
• Queen Victoria – when still a princess stayed in Bath and opened Royal Victoria Park^[117]
• Princess Claire of Belgium – born in Bath.

Warfare

• Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson – admiral, freeman of Bath.^[118]
• Sir William Edward Parry – rear-admiral and Arctic explorer^[119]
• Harry Patch – supercentenarian and last trench veteran of World War I who lived in Combe Down^[120]
• George Wade – field marshal and MP for Bath 1722^[121]
• James Wolfe – general^[122]

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