List of people from Basingstoke
This is a list of notable people who were born in or near, or have been residents of the Basingstoke, Hampshire, England.
Bold text denotes a person who was born in Basingstoke.
Arts and humanities
[edit]- Jane Austen, author
- Hannah Berry, comic artist and author
- Grace Blakeley, economics and political journalist
- Callum Cant, author and researcher
- Lucy Coats, author
- Alma Deutscher, composer and conductor
- L. Grace Dibble, teacher and travel writer
- John Gardner, author
- Steve Harris, author
- Macdonald Hastings, journalist and war correspondent
- E O Higgins, author
- Gwyther Irwin, abstract artist
- John James, architect
- Waldemar Januszczak, art critic and filmmaker
- Sima Kotecha, journalist
- AJ Pearce, author
- C. Bernard Rutley, author
- Christopher Sclater Millard, author
- Tim Shipman, journalist
- Nora Stanton Barney, civil engineer and suffragist
- Robert Steadman, composer and conductor
- Julian Stockwin, author
- Alex Thomson, journalist and newscaster
- Joseph Warton, academic and poet
- Thomas Warton, academic and poet
- Chuck Whelon, comic author and cartoonist
Entertainment
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- John Arlott, cricket journalist and commentator
- Sam Attwater, actor
- Carl Barât, musician
- Christian Brassington, actor
- James Bye, actor
- Shelley Conn, actress
- Daisy May Cooper, actress and writer
- Mark Griffin, actor
- Max Harwood, actor
- Steve Hewlett, ventriloquist
- Elizabeth Hurley, actress and model
- Steve Lamacq, DJ
- Tristan Myles, visual effects artist
- Ian McNeice, actor
- Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, socialite and television personality
- Gabriella Slade, musical costume designer
- Lisbee Stainton, musician
- Pete Staples, musician
- Jodie Steele, actress
- Sarah Sutton, actress
- Ramon Tikaram, actor
- Tanita Tikaram, musician
- Gabriella Wilde, actress
- Christine Williams, model
- Bob Young, musician
Sport
[edit]- Joel Bagan, footballer
- Sal Bibbo, footballer
- Alex Bogdanovic, tennis player
- Nick Buchanan, cricketer
- Sid Castle, footballer and football manager
- Travis Clayton, NFL player
- Tom Cleverley, international footballer and football manager
- Georgina Corrick, international softball player
- Tom Croft, international rugby union player
- Matt Crossley, footballer
- Harlee Dean, footballer
- Sean Doherty, footballer
- Darren Flint, cricketer
- Dean Francis, boxer
- Leanne Ganney, international ice hockey player
- Joshua Goodall, tennis player
- Robert Heywood, cricketer
- Paul Hogan, darts player
- Dave Holby, endurance athlete
- Simon Humberstone, rugby union player
- Aaron Jarvis, footballer
- Liam Kelly, footballer
- Mark Kelly, international footballer
- Matt King, cricketer
- Olly Lancashire, footballer
- Joe McDonnell, footballer
- Mike McMeeken, international rugby league player
- Lee Nurse, cricketer
- Josh Payne, footballer
- Tom Rees, international rugby union player
- Kurt Reynolds, ice hockey player
- Justin Rose, golfer
- Lee Sandford, footballer
- Will Smallbone, international footballer
- Kathy Smallwood-Cook, Olympic sprinter
- Dominic Solanke, international footballer
- Mitchell Stokes, cricketer
- Kit Symons, international footballer and football manager
- Robert Tobin, Olympic athlete
- Shaun Udal, international cricketer
- Rowan Vine, footballer
- Jock Wallace Jr., footballer and football manager
- Thomas White, cricketer
- Chris Wood, cricketer
- Ross Wood, cricket umpire
- Ben Wright, footballer
Other
[edit]- Arron Fraser Andrew Banks, businessman and political donor
- Alice Blunden, premature burial subject
- Hubert Broad, noted test pilot
- Laurie Brown, former Bishop of Birmingham
- Thomas Burberry, founder of Burberry clothing business
- Charles Butler, beekeeper, logician and grammarian
- David Chidgey, Baron Chidgey, politician
- H. E. J. Cowdrey, historian
- William Dicey, newspaper proprietor
- John Freeman Dunn, politician
- Ruth Ellis, last woman to be hanged in Great Britain
- Joseph Storrs Fry, founder of Fry's chocolate company
- Rebecca George, President of British Computer Society
- Andrew Holding, scientific researcher
- George Cecil Jones, chemist and occultist
- Hilary Jones, celebrity doctor
- James Ketchell, adventurer
- Sir James Lancaster, privateer and trader
- John Aidan Liddell, Victoria Cross recipient
- Cecil Lowther, politician
- Charles Massey, psychical researcher
- Walter de Merton, founder of Merton College, Oxford
- William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester, Statesman
- David Pawson, Baptist minister and author
- William Plowden, politician
- William Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys of the Vyne, Tudor diplomat and Lord Chamberlain
- Sarah, Duchess of York, former wife of The Duke of York
- L.E. Timberlake, American politician
- Lady Anne Wallop, aristocrat
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington