Famous people from Gloucestershire

[kancutlawns]

Thomas Arkell, Canadian politician
Sean Arnold, actor
Sir Robert Atkyns, baron of the Exchequer
Sir Robert Atkyns, author of a history of Gloucestershire
Thomas Aufield, Roman Catholic martyr
Charles Bannister, actor and singer
Steve Banyard, football commentator, lives in the Cotswolds
Wayne Barnes, international rugby union referee
John Bayliss, poet and literary editor
Siân Berry, politician and Green Party member
John Biddle
Lorraine Bowen, singer and songwriter
Matthew Boyce, cricketer
Herbert Brewer, organist and composer, Gloucester Cathedral
Edwin Beard Budding, inventor of the lawnmower
John Canton, physicist
Cornelius Cardew, composer,[1] born in Winchcombe
Johnny Coppin, folk musician and composer, lives in the county[2]
Ernest Cossart, Hollywood actor; brother of Gustav Holst
P J Crook, artist, born and lives near Cheltenham
William Davis, miner, shot dead by police during a miners' demonstration in Canada and commemorated by Davis Day
Ian Dench, musician and songwriter
Sir George Dowty, founder of Dowty Rotol
David Drew, MP for Stroud
Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards, born in Cheltenham
Air Chief Marshal Sir Basil Embry
Sir Martin Evans, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Mabel FitzRobert of Gloucester, heiress and wife of Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester
Winifred Foley, writer, best known for her autobiography A Child in the Forest
Richard Freeman, judge
Gabrielle Glaister, actress
W. G. Grace, cricketer
Christopher Gunning, composer
Ivor Gurney, composer and poet[3]
Button Gwinnett, second of the signatories (first signature on the left) on the United States Declaration of Independence
Sir Frederick Handley Page, aircraft designer, best known for WW2 aircraft, including the Halifax bomber[4]
Robert Hardy, actor
Ricci Harnett, actor
Sir Arthur Harris, head of RAF Bomber Command during WWII
Liam Hess, actor
William Stephen Raikes Hodson, soldier and commander of Hodson's Horse during the Indian Mutiny
Gustav Holst, composer, born in Cheltenham
Imogen Holst, composer and conductor
Lionelle Howard, silent era film actor, born in Cirencester
Herbert Howells, composer
Wilfrid Hyde-White, actor, born in Bourton-on-the-Water
Edward Jenner, discovered vaccination, initially against smallpox, lived in Berkeley
Brian Jones, ex-guitarist of the Rolling Stones
Alex Kapranos, lead singer and guitarist for the band Franz Ferdinand
H. D. F. Kitto, classical scholar
Laurie Lee, poet and author of Cider with Rosie and other autobiographical works
Jackie Lewis, motor racing driver
Thomas Linley the elder, composer
David Loder, racehorse trainer
Emma McClarkin, politician
Joe Meek, 1960s pop record producer and pioneer, born in Newent
Christopher Merret, physician and scientist
Henry Miles, dissenting minister and writer on science
Royce Mills, actor
Ben Morgan, Gloucester and England Rugby player
William Moseley, actor best known for Peter in The Chronicles of Narnia
Richard O'Brien, of the Rocky Horror Show
J. I. Packer, theologian
Simon Pegg, actor and comedian
Emily Pidgeon, athlete
Dennis Potter, dramatist
Cozy Powell, rock drummer, born in Cirencester
Michael Praed, actor
Zac Purchase, Olympic gold medallist
Robert Raikes, founder of the Sunday School movement
William Reynolds, footballer
Frederick Roberts, cricketer
Jeremy Dale Roberts, composer
J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books
Samuel Rudder, topographer, printer and antiquarian, born in Uley
Robert Charles "Jack" Russell, former Gloucestershire and England cricketer, now an artist
Frederick Sanger, double winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, born in Rendcomb
John Stafford Smith, composer of the tune for the Star Spangled Banner
Jonathan Smith, novelist
Tom Smith, lead singer of the rock band Editors
Nathan Sykes, member of boy band The Wanted
Bert Tayler, cricketer
John Taylor, the "Water Poet"
Kate Thornton, TV presenter born in Cheltenham
Keith Tippett, pianist and improviser
Edith Tolkien, née Bratt, wife of J. R. R. Tolkien
FKA twigs, singer, producer
William Tyndale, Bible translator
Thomas Twining, tea merchant, born in Painswick
Christopher Warren-Green, violinist and conductor
Oliver Weeks, composer and arranger
Fred West, one of Britain's most notorious serial killers
Sir Charles Wheatstone, physicist
George Whitefield, preacher
Richard Whittington, four times Lord Mayor of London, and inspiration for the pantomime character Dick Whittington
Ralph Vaughan Williams, composer, born in Down Ampney
Edward Adrian Wilson, Antarctic explorer
James (Jemmy) Wood, banker
James Wood-Mason, zoologist
John Woolrich, composer,[5] born in Cirencester
Jimmy Young, disc jockey, born in Cinderford

[Roquetas]

Cut-and-paste. Any fucker can do that. Where's the personalisation, Lawns-o???

[kancutlawns]

You're asking the wrong person roq, I simply know of only Jenner, WG Grace, Gustav Holz, Jimmy Young and Robert Hardy on the list. I can't provide a critique or a customised analysed when I don't know about the subjects can I? I'm simply using technology at my fingertips. Why reinvent the wheel?

[Roquetas]

You're asking the wrong person roq, I simply know of only Jenner, WG Grace, Gustav Holz, Jimmy Young and Robert Hardy on the list. I can't provide a critique or a customised analysed when I don't know about the subjects can I? I'm simply using technology at my fingertips. Why reinvent the wheel?

Sean Arnold was Bergerac's boss.

[Zambo]

Dr Foster

[AlcoholBrazil]

Fred West was from Much Marcle,Herefordshire . I'm sure most from Gloucestershire would like that to be known.

[kevin04]

JK Rowling is a cunt.

[Basualdo]

JK Rowling is a cunt.

Yeah, but a filthy rich one with nice diddies.

[The Ghost of Alex Higgins]

Kank'n'paste!

[George Summer]

JK Rowling is a cunt.

She is a bit beaky, but has given over 10 million quid of her own cash to charities for MS, so not a full on cunt tbh.

[Sid Pervcat]

Fred West was from Much Marcle,Herefordshire . I'm sure most from Gloucestershire would like that to be known.

"Most" from Gloucestershire are mentally feeble, so I doubt they care

[Zippy]

Frederico West is a county treasure.