List of notable Bathonians
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A Bathonian is somebody who comes from the city of Bath, England.
This article provides a non-exhaustive list of famous people born in Bath, educated there, prominent in the life of the city, or otherwise associated with the city.
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[edit] Architecture
- John Wood, the Elder - architect of Queen Square and the Circus
- John Wood, the Younger - architect of the Royal Crescent
- Robert Adam - architect of Pulteney Bridge, also produced unexecuted designs for the Assembly Rooms and Bathwick estate
- Thomas Baldwin - architect of Great Pulteney Street and Bath Guildhall
- Thomas Fuller - emigrated to Canada
- John Palmer (Bath architect) - architect of the Pump Room and Lansdown Crescent
- C. J. Phipps - Theatre Royal, Bath and numerous other theatres around Britain
- John Pinch - the original Royal United Hospital
- Henry Goodridge - architect of Beckford's Tower, Cleveland Bridge & The Corridor shopping arcade
- Charles Harcourt Masters - Active in Bathwick including Sydney Gardens
- Sir George Gilbert Scott - restoration of Bath Abbey, architect of St Andrew's church destroyed by bombs during World War II
- Sir Thomas Graham Jackson - architect of the World War I memorial aisle Bath Abbey
- Frederick William Stevens - architect, emigrated to India
- Sir Reginald Blomfield - architect of the Bath War Memorial and extension of the Holburne Museum
- Frederick Gibberd - architect of Bath Technical College
[edit] Acting
- Arnold Ridley
- Sarah Siddons - 18th century actress
- Leo McKern - Rumpole actor
- Patricia Routledge - Hyacinth Bucket actress
- Angelica Mandy
- Anthony Head
[edit] Art
- Thomas Gainsborough - painter
- Sir Thomas Lawrence - painter
[edit] Education
- Roderick Kedward, British Historian
- Simon Kitson, British Historian
- Sir Isaac Pitman - inventor of shorthand
[edit] Entertainment (general)
- Bill Bailey, Comedian
- Beau Nash - Master of Ceremonies in Georgian Bath
[edit] Administration of the British Empire
- James Brooke - Rajah of Sarawak
[edit] Exiles
- Louis XVIII - prior to ascending the French throne
- Napoleon III - prior to becoming President then Emperor of the French
- Haile Selassie I - during World War II
[edit] Fashion
- Sophie Cramb - Inventor of the mini-skirt
[edit] Film-making
- Ken Loach - film director
[edit] Food
- Sally Lunn - inventor of the eponymous bun
- Dr William Oliver - inventor of the Bath Oliver cracker and the Bath bun
[edit] Government
- William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham - Prime Minister and MP for Bath 1757 to 1766
- William Pitt the Younger - Prime Minister
- Sir Henry Cole - Civil Servant
- Sir William Tite - architect and MP for Bath 1855–1873
- Chris Patten - MP for Bath 1979-1992
- Don Foster - MP for Bath 1992 to present
[edit] Literature
- Jane Austen - novelist
- William Thomas Beckford - wrote Vathek and a series of works on travel
- Charles Dickens - novelist, frequent visitor to the city and set much of the Pickwick Papers in the city
- Henry Fielding - novelist
- Morag Joss - novelist
- Samuel Richardson - novelist, he wrote Clarissa while living in Bath
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan - playwright
- Tobias Smollett - physician, surgeon and novelist, partially set Humphrey Clinker in the city, wrote essay on the waters of Bath
[edit] Music
- Thomas Linley - musician
- Alberto Fernanco Riccardo Semprini - pianist
- Peter Gabriel - musician
- Goldfrapp - musical group
- Van Morrison - singer
- Tears for Fears - musical group
Raymond Leppard, conductor, educated Beechan Cliff School
[edit] Science
- Adelard of Bath - astronomer, philosopher and mathematician
- William Herschel - astronomer, discoverer of Uranus & musician
- Richard Lovell Edgeworth - writer and inventor
- David Hartley (the Younger) - philosopher and inventor
- Richard J. Roberts - Nobel-prize-winning biochemist
- Mike Cowlishaw - computer scientist and engineer
- Thomas Robert Malthus - philospher and economist
[edit] Sport
- Olly Barkley - England international rugby player
- Roger Bannister - athlete, first man to run sub-4-minute mile
- 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
- Jason Gardener - British athlete, 4 x 100m Olympic gold medallist
- Jeremy Guscott - England and Bath rugby player
- Andy Robinson - rugby coach, former England international team coach and Bath Rugby team coach
- Clive Woodward - British Olympic Committee Director of Elite Performance, former England international team coach and Bath Rugby team coach
- Jack Rowell - Bath Rugby director, former England international team coach and Bath Rugby team coach
[edit] Theology & Religion
- John Hales - theologian
- William Jay - Preacher
- Oliver King - Bishop of Bath and Wells, rebuilt Bath Abbey
[edit] Royalty
- Queen Anne - visited the city for treatment for gout
- Queen Charlotte - she spent several months in Bath towards the end of her life
- Edgar of England - crowned king of England in Bath Abbey in 973
- Queen Elizabeth I - on a visit to the city ordered the restoration of Bath Abbey
- 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
- Queen Victoria - when still a princess stayed in Bath and opened Victoria Park
[edit] Warfare
- George Wade - Field Marshall and MP for Bath 1722
- Sir William Edward Parry - rear-admiral and arctic explorer
- Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson - admiral
- James Wolfe - general
