List of people from Hastings
This is a list of people from Hastings, in East Sussex, England. It includes people from the town of Hastings and ouylying areas such as St Leonards-on-Sea, that comprise the wider borough of Hastings. This list is arranged alphabetically by surname:
- ‡ signifies current (2008) resident
- ¶ signifies people specifically from St Leonards-on-Sea
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- John Logie Baird (1888–1946), pioneer of television
- Kevin Ball (born 1964), ex-footballer and now coach at Sunderland A.F.C.
- Gillian Barge (1940–2003) actress
- Gareth Barry (born 1981), footballer for Manchester City (2009–) and England (2000–)
- Andy Bell (born 1964), singer, Erasure
- Harold Bennett (1899–1981) actor
- Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910), first woman to qualify as a doctor
- Emma Blocksage (born 1979) model
- Barbara Bodichon (1827–1890), advocate of women's rights, painter and founder of Girton College
- Elsie Bowerman (1889–1973), suffragette and Titanic survivor; one of the first women called to the Bar and the first to appear at the Old Bailey
- Jo Brand (born 1957), comedian
- Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey (1836–1918), politician
- Thomas Brassey (1805–1870), railway pioneer
- John Bratby (1928–1992), painter
- George Bristow (1863–1947), taxidermist at the centre of the Hastings Rarities affair
- Gerald Brodribb (1915–1999), cricket historian and archaeologist
- Nikki Bull (born 1981), footballer playing for Wycombe Wanderers.
- Shayne Burgess (born 1964), PDC darts player ‡
- Edward Burra (1905–1976), painter
- James Burton (1761–1837), architect, founder of St Leonards-on-Sea
- Decimus Burton (1800–1881), son of James, continued his father's work
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- George Chapman (1865–1903), Polish-born English serial killer, Jack the Ripper suspect
- Stuart Christie (born 1946), anarchist writer, publisher and would-be Franco assassin
- Shirley Collins (born 1935), English folk singer
- Catherine Cookson (1906–1998), popular novelist
- Harry H. Corbett (1925–1982), actor
- Anthony Crosland (1918–1977), Labour MP ¶
- Aleister Crowley (1875–1947), occultist
- Tom Chaplin (born 1979), singer, Keane
- Liane Carroll (born 1964), pianist/vocalist
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- Karl Ferris (born 1948), rock album cover photographer for Jimi Hendrix, Donovan, The Hollies
- Michael Jabez Foster (born 1946), Labour MP 1997 - 2010
- Kim Fuller (born 1951), television, film and radio writer and producer
- Simon Fuller (born 1960), Britain's most successful music manager, most notably of The Spice Girls, creator / producer of the Idol and So You Think You Can Dance television shows
- Harry Furniss (1854–1925), cartoonist
- Steve Furst (born 1967), comedian and actor on Little Britain ‡
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- George MacDonald (1824–1905), writer of children's stories
- Wesley Magoogan, saxophonist with The Beat, Billy Ocean and Hazel O'Connor
- Anna McNeill Whistler (c. 1831 – 1881) Whistler's Mother.
- Graham McPherson (born 1961), aka 'Suggs' of Madness, singer
- Paul Merton (born 1957), TV presenter and comedian
- Spike Milligan (1918–2002), comedian and writer
- George Monger (1840–1887), who at 17 won a Victoria Cross at Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny
- General Sir James Murray (1721–1794), Governor of Quebec
- George Mogridge (Old Humphrey) Victorian writer, poet and author of religious tracts
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