List of people from Devon
This is a list of people from Devon, a county in South West England. The demonym of Devon is Devonian. This list is arranged alphabetically by surname:
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- Charles Babbage, inventor
- Baldwin of Exeter (d. 1190), Archbishop of Canterbury
- W. N. P. Barbellion: nom-de-plume of Bruce Frederick Cummings, diarist.
- Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet (1740–1810), banker
- Sabine Baring-Gould, scholar, clergyman, novelist and antiquary
- Sue Barker, tennis player and television presenter
- Kenneth Barnes (1878–1957), director of RADA
- Cliff Bastin (1912–1991), Arsenal and England footballer
- Phil Beer, musician and composer (born at Exminster)
- Matthew Bellamy (b. 1978), guitarist, pianist, and vocalist of rock band Muse
- John Bidlake, clergyman, author, artist
- John Carne Bidwill (1815–1853), botanist, first Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney
- Sir Thomas Bodley (1545–1613), diplomat and founder of the Bodleian Library at Oxford
- Saint Boniface, 672-754, patron saint of the Netherlands and Germany
- Sir John Bowring (1792–1872), political economist and Governor of Hong Kong
- Henry de Bracton (d. 1268), jurist
- Eustace Budgell (1686–1737), writer
- Tony Burrows (b. 1942), pop singer
- Richard Burton, explorer and linguist
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- Michael Caines (b 1969), chef and restaurateur
- Edward Capern (1819–1894), poet
- Mary Carpenter (1807–1877), educational and social reformer
- William Benjamin Carpenter (1813–1885), physiologist and naturalist
- Raymond Cattell, psychology pioneer
- Jim Causley, folk singer & radio presenter (b. 1980, Heavitree)
- Jimmy Cauty, pop musician
- Henry Chadwick (1824–1908), journalist, "the father of baseball"
- Sir Francis Chichester (1901–1972), Aviator and Sailor.
- Agatha Christie, novelist
- Lady Mary Chudleigh (1656–1710), early feminist and poet
- William Kingdon Clifford (1845–1879), mathematician
- Eleanor Coade (1733–1821), inventor of Coade stone
- Lily Cole (b. 1988), supermodel and actress
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet
- David Collins (1756–1810), first Governor of Van Diemens Land (Tasmania)
- Peter Cook (1937–1995), comedian, born in Torquay
- William Cookworthy, pharmacist and industrialist
- Tommy Cooper (1921–1984), comedian, was born in Caerphilly but lived in Exeter from the age of 3
- Samuel Cousins (1801–1887), engraver
- Edmund Crispin (1921–1978), novelist & composer
- William Crossing (1847–1928), author
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- George Hakewill (1578–1649), clergyman and author
- William Hakewill (1574–1655), legal antiquarian
- Theodore Bayley Hardy (1863–1918), Army chaplain and VC
- Hannah Harper (b. 1982), erotic actress
- Miranda Hart, actress and comedienne
- Matt Harvey, poet
- Benjamin Haydon, painter and writer
- Francis Hayman (1708–1776), Rococo artist
- Oliver Heaviside, mathematician
- Nicholas Hilliard (c1547-1619), portraitist
- Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011), writer, journalist, and literary critic
- James Holman (1786–1857), noted blind traveller
- John Hooker, constitutionalist
- Richard Hooker (1554–1600), Anglican theologian
- W. G. Hoskins (1908–1992), historian of the English landscape
- Dominic Howard (1977), Musician, drummer of rock band Muse
- Thomas Hudson (1701–1779), portrait painter
- Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, model
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- John Rainolds (1549–1605), Puritan scholar
- Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618), sailor and writer
- Chris Read (1978- ), English test cricket wicket-keeper
- Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792), influential English painter
- Peter Richardson (1952- ), actor, comedian, director and writer.
- Philip Hutchins Rogers (1794–1853), artist
- Sir Henry Rosewell (1590–1656), Puritan, of Forde Abbey, adventurer of the Dorchester Company
- John Rowe (1715–1787), merchant and owner of ship involved in the Boston Tea Party
- John "Jack" Russell (1795–1883), eponymous dog-breeder and a founder member of the Kennel Club
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- Robert Falcon Scott, RN officer and Antarctic explorer
- Sir Nicholas Slanning, MP, Royalist soldier in the English Civil War
- Wayne Sleep (b. 1948) dancer and choreographer
- Lilly Martin Spencer (1822–1902), US painter
- Samuel Stennett (1727–1795), Baptist minister and hymnwriter
- John Stockham (1765–1814), naval officer
- Joss Stone (b. 1987), soul singer (born in Kent, moved to Devon in her late teens)
- Robert Stone (1516–1613), composer and member of the Chapel Royal.
- Henrietta Anne Stuart (1644–1670), daughter of King Charles I
- Anthony Sullivan, TV commercial pitchman, and co-star of the show Pitchmen on Discovery Channel
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See also
References
Further reading
- Burton, S. H. Great Men of Devon. (Men of the Counties Series; no. 8.) London: John Lane, 1956
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