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

A

• John Armstrong (1893-1973), artist
• Fenton John Aylmer (1862–1935), recipient of the Victoria Cross World War I

B

• 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 Everton F.C. (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
• James Blackshaw (born 1981) musician
• 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
• Mark Benton (born 1965) actor

C

• Tom Chaplin (born 1979), lead vocalist of rock band Keane
• 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
• Steve Cook (born 1991), Footballer
• Catherine Cookson (1906–1998), popular novelist
• Harry H. Corbett (1925–1982), actor
• Anthony Crosland (1918–1977), Labour MP ¶
• Aleister Crowley (1875–1947), occultist
• Liane Carroll (born 1964), pianist/vocalist

D

• Tymon Dogg (born 1950) singer-songwriter, musician
• Mark Davis (born 1972), snooker player ‡¶

• John Digweed (born 1967), DJ
• Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881–1955), French theologian, writer and philosopher
• Eugénie de Montijo (1826–1920), Empress of France
• Richard D'Oyly Carte (1844–1901) impresario and opera company founder
• Barry Dransfield, folk musician
• Martin Degville, Singer - Sigue Sigue Sputnik

E

• Ernest Elmore (1901–1957), novelist, died in Hastings
• Maya Evans (born 1979), political activist ‡

F

• 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 ‡

G

• David Gemmell (1946–2006), novelist
• Mary Gentle, novelist
• Adrian Gray, darts player
• Jaine Green (Jaine Harmston-Green), documentary maker ‡
• William Alexander Greenhill (1814–1896), doctor, literary editor and sanitary reformer
• Clive Malcolm Griffiths, media personality
• Howard Griffiths, conductor

H

• Sid Hadden (1877–1934), cricketer
• Henry Rider Haggard (1865–1936), writer
• Claire Hamill (born 1954), singer-songwriter ‡
• Dean Hammond (born 1983), footballer
• David Hare (born 1947), playwright
• John Wesley Harding (born 1965), singer
• John Holmes (1924–1980), cricketer
• Richard Hughes (born 1975), drummer of the rock band Keane

J

• Andrew Jefford (born 1956), wine writer and poet
• Sophia Jex-Blake (1840–1912), feminist and founder of the London School of Medicine for Women
• Houn Jiyu-Kennett (1924–1996), Zen Buddhist teacher ¶

K

• Sheila Kaye-Smith (1881–1956), author ¶
• Leigh Kennedy (1951-), writer
• Steve Kinch, bass guitarist with Manfred Mann and formerly with Hazel O'Connor
• Jules Knight, singer

L

• Alex Lester (born 1956), BBC Radio 2 presenter ‡
• Peter Ling (1926–2006), writer and creator of Crossroads
• Desmond Llewelyn (1914–1999), actor, 'Q' in the James Bond film series
• Geoff Love (1917–1991), band leader

M

• George MacDonald (1824–1905), writer of children's stories
• Wesley Magoogan, saxophonist with The Beat, Billy Ocean and Hazel O'Connor
• Clark Masters, professional footballer for Brentford Southend and Aldershot
• 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

N

• Marianne North (1830–1890), botanical painter with permanent gallery at Kew Gardens, London

O

• Titus Oates (1649–1705), instigator of the "Popish Plot"
• Jane Omorogbe (born 1971), actress, TV presenter, journalist
• Grey Owl (Archibald Belaney) (1888–1938), author, nature conservation pioneer, and Canadian icon

P

• Cecil Parker (1897–1971), actor
• Coventry Patmore (1823–1896), Roman Catholic,poet, Pre-Raphaelite and fanatical anti-semite
• Fiona Pitt-Kethley (born 1954), writer
• Christopher Priest (born 1943), novelist ‡
• Sergiusz Piasecki (1901–1964), one of the best known Polish language writers of the mid 20th century

R

• Milan Rai (? ), political activist ‡
• Thomas Rendle (born 1986) FIDE International Master chess player
• Henry Handel Richardson (1870–1946), Australian-born author
• Lee Richardson (1979–2012), speedway rider
• Neil Ruddock (born 1968), ex-footballer, bankrupt
• Tim Rice-Oxley (born 1976), pianist and songwriter of the rock band Keane

S

• Alex Sanders (1926–1988), dubbed King of the Witches
• Edward Sargent (1842-1914) architect
• Malcolm Saville (1901–1982), author of children's books
• Paul Antony Smith (born 1976) footballer
• Screaming Lord Sutch (1940–1999), founder of the Monster Raving Loony Party

T

• David Tibet (born 1960), poet, artist and musician ‡
• Claude Ticehurst (1881–1941), ornithologist ¶
• Tulsen Tollett, Australian rugby league player
• Robert Tressell (1870–1911), socialist novelist
• Alan Turing (1912–1954), pioneering computer scientist ¶
• Tony Tyler (1943–2006), writer on computer topics
• Tommy Bowen Musician, White Lies

U

• Barry Upton (born 1954) musician, songwriter, producer

W

• Winifred Wagner (1897–1980), manager of Bayreuth Festival 1930–1945
• Sarah Waldegrave, Countess Waldegrave (1787–1873), philanthropist
• Thomas Attwood Walmisley (1814–1856), Professor of Music at Cambridge
• Dr Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward (1791–1868)
• Paul Watson (born 1975), footballer
• Ben Wells (born 1989) guitarist for American Southern-rock band Black Stone Cherry
• Randall Wells (1877–1942)
• Dean White (born 1958), footballer
• William Hale White (1831–1913), novelist (pseudonym Mark Rutherford)

Y

• Paula Yates (1959–2000), television presenter
• Mike Yardy (), Cricketer, Sussex and England

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