- List of people from Chichester
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Chichester is a cathedral city in West Sussex, England. The following is a list of those people who were either born or live in Chichester, or had some important contribution to make to the town. People from Chichester are referred to as Cicestrians.
Notable people from Chichester
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- Alan Arnell (1935- ) Association football player
- Isabel Ashdown (1970- ) Author
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- Alan Badel (1923–1982) actor
- Peter Baldwin (1933- ) actor
- Harriet Barber (1968- ) painter
- Roland Beamont (1920–2007) RAF fighter pilot ace World War II
- John Blund (c1175-1248) philosopher
- Tommy Boyd (1952- ) radio presenter
- Vic Buckingham (1915–1995) Association football player
- Cordelia Bugeja (1976- ) actress
- John Bullokar (1574–1627) physician and lexicographer
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- Sam Callis (1973- ) actor
- John Cameron (1914–2000) cricketer
- Frank Reginald Carey (1912–2004) RAF fighter pilot ace World War II
- William Cawley (1602–1667) politician; signatory to death warrant of King Charles I
- William Chillingworth (1602–1644) churchman
- Tiberius Claudius Cogidubnus (?) local ruler in Roman Britain
- William Clowes (1779-1847) printer
- William Collins (1721–1759) poet
- Holly Colvin (1989- ) woman cricketer
- F.W.S. Craig (1929–1989) psephologist
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- Norman Demuth (1878–1968) composer
- Hugh Dennis (1962- ) comedian, writer, actor
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- Jack Maynard Cholmondeley Easton (1906–1984) RNVR holder of George Cross
- Harvey Lonsdale Elmes (1813–1847) architect
- Michael Elphick (1946–2002) actor
- David Emms (1925-?) Rugby Union player and educationalist
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- John Forbes (1787–1861) physician
- Mike Friday (1972- ) Rugby Union player and coach
- Christopher Fry (1907–2005) playwright
- J.F.C. Fuller (1878–1966) Army officer (major-general) and historian
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- Edric Frederick Gifford, 3rd Baron Gifford (1849–1911) holder of the Victoria Cross
- Eric Gill (1882–1940) sculptor, typeface designer and printmaker
- William Greenfield (d1315) Dean of Chichester
- Ken Green 1932 Local historian and author
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- Jamie Hall (1968- ) cricketer
- Ian Hannah (1874–1944) academic, writer, politician
- Charles Harington Harington (1872–1940) Army officer World War I
- Giles Haywood (1979- ) former Sussex and Nottinghamshire cricketer
- Sean Heather (1982- ) cricketer
- Antony Hegarty (1971- ) singer
- George Hersee (1924–2001) BBC engineer
- Andrew Hodd (1984- ) cricketer
- Brian Horrocks (1895–1985) Lt General World War II and BBC presenter
- William Huskisson (1783–1828) politician; killed in first railway accident
- Walter Hussey (1909–1985) Dean Chichester Cathedral and art lover
- Charlotte Hawkins Sky News presenter
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- Edward James (c1557-1588) priest and martyr
- William Juxon (1582–1663) Archbishop of Canterbury
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- Jarvis Kenrick (1852–1949) Association football player
- Edward Knapp-Fisher (1915–2003) Bishop
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- Jennifer Lash (1939–1993) novelist and painter
- Margaret Leighton (1922–1976) actress
- Lord Henry Lennox (1821–1886) politician
- Morgan Lewington (?) Canadian TV and film producer
- James Lillywhite (1842–1929) English cricketer
- Ian Lloyd (1921–2006) politician
- Robert Langmead (1968-present) entrepreneur
- George Long (1800–1879) English classical scholar
- Robert Ballard Long (1771–1825) Army officer
- Walter Loveys (1920–1969) politician and farmer
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- Morris Maddocks (1928–2008) Bishop
- Leslie Evershed Martin (1903–1991) theatrical impresario and mayor of Chichester
- Charlotte Mason (1842–1923) educator
- Stephen Matthews (1946- ) Australian author and publisher
- Jasper Mayne (1604–1672) Archdeacon of Chichester
- Cursor Miner (?) musician
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- Ralph Neville (d1244) Bishop of Chichester and Lord Chancellor of England
- Adrian Noble (1950- ) theatre director
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- Edward Schroeder Prior (1857–1932) architect; Arts and Craft Movement
- Mavis Pugh (1914–2006) actress
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- Zoe Rahman (?) jazz pianist
- Leslie Rands (1900–1972) opera singer
- Mark Roberts archaeologist
- Anita Roddick (1942–2007) founder of The Body Shop
- Patricia Routledge (1929–present) theatre, television, and film actress and singer.
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- James Saxon (1954–2003) actor
- Richard Seaman (1913–1939) Grand Prix driver
- John Selden (1584–1654) jurist
- M.P. Shiel (1865–1947) fantasy fiction writer
- Ros Simmons CEO of Vie at Home
- Dudley Smith (1926- ) politician
- George Smith (1713/14–1776), landscape painter
- Edward Speleers (1988- ) actor
- Paul Steinitz (1909–1988) musician
- Edward Story (d1503) bishop
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- Dave Thomas (1950- ) Association football player; PE teacher
- James Tighe (?) professional wrestler
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- Honeysuckle Weeks (1979- ) actress
- Rollo Weeks (1987- ) actor
- George Weldon (1908–1963) conductor
- John Weldon (1676–1736) composer
- Simon of Wells (d1207) Bishop of Chichester
- Michael Wilding (1912–1979) actor
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