List of people from Cheltenham
- List of people from Cheltenham
in the town centre. Born Cheltenham 1872, died Antarctica 1912. The plinth reads: "Edward Wilson of the British Antarctic Expedition reached the South Pole on January 17 1912 and died with Captain Scott on the Great Ice Barrier in March 1912"]
This is a list of Notable Cheltonians, or people from Cheltenham in Gloucestershire, ordered alphabetically by surname:
* Sir James Tynte Agg-Gardner (1846–1928), brewery-owner, Lord of the Manor of Cheltenham, Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Cheltenham 1874–1880, 1885–1895, 1900–1906, 1911–1928
*Dorothea Beale (1831–1906), former headmistress of Cheltenham Ladies' College
*Duncan Gordon Boyes (1846–1869), VC
*James Buckman, naturalist and agriculturalist
*Jaz Coleman, lead singer of Killing Joke
*Napoleon Cordy, Mayanist
*Steve Cotterill, Ex-manager of Cheltenham Town, manager of Championship club Burnley FC
*Sir George Dowty, founder of Dowty Rotol
*Sir Douglas Dodds-Parker, Conservative MP for Cheltenham 1964–1974, member of the Special Operations Executive in World War II
*Eddie 'the Eagle' Edwards (born 1963), Olympic ski-jumper
*James Elroy Flecker (1884–1915), poet
*Arthur 'Bomber' Harris (1892–1984), commander of Bomber Command
*Robert Hardy (born 1925), actor
*Gustav Holst (1874–1934), composer
*Charles Irving (1924–1995), Conservative MP for Cheltenham 1974–1992
*Martin Jarvis (born 1941), actor
*Edward Jenner (1749–1823), the inventor of vaccination
*Punk rock band 4ft Fingers
*Brian Jones (1942–1969), one of the Rolling Stones
*Nigel Jones, Baron Jones of Cheltenham (born 1948), Liberal Democrat MP for Cheltenham 1992–2005
*Felicity Lott (born 1947), opera and concert soprano
*John Nevil Maskelyne (1839–1917), magician and inventor of the pay toilet
*William Murray, creator of the Ladybird Books Key Words Reading Scheme
*Richard O'Brien, of the Rocky Horror Show
*Richard Pate, founder of Pate's Grammar School
* Pagan Rock band, Inkubus Sukkubus.
*Zac Purchase, Olympic gold medallist
*Ralph Richardson, actor
*John Simpson (born 1953), lexicographer
*Kate Thornton, journalist and television presenter
*Edward Adrian Wilson (1872–1912), explorer who joined Scott on his ill-fated Antarctic Expedition
* Richard Wilson Cardiff Cobras American Football Linebacker
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