- List of people from Basingstoke
This is a list of notable people who were born in or near, or have been residents of the Town of Basingstoke,
England .(Bold text denotes a person who was born in Basingstoke)
Arts and Humanities
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Jane Austen , author (born, and wrote many of her major works in nearby Steventon
*Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch , Americanwriter andsuffragist
*Lucy Coats , author
* John Gardner spy novelist
*Flora Gare , sculptor
*Macdonald Hastings ,journalist andWar Correspondent
*John James , architect
*Waldemar Januszczak , art critic and film maker
*Robert Steadman ,composer and conductor
*Julian Stockwin , author
*Alex Thompson , Presenter and chief correspondent forChannel 4 News
*Joseph Warton , academic, literary critic and poet
*Thomas Warton , academic and poet, holder of the title ofPoet Laureate from1785
*Chuck Whelon , creator, artist and co-writer of thePewfell comic stripEntertainment
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John Arlott ,cricket journalist,writer andcommentator
*James Bailes ,musician
*Carl Barât , leadsinger andguitarist withThe Libertines and Dirty Pretty Things
*Mark Griffin , played Action Man in the Action Man films and was also Trojan in the TV series Gladiators
*Bernadette Hunt , played Falcon in the TV series Gladiators
*Francesca Hunt , actress
*Elizabeth Hurley , actress and model
*Emily Jordan , actress
*Ian McNeice , actor
*Steve McAllister , session musician
*Pete Staples , bassist for the 1960's supergroupThe Troggs
*Sarah Sutton , actress and formerDoctor Who companion
*Ramon Tikaram , actor
*Tanita Tikaram ,singer-songwriter
*Christine Williams , formerPlayboy centerfold port
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Alex Bogdanovic ,tennis player
*Matt Crossley former football player forWycombe Wanderers F.C.
* Sean Doherty, professional football player
*Joshua Goodall ,tennis player
*Oliver Lancashire , professional football player
* Tom Rees, Flanker for theEngland national rugby union team and theLondon Wasps
* Lee Sandford, professional footballer having played forPortsmouth ,Stoke City andSheffield United
*Kathy Smallwood-Cook , Bronze medal winning Olympic sprinter
*Mitchell Stokes , county cricketer
*Kit Symons , football coach and former player
*Robert Tobin , Athlete and sprinter
*Barry Truman , footballer
*Shaun Udal , Englandtest cricket er and Hampshire county cricketer
*Rowan Vine , footballer forQueens Park Rangers
*Tom Croft , Flanker/Second Row for theEngland national rugby union team andLeicester Tigers Other
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Chase Armitage , Freerunner, [http://www.3run.co.uk/ 3Run Media]
* Lawrence Ambrose Brown, formerBishop of Birmingham
*Thomas Burberry , founder of theBurberry clothing empire
*Charls Butler , writer, grammarian, theologist, naturalist, musical theorist
*Ruth Ellis , last woman to behanged inGreat Britain
*Sarah Ferguson ,Duchess of York and former wife of Prince Andrew, raised in nearby Dummer
* Joseph Storrs Fry, Founder of Fry's chocolate company
*George Cecil Jones ,Chemist andoccultist
* Sir James Lancaster,16th century navigator andstatesman
*John Aidan Liddell , VC, MC,First World War pilot
*Walter de Merton ,Bishop of Rochester and founder ofMerton College, Oxford
*William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester ,Statesman
*David Pawson ,Baptist Minister,Bible teacher and author
*William Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys of the Vyne ,Tudor diplomat andLord Chamberlain
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