- List of people from Nottingham
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Notable people born in or near, educated in, or otherwise associated with Nottingham. Sorted by category and DOB:
Contents
Actors
Joe Dempsie
- (1650) Nell Gwyn ("Let not poor Nelly starve") was granted the estate of Bestwood by King Charles II.[1]
- (1900) Lester Matthews, film actor, was born in Nottingham.[2]
- (1925) Ivor Roberts, TV actor and announcer, was born in Nottingham.[3]
- (1936) John Bird, actor, comedian and satirist best known for Bremner, Bird and Fortune.[4]
- (1947) Richard Beckinsale, actor best known as Lennie Godber in the sitcom Porridge.[5]
- (1949) Su Pollard, actor best known for her roles in the sitcom Hi-de-Hi! and You Rang, M'Lord?.[6]
- (1950) Sherrie Hewson, actor and novelist best known as regular panellist on Loose Women.[7]
- (1952) Cherie Lunghi, film and TV actress, was born in Nottingham.[8]
- (1952) Janine Duvitski, actor best known as Pippa Trench in One Foot In The Grave.[9]
- (1970) Justine Thornton, actress best known for her roles in Dramarama and Hardwicke House.
- (1971) Ace Bhatti, actor best known as Yusef Khan on Eastenders. [10]
- (1975) Andrea Lowe, actress best known for roles in Coronation Street, The Tudors and Ken Loach film Route Irish.[11]
- (1976) Craig Robert Young, actor best known for his role in Dream Team.[12]
- (1977) Samantha Morton, actor best known for her role in the film Sweet and Lowdown.[13]
- (1978) Mathew Horne, actor best known as Gavin in Gavin and Stacey.[14]
- (1983) Vicky McClure, BAFTA award winning actress best known as Lol in This Is England.[15]
- (1985) Jonny Sweet, actor and comedian who played Boris Johnson in When Boris Met Dave.[16]
- (1987) Joe Dempsie, actor best known as Chris Miles from Skins.[17]
- (1990) Anjli Mohindra, actor best known as Rani Chandra in The Sarah Jane Adventures.[citation needed]
- (1992) Georgia Groome, actress, best known from the movie Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging as the main role Georgia.[18]
Armed forces
- (1615) John Hutchinson (Colonel), parliamentary army officer and regicide, was baptised in Nottingham and probably born in his father's house at Owthorpe.[19]
- (1795) William Raynor, thought to be the oldest recipient of the Victoria Cross, for valour at the Siege of Delhi in 1857, was born at Plumtree.[20]
- (1822) Francis Wheatley, awarded the Victoria Cross for valour in the Crimean War in 1854, was born in Ruddington.[21]
- (1829) Samuel Morley or Morely, awarded the Victoria Cross for valour at Nathapur, India in 1858, was born at Radcliffe-on-Trent and died in Nottingham.[22]
- (1832) Robert Humpston, awarded the Victoria Cross for valour in the Crimean War in 1855, died in Nottingham.[23]
- (1846) Anthony Clarke Booth, awarded the Victoria Cross for valour in the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879, was born in Carrington, Nottingham.[24]
- (1873) Sapper William Hackett, awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross for valour as a tunneller at Givenchy, France in 1916, was a miner from Sneinton.[25]
- (1873) Harry Churchill Beet, awarded the Victoria Cross for valour in the Boer War in 1900, was born in Bingham.[26]
- (1881) Samuel Harvey, awarded the Victoria Cross for valour at the Hohenzollern Redoubt, France, in 1915, was born in Basford.[27]
- (1881) Walter Richard Parker of the Royal Marines, awarded the Victoria Cross for valour at Gallipoli in 1915, died at Stapleford.[28]
- (1888) James Upton, awarded the Victoria Cross for valour at the Battle of Aubers Ridge in the First World War in 1915, was born in the Meadows, Nottingham.[29]
- (1889) Robert Bye, awarded the Victoria Cross for valour in the Third Battle of Ypres, died in Nottingham in 1962.[30]
- (1890) William Henry Johnson, awarded the Victoria Cross for valour at Ramicourt, France, in the First World War in 1918, was born at Worksop and died in Nottingham.
- (1891) Charles Ernest Garforth, awarded the Victoria Cross for valour at Harmingnies, France, in the First World War in 1914, was cremated at Wilford Hill, Nottingham.[31]
- (1893) Wilfred Dolby Fuller, awarded the Victoria Cross for valour in the Battle of Neuve Chapelle in the First World War in 1915, was born in Greasley.[32]
- (1894) Geoffrey Vickers, awarded the Victoria Cross and the Belgian Croix de Guerre for valour at the Hohenzollern Redoubt in France in 1915, in charge of economic intelligence in the Second World War, and later a prominent management theorist, was born in Nottingham.
- (1896) Albert Ball, First World War fighter pilot and recipient of the Victoria Cross.[33]
- (1901) Robert St Vincent Sherbrooke of the Royal Navy, awarded the Victoria Cross for valour in the Battle of the Barents Sea in 1942, was born and died at Oxton, Nottinghamshire.[34]
- (1915) Harry Nicholls, awarded the Victoria Cross for valour near the River Escaut in Belgium in 1940, was born and died in Nottingham.[35]
- (1922) Terrence Sisson, served in the Fleet Air Arm in South Africa during the Second World War and wrote a book about Just Nuisance.[citation needed]
- (1935) Stella Rimington, first female head of MI5, educated at Nottingham High School for Girls.[36]
Art
- (c. 1662) Nicholas Hawksmoor, the architect, was born at East Drayton.[37]
- (1721) Thomas Sandby, architect and founder member of the Royal Academy.[38]
- (1731) Paul Sandby, artist and founder member of the Royal Academy.[38]
- (1802) Richard Parkes Bonington, landscape painter, was born at Arnold, Nottinghamshire.
- (1815) George I. Barnett, was born and raised in Nottingham and became a prominent architect in St. Louis, Missouri
- (1834) Samuel Bourne, the famed photographer of India, lived in Nottingham from 1870 until he died in 1912.
- (1846) Kate Greenaway, the illustrator of children's books, spent her childhood and many adult summers at Rolleston, Nottinghamshire.[39]
- (1861) Joseph Southall, painter and Quaker, was born in Nottingham, the son of a grocer.[40]
- (1878) Percy Claude Byron, the New York photographer, was born in Nottingham.
- (1907) Dudley D. Watkins, cartoonist and illustrator for comics such as The Beano, The Dandy, The Beezer and Topper.[41]
Business
- (1631) Thomas Smith, either of Cropwell Butler or of East Stoke, established England's first provincial bank in Nottingham.[42]
- (1763) George Africanus, noted Nottingham entrepreneur of African origin.[43]
- (1781) Samuel Fox, philanthropist, abolitionist Quaker and first chairman of Nottingham Building Society.[44]
- (1850) Jesse Boot, chairman and managing director of Boots the Chemists who transformed it into a national concern: the company was founded in Nottingham in 1849 by his father, (1815) John Boot.[45]
- (1848) Sir Frank Bowden, 1st Baronet spent the last 34 years of his life in Nottingham turning Raleigh into the world's largest bicycle maker.[46]
- (1947) Paul Smith, fashion designer (from Beeston).[47]
Music
- (1940) John Crocker, clarinettist and saxophonist with Chris Barber's Jazz Band until 2003.[48]
- (1941) Christopher Hogwood conductor.[citation needed]
- (1942) Edwin Starr, the US soul music singer, died at Bramcote.[49]
- (1944) Alvin Lee, rock guitarist and singer, was born Graham Barnes in Nottingham.[50]
- (1945) Elton Dean, the jazz saxophonist, was born in Nottingham.[51]
- (1948) Ian Paice, drummer for Deep Purple.[52]
- (1950) Graham Russell, guitarist and vocalist from soft rock group Air Supply.[citation needed]
- (1952) Judith Bingham, composer and singer, was born in Nottingham.[53]
- (1958) Bruce Dickinson, lead singer of legendary heavy metal band Iron Maiden
- (1959) Corinne Drewery, lead singer of Nottingham group Swing Out Sister.[54]
- (1960) Nick Hallam and (1961) Robert Birch, founder members of Stereo MCs.[55]
- (1961) Andy Fletcher of synth band Depeche Mode was born in Nottingham.[56]
- (1964) Sandy Burnett, record producer.[57]
- (1965) Stuart A. Staples, guitarist and singer, most notably of the band Tindersticks[58]
- (1981) Chris Urbanowicz, Lead guitarist in Editors.[59]
- (19--?) Digby "Dig" Pearson, musician and founder of Earache Records, Nottingham is the UK operations base.[60]
- (1984?) MistaJam, born Pete Dalton, BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 1Xtra DJ radio presenter and TV actor.[61]
- (1985?) Liam Bailey, acoustic soul musician.[62]
- (1990) Jay McGuinness, member of the boyband The Wanted, grew up in Newark-on-Trent and Carlton.[63]
- (1991) Bianca Claxton, a trained musician and member of the girl group Parade, was born in Gunthorpe and educated at Nottingham High School for Girls.[64]
Novelists, playwrights and poets
D. H. Lawrence, world famed author (1906)- (1723) William Hutton, the poet and historian, was a stocking maker's apprentice in Nottingham and later a bookseller in Southwell.[65]
- (1785) Henry Kirke White, the religious poet, was the son of a Nottingham butcher.[66]
- (1788) The poet Lord Byron.[67] resided at Newstead Abbey and is buried at nearby Hucknall along with his mathematical daughter (1815) Ada Lovelace.[68]
- (1792) William Howitt, Quaker poet and author, served as a Nottingham alderman in the 1830s.[69]
- (1795) Richard Howitt, the Heanor-born poet, spent much of his life in Nottingham and died at Edingley.[70]
- (1799) Mary Howitt, Quaker poet and author, lived in Nottingham with her husband William in the 1830s.[71]
- (1816) Philip James Bailey poet, who lived with his father for some time in 16 and 18 Denman Street, later moving to 449, Alfreton Road. His poem Festus was written in the Basford area.[72]
- (1824) Anna Mary Howitt, writer and painter, was born in Nottingham.[73]
- (1835) Samuel Butler, author of Erewhon was born at Langar, Nottinghamshire.[74]
- (1875) Arthur Mee, compiler of the Children's Encyclopaedia and author of the King's England series, was born in Stapleford.[75]
- (1885) D. H. Lawrence, novelist and poet, born in Eastwood and educated at Nottingham High School.[76]
- (1909) Geoffrey Trease, children's novelist, Bows Against the Barons, was the son of a Nottingham wine merchant.[77]
- (1919) Stanley Middleton, novelist, born in Bulwell, was educated at High Pavement School and University College of Nottingham. He taught English at High Pavement, was a prolific author, an accomplished organist and painter.[78]
- (1928) Alan Sillitoe, novelist (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning), was born and raised in Nottingham and worked at the Raleigh factory for four years.[79]
- (1934) Helen Cresswell, children's writer, was born in Kirkby-in-Ashfield and died at Eakring.[80]
- (1943) Vicki Feaver, poet, was born in Nottingham.
- (1944) Barbara Erskine, novelist, was born in Nottingham.
- (1949?) Max Blagg, poet, writer and performer, was born in Retford.
- (c. 1950) Posie Graeme-Evans, novelist and TV director, was born in Nottingham.
- (1952) Stephen Booth, the crime writer, lives in Retford, Nottinghamshire.
- (1957) Robert Harris, author of Fatherland [1992], Enigma [1995], Archangel [1998], Pompeii [2003] and Imperium [2006], was born and raised in Nottingham.[81]
- (1959) Susanna Clarke, novelist (Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell), was born in Nottingham, the daughter of a Methodist minister.
- (1960) Julie Myerson, novelist and newspaper columnist, was born in Nottingham.[82]
- (1965) Keith Mansfield, writer and publisher, went to school in Nottingham and West Bridgford.
Politics
- (1122) Eleanor of Aquitaine, consort of Henry II of England, was imprisoned in Nottingham Castle in 1173-89 after plotting against him.
- (1546) Sir Henry Pierrepont of Holme Pierrepont was a member of Parliament for Nottingham.[83]
- (1584) Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull of Holme Pierrepont was a member of Parliament for Nottingham, then active in the House of Lords from 1627, but neutral in the English Civil War.[84]
- (1607) Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester of Holme Pierrepont was a prominent Royalist politician.[85]
- (1607/8) William Pierrepont (politician), born at Home Pierrepont, was a prominent Parliamentary politician under the Commonwealth.[86]
- (1667) Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull was a prominent Whig politician and from 1707 recorder of Nottingham.[87]
- (1737) Charles Pierrepont, 1st Earl Manvers, politician, MP for Nottinghamshire, and naval officer, inherited Thoresby Hall and Holme Pierrepont Hall in 1788.[88]
- (1790) Jeremiah Brandreth, revolutionary, was born in Wilford.[89]
- (1825) Anthony John Mundella, who went into the Nottingham hosiery trade in 1837, was an MP and a minister in three Liberal governments.
- (1826) Sydney Pierrepont, 3rd Earl Manvers, politician, MP for Nottinghamshire, was born in Holme Pierrepont.
- (1854) Charles Pierrepont, 4th Earl Manvers, politician, was MP for the Newark Division of Nottinghamshire.
- (1855) Alice Zimmern, suffragist and pacifist, daughter of a lace merchant.[90]
- (1881) Gervas Pierrepont, 6th Earl Manvers, army officer and politician, was buried at Perlethorpe.
- (1893) William Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland, the Conservative politician and chancellor of Nottingham University, lived at Welbeck Abbey.
- (1932) Jim Lester, Conservative MP for Beeston and then Broxtowe and a junior minister, was born in Nottingham and educated at Nottingham High School.[91]
- (1940) Kenneth Clarke, Chancellor of the Exchequer (1993–1997) and MP for Rushcliffe; educated at Nottingham High School.[92]
- (1967) Ed Balls, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer (2011-) and MP for Morley and Outwood; grew up in Keyworth and educated at Nottingham High School.[93]
Religion
- (1396) Walter Hilton, the mystic and author of The Ladder of Perfection, was a canon of Thurgarton Priory.
- (1489) Thomas Cranmer, archbishop and martyr, was born at Aslockton, Nottinghamshire.[94]
- (c. 1550) Thomas Helwys, co-founder of the Baptist denomination, defender of religious liberty and victim of religious persecution.[95]
- (1549/50) Gervase Babington, Anglican theologian and bishop of Worcester, was born in Nottinghamshire.[96]
- (1560 or 1566) William Brewster, postmaster of Scrooby, later sailed as one of the Pilgrim Fathers on the Mayflower to the new Plymouth Colony.[97]
- (c. 1600) Elizabeth Hooton, the first female Quaker preacher, lived at Skegby.
- (1631) John Barret, Presbyterian minister, was born and died in Nottingham.[98]
- (1738) Daniel Taylor, founder of the New Connexion of General Baptists, was baptised in the River Idle at Gamston, Bassetlaw.[99]
- (1779) Joseph Gilbert, Congregational writer and minister in Friar Lane, Nottingham.
- (1781) Samuel Fox, the Quaker philanthropist, was from Nottingham.[100]
- (1800) William Williams, missionary in New Zealand, and first Anglican Bishop of Waiapu.[citation needed]
- (1829) William Booth, founder of The Salvation Army.[101]
- (1860) Herbert Kelly, an Anglican priest, moved his Society of the Sacred Mission to Kelham Hall in 1903.
- (1886) Arthur Pink, the US evangelist and religious writer, was born in Nottingham.[102]
- (1950) Kobutsu Malone, the American Rinzai Zen Buddhist priest and prison reformer, was born Kevin Christopher Malone in Nottingham.[103]
Science and technology
- (c. 1563) William Lee, inventor of the stocking frame.[104]
- (1724) Robert Darwin, botanist, brother of Erasmus, was born at Elston Hall, Nottinghamshire.[105]
- (1731) Erasmus Darwin, physician and natural philosopher, was also born at Elston Hall.[106]
- (1793) George Green (of Green's Mill), mathematician and physicist, famed for Green's theorem.[107]
- (1800) Godfrey Howitt, physician, botanist and entomologist, was educated in Mansfield and honorary physician at Nottingham's City Infirmary and General Hospital before emigrating to Australia.[108]
- (1823) John Russell Hind, astronomer and discoverer of several asteroids, was born in Nottingham and attended Nottingham High School.
- (1863) Frederick Kipping, the celebrated research chemist, was professor of chemistry at University College, Nottingham from 1897 to 1936.
- (1866) George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, who backed the excavation of Tutankhamun's Tomb, had large estates at Shelford, Nottinghamshire.
- (fl. 1895) Frederick Gibson Garton, grocer who created HP Sauce in 1896.[109]
- (1910) John Pilkington Hudson, horticultural scientist and bomb disposal expert, Nottingham University's first professor of horticulture from 1958.[110]
- (1933) Peter Mansfield, the Nobel Prize winning physicist, has been a professor at Nottingham University since 1964.
- (1934) Clive Granger, the Nobel Prize winning economist, studied and then taught at Nottingham University.
- (c. 1945) Viacheslav Belavkin, a pioneer of quantum probability, is a mathematics professor at Nottingham University.
Sport
Boxing
- (1811) William 'Bendigo' Thompson, bare-knuckle boxer.[111]
- (1951) Dave Needham, 1970 Commonwealth Games gold medal winner and one-time holder of the British flyweight and bantamweight titles.[112]
- (1977) Carl Froch, professional boxer.[113]
Cricket
- (1835) Richard Daft, cricketer for Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club.[114]
- (1930) Alan Armitage, former cricketer for Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club and Oxford University Cricket Club.[115]
- (1947) Peter Plummer, former cricketer for Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club.[116]
- (1982) Mark Dale, cricketer for Northumberland County Cricket Club.[117]
- (1986) Stuart Broad, cricketer for Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club and England.[118]
- (1989) Dan Wheeldon, cricketer for the Unicorns.[119]
Football
- (1870) Herbert Kilpin, footballer and founder of A.C. Milan.[120]
- (1928) Peter Taylor, former manager of Burton Albion, Brighton & Hove Albion and Derby County. More famous for his role as Brian Clough's number two at Hartlepools United, Derby County and Nottingham Forest.[citation needed]
- (1945) David Pleat, former manager of Tottenham Hotspur, Sheffield Wednesday and Luton Town.[121]
- (1963) Steve Hodge, former Nottingham Forest, Tottenham Hotspur, Leeds United, Aston Villa, Queens Park Rangers, Leyton Orient and England footballer.[122]
- (1971) Andy Cole, a member of Manchester United's multi trophy-winning side of the late 1990s.[123]
- (1973) Chris Sutton, former Chelsea, Norwich City, Blackburn Rovers, Celtic and Aston Villa footballer.[124]
- (1976) Darren Huckerby, former Coventry City and Manchester City striker.
- (1983) Jermaine Jenas, midfielder for Tottenham Hotspur and ex-Nottingham Forest.[125]
- (1983) Jermaine Pennant, right-winger for Real Zaragoza, formally having played for Notts County, Arsenal, Watford, Leeds United, Birmingham City, Liverpool, Portsmouth and Stoke City .[citation needed]
- (1984) Julian Bennett, Sheffield Wednesday.[citation needed]
- (1984) Wes Morgan, Nottingham Forest.[citation needed]
- (1985) Craig Westcarr, footballer for Notts County FC.
- (1985) James Perch, Premier league footballer for Newcastle.
- (1986) Leon Best, Newcastle United F.C. striker.[citation needed]
- (1986) Tom Huddlestone, Tottenham Hotspur and ex-Nottingham Forest youth.[citation needed]
- (1986) Will Hoskins, Bristol Rovers.[citation needed]
- (1987) David McGoldrick, footballer for Nottingham Forest.
- (1988) Lewis McGugan, Nottingham Forest and ex-England Youth.[citation needed]
- (1988) Scott Loach, Watford F.C. and England U21 Goalkeeper.[citation needed]
Martial arts
- (1982) Dan Hardy, MMA fighter in UFC.[citation needed]
- (1983) Paul Daley, MMA fighter in UFC.[citation needed]
Other sports
- (1912) Archibald Stinchcombe, ice hockey player, became the coach to the Nottingham Panthers in 1949 and lived in the city until he died in 1994.[126]
- (1914) Tom Blower, swimmer.[127]
- (1957) Jayne Torvill and (1958) Christopher Dean, Olympic ice skating gold medallists.[128]
- (1969) Bryan Steel professional racing cyclist, Olympic and World Championships medallist [129]
- (1971) Anthony Hamilton[130] and (1978) Michael Holt,[131] professional snooker players who both competed in the Nazareth House Snooker League, which was established in Nottingham in 1940.
- (1981) Robert Newton, hurdling athlete. Britain's only openly gay athlete.[132]
- (1992) Becky Downie, gymnast who competed at The Commonwealth Games, European Championships and the 2008 Olympic Games.[133]
TV and radio
- (1933) Leslie Crowther.[134]
- (1933) Dennis McCarthy.[135]
- (1982) Matt Forde, comedian and radio presenter.[136]
Miscellaneous
- (1932) Frank Robinson (Xylophone Man), an eccentric street entertainer known throughout Nottingham.[137]
- (1944) Margaret Humphreys, social worker and Director of the Child Migrants Trust.[138]
- (1946) Harold Shipman, one of the most notorious serial killers in modern history.[139]
- (1989) Jessica Linley, Miss England 2010.[140]
- (1989) Gorge Pling, AVG legend.
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