List of people from Exeter

List of people from Exeter

Notable people from Exeter, Devon include:
*Baldwin of Exeter (died 1190), Archbishop of Canterbury
*Joseph of Exeter (12th century), poet
*Robert Stone (1516–1613), composer and member of the Chapel Royal.
*John Hooker (1525–1601), constitutionalist
*William Peryam (1534 – after 1603), lawyer
*Sir Thomas Bodley (1545–1613), diplomat and founder of the Bodleian Library
*Nicholas Hilliard (c. 1547 – 1619), portraitist
*John Rainolds (1549–1605), Puritan scholar
*Richard Hooker (1554–1600), Anglican theologian
*William Hakewill (1574–1655), legal antiquarian
*George Hakewill (1578–1649), clergyman and author
*Matthew Locke (c. 1621 – 1677), baroque composer
*Henrietta Anne Stuart (1644–1670), daughter of King Charles I
*Peter King, 1st Baron King (1669–1734), Lord Chancellor
*Thomas Yalden (1670–1736), poet
*Simon Ockley (1678–1720), orientalist
*Eustace Budgell (1686–1737), writer
*Thomas Hudson (1701–1779), portrait painter
*Francis Hayman (1708–1776), Rococo artist
*John Rowe (1715–1787), merchant and owner of ship involved in Boston Tea Party
*Samuel Stennett (1727–1795), Baptist minister and hymnwriter
*Sir Francis Baring (1740–1810), banker
*David Collins (1756–1810), first Governor of Van Diemens Land (Tasmania)
*John Stockham (1765–1814), naval officer
*Richard Parker (1767–1797), sailor and mutineer
*James Holman (1786–1857), noted blind traveller
*Sir John Bowring (1792–1872), political economist and Governor of Hong Kong
*Samuel Cousins (1801–1887), engraver
*Mary Carpenter (1807–1877), educational and social reformer
*William Benjamin Carpenter (1813–1885), physiologist and naturalist
*John Carne Bidwill (1815–1853), botanist, first Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney
*Lilly Martin Spencer (1822–1902), US painter
*Henry Chadwick (1824–1908), journalist, "the father of baseball"
*Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924), writer
*William Kingdon Clifford (1845–1879), mathematician
*Theodore Bayley Hardy (1863–1918), Army chaplain and VC
*Fred Karno (1866–1941), comedy pioneer and impresario
*Irene Vanbrugh (1872–1949), actress
*William Temple (1881–1944), Archbishop of Canterbury
*W. G. Hoskins (1908–1992), historian of the English landscape
*Cliff Bastin (1912–1991), Arsenal and England footballer
*Tommy Cooper (1921–1984), comedian, was born in Caerphilly but lived in Exeter from the age of 3
*Tony Burrows (born 1942), pop singer
*Clare Morrall (born 1952), novelist
*Stuart Hooper (born 1963), adventurer and businessman
*Beth Gibbons (born 1965), singer with Portishead
*Michael Caines (born 1969), chef and restaurateur
*Chris Martin (born 1977), singer with Coldplay
*Rebecca Worthley (born 1981), singer-songwriter


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