From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of people from Devon , a county in
South West England . The
demonym of
Devon is Devonian. This list is arranged alphabetically by surname.
A more complete listing is at
Category:People from Devon .
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Charles Babbage (1791–1871), inventor
Baldwin of Exeter (d. 1190),
Archbishop of Canterbury
W. N. P. Barbellion :
pen name of Bruce Frederick Cummings,
diarist
Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet (1740–1810), banker
Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924), scholar, clergyman, novelist and antiquary
Sue Barker (born 1956), tennis player and television presenter
Kenneth Barnes (1878–1957), director of
RADA
Cliff Bastin (1912–1991),
Arsenal and England footballer
Phil Beer (born 1953), musician and composer (born at Exminster)
Matthew Bellamy (born 1978), guitarist, pianist, and vocalist of rock band
Muse
John Bidlake (1755–1814), clergyman, author, artist
John Carne Bidwill (1815–1853), botanist, first Director,
Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney
Margaret Bingham (1740–1814), countess, painter and writer
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Sir
Thomas Bodley (1545–1613), diplomat and founder of the
Bodleian Library at Oxford
Zachary Bogan (1625–1659), English scholar
Saint Boniface (
c. 675–754), patron saint of the
Netherlands and Germany
Sir
John Bowring (1792–1872), political economist and Governor of Hong Kong
Henry de Bracton (d. 1268), jurist
Eustace Budgell (1686–1737), writer
Tony Burrows (born 1942), pop singer
Richard Burton (1821–1890), explorer and linguist
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Michael Caines (b. 1969), chef and restaurateur
Edward Capern (1819–1894), poet
Mary Carpenter (1807–1877), educational and social reformer
William Benjamin Carpenter (1813–1885), physiologist and naturalist
Pearl Carr (1921-2020), entertainer and runner up in
Eurovision 1959 , born in
Exmouth
Raymond Cattell (1905–1998), psychology pioneer
Jim Causley (b. 1980, Heavitree), folk singer and radio presenter
Jimmy Cauty (b. 1956), pop musician
Henry Chadwick (1824–1908), journalist, "the father of
baseball "
Sir
Francis Chichester (1901–1972), aviator and sailor
Agatha Christie (1890–1976), novelist
Lady Mary Chudleigh (1656–1710), early feminist and poet
William Kingdon Clifford (1845–1879), mathematician
Eleanor Coade (1733–1821), inventor of
Coade stone
Lily Cole (b. 1988), supermodel and actress
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834), poet
David Collins (1756–1810), first Governor of
Van Diemens Land (
Tasmania )
Peter Cook (1937–1995), comedian, born in Torquay
William Cookworthy (1705–1780), pharmacist and industrialist
Tommy Cooper (1921–1984), comedian, was born in
Caerphilly but lived in
Exeter from the age of 3
William Johnson Cory (1823–1892), educator and poet
Samuel Cousins (1801–1887), engraver
Edmund Crispin (1921–1978), novelist and composer
Lisa Cross (b. 1978), IFBB professional bodybuilder
William Crossing (1847–1928), author
Richard Cosway (1742-1821), miniature painter
Thomas Cameron (born 1998), classical singer/radio host
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John Gay (1685–1732), poet and dramatist
Geraint (died 710), King of Dumnonia
Beth Gibbons (b. 1965), singer with
Portishead
Humphrey Gilbert (
c. 1539 –1583), sailor and explorer
John Glanville (1542–1600), MP and High Court Judge
Elizabeth Godwin , first female officer of
The Life Guards
Matthew Goode (b. 1978), actor in such movies as
Brideshead Revisited and
Watchmen
Dan Gosling (born 1990), English footballer
Francis Carruthers Gould (1844–1925), caricaturist and politician
William Greening , politician
Richard Grenville (1542–1591), sailor and explorer
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George Hakewill (1578–1649), clergyman and author
William Hakewill (1574–1655), legal antiquarian
Carl Harbord (1908–1958), film actor
Theodore Bayley Hardy (1863–1918), Army chaplain and
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Miranda Hart (b. 1972), actress and comedian
Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen (1834-1923), English topographer, geologist, naturalist and surveyor
Harriet Hawkins (b. 1980), professor of cultural geography
Matt Harvey , poet
Benjamin Haydon (1786–1846), painter and writer
Francis Hayman (1708–1776),
Rococo artist
Oliver Heaviside (1850–1925), mathematician
Nicholas Hilliard (
c. 1547–1619 ), portraitist
Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011), writer, journalist, and literary critic
James Holman (1786–1857), noted blind traveller
John Hooker (
c. 1527–1601 ), constitutionalist
Richard Hooker (1554–1600),
Anglican theologian
W. G. Hoskins (1908–1992), historian of the English landscape
Ben Howard (b. 1987), folk musician
Dominic Howard (b. 1977), musician, drummer of rock band
Muse
Thomas Hudson (1701–1779), portrait painter
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (b. 1987), model
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Richard Parker (1767–1797), sailor and mutineer
James Parsons (1705–1770), physician, antiquary and author
Jo Pavey (b. 1973), Olympic Runner
William Peryam (1534–after 1603), lawyer
St Petroc (
c. 468 – c. 564 ), saint
Sergio Pizzorno (b. 1980), guitarist from the band
Kasabian
John Prince (1643–1723), clergyman and biographer
Poker Alice (1851–1930), American frontier gambler
John Skinner Prout (1805–1876), writer and artist in
Tasmania
Samuel Prout (1783–1852), watercolour artist
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John Rainolds (1549–1605),
Puritan scholar
Sir
Walter Raleigh (1552–1618), sailor and writer
Chris Read (b. 1978), English test cricket wicket-keeper
Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792), influential English painter
Peter Richardson (b. 1952), actor, comedian, director and writer
Bertram Fletcher Robinson (1870–1907), author, journalist, editor and sportsperson
Philip Hutchins Rogers (1794–1853), artist
Sir
Henry Rosewell (1590–1656),
Puritan , of
Forde Abbey , adventurer of the
Dorchester Company
John Rowe (1715–1787), merchant and owner of ship involved in the
Boston Tea Party
John "Jack" Russell (1795–1883), eponymous dog-breeder and a founder member of the
Kennel Club
Lobsang Rampa (1910–1981), author and plumber
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Robert Falcon Scott (1868–1912), RN officer and Antarctic explorer
Sir Nicholas Slanning (1606–1643), MP, Royalist soldier in the
English Civil War
Wayne Sleep (b. 1948), dancer and choreographer
Lilly Martin Spencer (1822–1902), US painter
Samuel Stennett (1727–1795),
Baptist minister and hymnwriter
John Stockham (1765–1814), naval officer
Robert Stone (1516–1613), composer and member of the
Chapel Royal .
Henrietta Anne Stuart (1644–1670), daughter of
King Charles I
Anthony Sullivan (b. 1969), TV commercial pitchman, and co-star of the show Pitchmen on
Discovery Channel
Sam Simmonds (b. 1994), Exeter Chiefs and England rugby player
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See also
References
Further reading
Burton, S. H. Great Men of Devon . (Men of the Counties Series; no. 8.) London: John Lane, 1956
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