List of people from Hastings
Hastings is a town and borough in East Sussex, England. The following is a list of those people who were either born or live in Hastings, or had some important contribution to make to the town. Notes:
- ‡ signifies current (2008) resident
- ¶ signifies people specifically from St Leonards-on-Sea
List of people from Hastings
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- Fenton John Aylmer (1862-1935) recipient of the Victoria Cross World War I
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- John Logie Baird (1888-1946), pioneer of television
- Kevin Ball (1964- ), ex-footballer and now coach at Sunderland A.F.C.
- Gillian Barge (1940-2003) actress
- Gareth Barry (1981- ), footballer for Aston Villa (1997–) and England (2000–)
- Harold Bennett (1899-1981) actor
- Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910), first woman to qualify as a doctor
- Emma Blocksage (1979- ) model
- Barbara Bodichon (1827-1890), advocate of women's rights, painter and founder of Girton College
- Elsie Bowerman, 1889-1973; Suffragette and Titanic survivor. One of the first women called to the Bar and the first to appear at the Old Bailey.
- Jo Brand (1957- ), comedienne
- Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey (1836–1918) politician
- Thomas Brassey (1805–1870) railway pioneer
- John Bratby (1928-1992), painter
- George Bristow (1863-1947), the taxidermist at the centre of the Hastings Rarities affair
- Gerald Brodribb (1915-1999), cricket historian and archaeologist
- Shayne Burgess (1964- ), Professional PDC darts player ‡
- Edward Burra (1905-1976), painter
- James Burton (1761-1837), architect, founder of St Leonards-on-Sea
- Decimus Burton (1800-1881), son of James, continued his father's work
C
- Shirley Collins (1935- ) English folk singer
- Catherine Cookson (1906-1998), popular novelist
- Harry H. Corbett (1925-1982), actor
- Anthony Crosland (1918-1977), Labour MP ¶
- Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), occultist
D
- Mark Davis (1972- ), Professional snooker player ‡¶
- John Digweed (1967- )world famous DJ
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955), French theologian, writer and philosopher
- Eugénie de Montijo (1826-1920), Empress of France
- Richard D'Oyly Carte, (1844-1901) impressario and opera company founder
- Barry Dransfield (?- ), folk musician
E
- Maya Evans (1979- ), political activist ‡
F
- Karl Ferris (1948- ), rock album cover photographer for Jimi Hendrix, Donovan, The Hollies
- Michael Jabez Foster (1946- ) Labour MP
- Simon Fuller (1960- ), pop-music manager (most famously of The Spice Girls)
- Harry Furniss (1854–1925), cartoonist
- Steve Furst (1967- ), comedian and actor on Little Britain ‡
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- David Gemmell, (1946–2006), novelist
- Jaine Green (?- ), (Jaine Harmston-Green) documentary maker ‡
- William Alexander Greenhill (1814-1896), doctor, literary editor and sanitary reformer
- Clive Malcolm Griffiths, (?- ), media personality ¶
H
- Rider Haggard (1865-1936), writer
- Claire Hamill (1954- ), singer songwriter ‡
- John Wesley Harding (1965- ), singer
- Richard Gladstone (1975-), Journalist, impressionist and entertainer
I
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- Andrew Jefford (1956- ), wine writer and poet
- Billie-Jo Jenkins (1986-1997), murdered schoolgirl
- Sophia Jex-Blake (1840-1912), feminist and founder of the London School of Medicine for Women
- Houn Jiyu-Kennett (1924-1996) Zen Buddhist teacher ¶
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- Sheila Kaye-Smith, (1881-1956), local author ¶
- Steve Kinch (?- ), bass guitarist with Manfred Mann and formerly with Hazel O'Connor
L
- Alex Lester (1956- ), BBC Radio 2 presenter ‡
- Peter Ling (1926-2006), writer and creator of Crossroads
- Desmond Llewelyn (1914-1999), seen as 'Q' in the James Bond film series
- Geoff Love (1917-1991), band leader
M
- George MacDonald (1824—1905), writer of children's stories
- John Martyn (1948- ), singer-songwriter
- Anna McNeill Whistler,((1831?-1881) Whistler's Mother.
- Graham McPherson (1961- ), aka 'Suggs' of Madness, singer
- Paul Merton (1957- ), TV presenter/comic
- Spike Milligan (1918-2002), comedian and writer
- George Monger (1840-1887), who at 17 won a Victoria Cross at Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny
- General Sir James Murray (1721—1794), Governor of Quebec
N
- Marianne North, 1830-1890, botanical painter with permanent gallery at Kew Gardens, London
O
- Titus Oates (1649-1705), instigator of the "Popish Plot"
- Jane Omorogbe (1971- ), actress, TV presenter, journalist
- Grey Owl (Archibald Belaney) (1888-1938), author, nature conservation pioneer, and Canadian icon
P
- Cecil Parker (1897-1971), actor
- Coventry Patmore, (1823-1896), Roman Catholic poet and Pre-Raphaelite
- Fiona Pitt-Kethley (1954- ), writer
- Christopher Priest (1943- ), novelist ‡
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R
- Milan Rai (? ), political activist ‡
- Henry Handel Richardson (1870-1946), Australian born author
- Lee Richardson, (1979- ), speedway rider
- Neil Ruddock (1968- ), Ex-footballer ‡
S
- Alex Sanders (1926-1988), dubbed King of the Witches
- Malcolm Saville (1901-1982), author of children's books
- Elizabeth Siddal (1834-1862), Poet,artist; and muse to the pre-Raphaelite Painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Paul Antony Smith (1976- ) footballer
- Screaming Lord Sutch (1940-1999), founder of the Monster Raving Loony Party
- SilverSpirit (2000- as SilverSpirit), Tommy (1992- ) and Daniel Bailey-Graham (1980- ), electro-pop duo and dance remixers ‡¶
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- David Tibet (1960- ), poet, artist and musician ‡
- Claude Buchanan Ticehurst (1881-1941) ornithologist ¶
- Tulsen Tollett (?- ) Australian Rugby League player
- Robert Tressell (1870-1911), socialist novelist
- Alan Turing (1912-1954) Pioneering Computer Scientist ¶
- Tony Tyler, (1943-2006) writer on computer topics
U
- Barry Upton (1954- ) musician, songwriter, producer
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- Winifred Wagner (1897-1980), manager of Bayreuth Festival 1930-1945
- Sarah Waldegrave, Countess Waldegrave (1787-1873), philanthropist
- Thomas Attwood Walmisley, (1814-1856) Professor of Music at Cambridge.
- Dr Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward, (1791-1868)
- Paul Watson (1975- ) footballer
- Randall Wells (1877-1942)
- Dean White (1958- ), footballer
- William Hale White (1831-1913, novelist (pseudonym Mark Rutherford)
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Paula Yates(1959-2000) Television Presenter