List of people from Basingstoke

This is a list of notable people who were born in or near, or have been residents of the Basingstoke, Hampshire, England.

Bold text denotes a person who was born in Basingstoke.

Arts and humanities

• Jane Austen, author (born, and wrote many of her major works in nearby Steventon)
• Lucy Coats, author
• John Gardner, spy novelist
• Macdonald Hastings, journalist and war correspondent
• E O Higgins, author
• John James, architect
• Waldemar Januszczak, art critic and filmmaker
• Robert Steadman, composer and conductor
• Julian Stockwin, author
• Alex Thomson, presenter and chief correspondent for Channel 4 News
• Joseph Warton, academic, literary critic and poet
• Thomas Warton, academic and poet, holder of the title of Poet Laureate from 1785
• Chuck Whelon, creator, artist and co-writer of the Pewfell comic strip

Entertainment

• John Arlott, cricket journalist, writer and commentator
• Sam Attwater, actor
• Carl Barât, lead singer and guitarist with The Libertines and Dirty Pretty Things
• Christian Brassington, actor
• Shelley Conn, actress
• Mark Griffin, actor, played Action Man in the Action Man films and Trojan in the TV series Gladiators
• Francesca Hunt, actress
• Elizabeth Hurley, actress and model
• Steve Lamacq, DJ
• Ian McNeice, actor
• Pete Staples, bassist for the 1960s supergroup The Troggs
• Sarah Sutton, actress and former Doctor Who companion
• Ramon Tikaram, actor
• Tanita Tikaram, singer-songwriter
• Gabriella Wilde, actress
• Christine Williams, former Playboy centerfold

Sport

• Alex Bogdanovic, tennis player
• Tom Cleverley, footballer for Manchester United
• Tom Croft, flanker/second row for the England national rugby union team and Leicester Tigers
• Matt Crossley former football player for Wycombe Wanderers F.C.
• Sean Doherty, professional football player
• Darren Flint, Hampshire cricketer
• Joshua Goodall, tennis player
• Paul Hogan, darts player
• Dave Holby, endurance athlete, holder of nine world indoor rowing records
• Oliver Lancashire, professional football player
• Lee Nurse, former Berkshire cricketer
• Josh Payne, footballer for Woking FC
• Tom Rees, flanker for the England national rugby union team and the London Wasps
• Justin Rose, golfer who grew up in the area
• Lee Sandford, professional footballer; has played for Portsmouth, Stoke City and Sheffield United
• Kathy Smallwood-Cook, bronze medal winning Olympic sprinter
• Mitchell Stokes, Hampshire cricketer
• Kit Symons, football coach and former player
• Robert Tobin, athlete and sprinter
• Shaun Udal, former England test cricketer, Hampshire captain and current Middlesex cricketer
• Rowan Vine, footballer for Queens Park Rangers
• Thomas White, Sussex cricketer

Other

• Hubert Broad, test pilot for the de Havilland and Hawker aircraft companies
• Lawrence Ambrose Brown, former Bishop of Birmingham
• Thomas Burberry, founder of the Burberry clothing empire
• Charls Butler, writer, grammarian, theologist, naturalist, musical theorist
• Ruth Ellis, last woman to be hanged in Great Britain
• Joseph Storrs Fry, founder of Fry's chocolate company
• Paul Hockings, author, filmmaker and Professor of Anthropology (Illinois)
• George Cecil Jones, chemist and occultist
• Sir James Lancaster, 16th-century navigator and statesman
• John Aidan Liddell, VC, MC, First World War pilot
• Walter de Merton, Bishop of Rochester and founder of Merton 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 and Lord Chamberlain
• Sarah, Duchess of York and former wife of The Duke of York, raised in nearby Dummer
• L.E. Timberlake, Los Angeles City Council member, 1949–69

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