List of people from Bournemouth

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This is a list of people who were born, lived or are buried in Bournemouth, a large coastal resort town on the south coast of England.

Before 1900[]

  • Christopher Crabb Creeke (1820–1886) architect and surveyor, shaped the early development of Bournemouth.
  • Sir Merton Russell-Cotes FRGS (1835–1921) was Mayor of Bournemouth 1894–95
  • Asia Booth Clarke (1835–1880) sister of John Wilkes Booth, assassin of Abraham Lincoln
  • Sir Chaloner Alabaster KCMG (1838–1898) administrator in China
  • Dr Alfred Charles Coles MD DSc MRCP FRSE (1866–1944) physician, microbiologist and academic author
  • Lucy Kemp-Welch (1869–1958) painter and teacher who specialized in painting working horses, including Black Beauty
  • Frank Searle CBE, DSO, MIME (1874–1948) transport entrepreneur and locomotive engineer
  • The Very. Rev Alfred Charles Eustace Jarvis KCB CMG MC (1876–1957) eminent Anglican priest
  • Henry Roy Dean MD, LL.D, D.Sc, FRCP (1879–1961) professor of Pathology at the University of Cambridge
  • Persis Kirmse (1884–1955) artist and illustrator known for her works of cats and dogs
  • Marguerite Kirmse (1885–1954) artist, she specialised in drawings and latterly etchings of dogs
  • Harold E. Lambert OBE (1893–1967) linguist and anthropologist in Kenya.
  • Elisabeth Scott (1898–1972) architect who designed the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre

1900 to 1925[]

  • Edna Manley, OM (1900–1987) sculptor and contributor to Jamaican culture and wife of Norman Manley
  • Frank Leslie Cross FBA (1900–1968) Anglican patristics scholar
  • Sir Donald Coleman Bailey, OBE (1901–1985) civil engineer who invented the Bailey bridge
  • Grace E. Pickford (1902–1986) biologist and endocrinologist
  • Anthony Blunt (1907–1983) leading art historian and Soviet spy.
  • Raymond Paley (1907–1933) mathematician, contributed to the Paley construction
  • Barbara West (1911–2007) the penultimate remaining survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic on 14 April 1912
  • Terence Wilmot Hutchison FBA (1912–2007) was an economist with an interest in Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Melita Norwood (1912–2005) British civil servant and KGB intelligence source
  • Raymond Blackburn (1915–1991) Labour Party politician, MP for Birmingham King's Norton and Birmingham Northfield
  • Berkeley Smith (1918–2003) broadcaster and a senior figure in the television world for nearly 40 years
  • Morley Bury (1919-1999) painter and artist
  • Otto Hutter (born 1924) physiologist came to UK as part of the Kindertransport, lives in Bournemouth
  • Ivor Robinson MBE (1924–2014) master craftsman and fine bookbinder
  • Oliver Frederick Ford (1925–1992) interior designer, served as decorator to the Queen Mother
  • Sir Paul Leonard Fox, CBE (born 1925) television executive and Controller of BBC 1 between 1967/73

1925 to 1950[]

Since 1950[]

  • Digby Rumsey (born 1952) film director, producer, writer, cinematographer, editor, sound recordist and film diarist.
  • Mark Austin (born 1958) journalist and television presenter, currently U.S. correspondent for Sky News
  • Marc Koska OBE (born 1961) invented the non-reusable K1 auto-disable syringe
  • Kimathi Donkor (born 1965) artist of large-scale figurative paintings
  • Tobias Ellwood MP PC (born 1966) Conservative Party politician and author, MP for Bournemouth East
  • Steve Bolton (born 1967) entrepreneur, property investor, author and philanthropist
  • Karen Hardy (born 1970) professional ballroom dancer, coach, teacher and adjudicator
  • Suw Charman-Anderson (born 1971) former Executive Director of the Open Rights Group
  • Conor Burns (born 1972), Conservative Party politician, MP for Bournemouth West
  • Danny Tull (born 1977) director and film editor
  • Stuart Semple (born 1980) artist and curator, uses large scale canvases incorporating text and found imagery
  • Leilani Dowding (born 1980) former Page 3 girl, glamour model, television celebrity and UK entry Miss Universe 1998
  • Chelsea White (born 1990) Page 3 girl and glamour model, photographer, and make-up artist
  • Romy Simpkins (born 1993) actress, model, Mental health ambassador and beauty pageant titleholder

Actors[]

  • Henry Howard Paul (1830–1905) American writer, playwright, comic actor and theatrical manager
  • Gabrielle Brune (1912–2005) actress
  • Tony Hancock (1924–1968) comedian and actor, Hancock's Half Hour
  • Charles Gray (1928–2000) actor, Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever
  • Jan Waters (born 1937) theatre, television and film actress. She appeared in Jule Styne's Do Re Mi
  • Michael Napier Brown (1937–2016) actor, theatre director, and playwright
  • Juliette Kaplan (born 1939) actress, played Pearl Sibshaw in the BBC comedy Last of the Summer Wine
  • Ray Lonnen (1940–2014) stage and television actor, was Willie Caine in The Sandbaggers (1978–80)
  • James Walker (1940–2017) actor active in films and on television
  • Julia Lockwood (born 1941) retired actress, daughter of Margaret Lockwood appeared in Please Turn Over
  • Michael E. Briant (born 1942) British television director, producer and actor
  • Hetty Baynes (born 1956) film, television and theatre actress, formerly a ballet dancer
  • Jayne Atkinson (born 1959) English-American actress who has worked in film, theatre, and television
  • Julian Bleach (born 1963) actor, who is best known as co-creator and "MC" of Shockheaded Peter
  • Janine Wood (born 1963) actress, played Clare France in the Thames TV sitcom After Henry (TV series)
  • Alison Newman (born 1968) actress, Hazel Bailey in Footballers' Wives and DI Samantha Keeble in EastEnders.
  • Christian Bale (born 1974) actor, attended Bournemouth School
  • Neil Linpow (born 1982) actor
  • Jack Donnelly (born 1985) actor, played the role of Jason in BBC series Atlantis
  • Janet Montgomery (born 1985) film and TV actress
  • Sarah Linda (born 1987) actress and model, known for her work in television, film and commercials
  • Sophie Rundle (born 1988) actress, portrayed Ada Shelby in the BBC One series Peaky Blinders
  • Ben Hardy (born 1991) actor, played Peter Beale in the BBC soap opera EastEnders and Roger Taylor in the 2018 biographical film Bohemian Rhapsody
  • Ben Watton (born 1995) child actor
  • Millie Bobby Brown (born 2004) actress, portrayed Eleven (Stranger Things) in Netflix series, Stranger Things

Authors[]

  • Mary Shelley (1797–1851) novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer and travel writer
  • John M. Davenport (1842–1913) Church of England clergyman and writer
  • Harry Greenbank (1865–1899) author and dramatist
  • Radclyffe Hall (1880–1943) poet and author, wrote The Well of Loneliness a groundbreaking work in lesbian literature
  • Vera Chapman (1898–1996) author and founder of the Tolkien Society in the United Kingdom
  • Dilys Powell CBE (1901–1995) journalist, film critic of The Sunday Times for over fifty years
  • Michael Roberts (1902–1948) poet, writer, critic and broadcaster and teacher
  • Ron Smith (1924-2019) retired comic artist and writer
  • Sarah Mary Malet Bradford, Viscountess Bangor (born 1938) author, best known for her royal biographies
  • Patrick Ensor (1946–2007) newspaper journalist, editor of Guardian Weekly from 1993 to 2007
  • Lesley Howarth (born 1952) author of children's and young adult fiction
  • Mario Reading (1953–2017) author, his novels include The Music-Makers
  • John Kay (born 1958) poet and teacher, lives in Bournemouth
  • Susan Nelson (born 1961) science writer and broadcaster and a former BBC science correspondent

Military[]

Musicians before 1950[]

  • Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, 1st Baronet (1848–1918) composer, teacher and historian of music
  • B. Mansell Ramsey (1849–1923) teacher, organist, amateur composer and amateur orchestra conductor
  • Jay Wilbur (1898–1968) bandleader, influential in the era of Big Band and British dance band music
  • Ernest Lush (1908–1988) classical pianist who was best known as an accompanist
  • Max Harris (1918–2004) film and television composer and arranger. He played the piano and piano accordion
  • Max Bygraves OBE (1922–2012) comedian, singer, actor and variety performer
  • Anna Shuttleworth (born 1927) cellist
  • Colin Eric Allen (born 1938) blues drummer and songwriter
  • Andy Summers (born 1942) guitarist The Police
  • Simon Preston CBE (born 1938) organist, conductor and composer
  • John Hawken (born 1940) keyboard player, contributed to various versions of The Nashville Teens
  • Don Partridge (1941–2010) singer and songwriter, known as the "king of the buskers"
  • Zoot Money (born 1942) vocalist, keyboardist and bandleader, plays the Hammond organ
  • Michael Giles (born 1942) drummer, best known as a co-founder of King Crimson in 1969
  • Bob Brunning (1943–2011) the original bass guitar player with the blues rock band Fleetwood Mac
  • Peter Bellamy (1944–1991) folk singer, founding member of The Young Tradition
  • Andrew McCulloch (born 1945) drummer who worked with Manfred Mann, Anthony Phillips and King Crimson
  • Gordon Haskell (born 1946) musician and songwriter, pop, rock and blues vocalist, guitarist and bassist
  • Lee Kerslake (born 1947) longtime drummer and backing vocalist for Uriah Heep, worked with Ozzy Osbourne
  • Richard Palmer-James (born 1947) musician, one of the founding members of Supertramp
  • Darrell Sweet (1947–1999) drummer for the Scottish hard rock band Nazareth, formed in 1968
  • John Wetton (1949–2017) singer, bassist, and songwriter with bands King Crimson, Roxy Music and Bryan Ferry

Musicians since 1950[]

  • Pete Thompson (born 1952) rock drummer who has played with Silverhead, Robin Trower, & Robert Plant
  • Robert Hart (born 1958) rock vocalist and songwriter. He is currently the lead singer of Manfred Mann's Earth Band
  • Steven Mead (born 1962) virtuoso euphonium soloist and teacher
  • Caroline Crawley (1963–2016) singer who sang for various bands including Shelleyan Orphan
  • Simon Hilton (born 1967) music video, concert and documentary director and editor
  • Russ Spencer (born 1969) television presenter and singer, member of manufactured pop group Scooch
  • Gareth Malone OBE (born 1975) choirmaster and broadcaster, "animateur, presenter and populariser of choral singing".
  • Nathan Johnson (musician) (born 1976) film composer, songwriter and music producer
  • Ben Jones (born 1977) radio DJ and former children's television presenter
  • Lou Brown (born 1978) singer-songwriter
  • Amy Studt (born 1986) singer, songwriter and musician
  • FuntCase / James Hazell (born 1986) dubstep and drum and bass producer
  • East India Youth / William Doyle (born 1991) electronic musician
  • Matt Johnson (born 1969) keyboardist with the band Jamiroquai

Sport[]

  • Arthur Wiggins (1891–1961) rower who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics
  • Freddie Mills (1919–1965) boxer, world light heavyweight champion from 1948 to 1950
  • Dave Bewley (1920–2013) professional footballer, made 141 pro appearances
  • Barrie Meyer (1932–2015) footballer and cricketer, later a cricket umpire
  • Virginia Wade OBE (born 1945) former professional tennis player, born in Bournemouth
  • John Henry Dixon (born 1954) former first-class cricketer active from 1973 to 1988
  • Forbes Phillipson-Masters (born 1955) former footballer who made approx. 230 pro. appearances
  • Gary Emerson (born 1963) professional golfer
  • Keith Stroud (born 1969) professional English football referee who officiates in the Football League and Premier League
  • Masai Ujiri (born 1970) president of basketball operations of the Toronto Raptors in the NBA
  • Simon Clist (born 1981) footballer who plays as a midfielder, made 379 pro. appearances
  • Lewis Price (born 1984) Welsh international footballer, who plays as a goalkeeper, approx. 150 pro. appearances
  • Liam Norwell (born 1991) cricketer who currently plays for Gloucestershire
  • Yasmin Kaashoek (born 1999) volleyball player
  • Corey Jordan (born 1999) pro. footballer, plays as a defender for Premier League side Bournemouth
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