List of people from Sussex

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This is a list of people from Sussex, a historic county in southern England. The following are people who were either born, brought up or have lived for a significant period of time in Sussex, or for whom Sussex is a significant part of their identity. Only those meeting notability criteria are included. A few people appear in more than one section of the list.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by with reliable sources.

Arts[]

Actors[]

Lesley Manville
  • George K. Arthur (1899—1985)
  • Alexandra Bastedo (1946—2014)
  • Daniel Betts (born 1971)
  • Gwendoline Christie (born 1978)
  • Sophie Cookson (born 1990)
  • Tara Fitzgerald (born 1967)
  • Philip Friend (born 1915—1987)
  • Judy Geeson (born 1948)
  • Nigel Humphreys (born 1951)
  • Katie Johnson (born 1878—1957)
  • Jane Leeves (born 1961) ('Frasier')
  • Lesley Manville (born 1956)
  • Charlotte Mardyn (1789—1844)
  • Anna Massey (1937—2011)
  • Tamzin Merchant (born 1987)
  • Cecil Parker (1897—1971)
  • Amanda Redman (born 1957)
  • Dakota Blue Richards (born 1994)
  • David Ryall (1935—2014)
  • Greta Scacchi (born 1960)
  • Nicollette Sheridan (born 1963)
  • Hugh Williams (1904—1969)

Architects[]

  • Charles Busby (1786-1834), architect
  • Somers Clarke (1841-1926), architect
  • Ernest Coxhead (1863—1933), Sussex-born American architect
  • John Leopold Denman (1882-1975), architect
  • George Devey (1820-1886), architect
  • Frederick Charles Eden (1864-1944), architect
  • Walter Godfrey (1881-1961), architect
  • Piers Gough (born 1946), architect
  • Nicholas Grimshaw (born 1939), architect
  • Thomas Lainson (1825-1898), architect
  • Harvey Lonsdale Elmes (1814-1847), architect
  • Hugh May (1621-1684), architect
  • John Rebecca (died 1847), architect
  • Edward Sargent (1842-1914), Sussex-born American architect
  • Randall Wells (1877-1942), architect
  • Amon Henry Wilds (1784 or 1790-1857), architect
  • Amon Wilds (1762-1833), architect

Artists[]

Aubrey Beardsley
Alison Lapper
  • Helen Cordelia Angell (1847-1884), watercolour painter
  • Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898), illustrator
  • Raymond Briggs (born 1934), illustrator, cartoonist and graphic novelist
  • Edward Burra (1905-1976), painter
  • Russell Drysdale (1912-1981), Sussex-born Australian artist
  • Clifford Ellis (1907-1985), printmaker, painter and designer
  • Ralph Ellis (1885-1963), painter and designer of inn signs
  • Eric Gill (1882-1940), sculptor, typeface designer and printmaker
  • Gluck (1895—1978), painter
  • Patricia Goldsmith (1929—2017), painter and printmaker
  • Captain Thomas Honywood (1819-1888), photographer
  • Jamie Hewlett (born 1968), comic creator, animator and designer
  • Edward Johnston (1872-1944), Uruguayan-born craftsman and calligrapher
  • Alison Lapper (born 1965), artist
  • Raoul Millais (1901-1999), portrait painter and equestrian artist
  • Lee Miller (1907—1977), American-born photographer
  • Marianne North (1830-1890), botanical artist
  • Paul Pagk (born 1962), painter
  • Roland Penrose (1900—1984), artist and collector of modern art
  • Eric Ravilious (1903—1942), painter, designer, book illustrator and wood-engraver
  • George Smith (1713/14-1776), landscape painter
  • Hilary Stratton (1906-1985), sculptor
  • Paddy Summerfield (born 1929), artist
  • Paul Tanqueray (1905-1991), photographer
  • Alan Thornhill (1921-2020), sculptor
  • Alfred Tidey (1808-1892), miniature-painter

Broadcasters[]

  • Zoe Ball (born 1970), television and radio presenter
  • Hermione Cockburn (born 1973), television and radio presenter
  • Simon Fuller (born 1960), television producer
  • Sarah Kennedy (born 1950), television and radio presenter
  • Des Lynam (born 1942), television presenter
  • Piers Morgan (born 1965), broadcaster and journalist
  • Richard Osman (born 1970), television presenter
  • Jon Snow (born 1947), television presenter and journalist
  • Jamie Theakston (born 1970), television and radio presenter
  • Dan Walker (born 1977), television presenter, journalist and newsreader
  • Holly Willoughby (born 1981), television presenter

Comedians[]

Romesh Ranganathan
  • James Bachman (born 1972), comedian
  • Jo Brand (born 1957), comedian
  • Harry Enfield (born 1961), comedian
  • Stephen Grant (born 1973), comedian
  • Tony Hawks (born 1960), comedian
  • Alex Horne (born 1978), comedian
  • Zoe Lyons (born 1971), comedian
  • Max Miller (1894-1963), comedian
  • Simon Nye (born 1958), comic television writer
  • Paul Putner (born 1966), comedian
  • Romesh Ranganathan (born 1978), comedian

Dancers[]

  • Francesca Hayward (born 1992), ballet dancer
  • Nancy Osbaldeston (born 1989), ballet dancer

Fashion designers[]

  • Stella McCartney (born 1971)
  • Ted Tinling (1910—1990)

Filmmakers[]

  • Adam Stephen Kelly (born 1990), film director, screenwriter and producer
  • Adrian Brunel (1892-1958), film director and screenwriter
  • Charles Bennett (1899-1995), film director and screenwriter
  • Don Chaffey (1917-1990), film director, screenwriter and producer
  • Matt Charman (born 1979), screenwriter and producer
  • Jack Clayton (1921-1995), film director and producer
  • Graham Cutts (1884-1958), film director
  • Brian Eastman (born 1949), film producer
  • Sean Ellis (born 1970), film director, screenwriter and producer
  • Robert Fox (born 1952), film producer
  • Charles Frend (1909-1977), film director
  • Manning Haynes (1889-1957), film director
  • Pete Walker (born 1939), film director, screenwriter and producer

Musicians[]

  • Charlesia Alexis (1934—2012), Chagossian singer
  • Anohni (born 1971), singer
  • Brett Anderson (born 1967), singer (Suede, The Tears)
  • Florence Aylward (1862-1950), composer
  • Tony Banks (born 1950), keyboardist
  • Natasha Bedingfield (born 1981), singer-songwriter
  • Wilfred Brown (1921-1971), tenor
  • Henry Burstow (1826-1916), folk singer and bellringer
  • Clara Butt (1872-1936), contralto
  • Nick Cave (born 1957), Australian-born singer, songwriter
  • Celeste (born 1994), singer and songwriter
  • Tom Chaplin (born 1979), singer-songwriter and musician (Keane)
  • Shirley Collins (born 1935), folk singer
  • Ms. Dynamite (born 1981), singer
  • Keith Emerson (1944-2016), keyboardist, songwriter and composer
  • Gary Farr (born 1944), folk/blues singer
  • Ruth Gipps (1921-1999), composer
  • Dominic Glynn (born 1960), electronic composer
  • Harry Gregson-Williams (born 1961), composer
  • Mike Hazlewood (1941-2001), singer, composer and songwriter
  • Nigel Kennedy (born 1956), violinist and violist
  • William Henry Kerridge (1881—1940), organist
  • Pete Kirtley (born 1972), songwriter
  • Vera Lynn (1917-2020), singer and songwriter
  • Conor Maynard (born 1992), singer-songwriter
  • James McCartney (born 1977), musician and songwriter
  • Paul McCartney (born 1942), singer-songwriter, has lived near Rye since the late 1970s
  • Isolde Menges (1893-1976), violinist
  • Tom Odell (born 1990), singer-songwriter
  • Ray Noble (1903-1978), bandleader
  • Passenger (born 1984), singer-songwriter, musician
  • Maisie Peters (born 2000), singer-songwriter
  • Rag'n'Bone Man (born 1985), singer and songwriter
  • Leslie Rands (1900-1972), opera singer
  • Tim Rice-Oxley (born 1976), musician and singer (Keane)
  • Leo Sayer (born 1948), singer-songwriter
  • Robert Smith (born 1959), singer, songwriter, musician (The Cure)
  • Spider Stacy (born 1958), musician, singer, songwriter (The Pogues)
  • Suggs (born 1961), singer-songwriter, musician (Madness)
  • Nick Van Eede (born 1958), musician, producer, songwriter
  • Thomas Weelkes (1576-1623), composer and organist
  • Bruce Welch (born 1941), guitarist
  • Wreckless Eric (born 1954), singer-songwriter
  • Nicholas Yonge (c.1560-1619), singer

Writers[]

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Virginia Woolf
  • Conrad Aiken (1889-1973), American-born writer and poet
  • Joan Aiken (1924-2004), novelist
  • Jane Aiken Hodge (1917-2009), American-born writer
  • John Agard (born 1949), Guyanese-born poet
  • Vivien Alcock (1924—2003), writer of children's books
  • Val Andrews (1926—2006), prolific writer on magic
  • Attila the Stockbroker (born 1957), punk poet
  • Elizabeth Bartlett (1924-2008), poet
  • Viola Bayley (1911-1997), children's author
  • Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898), author
  • Archibald Stansfield Belaney (commonly known as Grey Owl) (1888-1938)
  • Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953), poet and writer
  • Marie Belloc Lowndes (1868-1947), novelist
  • E.F. Benson (1867-1940), writer
  • Clementina Black (1853-1922), writer
  • William Blake (1757-1827), poet
  • Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840-1922), poet and writer
  • Andrew Boorde (c.1490-1549)
  • Joyce Lankester Brisley (1896-1978), writer
  • Arabella Buckley (1840-1929), writer
  • Anthony Burgess (1917-1993), novelist, wrote A Clockwork Orange in Etchingham
  • Anna Burns (born 1962), novelist
  • Edward Carpenter (1844-1929), poet
  • John Caryll (senior) (1625-1711), poet and dramatist
  • William Collins (1721-1759), poet
  • Catherine Cookson (1906-1998), author (citation required)
  • E.M. Delafield (1890-1943), author
  • Alice Dudeney (1866-1945), author and short story writer
  • Henry Dudeney (1857-1930), author
  • Maureen Duffy (born 1933), poet, novelist, non-fiction author
  • Anne Francis (1738-1800), author
  • John Fletcher (1579-1625), playwright
  • Ford Maddox Ford (1873-1939), novelist and poet
  • John Galsworthy (1867-1933), novelist and playwright
  • Neil Gaiman (born 1960), fantasy writer
  • Leon Garfield (1921-1996), writer of children's fiction
  • David Garnett (1892-1981), writer
  • Rumer Godden (1907-1998), writer
  • Leon Gordon (1891-1960), playwright
  • Elly Griffiths (born 1963), crime novelist
  • Patrick Hamilton (1904-1962), playwright and novelist
  • David Hare (born 1947), playwright and screenwriter
  • William Hay (1695-1755), writer
  • William Hayley (1745-1820), writer
  • Ralph Hammond Innes (1913-1998), novelist
  • Edward James (1907-1984), poet
  • Henry James (1843-1916), American author
  • Peter James (born 1948), writer of crime fiction
  • P.J. Kavanagh (1931-2015), poet
  • Sheila Kaye-Smith (1887-1956), novelist
  • Grace Kimmins (1870-1954)
  • Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), poet and novelist
  • Damian Le Bas (born 1985), writer
  • Theodora Elizabeth Lynch (1812-1885), poet and novelist
  • Peter Marshall (born 1946), biographer, travel writer and poet
  • Thomas May (1594/5-1650), poet and dramatist
  • Thomas Medwin (1788-1869), writer and poet
  • A. A. Milne (1882—1956), author, best known for his Winnie-the-Pooh books
  • Kate Mosse (born 1961), novelist
  • Grace Nichols (born 1950), Guyanese-born poet
  • William Nicholson (born 1948), screenwriter, novelist and playwright
  • Thomas Otway (1652-1685), dramatist
  • Hilary Douglas Clark Pepler (1878-1951), writer and poet
  • Roland Penrose (1900-1984), poet and artist
  • Valentine Penrose (1898—1978), French-born surrealist poet and author
  • Alex Preston (born 1979), author and journalist
  • Bessie Rayner Parkes (1829-1925), writer
  • Richard Realf (1832-1878), poet
  • Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset (1536—1608), poet and dramatist
  • Malcolm Saville (1901-1982), author
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), Romantic poet
  • Chris Simms (born 1969), author of crime novels
  • George Smith (1713/14-1776), poet
  • Noel Streatfeild (1895-1986), author
  • Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892), poet
  • Isabella Tree (born 1964), writer and conservationist
  • Robert Tressell (1870-1911), novelist, The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists
  • Frank Tuohy (1925-1999), writer
  • Charles Webb (1939—2020), American novelist, The Graduate
  • H.G. Wells (1866-1946), writer
  • Barbara Willard (1909-1994), novelist
  • Angus Wilson (1913-1991), novelist and short-story writer
  • Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), writer

Explorers[]

Tim Peake
  • Thomas Bannister (1799—1874), explorer of Western Australia
  • Victor L. A. Campbell (1875-1956), Antarctic explorer
  • Isabella Charlet-Straton (1838—1918), mountaineer, made first winter ascent of Mont Blanc
  • Charles Cooke Hunt (1833—1868), explorer of interior of Western Australia
  • Nicholas Crane (born 1954), explorer and television presenter
  • Ernest Joyce (1875-1940), Antarctic explorer
  • Cecil Pashley (1891—1961), aviation pioneer
  • Tim Peake (born 1972), astronaut
  • Piers Sellers (1955-2016), astronaut

Military personnel[]

  • Sidney Godley (1889-1957), recipient of Victoria Cross
  • G. F. Gorringe (1868-1945), field commander
  • Roger P. Hill (1910-2001), Royal Navy commander
  • Ernest Joyce (1875-1940), Royal Navy seaman and explorer
  • Frederick Tees (1922-1982), RAF gunner (Operation Chastise)
  • Arthur David Torlesse (1902-1995), Royal Navy officer
  • Cicely Ethel Wilkinson (1882/83—1967), possibly the only woman to qualify as a pilot in Britain during the First World War

Monarchs and nobility[]

See also: List of monarchs of Sussex
  • Adeliza of Louvain (c.1103—1151), Queen of England 1121-1135
  • Aelle of Sussex (fl.c.477—c.514), King of Sussex
  • Aethelwalh of Sussex (fl.c.660—c.685), King of Sussex
  • Eppillus (fl. c. 20BC—AD7), Iron Age king with capital at Chichester
  • Tiberius Claudius Cogidubnus (fl. 1st century AD), king of Regni
  • George IV (1762—1830), King of the United Kingdom and King of Hanover 1820-1830
  • Godwin, Earl of Wessex (died 1053), Earl of Wessex and father of Harold Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England
  • Meghan, Duchess of Sussex (born 1981), Duchess of Sussex
  • Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex (born 1984), Duke of Sussex
  • Verica (fl. c. AD15—AD42), king of southern Atrebates with capital at Chichester

Philanthropists[]

Politicians and activists[]

Richard Cobden
  • Edith Ayrton (1879-1945), suffragist
  • Barbara Bodichon (1827–1891), feminist and women's rights activist
  • Clementina Black (1853-1922), feminist and trade unionist
  • James Callaghan (1912-2005), former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1976-1979
  • Anna Campbell (1991-2018), feminist, anarchist and prison abolition activist who fought with the Women's Protection Units (YPJ) in the Rojava Conflict of the Syrian Civil War
  • Edward Carpenter (1844-1929), early activist for gay rights and animal rights
  • William Cawley (1602-1667), regicide and MP
  • Jane Cobden (1851-1947), suffragist
  • Richard Cobden (1804-1865), MP and co-founder of Anti-Corn Law League
  • Maureen Colquhoun (1928—2021), UK's first openly lesbian MP
  • Margery Corbett Ashby (1882-1981), suffragist, feminist and internationalist
  • Cicely Corbett Fisher (1885-1959), suffragist and workers' rights activist
  • Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon (1866-1941), politician, former Governor General of Canada and former Viceroy and Governor-General of India
  • Harry Hay (1912-2002), Sussex-born American gay rights activist
  • James Henty (1800-1882), Sussex-born Australian politician
  • Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham, lawyer, politician and Lord Chancellor
  • Sabrina Jean (born 1973), Chagossian activist
  • Sophia Jex-Blake (1840-1912), suffragist
  • Jenny Jones, Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (born 1949), first Green Party member of the House of Lords
  • Helen Joseph (1905-1992), anti-apartheid activist
  • Jomo Kenyatta (c.1897-1978), first prime minister and president of Kenya
  • Imran Khan (born 1952), current Prime Minister of Pakistan)
  • Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond (1735—1806), known as the 'radical duke', probable owner of 'Sussex declaration' of US independence
  • Caroline Lucas (born 1960), first and only Green Party MP
  • Harold Macmillan (1894-1986), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1957-1963
  • Louisa Martindale (1839-1914), suffragist and workers' rights activist
  • Theresa May (born 1956), former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 2016-2019
  • John Merfold (fl 1450-51), leader of 1450 uprising Henry VI
  • William Merfold (fl 1450-51), leader of 1450 uprising against Henry VI
  • Ralph Neville (died 1244), Lord Chancellor of England
  • Thomas Paine (1737-1809), political activist
  • Henry Pelham (1694-1754), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1743-1754
  • Tony Penikett (born 1945), Premier of Yukon 1985—1992
  • William Penn (1644—1718), founder of the Province of Pennsylvania, lived at Warminghurst
  • Bessie Rayner Parkes (1829-1925), feminist
  • Anita Roddick (1942-2007), human rights activist and environmental campaigner
  • Anthony Stapley (1590-1655), regicide and MP
  • William Bridgland Steer (1867-1939), trade unionist and politician
  • Allen Vincatassin, first and current President of the Diego Garcia and Chagos Islands Council

Religious figures[]

Archbishops[]

  • Thomas Arundel (1353-1414), Archbishop of Canterbury, 1397-1399 and Archbishop of York
  • Thomas Bradwardine (1300-1349), Archbishop of Canterbury, 1349
  • Accepted Frewen (1588-1664), Archbishop of York
  • William Juxon (1582-1663), Archbishop of Canterbury 1660-1663
  • Henry Edward Manning (1808—1892), Archbishop of Westminster (1865—1892) and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
  • Cormac Murphy-O'Connor (1932—2017), Archbishop of Westminster and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (2000—2009)
  • John Peckham (c.1230-1292), Archbishop of Canterbury 1279-1292

Martyrs[]

  • George Gervase (1571-1608), martyred Catholic priest
  • James Hannington (1847-1885), Anglican missionary and martyr
  • Thomas Pilchard (11557-1587), Catholic priest and martyr
  • Edward Shelley (c.1530-1588), Catholic martyr
  • Richard Shelley (died 1586), Catholic recusant
  • Richard Woodman (c.1524-1557), Protestant martyr

Saints[]

  • Cuthmann of Steyning (c.681–8th century), saint
  • Leofwynn of Bishopstone (fl 7th century), saint
  • Richard of Chichester (1197–1253), patron saint of Sussex
  • Philip Howard, 13th Earl of Arundel (1557-1595), Catholic saint

Other religious leaders[]

  • Matthew Caffyn (1628-1714), General Baptist preacher
  • Richard Challoner (1691-1781), Roman Catholic bishop and leading figure of English Catholicism
  • Cornelia Connelly (1809—1879), US-born founder of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus and Mayfield School, Mayfield
  • Richard Enraght (1837—1898), Irish-born Anglo-Catholic priest
  • John Sirgood (1822—1885), Gloucestershire-born fundamentalist lay preacher, founder of Society of Dependants
  • Thomas Stapleton (1535—1598), Catholic theologian
  • Fiona Windsor (born 1956), archdeacon of Horsham, and the first female archdeacon in Sussex

Scientists and scholars[]

Anthropologists[]

  • E.E. Evans-Pritchard (1902-1973), anthropologist
  • David Pilbeam (born 1940), palaeoanthropologist

Archaeologists[]

Astronomers[]

  • Patrick Moore (1923-2012), astronomer and broadcaster
  • Ian Morison (born 1943), astronomer and astrophysicist
  • Martin Ryle (1918-1984), radio astronomer, winner of Nobel Prize

Biologists[]

Frederick Gowland Hopkins
  • William Borrer (1781—1862), botanist
  • Edward Boyse (1923-2007), physician and biologist
  • Barry Fell (1917—1994), zoologist
  • Isabella Forshall (1900—1989), paediatric surgeon
  • John Braxton Hicks (1823-1897), doctor and obstrecian
  • Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861-1947), biochemist and Nobel Prize winner
  • Thomas Henry Huxley (1825—1895), biologist and anthropologist
  • Sophia Jex-Blake (1840-1912), physician, pioneer female doctor
  • Thomas H. Jukes (1906—1999), biologist known for his work in nutrition and molecular evolution
  • Martin Holdgate (born 1931), biologist and environmental scientist
  • Marianne North (1830-1890), biologist
  • Richard Russell (1687-1759), physician
  • Edith Rebecca Saunders (1865-1945), geneticist and plant anatomist
  • F. M. L. Sheffield (1904—1973), botanist
  • David Sims (born 1969), marine biologist
  • Octavia Wilberforce (1888-1963), physician

Chemists[]

  • Tom Blundell (born 1942), biochemist
  • Martin Fleischmann (1927—2012), electrochemist
  • Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861-1947), biochemist and Nobel Prize winner
  • Frederick Soddy (1877-1956), radiochemist

Computer scientists[]

  • Stanley Gill (1926—1975), co-inventor of first computer subroutine
  • Alan Turing (1912—1954)

Economists[]

  • Richard Blundell (born 1952), economist and econometrician
  • Richard Jolly (born 1934), development economist
  • John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), founder of Keynesian economics
  • George Paish (1867-1957), economist

Geologists and palaeontologists[]

  • Gideon Mantell (1790—1852), geologist, palaeontologist and obstetrician (discoverer of Iguanadon)

Historians[]

  • Kevin Brownlow (born 1938), film historian
  • Thomas Walker Horsfield (1792—1837), Yorkshire-born historian best known for his works on Sussex history
  • Mark Antony Lower (1813–1876), known for his works on Sussex history, anti-Catholic propagandist[1] and founder member of the Sussex Archaeological Society
  • Elizabeth Norton (born 1986)
  • Philip Payton (born 1953)
  • Louis Francis Salzman (1878—1971), economic historian

Mathematicians[]

  • Frank Anscombe (1918—2001), statistician
  • Ruth Lawrence (born 1971)
  • David Mumford (born 1937)
  • John Pell (1611—1685)
  • Harold Stanley Ruse (1905—1974)

Philosophers[]

  • Thomas Bradwardine (1300—1349)
  • Peter Kropotkin (1842—1921), anarcho-communist philosopher lived in Brighton
  • Gilbert Ryle (1900—1976)

Physicists[]

  • Emma Bunce (born 1975), space physicist
  • Anthony French (1920—2017), physicist
  • Alan Ernest Owen (1928—1999), physicist specialising in glass technology
  • William Francis Gray Swann (1884—1962), physicist noted for his research into cosmic rays

Psychologists[]

  • William Brown (1881—1952)
  • Edward B. Titchener (1867-1927)

Sportspeople[]

Boxers[]

  • Chris Eubank Jr. (born 1989)
  • Alan Minter (1951-2020)
  • Tom Sayers (1826-1865)
  • Scott Welch (born 1968), known as 'the Brighton Rock'

Cricketers[]

Holly Colvin
James Lillywhite

Footballers[]

Golfers[]

  • Max Faulkner (1916-2005)
  • Abe Mitchell (1887-1947)
  • Mark Seymour (1897-1952)

Racing drivers[]

Jolyon Palmer

Other sportspeople[]

Mercedes Gleitze

Other notables[]

  • Beachy Head Lady (fl. early to mid 3rd century AD), thought to be the first known person of sub-Saharan origin in Britain.[2]
  • Charles Burrell (born 1962), conservationist ( Knepp Wildland Project)
  • John Cripps (born 1927), orchardist, responsible for creation of the Pink Lady ('Cripps Pink') and Sundowner ('Cripps Red') apples
  • Martin Coles Harman (1885—1954), self-proclaimed king of Lundy
  • Cecil Hurst (1870—1963), international lawyer, President of the Permanent Court of International Justice in The Hague (1934—1936) and Chairman of the United Nations War Crimes Commission (1943—1945)
  • Peter Love (died 1610), pirate
  • John Selden (1584-1654), jurist
  • Maria Ann Smith (1799-1870), orchardist, responsible for creation of the Granny Smith apple

See also[]

Bibliography[]

  • Olusoga, David (2016). Black and British: a Forgotten History. Pan Macmillan. ISBN 9781447299745.

References[]

  1. ^ "East Sussex". The Keep. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  2. ^ Olusoga 2016, p. 33
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