List of people from Bath

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Looking south from the Pulteney Bridge in Bath

A Bathonian is somebody who comes from the city of Bath, England.

This article provides a non-exhaustive list of famous people born in Bath, educated there, prominent in the life of the city, or otherwise associated with the city.

Acting

The Theatre Royal

• Ollie Barbieri – actor in Skins.
• Jennifer Biddall
• Adam Campbell – actor in Epic Movie and Date Movie.
• Julia Davis
• Anthony Head.
• Jonathan Hyde
• Andrew Lincoln
• Jonathan Lynn – actor, writer and director.
• Leo McKern – Rumpole actor.
• Tom Payne
• Arnold Ridley
• Sarah Siddons – 18th-century actress
• Indira Varma
• Angelica Mandy – in Vanity Fair and Harry Potter series as Gabrielle Delacour.

Architecture

The Palladian Bridge, Prior Park Gardens

• Robert Adam – architect of Pulteney Bridge, also produced unexecuted designs for the Assembly Rooms and Bathwick estate.
• Thomas Baldwin – architect of Great Pulteney Street and Bath Guildhall.
• Sir Reginald Blomfield – architect of the Bath War Memorial and extension of the Holbourne Museum.
• Thomas Fuller – emigrated to Canada, where he co-designed the Parliament House in Ottawa.
• Frederick Gibberd – architect of Bath Technical College.
• Henry Goodridge – architect of Beckford's Tower, Cleveland Bridge and The Corridor shopping arcade
• Sir Thomas Graham Jackson – architect of the World War I memorial aisle Bath Abbey.
• William Eden Nesfield – architect, one of the leaders of the Gothic revival in England
• John Palmer - architect of the Pump Room and Lansdown Crescent.
• C. J. Phipps - Theatre Royal, Bath and other theatres around Britain.
• John Pinch the elder – the original Royal United Hospital.
• John Pinch the younger – architect
• Charles Harcourt Masters – active in Bathwick including Sydney Gardens.
• Sir George Gilbert Scott – restoration of Bath Abbey, architect of St Andrew's church destroyed by bombs during World War II.
• Frederick William Stevens – architect, emigrated to India.
• John Wood, the Elder – architect of Queen Square and the Circus.
• John Wood, the Younger – architect of the Royal Crescent.

Art

• Roy Ascott – new media artist
• Daniel A. Baker – artist*
• Sir Peter Blake lived in Wellow village,near Bath, during the 1970s
• Peter Brown – painter
• Thomas Gainsborough – painter
• Sir Thomas Lawrence – painter

Education

• Marie Bethell Beauclerc – first female shorthand teacher and reporter in England.
• Sir Raymond Carr – historian.
• Roderick Kedward – British historian.
• Sir Isaac Pitman – inventor of shorthand.
• Robert Craven – author of business books
• William Harbutt – headmaster and inventor of Plasticine.

Entertainment (general)

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Street performance near Bath Abbey

• Russell Howard – comedian.
• Jesse Honey – BBC Mastermind champion 2010.
• Beau Nash – master of ceremonies in Georgian Bath.

Empire

• James Brooke – Rajah of Sarawak.

Exiles

• Louis XVIII – prior to ascending the French throne.
• Haile Selassie I – during World War II

Fashion

• Manolo Blahnik – shoe designer
• James Buckley Thorp – founder of Bath clothing brand Rupert and Buckley

Filmmaking

• David Lassman – screenwriter
• Ken Loach – film director.
• Charlie McDonnell – YouTube star as "Charlieissocoollike".

Food

• Mary Berry CBE – food writer born in Bath and made a freeman of the city.
• Sally Lunn cake – probably a corruption of the French phrase "soleil et lune" referring to a type of cake originally made by Protestant refugees from France, but other derivations have been given. A Bath tea shop bears the name.
• Dr William Oliver – inventor of the Bath Oliver biscuit and a founder of the Royal Mineral Water Hospital.

Government

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The Parade Gardens

• Sir Henry Cole – civil servant.
• William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham – prime minister and MP for Bath 1757 to 1766.
• William Pitt the Younger – prime minister.
• Sir William Tite – architect and MP for Bath 1855–1873.
• Chris Patten – MP for Bath 1979-1992. Governor of Hong Kong 1992-1997.
• Don Foster – MP for Bath 1992 to 2015.

Literature

• Jane Austen – novelist; Joan Aiken reports that Austen did not love the city; when she learned her family were moving to Bath, "she fainted dead away."
• William Thomas Beckford – wrote Vathek and a series of works on travel
• Henrietta Maria Bowdler – novelist and editor, died in Bath on 25 February 1830.
• Jane Bowdler – poet and essayist, was born at Ashley, near Bath, on 14 February 1743 and died there in 1784.
• John Bowdler – moral reformer and religious writer, born in Bath on 18 March 1746.
• Thomas Bowdler – physician and expurgator of Shakespeare, was born at Box, near Bath, on 11 July 1754.
• Charles Dickens – novelist, frequent visitor to the city and set much of the Pickwick Papers in the city.
• Henry Fielding – novelist
• "Rita" (Eliza Margaret Jane Humphreys. 1850–1938) – wrote A Grey life,a novel set in Bath. She lived at Combe Down from c. 1923, and is buried in Bath Abbey Cemetery.
• Morag Joss – novelist
• David Lassman – novelist born in Bath, co-author of the Regency Detective series.
• Richard Brinsley Sheridan – playwright
• Tobias Smollett – physician, surgeon and novelist, partly set The Expedition of Humphry Clinker in the city, wrote essay on the waters of Bath
• Geoffrey Trease – children's novelist, author of the Bannermere series
• Mary Shelley – novelist, author of Frankenstein.
• Jacqueline Wilson – children's author, born in Bath.

Modelling

• Kayleigh Pearson - English Model.

Music

Beckford's Tower on Lansdown Hill

• Gabrielle Aplin – singer/songwriter
• Danny Byrd – Drum and Bass artist signed to Hospital Records
• Eddie Cochran – rock'n'roll musician, died in Bath
• Peter Gabriel – musician
• Interview – New Wave band
• Alison Goldfrapp – singer
• Peter Hammill – musician
• Raymond Leppard – conductor, educated Beechen Cliff School
• Naked Eyes – musical group
• Thomas Linley – musician
• Alberto Fernanco Riccardo Semprini – pianist
• Tears for Fears – musical group
• Midge Ure
• The Family Rain
• Propellerheads

Postal Service

• Ralph Allen (1693–1764) – postal reformer, quarry owner and mayor. Allen developed the first nationwide postal network that did not pass through London.
• John Palmer (1742–1818) – inventor of the lightweight mail coach

Science

• Adelard of Bath – astronomer, philosopher and mathematician
• Mike Cowlishaw – computer scientist and engineer
• Richard Lovell Edgeworth – writer and inventor
• David Hartley (the Younger) – philosopher and inventor
• William Herschel – astronomer, discoverer of Uranus and musician
• Thomas Robert Malthus – philosopher and economist
• Richard J. Roberts – Nobel-prize-winning biochemist

Sport

• George Attfield – first-class cricketer active in the 1840s and 1850s.
• Olly Barkley – England international rugby player
• Roger Bannister – athlete, first man to run sub-4-minute mile
• Tony Book – football player, former Manchester City captain and manager, part of the Bath-based Book footballing dynasty
• Jason Dodd – football player, former Southampton captain who holds the record for the most Premiership appearances by an English player without ever being named in an England squad
• Jason Gardener – British athlete, 4 × 100 m Olympic gold medallist
• Matt Green – professional footballer
• Jeremy Guscott - England and Bath rugby player
• Ed McKeever – kayak world champion (K1 200m)
• Andy Robinson – rugby coach, former England international team coach and Bath Rugby team coach
• Jack Rowell – Bath Rugby director, former England international team coach and Bath Rugby team coach
• Ben Rushgrove – paralympic athlete
• Scott Sinclair – Aston Villa F.C. player
• Talan Skeels-Piggins – Paralympic alpine skier
• Amy Williams – winter Olympic gold medallist.
• Clive Woodward – British Olympic Committee Director of Elite Performance, former England international team coach and Bath Rugby team coach

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Holy Trinity Church, Combe Down

Religion

• John Hales – theologian
• William Jay – preacher
• Oliver King – bishop of Bath and Wells, rebuilt Bath Abbey
• Abraham Marchant – early Mormon leader, settler of Kamas, Utah

Royalty

• Queen Anne – visited the city for treatment for gout
• Edgar of England – crowned king of England in Bath Abbey in 973
• Queen Elizabeth I – on a visit to the city ordered the restoration of Bath Abbey
• Mary of Modena – stayed in Bath for treatment for infertility. After she gave birth to Prince James Francis Edward Stuart she paid for a cross to be erected in what became the Cross Baths
• Queen Victoria – when still a princess stayed in Bath and opened Royal Victoria Park
• Princess Claire of Belgium – born in Bath.

Warfare

• Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson – admiral, freeman of Bath.
• Sir William Edward Parry – rear-admiral and Arctic explorer
• Harry Patch – supercentenarian and last trench veteran of World War I who lived in Combe Down
• George Wade – field marshal and MP for Bath 1722
• James Wolfe – general