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Famous People Who Lived Or Were Born In Exeter
(Courtesy of Exeter Memories)

Charles Babbage - father of computing
Alan Ball - World Cup winning footballer
John (Johan) Baring - wool merchant
John Baring II - merchant, banker and Member of Parliament
Cliff Bastin - Exeter City, Arsenal and England footballer
Stephen Bell - mountaineer
Rabbi Lionel Blue - broadcaster and writer
Sir Thomas Bodley - founder of the Bodlein Library
St Boniface - German saint educated in Exeter
Sir John Bowring - polymath, diplomat New
Andrew Brice - early journalist and rebel
Isambard Kingdom Brunel - engineer
General Sir Redvers Buller VC - soldier
Major Herbert Augustine Carter VC - soldier
Wilfrid Lawson Chambers - a lost mariner
Eleanor Coade - inventor and business woman
Paul Collings - Waterloo veteran and innkeeper
David Collins - first governor of Tasmania
Tommy Cooper - comedian and magician
Charles Dickens - campaigning Victorian writer
Sir Francis Drake - adventurer and seaman
Sidney Endacott - artist and wood carver
Richard Ford - author of A Hand-Book for Travellers in Spain
John Gendall - artist of historic Exeter
George Gissing - writer
James Green - County Surveyor and architect
Revd. T. B. Hardy, VC, MC, DSO - a front line, First World War chaplain
Harry Hems - ecclesiastical stone and wood carver
Princess Henrietta Anne - daughter of Charles I
Nicholas Hilliard - miniature portrait painter
George Hollis VC - farrier in the 8th Hussars
Richard Hooker - religious theoretician
Dr W G Hoskins - writer, historian and broadcaster
John Frederick Thomas Jane - publisher of Jane's Fighting Ships
Fred Karno - impressario and Chaplin discoverer
Gene Kemp - children's writer
Kent Kingdon - cabinet maker and RAMM benefactor
Nurse Emily Knee - Awarded the George Medal after the blitz
Samuel Kingdon & Iron Sam Kingdon - merchant and foundry owner
Thomas Latimer - reforming journalist
John 'Babbacombe' Lee - reprieved murderer
Bishop Leofric - the only Saxon Bishop of Exeter
Chris Martin - rock musician with Coldplay
Clare Morrall - Booker Prize shortlisted author New
David Miller Muir - pioneering radiologist and engineer
William Oxenham VC - buried in Exeter
Richard Parker - naval mutineer
William Pett - first Chief Officer of the City Fire Brigade
Peter Phillips and Zara Phillips - Queen's grandson and granddaughter
Robert Pople - proprietor of the New London Inn and Mayor three times
Dick Pym - Exeter City and Bolton Wanderers goalkeeper
John Rowe - Boston Tea Party rebel
J K Rowling - Harry Potter author
Danny La Rue - female impersonator
Lieutenant Richard Douglas Sandford VC - submarine commander
Thomas Sharp - Town Planner
Thomas Shapter - doctor and cholera historian
Walter Percy Sladen - marine biologist
Frank Shooter - Hero of the Exe who saved hundreds from drowning.
John Graves Simcoe - founder of Toronto
E B Stephens - 19th-Century sculptor
Whitney Willard Straight - aviator and racing driver
William Temple - Archbishop of Canterbury and radical preacher
Artful Thomas - local personality from the early 20th century
Peter Thursby - art teacher and architectural sculptor
Titanic Victims - four who died on the Titanic from Exeter
Charlotte Treadwin - Honiton Lace maker and expert in the craft
John Veitch - nurseryman and tree expert
Harry Weslake - automotive engineer and motor cyclists.
F J Widgery - artist and Mayor of Exeter
Henry Wykes - photographer of Exeter
Thom Yorke - rock musician with Radiohead
Will Young - Pop Idol winner