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
• Hannah Berry, comic artist and author
• Grace Blakeley, economics and political journalist
• Callum Cant, author and researcher
• Lucy Coats, author
• Alma Deutscher, composer and conductor
• L. Grace Dibble, teacher and travel writer
• John Gardner, author
• Steve Harris, author
• Macdonald Hastings, journalist and war correspondent
• E O Higgins, author
• Paul Hockings, author, professor of anthropology
• Gwyther Irwin, abstract artist
• John James, architect
• Waldemar Januszczak, art critic and filmmaker
• Sima Kotecha, journalist
• AJ Pearce, author
• C. Bernard Rutley, author
• Christopher Sclater Millard, author
• Tim Shipman, journalist
• Nora Stanton Barney, civil engineer and suffragist
• Robert Steadman, composer and conductor
• Julian Stockwin, author
• Alex Thomson, journalist and newscaster
• Joseph Warton, academic and poet
• Thomas Warton, academic and poet
• Chuck Whelon, comic author and cartoonist

Entertainment

• John Arlott, cricket journalist and commentator
• Sam Attwater, actor
• Carl Barât, musician
• Christian Brassington, actor
• James Bye, actor
• Shelley Conn, actress
• Daisy May Cooper, actress and writer
• Mark Griffin, actor
• Max Harwood, actor
• Steve Hewlett, ventriloquist
• Elizabeth Hurley, actress and model
• Steve Lamacq, DJ
• Tristan Myles, visual effects artist
• Ian McNeice, actor
• Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, socialite and television personality
• Gabriella Slade, musical costume designer
• Lisbee Stainton, musician
• Pete Staples, musician
• Jodie Steele, actress
• Sarah Sutton, actress
• Ramon Tikaram, actor
• Tanita Tikaram, musician
• Gabriella Wilde, actress
• Christine Williams, model
• Xerath,^[1] metal band
• Bob Young, musician

Sport

• Joel Bagan, footballer
• Sal Bibbo, footballer
• Alex Bogdanovic, tennis player
• Nick Buchanan, cricketer
• Sid Castle, footballer and football manager
• Travis Clayton, NFL player
• Tom Cleverley, international footballer and football manager
• Georgina Corrick, international softball player
• Tom Croft, international rugby union player
• Matt Crossley, footballer
• Harlee Dean, footballer
• Sean Doherty, footballer
• Darren Flint, cricketer
• Dean Francis, boxer
• Leanne Ganney, international ice hockey player
• Joshua Goodall, tennis player
• Robert Heywood, cricketer
• Paul Hogan, darts player
• Dave Holby, endurance athlete
• Simon Humberstone, rugby union player
• Aaron Jarvis, footballer
• Liam Kelly, footballer
• Mark Kelly, international footballer
• Matt King, cricketer
• Olly Lancashire, footballer
• Joe McDonnell, footballer
• Mike McMeeken, international rugby league player
• Colin Monk, darts player
• Lee Nurse, cricketer
• Josh Payne, footballer
• Tom Rees, international rugby union player
• Kurt Reynolds, ice hockey player
• Justin Rose, golfer
• Lee Sandford, footballer
• Will Smallbone, international footballer
• Kathy Smallwood-Cook, Olympic sprinter
• Dominic Solanke, international footballer
• Mitchell Stokes, cricketer
• Kit Symons, international footballer and football manager
• Robert Tobin, Olympic athlete
• Shaun Udal, international cricketer
• Rowan Vine, footballer
• Jock Wallace Jr., footballer and football manager
• Thomas White, cricketer
• Chris Wood, cricketer
• Ross Wood, cricket umpire
• Ben Wright, footballer

Other

• Arron Fraser Andrew Banks, businessman and political donor
• Alice Blunden, premature burial subject
• Hubert Broad, noted test pilot
• Laurie Brown, former Bishop of Birmingham
• Thomas Burberry, founder of Burberry clothing business
• Charles Butler, beekeeper, logician and grammarian
• David Chidgey, Baron Chidgey, politician
• H. E. J. Cowdrey, historian
• William Dicey, newspaper proprietor
• John Freeman Dunn, politician
• Ruth Ellis, last woman to be hanged in Great Britain
• Joseph Storrs Fry, founder of Fry's chocolate company
• Rebecca George, President of British Computer Society
• Andrew Holding, scientific researcher
• George Cecil Jones, chemist and occultist
• Hilary Jones, celebrity doctor
• James Ketchell, adventurer
• Sir James Lancaster, privateer and trader
• John Aidan Liddell, Victoria Cross recipient
• Cecil Lowther, politician
• Charles Massey, psychical researcher
• Walter de Merton, founder of Merton College, Oxford
• William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester, Statesman
• David Pawson, Baptist minister and author
• William Plowden, politician
• William Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys of the Vyne, Tudor diplomat and Lord Chamberlain
• Sarah, Duchess of York, former wife of The Duke of York
• L.E. Timberlake, American politician
• Lady Anne Wallop, aristocrat
• Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington