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A list of notable people from the county of Gloucestershire: * Sean Arnold, actor * Sir Robert Atkyns, baron of the Exchequer * Sir Robert Atkyns, author of a history of Gloucestershire * Thomas Aufield, Roman Catholic martyr * Charles Bannister, actor and singer * Steve Banyard, football commentator, lives in the Cotswolds * Wayne Barnes, international rugby union referee * John Bayliss, poet * Joseph Bennett, music critic and librettist, born in Berkeley * Siân Berry, politician and Green Party member * John Biddle, Unitarian * Hubert Cecil Booth, engineer and inventor, founder of Goblin Vacuum Cleaners * Lorraine Bowen, singer and songwriter * Matthew Boyce, cricketer * Herbert Brewer, organist and composer, Gloucester Cathedral * Edwin Beard Budding, inventor of the law

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  • A list of notable people from the county of Gloucestershire: * Sean Arnold, actor * Sir Robert Atkyns, baron of the Exchequer * Sir Robert Atkyns, author of a history of Gloucestershire * Thomas Aufield, Roman Catholic martyr * Charles Bannister, actor and singer * Steve Banyard, football commentator, lives in the Cotswolds * Wayne Barnes, international rugby union referee * John Bayliss, poet * Joseph Bennett, music critic and librettist, born in Berkeley * Siân Berry, politician and Green Party member * John Biddle, Unitarian * Hubert Cecil Booth, engineer and inventor, founder of Goblin Vacuum Cleaners * Lorraine Bowen, singer and songwriter * Matthew Boyce, cricketer * Herbert Brewer, organist and composer, Gloucester Cathedral * Edwin Beard Budding, inventor of the lawnmower * John Canton, physicist * Cornelius Cardew, composer, born in Winchcombe * Johnny Coppin, folk musician and composer, lives in the county * Ernest Cossart, Hollywood actor; brother of Gustav Holst * P. J. Crook, artist, born and lives near Cheltenham * William Davis, miner, shot dead by police during a miners' demonstration in Canada and commemorated by Davis Day * Ian Dench, musician and songwriter * Sir George Dowty, founder of Dowty Rotol * David Drew, MP for Stroud * Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards, born in Cheltenham * Air Chief Marshal Sir Basil Embry * Sir Martin Evans, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine * Mabel FitzRobert of Gloucester, heiress and wife of Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester * Winifred Foley, writer, best known for her autobiography A Child in the Forest * Richard Freeman, judge * Gabrielle Glaister, actress * W. G. Grace, cricketer * Christopher Gunning, composer * Ivor Gurney, composer and poet * Button Gwinnett, second of the signatories (first signature on the left) on the United States Declaration of Independence * Sir Frederick Handley Page, aircraft designer, best known for WW2 aircraft, including the Halifax bomber * Robert Hardy, actor * Ricci Harnett, actor * Sir Arthur Harris, head of RAF Bomber Command during WWII * William Ernest Henley, poet, author of Invictus * Liam Hess, actor * William Stephen Raikes Hodson, soldier and commander of Hodson's Horse during the Indian Mutiny * Gustav Holst, composer, born in Cheltenham * Imogen Holst, composer and conductor * Lionelle Howard, silent era film actor, born in Cirencester * Herbert Howells, composer * Wilfrid Hyde-White, actor, born in Bourton-on-the-Water * Edward Jenner, discovered vaccination, initially against smallpox, lived in Berkeley * * Brian Jones, ex-guitarist of the Rolling Stones * Alex Kapranos, lead singer and guitarist for the band Franz Ferdinand * Martin Kent ("Ace"), guitarist and vocals with Skunk Anansie, born in Cheltenham * H. D. F. Kitto, classical scholar * Laurie Lee, poet and author of Cider with Rosie and other autobiographical works * Jackie Lewis, motor racing driver * Thomas Linley the elder, composer * David Loder, racehorse trainer * Emma McClarkin, politician * Joe Meek, 1960s pop record producer and pioneer, born in Newent * Christopher Merret, physician and scientist * Henry Miles, dissenting minister and writer on science * Royce Mills, actor * Ben Morgan, Gloucester and England Rugby player * William Moseley, actor best known for Peter in The Chronicles of Narnia * Richard O'Brien, of the Rocky Horror Show * J. I. Packer, theologian * Simon Pegg, actor and comedian * Emily Pidgeon, athlete * Dennis Potter, dramatist * Cozy Powell, rock drummer, born in Cirencester * Michael Praed, actor * Zac Purchase, Olympic gold medallist * Robert Raikes, founder of the Sunday School movement * Scott Redding, British Superbike Champion 2019 * William Reynolds, footballer * Frederick C. Roberts, cricketer * Jeremy Dale Roberts, composer * J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books * Samuel Rudder, topographer, printer and antiquarian, born in Uley * Robert Charles "Jack" Russell, former Gloucestershire and England cricketer, now an artist * Frederick Sanger, double winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, born in Rendcomb * John Stafford Smith, composer of the tune "The Star-Spangled Banner" * Jonathan Smith, novelist * Tom Smith, lead singer of the rock band Editors * Nathan Sykes, former member of The Wanted * Bert Tayler, cricketer * John Taylor, the "Water Poet" * Kate Thornton, TV presenter born in Cheltenham * Keith Tippett, pianist and improviser * Edith Tolkien, née Bratt, wife of J. R. R. Tolkien * FKA Twigs, singer, producer * William Tyndale, Bible translator * Thomas Twining, tea merchant, born in Painswick * Abel Wantner (c. 1639–1714) Historian * Christopher Warren-Green, violinist and conductor * Oliver Weeks, composer and arranger * Fred West, one of Britain's most notorious serial killers * Sir Charles Wheatstone, physicist * George Whitefield, preacher * Richard Whittington, four times Lord Mayor of London, and inspiration for the pantomime character Dick Whittington * Ralph Vaughan Williams, composer, born in Down Ampney * Edward Adrian Wilson, Antarctic explorer * James (Jemmy) Wood, banker * James Wood-Mason, zoologist * John Woolrich, composer, born in Cirencester * Jimmy Young, singer and radio DJ, born in Cinderford (en)
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  • A list of notable people from the county of Gloucestershire: * Sean Arnold, actor * Sir Robert Atkyns, baron of the Exchequer * Sir Robert Atkyns, author of a history of Gloucestershire * Thomas Aufield, Roman Catholic martyr * Charles Bannister, actor and singer * Steve Banyard, football commentator, lives in the Cotswolds * Wayne Barnes, international rugby union referee * John Bayliss, poet * Joseph Bennett, music critic and librettist, born in Berkeley * Siân Berry, politician and Green Party member * John Biddle, Unitarian * Hubert Cecil Booth, engineer and inventor, founder of Goblin Vacuum Cleaners * Lorraine Bowen, singer and songwriter * Matthew Boyce, cricketer * Herbert Brewer, organist and composer, Gloucester Cathedral * Edwin Beard Budding, inventor of the law (en)
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