# List of people from King's Lynn

This is a non-exhaustive list of the Wikipedia pages of notable people born or educated in King's Lynn, or prominent there or nationally.

## Armed forces

* Florence Green (1901–2012), last known female veteran of World War I
* John Mason (1586–1635), naval captain and coloniser

## Entertainment

* Robert Armin (c. 1563–1615), actor
* Mrs. Bernard Beere (1851–1915), actress
* Victoria Bush (born 1978), actress and comedian
* Michael Caine (born 1933), actor, was evacuated to King's Lynn in World War II and attended King Edward VII School.
* Zara Dawson (born 1983), actress and television presenter
* Richard Meek (born 1982), actor in musical theatre
* Miranda Raison (born 1977), actress
* Lucy Verasamy (born 1980), weather forecaster, currently employed by ITV National Weather
* Mark Wheat (living), presenter on The Current from Minnesota Public Radio

## Exploration

* Adam Thoroughgood (1604–1640), colonist and community leader in the Colony of Virginia
* George Vancouver (1757–1798), naval officer known for exploring North-West Coast of North America
* John Smith (explorer) (c. 1580–1631), Admiral of New England and English soldier, explorer and author
* Thomas Baines (1820–1875), artist and explorer of British colonial southern Africa and Australia
* Samuel Gurney Cresswell (1827–1867), first naval officer to cross the entire Northwest Passage

## Fine art

* Odile Crick (1920–2007), artist and illustrator
* Walter Dexter (1876–1958), oil painter and water colourist
* Alison Dunhill (born 1950), artist, art historian and poet
* Robert Elwes (1818–1878), painter and traveller
* Ruth Roche, Baroness Fermoy (1908–1993), founder of King's Lynn Festival of Arts
* Samuel Lane (1780–1859), portrait painter
* Edward Villiers Rippingille (c. 1790–1859), oil painter and water colourist

## Literature and journalism

* Emily Bell (born 1965), journalist and academic
* Frances Burney (1752–1840), novelist and diarist
* James Burney (1750–1821), naval historian
* Sarah Burney (1772–1844), novelist
* Suzanne Francis (born 1959), scifi and fantasy author
* Ian Hamilton (1938–2001), critic, biographer and poet
* Hardiman Scott (1920–1999), crime writer, poet and broadcaster
* John Timpson (1928–2005), journalist and broadcaster

## Miscellaneous

* Michael Carroll (lottery winner) (born 1983), binman who won £9.7 million on the UK National Lottery in 2002

## Music

* Charles Burney (1726–1814), organist in King's Lynn, composer and musicologist
* Gerry Conway (musician) (born 1952), folk and rock drummer and percussionist
* Clara Dow (1883–1969), operatic soprano
* Pieter Hellendaal (1721–1799), organist in King's Lynn, composer and violinist
* George Kiallmark (1781–1835), violinist and composer
* Roger Taylor (born 1949), drummer for the rock band Queen
* David Thaxton (born 1982), singer and actor
* Craig Powell (musician) (born 1984), singer/songwriter

## Politics and diplomacy

* Denys Bullard (1912–1994), Conservative politician and agriculturalist
* Thomas Cromwell (Parliamentary diarist) (c. 1540 – c. 1611), politician and parliamentary diarist
* Maurice Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy (1885–1955), Conservative politician
* Sir William ffolkes, 3rd Baronet (1847–1912), Liberal politician
* Holcombe Ingleby (1854–1926), Conservative politician and mayor
* Weston Jarvis (1855–1939), Conservative politician and army officer
* Clare Sewell Read (1826–1905), Conservative politician and agriculturalist
* George Ridley (1886–1944), Labour politician
* Oliver Simmonds (1897–1975), Conservative politician and aircraft engineer
* Sir Robert Walpole (1676–1745), Whig statesman generally regarded as Britain's first prime minister
* Graham Woodwark (1874–1938), Liberal politician and mayor

## Religion

* John Arrowsmith (scholar) (1602–1659), theologian and academic
* John Barret (theologian) (died 1563), Lynn's "Vicar of Bray", Carmelite friar, then Protestant cleric and theologian
* John Capgrave (1393–1464), hagiographer and scholastic theologian
* Harvey Goodwin (1818–1891), bishop and academic
* William Gurnall (1616–1679), religious writer
* Margery Kempe (c. 1373 – after 1438), mystic and pilgrim, author of possibly the earliest autobiography in English
* Thomas Pyle (1674–1756), cleric and controversialist
* William Richards (minister) (1749–1818), Baptist minister and local historian

## Science and scholarship

* Eugene Aram (1704–1759), philologist and murderer
* William Baly (1814–1861), physician and fellow of the Royal Society
* Henry Bell (architect) (1647–1711), architect and mayor
* G. G. Coulton (1858–1947), historian
* Guy Dawber (1861–1938), Arts and Crafts-style architect
* Charles Wycliffe Goodwin (1817–1887), Egyptologist and judge
* Francis Goodwin (architect) (1784–1835), architect
* John Harvey (astrologer) (1564–1592), physician and astrologer
* Charles Edward Hubbard (1900–1980), botanist and world authority on grasses
* Benjamin Keene (1697–1757), ambassador
* George William Manby (1765–1854), inventor and author
* Tom Petch (1870–1948), mycologist and plant pathologist
* Simon Thurley (born 1962), academic and architectural historian
* Charles Vancouver (c. 1756 – c. 1815), writer on agriculture

## Sport

* George Russell (racing driver) (born 1998), racing driver for Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team
* George North - Professional rugby player
* Ali Price - Professional rugby player
* Martin Brundle (born 1959), racing driver and F1 commentator for ITV Sport and the BBC
* Fred Fayers, (1890–1954), international football player
* Lewis Jarvis, (1857–1938), all-round athlete and banker
* Kathryn Johnson (field hockey Britain) (born 1967), Olympic field hockey player
* Nicholas "Nick" Aldis (known professionally as Magnus (wrestler)) (born 1986), professional wrestler and actor
* Peter Parfitt (born 1936), test cricketer
* Barbara Parker (athlete), Olympic track and field athlete
* Lucy Pearson (cricketer), test cricketer
* Martin Saggers (born 1972), test cricketer
* James Sherlock (golfer) (1875–1966), Open Championship golfer
* Helen Slatter (born 1970), Olympic swimmer
* Dave Taylor (wrestler) (born 1957), champion wrestler
* Stan Worthington (1905–1973), test cricketer