# List of people from Lewes

Lewes is the county town of East Sussex, England. The following is a list of those people who were either born or live in Lewes, or had some important contribution to make to the town.
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* Y

## A

* John Agard (born 1949), poet, playwright and children's author, lives in Lewes.
* Russell Ash (1946–2010), author of Top 10 of Everything and other non-fiction books
* Daisy Ashford (1881–1972), juvenile novelist
* B. T. S. Atkins (1931–2021), lexicographer
* Lucy Atkins (Born 1968), novelist
* John Authers, financial journalist and writer

## B

* Marina Baker (born 1967), former actress/ model, journalist, children's author and politician
* Norman Baker (born 1957), former Liberal Democrat MP for Lewes
* Wynne Edwin Baxter (1844–1920), lawyer, translator, antiquarian and botanist
* Honor Blackman (1925–2020), actor
* Michael Brooks (born 1970), science writer
* Arthur Brown (born 1942), musician, best known for his 1968 hit "Fire"
* Asa Briggs (1921–2016), English Historian, second Vice-Chancellor of University of Sussex and created Baron Briggs of Lewes in 1976
* Ralph Brown (born 1957), actor
* Anthony Buckeridge (1912–2004), children's author, noted for his Jennings series, lived near Lewes from 1962 until his death.

## C

* Anna Campbell (born 1991), first British woman to die fighting for the Women's Protection Units
* Philip Carr-Gomm (born 1952), leader of The Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids
* Thomas Cobham (died 1327), Archdeacon of Lewes
* Richard Challoner (1691–1781), Roman Catholic bishop
* John Conolly (1794–1866), physician
* Shirley Collins (born 1935), folk singer and collector
* Henry William Crosskey (1826–1893), geologist and Unitarian minister

## D

* Nick Davies (born 1953), investigative journalist and author of Flat Earth News, he uncovered the News of the World phone hacking affair
* Henry Dudeney (1857–1930), author and mathematician
* Alice Dudeney (1866–1945), author and diarist
* Roger Dean (born 1944), artist

## E

* John Ellman (1753–1832), farmer and stockbreeder
* John Evelyn (1620–1706), writer, gardener and diarist

## F

* Julian Fane (1927–2009), author
* Barry Fell (1917–1994), zoologist
* John Fitzalan, 1st Baron Arundel (c. 1348–1379)
* David Ford (born 1978), singer/songwriter
* Julia Foster (born 1943), actress

## G

* Eve Garnett (1900–1991), author and illustrator
* Walter Godfrey (1881–1961), architect, historian and antiquarian
* John Sparkes Goldsmith (1878–1942), founder and first editor of The Ringing World
* Sarah Gordy (born c. 1968), actress with Down syndrome
* Sir William Gull, 1st Baronet (1816–1890), physician
* Edward Castres Gwynne (1811–1888), Australian lawyer and politician

## H

* Denzil Dean Harber (1909–1966), ornithologist and Trotskyist
* Ed Harcourt (born 1977), singer/songwriter
* Julius Charles Hare (1795–1855), theologian and Archdeacon of Lewes
* Edward Hargraves (1816–1891), Australian gold prospector
* Hugh Harris, musician: guitarist with The Kooks
* Jonathan Harvey (composer) (1939–2012), composer
* John Berry Haycraft (1859–1923), professor of physiology
* George Hutson (1889–1914), Olympic runner

## I

* James Iredell (1751–1799), American lawyer and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

## J

* Alison Jolly (1937–2014), primatologist
* Arthur M. Jolly (born 1969), writer
* Sir Richard Jolly (born 1934), development economist

## K

* Peter Kellner (born 1946), journalist, political commentator, polling expert and president of YouGov
* Paul Austin Kelly (born 1960), opera singer
* Dame Grace Kimmins (1871–1954), social activist

## L

* Eleanor of Lancaster (1311–1372), wife of Richard Fitzalan, 10th Earl of Arundel
* Sean Lock (1963–2021), comedian and actor
* Peter Love (died 1610), pirate, said to have been born in Lewes

## M

* Gideon Mantell (1790–1852), obstetrician, geologist and palaeontologist
* Joan Maude (1908–1998), actress
* John Maynard Smith (1920–2004), evolutionary biologist and geneticist
* William McCrea (1904–1999), astronomer
* Reginald Medhurst (1920–2009), cricketer

## N

* Grace Nichols (born 1950), poet, lives in Lewes.
* William Nicholson (born 1948), writer

## O

* Patrick O'Brian (1914–2000), author, novelist and translator, known for the Aubrey/Maturin series of sea stories, spent his childhood in Lewes.

## P

* Thomas Paine (1737–1809), revolutionary, inventor and intellectual
* John Peckham (c. 1230–1292), Archbishop of Canterbury
* Pleasance Pendred (1864–1948), suffragette and activist for women's rights
* Brenda Pye (1907–2005), landscape artist

## R

* Thomas 'Clio' Rickman (1760–1834), brewer and pamphleteer
* Dick Rees (1894–1951), five-time champion jumps jockey
* Edward Ayearst Reeves (1862–1945), geographer; born in Lewes
* James Reeves (1909–1978), writer and poet
* Richard Russell (1687–1759), physician (water cure)

## S

* Louis Francis Salzman (1878–1971), economic historian
* Sir George Shiffner (1762–1842), politician
* Professor Alasdair Smith (born 1949), economist and former Vice-Chancellor, University of Sussex
* Anthony Stapley (1590–1655), Member of Parliament; one of the regicides of King Charles I
* Noel Streatfeild (1895–1986), children's author

## T

* Sir John Tomlinson (born 1946), opera singer
* Polly Toynbee (born 1946), journalist and writer
* Nicholas Tucker (living), academic and writer

## W

* Edward Perry Warren (1860–1928), art collector
* Margaret Weedon (1854–1930), archer, competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.
* John Jenner Weir (1822–1894), civil servant, entomologist and ornithologist
* Barbara Willard (1909–1994), children's novelist
* Mark Williams (actor) (born 1959), actor and comedian
* Kenneth Woodroffe (1892–1915), first-class cricketer and British Army officer, killed in action in World War I
* Virginia Woolf (1882–1941), novelist and essayist

## Y

* Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690–1764), politician
* Nicholas Yonge (c. 1560–1619), singer and publisher