# List of people from Aldershot

Notable people from Aldershot include:

## A

* Holly Aird - actress
* John Antrobus - playwright and script writer
* Claude Auchinleck - Field Marshal

## B

* Peter Baldwin - Australian politician
* Joan Bates - model and self-styled 'Princess Joan of Sealand'
* Kelly Bell - glamour model
* John Belling - cytogeneticist
* Graham Benstead - footballer
* Amelle Berrabah - Sugababes musician
* Johnny Berry - footballer and 'Busby Babe'
* Noel Brett - cricketer
* Jason "J" Brown - former member of the boy band Five
* Alan Burton - footballer
* Barry Blankley- footballer

## C

* Dave Carter - British powerlifter
* Bob Catley - musician, singer from band Magnum
* Ronald Cavaye - classical pianist and writer
* Kathryn Cave, children's author
* Maureen Chadwick - screenwriter and dramatist
* A. Bertram Chandler - science-fiction writer
* Michael Chappell - military writer and illustrator
* Chris Chittell - actor in Emmerdale
* Hedley Churchward - scene painter and early British convert to Islam
* Denise Coffey - actress
* Francis Lyon Cohen - first Jewish chaplain in the British Army
* Alan Comfort - footballer
* Ian Crosby - cricketer

## D

* Georgiana Fanny Shipley Daniell - philanthropist
* Louisa Daniell - philanthropist
* Joseph Darracott - art historian and writer
* Libby Davies - Canadian politician, New Democratic Party MP for Vancouver East
* Norman "Dinky" Diamond - drummer in the 1970s with Sparks

## E

* Arthur English - actor
* Richard Eve - local solicitor and Grand Treasurer of the United Grand Lodge of England in 1889
* Eamon Everall - artist and educator

## F

* Desmond Fitzpatrick - general
* Mark Foran - footballer
* Russell Foster - professor of circadian neuroscience and Nicholas Kurti Senior Fellow at Brasenose College at the University of Oxford
* George Malcolm Fox - Inspector of Gymnasia for the British Army (1890-1897, 1900–1902)
* Martin Freeman - actor

## G

* Andrew Godsell - author
* Maud Gonne - Irish revolutionary; muse of William Butler Yeats
* Ernest Spiteri-Gonzi - footballer

## H

* David Haig - actor
* T. J. Hamblin - formerly professor of immunohaematology at the University of Southampton
* Frederick Hammersley - Major-General and first Inspector of Gymnasia in the British Army
* Terry Hands - theatre director who founded the Liverpool Everyman Theatre and ran the Royal Shakespeare Company for 13 years
* Jeremy Hardy - comedian
* Janet Henfrey - actress
* John Raymond Hobbs - pioneer in clinical immunology, protein biochemistry and bone marrow transplantation, specifically in child health
* Ann Hunt and Elizabeth Hamel - longest separated twins
* Jon Hotten - author
* Peter Howard - aviation physician
* Tom Hunter - winner of the Victoria Cross during World War II

## J

* Henry Jelf - cricketer and naval officer
* Sam Jepp - footballer
* Joe Jopling - footballer

## K

* Herminie Templeton Kavanagh - British - Irish - American writer
* Ted Keating - New Zealand politician
* Nicole Koolen - Dutch field hockey player

## L

* Mark Lane - cricketer and coach
* Humphrey de Verd Leigh - RAF officer and inventor
* Lisa-Jayne Lewis - Eurovision Song Contest commentator and broadcaster
* Kathleen Lindsay - novelist
* John Lloyd - Canadian politician
* Michael Lockett - soldier
* Selden Long - British fighter ace during World War I
* Constance Loseby - Victorian actress and Gilbert and Sullivan performer

## M

* Floyd Manderson - competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics
* Simon Mann - mercenary
* George Martin - comedian
* Craig Maskell - footballer
* Ian McEwan - novelist
* Stephen McKay - Distinguished Professor in Social Research at the University of Lincoln.
* Dan Middleton - British professional gamer, YouTuber and author. He is best known as DanTDM
* Heather Mills - former wife of Paul McCartney
* Mickie Most - record producer

## N

* Frank Neary - footballer
* Gordon Neilson - Scottish rugby football player and Army officer
* Nigel Neilson - actor
* James Newcome - Anglican bishop

## O

* Michael O'Neill - poet, academic and Head of the Department of English Studies at Durham University

## P

* Brian Perry - American ice hockey player
* Seamus Perry - Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford and a Professor in the English Faculty at the University of Oxford since 2014.
* Sir Robert Pringle - Principal Veterinary Officer at Aldershot Command 1908 to 1910

## R

* Joe Ralls - footballer
* Alex Reid - MMA fighter and television personality
* Bruce Rioch - former professional footballer, now manager
* Stella Ross-Craig - botanical artist

## S

* John Shearman - art historian
* Randall Swingler -poet
* Edgar Sheldrake - cricketer
* Aaron Shingler - rugby union player
* Janet 'Rusty' Skuse - Britain's most tattooed woman
* Digby Smith - author and military historian
* George D. W. Smith - materials scientist
* Sydney Philip Smith - World War I flying ace
* Tim Spicer - arms dealer

## T

* Charles Tannock - politician
* Nanavira Thera - Buddhist monk
* Alfred Toye - recipient of the Victoria Cross
* Stephanie Twell - athlete

## W

* James Wade - darts player
* Brian Walsh - footballer
* Daniel Welch - racing driver
* Davie Weir - 19th-century footballer
* John White - Lord Mayor of London
* Edward Whitehead - former Royal Navy officer better known for advertising Schweppes tonic water
* Tom Whittaker - footballer and manager
* George Williams - cricketer
* Joseph Willoughby - cricketer
* Dave Winfield (footballer) - footballer

## V

* Charles Viner- jurist

## Y

* Christopher Yates - cricketer
* Peter Yates - film director and producer

## Notable animals from Aldershot

* Buster - war dog decorated for heroism