# 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, 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