# List of people from Gloucestershire

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
* 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