page_title: Cowes
section_title: Notable residents
hierarchical_section_title: Cowes / Notable residents
caption_attribution_description: English: Cowes Library and Maritime Museum.
context_page_description: Cowes is an English seaport town and civil parish on the Isle of Wight. Cowes is located on the west bank of the estuary of the River Medina, facing the smaller town of East Cowes on the east bank. The two towns are linked by the Cowes Floating Bridge, a chain ferry.
  The population was 9,663 in the 2001 census, which doubled during the regatta in early August. The population at the 2011 census was 10,405.
  Charles Godfrey Leland's 19th-century verses describe the towns poetically as "The two great Cowes that in loud thunder roar/This on the eastern, that the western shore".
  Cowes has been seen as a home for international yacht racing since the founding of the Royal Yacht Squadron in 1815. It gives its name to the world's oldest regular regatta, Cowes Week, which occurs annually in the first week of August. Later, powerboat races are held.
  Much of the town's architecture is still heavily influenced by the style of ornate building that Prince Albert popularised.
context_section_description: Louisa Susannah Aikman — British American author
  Dr. Thomas Arnold — Headmaster of Rugby School
  Sir John Henry Corke -—four times Mayor of Portsmouth
  Uffa Fox — naval architect, author, yachtsman
  Celia Imrie — actress
  Jeremy Irons — Academy Award-winning actor
  Kenneth Kendall — journalist and broadcaster
  Albert Ketèlbey — composer, conductor and pianist
  Mark King — bassist and lead singer of Jazz/Funk Fusion band Level 42
  Ellen MacArthur — solo long-distance yachtswoman
  Owen Maddock — British engineer and racing car designer; chief designer for the Cooper Car Company 1950–1963
  Cliff Michelmore — BBC television and radio presenter/producer
  Reginald Sartorius — Victoria Cross recipient
  Clement Smith — recipient of the Victoria Cross
  Alan Titchmarsh — gardener, novelist and broadcaster
  Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma — future Empress of Austria-Hungary; was educated at a nearby convent as a young girl
caption: The Cowes Library and Maritime Museum building
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