page_title: Buckinghamshire
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Buckinghamshire / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: English Poet most famous for PARADISE LOST. His Cottage, now a museum dedicated to his life.
context_page_description: Buckinghamshire, abbreviated Bucks, is a ceremonial county in South East England that borders Greater London to the south-east, Berkshire to the south, Oxfordshire to the west, Northamptonshire to the north, Bedfordshire to the north-east and Hertfordshire to the east.
  Buckinghamshire is one of the home counties and towns such as High Wycombe, Amersham, Chesham and the Chalfonts in the east and southeast of the county are parts of the London commuter belt, forming some of the most densely populated parts of the county. Development in this region is restricted by the Metropolitan Green Belt. Other large settlements include the county town of Aylesbury, Marlow in the south near the Thames and Princes Risborough in the west near Oxford. Some areas without direct rail links to London, such as around the old county town of Buckingham and near Olney in the northeast, are much less populous. The largest town is Milton Keynes in the northeast, which with the surrounding area is administered as a unitary authority separately to the rest of Buckinghamshire. The remainder of the county is administered by Buckinghamshire Council as another unitary authority.
context_section_description: Buckinghamshire is the birthplace and/or final resting place of several notable individuals. St Osyth was born in Quarrendon and was buried in Aylesbury in the 7th century while at about the same time Saint Rumwold was buried in Buckingham. In the medieval period Roger of Wendover was, as the name suggests, from Wendover and Anne Boleyn also owned property in the same town. It is said that King Henry VIII made Aylesbury the county town in preference to Buckingham because Boleyn's father owned property there and was a regular visitor himself. Other medieval residents included Edward the Confessor, who had a palace at Brill, and John Wycliffe who lived in Ludgershall.
  Buckinghamshire later became home to some notable literary characters. Edmund Waller was brought up in Beaconsfield and served as Member of Parliament for both Amersham and Wycombe. Mary Shelley and her husand Percy Bysshe Shelley  lived for some time in Marlow, attracted to the town by their friend Thomas Love Peacock who also lived there. John Milton lived in Chalfont St Giles and his cottage can still be visited there and John Wilkes was MP for Aylesbury. Later authors include Jerome K. Jerome who lived at Marlow, T. S. Eliot who also lived at Marlow, Roald Dahl who lived at Great Missenden, Enid Blyton who lived in Beaconsfield and Edgar Wallace who lived at Bourne End and is buried in Little Marlow. Modern-day writers from Bucks include Terry Pratchett who was born in Beaconsfield, Tim Rice who is from Amersham and Andy Riley who is from Aylesbury.
  During the Second World War a number of European politicians and statesmen were exiled in England. Many of these settled in Bucks as it is close to London. President Edvard Beneš of Czechoslovakia lived at Aston Abbotts with his family while some of his officials were stationed at nearby Addington and Wingrave. Meanwhile, Władysław Sikorski, military leader of Poland, lived at Iver and King Zog of Albania lived at Frieth. Much earlier, King Louis XVIII of France lived in exile at Hartwell House from 1809 to 1814.
  Also on the local political stage Buckinghamshire has been home to Nancy Astor who lived in Cliveden, Frederick, Prince of Wales who also lived in Cliveden, Baron Carrington who lives in Bledlow, Benjamin Disraeli who lived at Hughenden Manor and was made Earl of Beaconsfield, John Hampden who was from Great Hampden and is revered in Aylesbury to this day and Prime Minister Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery who lived at Mentmore. Also worthy of note are William Penn who believed he was descended from the Penn family of Penn and so is buried nearby and the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, who has an official residence at Chequers. John Archdale, the colonial governor of North Carolina and South Carolina, was born in Buckinghamshire.
  Other notable natives of Buckinghamshire include:
  Amber Bain, musician, known as The Japanese House
  Errol Barnett, news reporter, was born in Milton Keynes
  Nick Beggs, musician, is from Winslow
  Lynda Bellingham, actress, was from Aylesbury
  Emily Bergl, actress, born in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, though her family moved to suburban Chicago a few years after her birth
  Emmerson Boyce, Wigan Athletic footballer, was born in Aylesbury
  Nick Bracegirdle aka Chicane, was born in Chalfont St Giles
  Den Brotheridge, British Army Officer who died taking Pegasus Bridge in France was from Aylesbury
  Charles Butler, pastor, grammarian, and pioneering beekeeper was born in the county.
  Giles Cooper, entertainment producer, best known for Royal Variety Performance. Born in Amersham, brought up in High Wycombe.
  James Corden, actor, grew up in Hazlemere
  John Crowder (1756–1830), alderman of the ward of Farringdon Within, and Lord Mayor of London
  Lucinda Dryzek, actress, born in High Wycombe in South Bucks
  Emma Ferreira English contemporary artist, sculptor, photographer, entrepreneur and philanthropist
  Martin Grech, musician, is from Aylesbury
  Julian Haviland, former Political Editor of both ITN and The Times newspaper, was born and brought up in Iver Heath in Iver
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caption: John Milton's cottage, Chalfont
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