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 Ferguson, former wife of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor L.E. Timberlake, American politician Lady Anne Wallop, aristocrat Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
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