#1Famous people · Bath, Somerset
No town in Somerset has more famous people than Bath: 343
At the top of the list is the English association football player Tyrone Mings, covered in 41 languages. The next two names are Jacqueline Wilson and Adelard of Bath. The largest group, 100, was born since 1970. With 22 soldiers and sailors, the list holds 1.8 times the share found across UK towns.
Born here
343
notable people
Best known
Tyrone Mings
in 41 Wikipedia languages
First
954
Ælfheah of Canterbury
Youngest
2001
Archie Matthews
Most common field
Sports
113 people
What stands out about Bath’s famous people
A town of soldiers and sailors22 of the 343 people born here are soldiers and sailors, 1.8× the usual share.Known worldwideRead in 41 languages, Tyrone Mings is known far beyond the town.Still making namesThe most recent birth on the list came in 2001, among 124 since 1950.343 notable peopleMore than most towns: 343 notable people were born in Bath.
★ What stands out · Known for
What Bath is known for
Set against the usual town, soldiers and sailors come out 1.8 times as common.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
The best known
Born in Bath
By how many languages cover them, Tyrone Mings comes first (41), then Jacqueline Wilson (39) and Adelard of Bath (37).
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#3Writing & Arts
Adelard of Bath
1075–116012th-century English natural philosopher
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Through the years
When Bath’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1990s, with 35 people born in that decade.
SportsWriting & ArtsPolitics & LawFilm, TV & StageScience & MedicineMilitaryMusicNotableFaithBusiness
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Bath
340 more; the 197 best known are listed here.
Ann Widdecombe
1947–2026British politician and media personality (1947–2026)
Politics & LawWikipedia ↗
William Edward Parry
1790–1855English naval officer and Arctic explorer (1790–1855)
MilitaryWikipedia ↗
Rolando patch
1898–2009British soldier, last soldier to serve in the trenches of World War I
MilitaryWikipedia ↗
Richard Lovell Edgeworth
1744–1817Anglo-Irish politician, writer and inventor
Politics & LawWikipedia ↗
William Lonsdale
1794–1871English geologist and palaeontologist (1794-1871)
Science & MedicineWikipedia ↗
Janet Quin-Harkin
born 1941British-American writer of children's picture books, YA novels, and (as Rhys Bowen) mystery novels
Writing & ArtsWikipedia ↗
Thomas Hay-Drummond, 11th Earl of Kinnoull
1785–1866Scottish noble and genealogist (1785-1866)
Politics & LawWikipedia ↗
Thomas Haynes Bayly
1797–1839English poet, songwriter, dramatist, and writer (1797–1839)
Writing & ArtsWikipedia ↗
Allegra Byron
1817–1822Daughter of George Gordon, Lord Byron, and Claire Clairmont (1817–1822)
Politics & LawWikipedia ↗
C. P. Scott
1846–1932British journalist, publisher and politician (1846-1932)
Writing & ArtsWikipedia ↗
Ernest Bickham Sweet-Escott
1857–1941British colonial administrator (1857-1941)
Politics & LawWikipedia ↗
Rosalind Scott, Baroness Scott of Needham Market
born 1957British Baron (born 1957)
Politics & LawWikipedia ↗
Alexander Lascelles, Viscount Lascelles
born 1980Heir apparent to the Earldom of Harewood (born 1980)
Politics & LawWikipedia ↗
Althea Gyles
1867–1949Gyles, Margaret Alethea [known as Althea Gyles] (1868–1949), artist and poet
Writing & ArtsWikipedia ↗
Charles Spackmann Barker
1807–1879British organbuilder and inventor of the Barker pneumatic lever (1807–1879)
Science & MedicineWikipedia ↗
John Alfred Spender
1862–1942British journalist, newspaper editor, and author
Writing & ArtsWikipedia ↗
Mary Elizabeth Duffield
1819–1914English painter and botanical illustrator, editor
Writing & ArtsWikipedia ↗
Richard Hodges
born 1952British archaeologist and president of The American University of Rome
Science & MedicineWikipedia ↗
Leonard Raven-Hill
1867–1942English artist, illustrator and cartoonist (1867-1942)
Writing & ArtsWikipedia ↗
Arthur Hood, 1st Baron Hood of Avalon
1824–1901British Royal Navy admiral (1824-1901)
MilitaryWikipedia ↗
Emmeline Tanner
1876–1955(1876–1955), headmistress and educational reformer
Science & MedicineWikipedia ↗
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Nearby, Bradford-on-Avon has the most on record, with 22.
Questions about famous people from Bath
Who is the most famous person from Bath?
Tyrone Mings (English association football player) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 41 languages. Next come Jacqueline Wilson and Adelard of Bath.
How many famous people were born in Bath?
343 people born in Bath have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 432 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Bath known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 113 of the 343. That is 33% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Bath?
Ælfheah of Canterbury, born in 954. The youngest on the list was born in 2001.
Who counts as from Bath?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Bath’s built-up area (the ONS 2022 boundary), a hospital or district within it included, whose English Wikipedia article agrees. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes aren’t listed.
Why is someone missing?
Their Wikidata birthplace may be a bigger area (“London”), another town, or missing, or their article may give no birthplace. We only list people both sources agree on; editing Wikidata or Wikipedia changes this page at the next refresh.
From Wikidata (CC0: birthplaces, descriptions, years, occupations) and English Wikipedia (each person’s article confirms the birthplace; linked, not quoted). Birthplaces are placed in the town by the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary (Office for National Statistics, Open Government Licence v3.0). Ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover each person. Fields are read from Wikidata’s description and occupations. “The usual town”: everyone listed across UK towns. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (123)
- Tyrone Mings: DavidPMaynard, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jacqueline Wilson: Edwardx, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Adelard of Bath: Attributed to Meliacin Master, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- PinkPantheress: CamilaAlves.raf, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Scott Sinclair: Ailura, CC BY-SA 3.0 at, Wikimedia Commons
- Ashley Barnes: Timmy96, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- William Edward Parry: Arthur Edmund Garnier, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Kris Marshall: Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst: Arthur William Devis, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jamie Chadwick: MIDWST.BLUR, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Cole: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Princess Claire of Belgium: Werktuigendagen Oudenaarde, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ælfheah of Canterbury: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Curt Smith: Justine Ungaro <http://www.justineungaro.com/>, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Aylmer Bourke Lambert: William Evans / After Henry Edridge, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Linley: Thomas Gainsborough, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ed McKeever: Jim Thurston from London, UK, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kallistos (Ware): Narsil, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Rolando patch: Harry_Patch.jpg: Jim Ross derivative work: ukexpat, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Wood: artist not known but used in Anthony Johnsons book Solving Stonehenge, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mary Berry: JaceMerlyn, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Matt Macey: Kieran Clarke from England, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Nora Swinburne: trailer screenshot (United Artists), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Edwin Long: Edwin Longsden Long (1829-1891), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Michaela Tabb: WSoS_2008_Moscow-157.JPG: Владимир Синицын derivative work: Tbmurray, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Peter Jenner: Ralf Lotys (Sicherlich), CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Siobhan-Marie O'Connor: Oleg Bkhambri (Voltmetro), CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Angelica Mandy: DontWalkAway, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Bowdler: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Percy Pilcher: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard Lovell Edgeworth: en:User:Primetime, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Arnold Ridley: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Derek Humphry: Copyright holder: Derek Humphry, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long: Thompson Yates and Johnston Laboratories, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Edith Margaret Garrud: Arthur Wallis Mills, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Rolinda Sharples: Rolinda Sharples, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Glen: ©House of Commons / Laurie Noble, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jessica Jordan: Greg Doyle, CC BY 1.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Seymour, 19th Duke of Somerset: Roger Harris, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Anya Shrubsole: Harrias, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Max O'Leary: Irish Football Fan TV, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Violet Cliff: Atlantic Photo Agency, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Alan Skirton: Kerry Milller, Bath City Football Club., CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Amanda Chessell: Tiana Lea, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ellen Montalba: Ellen Montalba, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Frederick William Stevens: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jeremy Guscott: Jaguar MENA, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard Guyon: A. Doctor, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Roy Ascott: CIANT Prague, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Hay-Drummond, 11th Earl of Kinnoull: Henry Raeburn, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Haynes Bayly: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Allegra Byron: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Arthur Gore, 5th Earl of Arran: Russell, Baker Street (no individual credited), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Benjamin Nottingham Webster: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- C. P. Scott: Bain News Service, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Clive Deamer: OhWeh, CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
- David Hartley: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ernest Bickham Sweet-Escott: Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Freddie Burns: PierreSelim, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- James FitzGerald: Herman John Schmidt, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Michael Gwynn: Screenshot from "Internet Archive" of the movie The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mike Cowlishaw: Mfc, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Nigel Thrift: Rwendland, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Jones Barker: Thomas Jones Barker, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Verner Clarges: Towne, Athol (photographer), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles J. Phipps: Alexander Bassano, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Leanne Cope: Theatre Tickets Direct, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Matt Green: Will bcfc, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Paul Mattick: Matt86C at English Wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Rosalind Scott, Baroness Scott of Needham Market: David Spender, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- William Eden Nesfield: no photo credit, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Alberto Semprini: nl:Nederlandse Televisie Stichting, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl, Wikimedia Commons
- Alex Barrow: SGGH, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Billy Burns: Stefano Delfrate, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles Spackmann Barker: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Charlie Griffin: Mattythewhite, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Clara Webster: Scan by NYPL, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Deane Williams: Gge, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dorothy Christian Hare: British official photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Edward Loder: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Gwendolyn Osborne: Christopher Michel from San Francisco, USA, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Helen Lavinia Cochrane: Unknown authorUnknown author (died most probably more than 70 years ago), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Digby: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Janet Key: Peter Simpkin, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jennifer Biddall: Zoe_Lister_and_Jennifer_Bidall.jpg: CorkieMagic derivative work: Materialscientist, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Alfred Spender: Bain News Service, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Daniell: unknown employee of "Sports and General" photography agency, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Leslie Hollis: Bassano Ltd, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mary Spear: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard Hodges: The American University of Rome, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Fuller: William James Topley, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Tom de Glanville: Stefano Delfrate, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ann Street Barry: Not specified and James Watson, printed for Robert Sayer, after Tilly Kettle, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Arthur Havelock: not identified, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Claire Calvert: Dcyjd562, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Farrington Boult: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Gerald George Fitzgerald: William Henshaw Clarke (1831–1910), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Harriet Waylett: After Thomas Charles Wageman, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Hodgson Pratt: Felix Moscheles, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Honora Sneyd: Benson John Lossing (1813-1891), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Wellesley Thomas: Historical_records_of_the_40th_(2nd_Somersetshire)_regiment.djvu: s:Author:Raymond Henry Raymond Smythies derivative work: — billinghurst sDrewth, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Keith Nugent: Andy Mabbett, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kyle Tilley: Racerchick18, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Laurie Canter: Pvt pauline, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Leonard Raven-Hill: Maurice Greiffenhagen, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Matt Perry: Sage995, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Miles Reid: Stefano Delfrate, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Orledge: Robert Orledge, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Sarah West: Woolnoth, Thomas, b. 1785, printmaker, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Alfred Horsford: Carlo Pellegrini, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Arthur Hood, 1st Baron Hood of Avalon: Sydney Hodges, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Bob Kerslake, Baron Kerslake: Her Majesty's Home Civil Service, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Edward Sainsbury: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Edward Vansittart Neale: Illustrator unidentified in book, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Emmeline Deane: Emmeline Deane (1858–1944), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Emmeline Tanner: Lafayette company, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Harry Thomas Silcock: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Isabel Fay: Independenttalent, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- James Hill: Morris (Sgt), No 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jane Vezin: Unknown photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Shrapnel: Unidentified painter, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- George Montague Harper: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Zach Wajtknecht: Lawson Speedway, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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