List of people from Dover

Dover is a town and seaport in Kent, England. The following is a list of those people who were born and/or have lived extensively in Dover.

• Frederick Arnold (1899–1980), cricketer and British Army officer
• James Barber (1923–2007), cookbook author and host of CBC's The Urban Peasant
• Tammy Beaumont (born 1991), England cricketer
• Charlotte Bellamy (born 1973), TV actress
• Edward Betts (1815–1872), civil engineer and contractor
• Bob Bolder: Footballer.
• Alan Clayson (born 1951), musician
• Colin Greenland (born 1954), novelist
• David Elleray (born 1954), FA football referee
• Wally Hammond (1903–1965), cricketer
• Topper Headon (born 1955), drummer
• Rob Henderson (born 1972), rugby union player
• White Kennett (1660–1728), Anglican Bishop of Peterborough and antiquarian
• Jim Leverton (born 1946), rock musician
• John Lloyd (born 1951), comedy writer and TV producer
• Rhys Lloyd (born 1982), American football player
• E. J. Lowe (1950–2014), philosopher and academic
• Miriam Margolyes (born 1941), actress (Professor Sprout in Harry Potter and The Spanish Infanta in Blackadder)
• Sammy Moore (born 1987), football player
• Howard Mowll (1890–1958), Anglican Archbishop of Sydney and Primate of Australia
• Andrea Newman (1938–2019), author and television screenwriter
• Cuthbert Ottaway (1850–1879), first captain of the England football team
• Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth (1757–1833), naval commander
• Frank Rutley (1842–1904), geologist
• Patrick Saul (1913–1999), sound archivist
• Henry Hawley Smart (1833–1893), army officer and prolific novelist
• Joss Stone (born 1987), soul and R and B singer/songwriter, and occasional actress
• Neil Stuke (born 1966), actor
• John Russell Taylor (born 1935), critic and author
• Carl Thompson (1981/2–2015), heaviest man in the United Kingdom
• Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690–1764), politician and Lord Chancellor
• Shane Taylor (born 1974), actor