List of people from Basingstoke
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 (born, and wrote many of her major works in nearby Steventon)
- Grace Blakeley, economics and political journalist and commentator
- Lucy Coats, author
- John Gardner, spy novelist
- Macdonald Hastings, journalist and war correspondent
- E O Higgins, author
- John James, architect
- Waldemar Januszczak, art critic and filmmaker
- Sima Kotecha, journalist
- Robert Steadman, composer and conductor
- Julian Stockwin, author
- Alex Thomson, presenter and chief correspondent for Channel 4 News
- Joseph Warton, academic, literary critic and poet
- Thomas Warton, academic and poet, holder of the title of Poet Laureate from 1785
- Chuck Whelon, creator, artist and co-writer of the Pewfell comic strip
Entertainment
- John Arlott, cricket journalist, writer and commentator
- Sam Attwater, actor
- Carl Barât, lead singer and guitarist with The Libertines and Dirty Pretty Things
- Christian Brassington, actor
- Shelley Conn, actress
- Mark Griffin, actor, played Action Man in the Action Man films and Trojan in the TV series Gladiators
- Elizabeth Hurley, actress and model
- Steve Lamacq, DJ
- Ian McNeice, actor
- Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, socialite, "it girl", television presenter, model and charity patron
- Pete Staples, bassist for the 1960s supergroup The Troggs
- Sarah Sutton, actress and former Doctor Who companion
- Ramon Tikaram, actor
- Tanita Tikaram, singer-songwriter
- Gabriella Wilde, actress
- Christine Williams, former Playboy centerfold
Sport
- Sal Bibbo, former professional footballer for Reading
- Alex Bogdanovic, tennis player
- Sid Castle, former professional footballer for Tottenham Hotspur, Charlton Athletic and Chelsea, and former manager of Ajax
- Tom Cleverley, professional footballer for Watford
- Tom Croft, flanker/second row for the England national rugby union team and Leicester Tigers
- Matt Crossley, former professional footballer for Wycombe Wanderers
- Harlee Dean, professional footballer for Birmingham City
- Sean Doherty, former professional footballer for clubs including Blackpool and Port Vale
- Darren Flint, Hampshire cricketer
- Leanne Ganney, ice hockey player and captain of the Great Britain women's national ice hockey team
- Joshua Goodall, tennis player
- Paul Hogan, darts player
- Dave Holby, endurance athlete, holder of nine world indoor rowing records
- Aaron Jarvis, professional footballer for Scunthorpe United F.C.
- Liam Kelly, professional footballer for Feyenoord, currently on loan at Oxford United F.C.
- Mark Kelly, former professional footballer for Portsmouth and Republic of Ireland
- Olly Lancashire, professional footballer for Swindon Town
- Joe McDonnell, professional footballer for Eastleigh F.C.
- Mike McMeeken English rugby league footballer
- Lee Nurse, former Berkshire cricketer
- Josh Payne, professional footballer for Ebbsfleet United F.C.
- Tom Rees, English rugby union footballer for England and the London Wasps
- Justin Rose, golfer who grew up in the area
- Lee Sandford, former professional footballer for clubs including Portsmouth, Stoke City and Sheffield United
- Kathy Smallwood-Cook, bronze medal-winning Olympic sprinter
- Dominic Solanke, professional footballer for AFC Bournemouth
- Mitchell Stokes, Hampshire cricketer
- Kit Symons, football coach and former player
- Robert Tobin, athlete and sprinter
- Shaun Udal, former England test cricketer
- Rowan Vine, former professional footballer for clubs including Portsmouth, Birmingham City and Queens Park Rangers
- Jock Wallace Jr., former professional footballer and manager who spent the last part of his life living in the town
- Thomas White, Sussex cricketer
Other
- Hubert Broad, test pilot for the de Havilland and Hawker aircraft companies
- Laurie Brown, former Bishop of Birmingham
- Thomas Burberry, founder of the Burberry clothing empire
- Charls Butler, writer, grammarian, theologist, naturalist, musical theorist
- Ruth Ellis, last woman to be hanged in Great Britain
- Joseph Storrs Fry, founder of Fry's chocolate company
- George Cecil Jones, chemist and occultist
- Hilary Jones, celebrity doctor
- Sir James Lancaster, 16th-century navigator and statesman
- John Aidan Liddell, VC, MC, First World War pilot
- Walter de Merton, Bishop of Rochester and founder of Merton College, Oxford
- William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester, Statesman
- David Pawson, Baptist minister, Bible teacher and author
- William Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys of the Vyne, Tudor diplomat and Lord Chamberlain
- Sarah, Duchess of York and former wife of The Duke of York, raised in nearby Dummer
- L.E. Timberlake, Los Angeles City Council member, 1949–69
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, and his successors (from 1817).