List of people from Exeter

This is a list of people from Exeter, a city in South West England. The demonym of Exeter is Exonian. This list is arranged chronologically by date of birth.

Thomas Bodley was born in Exeter in 1545

Born before 1701

• Baldwin of Exeter (died 1190), Archbishop of Canterbury
• Joseph of Exeter (12th century), poet
• Robert Stone (1516–1613), composer and member of the Chapel Royal
• John Hooker (1525–1601), constitutionalist
• William Peryam (1534–after 1603), lawyer
• Sir Thomas Bodley (1545–1613), diplomat and founder of the Bodleian Library
• Nicholas Hilliard (c. 1547–1619), portraitist
• John Rainolds (1549–1605), Puritan scholar
• Richard Hooker (1554–1600), Anglican theologian
• William Hakewill (1574–1655), legal antiquarian
• George Hakewill (1578–1649), clergyman and author
• Matthew Locke (c. 1621–1677), baroque composer
• Henrietta Anne Stuart (1644–1670), daughter of King Charles I
• Peter King, 1st Baron King (1669–1734), Lord Chancellor
• Thomas Yalden (1670–1736), poet
• Simon Ockley (1678–1720), orientalist
• Eustace Budgell (1686–1737), writer

Born 1701–1850

• Thomas Hudson (1701–1779), portrait painter
• Francis Hayman (1708–1776), Rococo artist
• John Rowe (1715–1787), merchant and owner of ship involved in Boston Tea Party
• Samuel Stennett (1727–1795), Baptist minister and hymnwriter
• Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet (1740–1810), banker
• Rev Robert Hawker (1753–1827), Anglican clergyman
• David Collins (1756–1810), first governor of Van Diemens Land (Tasmania)
• John Stockham (1765–1814), naval officer
• Richard Parker (1767–1797), sailor and mutineer
• John Blackall (1771–1860), physician
• George Oliver (1781–1861), Catholic churchman and historian
• James Holman (1786–1857), noted blind traveller
• Charles Babbage (1791–1871), father of the computer
• Sir John Bowring (1792–1872), political economist and Governor of Hong Kong
• Thomas Shapter (1809–1902), doctor and author of History of the Cholera in Exeter in 1832
• Samuel Cousins (1801–1887), engraver
• Mary Carpenter (1807–1877), educational and social reformer
• William Benjamin Carpenter (1813–1885), physiologist and naturalist
• John Carne Bidwill (1815–1853), botanist, first director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney
• Lilly Martin Spencer (1822–1902), US painter
• Lavington Glyde (1824-1890), South Australian politician and accountant
• Henry Chadwick (1824–1908), journalist, "father of baseball"
• Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924), writer, clergyman, antiquary and folklorist
• Sir Harry James Veitch (1840–1924), horticulturist
• William Kingdon Clifford (1845–1879), mathematician

Born 1851–present

• Eva Luckes (1854–1919), matron of The London Hospital 1880–1919, pioneer of training for nurses
• Theodore Bayley Hardy (1863–1918), Army chaplain and VC
• Fred Karno (1866–1941), comedy pioneer and impresario
• Irene Vanbrugh (1872–1949), actress
• Herbert Augustine Carter (1874–1916), Army officer and VC
• William Temple (1881–1944), Archbishop of Canterbury
• Gordon Steele, recipient of the Victoria Cross
• W. G. Hoskins (1908–1992), historian of the English landscape
• Cliff Bastin (1912–1991), Arsenal and England footballer
• Tommy Cooper (1921–1984), comedian born in Caerphilly but living in Exeter from the age of three
• Denis Pereira Gray (born 1935)
• Tony Burrows (born 1942), pop singer
• Sarah Harrison (born 1946), novelist
• Doug Finley (1946–2013), Canadian Senator and principal operational strategist of the Conservative Party of Canada
• Clare Morrall (born 1952), novelist
• Stuart Hooper (born 1963), adventurer and businessman
• Beth Gibbons (born 1965), singer with Portishead
• Ben Nealon (born 1966), English actor
• Toby Buckland (born 1969), English gardener, TV presenter and author
• Michael Caines (born 1969), chef and restaurateur
• Jane Griffiths (born 1970), poet and literary historian
• Chris Martin (born 1977), lead singer of Coldplay
• Mathew Theedom (born 1977), cricketer
• Matthew Goode (born 1978), actor
• David Lye (born 1979), cricketer
• Scott C Shephard (born 1979), music executive
• Jim Causley (born 1980), folk singer
• Rebecca Worthley (born 1981), singer/songwriter
• Trevor Anning (born 1982), cricketer
• Bradley James (born 1983), actor
• Liam Tancock (born 1985), World Champion swimmer
• Tim Shaw (born 1984), American football player for Tennessee Titans
• Aaron Jarvis (born 1986), Wales Rugby Union player
• Kour Pour (born 1987), artist
• Liam Sercombe (born 1990), professional footballer
• Luke Newberry (born 1990), actor
• Joe Launchbury (born 1991), England Rugby Union international
• Harry Tincknell (born 1991), professional racing driver, 24 Hours of Le Mans LMP2 class winner
• Tristan Evans (born 1994), drummer in The Vamps
• Matt Grimes (born 1995), footballer for Swansea City A.F.C.

See also

• List of people associated with the University of Exeter
• List of Bishops of Exeter