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List of people from Gloucestershire

Index List of people from Gloucestershire

A list of notable people from the county of Gloucestershire. [1]

138 relations: Alex Kapranos, Basil Embry, Ben Morgan, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, Bert Tayler, Bourton-on-the-Water, Brian Jones, Button Gwinnett, Charles Bannister, Charles Wheatstone, Cheltenham, Christopher Gunning, Christopher Merret, Christopher Warren-Green, Cider with Rosie, Cinderford, Cirencester, Cornelius Cardew, Cozy Powell, David Drew (politician), David Loder, Dennis Potter, Dick Whittington and His Cat, Dom Joly, Down Ampney, Dowty Rotol, Eddie the Eagle, Edith Tolkien, Editors (band), Edward Adrian Wilson, Edward Jenner, Edwin Beard Budding, Emily Pidgeon, Emma McClarkin, Ernest Cossart, FKA Twigs, Franz Ferdinand (band), Fred West, Frederick G. Roberts, Frederick Handley Page, Frederick Sanger, Gabrielle Glaister, George Dowty, George Whitefield, Gloucestershire, Gustav Holst, H. D. F. Kitto, Handley Page Halifax, Harry Potter, Henry Miles, ..., Herbert Brewer, Herbert Howells, Ian Dench, Imogen Holst, Invictus, Ivor Gurney, J. I. Packer, J. K. Rowling, J. R. R. Tolkien, Jack Russell (cricketer, born 1963), Jackie Lewis, James Wood-Mason, Jemmy Wood, Jeremy Dale Roberts, Jimmy Young (broadcaster), Joe Meek, John Bayliss, John Biddle (Unitarian), John Canton, John Stafford Smith, John Taylor (poet), John Woolrich, Johnny Coppin, Jonathan Smith (novelist), Kate Thornton, Keith Tippett, Laurie Lee, Liam Hess, Lionelle Howard, Lorraine Bowen, Mabel FitzRobert, Countess of Gloucester, Martin Evans, Matthew Boyce, Michael Praed, Mime artist, Nathan Sykes, Newent, Oliver Weeks, Olympic Games, P. J. Crook, Painswick, Quenington, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Rendcomb, Ricci Harnett, Richard Freeman (Irish judge), Richard O'Brien, Richard Whittington, Robert Atkyns (judge), Robert Atkyns (topographer), Robert Hardy, Robert Raikes, Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester, Royce Mills, Samuel Rudder, Sean Arnold, Siân Berry, Simon Pegg, Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet, Skunk Anansie, Steve Banyard, Sunday school, The Chronicles of Narnia (film series), The Rocky Horror Show, The Rolling Stones, The Star-Spangled Banner, The Wanted, Thomas Aufield, Thomas Linley the elder, Thomas Twining (merchant), Tom Smith (musician), Trigger Happy TV, Uley, United States Declaration of Independence, W. G. Grace, Wayne Barnes, Wilfrid Hyde-White, William Davis (miner), William Davis Miners' Memorial Day, William Ernest Henley, William Moseley (actor), William Reynolds (footballer, born 1870), William Stephen Raikes Hodson, William Tyndale, Winchcombe, Winifred Foley, Zac Purchase, 4th Horse (Hodson's Horse). Expand index (88 more) »

Alex Kapranos

Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley (born 20 March 1972) is a Scottish, musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and author.

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Basil Embry

Air Chief Marshal Sir Basil Edward Embry, (28 February 1902 – 7 December 1977) was a senior Royal Air Force commander.

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Ben Morgan

Benjamin John Morgan (born 18 February 1989) is an England international rugby union player currently plying his trade at number eight for Gloucester.

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Berkeley, Gloucestershire

Berkeley is a small town and parish in Gloucestershire, England.

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Bert Tayler

Bert Tayler (6 December 1887 — 17 April 1984) was an English cricketer.

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Bourton-on-the-Water

Bourton-on-the-Water is a village and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England that lies on a wide flat vale within the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

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Brian Jones

Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones (28 February 1942 – 3 July 1969) was an English musician, best known as founder and the original leader of the Rolling Stones.

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Button Gwinnett

Button Gwinnett (1735 – May 19, 1777) was a British-born American founding father who, as a representative of Georgia to the Continental Congress, was one of the signatories (first signature on the left) on the United States Declaration of Independence.

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Charles Bannister

Charles Bannister Comedian Charles Bannister (1738–1804) was an English actor, comedian and singer.

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Charles Wheatstone

Sir Charles Wheatstone FRS (6 February 1802 – 19 October 1875), was an English scientist and inventor of many scientific breakthroughs of the Victorian era, including the English concertina, the stereoscope (a device for displaying three-dimensional images), and the Playfair cipher (an encryption technique).

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Cheltenham

Cheltenham, also known as Cheltenham Spa, is a regency spa town and borough which is located on the edge of the Cotswolds, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Gloucestershire, England.

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Christopher Gunning

Christopher Gunning (born 5 August 1944) is an English composer of concert works and music for films and television.

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Christopher Merret

Christopher Merret FRS (16 February 1614/5 – 19 August 1695), also spelt Merrett, was an English physician and scientist.

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Christopher Warren-Green

Christopher Warren-Green (born 30 July 1955) is a British violinist and conductor.

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Cider with Rosie

Cider with Rosie is a 1959 book by Laurie Lee (published in the US as Edge of Day: Boyhood in the West of England, 1960).

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Cinderford

Cinderford is a small town on the eastern fringe of the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, England, which had a population of 8,494 at the 2011 census.

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Cirencester

Cirencester (see below for more variations) is a market town in east Gloucestershire, England, west northwest of London.

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Cornelius Cardew

Cornelius Cardew (7 May 193613 December 1981) was an English experimental music composer, and founder (with Howard Skempton and Michael Parsons) of the Scratch Orchestra, an experimental performing ensemble.

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Cozy Powell

Colin Trevor "Cozy" Powell (29 December 1947 – 5 April 1998) was an English rock drummer, who made his name with many major rock bands and artists like The Jeff Beck Group, Rainbow, Gary Moore, Robert Plant, Brian May, Whitesnake, Emerson, Lake & Powell, and Black Sabbath.

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David Drew (politician)

David Elliott Drew (born 13 April 1952) is a British Labour Co-operative politician who is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Stroud from 1997 to 2010, and regained his seat on 9 June 2017.

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David Loder

David Loder (born 27 January 1964 in Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire, England) is a trainer of Thoroughbred racehorses.

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Dennis Potter

Dennis Christopher George Potter (17 May 1935 – 7 June 1994) was an English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist.

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Dick Whittington and His Cat

Dick Whittington and His Cat is the English folklore surrounding the real-life Richard Whittington (c. 1354–1423), wealthy merchant and later Lord Mayor of London.

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Dom Joly

Dominic John Romulus Joly (born 15 November 1967) is an English television comedian and journalist, best known as the star of Trigger Happy TV, a hidden camera show that was sold to over seventy countries worldwide.

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Down Ampney

Down Ampney is a medium-sized village located in Cotswold district in Gloucestershire, in England.

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Dowty Rotol

Dowty Rotol was a British engineering company based in Staverton, Gloucestershire and specialised in the manufacture of propellers and propeller components.

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Eddie the Eagle

Michael Edwards (born 5 December 1963), known as "Eddie the Eagle", is a British skier who in 1988 became the first competitor since 1928 to represent Great Britain in Olympic ski jumping, finishing last in the 70 m and 90 m events.

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Edith Tolkien

Edith Mary Tolkien (21 January 1889 – 29 November 1971; née Bratt) was the wife and muse of novelist J. R. R. Tolkien, and the inspiration for his fictional characters Lúthien Tinúviel and Arwen Evenstar.

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Editors (band)

Editors are an English rock band, formed in 2002 in Birmingham.

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Edward Adrian Wilson

Edward Adrian Wilson FZS ("Uncle Bill") (23 July 1872 – 29 March 1912) was an English physician, polar explorer, natural historian, painter and ornithologist.

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Edward Jenner

Edward Jenner, FRS FRCPE (17 May 1749 – 26 January 1823) was an English physician and scientist who was the pioneer of smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine.

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Edwin Beard Budding

Edwin Beard Budding (1796–1846), an engineer from Eastington, Stroud, was the English inventor of the lawnmower (1830) and adjustable spanner (1842).

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Emily Pidgeon

Emily Pidgeon born 25 July 1992 in Cotswolds, to parents Stephen and Jessica, is a former UK athlete, specialising in long and middle distance events.

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Emma McClarkin

Emma McClarkin (born 9 October 1978), is a British Conservative Party politician and Member of the European Parliament for the East Midlands region.

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Ernest Cossart

Ernest Cossart (born Emil Gottfried von Holst, 24 September 1876 – 21 January 1951) was an English-American actor.

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FKA Twigs

Tahliah Debrett Barnett (born 16 January 1988), known professionally as FKA Twigs (stylised as FKA twigs), is an English singer, songwriter, record producer, director and dancer.

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Franz Ferdinand (band)

Franz Ferdinand are a Scottish indie rock band, formed in 2002 and based in Glasgow.

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Fred West

Frederick Walter Stephen West (29 September 1941 – 1 January 1995) was an English serial killer who committed at least 12 murders between 1967 and 1987 in Gloucestershire, the majority with his second wife, Rosemary West.

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Frederick G. Roberts

Frederick George Roberts (1 April 1862 Mickleton, Gloucestershire, England – 7 April 1936 Bristol, England) was an English cricketer and umpire who played first-class cricket for Gloucestershire from 1887 to 1905.

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Frederick Handley Page

Sir Frederick Handley Page, CBE, FRAeS (15 November 1885 – 21 April 1962) was an English industrialist who was a pioneer in the aircraft industry and became known as the father of the heavy bomber.

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Frederick Sanger

Frederick Sanger (13 August 1918 – 19 November 2013) was a British biochemist who twice won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, one of only two people to have done so in the same category (the other is John Bardeen in physics), the fourth person overall with two Nobel Prizes, and the third person overall with two Nobel Prizes in the sciences.

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Gabrielle Glaister

Gabrielle Glaister (born 27 July 1960) is an English actress.

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George Dowty

Sir George Herbert Dowty (27 March 1901 – 2 December 1975) was an English inventor and businessman.

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George Whitefield

George Whitefield (30 September 1770), also spelled Whitfield, was an English Anglican cleric who was one of the founders of Methodism and the evangelical movement.

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Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire (formerly abbreviated as Gloucs. in print but now often as Glos.) is a county in South West England.

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Gustav Holst

Gustav Theodore Holst (born Gustavus Theodore von Holst; 21 September 1874 – 25 May 1934) was an English composer, arranger and teacher.

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H. D. F. Kitto

Humphrey Davy Findley Kitto, FBA (6 February 1897 – 21 January 1982) was a British classical scholar of Cornish ancestry.

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Handley Page Halifax

The Handley Page Halifax was a Royal Air Force (RAF) four-engined heavy bomber of the Second World War.

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Harry Potter

Harry Potter is a series of fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling.

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Henry Miles

Henry Miles, FRS (2 Jun 1698 – 10 Feb 1763) was an English Dissenting minister and scientific writer; a Fellow of the Royal Society known for experiments on electricity.

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Herbert Brewer

Sir Alfred Herbert Brewer (21 June 18651 March 1928) was an English composer and organist.

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Herbert Howells

Herbert Norman Howells (17 October 1892 – 23 February 1983, 90 years of age at time of death) was an English composer, organist, and teacher, most famous for his large output of Anglican church music.

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Ian Dench

Ian Alec Harvey Dench (born 7 August 1964, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England) is an English songwriter and musician.

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Imogen Holst

Imogen Clare Holst (12 April 1907 – 9 March 1984) was a British composer, arranger, conductor, teacher and festival administrator.

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Invictus

"Invictus" is a short Victorian poem by the English poet William Ernest Henley (1849–1903).

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Ivor Gurney

Ivor Bertie Gurney (28 August 1890 – 26 December 1937) was an English poet and composer, particularly of songs.

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J. I. Packer

James Innell Packer (born 22 July 1926), usually cited as J. I. Packer, is a British-born Canadian Christian theologian in the low-church Anglican and Calvinist traditions.

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J. K. Rowling

Joanne Rowling, ("rolling";Rowling, J.K. (16 February 2007).. Accio Quote (accio-quote.org). Retrieved 28 April 2008. born 31 July 1965), writing under the pen names J. K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith, is a British novelist, philanthropist, film and television producer and screenwriter best known for writing the Harry Potter fantasy series.

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J. R. R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, (Tolkien pronounced his surname, see his phonetic transcription published on the illustration in The Return of the Shadow: The History of The Lord of the Rings, Part One. Christopher Tolkien. London: Unwin Hyman, 1988. (The History of Middle-earth; 6). In General American the surname is also pronounced. This pronunciation no doubt arose by analogy with such words as toll and polka, or because speakers of General American realise as, while often hearing British as; thus or General American become the closest possible approximation to the Received Pronunciation for many American speakers. Wells, John. 1990. Longman pronunciation dictionary. Harlow: Longman, 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor who is best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.

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Jack Russell (cricketer, born 1963)

Robert Charles "Jack" Russell, MBE, (born 15 August 1963) is a retired English international cricketer, now known for his abilities as an artist, as a cricket wicketkeeping coach, and a football goalkeeping coach.

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Jackie Lewis

Jackie Lewis (born 1 November 1936 in Stroud, Gloucestershire) is a British former racing driver, born in England to a Welsh family.

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James Wood-Mason

James Wood-Mason (December 1846 – 6 May 1893) was an English zoologist.

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Jemmy Wood

James (Jemmy) Wood (7 October 1756 – 20 April 1836) was the owner of the Gloucester Old Bank who became nationally known as "The Gloucester Miser".

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Jeremy Dale Roberts

Jeremy Dale Roberts (16 May 1934 – 11 July 2017) was an English composer.

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Jimmy Young (broadcaster)

Sir Leslie Ronald Young CBE (21 September 1921 – 7 November 2016), known as Jimmy Young, was an English singer, disc jockey and radio personality.

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Joe Meek

Robert George "Joe" Meek (5 April 1929 – 3 February 1967) was an English record producer, sound engineer and songwriter who pioneered space age and experimental pop music.

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John Bayliss

John Bayliss (1919–2008) was a British poet and significant literary editor of the World War II period; later in life a civil servant.

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John Biddle (Unitarian)

John Biddle or Bidle (born Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, England, 14 January 1615 – died 22 September 1662) was an influential English nontrinitarian, and Unitarian.

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John Canton

John Canton FRS (31 July 1718 – 22 March 1772) was a British physicist.

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John Stafford Smith

John Stafford Smith (30 March 175021 September 1836) was a British composer, church organist, and early musicologist.

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John Taylor (poet)

John Taylor (24 August 1578 – 1653) was an English poet who dubbed himself "The Water Poet".

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John Woolrich

John Woolrich (born 1954 in Cirencester) is an English composer.

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Johnny Coppin

John "Johnny" Coppin is an English singer/songwriter, composer, poetry anthologist and broadcaster.

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Jonathan Smith (novelist)

Jonathan Smith (born 1942) is an English novelist, writer and teacher.

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Kate Thornton

Kate Thornton is an English journalist and television presenter, best known as the first presenter of The X Factor (2004–2006) and for presenting daytime shows including Loose Women (2009–2011) and This Morning (2009–2012).

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Keith Tippett

Keith Tippett (born Keith Graham Tippetts; 25 August 1947) is a British jazz pianist and composer.

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Laurie Lee

Laurence Edward Alan "Laurie" Lee, MBE (26 June 1914 – 13 May 1997) was an English poet, novelist and screenwriter, who was brought up in the small village of Slad in Gloucestershire.

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Liam Hess

Liam Hess (born 28 March 1992; Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England) is a British actor.

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Lionelle Howard

Lionelle Howard (1886 - 13 September 1930) was a British actor of the silent era who was born as Francis Nathan Coxin in Cirencester, Gloucestershire and died in Uxbridge, Middlesex.

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Lorraine Bowen

Lorraine Bowen (born 31 October 1961 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire) is an English singer, songwriter, comedian and musician.

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Mabel FitzRobert, Countess of Gloucester

Mabel FitzRobert, Countess of Gloucester (c1100 – 29 September 1157) was an Anglo-Norman noblewoman, and a wealthy heiress who brought the lordship of Gloucester, among other prestigious honours to her husband, Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester upon their marriage.

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Martin Evans

Sir Martin John Evans (born 1 January 1941) is a British biologist who, with Matthew Kaufman, was the first to culture mice embryonic stem cells and cultivate them in a laboratory in 1981.

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Matthew Boyce

Matthew Andrew Golding Boyce (born 13 August 1985 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire) is an English former cricketer.

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Michael Praed

Michael Praed (E-mail communication with Celeste Moore, webmaster of, michael-praed.com; 19 May 2007. (born 1 April 1960), real name Michael David Prince, is a British actor, probably best remembered for his role as Robin of Loxley in the British television series Robin of Sherwood, which attained cult status worldwide in the 1980s.

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Mime artist

A mime or mime artist (from Greek μῖμος, mimos, "imitator, actor") is a person who uses mime as a theatrical medium or as a performance art.

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Nathan Sykes

Nathan James Sykes (born 18 April 1993) is an English singer, songwriter and record producer.

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Newent

Newent (originally called "Noent") is a small market town and civil parish about north west of Gloucester in Gloucestershire, England.

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Oliver Weeks

Oliver Weeks (born in Gloucester, Gloucestershire) is an English composer, arranger, and guitarist.

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Olympic Games

The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (Jeux olympiques) are leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions.

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P. J. Crook

Pamela June Crook (born 1945), known professionally as P J Crook, is an English painter and sculptor.

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Painswick

Painswick is a village and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England.

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Quenington

Quenington is a nucleated village and larger rural civil parish in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England, on the River Coln east of Cirencester and north of Fairford.

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Ralph Vaughan Williams

Ralph Vaughan Williams (12 October 1872– 26 August 1958) was an English composer.

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Rendcomb

Rendcomb is a village in the Cotswold local authority area of the English county of Gloucestershire.

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Ricci Harnett

Ricci Harnett (born 8 February 1975) is an English actor, best known for his role as Carlton Leach in the film Rise of the Footsoldier.

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Richard Freeman (Irish judge)

Richard Freeman (1646–1710) was an English-born judge who held the office of Lord Chancellor of Ireland.

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Richard O'Brien

Richard O'Brien (born Richard Smith; 25 March 1942) is a British-New Zealand actor, television presenter, musician, writer, voice artist and theatre performer.

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Richard Whittington

Sir Richard Whittington (c. 1354–1423) was an English merchant and a politician of the late medieval period.

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Robert Atkyns (judge)

Sir Robert Atkyns KB KS (1621–1710) was an English Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, Member of parliament, and Speaker of the House of Lords.

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Robert Atkyns (topographer)

Sir Robert Atkyns (1647–1711) was a topographer, antiquary, and Member of Parliament.

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Robert Hardy

Timothy Sydney Robert Hardy, CBE, FSA (29 October 1925 – 3 August 2017) was an English actor who had a long career in the theatre, film and television.

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Robert Raikes

Robert Raikes ("the Younger") (14 September 1736 – 5 April 1811) was an English philanthropist and Anglican layman, noted for his promotion of Sunday schools.

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Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester

Robert FitzRoy, 1st Earl of Gloucester (before 1100 – 31 October 1147David Crouch, ‘Robert, first earl of Gloucester (b. before 1100, d. 1147)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006) (alias Robert Rufus, Robert de Caen, Robert Consul) was an illegitimate son of King Henry I of England.

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Royce Mills

Royce Mills (born 12 May 1942 in Tetbury, Gloucestershire) is an English television, stage and film actor.

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Samuel Rudder

Samuel Rudder (c. 1726 – 15 March 1801)Nicholas Herbert, ‘Rudder, Samuel (bap. 1726, d. 1801)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 was a Gloucestershire topographer, printer and antiquarian who was born at Uley and baptised 5 December 1726.

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Sean Arnold

Sean Arnold (born 30 January 1941 in Gloucestershire) is an English actor.

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Siân Berry

Siân Rebecca Berry (born 9 July 1974) is an English politician and member of the Green Party of England and Wales.

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Simon Pegg

Simon John Pegg (né Beckingham; born 14 February 1970) is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer.

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Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Travers Harris, 1st Baronet, (13 April 1892 – 5 April 1984), commonly known as "Bomber" Harris by the press and often within the RAF as "Butcher" Harris, was Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief (AOC-in-C) RAF Bomber Command during the height of the Anglo-American strategic bombing campaign against Nazi Germany in the Second World War.

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Skunk Anansie

Skunk Anansie are a British rock band whose members include Skin (lead vocals, guitar), Cass (guitar, bass, backing vocals), Ace (guitar, backing vocals) and Mark Richardson (drums and percussion).

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Steve Banyard

Steve Banyard (born in England in 1963) is both a freelance television commentator covering leading football tournaments around the world and a songwriter.

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Sunday school

A Sunday School is an educational institution, usually (but not always) Christian, which catered to children and other young people who would be working on weekdays.

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The Chronicles of Narnia (film series)

The Chronicles of Narnia is a series of films based on The Chronicles of Narnia, a series of novels by C. S. Lewis.

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The Rocky Horror Show

The Rocky Horror Show is a musical with music, lyrics and book by Richard O'Brien.

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The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London, England, in 1962.

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The Star-Spangled Banner

"The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States.

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The Wanted

The Wanted are a British-Irish boy band consisting of members Max George, Siva Kaneswaran, Jay McGuiness, Tom Parker and Nathan Sykes.

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Thomas Aufield

The Blessed Thomas Aufield (1552 – 6 July 1585), also called Thomas Alfield, was an English Roman Catholic martyr.

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Thomas Linley the elder

Thomas Linley (17 January 1733 – 19 November 1795) was an English bass and musician active in Bath, Somerset.

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Thomas Twining (merchant)

Thomas Twining (1675 in Painswick, Gloucestershire, England – 19 May 1741 in Twickenham, Greater London) was an English merchant, and the founder of Twinings of London.

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Tom Smith (musician)

Thomas Michael Henry Smith (born 29 April 1981) is an English musician, who is the lead vocalist, lyricist, keyboard player and rhythm guitarist for the Birmingham-based indie rock band Editors.

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Trigger Happy TV

Trigger Happy TV is a hidden camera/practical joke reality television series.

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Uley

Uley is a village and civil parish in the county of Gloucestershire, England.

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United States Declaration of Independence

The United States Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House (now known as Independence Hall) in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776.

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W. G. Grace

William Gilbert "W.

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Wayne Barnes

Wayne Barnes (born 20 April 1979) is an English international rugby union referee and barrister.

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Wilfrid Hyde-White

Wilfrid Hyde-White (12 May 1903 – 6 May 1991) was an English character actor of stage, film and television, who achieved international recognition in his later years for his role as Colonel Pickering in the 1964 film version of the musical My Fair Lady.

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William Davis (miner)

William Davis, (June 3, 1887 – June 11, 1925), was a coal miner from Cape Breton Island.

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William Davis Miners' Memorial Day

Davis Day, also known as Miners' Memorial Day (and since November 25, 2008, officially as William Davis Miners' Memorial Day) is an annual day of remembrance observed on June 11 in coal mining communities in Nova Scotia, Canada to recognize all miners killed in the province's coal mines.

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William Ernest Henley

William Ernest Henley (23 August 1849 – 11 July 1903) was an English poet, critic and editor of the late-Victorian era in England who is spoken of as having as central a role in his time as Samuel Johnson had in the eighteenth century.

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William Moseley (actor)

William Peter Moseley (born 27 April 1987) is an English actor, best known for his roles as Peter Pevensie in the film series ''The Chronicles of Narnia'' and Prince Liam in the E! original series The Royals.

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William Reynolds (footballer, born 1870)

William Thomas Reynolds (1870 – after 1893) was an English professional footballer who played in the Football League for Small Heath.

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William Stephen Raikes Hodson

William Stephen Raikes Hodson (19 March 1821 – 11 March 1858) was a British leader of irregular light cavalry during the Indian Rebellion of 1857, commonly referred to as the Indian Mutiny or the Sepoy Mutiny.

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William Tyndale

William Tyndale (sometimes spelled Tynsdale, Tindall, Tindill, Tyndall; &ndash) was an English scholar who became a leading figure in the Protestant Reformation in the years leading up to his execution.

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Winchcombe

Winchcombe is a Cotswold town in the local authority district of Tewkesbury, in Gloucestershire, England.

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Winifred Foley

Winifred Mary Foley (born Winifred Mason, 25 July 1914, Brierley, Gloucestershire, died 21 March 2009, Cheltenham) was an English writer, known best for her autobiographical account of her childhood in the Forest of Dean.

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Zac Purchase

Zachary Jake Nicholas Purchase-Hill MBE (born 2 May 1986) is a retired English rower.

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4th Horse (Hodson's Horse)

4th Horse (Hodson's Horse) is a cavalry regiment of the Indian Army which originated as part of the British Indian Army.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_Gloucestershire

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