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
  • Wayne Couzens (born 1972), police officer, Sarah Everard's killer.
  • Sir Alfred Dyer (1865–1947), journalist, chief executive, and Conservative Party politician
  • 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[1]
  • 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

References

  1. ^ Lawson, Mark (15 November 2019). "Andrea Newman obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 December 2019.