Isle of Wight - Notable Residents

Notable Residents

Notable residents have included:

  • Raymond Allen, scriptwriter
  • Indie rock group the Bees, are from the Isle of Wight.
  • E. Power Biggs, concert organist
  • Julia Margaret Cameron, a Victorian portrait and creative photographer, lived at Dimbola Lodge, which is now a museum dedicated to her work.
  • Charles I of England was imprisoned at Carisbrooke Castle
  • Irish Republican Thomas Clarke
  • Sir Christopher Cockerell, inventor of the hovercraft, lived in East Cowes while it was being developed by Saunders-Roe
  • Ray Cokes, MTV presenter and actor
  • Charles Dickens rented Winterbourne, in Bonchurch in the summer of 1849.
  • Dave Ellison, Creator/writer/producer of the award winning children's TV series Tales of the Riverbank
  • Cardell 'Scum' Goodman, late 17th century actor, murderer, highwayman and Jacobite conspirator, was the son of Robert Hooke's father's predecessor as vicar of Freshwater.
  • Bear Grylls, survival expert, motivational speaker and Chief Scout.
  • Sheila Hancock, actress
  • Thomas Harrison, Regicide of Charles I and Fifth Monarchist leader was imprisoned at Carisbrooke Castle by Cromwell as were other Fifth Monarchy Men, John Rogers and Christopher Feake.
  • Peter de Heyno, defended the Carisbrooke Castle 1377 against French / Castilian troops
  • Robert Hooke, a 17th century natural philosopher and polymath
  • Geoffrey Hughes, English actor was a Deputy Lieutenant of the county.
  • David Icke, TV presenter, author, conspiracy theorist
  • Jeremy Irons, actor
  • Phill Jupitus, comedian
  • Laura Michelle Kelly, Olivier Award-winner for her role as Mary Poppins in the world premiere of the Mary Poppins musical and film actress playing Lucy Barker in Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd
  • Mimi Khalvati, Iranian poet was educated at Upper Chine School, near Shanklin
  • Stuart Hobday, singer with '60s band Mike Stuart Span and BBC Radio 2 producer
  • Mark King, lead singer and bassist for '80s/'90s pop-funk band Level 42.
  • Allan Lake, radio presenter
  • John Milne, geologist and mining engineer, credited with inventing the horizontal pendulum seismograph.
  • Anthony Minghella, Academy Award–winning film director, playwright and screenwriter
  • David Niven, Actor, Novelist
  • Henry Sewell, first Prime Minister of New Zealand.
  • Algernon Charles Swinburne, Victorian poet, spent his boyhood at his parents home East Dene, in Bonchurch.
  • Alfred Tennyson, who was Poet Laureate to Queen Victoria, lived at Freshwater and became Baron Tennyson of Aldworth in the County of Sussex and of Freshwater in the Isle of Wight.
  • Alan Titchmarsh, a British gardener, was High Sheriff of the Isle of Wight in 2008-09.
  • Guglielmo Marconi, inventor and Nobel Prize winner, lived in Marconi Cottage at St. Catherine's Lighthouse in late 1890. He transmitted the first wireless message across open water from Alum Bay in Totland in 1897.
  • Anneka Rice, TV personality
  • Kelly Sotherton, Olympic heptathlete
  • Ellen MacArthur, solo and long-distance yachtswoman.
  • Mick Poole, World Masters Champion, European Championships Silver Medalist, USA Masters Champion, 3 times British Open Champion, Great Britain TeaM Captain and GB national coach in wrestling.
  • Mark Fox, businessman and journalist.
  • Rodney Fox, Headmaster and Teacher

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