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List of people from Bath

This article provides a non-exhaustive list of famous people born, educated or prominent in Bath, Somerset, England, or otherwise associated with it. The sections and the names in each section are alphabetical. Bathonian describes a person who comes from Bath.

Acting

Architecture

Arts

Education

Exiles

  • Haile Selassie I (1892–1975) – during World War II
  • Louis XVIII (1755–1824) – before ascending the French throne

Film and TV

Literature

  • Jane Austen (1775–1817) – novelist: Joan Aiken reports that Austen did not love the city: when she learnt her family were moving to Bath "she fainted dead away."
  • Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797–1839) – an English poet, songwriter, dramatist and writer.
  • William Beckford (1760–1844) – wrote Vathek and a series of works on travel.
  • Henrietta Maria Bowdler (1750–1830) – novelist and editor, died in Bath on 25 February 1830.
  • Jane Bowdler (1743–1784) – poet and essayist, was born at Ashley, near Bath, on 14 February 1743 and died there in 1784.
  • John Bowdler (1746–1823) – moral reformer and religious writer, was born in Bath on 18 March 1746.
  • Thomas Bowdler (1754–1825) – physician and expurgator of Shakespeare, was born at Box, near Bath, on 11 July 1754.
  • Angela Carter (1940–1992) – novelist who lived in Bath in the early 1970s.
  • Charles Dickens (1812–1870) – novelist and frequent visitor to Bath, who set much of the Pickwick Papers there
  • Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1744–1817) – an Anglo-Irish politician, writer and inventor.
  • Henry Fielding (1707–1754) – novelist
  • William Hone (1780–1842) – an English writer, satirist and bookseller.
  • Eliza Humphreys (1850–1938) – known as "Rita", wrote A Grey Life, a novel set in Bath. She lived at Combe Down from about 1923 and is buried in Bath Abbey Cemetery.
  • Morag Joss (born 1955) – novelist
  • David Lassman (living) – novelist born in Bath, co-author of the Regency Detective series
  • Robert Montgomery – an English poet and minister.
  • Mary Shelley (1797–1851) – novelist, author of Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.
  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) – playwright
  • Tobias Smollett (1721–1771) – physician, surgeon and novelist, who partly set The Expedition of Humphry Clinker in the city and wrote an essay on the Bath waters.
  • Geoffrey Trease (1909–1998) – children's novelist, author of the Bannermere series
  • Horace Twiss (1787–1849) – English writer and politician.
  • Jacqueline Wilson (born 1945) – children's author born in Bath

Military

Music

Public service

  • Ralph Allen (1693–1764) – postal reformer, quarrier and mayor, who set up the first nationwide cross-country postal network
  • Sir Henry Cole (1808–1882) – civil servant.
  • Don Foster (born 1947) – MP for Bath, 1992–2015
  • Beau Nash (1674–1761) – master of ceremonies in Georgian Bath
  • John Palmer (1742–1818) – inventor of a lightweight mail coach
  • Chris Patten – MP for Bath 1979–1992, then Governor of Hong Kong 1992–1997
  • William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708–1788) – Prime Minister and MP for Bath, 1757–1766
  • William Pitt the Younger (1759–1806) – Prime Minister
  • Sir William Tite (1798–1873) – architect and MP for Bath, 1855–1873

Science

Sport

Religion

  • Louisa Daniell (1809–1871) – evangelical philanthropist and missionary
  • John Hales (1584–1656) – an English cleric, theologian and writer.
  • William Jay (1769–1853) – preacher
  • Oliver King (c. 1432–1503) – Bishop of Bath and Wells, set up rebuilding of Bath Abbey
  • Abraham Marchant (1816–1881) – early Mormon leader, settler of Kamas, Utah

Royalty

Freedom of the City

The following people and military units have received the Freedom of the City of Bath.

Individuals

Military units

References