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List of people from Kent

This is a list of notable residents of the county of Kent in England who have a Wikipedia page. Persons are grouped by occupation and listed in order of birth. Kent is defined by its current boundaries.

Academics, engineers and scientists

  • Charles Culmer (c. 1300s) – supposedly built the fishermen's stairs which Broadstairs is named after
  • William Caxton (c. 1420 – c. 1492) – first person to introduce a printing press into England
  • Richard Knolles (c. 1545–1610) – Ottoman Empire historian
  • Richard Baker (1568–1645) – historian
  • Robert Fludd (1574–1637) – physicist and astrologer
  • John Tradescant the elder (c. 1575–1638) – gardener and botanist
  • John Tradescant the Younger (1608–1662) – gardener and botanist
  • William Harvey (1578–1657) – anatomist
  • John Wallis (1616–1703) – mathematician given partial credit for the development of modern calculus
  • Robert Plot (1640–1696) – naturalist and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford
  • Stephen Gray (1666–1736) – physicist and astronomer
  • Thomas Steers (1672–1750) – civil engineer and canal builder
  • Stephen Hales (1677–1761) – physiologist and chemist
  • George Sale (1697–1736) – Islamic studies scholar
  • Thomas Bayes (c. 1702–1761) – mathematician and formulator of Bayes' theorem
  • Edward Jacob – antiquary and naturalist
  • Edward Nairne (1726–1806) – scientific instrument maker
  • James Six (1731–1793) – meteorologist and inventor of the maximum minimum thermometer
  • Catharine Macaulay (1731–1791) – historian
  • Edward Hasted (1732–1812) – Kent historian
  • Lionel Lukin (1742–1834) – possible inventor of the lifeboat
  • William Congreve (1772–1828) – inventor and rocket pioneer
  • Thomas Frederick Colby (1784–1852) – director of the Ordnance Survey
  • Richard Jones (1790–1855) – economist
  • Joshua Trimmer (1795–1857) – geologist
  • John Stevens Henslow (1796–1861) – botanist and geologist
  • Anna Atkins (1799–1871) – botanical photographer
  • George Finlay (1799–1875) – Greek historian
  • George Newport (1803–1854) – entomologist
  • Robert Main (1808–1878) – astronomer
  • Edmund Law Lushington (1811–1893) – Greek scholar and Rector of Glasgow University
  • Joseph Prestwich (1812–1896) – geologist
  • Edward Betts (1815–1872) – railway civil engineering contractor
  • Thomas Russell Crampton (1816–1888) – engineer and designer of the Crampton locomotive
  • Charles Kettle (1821–1862) – New Zealand town planner
  • Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister (1827–1912) – surgeon and President of the Royal Society
  • Nathaniel Barnaby (1829–1915) – Chief Constructor of the Royal Navy
  • Edward James Reed (1830–1906) – Chief Constructor of the Royal Navy
  • John Hulke (1830–1895) – surgeon and geologist
  • Alexander Henry Green (1832–1896) – geologist
  • Fleeming Jenkin (1833–1885) – Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh
  • Robinson Ellis (1834–1913) – Professor of Latin at Trinity College, Oxford
  • James Holden (1837–1925) – locomotive engineer
  • Frank Rutley (1842–1904) – geologist and petrographer
  • William Robert Brooks (1844–1922) – American astronomer
  • Henry George Smith (1852–1924) – chemist
  • James Fletcher (1852–1908) – Canadian entomologist, botanist and writer
  • Aubyn Trevor-Battye (1855–1922) – zoologist and writer
  • Henry Watson Fowler (1858–1933) – lexicographer
  • Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) – mathematician and philosopher
  • Herbert Baker (1862–1946) – South Africa architect
  • Baillie Scott (1865–1945) – architect
  • Patrick Young Alexander (1867–1943) – aeronautical pioneer
  • Frank Finn (1868–1932) – ornithologist
  • Reginald Punnett (1875–1967) – geneticist and creator of the Punnett square
  • William Sealy Gosset (1876–1937) – chemist and statistician
  • Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962) – novelist, traveller and gardener
  • Henry Tizard (1885–1959) – chemist and inventor
  • John Edensor Littlewood (1885–1977) – mathematician
  • Verena Holmes (1889–1964) – mechanical engineer and multi-field inventor
  • Arthur Waley (1889–1966) – orientalist and sinologist
  • Reg Balch (1894–1994) – ecologist and photographer
  • Ralph Bagnold (1896–1990) – geologist, desert explorer, and soldier
  • A. J. Arkell (1898–1980) – North African scholar
  • Stanley Hooker (1907–1984) – jet engine engineer
  • Simone Weil (1909–1943) – French philosopher and mystic
  • Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching (1913–1985) – engineer and chairman of British Railways
  • Maurice Lister (1914–2003) – chemist
  • Sheila Sherlock (1918–2001) – physician and hepatologist
  • George E. P. Box (1918–2001) – statistician
  • John Aspinall (1926–2000) – zoo owner
  • Peter Hemingway (1929–1995) – architect
  • David Harvey (born 1935) – Professor of Anthropology at the City University of New York
  • Michael Pearson (1936–2017) – expert on clocks and clock-making
  • David L. Clarke (1937–1976) – archaeologist noted for his work on processual archaeology
  • Diarmaid MacCulloch (born 1951) – Professor of 'the History of the Church' at the University of Oxford
  • Daniel Tammet (born 1979) – autistic savant and record pi reciter
  • Sonia Chadwick Hawkes (1933–1999) – archaeologist specialising in the early Middle Ages

Actors

  • Thomas Robson Brownhill (1821–1864) – theatre actor and comedian
  • Ellen Ternan (1839–1914) – actress and mistress of Charles Dickens
  • Francis Robert Benson (1858–1939) – actor and theatre manager
  • Lilian Braithwaite (1873–1948) – actress and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
  • Sydney Greenstreet (1875–1954) – actor in films such as Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon
  • Philip Hewland (1876–1953) – stage and film actor
  • Victor McLaglen (1886–1956) – 1935 Academy Award winner for Best Actor
  • Ballard Berkeley (1904–1988) – actor noted for his role as Major Gowen in TV's Fawlty Towers
  • Margot Grahame (1911–1982) – actress in films such as The Informer and The Crimson Pirate
  • Harry Andrews (1911–1989) – actor in films such as Superman and Watership Down
  • Trevor Howard (1913–1988) – Academy Award nominated film actor
  • Peter Cushing (1913–1994) – film actor of the Hammer Films, Star Wars and Dr Who and the Daleks
  • Bob Todd (1922–1992) – comedy actor and sidekick of Benny Hill and Spike Milligan
  • Hattie Jacques (1924–1980) – comedy actress of the Carry On films and TV's Sykes
  • Frederick Treves (born 1925) – prolific TV actor
  • Alec McCowen (1925–2017) – Golden Globe nominated film, theatre and TV actor
  • Peter Barkworth (1929–2006) – BAFTA winning actor
  • Dinsdale Landen (1932–2003) – TV actor
  • Lance Percival (1933–2015) – comedy actor
  • Patsy Byrne (1933–2014) – actress noted for her role as Nursie in TV's Blackadder II
  • Tom Baker (born 1934) – actor in TV's Doctor Who and Little Britain
  • Joanna Van Gyseghem (born 1941) – actress in TV's Duty Free and Rumpole of the Bailey
  • Michael Crawford (born 1942) – Tony Award-winning comedy, film and musical actor
  • Brenda Blethyn (born 1946) – Academy Award nominated actress
  • Rusty Goffe (born 1948) – dwarf actor in the films Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory and Willow
  • Fiona Reid (born 1951) – Canadian TV and film actress
  • Mark Rylance (born 1960) – theatre actor
  • Jack Dee (born 1962) – TV actor and comedian
  • Martin Ball (born 1964) – theatre and TV actor
  • Shaun Williamson (born 1964) – TV presenter and actor in TV's Eastenders
  • Paul Ritter (1966–2021) – actor in TV's Friday Night Dinner, No Offence
  • Tamsin Greig (born 1966) – actress in TV's Friday Night Dinner
  • Naomi Watts (born 1968) – Academy Award nominated actress
  • Matthew Holness (born c. 1968) – comedy writer and actor in TV's Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
  • Ben Moor (born 1969) – comedy writer, and actor in TV's Fist of Fun
  • Mackenzie Crook (born 1971) – actor in TV's The Office
  • Shane Taylor (born 1973) – actor in TV's Band of Brothers
  • Chris Simmons (born 1975) – actor in TV's The Bill
  • Orlando Bloom (born 1977) – actor in the film series The Lord of the Rings and Pirates of the Caribbean
  • Oliver Chris (born 1978) – actor in TV's Green Wing, The Office and Rescue Me
  • Kevin Bishop (born 1980) – actor in the film Muppet Treasure Island and TV's Grange Hill
  • Tom Riley (born 1981) – actor in TV's Da Vinci's Demons and The Nevers
  • Gemma Arterton (born 1986) – actress
  • Dominic Sherwood (born 1990) – actor in TV's Shadowhunters
  • Joseph McManners (born 1992) – musical theatre actor and singer
  • Tommy Knight (born 1993) – actor in TV's The Sarah Jane Adventures
  • Jack Scanlon (born 1998) – TV and film actor
  • Isaac Hempstead-Wright (born 1999) – actor in TV's Game of Thrones
  • Hrvy (born 1999) – presenter from Friday Download

Artists

  • William Woollett (1735–1785) – engraver
  • William Alexander (1767–1816) – painter and illustrator
  • J. M. W. Turner (c. 1775–1851) – landscape painter
  • Thomas Sidney Cooper (1803–1902) – painter
  • Elizabeth Gould (1804–1902) – illustrator
  • Samuel Palmer (1805–1881) – landscape painter
  • Richard Dadd (1817–1886) – painter
  • John Hassall (1868–1948) – illustrator
  • Mary Tourtel (1874–1948) – artist and creator of Rupert Bear
  • Margaret Beale (1886–1969) – marine artist
  • Colin Gill (1892–1940) – painter
  • Hugh Cecil (1889–c. 1939) – photographer
  • Compton Bennett (1900–1974) – film director and producer
  • Tyrone Guthrie (1900–1971) – Tony Award-winning theatre director
  • Don Potter (1902–2004) – sculptor
  • Michael Powell (1905–1990) – film director
  • Peter Rogers (1914–2009) – film producer of the Carry On series
  • Oliver Postgate (1925–2008) – animator and co-creator of Bagpuss, The Clangers and Ivor the Engine
  • Peter Firmin (1928–2018) – animator and co-creator of Basil Brush, Bagpuss and The Clangers
  • Frank Auerbach (born 1931) – painter
  • Peter Blake (born 1932) – pop artist, designer of the Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album sleeve
  • Mary Quant (born 1930) – fashion designer; inventor of the miniskirt and hot pants
  • Antoinette Sibley (born 1939) – ballerina
  • Zandra Rhodes (born 1940) – fashion designer
  • Tim Page (born 1944) – Vietnam War photojournalist
  • Roger Dean (born 1944) – album cover artist
  • Dick Pope (born 1947) – cinematographer
  • Bill Lewis (born 1953) – founder member of the Stuckists art group
  • Mike Bernard (born 1957) – painter
  • Gary Hume (born 1962) – painter
  • Tracey Emin (born 1963) – Royal Academy artist
  • Tacita Dean (born 1965) – visual artist
  • Angus Fairhurst (born 1966) – photographic and visual artist
  • Joe Machine (born 1973) – founder member of the Stuckists art group
  • Remy Noe (born 1974) – founder member of the Stuckists art group
  • George Henry Horton (born 1993) – filmmaker

Clergy

  • Laurence of Canterbury (?–619) – saint and the second Archbishop of Canterbury
  • Paulinus of York (?–644) – first Bishop of York
  • Edith of Wilton (961–984) – saint and illegitimate daughter of King Edgar the Peaceful
  • William Addison (1883–1962) – recipient of the Victoria Cross
  • Thomas Becket (c. 1118–1170) – saint and Archbishop of Canterbury
  • John Kemp (c. 1380–1454) – Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancellor
  • John Morton (c. 1420–1500) – Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancellor
  • John Frith (1503–1533) – Protestant priest and writer, executed for heresy
  • Roger Filcock (c. 1553–1601) – executed for preaching Catholicism
  • Dudley Fenner (c. 1558–1587) – puritan theologian
  • Edmund Duke (1563–1590) – martyr, executed for preaching Catholicism
  • Richard Clarke (?–1634) – Anglican scholar and preacher
  • John Lothropp (1584–1653) – Anglican minister and founder of Barnstable, Massachusetts
  • Robert Abbot (c. 1588–c. 1662) – Puritan theologian
  • Peter Gunning (1614–1684) – Royalist and Bishop of Chichester
  • William Wall (1647–1728) – Anglican theologian
  • White Kennett (1660–1728) – Bishop of Peterborough
  • Nathanial Lardner (1684–1768) – theologian
  • Edward Perronet (1726–1792) – Anglican preacher
  • George Horne (1730–1792) – Bishop of Norwich
  • Charles Thomas Longley (1794–1868) – Archbishop of Canterbury
  • Henry Edward Manning (1808–1892) – cardinal
  • Alfred Saker (1814–1880) – Baptist missionary
  • George Hills (1816–1895) – Bishop of British Columbia
  • Christopher Newman Hall (1816–1902) – Anglican abolitionist
  • John R. Winder (1821–1910) – leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  • Edward King (1829–1910) – Anglican bishop
  • E. W. Bullinger (1837–1913) – Anglican clergyman, Biblical scholar, and dispensationalist theologian
  • Arthur Tooth (1839–1931) – Anglican clergyman, prosecuted under the Public Worship Regulation Act 1874
  • John Neale Dalton (1839–1931) – chaplain to Queen Victoria and tutor to George V of the United Kingdom
  • Charles Bousfield Huleatt (1863–1908) – Anglican priest and discoverer of the Magdalen papyrus
  • Nelson Wellesley Fogarty (1871–1933) – Bishop of Damaraland, Namibia
  • Frank W. Boreham (1871–1959) – Baptist theologian
  • Edward Knapp-Fisher (1915–2003) – Sub-Dean of Westminster Abbey
  • John A. T. Robinson (1919–1983) – Bishop of Woolwich

Entrepreneurs

  • William Adams (1564–1620) – trader and first British navigator to reach Japan
  • William Claiborne (c. 1600-c. 1677) – early settler of Virginia and Maryland
  • Christopher Branch (c. 1600–1682) – early settler of Virginia
  • Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron (1692–1781) – landowner in Virginia
  • William Colgate (1783–1857) – founder of the Colgate toothpaste company
  • Gregory Blaxland (1788–1852) – settler of Australia and wine-maker
  • Thomas Fletcher Waghorn (1800–1850) – postal pioneer who developed a new route from Great Britain to India
  • Darrell Duppa (1832–1892) – co-founder of Phoenix, Arizona
  • Edward William Cole (1832–1918) – successful bookshop owner in Melbourne, Australia
  • Charles Elkin Mathews (1851–1921) – publisher and bookseller
  • George Marchant (1857–1941) – soft-drink manufacturer in Australia
  • Bronson Albery (1881–1971) – theatre director and impresario
  • Freddie Laker (1922–2006) – founder of Laker Airways
  • Michael Farmer, Baron Farmer (born 1944) - businessman and life peer in the House of Lords
  • Ian Davis (born 1952) – Managing Director of McKinsey & Company
  • John Charman (born 1953) – CEO/President/Director of Bermuda-based Axis Capital Holdings Ltd

Musicians

  • John Ward (1571–1638) – composer
  • John Jenkins (1592–1678) – composer
  • John Gostling (1644–1733) – bass singer and a favourite of Charles II of England
  • Isaac Nathan (c. 1792–1864) – English-Australian musician
  • George Job Elvey (1816–1993) – organist and composer
  • Sydney Nicholson (1875–1947) – founder of the Royal School of Church Music
  • Edward Norman Hay (1889–1943) – composer and musicologist
  • Malcolm Sargent (1895–1967) – leading conductor of choral works
  • Percy Whitlock (1903–1946) – organist and composer
  • Roy Douglas (born 1907) – composer
  • Alfred Deller (1912–1979) – opera singer
  • Daphne Oram (1925–2003) – composer and electronic musician
  • Tony Coe (born 1934) – jazz musician
  • Bill Wyman (born 1936) – bassist for the band The Rolling Stones
  • Richard Rodney Bennett (1936-2012) – film score and jazz composer
  • Crispian St. Peters (1939–2010) – pop singer
  • Mick Jagger (born 1943) – singer and songwriter for the band The Rolling Stones
  • Keith Richards (born 1943) – guitarist and songwriter for the band The Rolling Stones
  • Dick Taylor (born 1943) – bassist for the band The Rolling Stones
  • Mike Ratledge (born 1943) – keyboardist for the band Soft Machine
  • Phil May (born 1944) – singer for the band The Pretty Things
  • Kevin Ayers (born 1944) – singer and bassist for the band Soft Machine
  • Judge Dread (1945–1998) – reggae and ska artist
  • Hugh Hopper (born 1945) – progressive rock and jazz bass guitarist and composer
  • Noel Redding (1945–2003) – bassist for the band The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • John Paul Jones (born 1946) – bassist, keyboardist and co-songwriter for English rock band Led Zeppelin
  • Trevor Pinnock (born 1946) – conductor and harpsichordist
  • Richard Coughlan (born 1947) – drummer for the band Caravan
  • Dave Sinclair (born 1947) – keyboardist for the band Caravan
  • Gordon Giltrap (born 1948) – guitarist and composer
  • Richard Sinclair (born 1948) – guitarist for the band Caravan
  • Bill Bruford (born 1949) – drummer for the bands Yes and King Crimson
  • Nigel Egg (born 1949) – singer/songwriter
  • Peter Frampton (born 1950) – musician, most famous for Frampton Comes Alive!
  • Alan Clayson (born 1951) – record producer and songwriter
  • Harry Christophers (born 1953) – conductor
  • David Wright (born 1953) – New Age keyboard player and composer
  • Gary Barden (born 1955) – songwriter and guitarist for the band Michael Schenker Group
  • Anne Dudley (born 1956) – orchestral composer and pop musician
  • Sid Vicious (1957–1979) – bassist for the band The Sex Pistols
  • Shane MacGowan (1957-2023) – singer and songwriter for the band The Pogues
  • Kate Bush (born 1958) – pop musician
  • Billy Childish (born 1959) – singer, guitarist, artist and poet
  • Pete Tong (born 1960) – record producer and DJ for BBC Radio 1
  • Guy Fletcher (born 1960) – keyboardist for the band Dire Straits
  • Boy George (born 1961) – singer with the band Culture Club
  • Sexton Ming (born 1961) – musician, artist and poet
  • Andrew Giddings (born 1963) – keyboardist for the band Jethro Tull
  • Paul Oakenfold (born 1963) – record producer and DJ
  • Nitin Sawhney (born 1964) – songwriter and record producer
  • Jay Darlington (born 1968) – keyboardist for the band Kula Shaker
  • Omar Lye-Fook (born 1968) – soul singer, songwriter and musician
  • Justin Chancellor (born 1971) – bass player for the rock band Tool
  • Richard Hughes (born 1975) – drummer for the band Keane
  • Tom Perchard (born 1976) – musicologist
  • David Ford (born 1978) – singer-songwriter
  • Vicky Beeching (born 1979) – worship leader and musician
  • Ben Mills (born 1980) – singer and contestant on TV's The X Factor
  • Rik Waller (born 1980) – singer and contestant on TV's Pop Idol
  • Lee Ryan (born 1983) – member of the boy band Blue
  • Oliver Sykes (born 1986) – metal singer
  • Joss Stone (born 1987) – BRIT and Grammy Award-winning R&B singer/songwriter
  • Declan Galbraith (born 1991) – singer
  • Mimi Webb (born 2000) – pop singer and songwriter
  • PinkPantheress (born 2001) – pop musician

Politicians, statesmen and lawyers

Presenters and entertainers

  • Kenneth Clark (1903–1983) – art historian and TV presenter
  • Frank Muir (1920–1998) – comedy writer and TV presenter
  • Michael Bentine (1922–1996) – comedian and member of the Goons
  • Tony Hart (1925–2009) – artist and children's TV presenter
  • Bob Holness (1928–2011) – presenter of TV's Blockbusters and Call My Bluff
  • Rod Hull (1935–1999) – TV entertainer, known for his puppet Emu
  • David Frost (1939–2013) – TV presenter, satirist and journalist
  • Jan Leeming (born 1942) – TV presenter and newsreader
  • Roger Day (born 1945) – radio presenter for BBC Radio Kent
  • David Starkey (born 1945) – historian and TV presenter
  • Reg Bolton (1945–2006) – circus clown and writer
  • Michael Hogben (born 1952) – antiques dealer and presenter of TV's Auction Man
  • Jilly Goolden (born 1956) – wine critic and TV presenter
  • Lorraine Michaels (born 1958) – Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for April 1981
  • Carol McGiffin (born 1960) – radio presenter and panellist on TV's Loose Women
  • Ian Hislop (born 1960) – TV presenter and editor of Private Eye magazine
  • Fiona Phillips (born 1961) – presenter of TV's GMTV
  • Mark Steel (born 1960) – socialist comedian and newspaper columnist
  • Anton Vamplew (born 1966) – astronomer and TV presenter
  • Nick Bateman (born 1967) – Big Brother contestant, TV presenter and writer
  • Nicki Chapman (born 1967) – TV presenter and judge on TV's Popstars and Pop Idol
  • Naomi Cleaver (born 1967) – interior designer and presenter of TV's Other People's Houses and Honey I Ruined the House
  • David Bull (born 1969) – doctor and guest on TV's Most Haunted Live, The Wright Stuff and Watchdog
  • Alistair Appleton (born 1970) – presenter of TV's Cash in the Attic and House Doctor
  • Melanie and Martina Grant (born 1971) – presenters of TV's Fun House
  • Alex Lovell (born 1973) – presenter of TV's Playhouse Disney and BrainTeaser
  • James Tanner (born c. 1976) – chef on TV's Ready Steady Cook
  • Luke Burrage (born 1976) – juggler
  • Matt Morgan (born 1977) – co-host of Russell Brand's BBC Radio 2 show
  • Kelly Brook (born 1979) – model, actress and TV presenter

Soldiers

Sportsmen

  • Edwin Head (1701–1735) – noted cricket patron and team captain in the 1720s and early 1730s
  • George Louch (1746–1811) – cricketer
  • Robert Clifford (1752–1811) – cricketer for Kent
  • Fuller Pilch (1804–1870) – cricketer for Kent and Norfolk
  • Henry Tracey Coxwell (1819–1900) – balloonist
  • H T Waghorn (1842–1930) – cricket statistician and historian
  • Spencer Gore (1850–1906) – first Wimbledon tennis champion
  • Cuthbert Ottaway (1850–1878) – England football captain
  • Frank Marchant (1864–1946) – cricketer for Kent
  • Fred Waghorne (1866–1956) – ice hockey referee in Canada
  • Douglas Carr (1872–1950) – cricketer for Kent and England
  • Syd King (1873–1932) – footballer and manager of West Ham United
  • Archie Cross (1881–unknown) – footballer for Woolwich Arsenal
  • Edward Walter Solly (1882–1966) – cricketer for Worcestershire
  • Frank Woolley (1887–1978) - cricketer for Kent and England
  • Walter Tull (1888–1918) – UK's second black professional footballer and first black infantry officer
  • John Stanton Fleming Morrison (1892–1961) – golf course architect
  • Louis Zborowski (1895–1924) – racing driver
  • Wally Hammond (1903–1965) – cricketer for Gloucestershire and England
  • Dick Edmed (1904–1983) – footballer for Liverpool
  • Les Ames (1905–1990) – cricketer for Kent and England
  • Alec Rose (1908–1991) – sailed single-handed around the world
  • Hopper Levett (1908–1995) – cricketer for England
  • Art Potter (1909–1998) – Canadian ice hockey administrator
  • Sam King (1911–2003) – golfer
  • Arthur Fagg (1915–1977) – cricketer for Kent and England
  • William Murray-Wood (1917–1968) – cricketer for Kent
  • Jack Conley (1920–1991) – footballer for Torquay United
  • Godfrey Evans (1920-1999) – cricketer for Kent and England
  • Ted Ditchburn (1921–2005) – footballer for Tottenham Hotspur and England
  • Malcolm Allison (1927–2010) – footballer for West Ham United and football manager
  • Colin Cowdrey (1932-2000) – cricketer for Kent and England
  • Brian Moore (1932–2001) – TV sports commentator
  • George Wright (1930–1992) – footballer for West Ham United
  • Brian Luckhurst (1939–2005) – cricketer for Kent and England
  • Mike Denness (1940-2013) – cricketer for Kent and England
  • Barry Davies (born 1940) – TV sports commentator
  • Bill Ivy (1942–1969) – motorcycle racer
  • John Shepherd (born 1943) – cricketer for Kent and West Indies
  • Asif Iqbal (born 1943) – cricketer for Kent and Pakistan
  • Alan Ealham (born 1944) – cricketer for Kent
  • Derek Underwood (1945–2024) – cricketer for Kent and England
  • Alan Knott (born 1946) – cricketer for Kent and England
  • Bob Woolmer (1948–2007) – cricketer for Kent and England
  • Brian Rose (born 1950) – cricketer for Somerset and England
  • Bernard Julien (1950–2025) – cricketer for Kent and West Indies
  • Paul Gilchrist (born 1952) – footballer for Southampton, Portsmouth and Swindon Town
  • Kevin Jarvis (born 1953) – cricketer for Kent and Gloucestershire
  • Tony Godden (born 1955) – footballer for West Bromwich Albion, Chelsea and Birmingham City
  • Dave Carr (1957–2005) – footballer for Luton Town and Torquay United
  • David Gower (born 1957) – England cricket captain and TV presenter
  • Bob Bolder (born 1958) – footballer for Charlton Athletic, Sunderland and Sheffield Wednesday
  • Graham Dilley (1959-2011) – cricketer for Kent and England
  • Richard Ellison (born 1959) – cricketer for Kent and England
  • Barry Knight (born 1960) – football referee
  • Steve Bennett (born 1961) – football referee
  • Gary Brazil (born 1962) – footballer for Fulham, Preston North End and Sheffield United
  • Jamie Spence (born 1963) – golfer
  • Andy Townsend (born 1963) – TV presenter; footballer for Aston Villa and Republic of Ireland
  • David Bowman (born 1964) – footballer for Heart of Midlothian, Dundee United and Scotland
  • Geoff Parsons (born 1964) – Commonwealth Games silver medal winning high jumper
  • Tim Berrett (born 1965) – Canadian Olympic race walker
  • Andy Hessenthaler (born 1965) – footballer and manager of Gillingham
  • Mark Ealham (born 1969) – cricketer for Nottinghamshire and England
  • Nigel Llong (born 1969) – cricketer for Kent
  • Doug Loft (born 1986) – footballer
  • Kelly Holmes (born 1970) – 800 metres and 1500 metres Olympic gold medalist
  • Mark Hammett (born 1972) – rugby union footballer for New Zealand
  • Rob Short (born 1972) – field hockey player for Canada
  • Jamie Staff (born 1973) – Commonwealth Games medal winning cyclist
  • Gary Breen (born 1973) – footballer for Coventry City, Sunderland and Republic of Ireland
  • Neil Shipperley (born 1974) – footballer for Crystal Palace, Chelsea and Wimbledon
  • Takaloo (born 1975) – Iranian boxer
  • Matthew Rose (born 1975) – footballer for Arsenal, QPR and Yeovil Town
  • Kevin Hunt (born 1975) – footballer for Gillingham, Hong Kong Rangers and Bohemians FC
  • Ed Smith (born 1977) – writer, and cricketer for Kent and England
  • Georgina Harland (born 1978) – 2004 Olympic bronze medallist in the Modern pentathlon
  • Peter Hawkins (born 1978) – footballer for Wimbledon, York City and Rushden & Diamonds
  • Jon Harley (born 1979) – footballer for Sheffield United, Fulham and Chelsea
  • David Flatman (born 1980) – rugby union footballer for Bath and England
  • Michael Yardy (born 1980) – cricketer for Sussex
  • Sarah Ayton (born 1980) – Olympic gold medal winning sailor
  • Gary Mills (born 1981) – footballer for Rushden & Diamonds
  • Danny Spiller (born 1981) – footballer for Gillingham
  • Richard Rose (born 1982) – footballer for Gillingham and Hereford United
  • James Tredwell (born 1982) – cricketer for Kent and England
  • Rhys Lloyd (born 1982) – American footballer for Frankfurt Galaxy
  • Lisa Dobriskey (born 1983) – Commonwealth Games 1500 metres gold medallist
  • Billy Jones (born 1983) – footballer for Leyton Orient and Kidderminster
  • Barry Fuller (born 1984) – footballer for Barnet and Stevenage
  • Adam Birchall (born 1984) – footballer for Mansfield Town, Barnet and Wales Under–21s
  • Andrew Crofts (born 1984) – footballer for Gillingham
  • Dave Martin (born 1985) – footballer for Crystal Palace
  • Tom Varndell (born 1985) – rugby union footballer for Leicester Tigers and England
  • Joe Denly (born 1986) – cricketer for Kent and England
  • Sammy Moore (born 1987) – footballer for Ipswich Town
  • Zack Sabre Jr (born 1987) – professional wrestler
  • Chris Smalling (born 1989) – footballer with Manchester United F.C.
  • Adrian Quaife-Hobbs (born 1991) – Formula BMW racing driver
  • Luis Binks (born 2001) - Footballer

Writers

Miscellaneous

See also

People of London boroughs from historic Kent:

References