List of people from Sussex

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This is a list of people from Sussex, a historic county in southern England. The following are people who were either born, brought up or have lived for a significant period of time in Sussex, or for whom Sussex is a significant part of their identity. Only those meeting notability criteria are included. A few people appear in more than one section of the list.

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Arts

Actors

Lesley Manville

• George K. Arthur (1899–1985)
• Alexandra Bastedo (1946–2014)
• Daniel Betts (born 1971)
• Gwendoline Christie (born 1978)
• Sophie Cookson (born 1990)
• Michael Elphick (1946–2002)
• Tara Fitzgerald (born 1967)
• Philip Friend (born 1915–1987)
• Judy Geeson (born 1948)
• Nigel Humphreys (born 1951)
• Katie Johnson (born 1878–1957)
• Jane Leeves (born 1961) ('Frasier')
• Lesley Manville (born 1956)
• Charlotte Mardyn (1789–1844)
• Anna Massey (1937–2011)
• Tamzin Merchant (born 1987)
• Cecil Parker (1897–1971)
• Amanda Redman (born 1957)
• Dakota Blue Richards (born 1994)
• David Ryall (1935–2014)
• Greta Scacchi (born 1960)
• Nicollette Sheridan (born 1963)
• Hugh Williams (1904–1969)

Architects

• Robert Knott Blessley (1833–1923), architect
• Charles Busby (1786–1834), architect
• Somers Clarke (1841–1926), architect
• Ernest Coxhead (1863–1933), Sussex-born American architect
• John Leopold Denman (1882–1975), architect
• George Devey (1820–1886), architect
• Frederick Charles Eden (1864–1944), architect
• Walter Godfrey (1881–1961), architect
• Piers Gough (born 1946), architect
• Nicholas Grimshaw (born 1939), architect
• Thomas Lainson (1825–1898), architect
• Harvey Lonsdale Elmes (1814–1847), architect
• Hugh May (1621–1684), architect
• John Rebecca (died 1847), architect
• Ian Ritchie (born 1947), architect
• Edward Sargent (1842–1914), Sussex-born American architect
• Henry Bingham Towner (1909–1997), architect
• Randall Wells (1877–1942), architect
• Amon Henry Wilds (1784 or 1790–1857), architect
• Amon Wilds (1762–1833), architect

Artists

Aubrey Beardsley

Alison Lapper

• Helen Cordelia Angell (1847–1884), watercolour painter
• Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898), illustrator
• Raymond Briggs (1934–2022), illustrator, cartoonist and graphic novelist
• Edward Burra (1905–1976), painter
• Russell Drysdale (1912–1981), Sussex-born Australian artist
• Clifford Ellis (1907–1985), printmaker, painter and designer
• Ralph Ellis (1885–1963), painter and designer of inn signs
• Eric Gill (1882–1940), sculptor, typeface designer and printmaker
• Gluck (1895–1978), painter
• Patricia Goldsmith (1929–2017), painter and printmaker
• Captain Thomas Honywood (1819–1888), photographer
• Jamie Hewlett (born 1968), comic creator, animator and designer
• Edward Johnston (1872–1944), Uruguayan-born craftsman and calligrapher
• Alison Lapper (born 1965), artist
• Raoul Millais (1901–1999), portrait painter and equestrian artist
• Lee Miller (1907–1977), American-born photographer
• Marianne North (1830–1890), botanical artist
• Paul Pagk (born 1962), painter
• Roland Penrose (1900–1984), artist and collector of modern art
• Eric Ravilious (1903–1942), painter, designer, book illustrator and wood-engraver
• George Smith (1713/14-1776), landscape painter
• Hilary Stratton (1906–1985), sculptor
• Paddy Summerfield (born 1929), artist
• Paul Tanqueray (1905–1991), photographer
• Alan Thornhill (1921–2020), sculptor
• Alfred Tidey (1808–1892), miniature-painter

Broadcasters

• Zoe Ball (born 1970), television and radio presenter
• Hermione Cockburn (born 1973), television and radio presenter
• Simon Fuller (born 1960), television producer
• Sarah Kennedy (born 1950), television and radio presenter
• Des Lynam (born 1942), television presenter
• Piers Morgan (born 1965), broadcaster and journalist
• Richard Osman (born 1970), television presenter
• Jon Snow (born 1947), television presenter and journalist
• Jamie Theakston (born 1970), television and radio presenter
• Dan Walker (born 1977), television presenter, journalist and newsreader
• Holly Willoughby (born 1981), television presenter

Comedians

Romesh Ranganathan

• James Bachman (born 1972), comedian
• Jo Brand (born 1957), comedian
• Harry Enfield (born 1961), comedian
• Stephen Grant (born 1973), comedian
• Tony Hawks (born 1960), comedian
• Alex Horne (born 1978), comedian
• Zoe Lyons (born 1971), comedian
• Max Miller (1894–1963), comedian
• Simon Nye (born 1958), comic television writer
• Paul Putner (born 1966), comedian
• Romesh Ranganathan (born 1978), comedian

Dancers

• Francesca Hayward (born 1992), ballet dancer
• Nancy Osbaldeston (born 1989), ballet dancer

Fashion designers

• Stella McCartney (born 1971)
• Ted Tinling (1910–1990)

Filmmakers

• Beryl Armstrong (born 1928), film director, screenwriter, producer and author
• Adrian Brunel (1892–1958), film director and screenwriter
• Charles Bennett (1899–1995), film director and screenwriter
• Don Chaffey (1917–1990), film director, screenwriter and producer
• Matt Charman (born 1979), screenwriter and producer
• Jack Clayton (1921–1995), film director and producer
• Graham Cutts (1884–1958), film director
• Brian Eastman (born 1949), film producer
• Sean Ellis (born 1970), film director, screenwriter and producer
• Robert Fox (born 1952), film producer
• Charles Frend (1909–1977), film director
• Manning Haynes (1889–1957), film director
• Adam Stephen Kelly (born 1990), film director, screenwriter and producer
• Pete Walker (born 1939), film director, screenwriter and producer

Musicians

• Charlesia Alexis (1934–2012), Chagossian singer
• Anohni (born 1971), singer
• Brett Anderson (born 1967), singer (Suede, The Tears)
• Florence Aylward (1862–1950), composer
• Tony Banks (born 1950), keyboardist
• Natasha Bedingfield (born 1981), singer-songwriter
• Wilfred Brown (1921–1971), tenor
• Henry Burstow (1826–1916), folk singer and bellringer
• Clara Butt (1872–1936), contralto
• Nick Cave (born 1957), Australian-born singer, songwriter
• Celeste (born 1994), singer and songwriter
• Tom Chaplin (born 1979), singer-songwriter and musician (Keane)
• Shirley Collins (born 1935), folk singer
• Ms. Dynamite (born 1981), singer
• Keith Emerson (1944–2016), keyboardist, songwriter and composer
• Gary Farr (born 1944), folk/blues singer
• Ruth Gipps (1921–1999), composer
• Dominic Glynn (born 1960), electronic composer
• Harry Gregson-Williams (born 1961), composer
• Mike Hazlewood (1941–2001), singer, composer and songwriter
• Nigel Kennedy (born 1956), violinist and violist
• William Henry Kerridge (1881–1940), organist
• Pete Kirtley (born 1972), songwriter
• Vera Lynn (1917–2020), singer and songwriter
• Conor Maynard (born 1992), singer-songwriter
• James McCartney (born 1977), musician and songwriter
• Paul McCartney (born 1942), singer-songwriter, has lived near Rye since the late 1970s
• Isolde Menges (1893–1976), violinist
• Tom Odell (born 1990), singer-songwriter
• Ray Noble (1903–1978), bandleader
• Passenger (born 1984), singer-songwriter, musician
• Maisie Peters (born 2000), singer-songwriter
• Luke Pritchard (born 1985), lead-singer of The Kooks
• Rag'n'Bone Man (born 1985), singer and songwriter
• Leslie Rands (1900–1972), opera singer
• Tim Rice-Oxley (born 1976), musician and singer (Keane)
• Leo Sayer (born 1948), singer-songwriter
• Robert Smith (born 1959), singer, songwriter, musician (The Cure)
• Spider Stacy (born 1958), musician, singer, songwriter (The Pogues)
• Suggs (born 1961), singer-songwriter, musician (Madness)
• Nick Van Eede (born 1958), musician, producer, songwriter
• Thomas Weelkes (1576–1623), composer and organist
• Bruce Welch (born 1941), guitarist
• Wreckless Eric (born 1954), singer-songwriter
• Nicholas Yonge (c.1560–1619), singer

Writers

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Virginia Woolf

• Conrad Aiken (1889–1973), American-born writer and poet
• Joan Aiken (1924–2004), novelist
• Jane Aiken Hodge (1917–2009), American-born writer
• John Agard (born 1949), Guyanese-born poet
• Vivien Alcock (1924–2003), writer of children's books
• Val Andrews (1926–2006), prolific writer on magic
• Attila the Stockbroker (born 1957), punk poet
• David Bangs, writer and conservationist
• Elizabeth Bartlett (1924–2008), poet
• Viola Bayley (1911–1997), children's author
• Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898), author
• Archibald Stansfield Belaney (commonly known as Grey Owl) (1888–1938)
• Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953), poet and writer
• Marie Belloc Lowndes (1868–1947), novelist
• E. F. Benson (1867–1940), writer
• Clementina Black (1853–1922), writer
• William Blake (1757–1827), poet
• Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840–1922), poet and writer
• Andrew Boorde (c.1490–1549)
• Joyce Lankester Brisley (1896–1978), writer
• Arabella Buckley (1840–1929), writer
• Anthony Burgess (1917–1993), novelist, wrote A Clockwork Orange in Etchingham
• Anna Burns (born 1962), novelist
• Edward Carpenter (1844–1929), poet
• John Caryll (senior) (1625–1711), poet and dramatist
• William Collins (1721–1759), poet
• Eliza Cook (1818–1889), writer and Chartist
• Catherine Cookson (1906–1998), author (citation required)
• E.M. Delafield (1890–1943), author
• Alice Dudeney (1866–1945), author and short story writer
• Henry Dudeney (1857–1930), author
• Maureen Duffy (born 1933), poet, novelist, non-fiction author
• Anne Francis (1738–1800), author
• John Fletcher (1579–1625), playwright
• Ford Maddox Ford (1873–1939), novelist and poet
• John Galsworthy (1867–1933), novelist and playwright
• Neil Gaiman (born 1960), fantasy writer
• Leon Garfield (1921–1996), writer of children's fiction
• Angelica Garnett (1918–2012), writer and artist
• David Garnett (1892–1981), writer
• Rumer Godden (1907–1998), writer
• Leon Gordon (1891–1960), playwright
• Elly Griffiths (born 1963), crime novelist
• Patrick Hamilton (1904–1962), playwright and novelist
• David Hare (born 1947), playwright and screenwriter
• William Hay (1695–1755), writer
• William Hayley (1745–1820), writer
• Ralph Hammond Innes (1913–1998), novelist
• Edward James (1907–1984), poet
• Henry James (1843–1916), American author
• Peter James (born 1948), writer of crime fiction
• P.J. Kavanagh (1931–2015), poet
• Sheila Kaye-Smith (1887–1956), novelist
• Grace Kimmins (1870–1954)
• Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), poet and novelist
• Damian Le Bas (born 1985), writer
• Theodora Elizabeth Lynch (1812–1885), poet and novelist
• Peter Marshall (born 1946), biographer, travel writer and poet
• Thomas May (1594/5-1650), poet and dramatist
• Thomas Medwin (1788–1869), writer and poet
• A. A. Milne (1882–1956), author, best known for his Winnie-the-Pooh books
• Kate Mosse (born 1961), novelist
• Grace Nichols (born 1950), Guyanese-born poet
• William Nicholson (born 1948), screenwriter, novelist and playwright
• Thomas Otway (1652–1685), dramatist
• Hilary Douglas Clark Pepler (1878–1951), writer and poet
• Roland Penrose (1900–1984), poet and artist
• Valentine Penrose (1898–1978), French-born surrealist poet and author
• Alex Preston (born 1979), author and journalist
• Bessie Rayner Parkes (1829–1925), writer
• Richard Realf (1832–1878), poet
• Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset (1536–1608), poet and dramatist
• Malcolm Saville (1901–1982), author
• Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), Romantic poet
• Chris Simms (born 1969), author of crime novels
• George Smith (1713/14-1776), poet
• Noel Streatfeild (1895–1986), author
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892), poet
• Isabella Tree (born 1964), writer and conservationist
• Robert Tressell (1870–1911), novelist, The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists
• Frank Tuohy (1925–1999), writer
• Charles Webb (1939–2020), American novelist, The Graduate
• H. G. Wells (1866–1946), writer
• Barbara Willard (1909–1994), novelist
• Angus Wilson (1913–1991), novelist and short-story writer
• Virginia Woolf (1882–1941), writer

Explorers

Tim Peake

• Thomas Bannister (1799–1874), explorer of Western Australia
• Victor L. A. Campbell (1875–1956), Antarctic explorer
• Isabella Charlet-Straton (1838–1918), mountaineer, made first winter ascent of Mont Blanc
• Rosemary Coogan (born 1991), Northern Ireland-born astronaut
• Charles Cooke Hunt (1833–1868), explorer of interior of Western Australia
• Nicholas Crane (born 1954), explorer and television presenter
• Ernest Joyce (1875–1940), Antarctic explorer
• Cecil Pashley (1891–1961), aviation pioneer
• Tim Peake (born 1972), astronaut
• Piers Sellers (1955–2016), astronaut

Military personnel

• Sidney Godley (1889–1957), recipient of Victoria Cross
• G. F. Gorringe (1868–1945), field commander
• Roger P. Hill (1910–2001), Royal Navy commander
• Ernest Joyce (1875–1940), Royal Navy seaman and explorer
• Frederick Tees (1922–1982), RAF gunner (Operation Chastise)
• Arthur David Torlesse (1902–1995), Royal Navy officer
• Cicely Ethel Wilkinson (1882/83—1967), possibly the only woman to qualify as a pilot in Britain during the First World War

Monarchs and nobility

See also: List of monarchs of Sussex

• Adeliza of Louvain (c.1103—1151), Queen of England 1121–1135
• Aelle of Sussex (fl.c.477—c.514), King of Sussex
• Aethelwalh of Sussex (fl.c.660—c.685), King of Sussex
• Queen Camilla (born 1947), wife of Charles III
• Eppillus (fl. c. 20BC—AD7), Iron Age king with capital at Chichester
• Tiberius Claudius Cogidubnus (fl. 1st century AD), king of Regni
• George IV (1762–1830), King of the United Kingdom and King of Hanover 1820–1830
• Godwin, Earl of Wessex (died 1053), Earl of Wessex and father of Harold Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England
• Verica (fl. c. AD15—AD42), king of southern Atrebates with capital at Chichester

Philanthropists

• Octav Botnar (1913–1998)
• Richard Churcher (1659–1723)
• Mad Jack Fuller (1757–1834)
• Ann Thwaytes (1789–1866)
• Jane Woodward (1823/4—1894)

Politicians and activists

Richard Cobden

• Edith Ayrton (1879–1945), suffragist
• Barbara Bodichon (1827–1891), feminist and women's rights activist
• Clementina Black (1853–1922), feminist and trade unionist
• James Callaghan (1912–2005), former prime minister of the United Kingdom 1976–1979
• Anna Campbell (1991–2018), feminist, anarchist and prison abolition activist who fought with the Women's Protection Units (YPJ) in the Rojava Conflict of the Syrian Civil War
• Edward Carpenter (1844–1929), early activist for gay rights and animal rights
• William Cawley (1602–1667), regicide and MP
• Jane Cobden (1851–1947), suffragist
• Richard Cobden (1804–1865), MP and co-founder of Anti-Corn Law League
• Maureen Colquhoun (1928–2021), UK's first openly lesbian MP
• Margery Corbett Ashby (1882–1981), suffragist, feminist and internationalist
• Cicely Corbett Fisher (1885–1959), suffragist and workers' rights activist
• Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon (1866–1941), politician, former governor general of Canada and former viceroy and governor-general of India
• Harry Hay (1912–2002), Sussex-born American gay rights activist
• James Henty (1800–1882), Sussex-born Australian politician
• Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham, lawyer, politician and Lord Chancellor
• Sabrina Jean (born 1973), Chagossian activist
• Sophia Jex-Blake (1840–1912), suffragist
• Jenny Jones, Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (born 1949), first Green Party member of the House of Lords
• Helen Joseph (1905–1992), anti-apartheid activist
• Jomo Kenyatta (c.1897–1978), first prime minister and president of Kenya
• Imran Khan (born 1952), current prime minister of Pakistan
• Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond (1735–1806), known as the 'radical duke', probable owner of 'Sussex declaration' of US independence
• Caroline Lucas (born 1960), first and only Green Party MP
• Harold Macmillan (1894–1986), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1957–1963
• Louisa Martindale (1839–1914), suffragist and workers' rights activist
• Theresa May (born 1956), former prime minister of the United Kingdom 2016–2019
• John Merfold (fl 1450–51), leader of 1450 uprising Henry VI
• William Merfold (fl 1450–51), leader of 1450 uprising against Henry VI
• Ralph Neville (died 1244), Lord Chancellor of England
• Thomas Paine (1737–1809), political activist
• Henry Pelham (1694–1754), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1743–1754
• Tony Penikett (born 1945), Premier of Yukon 1985–1992
• William Penn (1644–1718), founder of the Province of Pennsylvania, lived at Warminghurst
• Bessie Rayner Parkes (1829–1925), feminist
• Anita Roddick (1942–2007), human rights activist and environmental campaigner
• Anthony Stapley (1590–1655), regicide and MP
• William Bridgland Steer (1867–1939), trade unionist and politician
• Allen Vincatassin, first and current president of the Diego Garcia and Chagos Islands Council

Religious figures

Archbishops

• Thomas Arundel (1353–1414), Archbishop of Canterbury, 1397–1399 and Archbishop of York
• Thomas Bradwardine (1300–1349), Archbishop of Canterbury, 1349
• Accepted Frewen (1588–1664), Archbishop of York
• William Juxon (1582–1663), Archbishop of Canterbury 1660–1663
• Henry Edward Manning (1808–1892), Archbishop of Westminster (1865–1892) and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
• Cormac Murphy-O'Connor (1932–2017), Archbishop of Westminster and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (2000–2009)
• John Peckham (c.1230–1292), Archbishop of Canterbury 1279–1292

Martyrs

• George Gervase (1571–1608), martyred Catholic priest
• James Hannington (1847–1885), Anglican missionary and martyr
• Thomas Pilchard (11557-1587), Catholic priest and martyr
• Edward Shelley (c.1530–1588), Catholic martyr
• Richard Shelley (died 1586), Catholic recusant
• Richard Woodman (c.1524–1557), Protestant martyr

Saints

• Cuthmann of Steyning (c.681–8th century), saint
• Leofwynn of Bishopstone (fl 7th century), saint
• Richard of Chichester (1197–1253), patron saint of Sussex
• Philip Howard, 13th Earl of Arundel (1557–1595), Catholic saint

Other religious leaders

• Matthew Caffyn (1628–1714), General Baptist preacher
• Richard Challoner (1691–1781), Roman Catholic bishop and leading figure of English Catholicism
• Cornelia Connelly (1809–1879), US-born founder of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus and Mayfield School, Mayfield
• Richard Enraght (1837–1898), Irish-born Anglo-Catholic priest
• John Sirgood (1822–1885), Gloucestershire-born fundamentalist lay preacher, founder of Society of Dependants
• Thomas Stapleton (1535–1598), Catholic theologian
• Fiona Windsor (born 1956), archdeacon of Horsham, and the first female archdeacon in Sussex

Scientists and scholars

Anthropologists

• E.E. Evans-Pritchard (1902–1973), anthropologist
• David Pilbeam (born 1940), palaeoanthropologist

Archaeologists

• John Pull (1899–1960)
• Mark Roberts (archaeologist) (born 1961)

Astronomers

• Patrick Moore (1923–2012), astronomer and broadcaster
• Ian Morison (born 1943), astronomer and astrophysicist
• Martin Ryle (1918–1984), radio astronomer, winner of Nobel Prize

Biologists

Frederick Gowland Hopkins

• William Borrer (1781–1862), botanist
• Edward Boyse (1923–2007), physician and biologist
• Barry Fell (1917–1994), zoologist
• Isabella Forshall (1900–1989), paediatric surgeon
• John Braxton Hicks (1823–1897), doctor and obstrecian
• Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861–1947), biochemist and Nobel Prize winner
• Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895), biologist and anthropologist
• Sophia Jex-Blake (1840–1912), physician, pioneer female doctor
• Thomas H. Jukes (1906–1999), biologist known for his work in nutrition and molecular evolution
• Martin Holdgate (born 1931), biologist and environmental scientist
• Marianne North (1830–1890), biologist
• Richard Russell (1687–1759), physician
• Edith Rebecca Saunders (1865–1945), geneticist and plant anatomist
• F. M. L. Sheffield (1904–1973), botanist
• David Sims (born 1969), marine biologist
• Octavia Wilberforce (1888–1963), physician

Chemists

• Tom Blundell (born 1942), biochemist
• Martin Fleischmann (1927–2012), electrochemist
• Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861–1947), biochemist and Nobel Prize winner
• Frederick Soddy (1877–1956), radiochemist

Computer scientists

• Stanley Gill (1926–1975), co-inventor of first computer subroutine
• Alan Turing (1912–1954)

Economists

• Richard Blundell (born 1952), economist and econometrician
• Richard Jolly (born 1934), development economist
• John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946), founder of Keynesian economics
• George Paish (1867–1957), economist

Geologists and palaeontologists

• Gideon Mantell (1790–1852), geologist, palaeontologist and obstetrician (discoverer of Iguanadon)

Historians

• Kevin Brownlow (born 1938), film historian
• Thomas Walker Horsfield (1792–1837), Yorkshire-born historian best known for his works on Sussex history
• Mark Antony Lower (1813–1876), known for his works on Sussex history, anti-Catholic propagandist and founder member of the Sussex Archaeological Society
• Elizabeth Norton (born 1986)
• Philip Payton (born 1953)
• Louis Francis Salzman (1878–1971), economic historian

Mathematicians

• Frank Anscombe (1918–2001), statistician
• Ruth Lawrence (born 1971)
• David Mumford (born 1937)
• John Pell (1611–1685)
• Harold Stanley Ruse (1905–1974)

Philosophers

• Thomas Bradwardine (1300–1349)
• Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921), anarcho-communist philosopher lived in Brighton
• Gilbert Ryle (1900–1976)

Physicists

• Emma Bunce (born 1975), space physicist
• Anthony French (1920–2017), physicist
• Alan Ernest Owen (1928–1999), physicist specialising in glass technology
• William Francis Gray Swann (1884–1962), physicist noted for his research into cosmic rays

Psychologists

• William Brown (1881–1952)
• Edward B. Titchener (1867–1927)

Sportspeople

Boxers

• Chris Eubank Jr. (born 1989)
• Alan Minter (1951–2020)
• Tom Sayers (1826–1865)
• Scott Welch (born 1968), known as 'the Brighton Rock'

Cricketers

Holly Colvin

James Lillywhite

• Chris Adams (born 1970), captain of the Sussex men's team during their 'golden era' in the early 2000s
• Georgia Adams (born 1993)
• Caroline Atkins (born 1981)
• Jem Broadbridge (1795–1843)
• Henry Charlwood (1846–1888)
• Holly Colvin (born 1989)
• Clare Connor (born 1976)
• George Cox Sr (1873–1949)
• Mason Crane (born 1997)
• Jemmy Dean (1816–1881)
• Duleepsinhji (1905–1959)
• Ed Giddins (born 1971)
• William Henty (1808–1881), bowled the first ever ball in a first class cricket match in Australia
• Jack Hobbs (1882–1963)
• Chris Jordan (born 1988)
• Imran Khan (born 1952)
• James Kirtley (born 1975)
• James Langridge (1906–1966)
• James Lillywhite (1842–1929)
• John Lillywhite (1826–1874)
• William Lillywhite (1792–1854)
• Kate Oakenfold (born 1984)
• Alan Oakman (1930–2018)
• Jim Parks (born 1903) (1903–1980)
• Jim Parks (born 1931) (born 1931)
• Barbara Pont (born 1933)
• Matt Prior (born 1982), South African-born cricketer for Sussex and England
• Ranjitsinhji (1872–1933)
• Albert Relf (1874–1937)
• Charlie Russell (born 1988)
• James Southerton (1827–1880)
• Maurice Tate (1895–1956)
• Joe Vine (1875–1946)
• Alexia Walker (born 1982)
• Alan Wells (born 1961)
• Colin Wells (born 1960)
• John Wisden (1826–1884)
• Elaine Wulcko (born 1959)

Footballers

• Gareth Barry (born 1981)
• Tony Bloom (born 1970), chairman and owner of Brighton & Hove Albion and Royale Union Saint-Gilloise
• Lewis Dunk (born 1991)
• Jarvis Kenrick (1852–1949)
• Bobby Tambling (born 1941)
• Charles Wollaston (1849–1926)

Golfers

• Max Faulkner (1916–2005)
• Abe Mitchell (1887–1947)
• Mark Seymour (1897–1952)

Racing drivers

Jolyon Palmer

• Derek Bell (born 1941)
• Martin Dugard (born 1969)
• Selwyn Edge (1868–1940)
• David Nye (born 1958)
• Jolyon Palmer (born 1991)
• Will Palmer (born 1997)
• David Purley (1945–1985)
• Richard Seaman (1913–1939)
• Jimmy Broadbent (born 1991)

Other sportspeople

Mercedes Gleitze

• Chemmy Alcott (born 1982), ski racer
• Bob Champion (born 1948), jump jockey and Grand National winner
• Mark Davis (born 1972), snooker player
• Mercedes Gleitze (1900–1981), swimmer (first person to swim the Strait of Gibraltar, first British woman to swim the English Channel)
• Leslie Godfree (1885–1971), tennis player and winner of men's doubles at Wimbledon
• Will Green (born 1973), rugby union player
• Guy Harwood (born 1939), racehorse trainer
• David Howell (born 1990), youngest UK chess grandmaster
• Johanna Konta (born 1991), tennis player
• Richard Leman (born 1959), field hockey player
• Michael Olowokandi (born 1975), former NBA player
• Liam Treadwell (1986–2000), jockey

Other notables

• Beachy Head Lady (fl. early to mid 3rd century AD), thought to be the first known person of sub-Saharan origin in Britain.
• Charles Burrell (born 1962), conservationist (Knepp Wildland Project)
• John Cripps (1927–2022), orchardist, responsible for creation of the Pink Lady ('Cripps Pink') and Sundowner ('Cripps Red') apples
• Martin Coles Harman (1885–1954), self-proclaimed king of Lundy
• Cecil Hurst (1870–1963), international lawyer, President of the Permanent Court of International Justice in The Hague (1934–1936) and Chairman of the United Nations War Crimes Commission (1943–1945)
• Peter Love (died 1610), pirate
• John Selden (1584–1654), jurist
• Maria Ann Smith (1799–1870), orchardist, responsible for creation of the Granny Smith apple

See also

• List of people from Brighton and Hove
• List of people from Hastings
• List of people from Lewes, East Sussex
• List of people from Littlehampton
• List of people from Worthing
• List of Sussex County Cricket Club players
• List of people from Cornwall
• List of people from Yorkshire

Bibliography

• Olusoga, David (2016). Black and British: a Forgotten History. Pan Macmillan. ISBN 9781447299745.