List of people from Sussex facts for kids

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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.

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)
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

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