FAMOUS PEOPLE FROM EASTERN ENGLAND
By Tim Lambert
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ADLEBURGH, SUFFOLK
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Pioneering woman doctor
Dame Millicent Fawcett 1847-1929 Suffragette
ASWARBY George Bass 1771-1803 Explorer
BLACK NOTLEY John Ray 1627-1705 Naturalist
John Foxe 1517-87 Author of Book of Martyrs
Jean Ingelow 1820-97 Poet
John Tavener 1490-1545 Composer
BOURNE Sir William Cecil 1520-98 Treasurer to Elizabeth I
BURNHAM THORPE, NORFOLK Horatio Nelson 1758-1805
Christopher Anstey 1724-1805 Writer
Humphry Repton 1752-1818 Landscape designer
BUXTON, NORFOLK Thomas Cubitt 1788-1855 Builder
Christopher Cockerell 1910-1999 Invented the hovercraft
John Maynard Keynes 1883-1946 Economist
Olivia Newton-John 1948- Singer/actress
Ronald Norrish 1897-1978 Physical chemist
Gwen Raverat 1885-1957 Wood Engraver
William Whitehead 1715-1785 Playwright
CLEETHORPES, LINCOLNSHIRE Patricia Hodge 1946-Actress
William Gilbert 1540-1603 Scientist
Roger Penrose 1931- Mathematician
DEREHAM, NORFOLK Brian Aldiss 1925- Writer
DONINGTON, LINCOLNSHIRE Matthew Flinders 1774-1817 Explorer
EARLHAM, NORFOLK Elizabeth Fry 1780-1845 Prison reformer
EAST DEREHAM George Henry Borrow 1803-81 Writer
EAST BERGHOLT, SUFFOLK Constable 1776 1837 Artist
ELY Guy Pearce 1967- Actor
EPWORTH, LINCOLNSHIRE John Wesley 1703-1791 Founder of Methodism
John Maw 1935- Composer
Henry More 1614-1687 Philosopher
Nicholas Parsons 1923- Broadcaster
Margaret Thatcher 1925- Prime Minister
GREAT YARMOUTH Anna Sewell 1820-1878 Wrote Black Beauty
GRIMSBY Margaret Ritchie 1903-1969 Singer
HARLOW
Sarah Adams 1805-1848 Poet
Rik Mayall 1958- Comedian
HOLBEACH, LINCOLNSHIRE Sir Norman Angell 1873-1967 Economist
HORNINGTOFT, NORFOLK Fuller Pilch 1804-70 Cricketer
HUNTINGDON Oliver Cromwell 1599-1658
Jane Lapotaire 1944- Actress
Trevor Nunn 1940- Theatrical Director
Clara Reeve 1729-1807 Writer
Cardinal Thomas Wolsey 1471-1530
Fanny Burney 1752-1840 Novelist
George Coulton 1858-1947 Historian
George Vancouver 1757-98 Explorer
George Boole 1815-1864 Mathematician
Penelope Fitzgerald 1916-2000
LOWESTOFT
Benjamin Britten 1913-76 Composer
Thomas Nash 1567-1601 Poet and writer
Michael Brunson 1940- Journalist
John Sell Cotman 1782-1842 Artist
Rupert Everett 1959- Actor
Elizabeth Fry 1780-1845 Prison Reformer
Robert Greene 1560-92 Writer
Mary Lyon 1925- Geneticist
SAFFRON WALDEN Gabriel Harvey 1550-1631 Poet
sSCUNTHORPE Martin Simpson 1953- Singer
SLEAFORD Jennifer Saunders 1958- Comedian
SOMERSBY, LINCOLNSHIRE Alfred Tennyson 1809-92 Poet
SOUTHEND-ON-SEA Peter Cook 1936- Architect
SPILBY, LINCOLNSHIRE Sir John Franklin 1786-1847 Explorer
SUDBURY Thomas Gainsborough 1727-88 Artist
SWAFFHAM, NORFOLK Howard Carter 1874-1939 Egyptologist
THERBERTON, SUFFOLK Charles Doughty 1843-1926 Explorer
THETFORD Thomas Paine 1737 Political radical
Thomas Clarkson 1760-1846 Campaigner against slavery
Octavia Hill 1838-1912 co-founder of the National Trust
Sir Harold Kroto 1939- Chemist
Lilian Ream 1877-1961 Photographer
WITHAM John Rayleigh 1842-1919 Physicist
WOODBRIDGE, SUFFOLK Edward Fitzgerald 1809-83 poet and translator
WOOLSTHORPE, LINCOLNSHIRE Isaac Newton 1642-1727 Physicist