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Bedfordshire people past and present
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Bedfordshire people past and
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- Abbot, Charles - botanist
- Abbot, George - explorer
- Abraham, Harold - Olympian
- Adkin, Henry - Businessman
- Albone, Dan - inventor and cyclist
- Allen, William Henry - business owner
- Bagshawe, Thomas Wyatt - local historian and explorer
- Ronnie Barker - entertainer
- Barltrop, Mabel - religious leader
- Batchelor, Thomas - poet and inventor
- Black Tom - highwayman
- Blake, Annie - cinema trailblazer
- Bloomfield, Robert - author
- Brown, Rev. John - Minister of Bunyan Meeting
- Buckingham, William VC - soldier
- Bunyan, John - writer and preacher
- Burnaby, Frederick - soldier, balloonist, adventurer and author
- Byng, Admiral John - Royal Navy Officer
- Byng, John (Fifth Viscount Torrington) - diarist
- Carrington, Dora - artist
- Carter, (Wilfred) George - Aeronautical engineer
- Catherine of Aragon - first wife of Henry VIII
- Cheney, Lord Henry - owner of Toddington Manor
- Cherry-Garrard, Apsley - explorer
- Chetham, Daisy - cinema trailblazer
- Clough, Joseph Alan 'Joe' - LT's first black bus driver
- Cooper, Gary - film star
- Dann, Thomas - cemetery superintendent/registrar
- De Breaute, Falkes - medieval soldier
- Dunstable (Dunstaple), John - astronomer and musician
- Eagles, Sister Fanny Elizabeth - Church of England Deaconess
- Foster, Albert John - author and clergyman
- Fowler, George Herbert - local historian
- Fowler, Winifred - first female Mayor of Bedford
- Gifford, John - Protestant minister
- Green, Edward Aveling - artist
- Grey, Zachary - author and clergyman
- Harpur, Sir William - philanthropist
- Hawkins, Hester Periam - Astronomer and Hymn Writer
- Hawkins, Joshua - Businessman and 5 times Mayor of Bedford
- Henley W.E - poet and playwright
- Henry VIII - King of England
- Henman, Walter N - local antiquary
- Higgins, Charles Longuet - benefactor of Turvey
- Howard, James and Frederick - engineers
- Howard, John - prison reformer
- Howard, John - industrialist and mayor
- Huddleston, Trevor - anti-apartheid priest and activist
- Jackson, Thomas Jobson - architect, artist & athlete
- Jenkins, Roy - politician, statesman
- Le Mesurier, John - actor
- Lester, Thomas - lace merchant
- Loring, Sir Nigel - medieval soldier
- Mackintosh, Aeneas - explorer
- Marconi, Guglielmo - inventor
- Mason, Dr. Dora - pioneer woman doctor, medical officer of health, suffragist & soroptimist
- Miller, Alton Glenn - musician
- Norton, Mary - author
- Okey, John - soldier and MP
- Palgrave, Charles - mayor
- Palgrave, Robert - architect
- Paxton, Sir Joseph - architect, engineer and gardener
- Bertha Philpotts - scholar
- Pike, Oliver - wildlife photographer and author
- Prosser, Albert - architect
- Queen Eleanor - wife of Edward I
- Ratsey, Gamaliel - highwayman
- Richardson, Sir Albert - architect
- Richmond, Leigh - rector of Turvey and author
- Rowe, Nicholas - playwright
- Smith, Worthington George - local historian
- Smyth, William Henry - astronomer
- Snagge, Thomas - politician
- Southcott, Joanna - prophetess
- Stannard, Henry - artist
- Stannard, Henry John Sylvester - artist
- Stannard, Theresa Sylvester - artist
- Stansfeld, Margaret - education pioneer
- Stott, Etienne - Olympic champion canoeist
- Tompion, Thomas - clockmaker
- Usher, John - architect
- Walmsley, Amy - college principal and suffragist
- Wells, Charles - brewer
- Western, Kenneth - Music Hall and Radio Star
- White, William Hale (Mark Rutherford) - author
- Wild, Ernest - explorer
- Wild, Frank - explorer
- Wilson, Salim Charles (Hatashil Masha Kathish) - businessman and African slave
- Wray, Samuel - soldier
Page last updated: 16th May 2024