The Norfolk and Good: famous (non-literary) Norfolk People
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| Thomas Anguish |
1538-1617 |
Mayor of Norwich; founder
of educational charity.
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| Thomas Bignold |
1761-1835 |
Founder of Norwich Union
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| Henry Blofeld |
1939- |
Cricket commentator
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| Henry Blogg |
1876-1954 |
Lifeboatman, Cromer
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| Francis Blomefield |
1705-1752 |
Norfolk historian
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| Anne Boleyn |
1507-1536 |
May have been born at Blickling Hall.
(Some say her ghost is still there.)
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| Boudicca or Boadicea |
Died AD 61 |
Queen of the Iceni
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| Arnesby Brown |
1866-1955 |
Landscape painter
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| Harry Carter |
1907-1983 |
Sign maker; cousin of
Howard Carter
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| Howard Carter |
1874-1939 |
The archaeologist who discovered the
tomb of Tutankhamen. He was unaffected by the 'Curse of
the Pharaohs'.
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| Edith Cavell |
1865-1915 |
Nurse. Buried next to Norwich cathedral.
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| Thomas Coke |
1754-1842 |
PM and Holkham estate
owner.
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| Jeremiah Colman |
1830-1898 |
Moved the family's mustard business from
Stoke Holy Cross Mill to Carrow. Buried in
Rosary
Cemetery.
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| John Sell Cotman |
1782-1842 |
Artist
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| Harry Cox |
1885-1971 |
Folk singer and farmworker.
Born at Barton Turf.
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| John Crome |
1768-1821 |
Norwich School Painter
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| William Crotch |
1775-1847 |
Composer and child prodigy
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| Harold Davidson |
1876-1937 |
Rector of Stiffkey; saver
of fallen women
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| Cathy Dennis |
1969- |
Singer/songwriter
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| Sir James Dyson |
1947- |
Inventor of the Dyson hoover
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| Peter Emerson |
1856-1936 |
Broads photographer
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| William Faden |
1750-1836 |
Mapmaker
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| Bob Flowerdew |
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Organic gardener
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| Elizabeth Fry |
1780-1845 |
Prison reformer
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| Jack Gedge |
1886-1986 |
Last wherryman
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| Sienna Guillory |
1975- |
Actress
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| Robert Hales |
1820-1863 |
Giant (Buried in West Somerton
churchyard)
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| Neil Innes |
1944- |
Urban spaceman; educated at Thorpe
Grammar School
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| Thomas Ivory |
1709-1779 |
Architect
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| Will Judge |
1883-1960 |
'The Original Norfolk
Comedian'
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| Robert Kett |
1492-1549 |
Rebel. Hanged at Norwich
Castle.
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| Myleene Klass |
1978 |
Gorleston gal
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| Sam Larner |
1878-1965 |
Fisherman and folk singer. There is now
a blue plaque on his old house in
Winterton.
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| Jenny Lind |
1820-1887 |
The 'Swedish nightingale' sang at St.
Andrew's Hall in 1847. Later she raised money from
concerts to found the Jenny Lind Infirmary for Sick
Children.
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| Sydney Long |
1870-1939 |
Founder of Norfolk
Naturalists' Trust
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| Herbert de Losinga |
1054-1119 |
Founder of Norwich
Cathedral
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| Jem Mace |
1831-1910 |
Boxer
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| Ruth Madoc |
1943- |
Actress. Born in Norwich
but moved to Wales.
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| Louis Marchesi |
1898-1968 |
Founder of the Round Table
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Robert Marsham |
1708-1797 |
Tree planter and phenologist
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| Bernard Matthews |
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Turkey baron
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| Matthew Mcfadyen |
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Actor
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| Danny Mills |
1977- |
Footballer
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| Walter Nugent Monck |
1878-1958 |
Founder of Maddermarket Theatre
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| Alfred Munnings |
1878-1959 |
Horse painter
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| Sir Christopher Myngs |
1625-1666 |
Admiral and pirate
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| Lord Horatio Nelson |
1758-1805 |
Admiral (Buried St. Paul's Cathedral)
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| Nimmo Twins |
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Comedians
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| Beth Orton |
1970- |
Singer/songwriter
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| James Paget |
1814-1899 |
Surgeon
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| Walter Pardon |
1914-1996 |
Folk singer; born at Knapton
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| Samuel Peto |
1809-1889 |
Rail pioneer
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| Fuller Pilch |
1804-1870 |
Batsman
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| Humphrey Repton |
1752-1818 |
Landscape gardener; buried at Aylsham
church
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| Edward Rigby |
1747-1822 |
Surgeon. See
Framingham Earl
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| Edward Seago |
1910-1974 |
Artist. Lived in The Dutch
House at Ludham. His ashes were scattered on the
marshes.
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| James Stark |
1794-1859 |
Norwich School Painter;
buried in Rosary Cemetery
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| Sir Cloudesley Shovell |
1650-1707 |
Admiral (Shipwrecked on Scilly Isles;
buried Westminster Abbey.)
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| Frederick Deleep Singh |
1868-1926 |
Benefactor and local
historian. See Blo' Norton
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| John Edward Smith |
1759-1828 |
Founder of Linnaean Society
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| Chris Sutton |
1973- |
Footballer
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| Roger Taylor |
1949- |
Drummer with Queen
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| Charles 'Turnip' Townsend |
1674-1738 |
Invented four-course crop
rotation system
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| Peter Trudgill |
1943- |
Sociolinguist and Norfolk dialect expert
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| George Vancouver |
1757-1798 |
British Naval officer; born King's Lynn;
explored North America
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| Robert Walpole |
1676-1745 |
1st English Prime Minister.
See Houghton Hall
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| John Wilson |
1943- |
Angler, tackle shop owner, TV presenter
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