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Acting

Ann Street Barry (1734–1801), singer, dancer and stage actress.

George Bartley (1782?–1858), stage comedian.

Paul Bedford (1792?–1871), comedian.

Jennifer Biddall (born 1980), actress who played Jessica Harris in Hollyoaks.

Patricia Brake (1942–2022), actress in Porridge, and Going Straight

Adam Campbell (born 1980), actor in Epic Movie and Date Movie.

Julia Davis (born 1966), actress, comedian, director and writer.

Henry Gattie (1774–1844), actor and singer.

Michael Gwynn (1916–1976), actor

Anthony Head (1954-2026), actor, singer and performer in musical theatre.

Jonathan Hyde (born 1948), Australian-English actor.

Kym Jackson (born 1981), Australian actress and author.

Andrew Lincoln (born 1973), actor, brought up in Bath.

Jonathan Lynn (born 1943), actor, writer and director.

Angelica Mandy (living), actress in Vanity Fair, and in the Harry Potter series as Gabrielle Delacour

Leo McKern (1920–2002), actor in Rumpole

Architecture

Robert Adam (1728–1792) – architect of Pulteney Bridge, also produced unbuilt designs for the Assembly Rooms and Bathwick estate.

Thomas Baldwin (c. 1750–1820) – architect of Great Pulteney Street and Bath Guildhall.

Sir Reginald Blomfield (1856–1942) – architect of the Bath War Memorial and extension of the Holbourne Museum.

Thomas Fuller (1823–1898) – emigrated to Canada, where he co-designed the Parliament House in Ottawa.

Frederick Gibberd (1908–1984) – architect of Bath Technical College.

Henry Goodridge (1797–1864) – architect of Beckford's Tower, Cleveland Bridge and The Corridor shopping arcade

Sir Thomas Graham Jackson (1835–1924) – architect of the World War I memorial aisle Bath Abbey.

Charles Harcourt Masters (born 1759) – active in Bathwick including Sydney Gardens.

William Eden Nesfield (1835–1888) – architect, one of the leaders of the Gothic revival in England.

John Palmer (c. 1738–1817) – architect of the Pump Room and Lansdown Crescent.

Charles J. Phipps (1835–1897) – Theatre Royal, Bath and other theatres around Britain.

John Pinch the Elder (1769–1827) – the original Royal United Hospital

John Pinch the Younger (1796–1849) – architect

Arts

Roy Ascott (born 1934), new media artist

Daniel A. Baker (living), artist and producer of alternative comics.

Thomas Jones Barker (1813–1882), historical, military and portrait painter.

Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797–1839), poet, songwriter, dramatist and writer.

Manolo Blahnik (born 1942), shoe designer

Sir Peter Blake (born 1932) lived in Wellow village, near Bath, in the 1970s.

Peter Brown (born 1967), painter

Claire Calvert (born 1988), first soloist ballet dancer at The Royal Ballet

William Duffield (1816–1863), still-life painter.

Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788), painter

Heywood Hardy (1842–1933), painter

Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830), painter

Edwin Long (1829–1891), genre, history, biblical and portrait painter.

Willis Maddox (1813–1853), painter.

Kayleigh Pearson (born 1985), glamour model

John Robinson (1715–1745), portrait-painter.

John Sanders (1750–1825), painter.

Albert Way (1805–1874), an antiquary, and principal founder of the Royal Archaeological Institute.

Education

Marie Bethell Beauclerc (1845–1897) – England's first female shorthand teacher

Raymond Carr (1919–2015) – historian

William Harbutt (1844–1921) – headmaster and inventor of plasticine

Roderick Kedward (born 1937) – historian

Edward Vansittart Neale (1810–1892) – barrister, cooperator, and Christian socialist.

Isaac Pitman (1813–1897) – inventor of shorthand

Exiles

Haile Selassie I (1892–1975) – during World War II

Louis XVIII (1755–1824) – before ascending the French throne

Film and TV

Bill Bailey (born 1965) – comedian, musician, actor, TV and radio presenter and author

Jesse Honey (born 1977) – BBC Mastermind champion 2010

Russell Howard (born 1980) – comedian, TV presenter and actor

David Lassman (living) – screenwriter

Ken Loach (born 1936) – film director

Charlotte McDonnell (born 1990) – YouTuber, filmmaker and screenwriter

David Robinson (born 1930) – film critic and author, official biographer of Charlie Chaplin, lives in Bath.

Literature

Jane Austen (1775–1817) – novelist: Joan Aiken reports that Austen did not love the city: when she learnt her family were moving to Bath "she fainted dead away."

Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797–1839) – poet, songwriter, dramatist and writer.

William Beckford (1760–1844) – wrote Vathek and a series of works on travel.

Henrietta Maria Bowdler (1750–1830) – novelist and editor.

Jane Bowdler (1743–1784) – poet and essayist, was born and died at Ashley.

John Bowdler (1746–1823) – moral reformer and religious writer.

Thomas Bowdler (1754–1825) – physician and expurgator of Shakespeare.

Angela Carter (1940–1992) – novelist who lived in Bath in the early 1970s.

John Collins (1742–1808), an entertainer and poet.

Charles Dickens (1812–1870) – novelist and frequent visitor to Bath, who set much of the Pickwick Papers there

Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1744–1817) – an Anglo-Irish politician, writer and inventor.

Henry Fielding (1707–1754) – novelist

Prince Hoare (1755–1834), painter, art critic, dramatist and librettist.

William Hone (1780–1842) – writer, satirist and bookseller.

Military

General Sir Alfred Horsford (1816–1885), a senior Army officer and Military Secretary.

Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Macarthur (1789–1872), lieutenant-general in the British Army, Commander-in-chief in Australia.

Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (1758–1805) – admiral, freeman of Bath.

William Edward Parry (1790–1855) – rear-admiral and Arctic explorer.

Harry Patch (1898–2009) – supercentenarian and last trench veteran of World War I, lived in Combe Down.

George Wade (1673–1748) – field marshal and MP for Bath 1722

James Wolfe (1727–1759) – major general

Music

Lucy Anderson (bap. 1795–1878), pianist.

Gabrielle Aplin (born 1992) – singer-songwriter

Danny Byrd (born 1979) – drum and bass producer with Hospital Records

Eddie Cochran (1938–1960) – rock and roll musician who died in Bath

The Family Rain (formed in 2011) – blues rock band

Henry Ibbot Field (1797–1848), a classical pianist who also played Bath Abbey organ.

Fred V & Grafix – drum and bass production duo educated at Bath Spa University

Peter Gabriel (born 1950) – singer, songwriter, and musician.

Interview (1977–1981) – New wave band

Alison Goldfrapp (born 1966) – singer of Goldfrapp

Peter Hammill (born 1948) – singer-songwriter

Raymond Leppard (1927–2019) – conductor, educated Beechen Cliff School

Naked Eyes (formed 1982) – new wave musical group

Elizabeth Ann Linley (1754–1792), singer, often painted by Thomas Gainsborough

Mary Linley (1758–1787), singer, daughter of Thomas Linley the elder.

Thomas Linley the elder (1733–1795) – bass and musician

Public service

Ralph Allen (1693–1764) – postal reformer, quarrier and mayor, who set up the first nationwide cross-country postal network

Sir Henry Cole (1808–1882) – civil servant.

John Ford Davis (1773-1864), physician and mayor of Bath in 1830.

Don Foster (born 1947) – MP for Bath, 1992–2015

Beau Nash (1674–1761) – master of ceremonies in Georgian Bath

John Palmer (1742–1818) – inventor of a lightweight mail coach

Chris Patten – MP for Bath 1979–1992, then Governor of Hong Kong 1992–1997

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708–1788) – Prime Minister and MP for Bath, 1757–1766

William Pitt the Younger (1759–1806) – Prime Minister

Sir William Tite (1798–1873) – architect and MP for Bath, 1855–1873

Edward Vansittart Neale (1810–1892), barrister, cooperator, and Christian socialist.

Religion

Joseph Brown (1796–1880), a bishop of the Roman Catholic Church.

Louisa Daniell (1809–1871) – evangelical philanthropist and missionary

Thomas Grinfield (1788–1870), clergyman and hymn-writer.

John Hales (1584–1656) – cleric, theologian and writer.

Edward Hawkins (1789–1882), churchman and academic, Provost of Oriel College, Oxford.

William Jay (1769–1853) – preacher

Oliver King (c. 1432–1503) – Bishop of Bath and Wells, set up rebuilding of Bath Abbey

Richard Laurence (1760–1838), Hebraist and Anglican churchman, Archbishop of Cashel.

Abraham Marchant (1816–1881) – early Mormon leader, settler of Kamas, Utah

Royalty

Queen Anne (1665–1714) – visited for treatment of gout.

Princess Claire of Belgium (born 1974) – born in Bath

Edgar of England (c. 943–975) – crowned king of England in Bath Abbey in 973

Queen Elizabeth I (1533–1603) – on a visit, ordered the restoration of Bath Abbey

Mary of Modena (1658–1718) – came for treatment for infertility. After Prince James Francis Edward Stuart was born, she paid for a cross to be raised in what became Cross Baths.

Queen Victoria (1819–1901) – still a princess, stayed and opened Royal Victoria Park.

Science

Benjamin Baker (1840–1907), civil engineer.

Adelard of Bath (c. 1080 – c. 1152) – astronomer, philosopher and mathematician

Adela Breton (1849–1923) – artist and archaeologist, recorded Mexican frescoes in the 1890s.

Mike Cowlishaw (living) – computer scientist and engineer

Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1744–1817) – writer and inventor

Robert Leslie Ellis (1817-1859), polymath and principally a mathematician.

David Hartley (the Younger) (1732–1813) – philosopher and inventor

Caroline Herschel (1750–1848) – astronomer who discovered several comets.

William Herschel (1738–1822) – astronomer, discoverer of Uranus and musician

Aylmer Bourke Lambert (1761–1842), botanist, fellow of the Linnean Society.

William Lonsdale (1794–1871) – English geologist and palaeontologist.

Thomas Robert Malthus (1866–1934) – philosopher and economist

Dr William Oliver (1695–1764) – a founder of the Royal Mineral Water Hospital and inventor of the Bath Oliver savoury biscuit.

Charles Henry Parry (1779–1860), physician and writer.

Percy Pilcher (1867–1899) – inventor and aviation pioneer

Sport

Xavier Amaechi (born 2001) – professional footballer.

George Attfield (1826–1925) – county cricketer active in the 1840s and 1850s.

Roger Bannister (1929–2018) – athlete, first man to run sub-four-minute mile

Olly Barkley (born 1981) – England international rugby player

Ashley Barnes (born 1989) – professional football player playing for Burnley F.C.

Tony Book (born 1934) – football player, Manchester City captain and manager, one of a Bath-based Book footballing dynasty

Jamie Chadwick (born 1998) – racing driver

Jason Dodd (born 1970) – footballer, Southampton captain holding a record for most premiership appearances by player without being named in an England squad

Jason Gardener (born 1975) – athlete, 4 × 100 m Olympic gold medallist

Matt Green (born 1987) – professional footballer

Mike Gregory (born 1987) – darts player, runner up at 1992 World Professional Darts Championship

Jeremy Guscott (born 1965) – England and Bath rugby player

Ed McKeever (born 1983) – kayak world champion (K1 200m)

Tyrone Mings (born 1993) – professional footballer for Aston Villa F.C.

Freedom of the City

The following people and military units have received the Freedom of the City of Bath.

Individuals

Prince George, Duke of Cambridge: 1897

Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal: 13 July 1911

Marquess of Bath: 20 June 1929

Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie: 18 October 1954

Amy Williams: 5 June 2010

Mary Berry: 7 June 2014

Military units

21st Signal Regiment (Air Support): November 2011