List of people from Penzance
List of notable residents of Penzance, a town in the Penwith district of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
- John Noble Barlow (1861–1917), painter
- Andrew Ketcham Barnett (1852–1914), mineral collector and dealer
- Geoffrey Bazeley (1906–1989), modernist architect
- George Thomas Bettany (1850–1891), biologist & anthropologist
- Peter Care (born 1953), music video, TV and film director
- William Colenso (1811–1899), missionary to New Zealand
- Richard Quiller Couch (1816–1863), physician and naturalist.[1]
- William Coulson (1802–1877), an English surgeon.[2]
- Leonard Courtney, 1st Baron Courtney of Penwith (1832–1918), politician, academic and man of letters.[3]
- William Prideaux Courtney (1845–1913), administrator and scholar[4]
- Ann Batten Cristall (1769–1848), poet.[5]
- Edmund Davy (1785–1857), professor of chemistry, discovered acetylene, brother of Humphry.[6]
- Sir Humphry Davy (1778–1829), scientist and natural philosopher.[7]
- John Davy (1790–1868), chemist, brother of Humphry.[8]
- John Divane (1823–1888), Irish soldier of the 60th Rifles and recipient of the Victoria Cross
- Gilbert Hunter Doble (1880–1945), clergyman and scholar
- Martin Fido (1939–2019), university professor, true crime writer and broadcaster
- Sir John Forbes (1787–1861), physician.[9]
- Simon Forward (born 1967), novelist and dramatist
- Alethea Garstin (1894–1978), artist
- Crosbie Garstin (1887–1930), poet and novelist[10][11]
- Norman Garstin (1847–1926), Irish artist, art critic and journalist
- Davies Gilbert (1767–1839), a Cornish engineer, author, and politician.[12]
- Helen Glover (born 1986), Olympic gold medallist rower
- Jan Harvey (born ca. 1955), actress
- William Jory Henwood (1805–1875), geologist, retired to live in Penzance.[13]
- Thomas Holloway (1800–1883), patent medicine vendor and philanthropist.[14]
- Barbara Hosking (1926–2021), civil servant
- Caroline Jackson (1946–2025), MEP
- Stanley Johnson (born 1940), politician, author and father of politician Boris Johnson
- Julie Kitchen (born 1977), fourteen time Muay Thai world champion
- Sir John Luke (1858–1931), New Zealand politician, born near Penzance
- Stephen Luke (1763–1829), physician.[15]
- Ruth Manning-Sanders (1886–1988), poet and author
- Daniel Mannix (1864–1963) , Australian Roman Catholic bishop
- Joshua Mellody (born 1989), electronic music producer, better known as Zomboy
- Thandiwe Newton (born 1972), actress
- Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe (1813–1893), entomologist.[16]
- Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth (1757–1833), naval commander.[17]
- William Penhaligon (1837–1902), barber and perfumer
- John Ralfs (1807–1890), botanist.[18]
- Jack Richards (born 1958), cricketer
- Edmund Sedding (1836–1868), architect and musician.[19]
- Jean Shrimpton (born 1942), a model
- John Coulson Tregarthen (1854–1933), writer and naturalist
- Walter Tremenheere (1761–1855), senior officer in the Royal Marines.[20]
- Ethelwynn Trewavas (1900–1993), ichthyologist.[21]
- Alfred Wallis (1855–1942), painter
- George Waterhouse (1824–1906), Australian & New Zealand politician
- Lilian Wyles (1885–1975), first female detective in the British police force, died in Penzance.
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- ^ Greenhill, William Alexander (1889). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 19. pp. 405-406 see line 9: "He settled as a physician at Penzance, where...
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- ^ Boase, George Clement (1890). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 21. pp. 323–324.
- ^ Boulger, George Simonds (1891). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 26. pp. 139–140.
- ^ Boase, George Clement (1891). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 27. pp. 181–182.
- ^ Moore, Sir Norman (1893). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 34. p. 266.
- ^ Woodward, Bernard Barham (1895). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 43. p. 435.
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- ^ Boase, George Clement (1897). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 51. p. 175 see line 5:"...removed about 1862 to Penzance...".
- ^ Boase, George Clement (1899). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 57. pp. 187–188, see second para: "His father, Walter...".
- ^ Greenwood, Humphry (23 October 2011). "Obituary: Ethelwynn Trewavas". Independent. Retrieved 8 December 2015.