Angelica Mandy

Biography

This article provides a non-exhaustive list of famous people born, educated or prominent in Bath, Somerset, England, or otherwise associated with it. The sections and the names in each section are alphabetical. Bathonian describes a person who comes from Bath.

== 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 Tom Payne (born 1982), actor. Arnold Ridley (1896–1984), playwright and actor. Sarah Siddons (1755–1831), actress Daniel Terry (1780?–1829), actor and playwright. Indira Varma (born 1973), actress. Harriet Waylett (1798–1851), actress and theatre manager. Benjamin Nottingham Webster (1797–1882), actor-manager and dramatist. Sarah West (1790–1876), actress.

== 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 George Gilbert Scott (1811–1878) – restoration of Bath Abbey, architect of St Andrew's church destroyed by World War II bombing Frederick William Stevens (1847–1900) – architect, emigrated to India. John Wood, the Elder (1704–1754) – architect of Queen Square and the Circus. John Wood, the Younger (1728–1772) – architect of the Royal Crescent.

== 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. HAUI (born 1990), multidisciplinary artist

== Education ==