Felixstowe - Notable Residents

Notable Residents

People originating from or associated with Felixstowe include:

  • Sir John Mills CBE (22 February 1908 – 23 April 2005), born Lewis Ernest Watts Mills, was an English actor who appeared in more than 120 films in a career spanning seven decades.
  • Jack Ainsley, footballer
  • Field Marshal Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, soldier, Allenby Park in St. Andrews Road is named after him
  • Thomas Cavendish, 'The Navigator', Elizabethan explorer, born in Trimley St Martin
  • Iain Hook, UNRWA officer, killed in the line of duty
  • Megs Jenkins, actor
  • Jeremy Kemp, actor, Z-Cars
  • T. E. Lawrence, 'Lawrence of Arabia', based at RAF Landguard under the name John Hume Ross
  • Nicholas Pandolfi, broadcaster and actor
  • Wallis, The Duchess of Windsor, Mrs Simpson, spent time at Felixstowe waiting for Edward VIII's abdication
  • Barbara Ward, economist and writer, pupil at Jesus & Mary Convent in Felixstowe
  • Simon Clements (1956-), cricketer
  • Charles Cope, Ex-President, now Union Representative of the UEA Anime Society.
  • Dawn Addams (21 September 1930 – 7 May 1985) was an English actress, particularly in Hollywood motion pictures of the 1950s and on British television in the 1960s and 1970s.

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