Born On The Isle of Wight
- Dr Thomas Arnold, headmaster of Rugby School and immortalised in Tom Brown's Schooldays, born in Cowes
- Sophie Dawes, Baronne de Feuchères, born in St Helens
- Thomas Fleming, judge and Lord Chief Justice
- Uffa Fox, yacht designer
- Vivian Fuchs, Antarctic explorer
- Mark King, Born in Gurnard nr.Cowes, Bass Player and vocalist in Pop/Funk Band Level 42
- Marius Goring, born Newport
- Maxwell Gray (Mary Gleed Tuttiett), novelist
- Bear Grylls, climber, youngest Briton to reach the summit of Mount Everest and live, survival expert, host of Man vs. Wild.
- Sheila Hancock, actress born Newport
- Robert Hooke, scientist, born in Freshwater
- Jeremy Irons, actor, born in Cowes and raised in St Helens
- Phill Jupitus, comedian, born in Newport
- Albert Midlane, failed ironmonger, poet and hymn writer was born in Newport
- Anthony Minghella, film director, born in Ryde, whose parents run the Minghella's Ice Cream company on the Island. On accepting his Best Picture Oscar for The English Patient he said, "This is a great day for the Isle of Wight!" The film includes footage of Shanklin Pier
- Brian Murphy, actor, born in Ventnor
- Queen Osburga, daughter of Oslac, Chief Butler of England and mother of King Alfred the Great.
- Albert Pollard, historian, born in Ryde
- Horace Rawlins, golfer, winner of the first U.S. Open in 1895
- Henry Sewell, first Prime Minister of New Zealand was born on the island in 1807 and lived there until emigrating to New Zealand at the age of 45.
- Harry Frederick Whitchurch V.C. born in Sandown
- Eric Charles Twelves Wilson V.C. born in Sandown in 1912
- Roy Bridger Guy's Hospital (London) Operating Department Practitioner, Clinical and Applied Hypnotherapist (New Zealand), Drummer of the Zodiac rock'n'roll band in the 1960s, Born in Sandown, Accomplished
researcher in MS, Will return to the island to live when I eventually retire.
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Famous quotes containing the words born, isle and/or wight:
“Since ev’ry man who lives is born to die,
And none can boast sincere felicity,
With equal mind, what happens, let us bear,
Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care.”
—John Dryden (1631–1700)
“It is so rare to meet with a man outdoors who cherishes a worthy thought in his mind, which is independent of the labor of his hands. Behind every man’s busy-ness there should be a level of undisturbed serenity and industry, as within the reef encircling a coral isle there is always an expanse of still water, where the depositions are going on which will finally raise it above the surface.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“She that was ever fair, and never proud,
Had tongue at will, and yet was never loud
...
She that could think, and ne’er disclose her mind,
See suitors following, and not look behind.
She was a wight, if ever such wight were—
To suckle fools and chronicle small beer.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)