List of People From The Isle of Wight - Lived On The Isle of Wight

Lived On The Isle of Wight

• Peter de Heyno, defended the Carisbrooke Castle 1377 against French–Castilian troops
• Sam Browne, soldier, retired to Ryde.
• Julia Margaret Cameron, photographer, lived in Freshwater Bay.
• Winston Churchill visited Ventnor for extended periods throughout his life.
• Lewis Carroll lived at Sandown while working on "Alice in Wonderland".
• Sir Christopher Cockerell, inventor of the hovercraft, spent two years in East Cowes working on his prototypes.
• Charles Darwin lived for a period in 1867 in the Kings Head Hotel in Sandown.
• Charles Dickens, author, lived in Bonchurch for 3 months in 1849
• Uffa Fox, yacht designer, lived in Puckaster
• David Gascoyne, 20th century surrealist poet
• Robyn Hitchcock, musician, lived in Yarmouth from the mid 1980s to the early 1990s, and cited it in many of his works of the period.
• John Oliver Hobbes (Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie), novelist, lived part-time in Steephill, 1900–1906.
• Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, lived at St. Lawrence Hall, Ventnor.
• John Keats, poet, moved to the island in 1814; areas of Shanklin are named after him.
• King Charles I was held prisoner in Carisbrooke Castle for a year.
• Marek Larwood, actor and comedian.
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet, spent the summer in Shanklin in 1868.
• Guglielmo Marconi did radio experiments in Alum Bay and Niton around 1900.
• Karl Marx lived in Ryde in the 1870s and in Ventnor in the 1880s.
• John Milne, inventor of the horizontal pendulum seismograph, retired from the Japanese Imperial College of Engineering in Shide, Isle of Wight
• David Niven, actor, lived in Bembridge as a child.
• Isaac Pitman, who invented a shorthand system, lived for a time in Sandown.
• John Morgan Richards, cigarette and patent medicine entrepreneur, lived in Steephill, 1903–1918.
• Legh Richmond, preacher and writer of the famous religious tract "The Dairyman's Daughter", was curate for Yaverland and Brading.
• John Edward Bernard Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone, Secretary of State for War during the years leading up to the First World War; MP and Justice of the Peace for the Isle of Wight.
• Michael Sheard, actor, lived in Ryde.
• Algernon Charles Swinburne, Poet, lived in Bonchurch.
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson, poet, lived in Farringford in Freshwater Bay.
• Margaret Thatcher rented a house in Seaview.
• Queen Victoria, had one of her residences at Osborne House in East Cowes.
• Barnes Wallis, inventor of the bouncing bomb, lived and worked in Cowes.
• Trevor Duncan, composer (Dr Finlay's Casebook theme), lived in Bonchurch.
• Ken Dodd, comedian, has a holiday home at Freshwater Bay.
• Master Gunner Daniel Cambridge VC (later Yeoman of the Guard) was stationed at Redoubt Battery, Fort Redoubt, Freshwater Bay, until 1871 (Census)
• King Ethelred the Unready fled to the Isle of Wight in 1012 from the Danes under Sweyn Forkbeard.
• King Harold II and his brother Tostig Godwinson have estates at Kern and Nunwell respectively.
• Jet Harris, musician with The Shadows.
• Geoffrey Hughes, actor, lived in Newport.
• Jack Douglas, actor from a series of Carry On films.
• Dave Ellison, documentary film maker. Creator of world famous award-winning children's TV series Tales of the Riverbank. Often used the island for location shooting. Now lives in Whippingham.