Truru - Notable Residents

Notable Residents

See also: Category:People from Truro
  • 16th century
    • Giles Farnaby — a madrigalist of the Elizabethan age.
  • 18th century
    • Edward Boscawen — an admiral of the Royal Navy. A cobbled street at the centre of Truro and a park are named in his honour.
    • Samuel Foote — an actor and playwright.
  • 18th/19th century
    • Henry Martyn — Cambridge mathematician, missionary in India and Persia, translated the Bible into local languages.
  • 19th century
    • Charles Foster Barham— physician and writer on public health
    • Henry Charlton Bastian — physiologist and neurologist
    • Charles Chorley— journalist and man of letters
    • Joseph Antonio Emidy — a former slave turned violinist.
    • James Henry Fynn sometimes James Henry Finn — a recipient of the Victoria Cross.
    • Charles William Hempel — organist of St Mary's Church
    • Richard Lemon Lander — an explorer of West Africa. A local secondary school is named in his honour and a monument to his memory stands at the top of Lemon Street.
    • Richard Spurr - a cabinet maker and lay preacher who was imprisoned for his part in leading the political movement Chartism. A large allotment in the town was dedicated to his memory in 2011.
    • Silvanus Trevail — a well known local architect
    • Hugh Walpole – novelist.
  • 20th century
    • Matthew Etherington — a professional footballer playing for Stoke City.
    • Henry Louis Gibson — an expert in medical uses of infrared and pioneer of its use in detecting breast cancer.
    • Robert Goddard — novelist.
    • Joseph Hunkin — bishop of Truro
    • Roger Meddows Taylor — drummer from the rock band Queen
    • Nick Nieland — a Commonwealth Games javelin gold medallist.
    • Joanna Thomas — professional female bodybuilder.
    • Tom Voyce — a former London Wasps and England rugby union footballer who now plays at wing or fullback for Gloucester RFC.
    • Barbara Joyce West — second to last survivor of the RMS Titanic.
    • James Marsh — film director and winner of the Academy Award.

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