Aylesbury - Notable Residents

Notable Residents

Aylesbury is or has been home to a whole range of notable people. In the latter part of the 20th century, the main maternity unit in the district was located in Aylesbury at the Royal Buckinghamshire Hospital; hence a large number of people were born in Aylesbury who may not have had any other association with the town. For a full list see People from Aylesbury. In alphabetic order of surname those who live or have lived in Aylesbury include:

  • Michael Apted, film director and producer was born in Aylesbury in 1941
  • Benjamin Bates, physician
  • Lynda Bellingham, actress and television presenter
  • Rutland Boughton, English composer was born in the town
  • Emerson Boyce, footballer, born in Aylesbury
  • Ernest Bullock, organist and composer, died in Aylesbury
  • Brendan Carr, actor, lives in Aylesbury
  • Mathilde CarrĂ©, French double agent, was once a detainee at Aylesbury Prison
  • Martin Grech, singer-songwriter
  • John Hampden, politician and Parliamentarian during the English Civil War, lived in Hartwell House.
  • John Junkin, television performer and scriptwriter, died in Aylesbury
  • Germaine Lindsay, terrorist, was living in Aylesbury when he detonated a suicide bomb in London
  • John Otway, singer-songwriter
  • Charles William Pearson, missionary
  • Matt Phillips, footballer, born in Aylesbury
  • James Clark Ross, naval explorer, died in Aylesbury
  • Jimmy Savile, disgraced former DJ and fundraiser had a long association with Stoke Mandeville Hospital in the town.
  • Vernon Scannell, poet
  • William of Sherwood, logician and teacher
  • Mike Smith of The Dave Clark Five lived in Aylesbury
  • Mark Webber, Formula 1 Driver with Red Bull Racing, born in Australia
  • Ellen White, England women's national football team and Arsenal Ladies F.C., was born and raised in Aylesbury.
  • John Wilkes, radical, MP for Aylesbury 1757 & 1761, lived at Prebendal House in the town
  • Ludwig Guttman, founder of the Stoke Mandeville Games, later to become the Paralympic Games, lived and died in the town.

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