Notable People
The following is a list of people who either were born in Kendal or have significant contacts with Kendal:
- David Starkey, Historian,Tudor period
- Desmond Bagley, Thriller writer
- Matt Bigland, Guitarist and lead singer for alternative rock band Dinosaur Pile-Up.
- Jonathan Dodgson Carr, founder of Carrs Breadmakers and social reform campaigner
- John Cunliffe, creator of Postman Pat
- John Dalton, Chemist and Physicist
- Sir Arthur Eddington, Astrophysicist
- James Ellison and Dean Ellison, motorcycle racers
- Ken Major (1928–2009), architect, author and molinologist, attended Kendal School
- George Romney, portrait painter
- Keith Stainton, politician and Second World War hero in France
- Alfred Wainwright, Guidebook author and walker
- Wild Beasts, indie-rock band
- Keith Wilkinson, ITV television news reporter
- John Wilson, mathematician and astronomer
- Yan, Hamilton and Wood of the indie-rock band British Sea Power – raised in Natland, a nearby village.
- Steve Hogarth, vocalist of rock band Marillion
- Steven Hall, Britain's Got Talent Finalist 2011 - Comedy Dancer.
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