Born Before 1701
- Baldwin of Exeter (died 1190), Archbishop of Canterbury
- Joseph of Exeter (12th century), poet
- Robert Stone (1516–1613), composer and member of the Chapel Royal.
- John Hooker (1525–1601), constitutionalist
- William Peryam (1534 – after 1603), lawyer
- Sir Thomas Bodley (1545–1613), diplomat and founder of the Bodleian Library
- Nicholas Hilliard (c. 1547 – 1619), portraitist
- John Rainolds (1549–1605), Puritan scholar
- Richard Hooker (1554–1600), Anglican theologian
- William Hakewill (1574–1655), legal antiquarian
- George Hakewill (1578–1649), clergyman and author
- Matthew Locke (c. 1621 – 1677), baroque composer
- Henrietta Anne Stuart (1644–1670), daughter of King Charles I
- Peter King, 1st Baron King (1669–1734), Lord Chancellor
- Thomas Yalden (1670–1736), poet
- Simon Ockley (1678–1720), orientalist
- Eustace Budgell (1686–1737), writer
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“For the universe has three children, born at one time, which reappear, under different names, in every system of thought, whether they be called cause, operation, and effect; or, more poetically, Jove, Pluto, Neptune; or, theologically, the Father, the Spirit, and the Son; but which we will call here, the Knower, the Doer, and the Sayer. These stand respectively for the love of truth, for the love of good, and for the love of beauty.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)