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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