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Isle of Thanet The Isle of Thanet () is a peninsula forming the easternmost part of Kent, England. While in the past it was separated from the mainland by the Wantsum Channel, it is no longer an island. Archaeological remains testify to its settlement in an ...
, or have lived/live there are ''(alphabetical order)'':


Ramsgate

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Francis Austen Admiral of the Fleet Sir Francis William Austen, (23 April 1774 – 10 August 1865) was a Royal Navy officer and an elder brother of the novelist Jane Austen. As commanding officer of the sloop HMS ''Peterel'', he captured some 40 ships, was ...
(23 April 1774 – 10 August 1865), Admiral of the Fleet and brother of Jane Austen, the author, lived at 14 Albion Place * Brenda Blethyn (born 20 February 1946) is an English Golden Globe-winning and
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-nominated actress of film,
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. She owns a house on Nelson Crescent and is a key supporter and Patron of The Granville Theatre/ Granville Cinema in the town. *
Anthony Buckeridge Anthony Malcolm Buckeridge (20 June 1912 – 28 June 2004) was an English author, best known for his ''Jennings'' and '' Rex Milligan'' series of children's books. He also wrote the 1953 children's book ''A Funny Thing Happened'' which was ser ...
(20 June 1912 – 28 June 2004), author best known for his
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series of novels, lived in Ramsgate and taught at St. Lawrence College. *
Francis Burnand Sir Francis Cowley Burnand (29 November 1836 – 21 April 1917), usually known as F. C. Burnand, was an English comic writer and prolific playwright, best known today as the librettist of Arthur Sullivan's opera ''Cox and Box''. The son of ...
(29 November 1836 – 21 April 1917), was an English comic writer and dramatist who lived much of his life in Ramsgate. *
Henry Curling Colonel Henry Thomas Curling (27 July 1847 – 1 January 1910) was a Royal Artillery officer of the British Army who served between 1868 and 1902. He fought in the Anglo-Zulu war and during the Battle of Isandlwana was one of only a few Britis ...
(1847–1910),
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officer, one of only five British officers to survive the Battle of Isandlwana (1879) * John Deane (1800–1884), inventor of the diving helmet and discoverer of the
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in 1836, is buried in Ramsgate. *Jim Driver (born 16 July 1954), is a writer and music promoter who has lived in Ramsgate since early 2014. He is one of the only three real-life figures mentioned in the movie '' This Is Spinal Tap''. *
Elizabeth Fry Elizabeth Fry (née Gurney; 21 May 1780 – 12 October 1845), sometimes referred to as Betsy Fry, was an English prison reformer, social reformer, philanthropist and Quaker. Fry was a major driving force behind new legislation to improve the tr ...
, (1780–1845), prison reformer and Quaker philanthropist, died of a stroke in Bellevue Road, Ramsgate. *
Jefferson Hack Jefferson Hack (born 1971 in Montevideo, Uruguay) is a Curator, Creative Director and co-founder of Dazed Media, an independent media company that produces stories across its print, digital and video brands. The company's portfolio includes fash ...
, (born 20 June 1971), publisher, journalist and model, lived for many of his childhood and teenage years at Beach Grove, Cliffsend, near Ramsgate. *
Edward Heath Sir Edward Richard George Heath (9 July 191617 July 2005), often known as Ted Heath, was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975. Heath a ...
(9 July 1916 – 17 July 2005), British Prime Minister, attended
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. *
Sean Kerly Sean Robin Kerly (born 29 January 1960) is an English former field hockey player. Biography Kerly was born in Whitstable and was educated at Chatham House Grammar School in Ramsgate. He has played club hockey for Canterbury, Southgate and He ...
(born 29 January 1960), Olympic gold medallist for hockey, was educated at Chatham House Grammar School. *
John Le Mesurier John Le Mesurier (, born John Elton Le Mesurier Halliley; 5 April 191215 November 1983) was an English actor. He is perhaps best remembered for his comedic role as Sergeant Arthur Wilson in the BBC television situation c ...
(1912–1983), actor famous for playing Sgt Arthur Wilson in the BBC sitcom ''
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'', lived his later years at 8 London Road, Ramsgate. In August 2010 a memorial plaque was unveiled there. He is buried at St George's Church in the town. *
Karl Marx Karl Heinrich Marx (; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, critic of political economy, and socialist revolutionary. His best-known titles are the 1848 ...
(1818–1883), known to have stayed in the town some nine times.http://www.blueplaqueplaces.co.uk/karl-marx-blue-plaque-in-ramsgate-3674#.WLBuG_mLTIU as did his comrade
Friedrich Engels Friedrich Engels ( ,"Engels"
'' Jenny Longuet Jenny Caroline Marx Longuet (1 May 1844 – 11 January 1883) was the eldest daughter of Jenny von Westphalen Marx and Karl Marx. Briefly a political journalist writing under the pen name J. Williams, Longuet taught language classes and had ...
Marx (1844–1883) lived for a period at 6 Artillery Road. *
Moses Montefiore Sir Moses Haim Montefiore, 1st Baronet, (24 October 1784 – 28 July 1885) was a British financier and banker, activist, philanthropist and Sheriff of London. Born to an Italian Sephardic Jewish family based in London, aft ...
(24 October 1784 – 28 July 1885), prominent British Jewish campaigner, philanthropist and stockbroker, was heavily involved in the affairs of Ramsgate and owned East Cliff Lodge. His tomb is next to the synagogue in Ramsgate. *
Frank Muir Frank Herbert Muir (5 February 1920 – 2 January 1998) was an English comedy writer, radio and television personality, and raconteur. His writing and performing partnership with Denis Norden endured for most of their careers. Together they wro ...
(5 February 1920 – 2 January 1998), comedy script-writer and broadcaster, was born at the ''Derby Arms'', Margate Road, Ramsgate and educated at Chatham House Grammar School. *
Gary Pallister Gary Andrew Pallister (born 30 June 1965) is an English former professional footballer and sports television pundit. As a player, he was a defender from 1984 to 2001 and is most noted for his nine-year spell at Manchester United from 1989 un ...
(born 30 June 1965),
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who played for
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and
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, was born in Ramsgate. *
Jackie Pallo Jackie "Mr TV" Pallo (born Jack Ernest Gutteridge; 12 January 1926 – 11 February 2006) was an English professional wrestler, a star of British televised wrestling in its 1960s and 1970s heyday, when the sport had a regular 40-minute slot be ...
(12 January 1926 – 11 February 2006), born Jack Gutteridge, wrestler and TV personality, lived in Ramsgate in his final years. *
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin ( ; 1 March 181214 September 1852) was an English architect, designer, artist and critic with French and, ultimately, Swiss origins. He is principally remembered for his pioneering role in the Gothic Revival st ...
(1812–1852), Victorian Gothic architect, lived for a time at St Augustine's Grange ( The Grange), and is buried next door in
Pugin's Church and Shrine of St Augustine St Augustine's Church or the Shrine of St Augustine of Canterbury is a Roman Catholic church in Ramsgate, Kent. It was the personal church of Augustus Pugin, the renowned nineteenth century architect, designer, and reformer. The church is an e ...
. *
Kirk Shepherd Kirk Shepherd (born 5 October 1986) is an English former professional darts player who competed in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) tournaments. He was the youngest player ever to reach the final of the World Professional Darts Championshi ...
, who lives in Ramsgate, is the youngest player to reach a final of the World Professional Darts Championship. He uses the nicknames Young Gun and Karate Kid. * David Lee Stone, fantasy author who lives in Ramsgate. * Dr Chris Tame (20 December 1949 – 20 March 2006), founder of the
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and a former director of
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, spent the last years of his life in Ramsgate. * Gregory Venables, Archbishop Primate of South America, Headmaster St Andrews College, Paraguay, lived 1956-1968, 1972-1977 in Ramsgate. Founder member The Phonetics and Purple Trolley Bus rock groups. Pupil at Chatham House School, teacher Holy Cross School. *
Vincent van Gogh Vincent Willem van Gogh (; 30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history. In a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, inc ...
, taught French and other subjects as a supply teacher at a school at 6 Royal Road and boarded at 11 Spencer Square for a period in 1876. He made some sketches of the view from his lodgings overlooking the harbour. The proprietor of the school relocated to Isleworth,
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. Vincent decided to walk to the new location, which took three days via
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and Chatham. This new position did not work out, and Vincent became a nearby Methodist minister's assistant in wanting to "preach the gospel everywhere". *
Queen Victoria Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days was longer than that of any previo ...
, as a princess spent her holidays in Ramsgate, staying at Townley House, now part of J. C. Farleys Ltd, a furniture store. * Alfred North Whitehead, mathematician, was born in Ramsgate.


Broadstairs

* Sir Richard Rodney Bennett (1936-2012), composer and pianist, was born in Broadstairs. * John Buchan (1875–1940) was rumoured to have based his thriller ''The Thirty Nine Steps'' on the set of steps on the beach at North Foreland, Broadstairs, where he was recuperating from a duodenal ulcer in 1915. *
Thomas Russell Crampton Thomas Russell Crampton, MICE, MIMechE (6 August 1816 – 19 April 1888) was an English engineer born at Broadstairs, Kent, and trained on Brunel's Great Western Railway. He is best known for designing the Crampton locomotive but had many eng ...
(1816–1888), an engineer, is remembered as a designer of locomotives and of railways, also concerned with gas, waterworks and a submarine telegraph cable. He was the first to lay an effective telegraph cable under the
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. A water tower and a pub in the town are named after him. *
Brian Degas Brian R. Degas (2 October 1935 – 3 April 2020) was an English producer and writer, merchandiser, and creative packager of ancillary rights. Early career Degas was born to English parents on 2 October 1935 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. As ...
, (1935-2020) author, writer and creator of the TV Series ''
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'', lived in the town. *
Charles Dickens Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian e ...
, novelist, had a holiday home in Broadstairs, where he wrote ''
David Copperfield ''David Copperfield'' Dickens invented over 14 variations of the title for this work, see is a novel in the bildungsroman genre by Charles Dickens, narrated by the eponymous David Copperfield, detailing his adventures in his journey from inf ...
''. For a period he owned Fort House on a promontory above the town, where he wrote ''Bleak House'', which the location is now called. *
Edward Heath Sir Edward Richard George Heath (9 July 191617 July 2005), often known as Ted Heath, was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975. Heath a ...
, (9 July 1916 – 17 July 2005), former
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leader and
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, was born here and lived in Albion Road, St. Peters. *
Annette Mills Annette Mills (born Edith Mabel Mills; 10 September 1894 – 10 January 1955) was an English actress, dancer, songwriter and television presenter, best known for presenting the children's television show ''Muffin the Mule''. Biography Early life ...
(1894–1955), one-time concert pianist and elder sister of actor Sir John Mills, lived in Broadstairs. She is best remembered for the early television programme
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in the 1950s. *
Trevor Neal Trevor Neal (born 1963, Dorchester, Dorset) and Simon Hickson (born 1962, Salford, Lancashire) are a British comedy duo (known as ''Trevor and Simon'' or ''Trev and Simon'') and are best known for a family-friendly version of anarchic alternative ...
of the TV comic duo Trevor and Simon, notable for the Saturday children's show '' Going Live'', lives in Broadstairs. *
Mike Nolan Michael Tullis Nolan (born March 7, 1959) is a former American football coach. Nolan previously served as a head coach for the San Francisco 49ers, and a defensive coordinator for the NFL's Baltimore Ravens, New York Jets, Washington Redskins ...
of 1980s pop group Bucks Fizz lives in Broadstairs. * Bill Pitt MP, the first member of Parliament elected for the SDP–Liberal Alliance, 1981–83, lives in Broadstairs. *
Oliver Postgate Richard Oliver Postgate (12 April 1925 – 8 December 2008), generally known as Oliver Postgate, was an English animator, puppeteer, and writer. He was the creator and writer of some of Britain's most popular children's television progra ...
, creator of the children's TV puppet shows, the Clangers, Bagpuss and others, retired to Broadstairs, where he died on 8 December 2008, aged 83. A plaque has been erected on his home in Chandos Square. *
Gary Rhodes Gary Rhodes (22 April 1960 – 26 November 2019) was an English restaurateur and television chef, known for his love of English cuisine and ingredients and for his distinctive spiked hair style. He fronted shows such as ''MasterChef'', '' Mas ...
celebrity TV chef was a student of catering at the Thanet College. * Frank Richards (pen name of Charles Harold St John Hamilton; 1875–1961), writer of the
Billy Bunter William George Bunter is a fictional schoolboy created by Charles Hamilton using the pen name Frank Richards. He features in stories set at Greyfriars School, a fictional English public school in Kent, originally published in the boys' weekly ...
novels, lived in Kingsgate, Broadstairs. *
Bruce Robinson Bruce Robinson (born 2 May 1946) is an English actor, director, screenwriter and novelist. He wrote and directed the cult classic ''Withnail and I'' (1987), a film with comic and tragic elements set in London in the late 1960s, which drew on hi ...
, author of
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etc., was born in Broadstairs in 1946. *
Siouxsie Sioux Susan Janet Ballion (born 27 May 1957), known professionally as Siouxsie Sioux, is an English singer, songwriter, musician and record producer. She was the lead singer of the rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees (1976–1996). They released 11 ...
(born Susan Janet Ballion, 27 May 1957) spent summer holidays in Broadstairs during her childhood. *
Stevie Smith Florence Margaret Smith, known as Stevie Smith (20 September 1902 – 7 March 1971), was an English poet and novelist. She won the Cholmondeley Award and was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. A play, '' Stevie'' by Hugh Whitemore, ba ...
, poet, spent several years on and off in a sanatorium near Broadstairs while suffering from tuberculous peritonitis as a child. *
Queen Victoria Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days was longer than that of any previo ...
spent many summers in Broadstairs as a child, staying at Pierremont Hall. * Jack Warner,
Dixon of Dock Green ''Dixon of Dock Green'' was a BBC police procedural television series about daily life at a fictional London police station, with the emphasis on petty crime, successfully controlled through common sense and human understanding. It ran from 19 ...
, lived in Kingsgate for a time. * Doris Waters, BBC radio comedian, and sister to Elsie Waters, famous for being part of female double act, Gert and Daisy, lived in Broadstairs. * Elsie Waters, BBC radio comedian and with her sister Doris Waters the double act Gert and Daisy, lived in Broadstairs. They were sisters of Jack Warner.


Margate

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Iain Aitch Iain Aitch is an English writer, journalist and artist who lives in London. He is the author of the travel book '' A Fête Worse Than Death,'' a humorous first person journey through an English summer, and ''We're British, Innit,'' a humorous le ...
is an English writer and journalist who was born in
Margate Margate is a seaside town on the north coast of Kent in south-east England. The town is estimated to be 1.5 miles long, north-east of Canterbury and includes Cliftonville, Garlinge, Palm Bay and Westbrook. The town has been a significan ...
. *
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(1929–2006), actor, was born in Margate. * Ballard Berkeley (1904–1988), actor best known as the senile Major Gowen in the TV series ''
Fawlty Towers ''Fawlty Towers'' is a British television sitcom written by John Cleese and Connie Booth, broadcast on BBC2 in 1975 and 1979. Two series of six episodes each were made. The show was ranked first on a list of the 100 Greatest British Televisio ...
'', was born in Margate. * Dave Cash (1942-2016) broadcaster of ''Kenny and Cash'' fame, lived in the village of * T. S. Eliot, poet, wrote part of ''
The Waste Land ''The Waste Land'' is a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. Published in 1922, the 434-line poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the Octob ...
'' in Margate in 1922, whilst recuperating from nervous strain. *
Tracey Emin Tracey Karima Emin, CBE, RA (; born 3 July 1963) is a British artist known for her autobiographical and confessional artwork. Emin produces work in a variety of media including drawing, painting, sculpture, film, photography, neon text and ...
, artist, grew up in Margate. In 2011 she helped to open the Turner Contemporary Art Gallery. *
Marty Feldman Martin Alan Feldman (8 July 1934 – 2 December 1982) was a British actor, comedian and comedy writer. He was known for his prominent, misaligned eyes. He initially gained prominence as a writer with Barry Took on the ITV sitcom ''Boot ...
, comic writer and comedian, began his career aged 15 as part of a circus-style act at Dreamland Funpark in Margate. * Melanie and Martina Grant, twin actresses, were born in Margate and now live in Ramsgate. *
Trevor Howard Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith (29 September 1913 – 7 January 1988) was an English stage, film, and television actor. After varied work in the theatre, he achieved star status with his role in the film ''Brief Encounter'' (1945), followed by ''T ...
, film stage and television actor, was born in Cliftonville, Margate. * Juliette Kaplan, actress (real name: Marlene Hoser), who played Pearl in the
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sitcom ''
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'', lives in Westgate-on-Sea, Margate. *
Dinsdale Landen Dinsdale James Landen (4 September 1932 – 29 December 2003) was an English actor. His television appearances included starring in the shows ''Devenish'' (1977) and ''Pig in the Middle'' (1980). ''The Independent'' named him an "outstanding ac ...
(1932–2003), actor on stage and television, was born in Margate. * Steven Moore, former world champion water-ski racer, currently lives in Thanet. * Thomas Webster Rammell, railway engineer, was born in Dent de Lion, near Margate. * Mike Stock, British songwriter and record producer best known as a member of the song-writing and record production trio Stock Aitken Waterman. He was born in Margate on 3 December 1951. * Mehrdud Takalobigashi, better known as Takaloo (born 23 September 1975), is an Iranian-born, British-based boxer living in Margate. * Douglas Trendle, better known as Buster Bloodvessel (born 6 September 1958), is a Ska singer in the 1980s British band Bad Manners, and ran the hotel in Margate called Fatty Towers for part of the 1990s. * J. M. W. Turner sketched many Margate skies that were later incorporated into his paintings. The Turner Contemporary Art Gallery is named in his honour. *
Sir Robert Walpole Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, (26 August 1676 – 18 March 1745; known between 1725 and 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole) was a British statesman and Whig politician who, as First Lord of the Treasury, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Leade ...
, British Prime Minister, spent summers in Cliftonville, Margate and has Walpole Bay and the Walpole Bay Hotel named after him. * David Watkin (1925–2008), Oscar-winning cinematographer, was born in Margate. * Lilian Wyles (1885–1975), pioneer woman detective at Scotland Yard, was educated at Thanet Hall, Margate.


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