List of people from Cheltenham

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Statue of Edward Adrian Wilson in the town centre. Born Cheltenham 1872, died Antarctica 1912. The plinth reads:
Edward Wilson of the British Antarctic Expedition reached the South Pole on January 17 1912 and died with Captain Scott on the Great Ice Barrier in March 1912

This is a list of Notable Cheltonians, or people from Cheltenham in Gloucestershire, ordered alphabetically by surname:

• Sir James Tynte Agg-Gardner (1846–1928), brewery-owner, Lord of the Manor of Cheltenham, Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Cheltenham 1874–1880, 1885–1895, 1900–1906, 1911–1928
• Dorothea Beale (1831–1906), former headmistress of Cheltenham Ladies' College
• Duncan Gordon Boyes (1846–1869), VC
• Jaz Coleman, lead singer of Killing Joke
• Napoleon Cordy, Mayanist
• Steve Cotterill, Ex-manager of Cheltenham Town, manager of Championship club Burnley FC
• Sir George Dowty, founder of Dowty Rotol
• Sir Douglas Dodds-Parker, Conservative MP for Cheltenham 1964–1974, member of the Special Operations Executive in World War II
• Eddie 'the Eagle' Edwards (born 1963), Olympic ski-jumper
• James Elroy Flecker (1884–1915), poet
• Richard Hammond Television presenter, including Top Gear and Brainiac.
• 'Dancing' Ken Hanks, former member of the Monster Raving Loony Party and Charity Fundraiser.
• Arthur 'Bomber' Harris (1892–1984), commander of Bomber Command
• Robert Hardy (born 1925), actor
• Gustav Holst (1874–1934), composer
• Charles Irving (1924–1995), Conservative MP for Cheltenham 1974–1992
• Martin Jarvis (born 1941), actor
• Edward Jenner (1749–1823), the inventor of vaccination
• Brian Jones (1942–1969), one of the Rolling Stones
• Nigel Jones, Baron Jones of Cheltenham (born 1948), Liberal Democrat MP for Cheltenham 1992–2005
• John Nevil Maskelyne (1839–1917), magician and inventor of the pay toilet
• William Murray, creator of the Ladybird Books Key Words Reading Scheme
• Richard O'Brien, of the Rocky Horror Show
• Richard Pate, founder of Pate's Grammar School
• Pagan Rock band, Inkubus Sukkubus.
• Ralph Richardson, actor
• John Simpson (born 1953), lexicographer
• Kate Thornton, journalist and television presenter
• Edward Adrian Wilson (1872–1912), explorer who joined Scott on his ill-fated Antarctic Expedition
• Sir Norman Wisdom - resident with the Royal Corps of Signals at the Moray House Hotel (now the Carlton Hotel), which is now commemorated with a Blue Plaque. After a charity concert at the Cheltenham Town Hall, actor Rex Harrison came backstage and urged him to turn professional.^[1]

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