List of people from Exeter
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Notable people from Exeter, Devon include:
- 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
- Thomas Hudson (1701–1779), portrait painter
- Francis Hayman (1708–1776), Rococo artist
- John Rowe (1715–1787), merchant and owner of ship involved in Boston Tea Party
- Samuel Stennett (1727–1795), Baptist minister and hymnwriter
- Sir Francis Baring (1740–1810), banker
- David Collins (1756–1810), first Governor of Van Diemens Land (Tasmania)
- John Stockham (1765–1814), naval officer
- Richard Parker (1767–1797), sailor and mutineer
- James Holman (1786–1857), noted blind traveller
- Sir John Bowring (1792–1872), political economist and Governor of Hong Kong
- Samuel Cousins (1801–1887), engraver
- Mary Carpenter (1807–1877), educational and social reformer
- William Benjamin Carpenter (1813–1885), physiologist and naturalist
- John Carne Bidwill (1815–1853), botanist, first Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney
- Lilly Martin Spencer (1822–1902), US painter
- Henry Chadwick (1824–1908), journalist, "the father of baseball"
- Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924), writer
- William Kingdon Clifford (1845–1879), mathematician
- Theodore Bayley Hardy (1863–1918), Army chaplain and VC
- Fred Karno (1866–1941), comedy pioneer and impresario
- Irene Vanbrugh (1872–1949), actress
- William Temple (1881–1944), Archbishop of Canterbury
- W. G. Hoskins (1908–1992), historian of the English landscape
- Cliff Bastin (1912–1991), Arsenal and England footballer
- Tommy Cooper (1921–1984), comedian, was born in Caerphilly but lived in Exeter from the age of 3
- Tony Burrows (born 1942), pop singer
- Clare Morrall (born 1952), novelist
- Stuart Hooper (born 1963), adventurer and businessman
- Beth Gibbons (born 1965), singer with Portishead
- Michael Caines (born 1969), chef and restaurateur
- Chris Martin (born 1977), singer with Coldplay
- Rebecca Worthley (born 1981), singer-songwriter
