Famous people from East Anglia
East Anglia is a region comprising the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex.
This is a list of the most notable or well-known East Anglians in chronolical order.
Boudica (d. 60 or 61), queen of the Iceni tribe, who famously led an uprising against the Roman Empire
St Edmund (841-869), king of East Anglia, martyr and first patron saint of England (until the 13rd century)
Cardinal Thomas Wolsey (1471-1530), influential statesman under Henry VIII
Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), military and political leader, Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland
Samuel Pepys (1633-1703), naval administrator and politician
Sir Robert Walpole (1676 -1745), regarded as the first British prime minister
Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788), portrait and landscape painter
Thomas Paine (1737-1809), pamphleteer, revolutionary, radical, inventor, and intellectual
Lord Horatio Nelson (1758-1805), Admiral and British hero, victor of the Battle of Trafalgar
Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846), abolitionist and leading campaigner against the slave trade in the British Empire
John Constable (1776-1837), Romantic painter
Robert FitzRoy (1805-1865), pioneering meteorologist and captain of HMS Beagle during Charles Darwin's famous voyage
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917), Britain's first female physician and mayor
Octavia Hill (1838-1912), social reformer
John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh (1842-1919), physicist and Nobel Prize winner
Dame Millicent Fawcett (1847-1929), suffragist and early feminist
Sir Henry Royce (1863-1933), co-founder of the Rolls-Royce company
Edith Cavell (1865-1915), WWI nurse and humanitarian
Howard Carter (1874-1939), archaeologist who discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun
John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), one the most influential economists of the 20th century
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), composer, conductor, violist and pianist
Richard Attenborough (b. 1923), actor, director, producer, and entrepreneur
John Fowles (1926-2005), novelist and essayist
Bernie Ecclestone (b. 1930), president and CEO of Formula One Management & Administration
Sir Harold Kroto (b. 1939), chemist and Nobel Prize winner
Jeffrey Archer (b. 1940), author and politician
Stephen Hawking (b. 1942), theoretical physicist
John Major (b. 1943-), former Prime Minister
Jack Straw (b. 1946), Labour politician (served as Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary, Lord Privy Seal, Secretary of State for Justice, etc.)
Sir James Dyson (b. 1947), industrial designer and founder of the Dyson company (vacuum cleaners)
Douglas Adams (1952-2001), author, comic radio dramatist, and musician
Stephen Fry (b. 1957), actor, comedian, author and television presenter
Diana, Princess of Wales (1961-1997)
Ralph Fiennes (b. 1962), Hollywood actor
Jamie Oliver (b. 1975), celebrity chef
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