Interesting or famous people with connections to Exeter

Charles Babbage - father of computing
Alan Ball - World Cup winning footballer
Cliff Bastin - Exeter City, Arsenal and England footballer
Stephen Bell - mountaineer
Rabbi Lionel Blue - broadcaster and writer
Sir Thomas Bodley - founder of the Bodlein Library
St Boniface - German saint educated in Exeter
Andrew Brice - early journalist and rebel New
Isambard Kingdom Brunel - engineer
General Sir Redvers Buller VC - soldier

Wilfrid Lawson Chambers - a lost mariner
Eleanor Coade - inventor and business woman
Paul Collings - Waterloo veteran and innkeeper
David Collins - first governor of Tasmania
Tommy Cooper - comedian and magician

Charles Dickens - campaigning Victorian writer
Sir Francis Drake - adventurer and seaman

Richard Ford - author of A Hand-Book for Travellers in Spain 

John Gendall - artist of historic Exeter
James Green - County Surveyor and architect

Revd. T. B. Hardy, VC, MC, DSO - a front line, First World War chaplain
Princess Henrietta Anne - daughter of Charles I
Nicholas Hilliard - miniature portrait painter
Richard Hooker - religious theoretician
Dr W G Hoskins - writer, historian and broadcaster

John Frederick Thomas Jane - publisher of Jane's Fighting Ships 

Fred Karno - impressario and Chaplin discoverer
Gene Kemp - children's writer