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Cornwall has produced many famous people, some born in COrnwall, some lived there but were not born there.
We have got together a list of these people, and presented it in two ways, firstly grouped by what they were known for, and secondly a straight alphabetic list
| Acting and Theatre | Rowena Cade, founder of the Minack Theatre |
Charles Causley, poet |
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| Samuel Foote, dramatist and actor | |
| John Nettles, actor, in the series Bergerac and Midsomer Murders | |
| Music | George Lloyd, composer |
| Myth and Legend | King Arthur of the Knights of the Round table fame |
| Saint Petroc has given his name to the Padstow (Petroc's - stow) | |
| Saint Piran is the patron saint of tin-miners | |
| Science | John Couch Adams, co-discoverer of the planet Neptune |
| John Arnold, a Bodmin man, perfected the ships chronometer | |
| William Bickford, inventor of the safety fuse | |
| William Cooksworthy found China Clay in Cornwall | |
| Jonathan Couch was Cornwall's foremost naturalist in the 19th century. | |
| Humphry Davy, inventor of miners safety lamp | |
| Sir Goldsworthy Gurney inventor of the 'Limelight' used in lighthouses. | |
| Richard Lower was involved in some of the earliest experiments with blood transfusions | |
| Guglielmo Marconi transmitted the first trans-Atlantic radio signal from Cornwall | |
| William Murdoch, invented domestic gas lighting | |
| Philip Rashleigh mineral collector | |
| Henry Trengrouse, inventor of ship to shore rocket line. | |
| Richard Trevithick, engineer and inventor | |
| Explorers | Sir Francis Drake, Elizabethan Sea Dog |
| Richard Lander explored the Lower Niger River | |
| Samuel Wallis, Pacific explorer, discoverer of Tahiti and WallisIsland | |
| Historians | A. L. Rowse, historian and poet |
| Linguists | Henry Jenner Cornish language revivalist |
| Dorothy Pentreath. the "last" monoglot Cornish speaker | |
| Literary | Sir John Betjeman, the former poet laureate |
| Maria Branwell mother of the Brontes | |
| W J Burley , author Wycliffe series | |
| Daphne du Maurier, writer of Rebecca, Jamaica Inn, etc | |
| William Golding, author, Lord of the Flies | |
| Winston Graham wrote the popular Poldark novels | |
| John Harris, Cornish poet | |
| Silas Hocking, author | |
| D H Lawrence, author | |
| Charles Lee, author | |
| Rosamunde Pilcher, author | |
| J B Priestly, author | |
| Sir Arthur Quiller Couch famous Cornish author and historian | |
| Derek Tangye author | |
| D. M. Thomas, is a Cornish novelist, poet | |
| Mary Wesley, author | |
| Virginia Woolf, novelist, feminist, essayist. | |
| Military | Sir John Arundell commanded Pendennis Castle in Civil War |
| Captain William Bligh of Mutiny on the Bounty fame | |
| Admiral Edward Boscawen, the town of Boscawen, New Hampshire is named after him. | |
| General Sir Walter Raleigh Gilbert effected conquests in Northern India | |
| Sir Bevil Grenville Civil War commander and grandson of Sir Richard Grenville | |
| Sir Richard Grenville a naval captain, commanding the Revenge in the Azores battle | |
| Painters & Sculptors | Henry Bone, enamel painer. |
| Stanhope Alexander Forbes, artist | |
| Barbara Hepworth, sculptress | |
| Bernard Leach, potter | |
| John Miller , artist | |
| Ben Nicholson, abstract painter | |
| John Opie, fashionable portrait painter | |
| Alfred Wallis, artist | |
| Other Notable People | John Carter, smuggler and self styled "King of Prussia" |
| Selina Cooper a suffragette and the first woman to represent the Independent Labour Party | |
| Bob Fitzsimmons , World Champion Boxer | |
| Thomas Flamank co-leader of 1497 rebellion | |
| Reverend R. S. Hawker, of Morwenstow Church, wrote "Song of the Western Men" | |
| Emily Hobhouse formed a relief fund for Boer women in South Africa | |
| Michael Joseph, or Michael An Gof led the Cornish rebellion of 1497 | |
| William Lovett, Chartist leader | |
| Dr William Oliver , inventor of the Bath Oliver Biscuit | |
| John Passmore Edwards, a Victorian philanthropist. | |
| Andrew Pears, invented the eponymous transparent soap. | |
| Joseph Thomas Treffry, builder of Par Harbour | |
| Bishop Trelawny, The hero of the Cornwall's National Anthem - Song of the Western Men. |
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The hotel to stay at when visiting Cornwall is Corisande Manor Hotel, Cornwall find out more about it