List of Famous people born in Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom
Jack Clayton
Jack Clayton was a British film director and producer who specialised in bringing literary works to the screen.
Jennifer Nicks
Jennifer Mary Nicks was a British pair skater. She competed with brother John Nicks. In 1953, the two won Great Britain's only World and European titles in pair skating, after having placed fourth at the 1952 Winter Olympics.
Dan Hipgrave
Daniel Hipgrave is an English musician and writer, best known as the guitarist of the Post-Britpop/alternative rock band Toploader.
Pauline Baynes
Pauline Diana Baynes was an English illustrator, author and commercial artist. She contributed drawings and paintings to more than two hundred books, mostly in the children's genre. She was the first illustrator of some of J. R. R. Tolkien's minor works and of C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia.
The hallmarks of her work were a talent for lively, imaginative designs; the ability to create a sense of energy and animation; a confident fluidity of line; a bold use of vibrant, gem-like colours and the subtle employment of negative space.
Edna Best
Edna Clara Best was a British actress.
John Roland Abbey
Major John Roland Abbey was an English book collector and High Sheriff.
Eric Gill
Arthur Eric Rowton Gill was an English sculptor, typeface designer, and printmaker, who was associated with the Arts and Crafts movement. His religious views and subject matter contrast with his sexual behaviour, including his erotic art, and his extramarital affairs and sexual abuse of his daughters, sisters, and dog.
Richard Olivier
Sir Edward Kerrison, 2nd Baronet
Sir Edward Clarence Kerrison, 2nd Baronet was a British Conservative Party politician and the Member of Parliament for the borough of Eye.
Philip Reeve
Philip Reeve is a British author and illustrator of children's books, primarily known for the 2001 book Mortal Engines and its sequels. His 2007 novel, Here Lies Arthur, based on the legendary King Arthur, won the Carnegie Medal, which sets out to choose the year's best children's book published in the UK.