List of Famous people born in Bristol, United Kingdom
Kirk Jones
Kirk Jones is an English film director and screenwriter.
Daddy G
Grantley Evan Marshall, also known by the stage name Daddy G, is a British DJ and a founding member of the band Massive Attack.
Richard Bright
Richard Bright was an English physician and early pioneer in the research of kidney disease. He is particularly known for his description of Bright's disease.
Ronnie Brody
Ronnie Brody was a British actor who appeared in many comedy television series and films.
Edith Hannam
Edith Margaret Hannam was a female tennis player from Great Britain. She played at the 1912 Summer Olympics and won two gold medals.
L. Harrison Matthews
Leonard Harrison Matthews FRS was a British zoologist, especially known for his research and writings on marine mammals.
Jessica Pratt
Jessica Pratt is an English-born Australian operatic soprano. Born in Bristol, she has lived in Australia since 1991 and is the daughter of a tenor. She began by studying the trumpet for ten years before concentrating her studies on singing.
Phyllida Lloyd
Phyllida Christian Lloyd, is an English film director and producer, best known for Mamma Mia! (2008) and The Iron Lady (2011). Her theatre work includes directing productions at the Royal Court Theatre and Royal National Theatre, and opera director for Opera North and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden.
April Pearson
April Janet Pearson is an English actress. Born and brought up in Bristol, Pearson was drawn to acting from a young age and appeared in local theatre productions as a child. She made her acting debut in 1998 at the age of nine on the British medical drama series Casualty, and earned wider recognition in her breakthrough role as impressionable teenager Michelle Richardson in the E4 teen drama series Skins (2007–2008), for which she was nominated for the Golden Nymph Award for an Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival.
Sarah Belzoni
Sarah Belzoni or Sarah Banne was an English traveller and writer. She travelled notably to Egypt and wrote about women there. Although many tales of circuses and wild travels are associated with her and her eccentric husband, it is more likely that they had become agents of the papal families who financed their expeditions while establishing relic museums as money generating ventures for the Vatican bank.