List of Famous people born in Horsham, United Kingdom

Jamie Christopher Hewlett is an English comic creator, animator, designer, illustrator, and director, best known as the creator of the comic book Tank Girl and co-creator of the virtual band Gorillaz, alongside Blur frontman Damon Albarn.

Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets. Harold Bloom calls him “a superb craftsman, a lyric poet without rival, and surely one of the most advanced sceptical intellects ever to write a poem.” A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame during his lifetime, but recognition of his achievements in poetry grew steadily following his death and he became an important influence on subsequent generations of poets including Browning, Swinburne, Hardy and Yeats.

Roy William Whiting is a British convicted child murderer, from West Sussex. In July 2000, he abducted and murdered 8-year-old Sarah Payne of which he was found guilty in December 2001. On 12 December 2001, he was sentenced to life imprisonment and is set to remain in prison until at least 2041, he will be 82 if he is still alive. Whiting's risk to the public is so severe that it is likely that he will never be released from prison.

Jolyon Palmer is a British motorsport commentator and columnist, covering the Formula One World Championship on BBC Radio 5 and the official F1 app. Prior to his media career, Palmer was a racing driver and the 2014 GP2 Series champion. Palmer drove for Renault Sport F1 Team in Formula One. He made his Formula One debut with the team at the start of the 2016 season, during which he scored his first World Championship points at the Malaysian Grand Prix. Palmer stayed with Renault for 2017 through to the Japanese Grand Prix.

Patricia Buller was a British fencer. She competed in the women's individual foil event at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Francis Arthur Cockfield, Baron Cockfield, PC, was by turns a civil servant, a company director, a Conservative politician, and a European Commissioner. He served as Minister of State at the Treasury from 1979 to 1982, as Secretary of State for Trade from 1982 until 1983, as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1983 until 1984, and a member of the European Commission from 1984 to 1988. He is known as 'The Father of the Single Market'.

Philip Wyndham Friend was a British film and television actor.

Douglas Clifton Brown, 1st Viscount Ruffside, was a British politician who represented the Conservative Party (UK). He served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1943 to 1951. Upon stepping down as Speaker he became the Viscount Ruffside; the peerage became extinct with his death.