List of Famous people born in Hove, United Kingdom
Chris Eubank Jr.
Christopher Livingstone Eubank Jr. is a British professional boxer. He has held the WBA interim middleweight title since 2019 and previously held the same title in 2015. He also held the IBO super-middleweight title twice between 2017 and 2019, and at regional level the British middleweight title in 2016. As of May 2020, he is ranked as the world's fourth best active middleweight by BoxRec and eighth by The Ring magazine. He is the son of former two-weight world boxing champion Chris Eubank.
Chemmy Alcott
Chimene Mary "Chemmy" Crawford-Alcott is an English former World Cup alpine ski racer. She competed in all five disciplines: downhill, super G, giant slalom, slalom and combined.
Bella Emberg
Bella Emberg was an English comedy actress whose television career spanned 60 years.
Bernard Youens
Bernard Arthur Popley, better known by his stage name Bernard Youens, was an English character actor of stage and television, and briefly appeared in radio plays and had cameos in film. He was also a TV announcer and is perhaps best remembered for his portrayal of Stan Ogden in the serial soap opera Coronation Street from 1964 until his death in 1984.
Peter Tapsell
Sir Peter Hannay Bailey Tapsell was a British Conservative Party politician and Member of Parliament (MP) for Louth and Horncastle. He served in the House of Commons continuously from 1966 until 2015, and was also previously an MP from 1959 to 1964. He was Father of the House between 2010 and 2015.
Nicholas Grimshaw
Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, CBE, PPRA is a prominent English architect, particularly noted for several modernist buildings, including London's Waterloo International railway station and the Eden Project in Cornwall. He was President of the Royal Academy from 2004 to 2011. He was chairman of Grimshaw Architects from its foundation to 2019, when he was succeeded by Andrew Whalley. He is a recipient of the RIBA Gold Medal.
Steve Baddeley
Stephen John Baddeley is a retired male badminton player from England who competed from the early 1980s to the early 1990s.
Roger Quilter
Roger Cuthbert Quilter was an English composer, known particularly for his art songs.
Richard Olivier
Hugo Dyson
Henry Victor Dyson Dyson, generally known as Hugo Dyson and who signed his writings H. V. D. Dyson, was an English academic and a member of the Inklings literary group. He was a committed Christian, and together with J. R. R. Tolkien he helped C. S. Lewis in converting to Christianity, particularly after a long conversation as they strolled on Addison's Walk at Oxford.