List of Famous people born in Southampton, United Kingdom
Stanley Ridges
Stanley Ridges was a British-born American film actor who played character parts.
Gloria Hooper, Baroness Hooper
Gloria Dorothy Hooper, Baroness Hooper, is a British lawyer and a Conservative life peer in the House of Lords.
John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe
Admiral of the Fleet John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, was a Royal Navy officer. He fought in the Anglo-Egyptian War and the Boxer Rebellion and commanded the Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland in May 1916 during the First World War. His handling of the fleet at that battle was controversial. Jellicoe made no serious mistakes and the German High Seas Fleet retreated to port, at a time when defeat would have been catastrophic for Britain, but the public was disappointed that the Royal Navy had not won a more dramatic victory given that they outnumbered the enemy. Jellicoe later served as First Sea Lord, overseeing the expansion of the Naval Staff at the Admiralty and the introduction of convoys, but was relieved at the end of 1917. He also served as the Governor-General of New Zealand in the early 1920s.
Michael Langrish
Michael Laurence Langrish is a retired English Anglican bishop. He was Bishop of Exeter from 2000 to 2013.
Matthew Davies
Matthew Davies is an English former competitive figure skater. He is a two-time British national champion in men's singles and reached the free skate at five ISU Championships – three European Championships and two World Junior Championships. He competed once at the World Championships but did not advance past the short program.
Joseph May
Joseph May is a British-born Canadian-American actor, who has appeared in television and film. He is best known for his role as Andy Button in the television series Episodes, Paul who was the boyfriend of Sam Colloby, in Casualty, Luke in I Live with Models and for voicing Thomas the Tank Engine in the US dub of the children's television series Thomas & Friends.
Emily Davies
Sarah Emily Davies was an English feminist and suffragist, and a pioneering campaigner for women's rights to university access. She is remembered above all as a co-founder and an early Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge University, the first university college in England to educate women.
Garry Chalk
Garry Chalk is an English-Canadian film, television and voice actor. He has provided the voices for Optimus Primal of Beast Wars: Transformers and Beast Machines, as well as Optimus Prime in the anime English dubs of Transformers: Armada, Transformers Energon, and Transformers: Cybertron. He has lent his voice to over 30 animated television series and has been in films such as The Fly II, Godzilla and Freddy vs. Jason. He played the recurring role of Col. Chekov on Stargate SG-1. He is perhaps best known for his recurring role as Inspector Andrew Pawlachuk on Cold Squad.
Teddy Billington
Edwin "Teddy" Billington was an American racing cyclist who competed in the early twentieth century. An all round cycling talent he competed in Cycling at the 1904 Summer Olympics and won a silver medal in the ½ mile and three bronze medals in the ¼ mile, ⅓ and the mile race. His fiercest competitors were fellow Americans Marcus Hurley and Burton Downing who mostly won gold and silver respectively.
Dominic Muldowney
Dominic Muldowney is a British composer.