List of people from King's Lynn

• Florence Green (1901–2012), last known female veteran of World War I • John Mason (1586–1635), naval captain and coloniser ==Entertainment==

• Robert Armin (c. 1563–1615), actor • Mrs. Bernard Beere (1851–1915), actress • Victoria Bush (born 1978), actress and comedian • Michael Caine (born 1933), actor, was evacuated to King's Lynn in World War II and attended King Edward VII School. • Zara Dawson (born 1983), actress and television presenter • Richard Meek (born 1982), actor in musical theatre • Miranda Raison (born 1977), actress • Lucy Verasamy (born 1980), weather forecaster, currently employed by ITV National Weather • Mark Wheat (living), presenter on The Current from Minnesota Public Radio ==Exploration==

• Adam Thoroughgood (1604–1640), colonist and community leader in the Colony of Virginia • George Vancouver (1757–1798), naval officer known for exploring North-West Coast of North America • John Smith (explorer) (c. 1580–1631), Admiral of New England and English soldier, explorer and author • Thomas Baines (1820–1875), artist and explorer of British colonial southern Africa and Australia • Samuel Gurney Cresswell (1827–1867), first naval officer to cross the entire Northwest Passage ==Fine art==

• Odile Crick (1920–2007), artist and illustrator • Walter Dexter (1876–1958), oil painter and water colourist • Alison Dunhill (born 1950), artist, art historian and poet • Robert Elwes (1818–1878), painter and traveller • Ruth Roche, Baroness Fermoy (1908–1993), founder of King's Lynn Festival of Arts • Samuel Lane (1780–1859), portrait painter • Edward Villiers Rippingille (c. 1790–1859), oil painter and water colourist ==Literature and journalism==

• Emily Bell (born 1965), journalist and academic • Frances Burney (1752–1840), novelist and diarist • James Burney (1750–1821), naval historian • Sarah Burney (1772–1844), novelist • Suzanne Francis (born 1959), scifi and fantasy author • Ian Hamilton (1938–2001), critic, biographer and poet • Hardiman Scott (1920–1999), crime writer, poet and broadcaster • John Timpson (1928–2005), journalist and broadcaster ==Miscellaneous==

• Michael Carroll (lottery winner) (born 1983), binman who won £9.7 million on the UK National Lottery in 2002 ==Music==

• Charles Burney (1726–1814), organist in King's Lynn, composer and musicologist • Gerry Conway (musician) (born 1952), folk and rock drummer and percussionist • Clara Dow (1883–1969), operatic soprano • Pieter Hellendaal (1721–1799), organist in King's Lynn, composer and violinist • George Kiallmark (1781–1835), violinist and composer • Roger Taylor (born 1949), drummer for the rock band Queen • David Thaxton (born 1982), singer and actor • Craig Powell (musician) (born 1984), singer/songwriter ==Politics and diplomacy==

• Denys Bullard (1912–1994), Conservative politician and agriculturalist • Thomas Cromwell (Parliamentary diarist) (c. 1540 – c. 1611), politician and parliamentary diarist • Maurice Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy (1885–1955), Conservative politician • Sir William ffolkes, 3rd Baronet (1847–1912), Liberal politician • Holcombe Ingleby (1854–1926), Conservative politician and mayor • Weston Jarvis (1855–1939), Conservative politician and army officer • Clare Sewell Read (1826–1905), Conservative politician and agriculturalist • George Ridley (1886–1944), Labour politician • Oliver Simmonds (1897–1975), Conservative politician and aircraft engineer • Sir Robert Walpole (1676–1745), Whig statesman generally regarded as Britain's first prime minister • Graham Woodwark (1874–1938), Liberal politician and mayor ==Religion==

• John Arrowsmith (scholar) (1602–1659), theologian and academic • John Barret (theologian) (died 1563), Lynn's "Vicar of Bray", Carmelite friar, then Protestant cleric and theologian • John Capgrave (1393–1464), hagiographer and scholastic theologian • Harvey Goodwin (1818–1891), bishop and academic • William Gurnall (1616–1679), religious writer • Margery Kempe (c. 1373 – after 1438), mystic and pilgrim, author of possibly the earliest autobiography in English • Thomas Pyle (1674–1756), cleric and controversialist • William Richards (minister) (1749–1818), Baptist minister and local historian ==Science and scholarship==

• Eugene Aram (1704–1759), philologist and murderer • William Baly (1814–1861), physician and fellow of the Royal Society • Henry Bell (architect) (1647–1711), architect and mayor • G. G. Coulton (1858–1947), historian • Guy Dawber (1861–1938), Arts and Crafts-style architect • Charles Wycliffe Goodwin (1817–1887), Egyptologist and judge • Francis Goodwin (architect) (1784–1835), architect • John Harvey (astrologer) (1564–1592), physician and astrologer • Charles Edward Hubbard (1900–1980), botanist and world authority on grasses • Benjamin Keene (1697–1757), ambassador • George William Manby (1765–1854), inventor and author • Tom Petch (1870–1948), mycologist and plant pathologist • Simon Thurley (born 1962), academic and architectural historian • Charles Vancouver (c. 1756 – c. 1815), writer on agriculture ==Sport==

• George Russell (racing driver) (born 1998), racing driver for Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team • George North - Professional rugby player • Ali Price - Professional rugby player • Martin Brundle (born 1959), racing driver and F1 commentator for ITV Sport and the BBC • Fred Fayers, (1890–1954), international football player • Lewis Jarvis, (1857–1938), all-round athlete and banker • Kathryn Johnson (field hockey Britain) (born 1967), Olympic field hockey player • Nicholas "Nick" Aldis (known professionally as Magnus (wrestler)) (born 1986), professional wrestler and actor • Peter Parfitt (born 1936), test cricketer • Barbara Parker (athlete), Olympic track and field athlete • Lucy Pearson (cricketer), test cricketer • Martin Saggers (born 1972), test cricketer • James Sherlock (golfer) (1875–1966), Open Championship golfer • Helen Slatter (born 1970), Olympic swimmer • Dave Taylor (wrestler) (born 1957), champion wrestler • Stan Worthington (1905–1973), test cricketer ==See also==