List of people from Penzance

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List of notable residents of Penzance, a town in the Penwith district of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

* John Noble Barlow, painter
* Andrew Ketcham Barnett, mineral collector and dealer
* Geoffrey Bazeley, Modernist architect
* Peter Care, music video, television and film director
* William Colenso, missionary
* Richard Quiller Couch, physician and naturalist
* Leonard Courtney, 1st Baron Courtney of Penwith, politician, academic and man of letters
* William Prideaux Courtney (1845–1913), administrator and scholar[1]
* Ann Batten Cristall (1769–1848), poet
* Sir Humphry Davy, scientist
* John Davy, chemist
* John Divane VC, Irish soldier of the 60th Rifles
* Gilbert Hunter Doble, clergyman and scholar
* Martin Fido, university professor, true crime writer and broadcaster
* Sir John Forbes, physician
* Simon A. Forward, novelist and dramatist
* Alethea Garstin, artist
* Crosbie Garstin, poet and novelist[2][3]
* Norman Garstin, Irish artist, art critic and journalist
* Davies Gilbert, (born Davies Giddy was a Cornish engineer, author, and politician
* Helen Glover, Olympic gold medallist rower
* Jan Harvey, actress
* William Jory Henwood, geologist, retired to live in Penzance

* Thomas Holloway, patent medicine vendor and philanthropist
* Barbara Hosking, civil servant
* Caroline Jackson, MEP
* Stanley Johnson, politician, author and father of politician Boris Johnson
* Julie Kitchen, fourteen time Muay Thai world champion
* Sir John Luke, New Zealand politician, born near Penzance
* Ruth Manning-Sanders, poet and author
* Daniel Mannix, Australian Roman Catholic bishop
* Joshua Mellody, electronic music producer, better known as Zomboy
* Thandiwe Newton, actress
* Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe, entomologist
* Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, naval commander
* William Penhaligon (1837–1902), barber and perfumer
* John Ralfs (1807–1890), botanist
* Jack Richards, cricketer
* Edmund Sedding, architect
* Jean Shrimpton, model
* John Coulson Tregarthen, writer and naturalist
* Ethelwynn Trewavas, ichthyologist.[4]
* Alfred Wallis, painter
* George Waterhouse, politician
* Lilian Wyles, first female detective in the British police force, died in Penzance.

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## References

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1. ^ "Family of John Sampson Courtney of Penzance". Retrieved 30 October 2009.
2. ^ "Crosbie Garstin". Archived from the original on 26 July 2008. Retrieved 9 August 2009.
3. ^ Smelt, Maurice (2006). Crosbie Garstin. ISBN 9780906720509. Retrieved 9 August 2009.
4. ^ Greenwood, Humphry (23 October 2011). "Obituary: Ethelwynn Trewavas". Independent. Retrieved 8 December 2015.