This is a list of non-fictional people from Norwich, past and present, who are identified with the UK city of
Norwich through residential, historical, or cultural means, grouped by their area of notability, and in alphabetical order by surname.
Edith Cavell (1865–1915), born in
Swardeston, 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Norwich, a WWI nurse
executed by firing squad by the
Germans for helping Allied prisoners escape; buried on the east side of Norwich Cathedral
William Cuningham (16th C), Elizabethan physician, cartographer and astrologer
Julian of Norwich (1343 – after 1416), medieval Christian
mystic and contemporary of
Chaucer, author of The Revelations of Divine Love, the first known book in English written by a woman.[30]
Harriet Martineau (1802–1876), daughter of a Norwich manufacturer of
Huguenot descent and devout
Unitarian, whose writings include Illustrations of Political Economy (1832–34). She supported the
abolitionist campaign.[31]
Elizabeth Fry (1780–1845),
prison reformer, philanthropist and
Quaker, born at Gurney Court in Magdalen Street, portrayed on the Series E (2005) £5 banknote.[35]
Sir Vyvyan Holt (1896–1960), diplomat, orientalist and British minister, captured during the
Korean War
Colin Self (born 1941), contemporary artist, was brought up in Sprowston and attended Norwich School of Art.
Stella Vine (born 1969), painter, lived in Norwich from aged seven, and played at Norwich Theatre Royal. Later she moved back to Norwich and in 2006 painted the large sign Welcome to Norwich a fine city.[39]
Andrew Digby (born 1975), astronomer and ecologist
Jess French, zoologist, naturalist and presenter of "Minibeast Adventure with Jess" on the
CBeebies channel, grew up around Norwich and attended
Norwich School.
^Santa Bhattacharji,
"Julian of Norwich (1342–c. 1416)" in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography at oxforddnb.com (Oxford University Press, 2014) (subscription required)
This is a list of non-fictional people from Norwich, past and present, who are identified with the UK city of
Norwich through residential, historical, or cultural means, grouped by their area of notability, and in alphabetical order by surname.
Edith Cavell (1865–1915), born in
Swardeston, 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Norwich, a WWI nurse
executed by firing squad by the
Germans for helping Allied prisoners escape; buried on the east side of Norwich Cathedral
William Cuningham (16th C), Elizabethan physician, cartographer and astrologer
Julian of Norwich (1343 – after 1416), medieval Christian
mystic and contemporary of
Chaucer, author of The Revelations of Divine Love, the first known book in English written by a woman.[30]
Harriet Martineau (1802–1876), daughter of a Norwich manufacturer of
Huguenot descent and devout
Unitarian, whose writings include Illustrations of Political Economy (1832–34). She supported the
abolitionist campaign.[31]
Elizabeth Fry (1780–1845),
prison reformer, philanthropist and
Quaker, born at Gurney Court in Magdalen Street, portrayed on the Series E (2005) £5 banknote.[35]
Sir Vyvyan Holt (1896–1960), diplomat, orientalist and British minister, captured during the
Korean War
Colin Self (born 1941), contemporary artist, was brought up in Sprowston and attended Norwich School of Art.
Stella Vine (born 1969), painter, lived in Norwich from aged seven, and played at Norwich Theatre Royal. Later she moved back to Norwich and in 2006 painted the large sign Welcome to Norwich a fine city.[39]
Andrew Digby (born 1975), astronomer and ecologist
Jess French, zoologist, naturalist and presenter of "Minibeast Adventure with Jess" on the
CBeebies channel, grew up around Norwich and attended
Norwich School.
^Santa Bhattacharji,
"Julian of Norwich (1342–c. 1416)" in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography at oxforddnb.com (Oxford University Press, 2014) (subscription required)