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Famous People Connected to Jersey
Channel Islands
Image right - Statue of Gerald Durrell at Jersey Zoo, Jersey, sculpted by John Doubleday
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Those people of note with connections (born, lived, died or buried) to the county are listed below. Some of these connections are a little tenuous - counties like to lay claim to people of renown!
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- Richard Averty, priest hanged for killing baby
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- Jesse and Florence Boot, Baron and Lady Trent, of Boot's the Chemist fame and island benefactors
- Emilie Charlotte Le Breton (Lillie Langtree) actress and producer
- Admiral of the Fleet Sir Cecil Burney, the highest ranking Jerseyman of all time
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- Henry Cavill actor b. 1983
- Abraham Le Cras, 19th century political agitator who kept petitioning the Privy Council, not without success
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- Gerald Durrell, author and zoologist
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- Elinor Glyn (née Sutherland; 17 October 1864 Jersey – 23 September 1943) was a British novelist and scriptwriter
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- Seymour Hicks Actor
- Victor Hugo decided to live in exile after Napoleon III's coup d'état at the end of 1851. After leaving France, Hugo lived in Brussels briefly in 1851, before moving to the Channel Islands, first to Jersey (1852–1855) and then to the smaller island of Guernsey in 1855, where he stayed until Napoleon III's fall from power in 1870.
- Arthur George Lee Hellyer, English horticulturalist and author
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- Augustus Asplet Le Gros or Augustus Aspley Le Gros (14 April 1840, Saint Helier – 3 December 1877) was a Norman language poet from Jersey and a Jurat of the Royal Court of Jersey.
- John Lemprière (1765-1824)
- Lillie Langtry, British-American socialite, actress and producer. born on Jersey
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- Nigel Mansell, world motor racing champion
- Sir Robert Pipon Marett (20 November 1820 – 10 November 1884, pseudonym Laelius) was a lawyer, journalist, poet, politician, and Bailiff of Jersey from 1880 until his death.
- Philippe Le Sueur Mourant (1848 – 21 August 1918) was a Jersey writer who wrote in Jèrriais and French.
- Jason Martin, contemporary artist
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- Charles Robin, founder of the Gaspé cod fishing industry
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- Frederick Tennyson (5 June 1807 in Louth, Lincolnshire – 26 February 1898 in Kensington) was an English poet. Lived in Jersey
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- Harry Vardon - 1870-1937 was a professional golfer from the Bailiwick of Jersey who won The Open Championship a record six times and also won the 1900 U.S. Open
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- Wace, a Norman poet of the 12th century, is Jersey's earliest known author.
- Reginald Hector Whistler, artist (22 January 1905, in Jersey, 1978
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