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Famous People Connected to Sussex
Image right - John Logie Baird
Please add information about people of renown connected to Sussex, England. If the person has a profile on Geni please add their profile to the project and add the link in bold.
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The following people of renown were either born or lived in Sussex or are strongly associated with Sussex.
Pilot Officer Fiske was an American pilot who joined the Royal Air Force. He became the first U.S. citizen to be killed in World War II. The son of William and Beulah Fiske, he was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a wealthy banking family whose ancestors had come from Suffolk, England in the seventeenth century. He attended school in Chicago, went to France with his family in 1924, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 1928 where he studied Economics and History.
- John Sackville
- Sir Richard Sackville
- Thomas Sackville - born 1536 in Buckhurst. Died 19 Apr 1608. Poet and statesman, 1st Earl of Dorset.
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