Famous People From Dorset, England & Celebs Born In Dorset

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Thomas Hardy

(Novelist & Poet)

Listed In: Writers

Birthdate: June 2, 1840

Sun Sign: Gemini

Died: January 11, 1928

Victorian novelist and poet Thomas Hardy exhibited strong influences of Romanticism in his works. He wrote classic novels such as Far from the Madding Crowd, The Mayor of Casterbridge, and Tess of the d'Urbervilles. He mostly showed his characters struggling against social conditions and ending up in tragic situations.

John Le Carré

(Novelist)

Listed In: Writers

Birthdate: October 19, 1931

Sun Sign: Libra

Janet Montgomery

(Actress)

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birthdate: October 29, 1985

Sun Sign: Scorpio

Height: 5'6" (168 cm)

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Jayne Atkinson

(Actress)

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birthdate: February 18, 1959

Sun Sign: Aquarius

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Robert Newton

(Actor)

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birthdate: June 1, 1905

Sun Sign: Gemini

Died: March 25, 1956

Height: 6'0" (183 cm)

Dido Harding

(Businesswoman)

Listed In: Business People

Birthdate: November 9, 1967

Sun Sign: Scorpio

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Stephen Daldry

(film director, film producer, theatre director)

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birthdate: May 2, 1960

Sun Sign: Taurus

Henry Fox Talbot

(English Scientist, Inventor, and Pioneer Photographer Who Invented the ‘Salted Paper’ and ‘Calotype’ Processes)

Listed In: Inventors & Discoverers

Birthdate: February 11, 1800

Sun Sign: Aquarius

Died: September 17, 1877

Henry Fox Talbot was an English photography pioneer, inventor, and scientist. He is best remembered for inventing the calotype and salted paper processes that served as predecessors to photographic processes of the 20th century. He is also credited with inventing the photoglyphic engraving process. Henry Fox Talbot also played a major role in the progression of photography as an art.

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(Aristocrat and Novelist Best Known for Her Gothic Novel ‘Glenarvon’)

Listed In: Writers

Birthdate: November 13, 1785

Sun Sign: Scorpio

Died: January 25, 1828

Better known as one of Lord Byron’s lovers, Lady Caroline Lamb met a 24-year-old Byron when she was 26, married, and has an autistic son with her husband, future British prime minister William Lamb. An author, too, she is known for her anonymously published Gothic novel Glenarvon.

Natalie Clein

(Musician)