Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire (abbreviated Bucks) is a county in South East England. The county town is Aylesbury.

Famous people from Buckinghamshire

The following people are either from Buckinghamshire, have lived in Buckinghamshire, or continue to live in Buckinghamshire.

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• Nancy Astor, politician and society hostess, lived in Cliveden
• Nick Beggs, musician, is from Winslow
• Lynda Bellingham, actress, is from Aylesbury
• Cilla Black, television presenter, lives in Denham
• Enid Blyton, writer, lived in Beaconsfield
• Anne Boleyn, second wife of King Henry VIII, had a house in Wendover
• Melanie Brown, musician, lives in Little Marlow
• John Craven, television presenter, lives in Princes Risborough
• Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, politician, lives in Bledlow
• Roald Dahl, writer, lived in Great Missenden
• Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, politician, lived at Hughenden Manor
• Iain Duncan Smith, politician, lives in Swanbourne
• Ian Dury, musician, lived in Wingrave
• Noel Edmonds, television presenter, once lived in Weston Turville
• Edward the Confessor, king of England, had a palace in Brill
• T.S. Eliot, writer, lived in Marlow
• Frederick, Prince of Wales lived in Cliveden
• Noel Gallagher, musician, lives in Little Chalfont
• Sir John Gielgud, actor, was living in Wotton Underwood when he died
• Martin Grech, musician, is from Aylesbury
• John Hampden, politician, was from Great Hampden
• David Jason, actor, lives in Wendover
• Jerome K. Jerome, writer, lived in Marlow
• Angelina Jolie, actress, lives in Penn
• Howard Jones, musician, is from High Wycombe
• Jason "Jay" Kay, musician and frontman of Jamiroquai, lives in Horsenden
• Arthur Lasenby Liberty, merchant, was from Chesham
• John Milton, writer, lived in Chalfont St Giles
• Mike Oldfield, musician, once lived in Little Chalfont
• Ozzy Osbourne, musician, has a house in Chalfont St Peter
• Saint Osyth was from Quarrendon
• John Otway, musician, is from Aylesbury
• William Penn, politician, was from Penn
• Brad Pitt, actor, has a house in Penn
• Terry Pratchett, writer, was born in Beaconsfield
• Pauline Quirke, actress, lives in Beaconsfield
• Tim Rice, lyricist, is from Amersham
• Andy Riley, writer, is from Aylesbury
• Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, Prime Minister, lived at Mentmore
• Rothschild family, bankers, had houses in Ascott, Aston Clinton, Eythrope, Halton, Mentmore and Waddesdon
• Mary Shelley, writer, lived in Marlow
• Percy Bysshe Shelley, writer, lived in Marlow
• Jackie Stewart, racing driver, lives in Ellesborough
• Edmund Waller, poet, was from Amersham
• Roger of Wendover, chronicler, was from Wendover
• John Wyclif, theologian, lived in Ludgershall