Some famous people from Somerset (or who have lived in Somerset, or who have Somerset connections)
| Acker Bilk (musician) |
| Andrew Crosse (experimented with electricity at Fyne Court, Broomfield) |
| Andy Elson (Balloonist - holder of world record) |
| Arthur C Clarke (author) lived in Taunton |
| Captain Robert Falcon Scott (explorer) |
| Charles Dance (actor) |
| Col John Rouse Merriott Chard VC (Colonel at Rourkes Drift fort - Zulu Wars) |
| David Shepherd (artist) |
| Don MuCullin (photographer) |
| Dr Robert Dunning (author, historian) |
| Duke of Wellington |
| Elizabeth Goodge (author) |
| Evelyn Waugh (author) lived in Somerset |
| Fay Weldon (author) |
| Frankie Howerd (actor) |
| George Williams (founder of YMCA) |
| Georgie Fame (musician) |
| Henry Fielding (author) |
| Ian Botham (former Somerset / England cricketer) |
| Gertrude Jekyll & Sir Edwin Lutyens (garden designers) |
| Jenson Button (racing driver) |
| John Leach (potter) |
| John Pym (politician) |
| John Steinbeck (author) |
| Julia Somerville (newsreader) |
| John Stringfellow (aviation inventor) |
| King Alfred |
| King Arthur |
| Lord Rees Mogg (journalist) |
| Lord Trenchard (Founder of RAF - 1st World War, born in Taunton) |
| Margaret Bondfield (1st woman cabinet minister Ð early 20th century) |
| Margaret Drabble (author) |
| Margery Fish (gardener) |
| Martin Pipe (racehorse trainer) |
| Mary Rand (Olympic athelete, lived in Wells) |
| Michael Eavis (farmer & organiser of Pilton pop festival) lives near Glastonbury |
| Michael Holroyd (author) |
| Patrick Reyntiens (stained glass maker) |
| Penelope Hobhouse (gardener) |
| Penelope Lively (author) |
| Peter Gabriel (musician) |
| Rachael Reckitt (artist, engraver) |
| Robert Blake (admiral) |
| Robert Robinson (TV personality) |
| Robin Bush (author, historian / TV's Time Team) |
| Robin Bacon (scientist & philosopher) |
| St. Dunstan (cleric) |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge (poet) lived at Nether Stowey from 1797 to 1799 |
| Simon King (wildlife photographer) |
| Sir Cameron Macintosh (impresario) |
| Sir Henry Irving (actor/manager) |
| Sir John Harvey-Jones (business consultant) |
| Sir Ranulph Fiennes (explorer) |
| Terry Pratchett (author) |
| Thomas Young (scientist & linguist) |
| TS Eliot (poet & playwright - ashes are in East Coker) |
| Viv Richards (former Somerset cricketer) |
| Walter Bagehot (economist) |
| William Waldegrave (politician) |
| William Wordsworth (poet) lived in Somerset for a year |