List of people from Penzance

List of notable residents of Penzance, a town in the Penwith district of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

John Noble Barlow, painter Andrew Ketcham Barnett, mineral collector and dealer Geoffrey Bazeley, Modernist architect Peter Care, music video, television and film director William Colenso, missionary Richard Quiller Couch, physician and naturalist Leonard Courtney, 1st Baron Courtney of Penwith, politician, academic and man of letters William Prideaux Courtney (1845–1913), administrator and scholar Ann Batten Cristall (1769–1848), poet Sir Humphry Davy, scientist John Davy, chemist John Divane VC, Irish soldier of the 60th Rifles Gilbert Hunter Doble, clergyman and scholar Martin Fido, university professor, true crime writer and broadcaster Sir John Forbes, physician Simon A. Forward, novelist and dramatist Alethea Garstin, artist Crosbie Garstin, poet and novelist Norman Garstin, Irish artist, art critic and journalist Davies Gilbert, (born Davies Giddy was a Cornish engineer, author, and politician Helen Glover, Olympic gold medallist rower Jan Harvey, actress William Jory Henwood, geologist, retired to live in Penzance

Thomas Holloway, patent medicine vendor and philanthropist Barbara Hosking, civil servant Caroline Jackson, MEP Stanley Johnson, politician, author and father of politician Boris Johnson Julie Kitchen, fourteen time Muay Thai world champion Sir John Luke, New Zealand politician, born near Penzance Ruth Manning-Sanders, poet and author Daniel Mannix, Australian Roman Catholic bishop Joshua Mellody, electronic music producer, better known as Zomboy Thandiwe Newton, actress Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe, entomologist Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, naval commander William Penhaligon (1837–1902), barber and perfumer John Ralfs (1807–1890), botanist Jack Richards, cricketer Edmund Sedding, architect Jean Shrimpton, model John Coulson Tregarthen, writer and naturalist Ethelwynn Trewavas, ichthyologist. Alfred Wallis, painter George Waterhouse, politician Lilian Wyles, first female detective in the British police force, died in Penzance.