Dover is a town and seaport in Kent, England. The following is a list of those people who were born and/or have lived extensively in Dover.

Frederick Arnold (1899–1980), cricketer and British Army officer James Barber (1923–2007), cookbook author and host of CBC's The Urban Peasant Tammy Beaumont (born 1991), England cricketer Charlotte Bellamy (born 1973), TV actress Edward Betts (1815–1872), civil engineer and contractor Bob Bolder: Footballer. Alan Clayson (born 1951), musician Charlie Connelly (born 1970), journalist and nonfiction writer Wayne Couzens (born 1972), police officer, Sarah Everard's killer. Sir Alfred Dyer (1865–1947), journalist, chief executive, and Conservative Party politician Colin Greenland (born 1954), novelist David Elleray (born 1954), FA football referee Wally Hammond (1903–1965), cricketer Topper Headon (born 1955), drummer Rob Henderson (born 1972), rugby union player White Kennett (1660–1728), Anglican Bishop of Peterborough and antiquarian Jim Leverton (born 1946), rock musician John Lloyd (born 1951), comedy writer and TV producer Rhys Lloyd (born 1982), American football player E. J. Lowe (1950–2014), philosopher and academic Miriam Margolyes (born 1941), actress (Professor Sprout in Harry Potter and The Spanish Infanta in Blackadder) Sammy Moore (born 1987), football player Howard Mowll (1890–1958), Anglican Archbishop of Sydney and Primate of Australia Andrea Newman (1938–2019), author and television screenwriter Cuthbert Ottaway (1850–1879), first captain of the England football team Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth (1757–1833), naval commander Frank Rutley (1842–1904), geologist Patrick Saul (1913–1999), sound archivist Henry Hawley Smart (1833–1893), army officer and prolific novelist Joss Stone (born 1987), soul and R and B singer/songwriter, and occasional actress Neil Stuke (born 1966), actor John Russell Taylor (born 1935), critic and author Carl Thompson (1981/2–2015), heaviest man in the United Kingdom Arthur H. Vachell (1864–1933), English watercolorist Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690–1764), politician and Lord Chancellor Shane Taylor (born 1974), actor William Crundall (1847-1934) Mayor of the town thirteen times between 1886-1911. References