People from Newton Abbot

British explorer, officer, naturalist, big game hunter, engineer, writer and abolitionist (1821–1893)

American actor and musician

oil entrepreneur magnate, one of the founders of British Oil (1849–1917)

British musician and singer

English geologist, topographer and surveyor (1834–1923)

British entomologist, ornithologist, and naturalist who studied the fauna of the islands of Hawaii and Hymenoptera (1866–1955)

Audio engineer and entrepreneur

British politician (born 1959)

English theatrical architect and designer (1854–1920)

British barrister and law scholar

British politician (born 1957)

British mountain climber

British inventor

English linguist, anthropologist and historian

British Army general (1856–1934)

English director, screenwriter, comedian, actor (b. October 1951)