People from Whitby

British geneticist and biologist (1861-1926)

Cædmon (; fl. c. 657–684) is the earliest English poet whose name is known. A Northumbrian cowherd who cared for the animals at the double monastery of Streonæshalch (now known as Whitby Abbey) during the abbacy of St. Hilda, he was originally ignorant of "the art of song" but learned to compose one night in the course of a dream, according to the 8th-century Christian historian and saint Bede. He later became a zealous monk and an accomplished and inspirational Christian poet. He is venerated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church, Roman Catholicism and Anglicanism, with a feast day on 11

English singer (born 1942)

Christian saint and the founding abbess of the monastery at Whitby, England

British missionary

British explorer (1744-1792)

English Arctic explorer and whaler (1789–1857)

British writer (1891-1986)

British dermatologist

British explorer

English engineer