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Famous people who grew up or lived in and around Oxford
8 notable people grew up or lived in and around Oxford. Each listing explores the home and neighbourhood, and how the place shaped the person they became.
C.S. Lewis1930–1963
📍 The Kilns, Lewis Close, Headington Quarry, Oxford OX3 8JD, UK
Warnie and I pooled our inheritance in 1930 to buy The Kilns, named after the old brick kilns on the land, at Headington Quarry on the edge of Oxford. It came with eight acres of woodland…
Emma Watson1995–2008
📍 Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK
Emma Watson was born in Paris in 1990 to two English lawyers and spent her first years in Maisons-Laffitte, outside the city. When she was five her parents separated, and she moved with her…
Florence Pugh1996–2014
📍 Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK
Florence Pugh was born in Oxford in January 1996 and grew up in Oxfordshire, in a lively, creative family. Her father, Clinton, is a restaurateur, and her mother, Deborah, a dancer, and she…
J.R.R. Tolkien1930–1947
📍 20 Northmoor Road, Oxford OX2 6UR, UK
I was orphaned young — my father died in South Africa, and my mother when I was twelve — but before that she brought my brother and me to Sarehole, a hamlet outside Birmingham with a…
Lewis Carroll1851–1898
📍 Christ Church, St Aldate's, Oxford OX1 1DP, UK
I was the eldest son in a parsonage at Daresbury in Cheshire and later Croft in Yorkshire, one of eleven children, and I spent my boyhood inventing games, puzzles, a toy railway and family…
Maggie Smith1939–1956
📍 Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK
I was born in Ilford, Essex, in 1934, but when I was four my family moved to Oxford, where my father worked as a pathologist at the university. I was the youngest, with older twin brothers…
Richard the Lionheart1157–1160
📍 Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 2LN, UK
I was born in the King's Houses at Beaumont Palace in Oxford, just outside the city's north gate, on 8 September 1157, the third son of King Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. Beaumont was…
Stephen Hawking1942–1963
📍 Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
I was born in Oxford on the 8th of January 1942 — three hundred years to the day after the death of Galileo, which I was always pleased by — and I grew up in a family of unconventional…