Editing Ipswich (section)

==People==
{{main category|People from Ipswich}}
<!-- See discussion on the talk page for criteria for inclusion, which loosely summarised is having somewhere in the town named after them, a Blue Plaque or a statue erected in the town in their honour. -->[[File:Statue of Thomas Wolsey - Ipswich.jpg|thumb|Statue of [[Thomas Wolsey]] on St Peters Street]]

The Tudor Cardinal [[Thomas Wolsey]] was born in the town.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Wolsey, Thomas | volume= 28 |last= Pollard | first= Albert Frederick |author-link= Albert Pollard| pages = 779&ndash;780 |short= 1}}</ref> Sir [[Samuel Mayart]], the judge and political theorist, was born in Ipswich in 1585. The artist [[Thomas Gainsborough]]<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Gainsborough, Thomas | volume= 11  |last= Rossetti |first= William Michael  |author-link= William Michael Rossetti| pages = 388&ndash;389 |short= 1}}</ref> and the cartoonist [[Carl Giles|"Giles"]] worked here, [[Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson|Horatio, Lord Nelson]], became Steward of Ipswich, and [[Margaret Catchpole]] began her adventurous career here. [[Alf Ramsey]] and [[Bobby Robson]] were both successful managers of [[Ipswich Town F.C.|Ipswich Town]]. Ipswich was the birthplace in 1741 of [[Sarah Trimmer]], née Kirby, writer and critic of children's literature and among the first to introduce pictorial material and animals and the natural world into it.<ref>Barbara Brandon Schnorrenberg, "Trimmer, Sarah (1741–1810)", In: ODNB, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/27740. Retrieved 8 September 2014, pay-walled.]</ref> Also born in Ipswich is [[Sam Claflin]], who appeared in ''[[The Hunger Games (film series)|The Hunger Games]]'' and [[Peaky Blinders (TV series)|''Peaky Blinders'']].

Actor and director [[Richard Ayoade]], best known for his role as Maurice Moss in ''[[The IT Crowd]]'', was brought up in Ipswich,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Barkham |first=Patrick |date=1 October 2008 |title=What's behind Richard Ayoade's loser act? |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2008/oct/02/comedy.television |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161201223018/https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2008/oct/02/comedy.television |archive-date=1 December 2016 |access-date=11 December 2016 |website=The Guardian}}</ref> as was the ceramic artist [[Blanche Georgiana Vulliamy]],<ref>[http://suffolkartists.co.uk/index.cgi?choice=painter&pid=1866 VULLIAMY, Blanche Georgina] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181216032050/https://suffolkartists.co.uk/index.cgi?choice=painter&pid=1866 |date=16 December 2018 }} (sic) at suffolkartists.co.uk, accessed 28 January 2018</ref>
and the musician [[Nandi Bushell]].
[[Hugh Catchpole]], a noted educationist with over 60 years of association with military schools and colleges in India and Pakistan, was born in Ipswich.<ref>{{Cite news |date=20 September 2008 |title=Hugh Catchpole: An institution unto himself |language=en-US |work=DAWN.COM |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/827620 |url-status=live |access-date=11 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180311142545/https://www.dawn.com/news/827620 |archive-date=11 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Hugh Catchpole: Founder Principal |url=http://www.cch.edu.pk/about-us/2013-10-12-02-45-19/founder-principal.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180311140756/http://www.cch.edu.pk/about-us/2013-10-12-02-45-19/founder-principal.html |archive-date=11 March 2018 |access-date=11 March 2018 |website=www.cch.edu.pk |language=en-gb}}</ref>

[[Jeremy Wade]], an extreme angler known for hosting TV shows such as ''River Monsters'' and ''Dark Waters'', was born in Ipswich.

Composer [[Christopher Wright (composer)|Christopher Wright]] (1954-2024) was born in Ipswich.