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===Born before 1900=== *[[John of Salisbury]] (c. 1120β1180),<ref>[https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2015/entries/john-salisbury/ Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Archive] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190318085609/https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2015/entries/john-salisbury/ |date=18 March 2019 }} retrieved 28 September 2017</ref> author, educationalist, diplomat and [[bishop of Chartres]], born at Salisbury *[[Simon Forman]] (1552 in Quidhampton, [[Fugglestone St Peter]] β 1611),<ref>{{cite DNB |wstitle= Forman, Simon |volume= 19 |last= Lee |first= Sidney |author-link= Sidney Lee | pages= 438-441 |short= 1}}</ref> astrologer, occultist and [[herbalist]] *[[John Bevis]] (1695 in Old Sarum β 1771),<ref>[http://www.messier.seds.org/xtra/Bios/bevis.html SEDS Deep Sky Astronomers website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170830213647/http://www.messier.seds.org/xtra/Bios/bevis.html |date=30 August 2017 }} retrieved 28 September 2017</ref> doctor,<ref>{{cite DNB |wstitle= Bevis, John |volume= 04 |last= Clerke |first= Agnes Mary |author-link= Agnes Mary Clerke | pages= 451-452 |short= 1}}</ref> electrical researcher and astronomer. He discovered the [[Crab Nebula]] in 1731. *[[James Harris (grammarian)|James Harris]] (1709β1780),<ref>[https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Persons&dsqSearch=Code==%27NA8313%27&dsqCmd=Show.tcl Archive of The Royal Society] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424135006/https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Persons&dsqSearch=Code==%27NA8313%27&dsqCmd=Show.tcl |date=24 April 2019 }} retrieved 28 September 2017</ref> politician<ref>{{cite DNB |wstitle= Harris, James (1709-1780) |volume= 25 |last= Stephen |first= Leslie |author-link= Leslie Stephen | pages= 7-8 |short= 1}}</ref> and grammarian, born and educated in Salisbury *[[James Harris, 1st Earl of Malmesbury]] (1746 in Salisbury β 1820),<ref>[http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/12/101012394/ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160917031007/http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/12/101012394/ |date=17 September 2016 }} retrieved 28 September 2017</ref> diplomat, politician and MP *Sir [[John Stoddart]] (1773 in Salisbury β 1856),<ref>{{cite DNB |wstitle= Stoddart, John |volume= 54 |last= Boase |first= George Clement |author-link= George Clement Boase | pages= 397-398 |short= 1}}</ref> writer and lawyer, and editor of ''[[The Times]]'' *[[Sir George Staunton, 2nd Baronet]] (1781 at Milford House near Salisbury β 1859),<ref>[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/39786 Project Gutenberg] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170929044940/http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/39786 |date=29 September 2017 }} retrieved 28 September 2017</ref> traveller and [[Oriental studies|Orientalist]] *[[Henry Fawcett]] (1833 in Salisbury β 1884),<ref>[http://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH1038&type=P The University of Glasgow Story] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170929045153/http://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH1038&type=P |date=29 September 2017 }} retrieved 28 September 2017</ref> academic, statesman and economist *[[John Neville Keynes]] (1852 in Salisbury β 1949),<ref>[http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search-2016.pl?sur=&suro=w&fir=&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&z=all&tex=KNS872JN&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50 A Cambridge Alumni Database, University of Cambridge] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424135013/http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search-2016.pl?sur=&suro=w&fir=&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&z=all&tex=KNS872JN&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50 |date=24 April 2019 }} retrieved 28 September 2017</ref> economist, father of [[John Maynard Keynes]] *Sir [[James Macklin]] (1864 in Harnham β 1944),<ref>[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31712/supplement/3 The London Gazette, 30 December 1919] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171008155016/https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31712/supplement/3 |date=8 October 2017 }} retrieved 29 September 2017</ref> jeweller, farmer and six times [[Mayor of Salisbury]], from 1913 to 1919 *[[Herbert Ponting]] (1870 in Salisbury β 1935),<ref>[http://images.rgs.org/herbertponting.aspx Royal Geographical Society biographical tribute] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060429160234/http://images.rgs.org/herbertponting.aspx |date=29 April 2006 }} retrieved 28 September 2017</ref> professional photographer, expedition photographer and cinematographer for [[Robert Falcon Scott]]'s [[Terra Nova Expedition]] *[[James Bush (RFC officer)|Lieutenant James Cromwell Bush]] (1891 in Salisbury β 1917),{{citation needed|date=February 2022}} World War I [[flying ace]] *[[Tom Adlam|Lieutenant Colonel Tom Edwin Adlam]] (1893 in Salisbury β 1975),<ref>[http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205019045 Imperial War Museums] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170929234657/http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205019045 |date=29 September 2017 }} retrieved 29 September 2017</ref> recipient of the [[Victoria Cross]]
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