Editing St Ives, Cornwall (section)

===Before 1900===
* Rev. [[Thomas Tregosse]] (c.&nbsp;1600 in St Ives – c.&nbsp;1670) [[Puritan]] minister who was silenced for being a [[Nonconformist (Protestantism)|Nonconformist]]
* [[Jonathan Toup]] (1713 in St Ives – 1785) English [[philologist]], classical scholar and critic.<ref>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle= Toup, Jonathan |volume= 27 |page=101 |short=1}}</ref>
* [[John Knill]] (1733 in Callington – 1811) slightly eccentric mayor of St Ives and Collector of Customs at St Ives from 1762 to 1782
* [[James Halse]] (1769 – 1838) English lawyer, wealthy businessman and [[Tories (British political party)|Tory]] (later [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]) politician. Settled in St Ives in  1790.
* [[John Baragwanath]] (1817 in St Ives – 1885) miner and politician in Australia, member of [[Victorian Legislative Assembly]]
* [[Richard Short (artist)|Richard Short]] (1841 in St Ives – 1919) was a Cornish artist; [[Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales]] holds five of his works.
* Sir [[Edward Hain]] (1851 in St Ives – 1917) shipping owner, MP for [[St Ives (UK Parliament constituency)|St Ives]] as a [[Liberal Unionist Party|Liberal Unionist]] 1900/04, and as a [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] 1904/06
* [[John Noble Barlow]] (1861–1917) English artist, predominantly as a landscape and seascape painter, lived in St Ives from 1892.
* [[William Williams (murderer)|William Williams]] (1877 in Cornwall – 1906) was the last person executed in [[Minnesota]], USA. The circumstances of his execution helped lead to the abolition of capital punishment in Minnesota.
* [[Percy Lane Oliver]] (1878–1944) from St Ives was the founder of the first voluntary blood donor service in 1921.
* [[Virginia Woolf]] (1882–1941) English novelist, spent much of her childhood here with her family between 1882 and 1894.
* [[Warwick Ward]] (1891 in St Ives – 1967) English actor and film producer, appearing in 64 films between 1919 and 1933; he produced 19 films between 1931 and 1958.