Editing St Ives, Cornwall (section)

===Since 1900===
* [[Mabel Lethbridge]]  (1900–1968) Youngest person to receive a [[British Empire Medal]], after she was severely injured when a shell exploded in a munition factory in the [[World War I|Great War]]. Lived in St Ives from 1945 as a writer.
* [[Barbara Hepworth]]  (1903–1975) English [[Modernism]] artist and sculptor. Lived and worked in St Ives from 1949.
* [[Sven Berlin]] (1911–1999) English painter, fiction writer and sculptor, lived and worked in St Ives from 1938 to 1953.
* [[George Lloyd (composer)|George Lloyd]] (1913 in St Ives – 1998) was a British composer of part Welsh and part American ancestry.
* [[Margaret Mellis]] (1914–2009) British artist, one of the early members and last survivors of the group of modernist artists in St Ives
* [[Bryan Wynter]] (1915 – 1975) one of the St Ives group of painters, working mainly abstract, drawing upon nature
* [[Peter Lanyon]] (1918 in St Ives – 1964) a Cornish painter of landscapes, leaning heavily towards [[abstract art]]
* [[Patrick Heron]] (1920 – 1999) British abstract and figurative artist, lived in [[Zennor]].
* [[William Marshall (potter)|William Marshall]] (1923 in St Ives – 2007) English [[studio potter]] who joined the [[Leach Pottery]]
*  [[Bryan Pearce]] (1929 in St Ives – 2007) British painter. He was recognised as one of the UK's leading [[naïve art]]ists.
* [[John Nott]]  (born 1932) former British Conservative Party MP for [[St Ives (UK Parliament constituency)|St Ives]] from 1966 to 1983, [[Secretary of State for Defence]] during the [[Falkland war]], now lives on his farm at [[St Erth]] 
* [[David Harris (British politician)|David Harris]] (born 1937), British Conservative Party MP for [[St Ives (UK Parliament constituency)|St Ives]] from 1983 to 1997
* [[Jennifer Gretton, Baroness Gretton]] (born 1943 in St Ives), [[Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire]] from 2003 to 2018
* [[Mick Paynter]] (1948), [[Gorsedh Kernow|Grand Bard of Cornwall]], retired civil servant, trade union activist, and poet
* [[Anthony Frost]] (born 1951 in St Ives) English painter noted for his abstract works consisting of brightly coloured prints and collages
* [[Andrew George (politician)|Andrew George]] (born 1958 in Mullion) British Liberal Democrat politician and MP for [[St Ives (UK Parliament constituency)|St Ives]] from 1997 to 2015, and again since 2024
* [[Simon Garfield]] (born 1960), British writer of nonfiction books, including [[Just My Type: A Book About Fonts]], has a home in St Ives<ref>{{Cite news |last=Jeffries |first=Stuart |date=28 September 2012 |title=Simon Garfield: a life in books |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/sep/28/simon-garfield-life-in-books |access-date=11 June 2024 |work=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref> 
* [[Fleur Bennett]] (born 1968 in St Ives) British television actress, known for her work in 'Grace and Favour'
* [[Fink (singer)|Fink, aka Fin Greenall]] (born St Ives 1972), English singer, songwriter, guitarist, producer and DJ