Editing Buxton (section)

=== The Arts ===
[[File:Vera Brittain.jpg|thumb|140px|Vera Brittain]]
[[File:Lloyd Cole live in Münster (sept 2010).jpg|thumb|upright=0.65|Lloyd Cole, 2010]]
* [[Orlando Jewitt]] (1799–1869), architectural wood-engraver
* [[Vera Brittain]] (1893–1970), author of ''[[Testament of Youth]]'' and mother of [[Shirley Williams]], lived in Buxton from 1905<ref>{{cite book
 |last=Brittain
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 |date=1933
 |title=Testament of Youth
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 |publisher=Fontana paperback (1979)
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* [[Robert Stevenson (filmmaker)|Robert Stevenson]], (1905–1986), Buxton-born director of [[Walt Disney Pictures|Disney]] films including ''[[Mary Poppins (film)|Mary Poppins]]''
* [[John Buxton Hilton]] (1921–1986), Buxton-born crime writer<ref>[https://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/client/john-buxton-hilton Curtis Brown website, literary and talent agency] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180115001708/https://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/client/john-buxton-hilton |date=15 January 2018}} retrieved January 2018.</ref> 
* [[Angela Flanders]] (1927–2016), Buxton-born [[perfumer]]<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/05/22/angela-flanders-perfumer--obituary/ |title=Angela Flanders, perfumer – obituary |newspaper=Daily Telegraph |date=22 May 2016 |access-date=24 May 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160524105516/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/05/22/angela-flanders-perfumer--obituary/ |archive-date=24 May 2016}}</ref>
* [[Marjorie Lynette Sigley]] (1928–1997), Buxton-born artist, writer and actress, teacher, choreographer, theatre director and TV producer
* [[Elizabeth Spriggs]], (1929–2008), Buxton-born character actress with the [[Royal Shakespeare Company]]
* [[Tim Brooke-Taylor]] (1940–2020), comic actor in [[The Goodies]]
* [[David Fallows]] (born 1945 in Buxton), [[Musicology|musicologist]]<ref>[http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/David.fallows/ Research page, University of Manchester] {{webarchive |url=http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20151221000934/http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/David.fallows/ |date=21 December 2015}} retrieved January 2018.</ref> specializing in music of the [[Ars nova|late Middle Ages]] and the [[Renaissance music|Renaissance]]
* [[Dave Lee Travis]] (born 1945 in Buxton), disc jockey, radio and TV presenter
* [[Lloyd Cole]] (born 1961 in Buxton), musician,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/lloyd-cole-mn0000229348/biography |title=Lloyd Cole |publisher=AllMusic |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180114184726/https://www.allmusic.com/artist/lloyd-cole-mn0000229348/biography |archive-date=14 January 2018 |access-date=18 October 2024}}</ref> songwriter, frontman of [[Lloyd Cole and the Commotions]]
* [[Dan Rhodes]] (born 1972), writer,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3592073/A-writers-life-Dan-Rhodes.html |title=A writer's life: Dan Rhodes |first=Lloyd |last=Evans |newspaper=Daily Telegraph |date=22 March 2003 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170824201359/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3592073/A-writers-life-Dan-Rhodes.html |archive-date=24 August 2017 |access-date=18 October 2024}}</ref>{{failed verification|date=October 2024}} awarded the [[E. M. Forster Award]] in 2010, lives in Buxton.
* [[Bruno Langley]] (born 1983), actor, who played [[Adam Mitchell (Doctor Who)|Adam Mitchell]] in ''[[Doctor Who]]'' and [[Todd Grimshaw]] in ''[[Coronation Street]]'', was brought up in Buxton.
* [[Lucy Spraggan]] (born 1991), musician (folk, acoustic, hip hop pop), went to school in Buxton.
* [[Kate Butch]], drag queen from series 5 of  ''[[RuPaul's Drag Race UK]]'', grew up in Buxton and attended [[Buxton Community School]].