Editing Hastings (section)

==Notable people==
{{Main|List of people from Hastings}}

* [[John Logie Baird]] lived in Hastings in the 1920s where he carried out experiments that led to the transmission of the first television image.<ref>{{cite web|title=John Logie Baird|url=http://www.hmag.org.uk/collections/baird/|website=Hastings Museum &Art Gallery|access-date=27 May 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160511192010/http://www.hmag.org.uk/collections/baird/|archive-date=11 May 2016}}</ref> [[Robert Tressell]] wrote ''[[The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists]]'' in Hastings between 1906 and 1910.<ref>{{cite web|title=Robert Tressell|url=http://www.hmag.org.uk/collections/tressell/|website=Hastings Museum & Art Gallery|access-date=27 May 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160511192021/http://www.hmag.org.uk/collections/tressell/|archive-date=11 May 2016}}</ref>
* Novelist [[Catherine Cookson]] lived in the town for many years and began her writing career when she joined the local writing group.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Catherine Cookson: Her Life (and Husband) – Hastings History |url=https://hastingshistory.net/features/catherine-cookson-her-life-and-husband |access-date=11 June 2024 |website=hastingshistory.net}}</ref> There is a blue plaque on her former home at 9–10 Exmouth Place.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Plaques |first=Open |title=Catherine Cookson blue plaque |url=https://openplaques.org/plaques/1271 |access-date=11 June 2024 |website=openplaques.org}}</ref>
* Many notable figures were born, raised, or lived in Hastings, including computer scientist [[Alan Turing]], poet [[Fiona Pitt-Kethley]], actress [[Gwen Watford]], comedian [[Jo Brand]], Madness singer [[Suggs (singer)|Suggs]] and [[Thomas H. Jukes]], biologist. [[Gareth Barry]], who holds the [[List of footballers with 500 or more Premier League appearances|record number of appearances in the Premier League]], was born in Hastings. Archibald Belaney, the author who worked as [[Grey Owl]], was born in Hastings and lived here for several years.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PE9dDwAAQBAJ&q=grey+owl+36+St.+Mary%27s+Terrace&pg=PA130 |title=The Canadian Guide to Britain, vol 1: England page 129 |isbn=9781349811434 |access-date=7 September 2018 |archive-date=8 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180908130424/https://books.google.ca/books?id=PE9dDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA130&lpg=PA130&dq=grey+owl+36+St.+Mary%27s+Terrace&source=bl&ots=gYLmXSRJT9&sig=Yj648aD7jgNoB7moANvPODFLlWs&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwia2Nu58andAhWCm4MKHXNzDFkQ6AEwB3oECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=grey%20owl%2036%20St.%20Mary's%20Terrace&f=false |url-status=live |last1=Simpson |first1=Jeffrey |last2=Ltd |first2=Macmillan Education |last3=Martin |first3=Ged |date=26 December 2015 |publisher=Macmillan Education UK }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Ruffo |first1=Armand Garnet |title=Grey Owl: The Mystery of Archie Belaney |date=1996 |publisher=Coteau Books |isbn=9781550505337 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-6kaBgAAQBAJ&q=grey+owl+36+St.+Mary%27s+Terrace&pg=PP13|access-date=17 October 2020 |archive-date=23 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210123084537/https://books.google.com/books?id=-6kaBgAAQBAJ&q=grey+owl+36+St.+Mary%27s+Terrace&pg=PP13 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Harry H Corbett]], an actor best known for his role as Harold Steptoe in the BBC sitcom [[Steptoe and Son]], lived in Hastings up until his death in 1982.
* [[Mark Edwards (British writer)|Mark Edwards]], a best-selling British fiction writer, grew up in Hastings.
* [[Anna Brassey]], a collector and feminist pioneer of early photography, was based in Hastings until her death in 1887 (she was buried at sea).
* [[Tom Chaplin]], best known as the lead singer of the English pop rock band [[Keane (band)|Keane]], was born in Hastings.
* The internationally renowned punk rock band [[Maid of Ace]] is from Hastings.
* [[Martin Honeysett]] (1943–2015), cartoonist known for his grotesque and biting sketches, lived in Hastings for a number of years.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Farewell, Martin Honeysett – you will be sadly missed. |url=https://hastingsonlinetimes.co.uk/hastings-life/hastings-people/farewell-martin-honeysett-you-will-be-sadly-missed |access-date=11 June 2024 |website=hastingsonlinetimes.co.uk}}</ref>
* [[Roger Lewis (biographer)|Roger Lewis]] (born 1960), journalist, writer and biographer, author of [[The Life and Death of Peter Sellers]], lives in the town. He suffered a heart attack on the car park at [[Morrisons]] supermarket and had to be airlifted to hospital.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hemsley |first=Andy |date=27 February 2023 |title=Hastings man describes how he came back from the dead after collapsing in Morrisons car park |url=https://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/people/hastings-man-describes-how-he-came-back-from-the-dead-after-collapsing-in-morrisons-car-park-4042581 |access-date=6 July 2024 |work=Sussex Express}}</ref>