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• Aphex Twin: electronic music artist
• King Arthur: many legends associate him with Cornwall, particularly with Tintagel and Camelford
• Sir John Arundell : royalist commander
• John Betjeman: writer
• William Bligh: captain of The Bounty, botanist, governor of New South Wales, admiral of the Royal Navy
• Edward Boscawen: admiral of the Royal Navy
• Nicholas Boson : Cornish language antiquary
• St Corentin : missionary to Brittany
• Corineus: legendary founder of Cornwall in Geoffrey of MonmouthGeoffrey of Monmouth was a clergyman and one of the major figures in the development of British history. Born in about 1100 in Wales, he probably had some Breton blood. After graduating from Oxford University, he became archdeacon of Llandaff and/or Monmo's Historia Regum BritanniaeGeoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanni English The History of the Kings of Britain was written around 1136. It chronicles the lives of the kings of the Britons in a chronological narrative spanning a time of two thousand years. It begins with the
• Humphrey Davy: inventor and scientist
• Daphne Du Maurier: novelist
• Thomas FlamankThomas Flamank was a lawyer from Cornwall who together with Michael An Gof led the Cornish Rebellion against taxes in 1497. The Cornish believed their distance from Scotland on whom the war taxes were to be used against were too far from them to concern t: rebel leader of the Cornish Rebellion of 1497The Cornish Rebellion of 1497 was an uprising in 1497 of the tin miners in Cornwall, England. The main cause of the rebellion was the raising of war taxes by King Henry VII for a campaign against Scotland. The tin miners lived in poverty, earning very sma
• Stanhope Forbes : 'plein-air' artist
• William Golding: novelist
• GorloisIn the legendary tales of King Arthur, Gorlois was the Duke of Cornwall and married to the beautiful Ygerna (Igraine or Ygraine). According to Geoffrey of Monmouth, when Uther Pendragon is attracted by the beauty of Ygerna he arranges for Gorlois's death, - mythical Duke of Cornwall
• Henry Jenner : pioneer of the Cornish language revival
• John of Cornwall (or 'Iohannes Cornubiensis'): 12th-century Catholic scholar
• Mark of Cornwall - Dark Ages Cornish ruler
• Michael Joseph (or 'An Gof'): rebel leader of the 1497 Cornish uprising
• Robert Morton Nance : Cornish language revivalist
• Dolly Pentreath: one of the last native speakers of Cornish before the 20th-century revival
• St Piran: patron saint of Cornwall and of tin miners
• Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (or 'Q'): author and literary critic
• A.L. Rowse: historian and Shakespearean scholar
• Tim Saunders : Cornish language poet
• Jonathan Trelawny : Anglican bishop and antagonist of James VII
• Richard Trevithick: engineer and inventor
• Luke Vibert: electronic music artist
• Brenda Wootton , bard and singer