List of people from Guernsey

16th century

• Catherine Cauchés, Guillemine Gilbert and Perotine Massey, burned at the stake for heresy; Perotine Massey gave birth while tied to the stake
• Sir Henry de Vic, a founding member of the Royal Society, Chancellor of the Order of the Garter

17th century

• Edmund Andros, colonial administrator, governor of the Dominion of New England in America

18th century

• Peter Perchard, privateer, goldsmith and merchant, served as Lord Mayor of London in 1806
• Paul Le Mesurier, merchant, Lord Mayor of London 1793-4
• James Saumarez, Vice Admiral of the Blue and first Baron de Saumarez
• Major-General Sir Thomas Saumarez, commandant at Halifax, commander-in-chief of New Brunswick during the War of 1812
• Daniel de Lisle Brock, chief civic magistrate of Guernsey and brother of Sir Isaac Brock
• Richard Saumarez, British surgeon and medical author
• Major-General John Gaspard Le Marchant, founder of the first British military college
• Sir Isaac Brock, Major General and Lieutant-Governor of Upper Canada, hero of Upper Canada
• John MacCulloch, geologist in the Channel Islands, England and Scotland
• John Le Mesurier, Major General and governor of Alderney
• Peter Paul Dobree, English classical scholar and critic
• Frederick Corbin Lukis, antiquary and natural historian including botany, geology, conchology, and science
• George Métivier, the island's national poet
• Margaret Ann Neve, first validated female supercentenarian and oldest ever Guernsey-born person, 110 years 321 days
• Thomas de la Rue, printer and stationer
• John Jeremie, British judge, diplomat and abolitionist
• Ferdinand Brock Tupper, historian
• Peter Broun, first Colonial Secretary of Western Australia, and a member of Western Australia's first Legislative Council
• Samuel Elliott Hoskins, physician

19th century

• Sampson Avard, leader of a band of Mormon vigilantes called the Danites
• William Le Lacheur, sea captain and developed the coffee business in Costa Rica.
• James Jeremie, Dean of Lincoln
• Bonamy Price, political economist
• Warren De la Rue, astronomer and chemist
• Francis Colborne, Commander of British Troops in China, Hong Kong and the Straits Settlements
• Paul Jacob Naftel, artist
• Edmund Kennedy, explorer
• Jasper Hume Nicolls, Canadian Anglican priest and first Principal of Bishop's College
• Maria Rosetti née Grant, political activist and journalist
• Effingham Grant, diplomat and businessman, brother of Maria Rosetti
• Robert Carey, Major-General in the British Army
• John Elias Collings, General in the British Army
• George Jackson Carey, Major-General in the British Army
• Peter le Page Renouf, Egyptologist
• Denys Corbet, Guernésiais poet
• Duncan Charles Home, Victoria Cross recipient
• Terence O'Brien, surveyor, engineer and colonial governor of Newfoundland
• Walter Wren, member of Parliament
• John Richard Magrath, British academic
• Frederick Moynihan, sculptor
• Mrs. Bartle Teeling, writer
• Mabel Collins, theosophist and author
• John Frederick McCrea, Victoria Cross recipient
• Theodore Fink, elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly, Australia
• Uchter Knox, 5th Earl of Ranfurly, Uchter Knox, Governor of New Zealand
• Samuel Mauger, Australian social reformer and politician
• Victor Herbert, musician
• James Arnold, New Zealand Member of Parliament
• Fanny Davies, pianist
• Havilland de Sausmarez, judge of various British courts in Africa and Asia, the Ottoman Empire and China
• Martha Sarah Bidmead, Australian nurse of the Boer War
• Sir Henry Beauvoir De Lisle, British Army general
• Ernest Roberts, Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives
• Lewis Stratford Tollemache Halliday, Victoria Cross recipient
• George Edward Nurse, Victoria Cross recipient
• Herbert John Fleure, zoologist and geographer
• Ernest Martin Jehan, commander of a Q-Ship that sank German submarine UB-4 in 1915
• Arthur Maurice Hocart, anthropologist
• Percy Hodge, Olympic gold medalist, 3,000 metre steeplechase
• Ambrose Sherwill, President of the Controlling Committee during the German occupation of the Channel Islands, until he was deported
• Major-General Sir Thomas MacDonald "Donald" Banks KCB DSO MC TD, Director-General of the Petroleum Warfare Department 1940–45
• Barry Jones, actor
• Herbert Jolly, professional golfer
• James Parkes, clergyman, historian, and social activist
• Marjorie Ozanne, Guernsey author
• Michael Davidson, journalist
• Gerald Basil Edwards, author of The Book of Ebenezer Le Page
• Beatrice Collenette, dancer

20th century

• Ethel Wood, supercentenarian
• John Louis "Bonnie" Newton DSC, Croix De Guerre (étoile en argent), born in Alderney, Special Operations Executive operative 1940–45.
• John Harold Henry Coombes, Principal of Cadet College Petaro, one of the earliest public schools built in Pakistan
• Marie Ozanne, protester against the German treatment of slave labourers during World War II
• Robert Morley, actor
• John Le Patourel, historian
• Philip Maitland Hubbard, crime fiction writer
• William "Billy" Spurdle, footballer, played for Manchester City F.C.
• Mary Eily de Putron, stained glass artist and archaeologist
• Wallace Le Patourel, Brigadier, Victoria Cross recipient
• John Marr, author
• George Clarence Bassett Smith, footballer; played for Southampton F.C.
• Hubert Nicolle, considered to be the first Commando of WW2, landed in occupied Guernsey in September 1940
• Peter Brock, historian
• Peter Le Cheminant, Air Chief Marshal and Lieutenant-Governor of Guernsey
• Frank Griffiths Caldwell, Major General OBE MC and bar
• Roy Dotrice, actor, winner of Tony and BAFTA Awards
• Sylvester Houédard, known as dsh, poet, literary editor and Benedictine monk
• Len Duquemin, footballer, played for Tottenham Hotspur F.C.
• William "Billy" Whare, footballer, played for Nottingham Forest F.C.
• Frederick Charles Hurrell, Air Vice-Marshal and Director-General of RAF Medical Services from 1986 to 1988
• Tony Fox, doctor and rower, represented Great Britain at the 1952 Summer Olympics and at the 1956 Summer Olympics
• Charles Wood, playwright and scriptwriter
• John Savident, actor, appeared in many TV series, including Coronation Street
• Peter Le Vasseur, artist
• Nicholas Edward Day, statistician and cancer epidemiologist
• Bruce Parker, BBC television presenter, first presenter of Antiques Roadshow
• Dick Le Flem, footballer, played for Nottingham Forest F.C. and England U23
• Noel Duquemin, shooter, Commonwealth and Island Games
• Chris Foss, British artist and science fiction illustrator
• George Torode, writer and radio host
• Malcolm Wicks, Member of Westminster Parliament
• Richard Doyle, British author of thriller novels
• Michele Dotrice, actress, daughter of Roy Dotrice
• Simon Kay, plastic surgeon
• Adrian Fulford, judge; formerly a member of the International Criminal Court in The Hague
• Karen Dotrice, actress
• Linda Martel, healer
• Aden Gillett, actor
• Andrew Lawrence-King, baroque harpist, director of The Harp Consort
• Craig Allen, football player in North American Soccer League and Major Indoor Soccer League
• Adrian Breton, 1990 Commonwealth Games gold medal, men's rapid fire pistol
• Martine Le Moignan, squash player
• Lisa Opie, squash player
• Ashley Highfield, media magnate
• Sarah Montague, BBC journalist and news presenter
• Carl Hester, dressage rider, Team GB Olympian and 2012 Summer Olympics gold medal winner
• Jenny Kendall-Tobias, radio presenter for BBC Radio Guernsey; known and loved locally as JKT
• Matthew Le Tissier, retired Southampton FC and England footballer
• Martin Brady, world record holder of the slowest heart ever recorded in a healthy human
• Lee Luscombe, footballer; played for Brentford FC
• Alison Merrien, indoor bowls player
• Andrew Singleton, human geneticist
• Andy Priaulx, four times touring car race champion
• Lee Savident, cricketer; played for Hampshire County Cricket Club
• Chris Tardif, footballer; played for Portsmouth F.C.
• Dawn Porter, BBC television presenter
• Lee Merrien, athlete and Team GB Olympian
• Dale Garland, athlete
• Paul Le Tocq, badminton player
• Tom Druce, athlete
• Chris Simpson, squash player
• Tobyn Horton, the Channel Islands' first professional cyclist
• Tim Ravenscroft, cricketer; played for Hampshire County Cricket Club
• Heather Watson, tennis player, 2009 US Open Girls' singles champion, Team GB Olympian and Wimbledon champion
• Harry Lewis, better known as W2S, YouTube personality and member of the Sidemen
• Alex Crossan, better known as Mura Masa, electronic music producer and DJ
• Cameron Chalmers, British track and field sprinter

21st century

• Claudia Valentina, singer/songwriter
• Maya Le Tissier, footballer; plays for Manchester United and England
• Alex Scott, footballer; plays for AFC Bournemouth

Moved to and lived in Bailiwick of Guernsey

• General Sir John Doyle, Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey, drained Braye du Valle joining the north of Guernsey to the rest of the Island
• John Wilson, architect from Cumberland, lived in Guernsey 1813–1830, and designed some of the island's most iconic buildings, including Elizabeth College, St James, Castle Carey and the market buildings.
• Victor Hugo, author of The Hunchback of Notre Dame; lived in self-imposed exile on the island for 15 years, during which he wrote Les Misérables; Toilers of the Sea was dedicated to the island
• John Tapner, last person executed by Guernsey
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir, artist; spent summer of 1883 in Guernsey
• Henry Watson Fowler, lexicographer, moved to Guernsey in 1903
• Lilian Lyle, botanist and phycologist, studied the marine life of Guernsey during the 1920s
• Francis George Fowler, lexicographer, moved to Guernsey in 1903
• Compton Mackenzie, author, tenant of Herm
• Nicholas Monsarrat, author of The Cruel Sea and more than thirty other novels; lived in Guernsey from 1959 to 1963
• John Le Mesurier, actor in Dad's Army; lived in Guernsey for the majority of his life
• Cyril Fletcher, actor, comedian
• Robert Farnon, conductor and composer; lived in Guernsey for 40 years
• Derrick Bailey, founder of Aurigny Airlines
• Desmond Bagley, best-selling writer of thriller novels; lived in Guernsey 1976–1983
• Ronnie Ronalde, siffleur, lived in Guernsey from the 1960s to the 1980s
• Eliza Beresford, writer, creator of children's characters The Wombles; lived in Alderney
• G. N. Georgano, author of reference books about motorcars
• Brian Walden, broadcaster and Labour politician
• David and Frederick Barclay, businessmen in media, retail and property
• Oliver Reed, actor in Gladiator, Oliver! and other films; lived in Guernsey for many years
• Dawn Brooke, world's oldest natural mother; gave birth in 1997 at the age of 59
• Mary Perkins, co-founder and a senior executive of Specsavers
• Raymond Evison,, nurseryman, lecturer, author and photographer
• Norman Wood, Scottish Ryder Cup player
• Guy Hands, financier and investor, former chairman of EMI
• Wayne Bulpitt, UK Chief Commissioner for The Scout Association
• Liam Mooney, Businessman ex professional rugby player
• Zef Eisenberg, Maximuscle founder and motorbike land speed records holder