A list of notable people from the county of Gloucestershire: * Sean Arnold, actor * Sir Robert Atkyns, baron of the Exchequer * Sir Robert Atkyns, author of a history of Gloucestershire * Thomas Aufield, Roman Catholic martyr * Charles Bannister, actor and singer * Steve Banyard, football commentator, lives in the Cotswolds * Wayne Barnes, international rugby union referee * John Bayliss, poet * Joseph Bennett, music critic and librettist, born in Berkeley * Siân Berry, politician and Green Party member * John Biddle, Unitarian * Hubert Cecil Booth, engineer and inventor, founder of Goblin Vacuum Cleaners * Lorraine Bowen, singer and songwriter * Matthew Boyce, cricketer * Herbert Brewer, organist and composer, Gloucester Cathedral * Edwin Beard Budding, inventor of the law