List of people from Lincolnshire
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There are many notable people associated with Lincolnshire. The following list is arranged chronologically by date of birth.
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- Guthlac of Crowland (674–715), Christian saint
- Æthelhard (8th century–805), Archbishop of Canterbury
- Hereward the Wake (c. 1035–c. 1072), Anglo-Saxon nobleman
- Lucy of Bolingbroke (1074–1136), countess of Chester
- Gilbert of Sempringham (c. 1085–1190), Saint and Founder of the Gilbertine Order
- Aaron of Lincoln (c. 1125–1186), financier
- Hugh of Lincoln (1135/40–1200), Bishop of Lincoln
- Stephen Langton (c. 1150–1228), Archbishop of Canterbury
- Nicolaa de la Haye (c. 1150–1230), landowner and administrator
- Robert Grosseteste (c. 1175–1253), Bishop of Lincoln
- Berechiah de Nicole (c. 1210–c. 1270), Tosafist
- Eleanor of Castile (1241–1290), wife of Edward I
- Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (1246–1255), blood libel victim
- Katherine Swynford (c. 1350–1403), third wife of John of Gaunt
- Henry IV of England (1367–1413), King of England
- Richard Foxe (1458–1528), bishop and founder of Corpus Christi College, Oxford
- John Taverner (c. 1490–1545), composer and organist
- John Whitgift (c. 1503–1604), Archbishop of Canterbury
- John Foxe (c. 1516–1587), author of Foxe's Book of Martyrs
- William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (1520–1598), Chief Advisor to Queen Elizabeth I
- Anne Askew (1521–1546), Protestant martyr
- Edmund Sheffield, 1st Baron Sheffield (1521–1549), Baron of Sheffield
- John Sheffield, 2nd Baron Sheffield (c. 1538–1568), Baron of Sheffield
- William Byrd (1539–1623), composer
- John Smyth (c. 1554–c. 1612), founder of the Baptist denomination
- Robert Tighe (1562–1620), cleric and linguist
- Captain John Smith (1580–1631), leader of the settlement of Jamestown, Virginia
- John Cotton (1585–1652), clergyman
- Anne Bradstreet (1612–1672), poet
- John Leverett (1616–1678/79), penultimate governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Simon Patrick (1626–1707), English theologian and bishop
- Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1746), mathematician and physicist
- John Harrison (1693–1776), chronometer innovator
- William Stukeley (1687–1765), antiquarian