Brighton

The longtime companion of George, Prince of Wales (later George IV), who married her secretly in 1785 in a ceremony that wasn't valid under English law. Steine House in Brighton was designed for her, and she is buried at St John the Baptist's Church, which was built largely with her money.

A travelling entertainer and poet. In 1818 she wrote a poem in the Brighton Herald praising the growing resort: 'Hail, favour'd spot, divine retreat!'

A writer, feminist and pioneering trade unionist who worked for women's rights at work and for women's right to vote. She was born in Brighton, where her father was town clerk, and was taught at home on Ship Street.

Clementina Black's younger sister. She translated Russian books into English, and was the first to translate almost all of Dostoevsky's fiction. She was born and went to school in Brighton.

A scientist who studied how plants pass on their features, called the 'Mother of British Plant Genetics'. She was born in Brighton.

She opened the Duke of York's Picturehouse, which dates from 1910.

A mathematician, best known for having been a child prodigy in maths, and now a professor in Jerusalem. She was born in Brighton.

A botanist who recorded 97 kinds of wildflower and 10 kinds of grass by 2008 at a site created in 2006–07. In 2011 the site was renamed the Liz Williams Butterfly Haven as a tribute to her work.

Many women worked in Brighton: in the late 1700s, more than half of its working women were in charge of lodging houses.

The Palace Pier was officially opened by the Mayoress of Brighton on 20 May 1899.