Category:Brighton bus names

Since 1999, Brighton & Hove Bus and Coach Company have had a policy of naming new buses after people associated with Brighton, or with Sussex more generally.

Not all of the names are current ... proper details are available on the bus company's dedicated "bus names" page (linked below), which also has dedicated biography pages for everyone on the list.

The List (as of 2018)

A

• Adam Faith • Adam Trimingham • Adrian Bunting • Alan Melville • Alan Piatt • Alan Randall • Alan Weeks • Albert Ketèlbey • Alfred Feld • Alfred Richardson • Allen West • Amon Wilds • Andrew Melville • Andy Durr • Angela Thirkell • Ann Quin • Anne of Cleves • Annie Nightingale • Antony Dale • Arthur H Cox • Arthur Wagner • Aubrey Beardsley

B

• Baron Goldsmid • Ben Sherman • Bernard Holden • Bernard Jordan • Bernie Mayhead • Bill Axcell • Bishop James Hannington • Bob Copper • Bob Wilson • Bobby Lee • Bobby Zamora • Brian Cobby • Bride & Groom • Bridges Residential Ltd • Bruce

C

• C.B. Cochran • C.B. Fry • Captain Frederick Collins • Captain Henry Hill • Captain Nicholas Tettersell • Cardinal Newman • Carol Barnes • Carole Milburn • Caroline of Brunswick • Cecil Pashley • Charles Burt Brill • Charles Busby • Charles Cutress • Charles Dickens • Charles Neville • Charlie Johnson • Charlie Webb • Chris Cooke • Chris Copsey • Chris Eubank • Chris Moyes • Chris Ogden • Claude Debussy • Clementina Black • Colin Curtis • Countess of Rothes

D

• Daisy and Violet Hilton • Daisy Noakes • Dame Anita Roddick • Dame Anna Neagle • Dame Cicely Saunders • Dame Clara Butt • Dame Flora Robson • Dame Gracie Fields • Dame Henrietta Barnett • Dame Millicent Fawcett • Danny Sheldon • David Gray • David Jacobs • David Land • David Mocatta • David Sheppard • David Watkin • Dennis Hobden • Derek Jameson • Des Lynam • Don Bath • Don Partridge • Donald Peers • Dora Bryan • Doreen Valiente • Dorothy Stringer • Douglas Byng • Douglas Reeve • Dr Clifford Musgrave • Dr Herzl Sless • Dr Jan De Winter • Dr Julius Carlebach • Dr Reginald Saxton • Dr Richard Russell • Dr Trevor Mann • Dr William King • Dr William Parker • Dr William Stone • Dusty Springfield

E

• Earl of Egremont • Eddie Whaley • Edith Nesbit • Edward Booth • Edward Carpenter • Edward Lowther • Edward 'Mick' Mannock • Edwin Fownes • Elaine Baird • Eleanor Marx • Elisabeth Fry • Elisabeth Howard • Elizabeth Allan • Ellen Nye Chart • Elsie and Doris Waters • Enid Bagnold • Eric Courtney-King • Eric Gill • Eric Ravilious • Eric Slater • Ernest F. Beal • Ernie Johnstone • Eugenius Birch • Eva Moore

F

• Fanny Burney • Fiveways Wilf • Frank Bridge • Frank Butterworth • Frank Furlong • Frankie Howard • Fred Perry

G

• George Albert Smith • George Basevi • George Haines • George Hole • George Holkham • George Humphrey • George Larner • George Miles • George Robey • Georgiana Burne-Jones • Gideon Mantell • Gilbert Harding • Grace Eyre Woodhead • Graham Greene

H

• Harold Poster • Harry Cowley • Harry Leader • Harry Vowles • Havergal Brian • Helen Boyle • Helena Normanton • Henry Allingham • Henry Coxwell • Henry Solomon • Henry Venn Elliott • Herbert Menges • Herbert Toms • Herbert Wilcox • Hester Thrale • Hewitt Cobb • Howard Johnson • Hubert Scott-Paine

I

• Ian Caldwell • Ian Gow • Ian Mills • Ida Lupino • Isambard Kingdom Brunel • Ivor Novello • Ivy Compton-Burnett

J

• Jack Arlidge • Jack Howe • Jack Jenkins • Jack Solomons • Jack Tinker • Jack Tripp • Jacob Schilt • James Gray • James Hurdis • James Osborne • James Williamson • Jamie Janes • Janet Brown • Janet Turner • Jeff Keen • Jeffery Farnol • Jessica-Jayde Allen • Jim Howell • Jimmy Edwards • John & Jennifer Nicks • John Carcass • John Connor • John Constable • John Heward • John Hunt • John Jackson • John James Crowe • John Johnson • John Langridge • John Nash • John Nathan-Turner • John Nelson Goulty • John Peckham • John Rastrick • John Saxby • John Vallance • John Wisden • Johnny West • Jonathan Darby

K

• K.S. Ranjitsinhji • Ken Suttle • Kenneth Bredon • Kenneth Fines • Kenneth Lane • King Charles II • King Edward VII • King William IV • Kitty O'Shea

L

• Leo Sayer • Les Hamilton • Levi Emanuel Cohen • Lew Norris • Lis Solkhon • Lord Attenborough • Lord Cohen • Lord Fulton of Falmer • Lord Olivier • Lord Trafford

M

• Mabel Pratt • Maggie King • Magnus Volk • Malcolm Farley • Margaret Bondfield • Margaret Powell • Maria Andrews • Maria Fitzherbert • Marie-Antoine Careme • Martha Gunn • Martin Langfried • Mary Merrifield • Matthew Grimstone • Maudie Ottaway • Maurice Tate • Max Miller • Mick Mannock • Mickey Tompkins • Micky Adams • Mike Bamber • Minnie Turner • Mother Riccarda • Myles Byrne

N

• Nathaniel Woodard • Nicola & Declan • Norman Cook • Norman Freedman

O

• Oliver Bulleid

P

• Pat Kirkwood • Pat Moorman • Patricia Harding • Patrick Hamilton • Paul Millmore • Paul Plumb • Paul Stonor • Pauline Benjamin • Peggy Ramsay • Pete McCarthy • Peter Avis • Peter Stockbridge • Peter Stocker • Phil Starr • Phoebe Hessel • Phyllis Pearsall • Pietro Addis • Prince Petr Kropotkin • Prince Philip • Prince Regent

Q

• Queen Adelaide • Queen Charlotte • Queen Elizabeth II

R

• Ralph Reader • Ralph Vaughan Williams • Ray Evison • Ray Noble • Raymond Francis • Reg Moores • Rev Alfred Evans • Rev Frederick Robertson • Rev Leslie Newman • Rev Richard Enraght • Rex Whistler • Richard Addinsell • Richard Jones • Robert Metcalfe (MET) • Robert 'Throb' Young • Robin McNair • Roger French • Ron Cunningham • Ron Hayes • Ronald Bates • Ronnie Ablett • Roy Chuter • Rudyard Kipling

S

• Sake Dean Mahomed • Sally Gunnell • Samuel Lewis • Santa Claus • Sarah Forbes Bonetta • Sidney Tidy • Sir Anton Dolin • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle • Sir Arthur Newsholme • Sir Arthur Pearson • Sir Charles Aubrey Smith • Sir Charles Barry • Sir Charles Thomas-Stanford • Sir Edward Burne-Jones • Sir Edward Marshall Hall • Sir Edward Sassoon • Sir Edwin Landseer • Sir George Everest • Sir George Lewis • Sir Hans Singer • Sir Harry Preston • Sir Harry Ricardo • Sir Herbert Carden • Sir Jack Hobbs • Sir John Clements • Sir John Cordy Burrows • Sir John Howard • Sir Lindsay Bryson • Sir Norman Wisdom • Sir Richard Sackville • Sir Rowland Hill • Sir Samuel Brown • Sir Terence Rattigan • Sir William Nicholson • Sir Winston Churchill • Somers Clarke • Southern FM's Moody • Stanley Deason • Stanley Theobald • Syd Dean

T

• Terence Morgan • The Albion Team 2001/2002 • The Lawrence Sisters • The Snowman • The Who • Theodore Wright • Thomas Attree • Thomas Harrington • Thomas Highflyer • Thomas Kemp • Thomas Lainson • Thomas Paine • Thomas Tilling • Tina Goldberg-Lowe • Tirzah Garwood • Tom Sayers • Tommy Cook • Tommy Farr • Tommy Loates • Tony Hewison • Trevor Kaye

V

• Vanessa Bell • Victoria Lidiard • Virginia Woolf

W

• Wendy Richard • Wilfred Pickles • William Ainsworth • William Attree • William Friese-Greene • William Henry Vokins • William Lillywhite • William Marsh • William Moon • William Stroudley • William Wheeler • Wynne Baxter

Z

• Zoe Brigden

External links

• Brighton and Hove Bus Names, homepage (history.buses.co.uk)
• Brighton and Hove Bus Names (buildingopinions.com)
• Brighton & Hove Bus Names (transportpostcards.co.uk)
• Passengers to "name" buses in Brighton and Hove (itv.com) – 2nd January 2015