Bazalgette is a surname, originating in the

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region of Southern France. It is believed that there is a single Bazalgette family that comes from the hamlet of La Bazalgette, situated midway between Mende and Ispagnac in the

Lozère Lozère (; oc, Losera ) is a landlocked department in the region of Occitanie in Southern France, located near the Massif Central, bounded to the northeast by Haute-Loire, to the east by Ardèche, to the south by Gard, to the west by Aveyron, ...

département. All those listed below are related and belong to the British branch of the family. *

Derek Bazalgette Rear admiral Derek Willoughby Bazalgette CB (22 July 1924 – 22 July 2007) was a Royal Navy officer who became President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. Naval career Educated at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Bazalgette joined ...

(1924–2007),

Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against F ...

officer *

Edward Bazalgette Edward Bazalgette is a British television director and former musician. Biography Bazalgette was the lead guitarist in the 1980s rock group The Vapors, whose hit "Turning Japanese" remains a popular one-hit wonder. He later became a film edit ...

, lead guitarist of 1980s rock group the Vapors, BBC television producer and director and third cousin of Peter Bazalgette * George Bazalgette, officer in the Royal Marines, and commander of the Royal Marines Light Infantry in colonial-era British Columbia *

Ian Willoughby Bazalgette Squadron Leader Ian Willoughby Bazalgette (19 October 1918 – 4 August 1944) was a Canadian-British pilot in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. On 4 August 1944, while piloting an Avro Lancaster in a pathfinder role, Bazalgette a ...

(1918–1944), Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross and descendant of Joseph Bazalgette *

John Bazalgette Colonel John Bazalgette (15 December 1784 – 28 March 1868) was an army officer actively involved in the affairs of Nova Scotia for forty-three years. He was born in London, the second son of Jean Louis Bazalgette (1750-1830), a French immigran ...

(1784–1868), Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia *

Sir Joseph Bazalgette ''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as p ...

(1819-1891), Victorian civil engineer responsible for the London sewers * Léon Bazalgette (1873–1928), French literary critic, biographer and translator *

Sir Peter Bazalgette Sir Peter Lytton Bazalgette (; born 22 May 1953) is a British television executive and producer, also active in the fields of the arts and the broader Creative Industries. Currently he is co-Chair of the Creative Industries Council, pro Chancel ...

(born 1953), great-great-grandson of Joseph, chairman of Endemol UK, and producer of ''Big Brother'' * Simon Bazalgette (born 1962), group chief executive of The Jockey Club

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