- English novelist.
- English illustrator and novelist.
- English actor and theatrical manager.
- Dame Daphne. 1907–89, English novelist; author of Rebecca (1938) and My Cousin Rachel (1951)
- her grandfather, George Louis Palmella Busson ('pæmɛlə ˈbjuːs ə n) 1834-96, British novelist and illustrator; author Trilby (1894)
- his son, Sir Gerald (Hubert Edward). 1873–1934, British actor-manager: father of Daphne Du Maurier
