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BIRMINGHAM
Most Famous People Born in Birmingham, United Kingdom
- Notable people
- 1,855
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- Median birth year
- 1945
- Most distinctive
- Cricket 4.2×
England's second city, and the engine room of the Industrial Revolution. Birmingham's distinctive professions are cricketers, boxers, footballers, and musicians — the last because the city produced an outsized share of the British heavy-metal scene, from Black Sabbath (Ozzy, Geezer Butler, Bill Ward) through Judas Priest and ELO. Matthew Boulton, Francis Galton, and Neville Chamberlain all belong to the 19th-century Midlands establishment that built the place.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Birmingham during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Birmingham Is Known For
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Football is Birmingham's biggest profession — 25% of all notables (467).
Birmingham over-indexes on cricket — 4.2× the global rate.
Birmingham under-produces politician — only 0.3× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Birmingham's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Filtered to 1890s Clear ×
Michael Balcon
1896 - 1977
David Bomberg
1890 - 1957
Melville Cooper
1896 - 1973
Charlie Hall (actor)
1899 - 1959
Victor Saville
1895 - 1979
Fay Holden
1893 - 1973
David Pinsent
1891 - 1918
Bernard Griffin
1899 - 1956
Gerald Brockhurst
1890 - 1978
Oscar Deutsch
1893 - 1941
Bill Lancaster (aviator)
1898 - 1933
Herbert Mason
1891 - 1960
Robert Saundby
1896 - 1971
Dorothy Howell
1898 - 1982
Howard Carter (Pentecostal pioneer)
1891 - 1971
Bernard Fleetwood-Walker
1893 - 1965
Norman Pett
1891 - 1960
Randall Faye
1892 - 1948
Gwilym Hugh Lewis
1897 - 1996
Robert Dudley Best
1892 - 1984
Frank Moss (footballer, born 1895)
1895 - 1965
Harold William Rickett
1896 - 1989
Fred Lawrence
Born 1895
Sid Bowser
1891 - 1961
Arthur Dorrell
1896 - 1942
Richard York
1899 - 1969
Charles Leatherland, Baron Leatherland
1898 - 1992
Arthur Keen (RAF officer)
1895 - 1918
Walter Spratt
1892 - 1945
Leonard Bates
1895 - 1971
Dorothy Ward
1890 - 1987
Harry Austin
1892 - 1968
Denis Pearce
Born 1896
Howard R. Davies
1895 - 1973
Bill Anderton
1891 - 1966
Hubert Hessell Tiltman
1897 - 1976
Walter Abbott (footballer, born 1899)
1899 - 1921
Gus Kuhn
1898 - 1966
Frank Hodges (footballer)
1891 - 1985
Frank Thomas Herbert Fletcher
1898 - 1977
Joe Carter (English footballer)
1899 - 1977
Chris Taylor (footballer, born 1904)
1899 - 1972
Arthur Foster (footballer, born 1894)
1894 - 1954
Edwin Jones (footballer)
1891 - 1953
Henry Johnson (footballer)
1897 - 1962
Dorrie Nossiter
1893 - 1977
Arthur Cashmore
1893 - 1969
Norman Augustus Finch
1890 - 1966
Sidney Newey
1899 - 1966
Bill Stormont
1898 - 1925
Frank Brett
1899 - 1988
Alfred Blenkiron
1896 - 1920
Frank Wright (footballer)
Born 1898
Ernest Suckling
1890 - 1962
James Enstone
1895 - 1963
Joyce Haddelsey
1898 - 1977
Solomon Clifford Joseph
1893 - 1966
Muriel Haddelsey
1894 - 1983
Ralph Broberg
1899 - 1938
Albert Wassell
1892 - 1975
Harry Stanford
1899 - 1975
Reginald H. Rusby
1896 - 1946
William Mumford (footballer)
1894 - 1971
Billy Edwards (footballer, born 1896)
1896 - 1952
George Morrall (footballer, born 1893)
1893 - 1964
Billy Marshall (footballer, born 1898)
1898 - 1966
Billy George (footballer, born 1895)
1895 - 1962
Konrad Rheindorf
Born 1896