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BLACKHEATH
Most Famous People Born in Blackheath, United Kingdom
- Notable people
- 510
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- Median birth year
- 1927
- Most distinctive
- Cricket 8.2×
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Blackheath during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Blackheath Is Known For
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Football is Blackheath's biggest profession — 21% of all notables (107).
Blackheath over-indexes on cricket — 8.2× the global rate.
Blackheath under-produces politician — only 0.4× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Blackheath's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Sports
- Film & TV
- Writing
- Music
- Science
- Politics & Law
- Other
Elizabeth I of England
1533 - 1603
Henry VIII of England
1491 - 1547
Vanessa Redgrave
Born 1937
Mary I of England
1516 - 1558
Jude Law
Born 1972
Richard Branson
Born 1950
Sid Vicious
1957 - 1979
Alexander McQueen
1969 - 2010
Dominic Cooper
Born 1978
Edgar Wallace
1875 - 1932
Bill Wyman
Born 1936
Hugh Bonneville
Born 1963
Ginger Baker
1939 - 2019
Arthur Rackham
1867 - 1939
Mary Quant
Born 1934
Gladys Cooper
1888 - 1971
Jessica Hynes
Born 1972
Philip Miller
1691 - 1771
James Robertson Justice
1907 - 1975
Chris Smalling
Born 1989
Maxi Priest
Born 1961
Glen Johnson
Born 1984
Henry Thomas Buckle
1821 - 1862
Shaun Wright-Phillips
Born 1981
Ruben Loftus-Cheek
Born 1996
Sarita Choudhury
Born 1966
Frederick W. Lanchester
1868 - 1946
Louise Redknapp
Born 1974
Estelle Winwood
1883 - 1984
Bradley Wright-Phillips
Born 1985
Lawrence Hargrave
1850 - 1915
Kieran Richardson
Born 1984
MNEK
Born 1994
Peter O'Donnell
1920 - 2010
Lianne Sanderson
Born 1988
Sophie Aldred
Born 1962
Dorothy Eady
1904 - 1981
John Regis (athlete)
Born 1966
Alan White (Oasis drummer)
Born 1972
David Lindsay (novelist)
1876 - 1945
Marty Wilde
Born 1939
Henry Kelsey
1667 - 1724
Ruth Williams Khama
1923 - 2002
Muriel Pavlow
1921 - 2019
Steven Taylor (footballer)
Born 1986
Stanley Unwin (publisher)
1884 - 1968
Doveton Sturdee
1859 - 1925
Henry Edward Armstrong
1848 - 1937
Ida Pollock
1908 - 2013
Joe Absolom
Born 1978
Lucy Gutteridge
Born 1956
Keeley Hazell
Born 1986
Christopher Fowler
Born 1953
Eddie Nketiah
Born 1999
Efe Sodje
Born 1972
Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger
1575 - 1628
Kurt Maflin
Born 1983
David Rocastle
1967 - 2001
Tony Craig
Born 1985
Tim Yeo
Born 1945
James Ellington
Born 1985
Anna Airy
1882 - 1964
Edmond Tudor (duc de Somerset)
1499 - 1500
Tony Skyrme
1922 - 1987
Michael Turner (footballer)
Born 1983
Moses Odubajo
Born 1993
Danny Wallace (footballer)
Born 1964
Chris Difford
Born 1954
John Gilbert (painter)
1817 - 1897
Frank Nouble
Born 1991
Sean Chapman
Born 1961
Julian Gray
Born 1979
Lyle Taylor
Born 1990
Sam Sodje
Born 1979
Jordan Cousins
Born 1994
Grant Ward
Born 1994
Myles Weston
Born 1988
Cecil Forsyth
1870 - 1941
Mary Stuart (1605–1607)
1605 - 1607
Anna Span
Born 1972
Blake Harrison
Born 1985
Steve Wright (DJ)
Born 1954
Tyrone Edgar
Born 1982
Julian Rathbone
1935 - 2008
Zoe Smith
Born 1994
Marley Watkins
Born 1990
Rachel Reeves
Born 1979
Boyd Neel
1905 - 1981
Alfred Salter
1873 - 1945
Wilson Benge
1875 - 1955
Rod Wallace
Born 1969
John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire
1723 - 1793
William Beardmore, 1st Baron Invernairn
1856 - 1936
Peter Brabrook
1937 - 2016
Akpo Sodje
Born 1980
Geoff Britton
Born 1943
John Brooke-Little
1927 - 2006
John Henry (toxicologist)
1939 - 2007
John Beames
1837 - 1902
Stan Vickers
1932 - 2013
Calum Angus
Born 1986
Jonathan Goddard
1617 - 1675
Judy Oakes
Born 1958
Stephen King-Hall
1893 - 1966
Gerald Ames
1880 - 1933
George Chuter
Born 1976
Raymond Beazley
1868 - 1955
Anthony Georgiou
Born 1997
Vic Buckingham
1915 - 1995
Malcolm Lockyer
1923 - 1976
Elizabeth Armistead
1750 - 1842
Marvin Humes
Born 1985
Philip Burton Moon
1907 - 1994
Curtis Weston
Born 1987
Greg James
Born 1985
John Crocker
1896 - 1963
Eileen Hiscock
1909 - 1958
Samuel Sanders Teulon
1812 - 1873
Trudie Goodwin
Born 1951
Frank Barnwell
1880 - 1938
Steven Scott
Born 1985
Charlie Covell
Born 1984
Bradley Dack
Born 1993
Roger Godsiff
Born 1946
Sheila Burrell
1922 - 2011
David Hillier
Born 1969
George Thompson (engineer)
1839 - 1876
John Marquis
Born 1992
Paul Rutherford (trombonist)
1940 - 2007
Alan Carrington
1934 - 2013
James Carpenter (astronomer)
1840 - 1899
Charles Mills (historian)
1788 - 1826
James Cleverly
Born 1969
Novelist (MC)
Born 1997
Frederick Locker-Lampson
1821 - 1895
Ian MacLaurin, Baron MacLaurin of Knebworth
Born 1937
Walter de Havilland
1872 - 1968
Horatio Henry Couldery
1832 - 1893
Laura Hamilton
Born 1982
William Callow
1812 - 1908
Thomas Pike
1906 - 1983
Courtney Tulloch
Born 1995
Richard Rufus
Born 1975
Marcus McGuane
Born 1999
Keith Lucas (scientist)
1879 - 1916
Jack Mason
1874 - 1958
Sophia of England
1606 - 1606
Daniel Dubois (boxer)
Born 1997
Lee Power
Born 1972
Dorothy Thompson (historian)
1923 - 2011
Thomas Holding
1880 - 1929
Marvin Priest
Born 1981
Maria Georgina Grey
1816 - 1906
Wally Hardinge
1886 - 1965
P Money
Born 1989
Samuel Dyer
1804 - 1843
Maria Emma Gray
1787 - 1876
David Fulton (cricketer)
Born 1971
Elizabeth Stirling
1819 - 1895
Walter Willson Cobbett
1847 - 1937
Rosa May Billinghurst
1875 - 1953
Montell Douglas
Born 1986
Henry Duff Traill
1842 - 1900
Ian Culbard
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Sidney Low
1857 - 1932
Ebou Adams
Born 1996
Seann Walsh
Born 1986
Colin Wells (actor)
Born 1963
Dino Lenny
Born 1969
Danielle Harold
Born 1992
Kenneth Macdonald Beaumont
1884 - 1965
Arthur Nightingale
Born 1931
Steve Anthrobus
Born 1968
Carl Pantin
1899 - 1967
Edward Tennyson Reed
1860 - 1933
Jermaine Wright
Born 1975
Gavin McGowan
Born 1976
Reice Charles-Cook
Born 1994
Denis Spotswood
1916 - 2001
Jill Posener
Born 1953
Myrtle Augee
Born 1965
Malcolm Hardee
1950 - 2005
Tich Freeman
1888 - 1965
Daniel Bell-Drummond
Born 1993
Henry Parker (Australian politician)
1808 - 1881
Patrick Murray (actor)
Born 1956
Cuthbert Collingwood (naturalist)
1826 - 1908
Edward Schroeder Prior
1857 - 1932
Anthony Barness
Born 1973
Moses Emmanuel
Born 1989
Maggie Alphonsi
Born 1983
Keith Pyott
1902 - 1968
Reggie Schwarz
1875 - 1918
Percy Butler
1912 - 2015
George Rowland Hill
1855 - 1928
John Penn (engineer)
1805 - 1878
Frederick Leslie Ransome
1868 - 1935
Clifford Coffin
1870 - 1959
Craig Russell (English actor)
Born 1977
Luke Medley
Born 1989
Pelham Dale
1821 - 1892
William Cox Bennett
1820 - 1895
Cuthbert Burnup
1875 - 1960
Brian Duppa
1588 - 1662
Roger Godel
1898 - 1961
Josh Maja
Born 1998
George Lacy Hillier
1856 - 1941
Glenn Wilson (footballer)
Born 1986
Michael Saward (priest)
1932 - 2015
Bede Jarrett
1881 - 1934
Albert Dormer
1925 - 2014
Alan Keen
1937 - 2011
Gladys Cherry
1881 - 1965
Marjorie Hayward
1885 - 1953
Drey Wright
Born 1995
Maxsta
Born 1992
Rowenna Davis
Born 1985
Nicholas Trott
1663 - 1740
William Carpenter (flat Earth theorist)
1830 - 1896
JJ Hooper
Born 1993
Bruce Kent
Born 1929
Paul Massey (sound engineer)
Born 1958
Michael Neubert
1933 - 2014
Nicky Law (footballer, born 1961)
Born 1961
Christopher Matthew
Born 1939
Duwayne Brooks
Born 1974
Camilla Way
Born 1973
Linda Ludgrove
Born 1947
Lewis Rickinson
1883 - 1945
Eska (singer)
Born 1971
John Scott Lidgett
1854 - 1953
Ray Wallace (footballer)
Born 1969
Richard L. Hills
1936 - 2019
Gladys Powers
1899 - 2008
Tom Bolarinwa
Born 1990
Edward Jones (lacrosse)
1880 - 1951
Alan Jerrard
1897 - 1968
Michael Trend
Born 1952
Sid Brews
1899 - 1972
Christopher Parker
Born 1983
Charles Folkard
1878 - 1963
Natasha Law
Born 1970
Hayden White (footballer)
Born 1995
Devon Anderson
Born 1987
Lucy Hutchinson (actress)
Born 2003
Andy Ansah
Born 1969
Regan Charles-Cook
Born 1997
Jake Reeves
Born 1993
Charlene White
Born 1980
Adam Ball
Born 1993
Charlie Absolom
1846 - 1889
Bryan Valentine
1908 - 1983
John Monro (physician)
1716 - 1791
Reginald Martin
1887 - 1981
Stan Gooch
1932 - 2010
Christopher Holland
Born 1966
Kevin Mooney
Born 1962
Terry Setch
Born 1936
Shawn McCoulsky
Born 1997
Tony Sinclair (footballer)
Born 1985
Arthur Adalbert Chase
Born 1874
Peter Miller Cunningham
1789 - 1864
Carol Valentine
Born 1907
Joseph N'Guessan
Born 1995
William Green (action painter)
1934 - 2001
Edwin Morris (British Army officer)
1889 - 1970
Sam Sargeant
Born 1997
Elizabeth Sara Sheppard
1830 - 1862
Adam Searles
Born 1981
William Abel Pantin
1902 - 1973
John Bennett (watchmaker)
1814 - 1897
John Eric Greenwood
1891 - 1975
Christopher B. Kaiser
Born 1941
Robert Fabian
1901 - 1978
Sally-Anne Jones
1968 - 2017
Sam Akinde
Born 1993
Thomas Spring Rice, 2nd Baron Monteagle of Brandon
1849 - 1926
Connor Dymond
Born 1994
Ben Phillips (cricketer)
Born 1974
Tom Watkins (music manager)
Died 2020
Alfred Wigan
1814 - 1878
Rodney Clarke (singer)
Born 1978
Eberechi Eze
Born 1998
John Hargrave (judge)
1815 - 1885
Conor Benn
Born 1996
Dave Berry (presenter)
Born 1978
Carl Leaburn
Born 1969
Neal Lawson
Born 1963
Charlie Taylor (footballer, born 1985)
Born 1985
Femi Orenuga
Born 1993
Cecilia Glaisher
1828 - 1892
Charles Enderby
1797 - 1876
Jermaine Udumaga
Born 1995
George William Johnson (writer)
1802 - 1886
Karlan Grant
Born 1997
Sid Nelson
Born 1996
Adam Gross
Born 1986
William Bell (theologian)
1731 - 1816
Diaz Wright
Born 1998
Dan Hodges
Born 1969