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BRIXTON HILL
Most Famous People Born in Brixton Hill, United Kingdom
- Notable people
- 362
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- Median birth year
- 1911
- Most distinctive
- Comedian 19.9×
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Brixton Hill during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Brixton Hill Is Known For
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Cricket is Brixton Hill's biggest profession — 13% of all notables (46).
Brixton Hill over-indexes on comedian — 19.9× the global rate.
Brixton Hill under-produces politician — only 0.3× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Brixton Hill's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Film & TV
- Writing
- Music
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- Politics & Law
- Other
David Bowie
1947 - 2016
Roger Moore
1927 - 2017
Naomi Campbell
Born 1970
Simon Cowell
Born 1959
Claude Rains
1889 - 1967
Kingsley Amis
1922 - 1995
Sharon Osbourne
Born 1952
Simon Callow
Born 1949
Rachel Hurd-Wood
Born 1990
Peter Davison
Born 1951
Graham Sutherland
1903 - 1980
Arnold Bax
1883 - 1953
John Keegan
1934 - 2012
Skin (musician)
Born 1967
F. H. Bradley
1846 - 1924
Nicholas Clay
1946 - 2000
Captain Sensible
Born 1954
Malorie Blackman
Born 1962
June Whitfield
1925 - 2018
Nathaniel Clyne
Born 1991
Dennis Waterman
Born 1948
Amma Asante
Born 1969
Nigel Patrick
1912 - 1981
John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford
1710 - 1771
George Grove
1820 - 1900
Cynthia Erivo
Born 1987
Cecil Hepworth
1874 - 1953
Gary Raymond
Born 1935
Wheeler Dryden
1892 - 1957
Julian Corbett
1854 - 1922
Max Wall
1908 - 1990
Lawrie Sanchez
Born 1959
Frederick Blackman
1866 - 1947
A. C. Bradley
1851 - 1935
Bradley McIntosh
Born 1981
Rohan Ricketts
Born 1982
Ethel Mannin
1900 - 1984
Gordon Beck
1936 - 2011
Thomas Hanbury
1832 - 1907
Glyn Philpot
1884 - 1937
John Etheridge
Born 1948
George Robert Sims
1847 - 1922
Stephen Moore (actor)
1937 - 2019
John Sullivan (writer)
1946 - 2011
Nyron Nosworthy
Born 1980
Dorothy Tyler-Odam
1920 - 2014
Alfred William Bennett
1833 - 1902
Arthur Helps
1813 - 1875
Nicholas Pinnock
Born 1973
Joseph Prestwich
1812 - 1896
Sean Davis (footballer)
Born 1979
Tommy Trinder
1909 - 1989
Rupert Bruce-Mitford
1914 - 1994
Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis
1887 - 1912
Philip Game
1876 - 1961
Hilary Jenkinson
1882 - 1961
William Smith (abolitionist)
1756 - 1835
Tommy Hampson
1907 - 1965
Percy Fender
1892 - 1985
John Melhuish Strudwick
1849 - 1937
David Jacobs (broadcaster)
1926 - 2013
Dee C Lee
Born 1961
Alan Simpson (scriptwriter)
1929 - 2017
Henry Wilberforce
1807 - 1873
Leslie Scarman, Baron Scarman
1911 - 2004
Charlotte Ritchie
Born 1989
Francis Cook, 1st Viscount of Monserrate
1817 - 1901
Carl McCoy
Born 1963
Janet Farrar
Born 1950
Jess Conrad
Born 1936
Alec Clunes
1912 - 1970
Susan Shaw
1929 - 1978
John Joseph Bennett
1801 - 1876
Henry Venn (Church Missionary Society)
1796 - 1873
Justin Robinson (basketball, born 1987)
Born 1987
Richard Stokes
1897 - 1957
Zeph Ellis
Born 1988
Henrietta Barnett
1851 - 1936
Ricky Shakes
Born 1985
Sydney Allard
1910 - 1966
Mark McGowan (performance artist)
Born 1970
Danny Williams (boxer)
Born 1973
Junior Mendes
Born 1976
David Janson
Born 1950
William Blades
1824 - 1890
Percy Sillitoe
1888 - 1962
Tim Simenon
Born 1967
Robert Wilberforce
1802 - 1857
R. S. R. Fitter
1913 - 2005
Ruth Deech, Baroness Deech
Born 1943
Richard Blackwood
Born 1972
Henry Deane (engineer)
1847 - 1924
Taiwo Atieno
Born 1985
James Stephen (civil servant)
1789 - 1859
Ian Wilson (author)
Born 1941
Ernest de Sélincourt
1870 - 1943
Walter H. Thompson
1890 - 1978
William Railton
1801 - 1877
Jamie Lawrence
Born 1970
Daniel Mulloy
Born 1977
George Willis Kirkaldy
1873 - 1910
Evelyn Colyer
1902 - 1930
Peter Twinn
1916 - 2004
Geoff Dunn
Born 1961
Ralph Moore
Born 1956
Phillip Oppenheim
Born 1956
Glyn Hodges
Born 1963
Ron Tindall
1935 - 2012
Paul McCallum (footballer)
Born 1993
Helena Rosa Wright
1887 - 1982
Henry Doulton
1820 - 1897
Anthony Grant (English footballer)
Born 1987
Shirley Thomas (athlete)
Born 1963
Daniel Carr
Born 1993
Arnold Spencer-Smith
1883 - 1916
Hy Hazell
1919 - 1970
Leo Chambers
Born 1995
Gene Gerrard
1892 - 1971
Humza Arshad
Born 1985
Flora Klickmann
1867 - 1958
Dorothy Dene
1859 - 1899
Ian Hamilton (footballer, born 1950)
Born 1950
Freddie Davies
Born 1937
R. J. Hollingdale
1930 - 2001
Theodore Davie
1852 - 1898
Frances Julia Wedgwood
1833 - 1913
Robert Fucilla
Born 1976
Philip Verdon
1886 - 1960
Georges Montefiore-Levi
1832 - 1906
William Clarke Wontner
1857 - 1930
John Venn (priest)
1759 - 1813
Ortis Deley
Born 1973
Ryan Jackson (English footballer)
Born 1990
Myles Kenlock
Born 1996
Charles Bell Birch
1832 - 1893
Norman Bailey (footballer)
1857 - 1923
Dave Godin
1936 - 2004
Jocelyn Field Thorpe
1872 - 1940
John James Sainsbury
1844 - 1928
John G. Collier
1935 - 1995
Andy Sandham
1890 - 1982
George Beck (bishop)
1904 - 1978
Tenor Fly
1967 - 2016
Charles Harper Bennett
1840 - 1927
Danny Rampling
Born 1961
Anthony Hunt
Born 1932
AJ Tracey
Born 1994
Bernard Ashley (businessman)
1926 - 2009
Daniel Hanbury
1825 - 1875
Brian Paddick, Baron Paddick
Born 1958
Monty Bowden
1865 - 1892
Anthony Stewart (footballer)
Born 1992
Claude Dampier
1879 - 1955
Frederick Henry Johnson
1890 - 1917
Oswald Milne
1881 - 1968
Harold Munro Fox
1889 - 1967
Sydney Martineau
1863 - 1945
Archie Dickens
1907 - 2004
Frank Reginald Carey
1912 - 2004
Richard Briginshaw, Baron Briginshaw
1908 - 1992
David Cockayne
1942 - 2010
Alfred Gomersal Vickers
1810 - 1837
Raman Subba Row
Born 1932
Elizabeth Llewellyn
Born 1973
Tyrone Berry
Born 1987
Leroy Griffiths
Born 1976
Gary Chivers
Born 1960
Edward Prince
1846 - 1923
Big George
1957 - 2011
Geoffrey McGivern
Born 1952
Charles Warton
1832 - 1900
Angie Brown
Born 1963
Helen Smith (writer)
Born 1968
Paul Vaughan
1925 - 2014
Kali Arulpragasam
Born 1974
Albert Spicer
1847 - 1934
William Reeves (journalist)
1825 - 1891
Stanley Portal Hyatt
1877 - 1914
Frank Rose (politician)
1857 - 1928
Claude de Bernales
1876 - 1963
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Pauline Cope
Born 1969
John Mills (British sculptor)
Born 1933
John Lymington
1911 - 1983
Ken Dark
Born 1961
Cavan Kendall
1942 - 1999
Charles Banya
Born 1993
Arthur Giardelli
1911 - 2009
Derek Williams (boxer)
Born 1965
George Holland
1791 - 1870
Hugh Durant
1877 - 1916
Neville Knox
1884 - 1935
Sneakbo
Born 1992
Patricia Plunkett
1926 - 1974
Dan Fredenburgh
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Robert Knight (editor)
1825 - 1890
Samuel Thornton (MP)
1754 - 1838
John Marshall (footballer, born 1964)
Born 1964
Peter Conder
1919 - 1993
Leroy Rosenior
Born 1964
Glenn Harrold
Born 1962
Gertrude Demain Hammond
1862 - 1952
James Higgs
1829 - 1902
Gary Butcher
Born 1975
Michael Onovwigun
Born 1996
Noel McKoy
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John Everard Gurdon
1898 - 1973
David Collet
1901 - 1984
Roger Knight
Born 1946
Graeme Taylor
Born 1954
Frederick Arthur Godfrey Muir
1872 - 1931
Mark Dennis
Born 1961
Darnelle Bailey-King
Born 1998
Owen Saunders
1904 - 1993
William Davenport Adams
1851 - 1904
Bobby Brown (footballer, born 1940)
Born 1940
Chris Bullen
Born 1962
Job Edward Lousley
1907 - 1976
David Smith (Surrey, Sussex and Worcestershire cricketer)
Born 1956
Naga Munchetty
Born 1975
Beatrice Mabel Cave-Browne-Cave
1874 - 1947
Ray Finch (potter)
1914 - 2012
Joseph Hardcastle (politician)
1815 - 1899
Ian Lewison
Born 1981
J. A. Bailey
1930 - 2018
Isaac Chamberlain
Born 1994
Digby Jephson
1871 - 1926
Amin Badr
Born 1995
Emily Mann (model)
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Simon Hunt (rugby union)
Born 1981
Geoffrey Cather
1890 - 1916
Arthur Moore Lascelles
1880 - 1918
Stewart Faulkner
Born 1969
Victor Glynn
Born 1956
Nathan Nyafli
Born 1993
Geoffrey Peren
1892 - 1980
Thomas Grissell
1801 - 1874
Harry Foll
1890 - 1977
Leslie Evershed-Martin
1903 - 1991
David Burton (cricketer, born 1985)
Born 1985
Frederick Wicks
1840 - 1910
Simon Cox (footballer, born 1984)
Born 1984
Bunmi Mojekwu
Born 1989
Percy Andreae
1858 - 1924
Henry Hodgson (British Army officer)
1868 - 1930
Dorothy O'Grady
1897 - 1985
Bill Caesar
1899 - 1988
David Kasumu
Born 1999
Ursula Eason
1910 - 1993
Alfie Egan
Born 1997
Zain Asher
Born 1983
Cecil Masey
1880 - 1960
Ted Clark
Born 1937
John Downey (RAF officer)
1920 - 2010
Robert Shebbeare
1827 - 1860
Fred Huish
1869 - 1957
Jimmy Revie
Born 1947
Arthur Fleming-Sandes
1894 - 1961
Ron Crayden
1920 - 2007
Sydney Lee (snooker player)
1911 - 1986
Leke Odunsi
Born 1980
Mark Dixie
Born 1970
Frances Cave-Browne-Cave
1876 - 1965
Harold Milford
1914 - 1944
Mike Edwards (cricketer)
Born 1940
Bernard Mouat Jones
1882 - 1953
Tony Burman (footballer)
Born 1958
Ruth Rouse
1872 - 1956
Frank Hodge
1894 - 1957
Colette Brown
Born 1969
Lionel Cranfield (cricketer)
1883 - 1968
David Garrard (property developer)
Born 1939
John Murrell (chemist)
1932 - 2016
Thomas Letts
1803 - 1873
Bayly Akroyd
1850 - 1926
Arthur Sanders (RAF officer)
1898 - 1974
Blade Brown
Born 1985
Pete Phipps
Born 1951
Alison Settle
1891 - 1980
Leonard Daventry
1915 - 1987
Edward Foster (VC)
1886 - 1946
Agnes de Selincourt
1872 - 1917
Arrow Benjamin
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Johnny Kidd (wrestler)
Born 1955
Billy Holmes (footballer, born 1951)
1951 - 1988
Andy Shepherd
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Tony O’Hora
Born 1967
Sara MacLean
Born 1963
Derek Pratt
1925 - 1997
James Melville (cricketer, born 1936)
1936 - 2016
Swainson Akroyd
1848 - 1925
Edward Charlesworth
1813 - 1893
Reginald James Lawrence
1914 - 2002
Edith Jones (activist)
1875 - 1952
James Richards (cricketer)
1855 - 1923
Cyril A. Grob
1917 - 2003
Harold Lydford
1898 - 1979
Cecil Frederick Robertson
1884 - 1913
Forrestina Elizabeth Ross
1860 - 1936
Gerry Grimstone
Born 1949