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CHELSEA
Most Famous People Born in Chelsea, United Kingdom
- Notable people
- 303
- Peak decade
- 1890s
- Median birth year
- 1893
- Most distinctive
- Cricket 6.2×
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Chelsea during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Chelsea Is Known For
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Politician is Chelsea's biggest profession — 11% of all notables (32).
Chelsea over-indexes on cricket — 6.2× the global rate.
Chelsea under-produces football — only 0.5× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Chelsea's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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Christopher Lee
1922 - 2015
Harold Macmillan
1894 - 1986
Beatrix Potter
1866 - 1943
John Gielgud
1904 - 2000
Howard Carter
1874 - 1939
Peter Finch
1916 - 1977
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon
1930 - 2017
Elizabeth Gaskell
1810 - 1865
Edward Fox (actor)
Born 1937
Susannah York
1939 - 2011
Jon Pertwee
1919 - 1996
Jeremy Thorpe
1929 - 2014
Nancy Mitford
1904 - 1973
James Gillray
1756 - 1815
Christopher Robin Milne
1920 - 1996
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent
Born 1935
Dakota Blue Richards
Born 1994
Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy
Born 1936
Joan Greenwood
1921 - 1987
Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning
1812 - 1862
John Amery
1912 - 1945
Airey Neave
1916 - 1979
Andrew Birkin
Born 1945
George Smith (Assyriologist)
1840 - 1876
Christopher Chataway
1931 - 2014
Richard Christopher Carrington
1826 - 1875
Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
1855 - 1944
Vyvyan Holland
1886 - 1967
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
1802 - 1838
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso
1890 - 1970
Joyce Grenfell
1910 - 1979
Kit Lambert
1935 - 1981
Jemima Goldsmith
Born 1974
William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle
1909 - 1991
Alexander Tilloch Galt
1817 - 1893
Charles Valentine Riley
1843 - 1895
Charles Guthrie, Baron Guthrie of Craigiebank
Born 1938
Henry Seymour Conway
1721 - 1795
George Richmond (painter)
1809 - 1896
Nicholas Shackleton
1937 - 2006
Richard A. Proctor
1837 - 1888
John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven
1874 - 1941
Willie Rushton
1937 - 1996
Sue Lloyd-Roberts
1952 - 2015
Willoughby Norrie, 1st Baron Norrie
1893 - 1977
George Howard, 9th Earl of Carlisle
1843 - 1911
Maurice Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy
1885 - 1955
Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery
1674 - 1731
Henry Wellesley, 3rd Duke of Wellington
1846 - 1900
Arthur Gardiner Butler
1844 - 1925
Donald Calthrop
1888 - 1940
Amelia Bullmore
Born 1964
Eric Kennington
1888 - 1960
Eric Hebborn
1934 - 1996
Cyril Holland
1885 - 1915
Archibald Joyce
1873 - 1963
Caroline Blakiston
Born 1933
James Britten
1846 - 1924
Phyllis Dare
1890 - 1975
Dave Angel
Born 1966
Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen
1886 - 1971
Norman Shelley
1903 - 1980
John Loder, 2nd Baron Wakehurst
1895 - 1970
Reginald Campbell Thompson
1876 - 1941
Douglas Hogg
Born 1945
William Hamilton (painter)
1751 - 1801
John Manners, 5th Duke of Rutland
1778 - 1857
Victor Crutchley
1893 - 1986
Thomas Martyn
1735 - 1825
Charles Edward Mudie
1818 - 1890
Rachid Harkouk
Born 1956
Aidan Dodson
Born 1962
Henry Constantine Richter
1821 - 1902
Fergus Bowes-Lyon
1889 - 1915
Patrick Bowes-Lyon
1863 - 1946
Richard Ingrams
Born 1937
Prunella Clough
1919 - 1999
Frank Ludlow
1885 - 1972
George Cambridge, 2nd Marquess of Cambridge
1895 - 1981
Harry Arthur Saintsbury
1869 - 1939
Wilfred Noy
1883 - 1948
Eyre Crowe (painter)
1824 - 1910
Francis Newdegate
1862 - 1936
Derek Allhusen
1914 - 2000
Pat Halcox
1930 - 2013
Derek Abbott
Born 1960
Herbert Edward Ryle
1856 - 1925
George Godwin
1813 - 1888
William Brighty Rands
1823 - 1882
Margaret Lowenfeld
1890 - 1973
John Snagge
1904 - 1996
Alister Kirby
1886 - 1917
Sidney Herbert, 14th Earl of Pembroke
1853 - 1913
George Coventry, 9th Earl of Coventry
1838 - 1930
William Gilbert Chaloner
1928 - 2016
Elizabeth Sutherland, 24th Countess of Sutherland
1921 - 2019
Arnold Keppel, 8th Earl of Albemarle
1858 - 1942
Noel Lytton, 4th Earl of Lytton
1900 - 1985
Zena Dare
1887 - 1975
Brownlow Bertie, 5th Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven
1729 - 1809
Amice Calverley
1896 - 1959
Charles Davies Sherborn
1861 - 1942
Cynthia Longfield
1896 - 1991
Beatrice Whistler
1857 - 1896
Claire Ross-Brown
Born 1972
A. David Thackeray
1910 - 1978
Caroline Clive
1801 - 1872
William Abbot
1790 - 1843
Hugh Kindersley, 2nd Baron Kindersley
1899 - 1976
Adrian Weale
Born 1964
Lady Teresa Waugh
Born 1940
John Pratt, 4th Marquess Camden
1872 - 1943
Joan Henry
1914 - 2000
John Philip Du Cane
1865 - 1947
James Wilfred Cook
1900 - 1975
John Sheepshanks (bishop)
1834 - 1912
Peregrine Worsthorne
1923 - 2020
John Henry Blunt
1823 - 1884
James Edmund Harting
1841 - 1928
Johann Friedrich Bonneval Latrobe
1769 - 1845
Robert George Broadwood
1862 - 1917
Audrey Sale-Barker
1903 - 1994
Henry Bathurst, 4th Earl Bathurst
1790 - 1866
George Thomas Clark
1809 - 1898
Thomas Agar-Robartes, 6th Viscount Clifden
1844 - 1930
Henry George Kendall
1874 - 1965
Merton Beckwith-Smith
1890 - 1942
Roger Prideaux
Born 1939
Ollie Pope
Born 1998
George Suttor
1774 - 1859
Jonathan Janson (sailor)
1930 - 2015
Robin Hill, 8th Marquess of Downshire
1929 - 2003
Robert Montgomerie (fencer)
1880 - 1939
Sir William McAlpine, 6th Baronet
1936 - 2018
John Banting
1902 - 1972
Diana Neave, Baroness Airey of Abingdon
1919 - 1992
Stephen Hastings
1921 - 2005
Diana Gould (dancer)
1912 - 2003
Martha Annie Whiteley
1866 - 1956
George William Coventry, 11th Earl of Coventry
1934 - 2002
Lawrence Lee
1909 - 2011
Hugh Beach
1923 - 2019
Lee Harper
Born 1971
Donald James
1931 - 2008
R. T. Stanyforth
1892 - 1964
Rachel Maxwell-Hyslop
1914 - 2011
Fanny Jane Butler
1850 - 1889
Brownlow North
1741 - 1820
Pen Tennyson
1912 - 1941
Robin Jacques
1920 - 1995
James Bowes-Lyon
1917 - 1977
Margaret Fisher Prout
1875 - 1963
Jasper Britton
Born 1962
Gilbert Ledward
1888 - 1960
Lady Helena Gibbs
1899 - 1969
Peter Bennett (actor)
1917 - 1989
Walter Greaves (artist)
1846 - 1930
Mel Martin
Born 1947
Geoffrey Audley Miles
1890 - 1986
Talbot Hughes
1869 - 1942
Jane Williams (Ysgafell)
1806 - 1885
W. H. Allen
1863 - 1943
Pamela Cooper
1910 - 2006
Barnaby Lenon
Born 1957
Mary Constance Wyndham
1862 - 1937
Michael Whinney
1930 - 2017
John Hodges
1855 - 1933
John Bagnold Burgess
1829 - 1897
Mary Philadelphia Merrifield
1804 - 1889
Charles Waddington (East India Company officer)
1796 - 1858
Arthur James Stark
1831 - 1902
James Webb (painter)
1835 - 1895
Glenn Mulcaire
Born 1970
Stephen Bicknell
1957 - 2007
Yasin Ben El-Mhanni
Born 1995
Grizel Niven
1906 - 2007
John James Masquerier
1778 - 1855
Samuel Bickerton Harman
1819 - 1892
Freda Lingstrom
1893 - 1989
Richard "Dicky" Suett
1755 - 1805
Edward Hore
Born 1849
John Pinches
1916 - 2007
Archibald Peake
1859 - 1920
Violet Douglas-Pennant
1869 - 1945
Alexander de Cadenet
Born 1974
Josh Passley
Born 1994
Brook Williams
1938 - 2005
Gobnait Ní Bhruadair
1861 - 1955
Rosamond Davenport Hill
1825 - 1902
Darren Annon
Born 1972
Jasper More
1907 - 1987
Sir William Parker, 3rd Baronet
1889 - 1971
Helen Binyon
1904 - 1979
Herbert Hughes-Stanton
1870 - 1937
Graham Balfour
1858 - 1929
Richard Herne Shepherd
1840 - 1895
Brownlow North (evangelist)
1810 - 1875
Lady Mary Whitley
1924 - 1999
Charles Lyell, 2nd Baron Lyell
1913 - 1943
Pat Jordan
1928 - 2001
Albert Clapp
1867 - 1936
Vincent Ziani de Ferranti
1893 - 1980
Andi Peters
Born 1970
Kevin Wright (footballer, born 1995)
Born 1995
Vivian Francis Bulkeley-Johnson
1891 - 1968
Victor FitzGeorge-Balfour
1913 - 1994
Charles Ejogo
Born 1964
Robert Farrier
1796 - 1879
Harry Edward de Robillard Wetherall
1889 - 1979
Réginald Forbes
1865 - 1952
Edwin Alfred Rickards
1872 - 1920
Charles Loyd
1891 - 1973
Ethel Lavenu
1842 - 1917
Alice Westlake
1840 - 1923
Helen Brook
1907 - 1997
Richard Waghorn
1904 - 1931
Jasmine Lennard
Born 1985
Sir John Milbanke, 10th Baronet
1872 - 1915
Joseph Quick (engineer)
1809 - 1894
Brandon Hanlan
Born 1997
Samuel Clarke of St Albans
1684 - 1750
Catherine Christian
1901 - 1985
Wilfred Hill-Wood
1901 - 1980
David Ijaha
Born 1990
George Kemp-Welch
1907 - 1944
Rosalind Birnie Philip
1873 - 1958
John E. C. Appleton
1905 - 1990
Charles John Smith
1803 - 1838
George Stephens (playwright)
1800 - 1851
Foster Cunliffe
1875 - 1916
William Arnold-Forster
1886 - 1951
Charles Spagnoletti
1832 - 1915
Remi Fani-Kayode
1921 - 1995
MC Opi
Born 1971
Billy Bird
1899 - 1951
William Henry Rhodes-Moorhouse
1914 - 1940
Roland Batchelor
1889 - 1990
Arthur Sowden
1878 - 1954
Gurth Hoyer-Millar
1929 - 2014
James Saumarez, 4th Baron de Saumarez
1843 - 1891
George Harris (cricketer, born 1880)
1880 - 1954
Damien Timmer
Born 1968
Basil Hill-Wood
1900 - 1954
Charles George Gass
1898 - 1977
Arthur Batten-Pooll
1891 - 1971
Home Kidston
1910 - 1996
Francis Dawson-Paul
1917 - 1940
Olwen Brookes
1901 - 1976
Jack Acquroff
1911 - 1987
George Cartwright (soldier)
1894 - 1978
William Pamplin
1806 - 1899
Bramah Joseph Diplock
1857 - 1918
Margaret Ashcroft
1931 - 2016
Saul Solomon (photographer)
1836 - 1929
Gwladys, Lady Delamere
1897 - 1943
Stan Woodbridge
1921 - 1945
Odo Vivian, 3rd Baron Swansea
1875 - 1934
Simon Weale
Born 1967
Donovan Reginald Rosevear
1900 - 1986
Veronica Wadley
Born 1952
Henry Stanley (cricketer)
1873 - 1900
Gerry Crutchley
1890 - 1969
Tommy Harris (footballer)
1924 - 2001
Shirley Paget, Marchioness of Anglesey
1924 - 2017
William Gurdon Stirling
1907 - 1973
Cosmo Crawley
1904 - 1989
Richard Anderson (British Army officer)
1907 - 1979
Archibald Walter Buckle
1889 - 1927
Maurice Fitzroy
1897 - 1976
Catherine Heseltine
Born 1978
Dinny Fagan
1906 - 1990
Anne Sanders
Born 1931
Arthur Palmer
1886 - 1973
Stephen Edwards (alpine skier)
Born 1969
Lady Elizabeth Basset
1908 - 2000
Ethel Whibley
1861 - 1920
Lady Anne Tree
1927 - 2010
Gerald Hough
1894 - 1959
Giovanni Suarez
Born 1963
Thomas Lawrence (Governor of Maryland)
1645 - 1714
Thomas James Young
1827 - 1869
Ben Bateman
1892 - 1961
Brenda Longman
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Desmond Uniacke
1895 - 1933
Maud Nelke
1892 - 1982
Robert Yerburgh, 2. Baron Alvingham
Born 1926
David Mordaunt
Born 1937
Guy Holdaway
1886 - 1973
Christopher Hammersley
1903 - 1994
Langford Lloyd
1873 - 1956
Joseph Ward (astronomer)
1862 - 1927
Thomas de Grey, 4th Baron Walsingham
1778 - 1829
Vernon Stewart Laurie
1896 - 1981
Timothy Coghlan (cricketer)
1939 - 2004
John Hearsum
1852 - 1931
Thomas Boswall Beach
1866 - 1941
John Kennard
1884 - 1949
Graeme Power (footballer, born 1959)
Born 1959
Harry Dickson Gell
1845 - 1929
Mary Wills (philanthropist)
Died 1931