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CITY OF LONDON
Most Famous People Born in City of London, United Kingdom
- Notable people
- 601
- Peak decade
- 1950s
- Median birth year
- 1923
- Most distinctive
- Comedian 8.0×
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in City of London during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What City of London Is Known For
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Football is City of London's biggest profession — 12% of all notables (70).
City of London over-indexes on comedian — 8.0× the global rate.
City of London under-produces politician — only 0.3× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of City of London's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Sports
- Writing
- Music
- Film & TV
- Science
- Art & Design
- Other
John Keats
1795 - 1821
John Milton
1608 - 1674
Mary Wollstonecraft
1759 - 1797
Jeremy Bentham
1748 - 1832
Thomas Becket
1119 - 1170
Alexander Pope
1688 - 1744
Samuel Pepys
1633 - 1703
Thomas Brodie-Sangster
Born 1990
William Blackstone
1723 - 1780
Paul Di'Anno
Born 1958
Ebenezer Howard
1850 - 1928
Siouxsie Sioux
Born 1957
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
1836 - 1917
John Vanbrugh
1664 - 1726
Gemma Chan
Born 1982
Alexandra Burke
Born 1988
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Born 1954
John Harvard (clergyman)
1607 - 1638
Thomas Rowlandson
1756 - 1827
Andy McNab
Born 1959
Ella Purnell
Born 1996
Alex Clare
Born 1985
Jack Sheppard
1702 - 1724
Ryan Bertrand
Born 1989
Orlando Figes
Born 1959
Mia Goth
Born 1993
Tommy Steele
Born 1936
Alma Cogan
1932 - 1966
Nicky Hopkins
1944 - 1994
Stephen Wiltshire
Born 1974
Abraham Cowley
1618 - 1667
Simeon Solomon
1840 - 1905
Edward Alleyn
1566 - 1626
Lynsey de Paul
1950 - 2014
Emilia Lanier
1569 - 1645
Jamie Foreman
Born 1958
Frederick Catherwood
1799 - 1854
Algernon Sidney
1623 - 1683
Robert Winston
Born 1940
Henry Goodman
Born 1950
Brendan Perry
Born 1959
Ian Bostridge
Born 1964
Nigel Reo-Coker
Born 1984
Jamie Harris (actor)
Born 1963
Ajahn Brahm
Born 1951
John Stainer
1840 - 1901
John Dollond
1706 - 1761
Ashley Walters (actor)
Born 1982
John Elliotson
1791 - 1868
Charles Townshend (British Army officer)
1861 - 1924
John Hoppner
1758 - 1810
Jack Gold
1930 - 2015
Andy Abraham
Born 1964
Ola Aina
Born 1996
Courtney Pine
Born 1964
Jordon Ibe
Born 1995
Paul Cartledge
Born 1947
Michaela Coel
Born 1987
Leon Cort
Born 1979
Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby
1775 - 1851
Roger Delgado
1918 - 1973
Claire Tomalin
Born 1933
John Abernethy (surgeon)
1764 - 1831
Dorothy Shakespear
1886 - 1973
John Bacon (sculptor)
1740 - 1799
John Waters (actor)
Born 1948
John Ellis (physicist)
Born 1946
Adam Tooze
Born 1967
Beverley Cross
1931 - 1998
Stanley Black
1913 - 2002
Edward Hall
1497 - 1547
Bud Flanagan
1896 - 1968
Maverick Sabre
Born 1990
Lindsay Cooper
1951 - 2013
G. R. S. Mead
1863 - 1933
King Charles (musician)
Born 1985
John Varley (painter)
1778 - 1842
Johnny Speight
1920 - 1998
Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted
1853 - 1927
George Dance the Younger
1741 - 1825
Nicholas Mosley
1923 - 2017
Colin Cotterill
Born 1952
Simon Fisher Turner
Born 1954
Nikki Sudden
1956 - 2006
Colin Clark (filmmaker)
1932 - 2002
Francis Bourne
1861 - 1934
Jenny Downham
Born 1964
Julian Perretta
Born 1989
David Levy (chess player)
Born 1945
William Odling
1829 - 1921
Paul Gilroy
Born 1956
Raymond Harold Sawkins
1923 - 2006
Mark Gertler (artist)
1891 - 1939
Terry Oldfield
Born 1949
Peter Collinson (botanist)
1694 - 1768
Peter Hacker
Born 1939
Jill Murphy
Born 1949
William Allen (Quaker)
1770 - 1843
Alan Tilvern
1918 - 2003
Keir Starmer
Born 1962
Carl Cort
Born 1977
Dixon Denham
1786 - 1828
Joan of the Tower
1321 - 1362
James Purnell
Born 1970
Edward Seymour, Lord Beauchamp
1561 - 1612
Grooverider
Born 1967
Diana Deutsch
Born 1938
Martin Farquhar Tupper
1810 - 1889
Jonathan Dove
Born 1959
James Binney
Born 1950
Simon Collins
Born 1976
Ovie Ejaria
Born 1997
Colin Towns
Born 1948
Rebecca Saunders
Born 1967
Joseph Pearce
Born 1961
Mel Gaynor
Born 1959
Charles Pearson
1793 - 1862
Louise Hazel
Born 1985
James South
1785 - 1867
Georgia Brown (English singer)
1933 - 1992
Henry Spencer Ashbee
1834 - 1900
Raphael Wallfisch
Born 1953
Jonathan Jeremiah
Born 1980
Paul Day (musician)
Born 1956
Thomas Seddon
1821 - 1856
Michael Barrymore
Born 1952
Derek B
1965 - 2009
Nigel Calder
1931 - 2014
Alexander Rabinowitch
Born 1934
Andrew Ranicki
1948 - 2018
Imogen Cooper
Born 1949
Elizabeth Jane Weston
1581 - 1612
Margery Williams
1881 - 1944
Rachel Joyce (writer)
Born 1962
Celia Franca
1921 - 2007
Simon Halsey
Born 1958
Nick Gilder
Born 1951
William Ashley (economic historian)
1860 - 1927
Tom Rachman
Born 1974
William Marlow
1740 - 1813
Stanley Lupino
1893 - 1942
Joseph Jackson Lister
1786 - 1869
Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener
1813 - 1891
Charles Masson
1800 - 1853
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
Born 1977
William Mundy (composer)
1528 - 1591
Carol Drinkwater
Born 1948
Dorothea Beale
1831 - 1906
Abram Games
1914 - 1996
Philip Green (composer)
1911 - 1982
Kate Saunders
Born 1960
Charles Platt (author)
Born 1945
Anthony Payne
Born 1936
Joe Loss
1909 - 1990
Frank Vosper
1899 - 1937
Steve White (drummer)
Born 1965
Betsy Balcombe
1802 - 1871
Nigel Quashie
Born 1978
Wolf Mankowitz
1924 - 1998
William Tite
1798 - 1873
William Henry Monk
1823 - 1889
Monty Berman
1905 - 2006
Julie Rogers
Born 1943
Colin Tudge
Born 1943
Bryan Edgar Wallace
1904 - 1971
John Hegley
Born 1953
Giles Constable
Born 1929
Mark Howard (footballer, born September 1986)
Born 1986
Nicola Stapleton
Born 1974
Gary Yershon
Born 1954
Lindy Layton
Born 1970
David Amoo
Born 1991
John R. Taylor
Born 1939
Nicky Gumbel
Born 1955
Edward Crankshaw
1909 - 1984
Anne Evans
Born 1941
Henry Thrale
1724 - 1781
Esther Inglis
1571 - 1624
Sir Charles Trevelyan, 3rd Baronet
1870 - 1958
Lady Caroline Blackwood
1931 - 1996
Peter de Jersey
Born 1965
Stuart Franklin
Born 1956
Joan of England (1335–1348)
1334 - 1348
Bridget Boland
1913 - 1988
Lazarus Aaronson
1894 - 1966
Thomas Kitchin
1719 - 1784
John Barton (theologian)
Born 1948
Isaac Penington (Quaker)
1616 - 1679
Graham Bonney
Born 1943
William Faithorne
1616 - 1691
Edward Coxen
1880 - 1954
James Cyriax
1904 - 1985
Alan Posener
Born 1949
Anne Russell, Countess of Bedford
1615 - 1684
Poppy Lee Friar
Born 1995
Sidney Morgan
1874 - 1946
Peter Moffatt
1923 - 2007
Adé Bantu
Born 1971
Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing
1835 - 1926
Gilbert Varga
Born 1952
Albert Irvin
1922 - 2015
John Lawrence Toole
1830 - 1906
John Dighton
1909 - 1989
Alfred Lynch
1931 - 2003
Ben Pimlott
1945 - 2004
Kodwo Eshun
Born 1967
Michael Evans (bishop)
1951 - 2011
Andrew Miller (writer)
Born 1974
Anna Eliza Bray
1790 - 1883
Nina Allan
Born 1966
Sam Cutler
Born 1943
Nicolas Bratza
Born 1945
Chris Laurence
Born 1949
Harry Escott
Born 1976
Royston Maldoom
Born 1943
Jack Cohen (businessman)
1898 - 1979
Herbert Johnston
1902 - 1967
William Radcliffe Birt
1804 - 1881
John Y. Campbell
Born 1958
Shenton Thomas
1879 - 1962
David King (graphic designer)
1943 - 2016
William Wyld
1806 - 1889
David Abbott (advertising)
1938 - 2014
Henry William Pickersgill
1782 - 1875
Chris Newman (artist)
Born 1958
Andy Mulligan (author)
Born 1966
Thomas Sanders Dupuis
1733 - 1796
Michela Wrong
Born 1961
Howard Arman
Born 1954
Leon Greenman
1910 - 2008
W. A. H. Rushton
1901 - 1980
Douglas Furber
1885 - 1961
Alexander Gilchrist
1828 - 1861
Alexander Joel (conductor)
Born 1971
Boris Starling
Born 1969
Frank Arthur Swinnerton
1884 - 1982
William Sherlock
1641 - 1707
Jenny Evans
Born 1956
Ronald W. Clark
1916 - 1987
Mark Feltham (musician)
Born 1955
Henry Bradbury
1831 - 1860
Jocelyn Herbert
1917 - 2003
Maurice Greiffenhagen
1862 - 1931
Ranulph Glanville
1946 - 2014
Paul Hough
Born 1974
Michael Swanton
Born 1939
Fankaty Dabo
Born 1995
Thomas Garnet
1575 - 1608
Nigel Guy Wilson
Born 1935
David Dawson (choreographer)
Born 1972
Philip Sidney, 3rd Earl of Leicester
1619 - 1698
William Waterhouse (bassoonist)
1931 - 2007
Ivan Roitt
Born 1927
Charlie Lee
Born 1987
Henry Terry
1868 - 1952
Catherine Tudor (1503)
1503 - 1503
Liberty Ellman
Born 1971
Giles MacDonogh
Born 1955
Priya Basil
Born 1977
Jim Gannon
Born 1968
Bryan Patterson
1909 - 1979
James Nares (artist)
Born 1953
Anthony Frewin
Born 1947
Robert Stacy-Judd
1884 - 1975
Sullay Kaikai
Born 1995
Velile Tshabalala
Born 1984
John Graham Nicholls
Born 1929
Sampson Gideon
1699 - 1762
Jamie Stuart
Born 1976
James Alabi
Born 1994
Geoffrey Ozin
Born 1943
Clive Egleton
1927 - 2006
William Ward (engraver)
1766 - 1826
James Twining
Born 1972
Violet Olney
1911 - 1999
Geoffrey Archer (writer)
Born 1944
Lewis Leigh Fermor
1880 - 1954
Cyril Alden
1884 - 1939
Samuel Shelley
1750 - 1808
Charles Whitehead
1804 - 1862
Paul Clarvis
Born 1963
Jeffrey Caine
Born 1944
Joseph Blake (criminal)
1700 - 1724
Steven Claydon
Born 1969
Ray Burdis
Born 1958
Tessa Souter
Born 1956
Hugh Raffles
Born 1958
Michael L. Klein
Born 1940
Mike Wilks (author)
Born 1947
Clark Tracey
Born 1961
Hester Maria Elphinstone, Viscountess Keith
1764 - 1857
Geoffrey Till
Born 1945
Robert Olby
Born 1933
Clara de Chatelain
1807 - 1876
Anna Maria Crouch
1763 - 1805
Simon Price (classicist)
1954 - 2011
Paul Lytton
Born 1947
Hilda Lewis
1896 - 1974
Edmund Blacket
1817 - 1883
Martha Tabram
1849 - 1888