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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.
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John Wymer
1928 - 2006
Wee Willie Harris
Born 1933
Soamsawali
Born 1957
Lloyd Honeyghan
Born 1960
William Locker (Royal Navy officer)
1731 - 1800
George Canning (athlete)
Born 1889
Dave Lee (jazz musician)
Born 1926
Doodler
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Peter Hobday (footballer)
Born 1961
John Elwes (politician)
1714 - 1789
Alexander Brome
1620 - 1666
Barry Driscoll
1926 - 2006
Issy Bonn
1903 - 1977
George Baldwin (diplomat)
1744 - 1826
Marcus Hartog
1851 - 1924
Sarah Taylor (cricketer)
Born 1989
Vivienne Olive
Born 1950
Madeline Duggan
Born 1994
Kenton Couse
1721 - 1790
Dave Courtney
Born 1959
Benjamin Meggot Forster
1764 - 1829
Liam Noble (musician)
Born 1968
James Hannen, Baron Hannen
1821 - 1894
Sid Smith (boxer)
1889 - 1948
Shakila Karim
Born 1997
Linda Aronson
Born 1950
Cedric Sharpe
1891 - 1978
Dominic Samuel
Born 1994
Deji Oshilaja
Born 1993
George Morley
1597 - 1684
Pat Baldwin
Born 1982
Robert Dennis Chantrell
1793 - 1872
Callum Hassan
Born 1993
James Deacon Hume
1774 - 1842
Nathan Green (footballer)
Born 1992
Michael Toch
Born 1946
Douglas Blackburn
1857 - 1929
Hanna Plaß
Born 1989
John Rennie the Younger
1794 - 1874
Mary Potter
1847 - 1913
Charles Heath
1785 - 1848
Charles Denny (cyclist)
1885 - 1968
Stanley Pavey
1913 - 1984
Alan Bangs
Born 1951
Isabella Mattocks
1746 - 1826
Robert Wyman
1909 - 1978
Dennis Burnett
Born 1944
Douglas Lee (choreographer)
Born 1977
Arthur Smith (comedian)
Born 1954
Gillian Wright
Born 1950
Basil Champneys
1842 - 1935
Tony Kendall (poker player)
Born 1947
James Reeves (writer)
1909 - 1978
Femi Ilesanmi
Born 1991
Dean Beckwith
Born 1983
Alice B. Woodward
1862 - 1951
William Fleetwood
1656 - 1723
Kevin James (English footballer)
Born 1980
Gordon Beningfield
1936 - 1998
Mimi (Sängerin)
Born 1985
Martin Beheim-Schwarzbach
1900 - 1985
Daniel Wilson (bishop)
1778 - 1858
William Cecil Dampier
1867 - 1952
Charlie MacDonald
Born 1970
John Gough Nichols
1806 - 1873
Lee Brimmicombe-Wood
Born 1963
Jack Dash
1907 - 1989
Richard Spencer (Royal Navy officer)
1779 - 1839
John Chessell Buckler
1793 - 1894
Susie Wokoma
Born 1987
William Jowett
1787 - 1855
George Scott Robertson
1852 - 1916
Charles Purdom
1883 - 1965
Edward Steere
1828 - 1882
Dick Curtis (boxer)
1802 - 1843
Joseph Austin Benwell
1816 - 1886
Henry Hoppner Meyer
1780 - 1847
Felix de Mendelssohn
1944 - 2016
Samuel Keimer
1689 - 1742
Judy Bailey
Born 1968
David Cameron (Schauspieler)
1933 - 2012
Douglas M. MacDowell
1931 - 2010
Katherine Austen
1629 - 1683
Max Hayward
1924 - 1979
Philip Morris (tobacconist)
1835 - 1873
Gary Webster
Born 1964
Josh Koroma
Born 1998
Esther Cailingold
1925 - 1948
John Dickie (Sänger)
1953 - 2010
Robin Estridge
1920 - 2002
Ed Asafu-Adjaye
Born 1988
Marguerite Wolff (lawyer)
1883 - 1964
Diallang Jaiyesimi
Born 1998
William Winterbotham
1763 - 1829
Alexander Aubert
1730 - 1805
John Bunzl
Born 1945
Felix Goldmann
1882 - 1934
Alfie Pavey
Born 1995
Edwige Pierre
Born 1951
Richard Morris (philology)
1833 - 1894
Sasha Perera
Born 1979
Alfred Latham
1801 - 1885
Tom Beere
Born 1995
Nick Munier
Born 1968
William Sotheby
1757 - 1833
John Francis (publisher)
1811 - 1882
Dorretta Carter
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Kaffy
Born 1980
Russ Malkin
Born 1960
Camilla Dufour Crosland
1812 - 1895
Thomas Forsaith
1814 - 1898
Terrell Forbes
Born 1981
Joseph Barnett
1858 - 1926
William Holmes (academic)
1689 - 1748
Ben Lockspeiser
1891 - 1990
Joseph Blakesley
1808 - 1885
John Bramston the Younger
1611 - 1700
Montel Agyemang
Born 1996
Jim Sullivan (boxer)
1886 - 1949
John Rolls
1735 - 1801
Steve Hudson
Born 1969
Rowland Plumbe
1838 - 1919
Lawrie Dudfield
Born 1980
Homersham Cox
1821 - 1897
Elizabeth le Despenser, Baroness Berkeley
1327 - 1389
Julius Raecke
1872 - 1930
John Le Keux
1783 - 1846
Lily Delissa Joseph
1863 - 1940
Richard Thomson (antiquarian)
1794 - 1865
Ben Hunt (footballer)
Born 1990
Trevor Aylott
Born 1957
Francis Oliver Finch
1802 - 1862
Micky Flanagan
Born 1962
C. Washington Eves
1838 - 1899
Dennis Cox
1925 - 2001
Luke Rooney (footballer)
Born 1990
Harry Morris (footballer, born 1897)
1897 - 1985
Albert Chibnall
1894 - 1988
Danny O'Shea (footballer)
Born 1963
Dennis Adeniran
Born 1999
John Williams (satirist)
1761 - 1818
Albany James Christie
1817 - 1891
Stephen Payne (naval architect)
Born 1960
James Cohen
1906 - 1958
Henry Watts (chemist)
1815 - 1884
Octavius Oakley
1800 - 1867
William Richard Sutton
1833 - 1900
John Mackie (footballer, born 1976)
Born 1976
John Quick (actor)
1748 - 1831
Joe Dolan (footballer)
Born 1980
Thomas Okey
1852 - 1935
Walter How
1885 - 1972
Kate Carney
1869 - 1950
Linda White Mazini Villari
1836 - 1915
Gerard Benson
1931 - 2014
James Baldwin Brown
1820 - 1884
Louie McCarthy-Scarsbrook
Born 1986
Frederick Rogers (bookbinder)
1846 - 1915
David Huggins
Born 1959
Henry Mason (Regisseur)
Born 1974
John Rolls of The Hendre
1776 - 1837
Simon Blumenfeld
1907 - 2005
Robin Brook
1908 - 1998
Robert Harrild
1780 - 1853
Danny Murphy (footballer, born 1982)
Born 1982
Charlie Howard (footballer)
Born 1989
H.J. Gough
1890 - 1965
Jamie Hewitt (cricketer)
Born 1976
Graham Peacock
Born 1945
Samuel Dale
1659 - 1739
Edzard Hüneke
Born 1971
Finn O'Mara
Born 1999
Danny Maguire
Born 1989
George Bond Howes
1853 - 1905
Marc Muellbauer
Born 1968
Charles Stokes (collector)
1784 - 1853
Jack Goldswain
1878 - 1954
Eileen Gray (cyclist)
1920 - 2015
Charles Coutelle
Born 1939
Abraham Newland
1730 - 1807
Frederick Dally
1838 - 1914
Colin Lynes
Born 1977
Gareth Moore (theologian)
1948 - 2002
Lionel Lockyer
1601 - 1672
Kevin Lokko
Born 1995
Edgar Daniel Roß
1807 - 1885
Harriet Auber
1773 - 1862
John Coventry (constructor of philosophical instruments)
1735 - 1812
David Bevan (banker)
1774 - 1846
John Defferary
Born 1941
F. S. Ashley-Cooper
1877 - 1932
Henry Priestley (mathematician)
1883 - 1932
Seth Jermy
1653 - 1724
Dorothy Gurney
1858 - 1932
Mary Wade
1777 - 1859
John Holsgrove
Born 1945
Dominic Shimmin
Born 1987
George Ash (Australian politician)
1859 - 1897
Alexander Allen (writer)
1814 - 1842
Nelson Wheatcroft
1852 - 1897
Jan Schäfer-Kunz
Born 1964
Mary Davies Wilburn
1883 - 1987
Johnny Brown (English boxer)
1902 - 1976
Albert Edward McKenzie
1898 - 1918
William Mason (Sänger)
Born 1947
Delwar Hussain
Born 1970
Jerrome Sobers
Born 1986
Tommy Sampson
Born 1954
Frederick William Holmes
1889 - 1969
Marlon Patterson
Born 1983
Edmund Archer
1673 - 1739
Young Joseph
1885 - 1952
Jon King
Born 1955
George Fisher (footballer)
1925 - 2015
Christopher Spring
Born 1951
Walter Southey
1897 - 1920
Cyril Easthaugh
1897 - 1988
Ben Jordan (boxer)
1873 - 1945
Lily Sykes
Born 1984
James Thain
1921 - 1975
James Underwood (businessman)
1771 - 1844
Paapa Essiedu
Born 1990
Mark Odejobi
Born 1988
Steven Pheasant
Born 1951
Christopher Hudson
Born 1946
Kevin Lear
Born 1977
Charles Garrett Phillips
1916 - 1994
DJ Froggy
1949 - 2008
Les Condon
1930 - 2007
Beaumont Arnold Moulden
1849 - 1926
Alfred Maizels
1917 - 2006
John Manship
1726 - 1816
Eileen Vigor
Born 1935
Danny Kelleher
1966 - 1995
Cecil Patterson
1908 - 1992
George Petchey
1931 - 2019
James Davidson (antiquarian)
1793 - 1864
Christopher Prentice
Born 1954
Lydia Bright
Born 1990
Maurice Coyne
Born 1955
Derek Possee
Born 1946
Chubby Oates
1942 - 2006
Thomas Turner (Ingenieur)
1799 - 1866
Goldup Davies
1914 - 1989
Michael Mison
Born 1975
Romone McCrae
Born 1990
Oscar Owide
1931 - 2017
Arthur Herbert Jackson
1851 - 1881
Ray Swallow
Born 1935
Arthur Daer
1905 - 1980
Clara Mordan
1844 - 1915
Harry Kelleher
Born 1929
Bradley Gamble
Born 1975
Charles Winter (cricketer, born 1866)
1866 - 1954
Samuel Israel
1802 - 1870
Adolphus Lehnert Wex
1859 - 1918
Alfred Hoppe
1830 - 1919
Cliff Myers
1946 - 2019
Darius J. Pearce
Born 1972
Edgar Ferdinand Cyriax
1874 - 1955
Jeff Kristian
Born 1964
Roger Bisby
Born 1952
Alfred Sturge
1816 - 1901
Anood Al-Samerai
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Joseph Nathan
1835 - 1912
Danny Steele
Born 1982
Gary Micklewhite
Born 1961
Saveen
1915 - 1994
Miriam Moses
1884 - 1965
William Higton
1792 - 1868
Silvanus Bevan (1743–1830)
1743 - 1830
Terry Robbins (footballer)
Born 1965
Robert Humphrey Marten
1763 - 1839
Frank Lock
1922 - 1985
Henry Chaney
1882 - 1919
Frederick Dent Ray
1879 - 1977
Alan Dorney
Born 1947
Rose Rosenberg
1892 - 1966
William Ryott Maughan
1863 - 1933
Henry Blunt (chemist)
1809 - 1853
Mark Fiore (footballer)
Born 1969
Kevin Baldwin
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Thomas Sturge
1787 - 1866
Henry Swire
1901 - 1964
Jeannette Wilkinson
1841 - 1886
Cameron Bethel Ware
1913 - 1999
Joseph Lynn
1856 - 1927
Fred Culpitt
1877 - 1944
Robert Hawgood Crew
1762 - 1839
John Weller
1877 - 1966
Jackie Fisher (footballer, born 1925)
Born 1925
Jimmy Collins (footballer, born 1911)
1911 - 1983
Jack Blackman (English footballer)
1912 - 1987
Frederick Spurrell
1824 - 1902
Thomas Spurgeon Page
1879 - 1958
George Burnett
1918 - 1995
Richard Oldham (priest)
1823 - 1914
Fred Haxton
1879 - 1933
Weldon Champneys
1832 - 1892
William Leaf
1791 - 1874