51.1908° N, 0.7299° E
LENHAM
Most Famous People Born in Lenham, United Kingdom
- Notable people
- 354
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- Median birth year
- 1913
- Most distinctive
- Conductor 5.5×
One face per century — the most globally famous figure born in Lenham during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Lenham Is Known For
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Actor is Lenham's biggest profession — 11% of all notables (39).
Lenham over-indexes on conductor — 5.5× the global rate.
Lenham under-produces politician — only 0.6× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Lenham's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Writing
- Film & TV
- Politics & Law
- Science
- Music
- Sports
- Other
William Pitt the Younger
1759 - 1806
Alan Watts
1915 - 1973
John French, 1st Earl of Ypres
1852 - 1925
Thomas Tallis
1502 - 1585
Aphra Behn
1640 - 1689
Philip Sidney
1554 - 1586
William Caxton
1422 - 1492
Michael Powell
1905 - 1990
Anna Lee
1913 - 2004
Tom Burke (actor)
Born 1981
John Gower
1330 - 1408
Milo Yiannopoulos
Born 1984
Ian Stewart (mathematician)
Born 1945
John Lyly
1554 - 1606
Robert Filmer
1588 - 1653
Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore
1605 - 1675
Declan Galbraith
Born 1991
Robert Bridges
1844 - 1930
Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney
1733 - 1800
Linda Bassett
Born 1950
Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet
1772 - 1828
Henrietta Godolphin, 2nd Duchess of Marlborough
1681 - 1733
Fay Masterson
Born 1974
Lauren Bennett
Born 1989
Henry Wotton
1568 - 1639
George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington
1663 - 1733
Tim Ingold
Born 1948
Judge Dread
1945 - 1998
William Painter (author)
1540 - 1594
John Tradescant the Younger
1608 - 1662
James Abbott (Indian Army officer)
1807 - 1896
Rob Knox
1989 - 2008
Diarmaid MacCulloch
Born 1951
Frances Hardinge
Born 1973
Jonathan Bate
Born 1958
James Whitbread Lee Glaisher
1848 - 1928
Ronnie Aldrich
1916 - 1993
Bill Deedes
1913 - 2007
George Gipps
1791 - 1847
Marcus Sedgwick
Born 1968
Liv Boeree
Born 1984
Andrew Caldecott
1884 - 1951
Ben Emmerson
Born 1963
John Hindmarsh
1785 - 1860
Hope Mirrlees
1887 - 1978
Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster
1866 - 1936
Phineas Fletcher
1582 - 1650
Paul Roland
Born 1959
William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford
1865 - 1932
Sam Fell
Born 1965
Christopher Longuet-Higgins
1923 - 2004
Andrew Giddings
Born 1963
May Gibbs
1877 - 1969
David L. Clarke
1937 - 1976
Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester
1563 - 1626
Richard Baker (chronicler)
1568 - 1645
William Roper
1496 - 1578
Shinehead
Born 1962
Roger K. Furse
1903 - 1972
John McKay (mathematician)
Born 1939
Æthelburh of Kent
601 - 647
Rose Wylie
Born 1934
Lisa Andreas
Born 1987
Stephen Groombridge
1755 - 1832
Simon Fish
1500 - 1531
Charles Whitworth, 1st Earl Whitworth
1752 - 1825
William Brett, 1st Viscount Esher
1815 - 1899
Jacqueline Winspear
Born 1955
Margaret de Clare
1292 - 1342
George Lambert (English painter)
1700 - 1765
Henry Young
1803 - 1870
Odo of Cheriton
1180 - 1246
Dudley Digges
1583 - 1639
Dominic Power
Born 1973
Reginald de Dunstanville, 1st Earl of Cornwall
1110 - 1175
Alan Snow
Born 1959
Joan Morgan
1905 - 2004
Carol V. Robinson
Born 1956
J. W. Tutt
1858 - 1911
Katherine Webb (écrivain)
Born 1977
Ney Elias
1844 - 1897
Roy Crowson
1914 - 1999
Jane Downs
1935 - 2015
Ælfric of Abingdon
Died 1005
John Baxter (director)
1896 - 1975
H. Russell Wakefield
1888 - 1964
Alex Sawyer
Born 1993
Paul Leonard-Morgan
Born 1974
Francis Lovelace
1621 - 1675
William Claiborne
1600 - 1677
Kit Williams
Born 1946
Christopher Seaman
Born 1942
Robert Maynard
1684 - 1751
Daniel Gookin
1612 - 1687
Michael S. Longuet-Higgins
1925 - 2016
Jane Dudley, Duchess of Northumberland
1508 - 1555
Patrick Young Alexander
1867 - 1943
Jacob Wrey Mould
1825 - 1886
Josuah Sylvester
1563 - 1618
Martin Flack
1882 - 1931
Lilian Bland
1878 - 1971
Richard Prebble
Born 1948
Michael Harrison (writer)
1907 - 1991
Shlomo (beatboxing artist)
Born 1983
Eanswith
614 - 640
John Veale
1922 - 2006
Peter Day (chemist)
1938 - 2020
William Rootes, 1st Baron Rootes
1894 - 1964
Charles Lacaita
1853 - 1933
Jehst
Born 1979
Peter Quennell
1905 - 1993
William MacBean George Colebrooke
1787 - 1870
David Downton
Born 1959
Peter Shaw Green
1920 - 2009
Kent North
1971 - 2007
Ian Whybrow
Born 1941
Michel Roux Jr.
Born 1960
Nick Alexander (author)
Born 1964
Suzan Farmer
1942 - 2017
Philipp Manning
1869 - 1951
Andrew Poppy
Born 1954
Wyndham Deedes
1883 - 1956
Philip Watts (naval architect)
1846 - 1926
Katherine Stanhope, Countess of Chesterfield
1609 - 1667
Herman C. Hoskier
1864 - 1938
Thomas Simpson (composer)
1582 - 1628
Alison Stephens
1970 - 2010
George Humphrey (psychologist)
1889 - 1966
Elizabeth Stuart (theologian)
Born 1963
Derek Minter
1932 - 2015
Ivo Neame
Born 1981
Matthew Robinson, 2nd Baron Rokeby
1713 - 1800
Robert John Godfrey
Born 1947
Johnny Mercer (politician)
Born 1981
Christopher Newton
Born 1936
John Russell (musician)
Born 1954
Chantal Meek
Born 1978
Vera Lutz
1912 - 1976
Mary Shaw (contralto)
1814 - 1876
Thomas Bryan Martin
1731 - 1798
Tony Clunn
1946 - 2014
Tim White (artist)
1952 - 2020
Fiona Spence
Born 1948
John Gostling
1650 - 1733
Chinmaya Dunster
Born 1954
Samantha Colley
Born 1989
Bill Esterson
Born 1966
Harry Stapley
1883 - 1937
Peter Imbert, Baron Imbert
1933 - 2017
Robert Hales
1325 - 1381
Margaret Wotton, Marchioness of Dorset
1487 - 1541
Edward Potts (gymnast)
1881 - 1944
Charles Elkin Mathews
1851 - 1921
James Summers
1828 - 1891
Walter Parry Haskett Smith
1859 - 1946
Judy Huxtable
Born 1944
Austen Harrison
1891 - 1976
Jan Leeming
Born 1942
Henry George Smith
1852 - 1924
Jo Woodcock
Born 1988
William George Malone
1859 - 1915
Sonya Butt
1924 - 2014
Jasmine Sinclair
Born 1982
Michael Balfour (actor)
1918 - 1997
Julia Clements
1906 - 2010
Percy Robert Craft
1856 - 1934
Katherine Rundell
Born 1987
Charles Sladen
1816 - 1884
Robert Russell (English actor)
1936 - 2008
Ben Brown (journalist)
Born 1960
Dawn Langley Simmons
1937 - 2000
Richard Guildford
1450 - 1506
Mark Sargeant
Born 1973
Jonathan Bates
1939 - 2008
Ian Davis (businessman)
Born 1951
Maurice Wiles
1923 - 2005
Ivan Sherwood Verny
1798 - 1867
Lady Mary Fane
1639 - 1681
Alex Stobbs
Born 1990
Joe Casely-Hayford
1956 - 2019
Peter Collingwood
1920 - 2016
Bessie Marchant
1862 - 1941
Colin Murphy (footballer, born 1950)
Born 1950
Ajahn Amaro
Born 1956
Anna Crilly
Born 1975
Rev Hammer
Born 1965
Oscar Steer
Born 2002
Bobby Baker (artist)
Born 1950
Thomas Baskerville (botanist)
1812 - 1840
G. F. Newman
Born 1946
Netta Syrett
1865 - 1943
David Wright (British musician)
Born 1953
Clem Chambers
Born 1963
Michael Northcott
Born 1955
Nigel Townson
Born 1959
John Kentish
1910 - 2006
William Corin
1867 - 1929
Thomas Baker (Royal Navy officer)
1771 - 1845
James Hillier (actor)
Born 1973
Albert Alexander Cochrane Le Souef
1828 - 1902
Will Gompertz
Born 1965
Chris Ealham
Born 1965
Quentin Tod
1884 - 1947
Ithamar (bishop)
Died 655
Paul Carter (squash player)
Born 1963
Ian Bailey (author)
Born 1959
John Philpott
Born 1949
Dudley Fenner
1558 - 1587
Ellis O'Reilly
Born 1998
Jean Hillier
Born 1953
David Baynton-Power
Born 1961
John Browning (scientific instrument maker)
1831 - 1925
Natasha Rhodes
Born 1978
Daniel Ritchie
Born 1987
Arthur Clare Cawley
1913 - 1993
James Bate
1703 - 1775
Edmund Law Lushington
1811 - 1893
Belinda Jones (writer)
Born 1967
Kevin Greening
1962 - 2007
Alison Cumings
Born 1961
David Ellery
Born 1960
Megan Giglia
Born 1985
Matthew Delicâte
Born 1982
Boxi (Künstler)
Born 1974
Edmund Hinkly
1817 - 1880
Leonard Hurst
1871 - 1937
Richard Marsh (horseman)
1851 - 1933
Alan of Tewkesbury
1140 - 1202
John J. Wild
1914 - 2009
Graham Ludlow
Born 1962
Conyers Clifford
1560 - 1599
Susannah Waters
-
Francis Henry Hill Guillemard
1852 - 1933
Ben Summerskill
Born 1961
Jadey Duffield
Born 1991
Joan Thirkettle
1947 - 1996
Keith Lewin
-
William Locke Brockman
1802 - 1872
Martin Brett
1920 - 2002
Kate Groombridge
Born 1980
Geoffrey Paterson
Born 1983
Dave Chapman (actor)
Born 1973
Adam Sopp
Born 1986
Victoria Horn
-
Bruce Norman
1901 - 1982
Simon Spurr
Born 1974
Lucienne Camille
1940 - 2006
Richard Pindle Hammond
1896 - 1980
Caroline Feraday
Born 1977
Richard Vardigans
Born 1954
Frederick McCracken
1859 - 1949
Zoe Hardman
Born 1982
Ena Twigg
1914 - 1984
Gabrielle Richens
Born 1974
Thomas Ballard
1630 - 1689
Frederick Currey
1849 - 1896
Helen Barry
1840 - 1904
Gordon Apps
1899 - 1931
Timothy Moxon
1924 - 2006
Denham Jordan
1836 - 1920
Michael Pearson (horologist)
1936 - 2017
Brenda McDonald
-
Charles Dawson Booker
1897 - 1918
Edward Barradall
1703 - 1743
Frank Marchant
1864 - 1946
Deanna Cooper
Born 1993
Arthur Sandbach
1859 - 1928
Mary Honywood
1527 - 1620
Arthur Lampkin
Born 1938
Philip Twysden
1714 - 1752
Michael Bukht
1941 - 2011
Jasmine Lowson
Born 1972
Anthony G. E. Pearse
1916 - 2003
Heather Buck
1926 - 2004
Christine Chinkin
-
Jay Bridger
Born 1987
Christopher O'Shea
Born 1992
Thomas Hope (architect)
1757 - 1820
Laurence Milner Robinson
1885 - 1957
Dennis Hamley
Born 1936
Deborah Barnes-Jones
Born 1956
Caroline Webster
Born 1964
Claude Buckle (Royal Navy officer, born 1803)
1803 - 1894
Richard Boys
1785 - 1867
Lesley-Ann Jones
-
Guy Wilthew
1876 - 1920
Solomon Akhtar
Born 1991
Eric Williams (football coach)
-
Lancelot Holland (coronel)
1781 - 1859
Frederick Coppins
1889 - 1963
Paul Ryan (boxer)
Born 1965
Chrissie Rucker
Born 1968
Arthur Ashwell (cricketer, born 1908)
1908 - 1985
Guy Darrell
1940 - 2013
Edmund A. Letts
1852 - 1918
Stephen Kelly (businessman)
Born 1963
William Best (cricketer)
1865 - 1942
Ambrose Cobbs
1603 - 1655
Phillip Darrell Duppa
1832 - 1892
Richard Tylman of Faversham
1546 - 1584