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LONDON
Most Famous People Born in London, United Kingdom
A comprehensive ledger of notable people across arts, science, politics, sport, and public life.
Charlie Chaplin
1889 - 1977
Lord Byron
1788 - 1824
Amy Winehouse
1983 - 2011
Michael Faraday
1791 - 1867
Thomas More
1478 - 1535
Gary Oldman
Born 1958
Helen Mirren
Born 1945
Christopher Nolan
Born 1970
Tim Berners-Lee
Born 1955
Charles II of England
1630 - 1685
Geoffrey Chaucer
1343 - 1400
Charles Babbage
1791 - 1871
Ada Lovelace
1815 - 1852
Benjamin Disraeli
1804 - 1881
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
1857 - 1941
Rod Stewart
Born 1945
James II of England
1633 - 1701
John Ruskin
1819 - 1900
Robert Pattinson
Born 1986
David Niven
1910 - 1983
Tilda Swinton
Born 1960
David Ricardo
1772 - 1822
Harold Pinter
1930 - 2008
Eddie Redmayne
Born 1982
Elvis Costello
Born 1954
Boris Karloff
1887 - 1969
Cyrano de Bergerac
1619 - 1655
Annie Besant
1847 - 1933
John Donne
1572 - 1631
Pete Townshend
Born 1945
Robert Browning
1812 - 1889
Joan Collins
Born 1933
Jessica Tandy
1909 - 1994
John Dee
1527 - 1608
Jean Simmons
1929 - 2010
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1828 - 1882
John Major
Born 1943
Damon Albarn
Born 1968
Dusty Springfield
1939 - 1999
Ben Jonson
1572 - 1637
E. M. Forster
1879 - 1970
Daphne du Maurier
1907 - 1989
William Penn
1644 - 1718
William Hogarth
1697 - 1764
Sam Smith (singer)
Born 1992
Leona Lewis
Born 1985
Jeff Beck
Born 1944
Richard Wright (musician)
1943 - 2008
Thandie Newton
Born 1972
Imelda Staunton
Born 1956
Arnold J. Toynbee
1889 - 1975
John Henry Newman
1801 - 1890
Margaret Tudor
1489 - 1541
Greer Garson
1904 - 1996
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
1779 - 1848
Emilia Clarke
Born 1986
Steve McQueen (director)
Born 1969
Rebecca Hall
Born 1982
Ronnie Wood
Born 1947
Roddy McDowall
1928 - 1998
Naomie Harris
Born 1976
Ronald Fisher
1890 - 1962
Margaret Rutherford
1892 - 1972
Sebastian Coe
Born 1956
Timothy Spall
Born 1957
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
1708 - 1778
Mark Strong
Born 1963
Samantha Fox
Born 1966
Dev Patel
Born 1990
Hayley Atwell
Born 1982
Anna Wintour
Born 1949
Andrew Lincoln
Born 1973
Peter Lawford
1923 - 1984
Ida Lupino
1918 - 1995
William Shockley
1910 - 1989
Ed Miliband
Born 1969
Mark Ronson
Born 1975
Kim Wilde
Born 1960
Leslie Howard
1893 - 1943
Alfred Marshall
1842 - 1924
Leopold Stokowski
1882 - 1977
Charlie Watts
Born 1941
Jim Sturgess
Born 1978
Pixie Lott
Born 1991
Martin McDonagh
Born 1970
Michael Moorcock
Born 1939
Wilkie Collins
1824 - 1889
William Crookes
1832 - 1919
The Edge
Born 1961
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Born 1967
Marty Feldman
1934 - 1982
Toby Stephens
Born 1969
Bear Grylls
Born 1974
Paloma Faith
Born 1981
Ruth Rendell
1930 - 2015
Julian Huxley
1887 - 1975
Ronald Coase
1910 - 2013
Jhumpa Lahiri
Born 1967
Caroline Matilda of Great Britain
1751 - 1775
Zadie Smith
Born 1975
Peter Brook
Born 1925
Jared Harris
Born 1961
Karl Pearson
1857 - 1936
Samantha Power
Born 1970
Patrick White
1912 - 1990
Anthony Trollope
1815 - 1882
Tom Hooper
Born 1972
Joseph Banks
1743 - 1820
Christina Rossetti
1830 - 1894
Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis
1891 - 1969
Honor Blackman
1925 - 2020
William Byrd
1543 - 1623
Joseph Chamberlain
1836 - 1914
Nigella Lawson
Born 1960
Horace Walpole
1717 - 1797
James Hadley Chase
1906 - 1985
David Miliband
Born 1965
Michael Atiyah
1929 - 2019
E. H. Carr
1892 - 1982
John Dowland
1563 - 1626
Matthew Vaughn
Born 1971
Eileen Atkins
Born 1934
John Schlesinger
1926 - 2003
Lita Ford
Born 1958
Edwin Lutyens
1869 - 1944
E. L. James
Born 1963
Will Poulter
Born 1993
Peter Green (musician)
1946 - 2020
James Blake (musician)
Born 1988
G. E. Moore
1873 - 1958
Alice Eve
Born 1982
Oliver Heaviside
1850 - 1925
John Osborne
1929 - 1994
Joe Wright
Born 1972
Arthur Sullivan
1842 - 1900
Marina Sirtis
Born 1955
Randolph Churchill
1911 - 1968
Jonathan Nolan
Born 1976
Sophie Okonedo
Born 1968
George Canning
1770 - 1827
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
1803 - 1873
Stephen Wolfram
Born 1959
James Clark Ross
1800 - 1862
Alex Garland
Born 1970
James Fox
Born 1939
David Hamilton (photographer)
1933 - 2016
Gerard Manley Hopkins
1844 - 1889
Shashi Tharoor
Born 1956
Helen McCrory
Born 1968
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
1847 - 1929
Sophia Myles
Born 1980
Jamie Campbell Bower
Born 1988
Roger Williams
1603 - 1684
Alan Parsons
Born 1948
Bonnie Wright
Born 1991
Inigo Jones
1573 - 1652
William Holman Hunt
1827 - 1910
Charles Lamb
1775 - 1834
John Bowlby
1907 - 1990
Diana Wynne Jones
1934 - 2011
Juno Temple
Born 1989
Scott Speedman
Born 1975
William Henry Perkin
1838 - 1907
Stirling Moss
1929 - 2020
Anna Popplewell
Born 1988
A. J. Ayer
1910 - 1989
William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe
1729 - 1814
Edmund Gwenn
1877 - 1959
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool
1770 - 1828
W. S. Gilbert
1836 - 1911
Paul Oakenfold
Born 1963
William Jones (philologist)
1746 - 1794
Jony Ive
Born 1967
Anthony Newley
1931 - 1999
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
1799 - 1869
Joe Cole
Born 1981
John Newton
1725 - 1807
Martin Gore
Born 1961
Daniel Tammet
Born 1979
Mark Sheppard
Born 1964
Algernon Charles Swinburne
1837 - 1909
Ben Miller
Born 1966
Nell Gwyn
1650 - 1687
Donald Crisp
1882 - 1974
Douglas Booth
Born 1992
Jess Glynne
Born 1989
Sophie Monk
Born 1979
Charles Scott Sherrington
1857 - 1952
John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland
1504 - 1553
Jasmine Thompson
Born 2000
Frederick North, Lord North
1732 - 1792
Steve Hackett
Born 1950
Norman Wisdom
1915 - 2010
John Tenniel
1820 - 1914
John Betjeman
1906 - 1984
Alesha Dixon
Born 1978
MF Doom
Born 1971
Richard Hamilton (artist)
1922 - 2011
Joseph Needham
1900 - 1995
Stanley Holloway
1890 - 1982
Christiane Amanpour
Born 1958
Arthur Phillip
1738 - 1814
Gavin Rossdale
Born 1965
Tony Judt
1948 - 2010
Daniel Kaluuya
Born 1989
Natalia Tena
Born 1984
Hanif Kureishi
Born 1954
Bernard Cornwell
Born 1944
Isaac Barrow
1630 - 1677
Joseph Morgan (actor)
Born 1981
Thomas Bayes
1702 - 1761
Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild
1868 - 1937
David Lodge (author)
Born 1935
Thomas Gray
1716 - 1771
Jill Ireland
1936 - 1990
Richard Thompson (musician)
Born 1949
Ron Moody
1924 - 2015
Antony Gormley
Born 1950
Chris Squire
1948 - 2015
Louisa Adams
1775 - 1852
Vanessa Bell
1879 - 1961
Constance Markievicz
1868 - 1927
Catherine Bell (actress)
Born 1968
Harriet Walter
Born 1950
Rebecca West
1892 - 1983
John Powell (film composer)
Born 1963
Sean Pertwee
Born 1964
Noah Taylor
Born 1969
Herbert Marshall
1890 - 1966
Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany
1878 - 1957
Kenneth Clark
1903 - 1983
Thomas Browne
1605 - 1682
John Wilkes
1725 - 1797
Albert Hammond
Born 1944
Antony Flew
1923 - 2010
Rory Kinnear
Born 1978
Len Deighton
Born 1929
Sandy Denny
1947 - 1978
Edward Whymper
1840 - 1911
Bridget Riley
Born 1931
John Tavener
1944 - 2013
John Webster
1578 - 1634
Lytton Strachey
1880 - 1932
Thomas Dolby
Born 1958
Sophie Kinsella
Born 1969
Oliver Hart (economist)
Born 1948
Maryam d'Abo
Born 1960
Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle
1693 - 1768
Ben Howard
Born 1988
James Norton (actor)
Born 1985
Simon Schama
Born 1945
Olivia d'Abo
Born 1969
Richard Johnson (actor)
1927 - 2015
Samantha Bond
Born 1961
Steve Howe (musician)
Born 1947
Benjamin Graham
1894 - 1976
Simon Baron-Cohen
Born 1958
Tobias Menzies
Born 1974
Caroline Goodall
Born 1959
Nathaniel Parker
Born 1962
Edith Evans
1888 - 1976
Glen Matlock
Born 1956
C. Aubrey Smith
1863 - 1948
Hugh Gaitskell
1906 - 1963
John William Polidori
1795 - 1821
John Neville (actor)
1925 - 2011
Douglas Bader
1910 - 1982
Harriet Harman
Born 1950
William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire
1720 - 1764
Gertrude Jekyll
1843 - 1932
Plan B (musician)
Born 1983
Malcolm Muggeridge
1903 - 1990
Clive Dunn
1920 - 2012
David Gemmell
1948 - 2006
Anoushka Shankar
Born 1981
Jeremy Hunt
Born 1966
Beau Brummell
1778 - 1840
Rupert Penry-Jones
Born 1970
Timothy Garton Ash
Born 1955
Murray Head
Born 1946
Chris Claremont
Born 1950
Ben Cross
1947 - 2020
Naomi Scott
Born 1993
Vidal Sassoon
1928 - 2012
Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Born 1967
Steve Harris (musician)
Born 1956
John André
1750 - 1780
George Arliss
1868 - 1946
Michael Anderson (director)
1920 - 2018
John Maynard Smith
1920 - 2004
Peter Ackroyd
Born 1949
Peter Grant (music manager)
1935 - 1995
Stafford Cripps
1889 - 1952
Anne Perry
Born 1938
Eric Ambler
1909 - 1998
Noel Clarke
Born 1975
Jessie Ware
Born 1984
James Joseph Sylvester
1814 - 1897
Peter Morgan
Born 1963
Roger Fry
1866 - 1934