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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
Daniel Day-Lewis
Born 1957
Charles II of England
1630 - 1685
Geoffrey Chaucer
1343 - 1400
Charles Babbage
1791 - 1871
Ada Lovelace
1815 - 1852
Benjamin Disraeli
1804 - 1881
Rachel Weisz
Born 1970
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
1857 - 1941
Rod Stewart
Born 1945
James II of England
1633 - 1701
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Born 1948
John Ruskin
1819 - 1900
Robert Pattinson
Born 1986
David Niven
1910 - 1983
Tom Hiddleston
Born 1981
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
Carey Mulligan
Born 1985
Annie Besant
1847 - 1933
Edward I of England
1239 - 1307
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
Henry Purcell
1659 - 1695
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
Dido (singer)
Born 1971
Greer Garson
1904 - 1996
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
1779 - 1848
Emilia Clarke
Born 1986
Steve McQueen (director)
Born 1969
Oswald Mosley
1896 - 1980
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
Stephen Dillane
Born 1957
Michael Moorcock
Born 1939
Emily Ratajkowski
Born 1991
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
Dua Lipa
Born 1995
Jhumpa Lahiri
Born 1967
Caroline Matilda of Great Britain
1751 - 1775
Zadie Smith
Born 1975
Peter Brook
Born 1925
Jared Harris
Born 1961
Cary Elwes
Born 1962
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
Kelly Osbourne
Born 1984
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
Daisy Ridley
Born 1992
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
Charlie Cox
Born 1982
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
Alice Liddell
1852 - 1934
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
Charles James Fox
1749 - 1806
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
Antony Beevor
Born 1946
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
Katherine Waterston
Born 1980
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
George Grenville
1712 - 1770
Len Deighton
Born 1929
Sandy Denny
1947 - 1978
Francesca Annis
Born 1945
Leonard Woolf
1880 - 1969
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
Stephen Spender
1909 - 1995
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
Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury
1563 - 1612
Glen Matlock
Born 1956
C. Aubrey Smith
1863 - 1948
John Profumo
1915 - 2006
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