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LONDON
Most Famous People Born in London, United Kingdom
- Notable people
- 15,663
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- Median birth year
- 1919
- Most distinctive
- Novelist 2.6×
Nine centuries of the British public eye. London's notables fan out across a longer continuous span than almost any other anglophone city, from medieval peers and antiquarians through Georgian solicitors and impresarios to a postwar wave of actors, footballers, and singers. The court and the stage have always been within walking distance of each other here, and the dataset shows it.
Standouts
Notable Births by Decade
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What London Is Known For
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Actor is London's biggest profession — 13% of all notables (2,038).
London over-indexes on novelist — 2.6× the global rate.
London under-produces football — only 0.3× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of London's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Film & TV
- Writing
- Art & Design
- Politics & Law
- Music
- Sports
- Other
- Filtered to 1820s Clear ×
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1828 - 1882
Wilkie Collins
1824 - 1889
William Holman Hunt
1827 - 1910
John Tenniel
1820 - 1914
Henry Gray
1827 - 1861
William Burges
1827 - 1881
Samuel Baker
1821 - 1893
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon
1827 - 1909
William Huggins
1824 - 1910
William Michael Rossetti
1829 - 1919
Frederick Abel
1827 - 1902
Adelaide Anne Procter
1825 - 1864
Calvert Vaux
1824 - 1895
Alexander William Williamson
1824 - 1904
St. George Jackson Mivart
1827 - 1900
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook
1826 - 1904
Richard Doyle (illustrator)
1824 - 1883
Charles Allston Collins
1828 - 1873
Frederic George Stephens
1827 - 1907
Edmund Evans
1826 - 1905
James Fitzjames Stephen
1829 - 1894
James Halliwell-Phillipps
1820 - 1889
Hugh Childers
1827 - 1896
Maria Francesca Rossetti
1827 - 1876
Frederick Goodall
1822 - 1904
Valentine Baker
1827 - 1887
William Spottiswoode
1825 - 1883
William Henry Smith (1825–1891)
1825 - 1891
Arthur Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore
1829 - 1912
Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chan
1823 - 1889
Emma Hardinge Britten
1823 - 1899
George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 3rd Duke of Sutherland
1828 - 1892
Gifford Palgrave
1826 - 1888
John Strachey (civil servant)
1823 - 1907
Hardinge Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury
1823 - 1921
Alexander Bassano
1829 - 1913
Frederick Manson Bailey
1827 - 1915
Catherine Winkworth
1827 - 1878
John Hall Gladstone
1827 - 1902
John Henry Pepper
1821 - 1900
James Sant
1820 - 1916
Beauchamp Seymour, 1st Baron Alcester
1821 - 1895
Alphonse de Polignac
1826 - 1863
Francis Herbert Wenham
1824 - 1908
Robert Alexander Hillingford
1828 - 1904
Henry Fletcher Hance
1827 - 1886
Frances Anne Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough
1822 - 1899
Charles Heaphy
1820 - 1881
Henry Morley
1822 - 1894
Princess Elizabeth of Clarence
1820 - 1821
Thomas Alexander Browne
1826 - 1915
George Jessel (jurist)
1824 - 1883
Louisa Lane Drew
1820 - 1897
Henry Hugh Armstead
1828 - 1905
John George Wood
1827 - 1889
Joseph Archer Crowe
1825 - 1896
Alfred Waud
1828 - 1891
Frances Buss
1827 - 1894
Henry Wylie Norman
1826 - 1904
Frederick Ouseley
1825 - 1889
John Sebastian Helmcken
1824 - 1920
John Turtle Wood
1821 - 1890
Emily Mary Osborn
1828 - 1925
George Murray Smith
1824 - 1901
Augustus FitzRoy, 7th Duke of Grafton
1821 - 1918
Sidney Richard Percy
1821 - 1886
Henry Tibbats Stainton
1822 - 1892
Abraham Solomon
1823 - 1862
Frederick Richard Pickersgill
1820 - 1900
George Cavendish-Bentinck
1821 - 1891
Inglis Palgrave
1827 - 1919
Sir Robert Peel, 3rd Baronet
1822 - 1895
George Scharf
1820 - 1895
Charles Fechter
1824 - 1879
George Clarkson Stanfield
1828 - 1878
Henry Sutherland Edwards
1828 - 1906
William Ralston Shedden-Ralston
1828 - 1889
C. F. Varley
1828 - 1883
Lucie, Lady Duff-Gordon
1821 - 1869
Henry William Watson
1827 - 1903
Jerningham Wakefield
1820 - 1879
John Patteson (bishop)
1827 - 1871
Henry David Leslie
1822 - 1896
William Shakespeare Burton
1824 - 1916
Sims Reeves
1821 - 1900
Edward Stanford
1827 - 1904
Alexander Beresford Hope
1820 - 1887
Robert Braithwaite Martineau
1826 - 1869
James Prendergast (judge)
1826 - 1921
Lionel Smith Beale
1828 - 1906
Jane Spencer, Baroness Churchill
1826 - 1900
Charlotte Sainton-Dolby
1821 - 1885
Charles Edward Horsley
1822 - 1876
Georg Herbert Münster
1820 - 1902
George Walter Thornbury
1828 - 1876
Louisa Twining
1820 - 1912
James William Edmund Doyle
1822 - 1892
George Augustus Sala
1828 - 1895
Edwin Paxton Hood
1820 - 1885
Mary Ann Müller
1820 - 1901
Matilda Hays
1820 - 1897
Henry Willis
1821 - 1901
William Peel (Royal Navy officer)
1824 - 1858
Marie Carandini
1826 - 1894
William Maw Egley
1826 - 1916
Thomas Wilson Barnes
1825 - 1874
Richard St John Tyrwhitt
1827 - 1895
Alexander Kinloch Forbes
1821 - 1865
George Housman Thomas
1824 - 1868
Augusta Theodosia Drane
1823 - 1894
John Baptiste Calkin
1827 - 1905
Abraham de Sola
1825 - 1882
William Blanchard Jerrold
1826 - 1884
Charles Voysey (theist)
1828 - 1912
The boy Jones
1824 - 1893
Maria Rye
1829 - 1903
John Douglas (Queensland politician)
1828 - 1904
William Whiting (poet)
1825 - 1878
Alpheus Todd
1821 - 1884
Charles William Lancaster
1820 - 1878
Alfred Morrison
1821 - 1897
Henry Augustus Smyth
1825 - 1906
Henry Deacon (industrialist)
1822 - 1876
Lady Strangford
1826 - 1887
Edward Killingworth Johnson
1825 - 1896
Seymour Joseph Guy
1824 - 1910
David Ogilvy, 10th Earl of Airlie
1826 - 1881
Alfred Poland
1822 - 1872
Sir Robert Fowler, 1st Baronet
1828 - 1891
Alfred James Hipkins
1826 - 1903
Joseph William Chitty
1828 - 1899
William Gale (painter)
1823 - 1909
Jane Benham Hay
1829 - 1904
Gangadhar Nehru
1827 - 1861
Frederick David Mocatta
1828 - 1905
Alfred Lamert Dickens
1822 - 1860
Charles H. Bennett (illustrator)
1829 - 1867
Henry Wyndham Phillips
1820 - 1868
John Pollard Seddon
1827 - 1906
Percy Carpenter
1820 - 1895
James Robert Longden
1827 - 1891
Adam Storey Farrar
1826 - 1905
Jules Pizzetta
1820 - 1900
Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 6th Baronet
1820 - 1885
Henry Stacy Marks
1829 - 1898
John Morgan (artist)
1822 - 1885
Clara Angela Macirone
1821 - 1895
Menella Bute Smedley
1820 - 1877
Albert James Bernays
1823 - 1892
Robert William Dale
1829 - 1895
William Farren Jr.
1825 - 1908
Richard Heales
1822 - 1864
Edmund Grimani Hornby
1825 - 1896
George Dawson (preacher)
1821 - 1876
Frank Healey
1828 - 1906
Augustus Dickens
1827 - 1866
Edward W. Serrell
1826 - 1906
Henry Tanworth Wells
1828 - 1903
Edward Plumptre
1821 - 1891
William Chandless
1829 - 1896
John Carling
1828 - 1911
John Edmund Commerell
1829 - 1901
Leonard Charles Wyon
1826 - 1891
Emily Farmer
1826 - 1905
Astley Cooper Key
1821 - 1888
Frederick William Cumberland
1821 - 1881
Susanna Winkworth
1820 - 1884
Henry Holmes Croft
1820 - 1883
Charles Rodney Morgan
1828 - 1854
Hugh Richardson (magistrate)
1826 - 1913
Philip Charles Hardwick
1822 - 1892
Frederick Dickens
1820 - 1868
Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer
1822 - 1904
James Crowe Richmond
1822 - 1898
Spencer Ponsonby-Fane
1824 - 1915
Edward Litt Laman Blanchard
1820 - 1889
Edward John Hemming
1823 - 1905
John Birnie Philip
1824 - 1875
Jane Maria Atkinson
1824 - 1914
Richard Burgess (murderer)
1829 - 1866
Adeline, Countess of Cardigan and Lancastre
1824 - 1915
Walter Richard Cassels
1826 - 1907
Andrew Garran
1825 - 1901
Richard Neville, 4th Baron Braybrooke
1820 - 1861
Henry How
1828 - 1879
Elizabeth Ferard
1825 - 1883
Robert Black (author)
1829 - 1915
Arthur Henry Freeling
1820 - 1885
Frances Waldegrave
1821 - 1879
George Aitchison
1825 - 1910
Frederick Warne
1825 - 1901
Emma Tatham
1829 - 1855
John Wharlton Bunney
1828 - 1882
William Brough (writer)
1826 - 1870
John Lorenzo Young
1826 - 1881
Thomas Herbert Maguire
1821 - 1895
John Woody Papworth
1820 - 1870
Caroline Douglas
1821 - 1904
Horace Castelli
1825 - 1889
Charles-Gustave Smith
1826 - 1896
George Sclater-Booth, 1st Baron Basing
1826 - 1894
Joseph Whitaker (publisher)
1820 - 1895
Charles Alexander Calvert
1828 - 1879
Edward Dutton Cook
1829 - 1883
William Richmond
1821 - 1895
Charles Craufurd Fraser
1829 - 1895
Kathleen Fitzwilliam
1826 - 1894
Richard Keene
1825 - 1894
Frederick Banister
1823 - 1897
Augustus Jules Bouvier
1827 - 1881
Charles Lawrence (cricketer)
1828 - 1916
Thomas Nadauld Brushfield
1828 - 1910
John Callow
1822 - 1878
Adelaide Manning
1828 - 1905
Saul Samuel
1820 - 1900
William Wood Deane
1825 - 1873
Clare Ford
1828 - 1899
Thomas Moy
1823 - 1910
George Lawrence (Gärtner)
1827 - 1895
Thomas King (New Zealand politician)
1821 - 1893
Thomas Nicholls (sculptor)
1825 - 1896
John George Knight
1826 - 1892
Augustus Mayhew
1826 - 1875
Leopold Davis Lewis
1828 - 1890
Mary Anne Hardy
1824 - 1891
Henry Tyler (Conservative politician)
1827 - 1908
Eleanor Cripps Kennedy
1825 - 1913
Thomas Willert Beale
1828 - 1894
Sister Mary Irene FitzGibbon
1823 - 1896
Francis Cornwallis Maude
1828 - 1900
Wyatt Papworth
1822 - 1894
Thomas Addison Richards
1820 - 1900
Thomas Buzzard
1821 - 1919
Leopold Agar-Ellis, 5th Viscount Clifden
1829 - 1899
Edward Michael Whitty
1827 - 1860
David Lewis (English merchant)
1823 - 1885
John Mogford
1821 - 1885
Edward Anson
1826 - 1925
Augustus Henry Fox
1822 - 1895
Henry Dixon
1820 - 1893
Emma Maria Macfarren
1824 - 1895
Edward Cohen
1822 - 1877
Albert John Hockings
1826 - 1890
Charles John Brydges
1827 - 1889
Herbert Watkin Williams-Wynn
1822 - 1862
James Sherwood Westmacott
1823 - 1900
William Townsend (mayor)
1821 - 1882
Emilius Bayley
1823 - 1917
Augusta Amherst Austen
1827 - 1877
William Scovell Savory
1826 - 1895
Thomas Foster Chuck
1826 - 1898
Augustus Phillimore
1822 - 1897
John Langton Sanford
1824 - 1877
Arthur Cates
1829 - 1901
William Montgomery (New Zealand politician)
1821 - 1914
Annie Emma Challice
1821 - 1875
Edward Bagshawe (bishop)
1829 - 1915
Henry Oakley
1823 - 1912
James Jameson
1824 - 1896
Edmund Wright (architect)
1824 - 1888
James Forrest (engineer)
1825 - 1917
Henry Schütz Wilson
1824 - 1902
James Taylor (Queensland politician)
1820 - 1895
James Hoskins
1823 - 1900
Albert Henry Landseer
1829 - 1906
Philip Moravier Lindo
1821 - 1892
Christopher Salmon Patterson
1823 - 1893
Francis Cornelius Webb
1826 - 1873
Jabez Waterhouse
1821 - 1891
Martin Henry Colnaghi
1821 - 1908
Richard Lewis (mayor)
1824 - 1875
George Druce (cricketer)
1821 - 1869
John Smith (private)
1822 - 1866
Edward Lamb (politician)
1828 - 1910
Luke Leake
1828 - 1886
Thomas Lewis (Australian cricketer)
1829 - 1901
Henry Scharf
1822 - 1887
Sarah Cripps
1822 - 1892
Clarance Holt
1826 - 1903
Frederick Burchett
1824 - 1861
Henry Robert Richmond
1829 - 1890
Reginald Macdonald
1820 - 1899
Henry Paull
1822 - 1898
Charles Thomas Thomas
1820 - 1867
Stephen Lewin
1822 - 1912
Henry Le Cren
1828 - 1895
Richard George Suter
1827 - 1894
Charles Broad (magistrate)
1828 - 1879
Maurice Alexander (Australian politician)
1820 - 1874
John Perry-Watlington
1823 - 1882
John Tapner
1823 - 1854
Gervase Du Croz
1820 - 1855
Hampden Clement Blamire Moody
1821 - 1869
Joseph Sebag-Montefiore
1822 - 1903
Robert Porter (mayor)
1825 - 1902
Lynedoch Gardiner
1820 - 1897
William Martin Cafe
1826 - 1906
William Maule (rower)
1824 - 1898
Thomas Hancock (VC)
1823 - 1871
Clara M. Brinkerhoff
Born 1828