51.5071° N, 0.1297° W
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 1830s Clear ×
Western Wood (Queensland politician)
1830 - 1878
Henry Isaacs
1830 - 1909
Henry Bligh
1834 - 1905
George Metcalfe
1837 - 1927
Theodore Fawcett
1832 - 1898
Maxwell Miller (politician)
1832 - 1867
George Barham
1836 - 1913
Bernard Charles Beale
1830 - 1910
Eliza Jane Cowie
1835 - 1902
Auguste Guinard
1836 - 1916
Alfred Spencer Heathcote
1832 - 1912
Joe Small (entertainer)
Born 1830
Wybert Reeve
1831 - 1906
Herbert Jordan Adams
1838 - 1912
Ignatius Scoles
1834 - 1896
Henry Box (cricketer)
1837 - 1916
Robert Aland
1836 - 1904
Francis Humphris Fraser
1833 - 1911
Richard Henry Falkland Fenton
1837 - 1916
Julia Woolf
1831 - 1903
Richard Molesworth Taylor
1835 - 1919
Edward Trusted Bennett
1831 - 1908
Richard Southall
1831 - 1909
Thomas Stanes
1837 - 1905
Dudley Campbell (cricketer)
1833 - 1900
George Daniel Brown
1836 - 1902
John Lloyd Bale
1837 - 1885
Francis Stanfield
1835 - 1914
Charles Midson
1837 - 1903
Arthur Edwardes Growse
1831 - 1877
William Pigott
1839 - 1909
George Levey
1835 - 1919
John Jermyn Cowell
1838 - 1867
James Tonkin
1835 - 1906
William Sheffield Paul
1832 - 1902
Henry Spry
Born 1835
Thomas Gull
1832 - 1878
William Mattinson
1836 - 1911
Henry Lewis Raphael
1832 - 1899
James William Newton
1831 - 1906