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 1840s Clear ×
Edward VII
1841 - 1910
Annie Besant
1847 - 1933
Victoria, Princess Royal
1840 - 1901
Alfred Marshall
1842 - 1924
Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll
1848 - 1939
Princess Alice of the United Kingdom
1843 - 1878
Arthur Sullivan
1842 - 1900
Gerard Manley Hopkins
1844 - 1889
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
1847 - 1929
Edward Whymper
1840 - 1911
Princess Helena of the United Kingdom
1846 - 1923
Gertrude Jekyll
1843 - 1932
John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll
1845 - 1914
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby
1841 - 1908
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne
1845 - 1927
Kate Greenaway
1846 - 1901
Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild
1840 - 1915
Richard Lydekker
1849 - 1915
Edmund Gosse
1849 - 1928
Ray Lankester
1847 - 1929
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto
1845 - 1914
Marie Spartali Stillman
1844 - 1927
Henry Sweet
1845 - 1912
Aston Webb
1849 - 1930
Richard D'Oyly Carte
1844 - 1901
Infante Alfonso Carlos, Duke of San Jaime
1849 - 1936
William Edward Ayrton
1847 - 1908
Ernesto Nathan
1845 - 1921
Alfred Percy Sinnett
1840 - 1921
Sir Charles Dilke, 2nd Baronet
1843 - 1911
Briton Rivière
1840 - 1920
Marcus Clarke
1846 - 1881
James Guillaume
1844 - 1916
Henry Hyndman
1842 - 1921
William Gowers (neurologist)
1845 - 1915
Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi
1842 - 1906
Douglas Freshfield
1845 - 1934
Charles Wynn-Carington, 1st Marquess of Lincolnshire
1843 - 1928
Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk
1847 - 1917
Francis Aidan Gasquet
1846 - 1929
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
1844 - 1881
Arthur Nicolson, 1st Baron Carnock
1849 - 1928
William Blake Richmond
1842 - 1921
Annie Chapman
1841 - 1888
William Douglas-Hamilton, 12th Duke of Hamilton
1845 - 1895
William Archibald Spooner
1844 - 1930
Charles Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond
1845 - 1928
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
1843 - 1928
Edward Linley Sambourne
1844 - 1910
Alfred George Greenhill
1847 - 1927
Victor Child Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey
1845 - 1915
Lord Ronald Gower
1845 - 1916
Arthur Wellesley, 4th Duke of Wellington
1849 - 1934
Benjamin Daydon Jackson
1846 - 1927
Thomas Gibson Bowles
1841 - 1922
Alfred de Rothschild
1842 - 1918
Alfred Kempe
1849 - 1922
Marcus Stone
1840 - 1921
Enrico Hillyer Giglioli
1845 - 1909
Richard Webster, 1st Viscount Alverstone
1842 - 1915
Frank Lascelles (diplomat)
1841 - 1920
Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley
1842 - 1904
James Sykes Gamble
1847 - 1925
Charles James Lyall
1845 - 1920
Arthur Kinnaird, 11th Lord Kinnaird
1847 - 1923
Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet
1845 - 1937
Florence Montgomery
1843 - 1923
Alfred Cellier
1844 - 1891
Sydney Howard Vines
1849 - 1934
Leopold de Rothschild
1845 - 1917
Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote
1846 - 1911
Percy Gardner
1846 - 1937
Lucy Clifford
1846 - 1929
Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth
1849 - 1909
Charles E. Barber
1840 - 1917
Ingram Bywater
1840 - 1914
Frank Crisp
1843 - 1919
George P. Wetmore
1846 - 1921
Rosalind Howard, Countess of Carlisle
1845 - 1921
Charles Murray, 7th Earl of Dunmore
1841 - 1907
Mary Ann Nichols
1845 - 1888
John Faithfull Fleet
1847 - 1917
Morton Betts
1847 - 1914
Reginald Brabazon, 12th Earl of Meath
1841 - 1929
William Guilfoyle
1840 - 1912
Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham
1843 - 1919
William A. Tilden
1842 - 1926
Clara T. Bracy
1848 - 1941
Maria Zambaco
1843 - 1914
Janet Ross
1842 - 1927
Francis Needham, 3rd Earl of Kilmorey
1842 - 1915
Lawrence Dundas, 1st Marquess of Zetland
1844 - 1929
William Marshall (tennis)
1849 - 1921
Edgar Albert Smith
1847 - 1916
Edmond Fitzmaurice, 1st Baron Fitzmaurice
1846 - 1935
Edith Villiers, Countess of Lytton
1841 - 1936
Frank Holl
1845 - 1888
Edward Stanhope
1840 - 1893
Francis Egerton, 3rd Earl of Ellesmere
1847 - 1914
Quintin Hogg (merchant)
1845 - 1903
George Brettingham Sowerby III
1843 - 1921
John Seymour Lucas
1849 - 1923
Adela Breton
1849 - 1923
Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth, 1st Baron Shuttleworth
1844 - 1939
Fred Barnard
1846 - 1896
Beilby Lawley, 3rd Baron Wenlock
1849 - 1912
Thomas J. Barratt
1841 - 1914
William Wharton (Royal Navy officer)
1843 - 1905
Alfred Yarrow
1842 - 1932
Adolphus FitzGeorge
1846 - 1922
George FitzGeorge
1843 - 1907
Andrew Carrick Gow
1848 - 1920
Augustus Frederick Lindley
1840 - 1873
Reginald Talbot
1841 - 1929
Henry Farrer
1844 - 1903
Pauline Markham
1847 - 1919
Frederick Morgan (painter)
1847 - 1927
Ernest Favenc
1845 - 1908
John Walter Scott
1845 - 1919
John Biddulph
1848 - 1921
Herbert Druce
1846 - 1913
Horace Bolingbroke Woodward
1848 - 1914
Cecil Clementi Smith
1840 - 1916
Douglas Spalding
1841 - 1877
Helen Gladstone
1849 - 1925
Walter Duncan (painter)
1848 - 1932
Adelbert Brownlow-Cust, 3rd Earl Brownlow
1844 - 1921
Martin Sharp (journalist)
1847 - 1910
Edgar Lubbock
1847 - 1907
Joseph Compton-Rickett
1847 - 1919
Harold Dillon, 17th Viscount Dillon
1844 - 1932
Mansel Lewis
1845 - 1931
Edward Frederick Brewtnall
1846 - 1902
Giacomo De Martino (governor)
1849 - 1921
William Cosmo Monkhouse
1840 - 1901
John Pratt, 3rd Marquess Camden
1840 - 1872
William Norwood Potter
1840 - 1895
John Blundell Maple
1845 - 1903
Janet Monach Patey
1842 - 1894
Henry Brudenell-Bruce, 5th Marquess of Ailesbury
1842 - 1911
Arthur Rucker
1848 - 1915
John Frederick Maurice
1841 - 1912
Edward O'Connor Terry
1844 - 1912
Edward Lloyd (tenor)
1845 - 1927
Henry Marc Brunel
1842 - 1903
William Wilson (aquatics)
1844 - 1912
Henry Fielding Dickens
1849 - 1933
Henrietta Montalba
1848 - 1893
Augustus Edwin Mulready
1844 - 1904
Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith
1846 - 1923
Walter Edward Gudgeon
1841 - 1920
Charles Blomfield (artist)
1848 - 1926
Sydney Stern, 1st Baron Wandsworth
1845 - 1912
Albert Parker, 3rd Earl of Morley
1843 - 1905
Thomas Davidson (painter)
1842 - 1919
Edward Knobel
1841 - 1930
James Alexander, 4th Earl of Caledon
1846 - 1898
Edmund Morel (railway engineer)
1840 - 1871
Al Reach
1840 - 1928
Samuel Cocking
1845 - 1914
Mrs. Lovett Cameron
1844 - 1921
Christabel Rose Coleridge
1843 - 1921
Emma Paterson
1848 - 1886
Isabella Gilmore
1842 - 1923
Claude Phillips
1846 - 1924
Amelius Lockwood, 1st Baron Lambourne
1847 - 1928
Frank Hyde (painter)
1849 - 1937
Reg Birkett
1849 - 1898
Alfred Dent
1844 - 1927
Frederick Walker (painter)
1840 - 1875
Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens
1845 - 1912
Robert Kingsford
1849 - 1895
Marian Emma Chase
1844 - 1905
William Henry Power
1842 - 1916
Percival Ball
1845 - 1900
Harry Rickards
1843 - 1911
James Bain (librarian)
1842 - 1908
John Belcher (architect)
1841 - 1913
Emily Charlotte Talbot
1840 - 1918
Robert Chisholm (architect)
1840 - 1915
Blanche Whiffen
1845 - 1936
John Payne (poet)
1842 - 1916
Henry Charlick
1845 - 1916
John Langdon Bonython
1848 - 1939
L. Forbes Winslow
1844 - 1913
Maria de Mariategui
1842 - 1895
Emily Russell, Baroness Ampthill
1843 - 1927
George Haven Putnam
1844 - 1930
Louisa Starr
1845 - 1909
W. L. H. Skeen
1847 - 1903
William Tietkens
1844 - 1933
Arnold Morley
1849 - 1916
Eugene Lee-Hamilton
1845 - 1907
William Francis Barry
1849 - 1930
Edward Delmar Morgan
1840 - 1909
Simeon Singer
1846 - 1906
Hamilton MacCarthy
1846 - 1939
Agnes Weston
1840 - 1918
Julia Matthews
1842 - 1876
George Tinworth
1843 - 1913
Frederick Maddison (footballer)
1849 - 1907
John William North
1842 - 1924
Margaret Verney
1844 - 1930
George John Pinwell
1842 - 1875
Isabella Fyvie Mayo
1843 - 1914
William Burgess Pryer
1843 - 1899
Teignmouth Melvill
1842 - 1879
Fred W. Rose
1849 - 1915
Selina Dolaro
1849 - 1889
Constance Phillott
1842 - 1931
Walter Emden
1847 - 1913
Lionel M. Jacobs
1840 - 1922
Alfred Edward Emslie
1848 - 1918
John Romilly Allen
1847 - 1907
T. F. Thiselton-Dyer
1848 - 1923
Douglas Robert Hadow
1846 - 1865
Francis Laking
1847 - 1914
Alfred Davies (Carmarthen MP)
1848 - 1907
William Christian Symons
1845 - 1911
Alice Dunning Lingard
1847 - 1897
Henry Buckley, 1st Baron Wrenbury
1845 - 1935
Joseph Henry Collins
1841 - 1916
J. R. Illingworth
1848 - 1915
Richard A. Waite
1848 - 1911
George William Spencer Lyttelton
1847 - 1913
Charles Alexander (cricketer, born 1847)
1847 - 1902
William Brampton Gurdon
1840 - 1911
Charles Warner
1846 - 1909
Tom Carrington (illustrator)
1843 - 1918
Josiah Martin (teacher)
1843 - 1916
Louisa Parr
1848 - 1903
Andrew Brown Donaldson
1840 - 1919
Eliza Orme
1848 - 1937
William Rann Kennedy
1846 - 1915
Arthur Douglas Peppercorn
1847 - 1926
John Bell-Irving
1846 - 1925
William Henry Traill
1843 - 1902
Edward Alexander Wyon
1842 - 1872
George Craven, 3rd Earl of Craven
1841 - 1883
Archibald Willis
1842 - 1908
Richard South
1846 - 1932
Helen Thornycroft
1848 - 1937
John Cahill (bishop)
1841 - 1910
Lord Gordon Gordon
1840 - 1873
Andrew Kirkpatrick (Australian politician)
1848 - 1928
Sir John Conroy, 3rd Baronet
1845 - 1900
Montagu Curzon
1846 - 1907
Evelyn Freeth
1846 - 1911
Jessie Cadell
1844 - 1884
Robert Campbell (New Zealand politician)
1843 - 1889
Karl August Deinhard
1842 - 1892
Charles Sherrard
1849 - 1938
Oliveria Prescott
1842 - 1917
Eric Barrington
1847 - 1918
James Sumner (Medal of Honor)
1840 - 1912
John Wodehouse, 2nd Earl of Kimberley
1848 - 1932
Carlos Martínez de Irujo y del Alcázar
1846 - 1909
Alfred M. Simpson
1843 - 1917
Sydney Stanhope, 6th Earl of Harrington
1845 - 1866
Henry Palin Gurney
1847 - 1904
John Grimes (New Zealand bishop)
1842 - 1915
Alfred Lubbock
1845 - 1916
Hugh Mitchell (Royal Engineers)
1849 - 1937
Thomas Bridson Cribb
1845 - 1913
Alfred Richard Outtrim
1845 - 1925
Robert Stanes
1841 - 1936
Edwin Henry Hayter Collen
1843 - 1911
Caroline Wijk
1846 - 1918
Jessie Rooke
1845 - 1906
Emily Bovell
1840 - 1885
Joseph William Abbott
1840 - 1923
Harriet Mason
1845 - 1932
John Hutton (Conservative politician)
1847 - 1921
Thomas Wingham
1846 - 1893
Seton Montolieu Montgomerie
1846 - 1883
James Henry Ashdown
1844 - 1924
Edward Howell (cellist)
1846 - 1898
Lancel Victor de Hamel
1849 - 1894
Bernard Henry Woodward
1846 - 1916
Fanny Holland
1847 - 1931
Rebecca Jarrett
1846 - 1928
Adelaide Hicks
1845 - 1930
Frederick Wimble
1846 - 1936
Frank Leslie (Medal of Honor)
1841 - 1882
Lionel Charles Henley
1843 - 1893
Charles E. Chubb
1845 - 1930
Julian Egerton
1848 - 1945
Francis Abigail
1840 - 1921
Caroline Agnes Gray
1848 - 1927
Rebecca Strong
1843 - 1944
Henry Cotter Nixon
1842 - 1907
Richard W. Goode
1844 - 1912
Frank Cobden
1849 - 1932
George Hingston Lake
1847 - 1900
Charles Louisson
1842 - 1924
Hugh Adcock (physician)
1847 - 1917
Osbert Chadwick
1844 - 1913
Joseph C. Hibson
1843 - 1911
Edward Stedman
1842 - 1925
John Christian Freund
1848 - 1924