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 1850s Clear ×
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
1857 - 1941
Karl Pearson
1857 - 1936
Oliver Heaviside
1850 - 1925
Eleanor Marx
1855 - 1898
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
1850 - 1942
Alice Liddell
1852 - 1934
Charles Scott Sherrington
1857 - 1952
Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom
1857 - 1944
John Collier (painter)
1850 - 1934
Ethel Smyth
1858 - 1944
Charles Algernon Parsons
1854 - 1931
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany
1853 - 1884
Samuel Gompers
1850 - 1924
Edmund Leighton
1852 - 1922
Evelyn De Morgan
1855 - 1919
Arnold Toynbee
1852 - 1883
Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield
1859 - 1947
Marie Corelli
1855 - 1924
Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers
1854 - 1918
Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst
1858 - 1944
Constance Lloyd
1859 - 1898
Frank Dicksee
1853 - 1928
Herbert Beerbohm Tree
1852 - 1917
Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey
1851 - 1917
Edward Robert Hughes
1851 - 1914
Frederick Selous
1851 - 1917
Charles Spencer, 6th Earl Spencer
1857 - 1922
Frederic William Maitland
1850 - 1906
Josiah Conder (architect)
1852 - 1920
C. Lloyd Morgan
1852 - 1936
Leslie Ward
1851 - 1922
Archibald Garrod
1857 - 1936
Edward Walter Maunder
1851 - 1928
Arthur Wing Pinero
1855 - 1934
Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe
1858 - 1945
Harry Johnston
1858 - 1927
William Burnside
1852 - 1927
Sidney Lee
1859 - 1926
Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone
1854 - 1930
John Burns
1858 - 1943
Victor Horsley
1857 - 1916
George Clausen
1852 - 1944
Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema
1852 - 1909
David Samuel Margoliouth
1858 - 1940
Alfred Maudslay
1850 - 1931
Reginald Brett, 2nd Viscount Esher
1852 - 1930
Samuel Insull
1859 - 1938
Alfred Cort Haddon
1855 - 1940
Sidney Gilchrist Thomas
1850 - 1885
Stanley Lane-Poole
1854 - 1931
Claude Maxwell MacDonald
1852 - 1915
Alfred Gilbert
1854 - 1934
Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo
1851 - 1942
John Tunstall
1853 - 1878
Dukinfield Henry Scott
1854 - 1934
Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 6th Marquess of Londonderry
1852 - 1915
Frederick H. Evans
1853 - 1943
Richard Caton Woodville Jr.
1856 - 1927
Ruth Belville
1854 - 1943
Cecil Spring Rice
1859 - 1918
Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair
1857 - 1939
Tobias Matthay
1858 - 1945
Cunninghame Graham
1852 - 1936
Claude Montefiore
1858 - 1938
Alfred Lyttelton
1857 - 1913
William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne
1859 - 1942
Ferdinand Gottschalk
1858 - 1944
Charles Kent (actor)
1852 - 1923
Tom Ricketts
1853 - 1939
St John Brodrick, 1st Earl of Midleton
1856 - 1942
Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland
1856 - 1937
Henrietta Rae
1859 - 1928
Hamo Thornycroft
1850 - 1925
Dorothy Tennant
1855 - 1926
Alfred W. Pollard
1859 - 1944
Frederick Corder
1852 - 1932
Oscar Eckenstein
1859 - 1921
Rennell Rodd, 1st Baron Rennell
1858 - 1941
William Lionel Wyllie
1851 - 1931
Johnston Forbes-Robertson
1853 - 1937
Edmund FitzAlan-Howard, 1st Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent
1855 - 1947
Thomas Anstey Guthrie
1856 - 1934
Sydney Buxton, 1st Earl Buxton
1853 - 1934
Etienne Girardot
1856 - 1939
Hope Bridges Adams Lehmann
1855 - 1916
Archibald Hunter
1856 - 1936
Frederick Kerr
1858 - 1933
Cecil Reddie
1858 - 1932
Arthur Hacker
1858 - 1919
George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave
1856 - 1928
Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 4th Duke of Sutherland
1851 - 1913
Israel Abrahams
1858 - 1925
Edward Onslow Ford
1852 - 1901
Edgar Thurston
1855 - 1935
William Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough
1855 - 1945
Harold Peto
1854 - 1933
Stephen Paget
1855 - 1926
Ernest Normand
1857 - 1923
Herbert Gustave Schmalz
1856 - 1935
Henry Herbert La Thangue
1859 - 1929
Lucien Wolf
1857 - 1930
Edward Henry
1850 - 1931
John Alexander Fuller Maitland
1856 - 1936
Hastings Rashdall
1858 - 1924
Weedon Grossmith
1854 - 1919
Lilias Trotter
1853 - 1928
Rutland Barrington
1853 - 1922
Alice Dixon Le Plongeon
1851 - 1910
Jane Cobden
1851 - 1947
Isidore de Lara
1858 - 1935
Robert Bolder
1859 - 1937
Ella D'Arcy
1857 - 1937
Ivo Bligh, 8th Earl of Darnley
1859 - 1927
Evelyn Everett-Green
1856 - 1932
James Lowther, 1st Viscount Ullswater
1855 - 1949
Jacques de Lalaing (artist)
1858 - 1917
George Montagu, 8th Duke of Manchester
1853 - 1892
Edward Solomon
1855 - 1895
Howard Sturgis
1855 - 1920
Timothy Cole
1852 - 1931
Frank Thomas Bullen
1857 - 1915
John Henry Maunder
1858 - 1920
Hedworth Meux
1856 - 1929
William Poel
1852 - 1934
Maud Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marchioness of Lansdowne
1850 - 1932
Charles Edwin Fripp
1854 - 1906
Thomas Jeffery Parker
1850 - 1897
Fanny Davenport
1850 - 1898
Sidney Herbert Ray
1858 - 1939
Lewis Bayly (Royal Navy officer)
1857 - 1938
Alice Hughes
1857 - 1939
Marie Duval
1850 - 1890
Clement Reid
1853 - 1916
Alfred Francis Pribram
1859 - 1942
Edward Lyttelton
1855 - 1942
Frank Short
1857 - 1945
Archibald Berkeley Milne
1855 - 1938
Harold Baily Dixon
1852 - 1930
Mary Sargant Florence
1857 - 1954
George Charles Champion
1851 - 1927
Charles Edward Callwell
1859 - 1928
Thomas Spurgeon
1856 - 1917
William Henry Dines
1855 - 1927
Percy F. Frankland
1858 - 1946
Arthur Stockdale Cope
1857 - 1940
Thomas Frederick Tout
1855 - 1929
William Legge, 6th Earl of Dartmouth
1851 - 1936
Ella Hepworth Dixon
1857 - 1932
George W. E. Russell
1853 - 1919
Sir Hugh Munro, 4th Baronet
1856 - 1919
Lady Henry Somerset
1851 - 1921
Frederic Villiers
1851 - 1922
Joseph Day (inventor)
1855 - 1946
Morley Roberts
1857 - 1942
Walter Cunliffe, 1st Baron Cunliffe
1855 - 1920
Frances Balfour
1858 - 1931
George Greenwood
1850 - 1928
Arthur Henry Hardinge
1859 - 1933
Algernon Methuen
1856 - 1924
Anne Innes-Ker, Duchess of Roxburghe
1854 - 1923
F. W. Pomeroy
1856 - 1924
Charles Cavendish, 3rd Baron Chesham
1850 - 1907
Rowland Allanson-Winn, 5th Baron Headley
1855 - 1935
Hannah Riddell
1855 - 1932
Charles Edward Beevor
1854 - 1908
Francis Greville, 5th Earl of Warwick
1853 - 1924
Ben Greet
1857 - 1936
Bertha Porter
1852 - 1941
Charles H. M. Kerr
1858 - 1907
Lionel Phillips
1855 - 1936
Margaret Isabel Dicksee
1858 - 1903
Frank Kirchbach
1859 - 1912
Wolfgang Kirchbach
1857 - 1906
Charles Brookfield
1857 - 1913
Lionel Cust
1859 - 1929
Kate Vaughan
1852 - 1903
Henry John Horstman Fenton
1854 - 1929
Frederick York Powell
1850 - 1904
Davison Dalziel, 1st Baron Dalziel of Wooler
1852 - 1928
Alfred Barnard Basset
1854 - 1930
Adelaide Herrmann
1853 - 1932
Egerton Castle
1858 - 1920
Robert Thegerström
1857 - 1919
Philip Tomalin
1858 - 1940
William Barclay Squire
1855 - 1927
Arthur Henry Bullen
1857 - 1920
George Ormsby-Gore, 3rd Baron Harlech
1855 - 1938
Catherine Madox Brown
1850 - 1927
Valerie, Lady Meux
1852 - 1910
Louisa McDonnell, Countess of Antrim
1855 - 1949
Hugh Fortescue, 4th Earl Fortescue
1854 - 1932
George Somerset, 3rd Baron Raglan
1857 - 1921
Anthony Fane, 13th Earl of Westmorland
1859 - 1922
Ricardo Bell (clown)
1858 - 1911
Charles Dixon (ornithologist)
1858 - 1926
Julius Mendes Price
1857 - 1924
Henry Miller (actor)
1859 - 1926
William Hale-White
1857 - 1949
Margaret Jane Benson
1859 - 1936
Demetrius Charles Boulger
1853 - 1928
Hovsep Aznavur
1854 - 1935
Ernest Waterlow
1850 - 1919
Henry Francis Herbert Thompson
1859 - 1944
John Hungerford Pollen (Jesuit)
1858 - 1925
Jimmy Hare
1856 - 1946
Henry Moon
1857 - 1905
William Llewellyn
1858 - 1941
Héléna Arsène Darmesteter
1854 - 1923
William Mecham
1853 - 1902
Caroline Grosvenor
1858 - 1940
Arthur Sloggett
1857 - 1929
Alfred Nutt
1856 - 1910
Henry Beeching
1859 - 1919
Alfred Codrington
1854 - 1945
Percy Macquoid
1852 - 1925
Charles Raymond
1858 - 1930
C. R. L. Fletcher
1857 - 1934
Wilfrid Ball
1853 - 1917
H. U. Weitbrecht
1851 - 1937
A. P. Lucas
1857 - 1923
Hubert Heron
1852 - 1914
Francis Joseph Lee
1857 - 1909
Edward Jakobowski
1856 - 1929
Janet Stancomb-Wills
1853 - 1932
Charles Napier Kennedy
1852 - 1898
Mary Rorke
1858 - 1938
Horace Hutchinson
1859 - 1932
Alfred Stratford
1853 - 1914
Reginald Bathurst Birch
1856 - 1943
Marion Terry
1853 - 1930
Herbert Thurston
1856 - 1939
Frank Paton
1855 - 1909
Mary de Morgan
1850 - 1907
James Gow (scholar)
1854 - 1923
William Whitehouse
1859 - 1935
Philip Herbert Carpenter
1852 - 1891
Bernard Evans Ward
1857 - 1933
Ellen Cuffe, Countess of Desart
1857 - 1933
Reginald Courtenay Welch
1851 - 1939
Arthur Montagu Brookfield
1853 - 1940
Mary Gow
1851 - 1929
David Brynmor Jones
1851 - 1921
Dorothea Pertz
1859 - 1939
Franz Rummel
1853 - 1901
Samuel Arthur Saunder
1852 - 1912
James Drake
1850 - 1941
George Vernon
1856 - 1902
Thomas Commerford Martin
1856 - 1924
Robert Ogilvie
1853 - 1938
Charles Morice
1850 - 1932
Ernest Newton
1856 - 1922
William Collins (surgeon)
1859 - 1946
Francis Heron
1853 - 1914
Samuel Whitbread (Liberal politician)
1858 - 1944
Adele Meyer
1855 - 1930
Cecil Boyle
1853 - 1900
Arthur Lyttelton
1852 - 1903
Edward Dickens
1852 - 1902
R. C. Carton
1856 - 1928
Bertha von Arnswaldt
1850 - 1919
Nelly Power
1854 - 1887
Leonora Braham
1853 - 1931
Beaumont Jarrett
1855 - 1905
Marion Spielmann
1858 - 1948
Arthur Roberts (comedian)
1852 - 1933
Walter Heape
1855 - 1929
Herbert Chipp
1850 - 1903
George Callaghan
1852 - 1920
John Theodore Tussaud
1858 - 1943
George Warren Russell
1854 - 1937
Edward Adolf Sonnenschein
1851 - 1929
Henry Charles Lahee
1856 - 1953
David Hannay (historian)
1853 - 1934
Malcolm Charles Salaman
1855 - 1940
William Foot Mitchell
1859 - 1947
Alexander Wallace Rimington
1854 - 1918
Robert Lyttelton
1854 - 1939
William Maynard (footballer)
1853 - 1921
Windham Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl
1857 - 1952
Frederick Stokes (rugby union)
1850 - 1929
Herbert Kelcey
1855 - 1917
Elizabeth Lee (writer)
1858 - 1920
Arthur Lionel Smith
1850 - 1924
Henry Gillard Glindoni
1852 - 1913
Anne Cobden-Sanderson
1853 - 1926
A. R. Quinton
1853 - 1934
Tom Clapp
1858 - 1933
Percy Edward Pinkerton
1855 - 1946
Nina Frances Layard
1853 - 1935
Frederick Hamilton (Royal Navy officer)
1856 - 1917
Horace Barnet
1856 - 1941
Carlton Alfred Smith
1853 - 1946
James T. Tanner
1858 - 1915
Matthew Ridley Corbet
1850 - 1902
Conrad Dressler
1856 - 1940
Herbert Miles
1850 - 1926
Frederick William Strange (rower)
1853 - 1889
Henry Julian White
1859 - 1934
Malcolm McEacharn
1852 - 1910
Laura Joyce Bell
1854 - 1904