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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 1860s Clear ×
George V
1865 - 1936
Edwin Lutyens
1869 - 1944
Maud of Wales
1869 - 1938
Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild
1868 - 1937
Constance Markievicz
1868 - 1927
C. Aubrey Smith
1863 - 1948
George Arliss
1868 - 1946
Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood
1864 - 1958
Roger Fry
1866 - 1934
Billy Hughes
1862 - 1952
Charles Spearman
1863 - 1945
Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom
1868 - 1935
Henry Wood
1869 - 1944
Amélie of Orléans
1865 - 1951
Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon
1863 - 1935
Sidney Paget
1860 - 1908
Israel Zangwill
1864 - 1926
Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire
1868 - 1938
Anthony Hope
1863 - 1933
J. M. E. McTaggart
1866 - 1925
Herbert James Draper
1863 - 1920
Rafael Merry del Val
1865 - 1930
Ernest Dowson
1867 - 1900
Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere
1868 - 1940
Frederick Rolfe
1860 - 1913
Dan Leno
1860 - 1904
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading
1860 - 1935
William Speirs Bruce
1867 - 1921
Edith Durham
1863 - 1944
Ernest Starling
1866 - 1927
Granville Bantock
1868 - 1946
Mrs Patrick Campbell
1865 - 1940
Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby
1865 - 1948
E. Phillips Oppenheim
1866 - 1946
Reginald McKenna
1863 - 1943
Louise, Princess Royal
1867 - 1931
George Albert Smith (film pioneer)
1864 - 1959
R. Austin Freeman
1862 - 1943
Charles Robert Ashbee
1863 - 1942
Tyrone Power Sr
1869 - 1931
James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury
1861 - 1947
Marie Belloc Lowndes
1868 - 1947
Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne
1862 - 1938
Charlotte Mew
1869 - 1928
John Walter Gregory
1864 - 1932
John Montagu Douglas Scott, 7th Duke of Buccleuch
1864 - 1935
James Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn
1869 - 1953
Amy Levy
1861 - 1889
Solomon Joseph Solomon
1860 - 1927
Frederic G. Kenyon
1863 - 1952
Evangeline Booth
1865 - 1950
Annie Vivanti
1866 - 1942
William Le Queux
1864 - 1927
Bertrand Dawson, 1st Viscount Dawson of Penn
1864 - 1945
Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff
1862 - 1939
Philip Burne-Jones
1861 - 1926
William Henry Young
1863 - 1942
Rosslyn Wemyss, 1st Baron Wester Wemyss
1864 - 1933
George Frampton
1860 - 1928
Flora Finch
1867 - 1940
Zaida Ben-Yusuf
1869 - 1933
H. A. L. Fisher
1865 - 1940
William Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley
1867 - 1932
Charles Granville Bruce
1866 - 1939
William Woodthorpe Tarn
1869 - 1957
Brandon Hurst
1866 - 1947
Alfred Lawson
1869 - 1954
Hannah Chaplin
1865 - 1928
Philip Chetwode, 1st Baron Chetwode
1869 - 1950
Alan Leo
1860 - 1917
William Peel, 1st Earl Peel
1867 - 1937
Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford
1868 - 1933
Hudson Stuck
1863 - 1920
Ada Leverson
1862 - 1933
Leonard Huxley (writer)
1860 - 1933
Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe
1867 - 1958
H. J. R. Murray
1868 - 1955
Alison Skipworth
1863 - 1952
Thomas Thynne, 5th Marquess of Bath
1862 - 1946
George Wyndham
1863 - 1913
Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
1862 - 1932
Edward Garnett
1868 - 1937
Liza Lehmann
1862 - 1918
Emily Fitzroy
1860 - 1954
Frederick Cayley Robinson
1862 - 1927
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
1861 - 1907
Charles Chaplin Sr.
1863 - 1901
Alec B. Francis
1867 - 1934
Mabell Ogilvy, Countess of Airlie
1866 - 1956
Henry Lytton
1865 - 1936
Herbert Horne
1864 - 1916
E. V. Lucas
1868 - 1938
Lionel Monckton
1861 - 1924
Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell
1866 - 1948
Ben Webster (actor)
1864 - 1947
E. J. Sullivan
1869 - 1933
Somerset Gough-Calthorpe
1865 - 1937
George Hudson (entomologist)
1867 - 1946
Robert Anning Bell
1863 - 1933
Harry Beresford
1863 - 1944
Stanley Buckmaster, 1st Viscount Buckmaster
1861 - 1934
Walter Burton Harris
1866 - 1933
George Frederic Still
1868 - 1941
Harry Fragson
1869 - 1913
William Faversham
1868 - 1940
Baden Baden-Powell
1860 - 1937
Anna Alma-Tadema
1867 - 1943
William Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman
1864 - 1935
Alfred Barton Rendle
1865 - 1938
Henry Norris (businessman)
1865 - 1934
Cosmo Duff-Gordon
1862 - 1931
George Sitwell
1860 - 1943
John Henry Frederick Bacon
1865 - 1914
Lord Edward Gleichen
1863 - 1937
Noel Buxton
1869 - 1948
Edmund Edward Fournier d'Albe
1868 - 1933
Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington
1860 - 1940
Henry Justice Ford
1860 - 1941
Irene Parlby
1868 - 1965
Hugh Chisholm
1866 - 1924
Sir Alfred Rawlinson, 3rd Baronet
1867 - 1934
Israel Gollancz
1863 - 1930
William Lutley Sclater
1863 - 1944
Talbot Hobbs
1864 - 1938
Francis Dhanis
1862 - 1909
George Osborne, 10th Duke of Leeds
1862 - 1927
Herbert Ward (sculptor)
1863 - 1919
Sylvia Llewelyn Davies
1866 - 1910
Julia Neilson
1868 - 1957
George Hampson
1860 - 1936
Francis Burkitt
1864 - 1935
George Lohmann
1865 - 1901
Clara Collet
1860 - 1948
James Edward Edmonds
1861 - 1956
Edward FitzRoy
1869 - 1943
Ivor Maxse
1862 - 1958
Edgar Norton
1868 - 1953
Nevil Maskelyne (magician)
1863 - 1924
Banister Fletcher (junior)
1866 - 1953
Ernest Arthur Gardner
1862 - 1939
Campbell Dodgson
1867 - 1948
Warwick Goble
1862 - 1943
Fred Rains
1860 - 1945
Marie Tempest
1864 - 1942
Henry Cadogan, Viscount Chelsea
1868 - 1908
Ethel Sargant
1863 - 1918
Harry Cust
1861 - 1917
George Parker Bidder III
1863 - 1954
Fred Terry
1863 - 1933
Edward Treacher Collins
1862 - 1932
Sam Mussabini
1867 - 1927
Alfred Sutro
1863 - 1933
Fred Huntley
1862 - 1931
Eugénie Sellers Strong
1860 - 1943
William Henry Margetson
1860 - 1940
Charles Howard, 10th Earl of Carlisle
1867 - 1912
Victor Spencer, 1st Viscount Churchill
1864 - 1934
Ethel Brilliana Tweedie
1862 - 1940
Max von Pauer
1866 - 1945
Walter Roth
1861 - 1933
Maud Earl
1864 - 1943
Arthur Lawley, 6th Baron Wenlock
1860 - 1932
Edward Heron-Allen
1861 - 1943
Wilfrid North
1863 - 1935
George Bingham, 5th Earl of Lucan
1860 - 1949
David Eder
1865 - 1936
Harold H. Joachim
1868 - 1938
Edmund Garratt Gardner
1869 - 1935
Christina Broom
1862 - 1939
Evelyn Sharp (suffragist)
1869 - 1955
David Devant
1868 - 1941
Mary Angela Dickens
1862 - 1948
John Goodall
1863 - 1942
Albert Julius Olsson
1864 - 1942
Mary Pearcey
1866 - 1890
Edward Howland Robinson Green
1868 - 1936
Herbert William Garratt
1864 - 1913
Michael Morton (dramatist)
1864 - 1931
Harold Copping
1863 - 1932
F. H. Townsend
1868 - 1920
Neill Malcolm
1869 - 1953
Arthur Elsley
1860 - 1952
Elizabeth Yeats
1868 - 1940
Paul Raphael Montford
1868 - 1938
Ernest Clark (governor)
1864 - 1951
Henry V. Esmond
1869 - 1922
George Simond
1867 - 1941
Gerhard Carl Schmidt
1865 - 1949
Leonard Borwick
1868 - 1925
James Herbert Veitch
1868 - 1907
Charles ffoulkes
1868 - 1947
Norman de Garis Davies
1865 - 1941
Louis Beethoven Prout
1864 - 1943
Cyril Maude
1862 - 1951
William Pimm
1864 - 1952
Frederick Howard Taylor
1862 - 1946
Guy du Maurier
1865 - 1915
Francis Donkin Bedford
1864 - 1954
Herbert Dicksee
1862 - 1942
Adela Maddison
1862 - 1929
Margaret Llewelyn Davies
1861 - 1944
Alfred Horsley Hinton
1863 - 1908
Nina Boucicault
1867 - 1950
Courtice Pounds
1862 - 1927
William Frank Calderon
1865 - 1943
Victor Whitechurch
1868 - 1933
Frederick W. Green (Egyptologist)
1869 - 1949
Enrico Brunetti
1862 - 1927
Ernest Edward Austen
1867 - 1938
Frances Blogg
1869 - 1938
Albert Sterner
1863 - 1946
Leonard William King
1869 - 1919
Philip Hartog
1864 - 1947
Charles Darley Miller
1868 - 1951
William Frederick Purcell
1866 - 1919
Arthur St John Adcock
1864 - 1930
Alfonso Merry del Val y Zulueta
1864 - 1943
Stanisław Julian Ignacy Ostroróg
1863 - 1929
Gabrielle Enthoven
1868 - 1950
Hugh Fraser Stewart
1863 - 1948
Marian Roalfe Cox
1860 - 1916
George Arthur Miller
1867 - 1935
Dan Godfrey
1868 - 1939
Florence Margaret Durham
1869 - 1949
Stanley Colville
1861 - 1939
George Spencer Watson
1869 - 1934
Hendrik Maarten Krabbé
1868 - 1931
Christabel Cockerell
1863 - 1951
Robert Sanders, 1st Baron Bayford
1867 - 1940
H. F. B. Lynch
1862 - 1913
Ernest Godward
1869 - 1936
William Peyton
1866 - 1931
Arthur Carnell
1862 - 1940
Ernest Crawley
1867 - 1924
Nevill Smyth
1868 - 1941
Minnie Rayner
1869 - 1941
George Holt Thomas
1869 - 1929
George Pereira
1865 - 1923
Ernest William Moir
1862 - 1933
George Herbert, 4th Earl of Powis
1862 - 1952
Ernesto Consolo
1864 - 1931
George Lambton
1860 - 1945
George Pilkington Mills
1867 - 1945
Edward Abbott Parry
1863 - 1943
Marie von Bunsen
1860 - 1941
Alfred Chilton Pearson
1861 - 1935
Thomas Ryan (rugby union)
1864 - 1927
Ernest Weekley
1865 - 1954
Henry Cohen (rabbi)
1863 - 1952
Evelyn Cecil, 1st Baron Rockley
1865 - 1941
Evelyn Millard
1869 - 1941
Mary Brough
1863 - 1934
Helen Maud Holt
1863 - 1937
Albert Dufour-Feronce
1868 - 1945
Henry Pollock
1864 - 1953
Laurence Guillemard
1862 - 1951
Stanley Mordaunt Leathes
1861 - 1938
Frederick Duleep Singh
1868 - 1926
Sandford Arthur Strong
1863 - 1904
Percy McDonnell
1860 - 1896
Bamba Sutherland
1869 - 1957
Cecil Haig
1862 - 1947
Arthur Gask
1869 - 1951
Alice Stanley, Countess of Derby
1862 - 1957
Philip Hunloke
1868 - 1947
George Rous, 3rd Earl of Stradbroke
1862 - 1947
William J. Burke
1862 - 1925
William F. Hooley
1861 - 1918
Lady Feodora Gleichen
1861 - 1922
George Burnham
1868 - 1939
Travers Humphreys
1867 - 1956
Harry Greenbank
1865 - 1899
Sir John Stirling-Maxwell, 10th Baronet
1866 - 1956
Arthington Worsley
1861 - 1944
Percy Nash
1869 - 1958
Norman Bingley
1863 - 1940
Lilian Clarke
1866 - 1934
Almeric Paget, 1st Baron Queenborough
1861 - 1949
Fleetwood Varley
1862 - 1936
Henrietta Adler
1868 - 1950
Walter Bayes
1869 - 1956
Arthur George Walker
1861 - 1939
W. Arundel Orchard
1867 - 1961
Tom Reynolds (actor)
1866 - 1942
Sigismund Goetze
1866 - 1939
Alicia Ramsey
1864 - 1933
Arthur George Green
1864 - 1941
Herbert Osbaldeston Duncan
1862 - 1945
Rosamund Marriott Watson
1860 - 1911
Sir Charles Nicholson, 2nd Baronet
1867 - 1949
Charles James Phillips
1863 - 1940
Isobel Lilian Gloag
1865 - 1917
Hamilton Fyfe
1869 - 1951
Beachcroft Towse
1864 - 1948
Cecil Romer
1869 - 1962
Victor Duleep Singh
1866 - 1918
Fred Montague
1864 - 1919
J. Smeaton Chase
1864 - 1923
George Essex Evans
1863 - 1909
Agnes Hunt
1866 - 1948