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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 1870s Clear ×
Robert Carr Bosanquet
1871 - 1935
Eileen Costello
1870 - 1962
Charles Lyell (Liberal politician)
1875 - 1918
Herbert Maryon
1874 - 1965
Harold Speed
1872 - 1957
Leonard Moon
1878 - 1916
Raymond Rôze
1875 - 1920
Rex Vicat Cole
1870 - 1940
Steven Spurrier (artist)
1878 - 1961
Anne Evans (arts patron)
1871 - 1941
Ethel Barns
1874 - 1948
Flora MacLeod of MacLeod
1878 - 1976
Frederick Keeble
1870 - 1952
Fred Morgan (actor)
1878 - 1941
Olivia Rossetti Agresti
1875 - 1960
Charles Stallard
1871 - 1971
Ben Field
1876 - 1939
Sybil Arundale
1879 - 1965
Maurice Amos
1872 - 1940
Constance Crawley
1870 - 1919
Henry Russell (impresario)
1871 - 1937
William Hamilton Fyfe
1878 - 1965
Frank Farrington (actor)
1873 - 1924
Edward Amoore
1877 - 1955
Violet Needham
1876 - 1967
Italia Conti
1873 - 1946
Michael Hicks Beach, Viscount Quenington
1877 - 1916
Hilda Gordon-Lennox, Duchess of Richmond
1872 - 1971
Harold B. Hartley
1878 - 1972
William Styles
1874 - 1940
Winifred Ashby
1879 - 1975
Olive Willis
1877 - 1964
Charles Paton
1874 - 1970
Florence Anderson
1874 - 1930
John Gregory (sculptor)
1879 - 1958
George Belcher
1875 - 1947
Jack de Haas
1875 - 1940
Bernard Adeney
1878 - 1966
John Vaughan Campbell
1876 - 1944
Alfred Gosden
1873 - 1941
Eustace Loraine
1879 - 1912
Mary Dorothy George
1878 - 1971
Lewis Melville
1874 - 1932
Archibald Kennedy, 4th Marquess of Ailsa
1872 - 1943
Gerard Dewhurst
1872 - 1956
Archibald Acheson, 5th Earl of Gosford
1877 - 1954
Robin de la Condamine
1877 - 1966
Richard Malden
1879 - 1951
Joseph Ridgard Bagshawe
1870 - 1909
Albert Edward Anson
1879 - 1936
Arthur David-Andersen
1875 - 1970
Ernest Batley
1874 - 1965
Herbert Clarke (skater)
1879 - 1956
George Child Villiers, 8th Earl of Jersey
1873 - 1923
George Lane-Fox, 1st Baron Bingley
1870 - 1947
Edwin Sachs
1870 - 1919
Isaac Snowman
1873 - 1947
Teddy Arundell
1873 - 1922
Roy Byford
1873 - 1939
Pamela Wynne
1879 - 1959
John Benjamin Sainsbury
1871 - 1956
Herbert Speyer
1870 - 1942
Daniel Burges
1873 - 1946
Lettice Fisher
1875 - 1956
Douglas King (politician)
1877 - 1930
Alfred E. Child
1875 - 1939
Edith Howes
1872 - 1954
Herbert Crowley
1873 - 1939
Alfred Buckham
1879 - 1956
John Webb Dillon
1877 - 1949
Guy Dawnay (British Army officer)
1878 - 1952
Hannah Barnett-Trager
1870 - 1943
John Parkin
1873 - 1964
Sydney Sarel
1872 - 1950
Katharine Emily Eggar
1874 - 1961
George Ratsey
1875 - 1942
Paul Oppé
1878 - 1957
Frank Parks
1875 - 1945
Sybil Pye
1879 - 1958
Frederick Hobson
1873 - 1917
Wilhelm Widenmann
1871 - 1955
Alfred Lansburgh
1872 - 1937
Albert Profumo
1879 - 1940
Charles Henry Chapman (politician)
1876 - 1957
Dora De Winton
1874 - 1925
Gerald Boyd (British Army officer)
1877 - 1930
Joseph Wallis
Born 1873
Helena Gutteridge
1879 - 1960
Stanley Holmes, 1st Baron Dovercourt
1878 - 1961
Aubrey Fitzgerald
1874 - 1968
Arthur Page (tennista)
1876 - 1958
Hilda Spong
1875 - 1955
Louie Feerar
1871 - 1939
Henry John Andrews
1871 - 1919
William Finlay, 2nd Viscount Finlay
1875 - 1945
Edward Henry Trotter
1872 - 1916
Frank Samuel Eastman
1878 - 1964
Rex McDougall
1878 - 1933
Alwyn Bramley-Moore
1878 - 1916
John Arkwright (politician)
1872 - 1954
Ernest Stenson-Cooke
1874 - 1942
Norman Leslie, 19th Earl of Rothes
1877 - 1927
Robert Ward (British politician)
1871 - 1942
Frank Leigh
1876 - 1948
Violet Schiff
1874 - 1962
Marie Galway
1876 - 1963
Agnes Warburg
1872 - 1953
Bernard Price
1877 - 1948
Bertram Wallis
1874 - 1952
Edmund Fisher
1872 - 1918
Benjamin Clemens
1875 - 1957
Harry Cornish
1871 - 1918
Oswald Moser
1874 - 1953
George Evans (VC)
1876 - 1937
Bertrand Stewart
1872 - 1914
Louis Frederick Roslyn
1878 - 1934
Herbert Hepburn Calvert
1870 - 1923
Owen Roughwood
1876 - 1947
Thomas George Hill
1876 - 1954
Rose Emma Lamartine Yates
1875 - 1954
De Witt Batty
1879 - 1961
Henry William Clothier
1872 - 1938
Gerald Walenn
1871 - 1942
Arthur Anderson (dramatist)
1873 - 1942
Arthur H. Hider
1870 - 1952
Horace Martineau
1874 - 1916
Harold Stuart Thompson
1870 - 1940
James Scarlett, 4th Baron Abinger
1871 - 1903
Herbert Reah Harper
1871 - 1956
Oliver Cyril Spencer Watson
1876 - 1918
Leedham Bantock
1870 - 1928
Hugh Lansdown Stephenson
1871 - 1948
William Charles Lambe
1877 - 1951
Cecil Rollo Payton Andrews
1870 - 1951
Edwin Jacob
1878 - 1964
Jeanne Douste
Born 1872
Hilda Louise Hanbury
1875 - 1961
Bert Angeles
1875 - 1950
Morris Harvey
1877 - 1944
Alfred Gildemeister
1875 - 1928
Frank Street
1870 - 1916
Lawrence Haward
1878 - 1957
William Tedmarsh
1876 - 1937
Albert Prebble
1873 - 1946
Charles Boon
1877 - 1943
James Majendie
1871 - 1939
Jack Frost (footballer, born 1870)
1870 - 1935
Agnes Muriel Clay
1878 - 1962
Stanley Dark
Born 1874
Henry Grace (Royal Navy officer)
1876 - 1937
Sir James David Sifton
1878 - 1952
Fred Lee (cricketer, born 1871)
1871 - 1914
Francis Adrian Wilson
1874 - 1954
John Evans (supercentenaire)
1877 - 1990
Frances Baker
1873 - 1944
John Williams (cricketer, born 1878)
1878 - 1915
Edward Dunn (bishop)
1870 - 1955
Wingold Lawrence
1874 - 1938
Alf Bartlett
1878 - 1926
Henry William Sampson
1872 - 1938
Cyril Golding-Bird
1876 - 1955
Edward Frankland Armstrong
1878 - 1945
Henry Evans (RFC officer)
1879 - 1916
W. G. Howard Gritten
1870 - 1943
Evlyn Howard-Jones
1877 - 1951
Rivers Keith Hicks
1878 - 1964
Henry William Worley
1877 - 1938
Edwin Biedermann
1877 - 1929
Reginald Hoskins
1871 - 1942
Robert Davies (sport shooter)
1876 - 1916
Ernest Yarrow
1876 - 1939
Barney Lazarus
1879 - 1962
Cecil Elphinstone
1874 - 1964
Arthur A. Penn
1875 - 1941
George James Lidstone
1870 - 1952
Réginald de Croÿ
1878 - 1961
Rowland Sperling
1874 - 1965
Clive Burn
1879 - 1955
Torquhil Matheson
1871 - 1963
Artie White
1879 - 1960
Charles Strathavon Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby
1870 - 1949
Harold Percival
1876 - 1944
Rachel Elfreda Fowler
1872 - 1951
William Luff
1872 - 1960
William Seach
1877 - 1978
Frank Buttle
1878 - 1953
Richard Stapleton-Cotton
1873 - 1953
Cyril Kirkpatrick
1872 - 1957
Frieda Lauth
1879 - 1949
William Morris (cricketer)
1873 - 1945
Peter Leslie
1877 - 1953
Seth Egbert
1878 - 1944
Norman Victor Leaver
Born 1876
Walter Adams (bishop)
1877 - 1957
Archibald Keightley Nicholson
1871 - 1937
Charles William Daniel
1871 - 1955
William Winckworth
Born 1870
Cecil Roberts (politician)
1877 - 1961
John Cameron (Royal Navy officer)
1874 - 1939
Fred Kitchen (entertainer)
1872 - 1951
Harold Rothery Nutt
1876 - 1953
Roderick McNair
1870 - 1944
Mary Raine
1877 - 1960
Elspeth Dudgeon
1871 - 1955
Robert Glassby
1870 - 1908
Charles Douglas Moffatt
1870 - 1953
Annie Landau
1873 - 1945
Edward Terence Donnelly
1871 - 1929
Winifred Austin
1873 - 1918
Gustav Manning
1873 - 1953
Alfred Keene
1873 - 1955
Richard Lewis (Middlesex cricketer)
1874 - 1917
Charles Ashley
Born 1872
Mabel L. Ramsay
1879 - 1954
Arthur Charles Rothery Nutt
1873 - 1946
Basil Crockett
1877 - 1939
Samuel Agar Salvage
1876 - 1946
Walter Nutt
1874 - 1940
Henry Gunthorp
1871 - 1962
Hermann Alexander Brassert
1875 - 1961
P. E. MacKenzie
1872 - 1946
Fred Allandale
1872 - 1921
George Honeybone
1875 - 1956
Charles Gray (Canadian politician)
1879 - 1954
Philip Pearson (tennis)
1878 - 1903
Florence Abrahamson
1877 - 1965
Henry Green (British Army officer)
1872 - 1935
Norman Joseph Levien
1871 - 1967
Harry Clode
1877 - 1964
William White (British Army officer)
1879 - 1951
Elsie Grant Suttie
1879 - 1954
William Connor (ginnasta)
Born 1870
Robert Dickie
1876 - 1958
Herbert Ash
1878 - 1959
John Crawfurd (cricketer)
1878 - 1939
Henry Gedge
1870 - 1943
Walter George Salis Schwabe
1873 - 1931
Eleanor Shelley-Rolls
1872 - 1961
Frank Lloyd (footballer, born 1876)
1876 - 1945
David Bevan (judge)
1873 - 1954
Aidan de Brune
1874 - 1946
Leonard Sickert
1873 - 1945
Edward Cecil Tattersall
1877 - 1957
Simon Gilbert (Journalist)
1870 - 1946
Horace A. Porter
1879 - 1953
Stewart Marsden Massey
1877 - 1934
Victor Beigel
1870 - 1930
Margaret Kitto
1873 - 1925
Alfred Burt (General)
1875 - 1949
James Gilman (cricketer)
1879 - 1976
Miriam Timothy
1879 - 1950
Gertrud Cöster
1870 - 1896