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.
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- Writing
- Art & Design
- Politics & Law
- Music
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- Filtered to 1890s Clear ×
Oswald Mosley
1896 - 1980
Ronald Fisher
1890 - 1962
Margaret Rutherford
1892 - 1972
Leslie Howard
1893 - 1943
Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis
1891 - 1969
E. H. Carr
1892 - 1982
Stanley Holloway
1890 - 1982
Rebecca West
1892 - 1983
Herbert Marshall
1890 - 1966
Benjamin Graham
1894 - 1976
Patrick Blackett
1897 - 1974
Gertrude Lawrence
1898 - 1952
Peter Warlock
1894 - 1930
John Barbirolli
1899 - 1970
Eva Le Gallienne
1899 - 1991
John Loder (actor)
1898 - 1988
Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
1897 - 1967
Dennis Wheatley
1897 - 1977
Hermione Gingold
1897 - 1987
Arthur Bliss
1891 - 1975
Henry Daniell
1894 - 1963
Henry Allingham
1896 - 2009
Alan Mowbray
1896 - 1969
Owen Barfield
1898 - 1997
Duff Cooper
1890 - 1954
Max Newman
1897 - 1984
Friedrich Hollaender
1896 - 1976
Frederick Browning
1896 - 1965
Thomas Humphrey Marshall
1893 - 1981
Peter Cheyney
1896 - 1951
Violet Trefusis
1894 - 1972
Isabel Jeans
1891 - 1985
Oliver Leese
1894 - 1978
Gordon Jacob
1895 - 1984
Stewart Menzies
1890 - 1968
Dorothy Garrod
1892 - 1968
Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer
1892 - 1975
A. Edward Sutherland
1895 - 1973
John G. Bennett
1897 - 1974
Adolph Deutsch
1897 - 1980
Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife
1891 - 1959
Christopher Kelk Ingold
1893 - 1970
Paul Brunton
1898 - 1981
Osbert Sitwell
1892 - 1969
Fay Compton
1894 - 1978
Henry Victor
1892 - 1945
Lady Diana Cooper
1892 - 1986
Norma Varden
1898 - 1989
Edmund Blunden
1896 - 1974
Dora Russell
1894 - 1986
Irving Rapper
1898 - 1999
J. Eric S. Thompson
1898 - 1975
Tom Kristensen (poet)
1893 - 1974
Lionel Penrose
1898 - 1972
Dennis Hoey
1893 - 1960
Harold Spencer Jones
1890 - 1960
Harriet Cohen
1895 - 1967
J. R. Ackerley
1896 - 1967
Douglas Reed
1895 - 1976
Harold Bride
1890 - 1956
Jack Warner (actor)
1895 - 1981
Joyce Carey
1898 - 1993
Austin Bradford Hill
1897 - 1991
John Nash (artist)
1893 - 1977
Brian Robertson, 1st Baron Robertson of Oakridge
1896 - 1974
Cyril J. Mockridge
1896 - 1979
Richard Gale (British Army officer)
1896 - 1982
Philip Vian
1894 - 1968
Cecil Roth
1899 - 1970
William Roberts (painter)
1895 - 1980
Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos
1893 - 1972
Iris Tree
1897 - 1968
Ted "Kid" Lewis
1894 - 1970
Peter Godfrey (director)
1899 - 1970
John Spencer-Churchill, 10th Duke of Marlborough
1897 - 1972
Margalo Gillmore
1897 - 1986
Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
1891 - 1992
Herbert Dingle
1890 - 1978
Geoffrey Pyke
1893 - 1948
Micheál Mac Liammóir
1899 - 1978
Denise Robins
1897 - 1985
Harold French
1897 - 1997
Dorothy de Rothschild
1895 - 1988
Chrissie White
1895 - 1989
Henry Oscar
1891 - 1969
Cynthia Spencer, Countess Spencer
1897 - 1972
Heather Thatcher
1896 - 1987
Edward Molyneux
1891 - 1974
Barbara Everest
1890 - 1968
Kynaston Reeves
1893 - 1971
Alan Cobham
1894 - 1973
Oliver Stanley
1896 - 1950
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland
1893 - 1977
Angela Thirkell
1890 - 1961
Elizabeth Bibesco
1897 - 1945
Reginald W. James
1891 - 1964
Margaret Morris (dancer)
1891 - 1980
Alan Arnold Griffith
1893 - 1963
Philip Tonge
1897 - 1959
Malcolm Nokes
1897 - 1986
Alma Taylor
1895 - 1974
Martyn Green
1899 - 1975
Louis Zborowski
1895 - 1924
Dorothy Wilde
1895 - 1941
Alan Hillgarth
1899 - 1978
George Henry Hamilton Tate
1894 - 1953
John Tiltman
1894 - 1982
Audrey Richards
1899 - 1984
Walter James, 4th Baron Northbourne
1896 - 1982
Wavell Wakefield, 1st Baron Wakefield of Kendal
1898 - 1983
Yevonde Middleton
1893 - 1975
Irene Curzon, 2nd Baroness Ravensdale
1896 - 1966
Selwyn Jepson
1899 - 1989
Woolf Barnato
1895 - 1948
George Merritt (actor)
1890 - 1977
Montagu Stopford
1892 - 1971
Leslie Goodwins
1899 - 1969
Harry Mallin
1892 - 1969
Phyllis Neilson-Terry
1892 - 1977
Charles Williams (composer)
1893 - 1978
Allan Adair
1897 - 1988
Jack E. Cox
1896 - 1960
Desmond Morton (civil servant)
1891 - 1971
Lew Stone
1898 - 1969
Lydia Sokolova
1896 - 1974
Francis Lister
1899 - 1951
Victor Cavendish-Bentinck, 9th Duke of Portland
1897 - 1990
Alec Rowley
1892 - 1958
Donald Gee
1891 - 1966
Antonia White
1899 - 1980
Olaf Caroe
1892 - 1981
Wilfrid Israel
1899 - 1943
Edward Shanks
1892 - 1953
Christopher Andrewes
1896 - 1988
John Layard
1891 - 1974
Guy Liddell
1892 - 1958
Gerard Clauson
1891 - 1974
George King (film director)
1899 - 1966
Joan Beauchamp Procter
1897 - 1931
C. E. Bechhofer Roberts
1894 - 1949
Barré Lyndon
1896 - 1972
Richard Hull (author)
1896 - 1973
Francis Rodd, 2nd Baron Rennell
1895 - 1978
Sinclair Hill
1894 - 1945
Winifred Kingston
1894 - 1967
Jack Trevor
1890 - 1976
Arthur Hilton
1897 - 1979
Louis Levy
1894 - 1957
Cynthia Harnett
1893 - 1981
Samuel Glasstone
1897 - 1969
Freda Utley
1898 - 1978
Winifred Knights
1899 - 1947
Evan Morgan, 2nd Viscount Tredegar
1893 - 1949
Jane Joseph
1894 - 1929
Meggie Albanesi
1899 - 1923
Roland Philipps
1890 - 1916
Fredric Warburg
1898 - 1981
James Leslie Starkey
1895 - 1938
Harry Wilson (actor)
1897 - 1978
Harold S. Bucquet
1891 - 1946
William Harold Hutt
1899 - 1988
Gluck (painter)
1895 - 1978
Dennis Neilson-Terry
1895 - 1932
Lillian Kemble-Cooper
1892 - 1977
Roland Leighton
1895 - 1915
Charles Jocelyn Hambro
1897 - 1963
Gladys Bronwyn Stern
1890 - 1973
Arthur S. Maxwell
1896 - 1970
Adrian Allinson
1890 - 1959
Norman Hunter (author)
1899 - 1995
James Gray (zoologist)
1891 - 1975
Philip Ray
1898 - 1978
Phyllis Covell
1895 - 1982
Anthony Gilbert (author)
1899 - 1973
Thomas Corbett, 2nd Baron Rowallan
1895 - 1977
Ifor Evans, Baron Evans of Hungershall
1899 - 1982
Ronald Rawson
1892 - 1952
Henry Mond, 2nd Baron Melchett
1898 - 1949
Marie Ney
1895 - 1981
Laurence Irving (set designer)
1897 - 1988
Richard Church (poet)
1893 - 1972
Rose Cohen (feminist)
1894 - 1937
Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocks
1891 - 1975
George Barker Jeffery
1891 - 1957
Norman Grubb
1895 - 1993
Ivon Hitchens
1893 - 1979
Edward Twining
1899 - 1967
Monica Wichfeld
1894 - 1945
Leyland Hodgson
1892 - 1949
Eileen Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland
1891 - 1943
Selwyn Selwyn-Clarke
1893 - 1976
Frederick Augustus Voigt
1892 - 1957
Gerald Oliver Smith
1892 - 1974
Rotha Lintorn-Orman
1895 - 1935
Michael Hogan (screenwriter)
1893 - 1977
Michael Knatchbull, 5th Baron Brabourne
1895 - 1939
Basil Emmott
1894 - 1976
Ernest Jay
1893 - 1957
Daphne Mabel Maugham
1897 - 1982
George Llewelyn Davies
1893 - 1915
Dudley Maurice Newitt
1894 - 1980
Dolores (Ziegfeld girl)
1892 - 1975
Glen Kidston
1899 - 1931
Fred Goodwins
1891 - 1923
Syd Puddefoot
1894 - 1972
Reginald Potts
1892 - 1968
Gerald Bullett
1893 - 1958
Irving Cohn
1898 - 1961
Olga Lindo
1899 - 1968
Esmé Wynne-Tyson
1898 - 1972
Francis Hemming
1893 - 1964
Llewellyn Woodward
1890 - 1971
Harold Keen
1894 - 1973
Jerry Verno
1895 - 1975
Andrew Rothstein
1898 - 1994
Guido Galletti
1893 - 1977
Sir John Carden, 6th Baronet
1892 - 1935
Malcolm Barclay-Harvey
1890 - 1969
William Lovelock
1899 - 1986
Anne Hocking
1890 - 1966
Bertram Martin Wilson
1896 - 1935
Edgar Burgess
1891 - 1952
Jack Llewelyn Davies
1894 - 1959
Clifford McLaglen
1892 - 1978
William Seagrove
1898 - 1980
Jack Melford
1899 - 1972
Henry Oberholzer
1893 - 1953
Cyril McLaglen
1899 - 1987
Lillian Penson
1896 - 1963
Marie Burke
1894 - 1988
Clifford Mollison
1897 - 1986
Aubrey Brain
1893 - 1955
Marten Cumberland
1892 - 1972
Elsie Wagstaff
1899 - 1985
G. H. Mulcaster
1891 - 1964
Edith Sharpe
1893 - 1984
William Morgan (director)
1899 - 1964
Ivor Newton
1892 - 1981
Leslie Howard Saunders
1899 - 1994
Ivy Duke
1896 - 1937
T. H. Clark
1893 - 1996
Leo Villa
1899 - 1979
Edward Lexy
1897 - 1970
Renie Riano
1899 - 1971
Charles Fox (mathematician)
1897 - 1977
George Armitage (footballer)
1898 - 1936
Peter Llewelyn Davies
1897 - 1960
Arthur Hope, 2nd Baron Rankeillour
1897 - 1958
Leslie Weatherhead
1893 - 1976
Mary Lines
1893 - 1978
John Beckett (politician)
1894 - 1964
Robert Bridgeman, 2nd Viscount Bridgeman
1896 - 1982
Marjorie Brierley
1893 - 1984
Sidney Cross
1891 - 1964
Cyril Stanley Kipping
1891 - 1964
Arthur Greville Collins
1896 - 1980
Basil Woon
1893 - 1974
Herbert Juttke
1897 - 1952
Solomon Freehof
1892 - 1990
William Holmes (British Army officer)
1892 - 1969
Thomas Dewar Weldon
1896 - 1958
Agnes Boulton
1893 - 1968
Anthony Richardson
1899 - 1964
John Eliot, 6th Earl of St Germans
1890 - 1922
Jack Hobbs (actor)
1893 - 1968
Alfred Rouse
1894 - 1931
Jean Tedesco
1895 - 1958
Alfred Nichols
1890 - 1952
Jack Raine
1897 - 1979
John Stafford (producer)
1893 - 1967
Ralph W. Brinton
1895 - 1975
Henry Kendall (actor)
1897 - 1962
Harcourt Johnstone
1895 - 1945
William Gentry
1899 - 1991
Richard Goolden
1895 - 1981
Edwin Greenwood
1895 - 1939
Mary Sutherland (forester)
1893 - 1955
Harry Lee (cricketer)
1890 - 1981
Conrad O'Brien-ffrench
1893 - 1986
Clare Leighton
1898 - 1989
Reginald Denham
1894 - 1983
Henry Hake
1892 - 1951
Hilda Moore
1890 - 1929
Alexander Field (actor)
1892 - 1971
Norman Denbigh Riley
1890 - 1979
Edward Stanley, Lord Stanley (born 1894)
1894 - 1938
Queenie Thomas
1898 - 1977
Frank Miller (screenwriter)
1891 - 1970
Henry Wells (rowing)
1891 - 1967
William Fison
1890 - 1964
Anthony Bernard
1891 - 1963
Harry W. Holmes
1896 - 1986
Kay Deslys
1899 - 1974
Harold Gilligan
1896 - 1978
Gwilym Ivor Thomas
1893 - 1972
Dorothy Gow
1893 - 1982
Freddie Calthorpe
1892 - 1935
William George Stevens
1893 - 1975
Philip Mitchell (colonial administrator)
1890 - 1964
Gerald Verner
1897 - 1980