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LONDON
Most Famous People Born in London, United Kingdom
A comprehensive ledger of notable people across arts, science, politics, sport, and public life.
Ben Bruce
Born 1988
Charles Higham (biographer)
1931 - 2012
Harry Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery
1882 - 1974
Saul Dibb
Born 1968
Michael Finnissy
Born 1946
Penelope Gilliatt
1932 - 1993
Andrew Granville
Born 1962
Samuel Scott (painter)
1702 - 1772
John Simon (pathologist)
1816 - 1904
Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby
1762 - 1847
Doon Mackichan
Born 1962
Oswald Szemerényi
1913 - 1996
John Michell (writer)
1933 - 2009
Richard Gombrich
Born 1937
Alan Skidmore
Born 1942
Philip Gibbs
1877 - 1962
Angela Thirkell
1890 - 1961
Lynsey Baxter
Born 1959
Platon (photographer)
Born 1968
Henry Lytton
1865 - 1936
Herbert Horne
1864 - 1916
George Walker (chess player)
1803 - 1879
Sir Thomas Troubridge, 1st Baronet
1758 - 1807
Francis Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater
1756 - 1829
David T. Ansted
1814 - 1880
Brendan McCarthy
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Colin Bass
Born 1951
Elizabeth Bibesco
1897 - 1945
Beauchamp Seymour, 1st Baron Alcester
1821 - 1895
E. V. Lucas
1868 - 1938
Stephen McPhail
Born 1979
Reginald W. James
1891 - 1964
John Box
1920 - 2005
Anna Brassey
1839 - 1887
Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon
1638 - 1709
Wendy Toye
1917 - 2010
George Julius Poulett Scrope
1797 - 1876
Andy Diggle
Born 1954
Nicholas Jones (actor)
Born 1946
Charles Greville (diarist)
1794 - 1865
Margaret Morris (dancer)
1891 - 1980
Francis Palgrave
1788 - 1861
Charles Elmé Francatelli
1805 - 1876
Joseph Smith (art collector)
1682 - 1770
David Collins (lieutenant governor)
1756 - 1810
Freddie Spencer Chapman
1907 - 1971
Tushka Bergen
Born 1969
Liona Boyd
Born 1949
Shirley Waldemar Baker
1839 - 1903
Ivan Morris
1925 - 1976
George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
1666 - 1735
Tara Sharma
Born 1977
Peter Barakan
Born 1951
Richard Webster, 1st Viscount Alverstone
1842 - 1915
Walter Sparrow
1927 - 2000
Terry Rawlings
1933 - 2019
Tim Sebastian
Born 1952
Daniel Fathers
Born 1966
Thomas Harding (writer)
Born 1968
George S. Robertson
1872 - 1967
Archibald Hunter
1856 - 1936
Frederick Kerr
1858 - 1933
Robert Halfon
Born 1969
Wilkinson (musician)
Born 1989
George Lyttelton, 4th Baron Lyttelton
1817 - 1876
Anne Parr, Countess of Pembroke
1515 - 1552
Joel Grant
Born 1987
Frederick Worlock
1886 - 1973
Lionel Monckton
1861 - 1924
Mark Lemon
1809 - 1870
Phil Soussan
Born 1961
Godfrey Bloom
Born 1949
J. Desmond Clark
1916 - 2002
Alan Arnold Griffith
1893 - 1963
Mick Audsley
Born 1949
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester
1756 - 1826
Desmond Askew
Born 1972
Andrew Pleavin
Born 1968
Samuel Rowbotham
1816 - 1884
John Paddy Carstairs
1910 - 1970
James Blundell (physician)
1790 - 1878
Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell
1866 - 1948
George Thomas Napier
1784 - 1855
Reni Eddo-Lodge
Born 1989
Funki Porcini
Born 1960
Alphonse de Polignac
1826 - 1863
Elisabeth Dermot Walsh
Born 1974
Thomas Sutton (photographer)
1819 - 1875
Nathaniel Brassey Halhed
1751 - 1830
Philip Tonge
1897 - 1959
Jake Clarke-Salter
Born 1997
I. E. S. Edwards
1909 - 1996
Alex Miller (writer)
Born 1936
Peter B. Kronheimer
Born 1963
Richard Holmes (biographer)
Born 1945
Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst
1714 - 1794
Tasmin Little
Born 1965
Frances Cuka
1936 - 2020
Rodney Baxter
Born 1940
David Westhead
Born 1963
William Fox-Pitt
Born 1969
Ignatius Spencer
1799 - 1864
Lyn Murray
1909 - 1989
Frank Lascelles (diplomat)
1841 - 1920
Paul Sackey
Born 1979
John Cottingham
Born 1943
Lowell Thomas Jr.
1923 - 2016
Jack Kid Berg
1909 - 1991
Harriet Dart
Born 1996
Simon Raven
1927 - 2001
William George Browne
1768 - 1813
Roy Yorke Calne
Born 1930
Thomas Larkin (ice hockey)
Born 1990
Muriel Angelus
1909 - 2004
Ginevra Elkann
Born 1979
Chris Carter (British musician)
Born 1953
Cecil Reddie
1858 - 1932
Rose Hill (actress)
1914 - 2003
Fabian Hamilton
Born 1955
Diana Athill
1917 - 2019
Ian D'Sa
Born 1975
Theophilus Cibber
1703 - 1758
Derek Worlock
1920 - 1996
Francis Herbert Wenham
1824 - 1908
Rohan Ince
Born 1992
Olive Custance
1874 - 1944
David Kimche
1928 - 2010
John Grigg, 2nd Baron Altrincham
1924 - 2001
John Kidd (chemist)
1775 - 1851
Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley
1842 - 1904
Nick Pickard
Born 1975
Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford
1800 - 1870
Ben Horowitz
Born 1966
DJ Zinc
Born 1972
Richard James Burgess
Born 1949
Tom Goodman-Hill
Born 1968
Arthur Wellesley, 5th Duke of Wellington
1876 - 1941
Christopher Villiers
Born 1960
John Clark (actor)
Born 1932
Robert Alexander Hillingford
1828 - 1904
Ben Webster (actor)
1864 - 1947
Robert Willis (engineer)
1800 - 1875
Daniel Pedoe
1910 - 1998
Cyril Delevanti
1889 - 1975
Peter Racine Fricker
1920 - 1990
Matthew Marsh (actor)
Born 1954
Marek Kanievska
Born 1952
Eric Boateng
Born 1985
Kate Hardie
Born 1969
Edward Holcroft
Born 1987
François Heisbourg
Born 1949
William Bennett (flautist)
Born 1936
Alice Kuipers
Born 1979
Colin MacInnes
1914 - 1976
James De Carle Sowerby
1787 - 1871
Ronald Rivlin
1915 - 2005
Olly Blackburn
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David Weir (athlete)
Born 1979
Sarah Padden
1881 - 1967
David Howell, Baron Howell of Guildford
Born 1936
Arthur Seldon
1916 - 2005
Anthony Storr
1920 - 2001
Charles Stewart, 3rd Duke of Richmond
1639 - 1672
Max Benitz
Born 1985
Gabrielle Beaumont
Born 1942
E. J. Sullivan
1869 - 1933
Sarah Hadland
Born 1971
H. C. Bailey
1878 - 1961
Malcolm Nokes
1897 - 1986
Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp
1880 - 1941
William Sharp Macleay
1792 - 1865
John Houblon
1632 - 1712
Shami Chakrabarti
Born 1969
Sigurður Sigurjónsson
Born 1955
Pippa Haywood
Born 1961
Vivien Goldman
Born 1954
James Sykes Gamble
1847 - 1925
Harvey Jason
Born 1940
Mike Edwards (musician)
1948 - 2010
Sean Hughes (comedian)
1965 - 2017
Mary Lutyens
1908 - 1999
Osi Umenyiora
Born 1981
Rikrok
Born 1972
Thomas Denman, 3rd Baron Denman
1874 - 1954
John Bolton (illustrator)
Born 1951
Alma Taylor
1895 - 1974
Elly Griffiths
Born 1963
Charles James Lyall
1845 - 1920
Anthony McCall
Born 1946
Corinne Day
1962 - 2010
Charles Gordon-Lennox, 8th Duke of Richmond
1870 - 1935
Konrad Bartelski
Born 1954
Steve Gibb
Born 1973
Valentine Ackland
1906 - 1969
Helen Gwynne-Vaughan
1879 - 1967
Jay Ajayi
Born 1993
Wally Olins
1930 - 2014
Joseph Nollekens
1737 - 1823
Z'ev ben Shimon Halevi
Born 1933
Wyndham Standing
1880 - 1963
Eric Newby
1919 - 2006
John J. Beckley
1757 - 1807
Hugh Casson
1910 - 1999
George Joseph Smith
1872 - 1915
Terence Cuneo
1907 - 1996
James Burney
1750 - 1821
Vernon Coaker
Born 1953
Frederic Moore
1830 - 1907
Anthony Ludovici
1882 - 1971
Christabel Bielenberg
1909 - 2003
Stephen Woolley
Born 1956
Edward Underdown
1908 - 1989
Christopher Wordsworth
1807 - 1885
John Wolfe Barry
1836 - 1918
Andreya Triana
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Adeel Akhtar
Born 1980
John Hawkesworth (book editor)
1720 - 1773
Edward John Dent
1790 - 1853
Nicholas Briggs
Born 1961
Tony Grisoni
Born 1952
Arthur Hacker
1858 - 1919
Rodric Braithwaite
Born 1932
George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave
1856 - 1928
Luciana Berger
Born 1981
Joey Ansah
Born 1982
A. W. F. Edwards
Born 1935
Prince Nikita Romanov
1923 - 2007
Joseph Townsend
1739 - 1816
Ian Gow
1937 - 1990
John Dennis (dramatist)
1658 - 1734
Tunde Baiyewu
Born 1968
Ungku Abdul Aziz
Born 1922
Liza Cody
Born 1944
Barbara Levick
Born 1931
James Cox (inventor)
1723 - 1800
Lionel de Rothschild (born 1882)
1882 - 1942
Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece
Born 1968
Ray Austin (director)
Born 1932
Richard Redgrave
1804 - 1888
James Burton (Egyptologist)
1788 - 1862
James McKernan
Born 1964
Queenie Leonard
1905 - 2002
Hanna Mangan-Lawrence
Born 1991
Chloë Annett
Born 1971
Norman Newell
1919 - 2004
Joe Worsley
Born 1977
Brian Pippard
1920 - 2008
Joseph Bonomi the Younger
1796 - 1878
Henry Keppel
1809 - 1904
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs
Born 1984
Timothy Morton
Born 1968
Edmund Dell
1921 - 1999
Mark Eden
Born 1928
Leslie Green
1875 - 1908
Joanna Jet
Born 1961
Simon Raymonde
Born 1962
Somerset Gough-Calthorpe
1865 - 1937
Henry Fletcher Hance
1827 - 1886
Raphaël Coleman
1994 - 2020
Charlotte Chatton
Born 1975
Colin Kapp
1928 - 2007
Nicholas Bethell, 4th Baron Bethell
1938 - 2007
Burnett Hillman Streeter
1874 - 1937
Gino Watkins
1907 - 1932
Monica Huggett
Born 1953
Tim Lebbon
Born 1969
John Leckie
Born 1949
Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter
1430 - 1475
Olga de Meyer
1871 - 1930
Stephen Charnock
1628 - 1680
Johnny Claes
1916 - 1956
David Harel
Born 1950
Edward William Cooke
1811 - 1880
George Hudson (entomologist)
1867 - 1946
Michael Holroyd
Born 1935
Rodney Needham
1923 - 2006
Henry Lloyd-Hughes
Born 1986
William James Linton
1812 - 1897
Philip Rosseter
1568 - 1623
Ovie Soko
Born 1991
Martyn Green
1899 - 1975
Pippa Norris
Born 1953
Bobby Tench
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Terence Spinks
1938 - 2012
Lance Tingay
1915 - 1990
Franny Armstrong
Born 1972
Selina Cadell
Born 1953
Courtney Lawes
Born 1989
Michael Stean
Born 1953
Joan Benham
1918 - 1981
John Vanderbank
1694 - 1739
Val Gielgud
1900 - 1981
Angela Smith, Baroness Smith of Basildon
Born 1959
Mike McCormack (writer)
Born 1965
Dorothy Koomson
Born 1971
Reuben Goodstein
1912 - 1985
Ben Fogle
Born 1973
Olli Wisdom
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Louis Zborowski
1895 - 1924
Henry Middleton (governor)
1770 - 1846