51.5068° N, 0.1292° W — 15,013 FAMOUS PEOPLE
LONDON
Most Famous People Born in London, United Kingdom
A comprehensive ledger of notable people across arts, science, politics, sport, and public life.
Richard Strange
Born 1951
Charlotte Charke
1713 - 1760
Timothy Cole
1852 - 1931
Hugh McDowell
1953 - 2018
Richard Warren
1578 - 1628
Nicholas Fisk
1923 - 2016
Julian Doyle (filmmaker)
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Princess Olga Andreevna Romanoff
Born 1950
Joseph Sydney Yorke
1768 - 1831
John Davies (middle-distance runner)
1938 - 2003
Augustus Matthiessen
1831 - 1870
Guy Liddell
1892 - 1958
Frank Thomas Bullen
1857 - 1915
Arthur William Devis
1762 - 1822
Richard Rawlinson
1690 - 1755
Marie Tempest
1864 - 1942
Gerard Clauson
1891 - 1974
Jacquetta Wheeler
Born 1981
Cecil Gould
1918 - 1994
Ekow Eshun
Born 1968
Norman Rodway
1929 - 2001
Cecil Kimber
1888 - 1945
Tom Longstaff
1875 - 1964
Jude Wright
Born 1999
Roger Morris (1695–1749)
1695 - 1749
John G. Ramsay
Born 1931
Leslie Arliss
1901 - 1987
James E. Scripps
1835 - 1906
Aubrey Woods
1928 - 2013
Charles Cavendish-Bentinck (priest)
1817 - 1865
Paul Morrison (director)
Born 1944
Charles Hepburn Johnston
1912 - 1986
Arthur Bottomley
1907 - 1995
Henry Cadogan, Viscount Chelsea
1868 - 1908
Graham Kerr
Born 1934
Brian Randell
Born 1936
Abraham Dee Bartlett
1812 - 1897
Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton
1883 - 1962
Carmen Dillon
1908 - 2000
Edward Thomas Hall
1924 - 2001
Inglis Palgrave
1827 - 1919
Clemency Burton-Hill
Born 1981
Herbert Hoover Jr.
1903 - 1969
Alex Hope (songwriter)
Born 1993
Ethel Sargant
1863 - 1918
Olivia Poulet
Born 1978
Harry Cust
1861 - 1917
Nigel Hinton
Born 1941
Daishin Kashimoto
Born 1979
Helen Bamber
1925 - 2014
Laurence Payne
1919 - 2009
Andrew Bertie
1929 - 2008
Alex Boyé
Born 1970
Shadi Bartsch
Born 1966
Stephen Joseph Perry
1833 - 1889
Michael Attenborough
Born 1950
Graham Broad
Born 1957
Robert Hart (horticulturist)
1913 - 2000
Peter Holman
Born 1946
John Spencer-Churchill (artist)
1909 - 1992
Ash Stymest
Born 1991
KDA (DJ)
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Gabrielle Bell
Born 1976
William Whitaker (geologist)
1836 - 1925
Michael Bryant (actor)
1928 - 2002
Lucy Robinson (actress)
Born 1966
Jeremy Adler
Born 1947
Dorothy Emmet
1904 - 2000
Robert Atkins (politician)
Born 1946
Jonathan Del Mar
Born 1951
Tolga Kashif
Born 1962
Ben Moon (rock climber)
Born 1966
John Henry Maunder
1858 - 1920
David Douglas-Home, 15th Earl of Home
Born 1943
Joyce Smith
Born 1937
Catherine Storr
1913 - 2001
Alex Stepney
Born 1942
Christopher Gibbons
1615 - 1676
John Clements (actor)
1910 - 1988
Garry Herbert
Born 1969
Hedworth Meux
1856 - 1929
Robin Day
1923 - 2000
Thomas Whitcombe
1763 - 1824
Alexander Albon
Born 1996
Lenny Pidgeley
Born 1984
Philip Mansel
Born 1951
Robert Gavron, Baron Gavron
1930 - 2015
John Kennedy O'Connor
Born 1964
Jack Asher
1916 - 1991
Lord Dudley Stuart
1803 - 1854
George King (film director)
1899 - 1966
Lauren Christy
Born 1968
Pamela Hansford Johnson
1912 - 1981
Peter Rehberg
Born 1968
Peter Solley
Born 1948
John Braithwaite (engineer)
1797 - 1870
Joan Beauchamp Procter
1897 - 1931
Wayne Brown (footballer, born 1988)
Born 1988
James Greenwood (journalist)
1833 - 1927
John Alcock (organist)
1715 - 1806
Sir Robert Peel, 3rd Baronet
1822 - 1895
Walead Beshty
Born 1976
William Poel
1852 - 1934
William Cusins
1833 - 1893
Geoffrey Bush
1920 - 1998
Matthew Hall (writer)
Born 1967
George Scharf
1820 - 1895
C. E. Bechhofer Roberts
1894 - 1949
David Tabor
1913 - 2005
Jean-François-Albert du Pouget
1818 - 1904
Michael Cullen (politician)
Born 1945
John Willett
1917 - 2002
Alex Lanipekun
Born 1981
George Parker Bidder III
1863 - 1954
Jeffrey Alan Gray
1934 - 2004
Lucy Mair
1901 - 1986
Doug Altman
1948 - 2018
Neil Kernon
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Antonino Faà di Bruno
1910 - 1981
Laura Wilson (writer)
Born 1964
Michael O'Connor (costume designer)
Born 1965
Richard Sackville, 3rd Earl of Dorset
1589 - 1624
Eddie Myers
1906 - 1997
Enriqueta Harris
1910 - 2006
Chris Greatwich
Born 1983
Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie
1837 - 1919
James Scott Bowerbank
1797 - 1877
Peter Howell (actor)
1919 - 2015
Antony Head, 1st Viscount Head
1906 - 1983
Anna Bishop
1810 - 1884
Gérard Watkins
Born 1965
C. P. Fitzgerald
1902 - 1992
David Randall-MacIver
1873 - 1945
Sir John Aird, 1st Baronet
1833 - 1911
Charles Edwin Fripp
1854 - 1906
Geoffrey Burnstock
1929 - 2020
Fiona Bigwood
Born 1976
Steven Weisberg
Born 1960
Micah Hyde (footballer)
Born 1974
Alfred Ainger
1837 - 1904
Elizabeth Maitland, Duchess of Lauderdale
1626 - 1698
John Peet (1915–1988)
1915 - 1988
Barré Lyndon
1896 - 1972
Peter Birks
1941 - 2004
Ken Shellito
1940 - 2018
Alexander Hochberg
1905 - 1984
Edward Arber
1836 - 1912
Piers Lane
Born 1958
Peter Jackson (biologist)
1926 - 2016
Edward Middleton Barry
1830 - 1880
Henry Jones (writer)
1831 - 1899
Pat Jackson
1916 - 2011
Tiffany Zahorski
Born 1994
Richard Hull (author)
1896 - 1973
Francis Rodd, 2nd Baron Rennell
1895 - 1978
DJ Subroc
1973 - 1993
Violet Gordon-Woodhouse
1872 - 1948
Christopher Morrison
Born 1971
Nicholas Bloom
Born 1973
Fred Terry
1863 - 1933
Chris Reed (baseball)
Born 1990
Sinclair Hill
1894 - 1945
Ella Balinska
Born 1996
Thomas Gataker
1574 - 1654
David Segal (athlete)
Born 1937
Winifred Kingston
1894 - 1967
Edward Treacher Collins
1862 - 1932
Layla Kayleigh
Born 1984
Henry Arundell, 3rd Baron Arundell of Wardour
1607 - 1694
J. I. Wedgwood
1883 - 1951
Thomas Jeffery Parker
1850 - 1897
Harry Bromley Davenport
Born 1950
Susan Duerden
Born 1978
Jack Trevor
1890 - 1976
Nora Cecil
1878 - 1951
Helena Barlow
Born 1998
Jonathan Gems
Born 1952
Caroline Langrishe
Born 1958
Edward Dayes
1763 - 1804
Shabtai Rosenne
1917 - 2010
OG Anunoby
Born 1997
Richard Owen Cambridge
1717 - 1802
Mary MacSwiney
1872 - 1942
E. O. James
1886 - 1972
Alice Anderson
Born 1976
Anthony Gustav de Rothschild
1887 - 1961
Heather Oakes
Born 1959
William Richard Hamilton
1777 - 1859
Sam Mussabini
1867 - 1927
Michael Sinelnikoff
Born 1928
Sophia Sidney, Baroness De L'Isle and Dudley
1796 - 1837
James Yuill
Born 1981
Jeremy Sanders
Born 1948
Paul Davis (footballer, born 1961)
Born 1961
Andrew Solt
Born 1947
Sharon D. Clarke
Born 1966
Francis Criss
1901 - 1973
Alfred Sutro
1863 - 1933
Laurie London
Born 1944
Alexander Fiske-Harrison
Born 1976
William Wordsworth (composer)
1908 - 1988
Jim Redman
Born 1931
Dave (rapper)
Born 1998
Sarah Greene
Born 1958
Arthur Hilton
1897 - 1979
Reg Allen
1919 - 1976
Neil Faulkner (archaeologist)
Born 1958
Micky Burn
1912 - 2010
Thomas Raikes (dandy)
1777 - 1848
Joseph Hart
1712 - 1768
Jack Pulman
1925 - 1979
John Krish
1923 - 2016
Sian Elias
Born 1949
Akin Gazi
Born 1981
William Warner (poet)
1558 - 1609
George Kruger Gray
1880 - 1943
David Hugh Mellor
1938 - 2020
Darren Braithwaite
Born 1969
Lady Alexandra Curzon
1904 - 1995
Gary Beadle
Born 1965
Gerald Kelly
1879 - 1972
Joanna Stone
Born 1972
Allan Frewin Jones
Born 1954
Peter Milward
1925 - 2017
Charles Fechter
1824 - 1879
Howard Saunders
1835 - 1907
Degory Priest
1579 - 1621
Lara Jean Marshall
Born 1988
Alan Root
1937 - 2017
Prince Nikola of Yugoslavia (1928–1954)
1928 - 1954
Fred Huntley
1862 - 1931
Catherine Stephens, Countess of Essex
1794 - 1882
George Clarkson Stanfield
1828 - 1878
Eugénie Sellers Strong
1860 - 1943
Francis Bedford (photographer)
1815 - 1894
Thomas Edwards (heresiographer)
1599 - 1648
Daniel Peacock
Born 1958
Jack Coggins
1911 - 2006
Robert Cocking
1776 - 1837
Julian Pitt-Rivers
1919 - 2001
Enid Marx
1902 - 1998
Louis Levy
1894 - 1957
David Glass (sociologist)
1911 - 1978
Anne-Marie Imafidon
Born 1990
Paul Drayson, Baron Drayson
Born 1960
Bernard Joy
1911 - 1984
Edward Togo Salmon
1905 - 1988
Holly Webb
Born 1976
Charles Henry Ross
1835 - 1897
Henry Sutherland Edwards
1828 - 1906
Spike Hughes
1908 - 1987
William Henry Margetson
1860 - 1940
Ayman Ben Mohamed
Born 1994
Tyler James (English musician)
Born 1985
Adam Parr
Born 1965
John Doran (writer)
1807 - 1878
Alice Martineau
1972 - 2003
Reginald Brabazon, 12th Earl of Meath
1841 - 1929
Harry Julius Emeléus
1903 - 1993
Jan Francis
Born 1947
William Guilfoyle
1840 - 1912
Edward Sackville-West, 5th Baron Sackville
1901 - 1965
Charles Hill, Baron Hill of Luton
1904 - 1989
Joe O'Cearuill
Born 1987
William Peel, 3rd Earl Peel
Born 1947
John Quelch (pirate)
1666 - 1704
Vera Rich
1936 - 2009
Cynthia Harnett
1893 - 1981
Damian Elwes
Born 1960
Edwin Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl
1812 - 1871
John Hopkins (writer)
1931 - 1998
Augustus Smith (politician)
1804 - 1872
Ollie Lindsay-Hague
Born 1990
Ashley Hamilton (basketball)
Born 1988
Natasha Cooper
Born 1951
Chizzy Akudolu
Born 1973
Jim Loach
Born 1969
William Ralston Shedden-Ralston
1828 - 1889
Ken Lloyd
Born 1976
George Adams (1750-1795)
1750 - 1795
Faultline (musician)
Born 1968
Maurice Peston, Baron Peston
1931 - 2016
John Bird, Baron Bird
Born 1946
Eileen Nearne
1921 - 2010
Basil Hetzel
1922 - 2017
John Callen
Born 1946
Claire Tran
Born 1985
Prince Andrew Romanov
Born 1923
George Perry (naturalist)
Born 1771
Ray Jones (footballer, born 1988)
1988 - 2007
Bryan Johnson (singer)
1926 - 1995
Peter Duncan (actor)
Born 1954
Nick Laird-Clowes
Born 1957
Jon Silkin
1930 - 1997
Josh Lacey
Born 1968
Dennis Creffield
1931 - 2018
Christopher Page
Born 1952
Christopher Hawkes
1905 - 1992
Hattie Hayridge
Born 1959
Morys Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare
1919 - 2005