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.
Anoushka Shankar
Born 1981
Jeremy Hunt
Born 1966
Beau Brummell
1778 - 1840
Rupert Penry-Jones
Born 1970
Timothy Garton Ash
Born 1955
Murray Head
Born 1946
Chris Claremont
Born 1950
Ben Cross
1947 - 2020
Naomi Scott
Born 1993
Vidal Sassoon
1928 - 2012
Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Born 1967
Steve Harris (musician)
Born 1956
John André
1750 - 1780
George Arliss
1868 - 1946
Michael Anderson (director)
1920 - 2018
John Maynard Smith
1920 - 2004
Peter Ackroyd
Born 1949
Peter Grant (music manager)
1935 - 1995
Stafford Cripps
1889 - 1952
Anne Perry
Born 1938
Eric Ambler
1909 - 1998
Noel Clarke
Born 1975
Jessie Ware
Born 1984
James Joseph Sylvester
1814 - 1897
Peter Morgan
Born 1963
Roger Fry
1866 - 1934
Amira Casar
Born 1971
Billy Hughes
1862 - 1952
Carmen Ejogo
Born 1974
John Nelson Darby
1800 - 1882
Mary Leakey
1913 - 1996
Sandrine Holt
Born 1972
Eleanor Tomlinson
Born 1992
Emily Davison
1872 - 1913
Paul Simonon
Born 1955
Paul Davies
Born 1946
David Chipperfield
Born 1953
Roland Joffé
Born 1945
Jodhi May
Born 1975
Luke Goss
Born 1968
Atticus Ross
Born 1968
Jake Weber
Born 1964
Joss Ackland
Born 1928
George Frederic Watts
1817 - 1904
Henry Gray
1827 - 1861
Freema Agyeman
Born 1979
John Collier (painter)
1850 - 1934
James Oglethorpe
1696 - 1785
Henry Hallett Dale
1875 - 1968
Eduard Suess
1831 - 1914
Donald Maclean (spy)
1913 - 1983
Daley Thompson
Born 1958
Darren Shan
Born 1972
Emperor Norton
1811 - 1880
Omid Djalili
Born 1965
George Cruikshank
1792 - 1878
Patrick Blackett
1897 - 1974
Charles Barry
1795 - 1860
Alan Ayckbourn
Born 1939
Harry Lloyd
Born 1983
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury
1671 - 1713
Gertrude Lawrence
1898 - 1952
Lewis Gilbert
1920 - 2018
Simon Kinberg
Born 1973
Peter Warlock
1894 - 1930
George Shearing
1919 - 2011
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
1834 - 1913
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Born 1965
John Rutter
Born 1945
Sophie Dahl
Born 1977
Richard Haydn
1905 - 1985
Ethel Smyth
1858 - 1944
Perry Anderson
Born 1938
Lady Sovereign
Born 1985
Terence Rattigan
1911 - 1977
Richard K. Morgan
Born 1965
Antonia Fraser
Born 1932
Justin Welby
Born 1956
Charles Algernon Parsons
1854 - 1931
Paul Nash (artist)
1889 - 1946
John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer
1924 - 1992
Kathryn Newton
Born 1997
Alistair Darling
Born 1953
Michael Frayn
Born 1933
John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll
1845 - 1914
Matthew Lewis (writer)
1775 - 1818
Michael Dummett
1925 - 2011
E. H. Shepard
1879 - 1976
Patrick Leigh Fermor
1915 - 2011
Rachel Stevens
Born 1978
Tony Jay
1933 - 2006
Charles Spearman
1863 - 1945
Thomas Kyd
1558 - 1594
Eleanor Hibbert
1906 - 1993
Allen Carr
1934 - 2006
Christine Ohuruogu
Born 1984
Frederick Marryat
1792 - 1848
Colin Kazim-Richards
Born 1986
Nigel Havers
Born 1951
Austin Osman Spare
1886 - 1956
Edward Hardwicke
1932 - 2011
Chris Grayling
Born 1962
Freddie Bartholomew
1924 - 1992
John Barbirolli
1899 - 1970
Jools Holland
Born 1958
Finola Hughes
Born 1959
Lucy Hawking
Born 1969
Thomas Adès
Born 1971
John Guillermin
1925 - 2015
Louise Lombard
Born 1970
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
1694 - 1773
Stephen Toulmin
1922 - 2009
Thomas Arne
1710 - 1778
Jimmy Greaves
Born 1940
Emma Thomas
Born 1968
Eliza Doolittle (singer)
Born 1988
Jasper Fforde
Born 1961
Isabella Beeton
1836 - 1865
Matt Monro
1930 - 1985
John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort
1886 - 1946
Edmund Campion
1540 - 1581
Leslie Stephen
1832 - 1904
Amanda Abbington
Born 1974
Adrian Paul
Born 1959
Herbert C. Brown
1912 - 2004
Mark Sykes
1879 - 1919
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
1609 - 1674
Sally Potter
Born 1949
Elyes Gabel
Born 1983
Sebastian Cabot (actor)
1918 - 1977
Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton
1735 - 1811
Amanda Donohoe
Born 1962
Shirley Eaton
Born 1937
Charles Shaughnessy
Born 1955
Henry the Young King
1155 - 1183
Harry Melling (actor)
Born 1989
Leo Genn
1905 - 1978
David Thompson (explorer)
1770 - 1857
Peter Benenson
1921 - 2005
Samuel Gompers
1850 - 1924
James Callis
Born 1971
Peter Scott
1909 - 1989
Barry Sheene
1950 - 2003
Julian Lloyd Webber
Born 1951
Lilian Harvey
1906 - 1968
Eleanor Farjeon
1881 - 1965
Max Beerbohm
1872 - 1956
Edmund Leighton
1852 - 1922
Steve Hillage
Born 1951
Henry Cooper
1934 - 2011
Suki Waterhouse
Born 1992
Evelyn De Morgan
1855 - 1919
John Stott
1921 - 2011
Antonia Thomas
Born 1986
Jule Styne
1905 - 1994
Lianne La Havas
Born 1989
Darcey Bussell
Born 1969
Heston Blumenthal
Born 1966
Francis Rossi
Born 1949
Martin Gilbert
1936 - 2015
Anita Brookner
1928 - 2016
William Burges
1827 - 1881
Mary Renault
1905 - 1983
Phil Manzanera
Born 1951
George MacKay (actor)
Born 1992
Eva Le Gallienne
1899 - 1991
Denis Thatcher
1915 - 2003
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby
1841 - 1908
Thomas Hodgkin
1798 - 1866
Duncan Haldane
Born 1951
Jacob Anderson
Born 1990
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
1875 - 1912
Julian Bream
1933 - 2020
Max Mallowan
1904 - 1978
Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester
1390 - 1447
John D. Barrow
1952 - 2020
Joseph Grimaldi
1778 - 1837
Michael Byrne (actor)
Born 1943
Marcus du Sautoy
Born 1965
James Herbert
1943 - 2013
Freddie Stroma
Born 1987
Zuleikha Robinson
Born 1977
Jamie xx
Born 1988
Harriet Taylor Mill
1807 - 1858
Henry Wood
1869 - 1944
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin
1811 - 1863
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
1831 - 1891
Susan Hampshire
Born 1937
Guy Pratt
Born 1962
Thomas Middleton
1580 - 1627
Richard Meinertzhagen
1878 - 1967
Hugh Hudson
Born 1936
Amélie of Orléans
1865 - 1951
Tom Mison
Born 1982
Tony Kaye (director)
Born 1952
Noel Harrison
1934 - 2013
Adam Gemili
Born 1993
Toby Regbo
Born 1991
Alexander Cunningham
1814 - 1893
Graham Parker
Born 1950
Alfred Enoch
Born 1988
Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon
1863 - 1935
Eamonn Walker
Born 1962
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich
1782 - 1859
Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford
1593 - 1641
Stephen Campbell Moore
Born 1979
Gerald Finzi
1901 - 1956
Glenn Murcutt
Born 1936
Unity Mitford
1914 - 1948
Terence Fisher
1904 - 1980
Tessa Jowell
1947 - 2018
Anthony Powell
1905 - 2000
Alex Winter
Born 1965
Robert Herrick (poet)
1591 - 1674
H. B. Warner
1875 - 1958
Charles Williams (British writer)
1886 - 1945
Pat Hitchcock
Born 1928
William Baffin
1584 - 1622
Richard Stone
1913 - 1991
Victoria Tennant
Born 1950
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
1628 - 1687
John Loder (actor)
1898 - 1988
Edwin Landseer
1802 - 1873
Ashley Montagu
1905 - 1999
Graham Swift
Born 1949
Arnold Toynbee
1852 - 1883
Mary Dyer
1611 - 1660
Leslie Bricusse
Born 1931
Arthur Tansley
1871 - 1955
Andrew V. McLaglen
1920 - 2014
Jemma Redgrave
Born 1965
Marina Berti
1924 - 2002
Tony Buzan
1942 - 2019
Vanessa Angel
Born 1966
Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
1897 - 1967
Thomas Gresham
1519 - 1579
James Ward (tennis)
Born 1987
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
1801 - 1885
Tanith Lee
1947 - 2015
Callum Blue
Born 1977
Sidney Paget
1860 - 1908
Eve Best
Born 1971
Jemima Kirke
Born 1985
Alan Baker (mathematician)
1939 - 2018
Israel Zangwill
1864 - 1926
George Fenton
Born 1950
Ben Goldacre
Born 1974
Edmund Kean
1787 - 1833
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin
1914 - 1999
Erskine Hamilton Childers
1905 - 1974
Juliet Mills
Born 1941
Samuel Baker
1821 - 1893
Nigel Godrich
Born 1971
Hugh Fraser (actor)
Born 1950
Gregg Sulkin
Born 1992
Harry Redknapp
Born 1947
Diana Mitford
1910 - 2003
Dwain Chambers
Born 1978
Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey
1768 - 1854
Ronald Neame
1911 - 2010
Dennis Wheatley
1897 - 1977
Jeremiah Clarke
1674 - 1707
Priti Patel
Born 1972
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne
1845 - 1927
Edward Bond
Born 1934
Richard Burbage
1567 - 1619
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon
1827 - 1909
Thomas Dekker (writer)
1572 - 1632
Hermione Gingold
1897 - 1987
Lalla Ward
Born 1951
Mary Read
1695 - 1721
Edward Vernon
1684 - 1757
Susan Blackmore
Born 1951
Niels Kaj Jerne
1911 - 1994
Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe
1726 - 1799
Thomas Hood
1799 - 1845
Noel Fielding
Born 1973
Jack W. Szostak
Born 1952
Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield
1859 - 1947
Andrew Loog Oldham
Born 1944
Leonard Whiting
Born 1950
Anthony Hope
1863 - 1933
Alan Lee (illustrator)
Born 1947
Colley Cibber
1671 - 1757
Roland Young
1887 - 1953
Renée Vivien
1877 - 1909
Alvin Stardust
1942 - 2014
Rachel Whiteread
Born 1963
Des'ree
Born 1968
Arthur Bliss
1891 - 1975
J. M. E. McTaggart
1866 - 1925
Marie Corelli
1855 - 1924
Rachael Stirling
Born 1977
Katrin Cartlidge
1961 - 2002
Anthony Asquith
1902 - 1968
Oliver Jackson-Cohen
Born 1986
Daisy Lowe
Born 1989
Jon Hopkins
Born 1979
Michael Des Barres
Born 1948
Caryl Churchill
Born 1938