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Most Famous People Born in London, United Kingdom
A comprehensive ledger of notable people across arts, science, politics, sport, and public life.
Mark Austin (journalist)
Born 1958
Amanda Mealing
Born 1967
Thomas J. Barratt
1841 - 1914
Sophie Solomon
Born 1978
Matthew Taylor (composer)
Born 1964
Fermin Rocker
1907 - 2004
Emma E. Hickox
Born 1964
Marmaduke Hussey, Baron Hussey of North Bradley
1923 - 2006
Roy Peter Martin
1931 - 2014
Marc Brandel
1919 - 1994
Jack Beaver
1900 - 1963
Alexander Kinloch Forbes
1821 - 1865
Horace Waller (activist)
1833 - 1896
Anatol Yusef
Born 1978
Bernard Lens II
1659 - 1725
Henry Hamilton Beamish
1873 - 1948
Jake Carroll
Born 1991
Gordon Spice
Born 1940
Jane Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Surbiton
Born 1959
John Stuart Anderson
1908 - 1990
Fred Goodwins
1891 - 1923
Ann Emery
1930 - 2016
John Nettleton (actor)
Born 1929
Shah Hussain Shah
Born 1993
William Kingsford
1819 - 1898
David Tree
1915 - 2009
Alan Muir Wood
1921 - 2009
Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex
1575 - 1645
Edward Hall (director)
Born 1966
Herbert Dicksee
1862 - 1942
Victor Mishcon, Baron Mishcon
1915 - 2006
Laurence Henry Hicks
1912 - 1997
Trevor Baxter
1932 - 2017
John Baldwin Buckstone
1802 - 1879
Barbara Smoker
1923 - 2020
Peter Frampton (make-up artist)
Born 1950
Julius Francis
Born 1964
Gaby Roslin
Born 1964
Hippolyte d'Albis
Born 1973
Francis Greville, 5th Earl of Warwick
1853 - 1924
Margaret Edwards
Born 1939
William Wharton (Royal Navy officer)
1843 - 1905
Gershom Carmichael
1672 - 1729
Judith Montefiore
1784 - 1862
Tim Harding (chess player)
Born 1948
John Bailey (British actor)
1912 - 1989
Susanna van Steenwijk
1610 - 1664
John Hayter
1800 - 1895
Harry Nathan, 1st Baron Nathan
1889 - 1963
Victoria Borwick
Born 1956
Winifred Brenchley
1883 - 1953
William Frederick Wells
1762 - 1836
William Oldys
1696 - 1761
John Hooper (journalist)
Born 1950
Korn Chatikavanij
Born 1964
Abraham Hulk Senior
1813 - 1897
Alan Fox (sociologist)
1920 - 2002
Alfred Yarrow
1842 - 1932
George Townshend, 3rd Marquess Townshend
1778 - 1855
John Addis
1914 - 1983
Charles Bennet, 6th Earl of Tankerville
1810 - 1899
Peter Wilson (auctioneer)
1913 - 1984
Margery Fry
1874 - 1958
Frank Bonsall
1920 - 2011
Julian Chagrin
Born 1940
Mandela Egbo
Born 1997
Margaret Ethel MacDonald
1870 - 1911
George Housman Thomas
1824 - 1868
Geoffrey Williams
Born 1965
Edward Low
1690 - 1724
Nick Hurran
Born 1959
Martin Broughton
Born 1947
Alan Graham Apley
1914 - 1996
Janet Craxton
1929 - 1981
Ann Parker Bowles
1918 - 1987
Jan A. Rajchman
1911 - 1989
Edward Edwards (painter)
1738 - 1806
David Li
Born 1939
Edward Thomas Daniell
1804 - 1842
Joseph Chitty
1775 - 1841
William Rickatson Dykes
1877 - 1925
Sherard Cowper-Coles
Born 1955
Alison Hagley
Born 1961
Adela Maddison
1862 - 1929
Donald Burrows (musicologist)
Born 1945
Pietro Carlo Guglielmi
1772 - 1817
Michael Arad
Born 1969
Charles Kensington Salaman
1814 - 1901
William Sharp (engraver)
1749 - 1824
Raphaella Spence
Born 1978
Stanley Booth-Clibborn
1924 - 1996
Jim Bellamy
1881 - 1969
Margaret Llewelyn Davies
1861 - 1944
Janina Faye
Born 1948
Terence De Marney
1908 - 1971
James Lloyd
1810 - 1896
Adolphus FitzGeorge
1846 - 1922
Thomas Holloway (painter)
1748 - 1827
Augusta Theodosia Drane
1823 - 1894
William A. Richardson
1795 - 1856
Tim Woodward
Born 1953
Ben Greet
1857 - 1936
Mike Hennessey
1928 - 2017
Tom Priestley
Born 1932
Anthony Finkelstein
Born 1959
C. Robin Ganellin
Born 1934
Gino Rea
Born 1989
Ann Casson
1915 - 1990
Alfred Horsley Hinton
1863 - 1908
J. C. Brandy
Born 1975
Sharon Dodua Otoo
Born 1972
Michael A. Hoey
1934 - 2014
Martin Price
1939 - 1995
Terry Dene
Born 1938
Jean Gillie
1915 - 1949
Herbert Mayo
1796 - 1852
Olivia Arthur
Born 1980
Lady Barbara FitzRoy
1672 - 1731
Louise Gold
Born 1956
Betty Oliphant
1918 - 2004
James Albery
1838 - 1889
Nina Boucicault
1867 - 1950
George Young (actor)
Born 1980
Michael Robbins
1930 - 1992
Melissa Suffield
Born 1992
George FitzGeorge
1843 - 1907
Edwin Richfield
1921 - 1990
Robert Wells (boxer)
Born 1961
Percy Harris
1876 - 1952
John Pine
1690 - 1756
George William Alexander
1802 - 1890
Victor Edelstein
Born 1946
Barry Fantoni
Born 1940
Gerard Vandergucht
1696 - 1776
Edward Lockspeiser
1905 - 1973
Courtice Pounds
1862 - 1927
Margaret Gillies
1803 - 1887
Sid Owen
Born 1972
Raffaele Cecco
Born 1967
Peggy van Praagh
1910 - 1990
Julia Reid
Born 1952
Lewis Burton
Born 1992
Oliver Bulman
1902 - 1974
Jonas Poole
1566 - 1612
Tom Bethell
Born 1940
Matthew Chambers
Born 1968
Eric Lionel Mascall
1905 - 1993
Richard Llewelyn-Davies, Baron Llewelyn-Davies
1912 - 1981
Chloe Sims
Born 1982
John Heneage Jesse
1808 - 1874
Henry Pelham, 3rd Earl of Chichester
1804 - 1886
Gerald Martin
Born 1944
John Rocca
Born 1960
Edward Holmes (musicologist)
1799 - 1859
George Chichester, 2nd Marquess of Donegall
1769 - 1844
William Frank Calderon
1865 - 1943
E. V. Thompson
1931 - 2012
Carl Asaba
Born 1973
Penelope Horner
Born 1942
Syd Puddefoot
1894 - 1972
J Duncan M Derrett
1922 - 2012
John Harris (artist)
Born 1948
Vincent R. Gray
1922 - 2018
Cecil Rawling
1870 - 1917
Frederick Hervey, 2nd Marquess of Bristol
1800 - 1864
Charlotte Mercier
1738 - 1762
Andrew Carrick Gow
1848 - 1920
Victor Whitechurch
1868 - 1933
Emma Dent Coad
Born 1954
Lisa Gornick
Born 1970
Goran Vejvoda
Born 1956
Matthew Spender
Born 1945
Michael Blundell
1907 - 1993
Elspeth March
1911 - 1999
Eddie Kidd
Born 1959
Little Nikki
Born 1996
Jake Roberts (editor)
Born 1977
James Cecil, 6th Earl of Salisbury
1713 - 1780
James Stopford, 3rd Earl of Courtown
1765 - 1835
Gavin Bocquet
Born 1953
Robert Rinder
Born 1974
Melanie Liburd
Born 1987
Myles Anderson
Born 1990
John Baptiste Calkin
1827 - 1905
Henry Hawley
1679 - 1759
Bob Russell (British politician)
Born 1946
Karishma Kotak
Born 1982
Christopher White (art historian)
Born 1930
Mpho Andrea Tutu
Born 1963
Vic Ash
1930 - 2014
Meg Lemonnier
1905 - 1988
Ian Steedman
Born 1941
Matthew Ashman
1960 - 1995
Ellic Howe
1910 - 1991
Kunle Olukotun
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Hugh Dempster
1900 - 1987
Ian Monk
Born 1960
Kubra Khan
Born 1993
Anthony D. G. Pratt
Born 1937
Anne Lennard, Countess of Sussex
1661 - 1721
Gertrude Denman, Baroness Denman
1884 - 1954
Carola Dunn
Born 1946
William Faden
1749 - 1836
Reginald Potts
1892 - 1968
Angela Saini
Born 1980
Peter Saunders (impresario)
1911 - 2003
Thomas Henshaw (alchemist)
1618 - 1700
Thomas Landseer
1793 - 1880
Adrian Foley, 8th Baron Foley
1923 - 2012
Simon Lilly
Born 1959
Alison Waters
Born 1984
Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 2nd Baronet
1817 - 1880
Anita Anand
Born 1972
Frederick W. Green (Egyptologist)
1869 - 1949
Bertha Porter
1852 - 1941
Mary Priestley
1925 - 2017
Caroline Stephen
1834 - 1909
Augustus Frederick Lindley
1840 - 1873
Charles H. M. Kerr
1858 - 1907
Henry Graham Sharp
1917 - 1995
Robin Le Mesurier
Born 1953
Kosta Angeli Radovani
1916 - 2002
Bhanu Kapil
Born 1968
Deirdre Cartwright
Born 1958
Lech Kowalski
Born 1951
David Lewis (designer)
1939 - 2011
Reginald Talbot
1841 - 1929
Poppy Ackroyd
Born 1982
Henry Farrer
1844 - 1903
George Pratt, 2nd Marquess Camden
1799 - 1866
Colin Ronan
1920 - 1995
Fred Groves (actor)
1880 - 1955
Peter Crane (director)
Born 1948
Eustace Roskill, Baron Roskill
1911 - 1996
Richard Wilson (sculptor)
Born 1953
Lionel Phillips
1855 - 1936
Tom Tugendhat
Born 1973
Enrico Brunetti
1862 - 1927
Gerald Bullett
1893 - 1958
George Maw
1832 - 1912
George Bowdler Buckton
1818 - 1905
Irving Cohn
1898 - 1961
Sadie Jones
Born 1967
Jeff Probyn
Born 1956
James Quin
1693 - 1766
John LeKay
Born 1961
Rebecca O'Brien
Born 1957
Benjamin Smith (engraver)
1754 - 1833
William Lowther, 2nd Earl of Lonsdale
1787 - 1872
John Talman
1677 - 1726
James Cecil, 5th Earl of Salisbury
1691 - 1728
Peter Hutchinson (artist)
Born 1930
Patience Agbabi
Born 1965
Kenneth Gandar-Dower
1908 - 1944
Aubrey J. Kempner
1880 - 1973
Kate Bisschop-Swift
1834 - 1928
Thomas Uwins
1782 - 1857
Erasmus Ommanney
1814 - 1904
Margaret Isabel Dicksee
1858 - 1903
Pauline Markham
1847 - 1919
Felix Aprahamian
1914 - 2005
Roderic Alfred Gregory
1913 - 1990
Tom Smith (rugby union, born 1971)
Born 1971
Silver Bullet (rapper)
Born 1972
Ernest Edward Austen
1867 - 1938
Henry Fourdrinier
1766 - 1854
Michael Dobson (actor)
Born 1966
Lawrence Grossmith
1877 - 1944
Harold Rosenthal
1917 - 1987
Carlo Martelli
Born 1935
Francis de Zulueta
1878 - 1958
Helen Cooper (illustrator)
Born 1963
Joe Armstrong (programmer)
1950 - 2019
Montagu C. Butler
1884 - 1970
Freddy Gardner
1910 - 1950
John Ostell
1813 - 1892
Curtis Keeble
1922 - 2008
William George Howard, 8th Earl of Carlisle
1808 - 1889
Katie Greves
Born 1982
Frederick Morgan (painter)
1847 - 1927
Albert Canet
1878 - 1930
Simon Barrington-Ward
1930 - 2020
Gerry Cowper
Born 1958
Richard Paton
1717 - 1791
Emma Cons
1838 - 1912
Ernest Favenc
1845 - 1908
Mary Macleod
Born 1969
Stephen Tomlin
1901 - 1937
Kevin Cecil
Born 1969
Malcolm Cecil
Born 1937
Robert Cohen (cellist)
Born 1959
Albert Sterner
1863 - 1946
Paul Brooks
Born 1959
Roland De Wolfe
Born 1978
Francis Birrell
1889 - 1935
Heath Bunting
Born 1966
Marc Wallenberg
1924 - 1971
John Walter Scott
1845 - 1919
Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 2nd Earl of Radnor
1750 - 1828
Alfred Turner (sculptor)
1874 - 1940