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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.
Martin Sharp (journalist)
1847 - 1910
Jeremy Lefroy
Born 1959
Alfred Barnard Basset
1854 - 1930
Adelaide Herrmann
1853 - 1932
Egerton Castle
1858 - 1920
Robert Thegerström
1857 - 1919
Sir John Marsham, 1st Baronet
1602 - 1685
John Wade (author)
1788 - 1875
Robert Laurie (engraver)
1755 - 1836
Chris Oti
Born 1965
Thomas Elfe
1719 - 1775
Neville Maxwell
1926 - 2019
Joël Genazzi
Born 1988
Thomas Usk
Died 1388
John Wells (artist)
1907 - 2000
Edmund Bury
1884 - 1915
John Gale (poker player)
1953 - 2019
Johnny Wright (boxer)
1929 - 2001
Philip Tomalin
1858 - 1940
William Whiting (poet)
1825 - 1878
Alex Vetchinsky
1904 - 1980
Adele Dixon
1908 - 1992
Nigel Shafran
Born 1964
Harold Brookfield
Born 1926
Derek S. Pugh
1930 - 2015
Sabina Simmonds
Born 1960
Osei Sankofa
Born 1985
Michael Angelo Rooker
1746 - 1801
Ben Hawkey
Born 1996
Glynis Coles
Born 1954
William Barclay Squire
1855 - 1927
Elaine Tan
Born 1982
Anne Hocking
1890 - 1966
Andrew McIntosh, Baron McIntosh of Haringey
1933 - 2010
Polly Arnold
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Ray Caesar
Born 1958
Walter Henry Rothwell
1872 - 1927
James Mallet
Born 1955
Henry Lazarus
1815 - 1895
Elwood Bredell
1884 - 1976
Eddie Powell
1927 - 2000
Renny Smith
Born 1996
Edgar Lubbock
1847 - 1907
Alpheus Todd
1821 - 1884
Zaraah Abrahams
Born 1987
John C. Marshall (musician)
1941 - 2012
Yusuf Mersin
Born 1994
Cecil Browning
1883 - 1953
Tom Morton (actor)
Born 1981
A. C. Gimson
1917 - 1985
William Cattley
1788 - 1835
William P. Carleton
1872 - 1947
Joseph Compton-Rickett
1847 - 1919
Edward Kessler
Born 1963
Edward Ellington
1877 - 1967
Maria Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of Hertford
1771 - 1856
Peter Murray (art historian)
1920 - 1992
Lana Ettinger
Born 1976
Rachel De Thame
Born 1961
Jonathan Romain
Born 1954
Ric Parnell
Born 1951
Charles Stourton, 26th Baron Mowbray
1923 - 2006
Bertram Martin Wilson
1896 - 1935
E. F. Warburg
1908 - 1966
Harold Dillon, 17th Viscount Dillon
1844 - 1932
Stacey Hayes
Born 1976
Alfred Roome
1908 - 1997
Roger North, 2nd Baron North
1530 - 1600
Elliott Spiers
1973 - 1994
Henry Woolf
Born 1930
Edgar Burgess
1891 - 1952
Tracy Spencer
Born 1962
Charles Buchel
1872 - 1950
Arthur Henry Bullen
1857 - 1920
Cypress Grove (musician)
Born 1959
Tahnée Seagrave
Born 1995
Pete King (saxophonist)
1929 - 2009
Thomas Hartwell Horne
1780 - 1862
Chris Langham
Born 1949
Lawrance Collingwood
1887 - 1982
Jean Gilpin
Born 1950
Clement Cazalet
1879 - 1950
Benjamin Fletcher
1640 - 1703
John Jortin
1698 - 1770
Jackie Pallo
1926 - 2006
John Day (Old Testament scholar)
Born 1948
Charles William Lancaster
1820 - 1878
Pierre Liotard-Vogt
1909 - 1987
Mansel Lewis
1845 - 1931
George Stone (bishop)
1708 - 1764
Dan Godfrey
1868 - 1939
Paul Howard (writer)
Born 1971
George Ormsby-Gore, 3rd Baron Harlech
1855 - 1938
John Melville
1902 - 1986
Francis D'Arcy-Osborne, 7th Duke of Leeds
1798 - 1859
Terence James Reed
Born 1937
Jack Llewelyn Davies
1894 - 1959
John Hubbard (physicist)
1931 - 1980
Alan Noel Latimer Munby
1913 - 1974
Jeremy Boissevain
1928 - 2015
Charles Eugster
1919 - 2017
Paul Reeve
Born 1974
Ben Elliot
Born 1975
Peter Haigh
1925 - 2001
Paul Chart
Born 1961
William Henry Pyne
1770 - 1843
Judy Armitage
Born 1951
Marie Christine Chilver
1920 - 2007
Sean Yazbeck
Born 1973
Paul Mendelson (novelist)
Born 1965
John Morrison, 2nd Viscount Dunrossil
1926 - 2000
Robert Jocelyn, Viscount Jocelyn
1816 - 1854
Vera Day
Born 1935
Ian N. Wood
Born 1950
Alfred Morrison
1821 - 1897
John Wilson (playwright)
1626 - 1696
Alessandra Celi
Born 1970
Saad Mohseni
Born 1966
Catherine Madox Brown
1850 - 1927
John Hughes (neuroscientist)
Born 1942
Edmund Burke (congressman)
1809 - 1882
Oliver Dickinson
Born 1980
Valerie, Lady Meux
1852 - 1910
Clifford McLaglen
1892 - 1978
Nicolas Noxon
1936 - 2016
Gabriel Prokofiev
Born 1975
Florence Margaret Durham
1869 - 1949
John Worgan
1724 - 1790
Paul Marcus
1954 - 2011
Eric Bywaters
1910 - 2003
Gail Rebuck
Born 1952
Malcolm Edwards
Born 1949
Henry Perronet Briggs
1793 - 1844
James Basire
1730 - 1802
William Luson Thomas
1830 - 1900
Jack Odell
1920 - 2007
Frederick Christian Lewis
1779 - 1856
Nicola Beauman
Born 1944
David Malcolm Lewis
1928 - 1994
Victor Kelleher
Born 1939
Jack Lauterwasser
1904 - 2003
R. J. S. Stevens
1757 - 1837
Thomas Heaphy
1775 - 1835
Adrian Brine
1936 - 2016
Alan Bullard
Born 1947
Rose Finn-Kelcey
1945 - 2014
Cosima Windsor
Born 2010
Reo Griffiths
Born 2000
Conrad Coates
Born 1970
Henry Augustus Smyth
1825 - 1906
Stanley Colville
1861 - 1939
George Spencer Watson
1869 - 1934
James Stuart-Wortley (Conservative politician)
1805 - 1881
Salma Sobhan
1937 - 2003
Reginald Marsh (actor)
1926 - 2001
Mary Kessell
1914 - 1977
Hendrik Maarten Krabbé
1868 - 1931
Sally Ann Triplett
Born 1962
Mark Thomas
Born 1963
Frankie Fitzgerald
Born 1985
Elizabeth Jesser Reid
1789 - 1866
Joseph Moses Levy
1812 - 1888
Marcus Stock
Born 1961
Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith
1923 - 2012
Richard Blanshard
1817 - 1894
Michael Posner (economist)
1931 - 2006
Charles Ledger
1818 - 1906
Keith Warner
Born 1956
Bren Foster
Born 1976
Charles Clore
1904 - 1979
Tracy Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort
Born 1958
David Neil MacKenzie
1926 - 2001
Austen Kark
1926 - 2002
George Hobart, 3rd Earl of Buckinghamshire
1731 - 1804
Louisa Pyne
1832 - 1904
Hugo Southwell
Born 1980
David Dein
Born 1943
Thomas James Mathias
1754 - 1835
Suzie Kennedy
Born 1977
Arthur Owen
1915 - 2002
Edward Frederick Brewtnall
1846 - 1902
Megan Williams (actress)
1956 - 2000
Raynor Taylor
1747 - 1825
Reshmin Chowdhury
Born 1977
John Minter Morgan
1782 - 1854
Paco Craig (footballer)
Born 1992
George Somerset, 3rd Baron Raglan
1857 - 1921
Jean Mambrino
1923 - 2012
David Langdon
1914 - 2011
Khadija Saye
1990 - 2017
Wayne Gray (footballer)
Born 1980
Stephen Constantine
Born 1962
Oscar Faber
1886 - 1956
Peter Bellinger Brodie
1815 - 1897
Anthony de la Roché
1674 - 1675
Lady Brigid Guinness
1920 - 1995
Reginald Foresythe
1907 - 1958
Henry Deacon (industrialist)
1822 - 1876
Neil Harvey (footballer)
Born 1983
David Thorpe (artist)
Born 1972
Ricardo Bell (clown)
1858 - 1911
Michael J. D. White
1910 - 1983
Charles Dixon (ornithologist)
1858 - 1926
Leopold David de Rothschild
1927 - 2012
Matt Preston
Born 1961
Adwoa Aboah
Born 1992
Christabel Cockerell
1863 - 1951
David Bolarinwa
Born 1993
Carole Davis
Born 1958
John Bate Cardale
1802 - 1877
Thomas Farnaby
1575 - 1647
Kieran Behan
Born 1989
William Seagrove
1898 - 1980
William Philo
1882 - 1916
Dallas Bower
1907 - 1999
Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace
Born 1978
Charles Grignion the Elder
1717 - 1810
Robin D. S. Higham
1925 - 2015
Alessi's Ark
Born 1990
Thomas Moule
1784 - 1851
Thomas Winnington (1696–1746)
1696 - 1746
Osman Kakay
Born 1997
Jack Melford
1899 - 1972
Jon Swain
Born 1948
Henry Oberholzer
1893 - 1953
Ranjit Bhatia
1936 - 2014
Henry Gastineau
1791 - 1876
Ernest Stephen Lumsden
1883 - 1948
Harris J
Born 1997
Joseph Phillimore
1775 - 1855
Eileen Younghusband (WAAF officer)
1921 - 2016
Gavin Grant (footballer)
Born 1984
John Kasmin
Born 1934
Gillian Triggs
Born 1945
Robert William Elliston
1774 - 1831
N. H. Gibbs
1910 - 1990
Robert Brudenell, 6th Earl of Cardigan
1760 - 1837
Ray Hammond
Born 1948
Bernardine Bishop
1939 - 2013
Gary Crosby (bassist)
Born 1955
Julius Mendes Price
1857 - 1924
Tony Church
1930 - 2008
Cyril McLaglen
1899 - 1987
William Barnard Rhodes-Moorhouse
1887 - 1915
Michael Morris, Baron Naseby
Born 1936
Leonora Corbett
1908 - 1960
Marc Mendelson
1915 - 2013
Lillian Penson
1896 - 1963
Helen Shingler
1919 - 2019
Giacomo De Martino (governor)
1849 - 1921
Nader Tehrani
Born 1963
Aubrey Burl
1926 - 2020
Gilbert Banester
1445 - 1487
Dominic Waldouck
Born 1987
George Barraud
1889 - 1970
Marie Burke
1894 - 1988
Layke Anderson
Born 1983
Thomas Adams (musician)
1785 - 1858
Clifford Mollison
1897 - 1986
Rachna Khatau
Born 1981
Henry Miller (actor)
1859 - 1926
Karin Smyth
Born 1964
David Caminer
1915 - 2008
Robert Whytlaw-Gray
1877 - 1958
Joseph Collyer
1748 - 1827
Michael Houghton (virologist)
Born 1950
Lesley Abdela
Born 1945
John Petts (artist)
1914 - 1991
Tasmin Lucia-Khan
Born 1980
Frankie Sutherland
Born 1993
Anthea Hamilton
Born 1978
Johnny Lockwood
1920 - 2013
Alex Young (studio executive)
Born 1971
Mervyn Haisman
1928 - 2010
Cherry Drummond, 16th Baroness Strange
1928 - 2005
Rufus Jones (actor)
Born 1975
Edward Craggs-Eliot, 1st Baron Eliot
1727 - 1804
Robert Sanders, 1st Baron Bayford
1867 - 1940
Mike Alfreds
Born 1934
Samuel Hollander
Born 1937
Keppel Harcourt Barnard
1887 - 1964
Reginald Hackforth
1887 - 1957
Basil William Robinson
1912 - 2005
Adil Omar
Born 1991
Ali Jacko
Born 1969
Edward Killingworth Johnson
1825 - 1896
Patrick Hastings
1880 - 1952
Colin A. Russell
1928 - 2013
Blanche Lemco van Ginkel
Born 1923
William Hale-White
1857 - 1949
Lady Kitty Spencer
Born 1990
Aubrey Brain
1893 - 1955
Eveline M. Burns
1900 - 1985
Mary Kelly (writer)
1927 - 2017
John Knapp-Fisher
1931 - 2015
Margaret Prosser, Baroness Prosser
Born 1937
Edwin Smith (photographer)
1912 - 1971
James Jones (footballer)
1873 - 1955
Alice Coulthard
Born 1983
Steve Barnard
Born 1968