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.
Edward Knobel
1841 - 1930
Basil Woon
1893 - 1974
Charlotte Gill
Born 1971
Claire Simon
Born 1955
John Campbell, 3rd Earl of Breadalbane and Holland
1696 - 1782
Ben Sampayo
Born 1992
Lucy Wadham
Born 1964
Gregory Page (musician)
Born 1963
Stephen Robert Koekkoek
1887 - 1934
James Weaver (racing driver)
Born 1955
Karen Alkalay-Gut
Born 1945
Craig Brown (taekwondo)
Born 1983
Mary Brough
1863 - 1934
Lee Murray
Born 1977
Helen Maud Holt
1863 - 1937
Zaria de Orange-Nassau
Born 2006
Mariama Goodman
Born 1977
Harry Zvi Tabor
1917 - 2015
Henry Moon
1857 - 1905
Dharshini David
Born 1973
Nancy Lyle
1910 - 1986
Matt Wilkinson
Born 1968
Antony Pay
Born 1945
Tom Rosenthal (footballer)
Born 1996
Albert Dufour-Feronce
1868 - 1945
Herbert Juttke
1897 - 1952
William Llewellyn
1858 - 1941
Manning Whiley
1915 - 1975
John Gilmour (botanist)
1906 - 1986
Jean Muir
1928 - 1995
Henry Stone (painter)
1616 - 1653
Anne Vane
1705 - 1736
Henry Sass
1788 - 1844
Michael Ward (mountaineer)
1925 - 2005
Alfred Vance
1839 - 1888
Michèle Laframboise
Born 1960
Wilfred Gibson
1942 - 2014
Solomon Freehof
1892 - 1990
Héléna Arsène Darmesteter
1854 - 1923
Jasper Conran
Born 1959
James Alexander, 4th Earl of Caledon
1846 - 1898
William Mecham
1853 - 1902
Bill Hopkins (novelist)
1928 - 2011
Frank Buglioni
Born 1989
Rose Lok
1526 - 1613
William Howard Livens
1889 - 1964
Hugo Kindersley, 3rd Baron Kindersley
1929 - 2013
Stella Richman
1922 - 2002
John Davies (Queens')
1679 - 1732
John Twyne
1501 - 1581
Thomas Busby (composer)
1755 - 1838
Marion Scott (musicologist)
1877 - 1953
David Newman (political geographer)
Born 1956
Bart de Liefde
Born 1976
William Russell (organist)
1777 - 1813
Clara Bell
1834 - 1927
Francis Awaritefe
Born 1964
Paul Guihard
1932 - 1962
Edmund Davall
1763 - 1798
Arthur Anselm Pearson
1874 - 1954
Frank Mills (British actor)
Born 1929
Edmund Morel (railway engineer)
1840 - 1871
Guy Brunton
1878 - 1948
Arthur Rigby (actor)
1900 - 1971
Josh Emmanuel
Born 1997
Stephen Gaselee (diplomat)
1882 - 1943
William Holmes (British Army officer)
1892 - 1969
Joanna McCallum
Born 1950
Jay Khan
Born 1982
Timothy Bowes-Lyon, 16th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
1918 - 1972
Harry Johnson (boxer)
1887 - 1947
The Floacist
Born 1979
Rhys Adrian
1928 - 1990
Kirsten Imrie
Born 1967
Caroline Grosvenor
1858 - 1940
Henry Pollock
1864 - 1953
Helena Schilizzi
1873 - 1959
Ernest Morris
1913 - 1987
Agnes Boulton
1893 - 1968
Ronald Bassett
1924 - 1996
Willoughby Bertie, 3rd Earl of Abingdon
1692 - 1760
Mark Turin
Born 1973
Tommy Godfrey
1916 - 1984
Colin Jackson (Scottish footballer)
1946 - 2015
Harold Ellis (surgeon)
Born 1926
Arthur Chichester, 4th Baron Templemore
1880 - 1953
Kenneth McClintock
Born 1957
Estelle Roberts
1889 - 1970
Adrian Grant (squash player)
Born 1980
Michael Bowes-Lyon, 17th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
1928 - 1987
Stuart Thurgood
Born 1981
Ronald William Graham
1870 - 1949
Granville Waldegrave, 2nd Baron Radstock
1786 - 1857
Laurence Guillemard
1862 - 1951
Seymour Kirkup
1788 - 1880
Henry William Beechey
1788 - 1862
John Winter Jones
1805 - 1881
Lauren McCrostie
Born 1996
Brian Mathew
Born 1936
Cecilia Maria Barthélemon
1769 - 1840
David Webb (Hong Kong activist)
Born 1965
Geoffrey Archer (colonial administrator)
1882 - 1964
Josceline Percy (Royal Navy officer)
1784 - 1856
N. Robin Crossby
1954 - 2008
Kristian Frost Olesen
Born 1989
Martin Lovett
1927 - 2020
Richard Gordon (film producer)
1925 - 2011
James Earle
1755 - 1817
Stanley Mordaunt Leathes
1861 - 1938
Mitchell Cole
1985 - 2012
Gustavus Brander
1720 - 1787
James Durno
1745 - 1795
Joan Smith
Born 1953
Benjamin Edward Woolf
1836 - 1901
Sydney Fairbrother
1872 - 1941
Allan Douglas Davidson
1873 - 1932
Phyllis Stanley
1914 - 1992
Anthony Richardson
1899 - 1964
Wallace Spencer Pitcher
1919 - 2004
C. W. A. Scott
1903 - 1946
Stanley Kalms, Baron Kalms
Born 1931
Michelle Arthur
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Harry Klein
1928 - 2010
Alec Bregonzi
1930 - 2006
Stevland Angus
Born 1980
Frederick Duleep Singh
1868 - 1926
Al Reach
1840 - 1928
Tom Stourton
Born 1987
James Elles
Born 1949
Francis Balfour-Browne
1874 - 1967
Julius Grant
1901 - 1991
George White (artist)
1684 - 1732
Catherine Fried
1936 - 2015
Alfred Lamert Dickens
1822 - 1860
Hayley McGregory
Born 1986
Caleb Baldwin
1769 - 1827
George Dollond
1774 - 1852
George Bridges, Baron Bridges of Headley
Born 1970
Arthur Sloggett
1857 - 1929
Peter Howson (politician)
1919 - 2009
Alfred Holmes (composer)
1837 - 1876
Thomas Charles Farrer
1838 - 1891
Alfred Nutt
1856 - 1910
Anna Blundy
Born 1970
William Bent Berczy
1791 - 1873
Nicola Tyson
Born 1960
John Eliot, 6th Earl of St Germans
1890 - 1922
Brian Davis (golfer)
Born 1974
James Cartlidge
Born 1974
Matthew Gwinne
1558 - 1627
Brian Maxwell
1953 - 2004
Andrew Berry
Born 1963
John Pelling (fencer)
Born 1936
Samuel Cocking
1845 - 1914
Sandford Arthur Strong
1863 - 1904
Henry Beeching
1859 - 1919
Jack Hobbs (actor)
1893 - 1968
Irene Claremont de Castillejo
1885 - 1967
Felix Swinstead
1880 - 1959
Percy McDonnell
1860 - 1896
Richard Phillips (publisher)
1767 - 1840
David Laing (architect)
1774 - 1856
Nick Ponting
Born 1966
George James Guthrie
1785 - 1856
Alfred Rouse
1894 - 1931
Jan Jones (novelist)
Born 1955
Phillip Bent
Born 1964
Kenneth Skelton
1918 - 2003
Gus Mears
1873 - 1912
Alfred Codrington
1854 - 1945
Katya Adler
Born 1972
Sir John Carew Pole, 12th Baronet
1902 - 1993
Jean-Baptiste Shelmerdine
Born 1983
Tony Bedeau
Born 1979
Rozsika Parker
1945 - 2010
Gemma McCluskie
1983 - 2012
Samir Soni
Born 1960
John Peverall
Born 1931
Mazz Murray
Born 1973
Peter Hawkins
1924 - 2006
Freddy Randall
1921 - 1999
Jean Tedesco
1895 - 1958
Sarah Gainham
1915 - 1999
Shelley Blond
Born 1970
Frank Cyril James
1903 - 1973
Sara Bennett
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Kate Smurthwaite
Born 1975
Cyril Offord
1906 - 2000
Harry Wimperis
1876 - 1960
Helen Craig
Born 1934
Rachel Crowdy
1884 - 1964
Jay Ali
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Kelly Gallagher (alpine skier)
Born 1985
Paul Corder
1879 - 1942
Eric Crees
Born 1952
Charles H. Bennett (illustrator)
1829 - 1867
Percy Macquoid
1852 - 1925
Michael Cooper (historian)
1930 - 2018
Alison Hinds
Born 1970
Henry Wyndham Phillips
1820 - 1868
John Pollard Seddon
1827 - 1906
Paul Norell
Born 1952
Harold Truscott
1914 - 1992
Harrish Ingraham
Born 1881
Marcel Barrington
Born 1995
Jay Rayner
Born 1966
Charles Cecil, Viscount Cranborne
1619 - 1660
Percy Carpenter
1820 - 1895
Ben Forta
Born 1950
George Macleay
1809 - 1891
Rimmel Daniel
Born 1991
Diane Parish
Born 1969
Basil Gray
1904 - 1989
Mrs. Lovett Cameron
1844 - 1921
Mary Hardwick
1913 - 2001
Belinda Lang
Born 1953
Mona Inglesby
1918 - 2006
Nicola Hitchcock
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Peter Knight (folk musician)
Born 1947
Ben Broster
Born 1982
Dave Shepherd
1929 - 2016
Bamba Sutherland
1869 - 1957
Karamoko Dembélé
Born 2003
David Partridge
Born 1978
John Cooke Bourne
1814 - 1896
Tiny Winters
1909 - 1996
Peter Crossley-Holland
1916 - 2001
Michael Coveney
Born 1948
The Bullitts
Born 1979
Nicolas Stacey
1927 - 2017
Gwen Catley
1906 - 1996
Peter Brignall
Born 1953
William Pye (sculptor)
Born 1938
Charles Raymond
1858 - 1930
C. R. L. Fletcher
1857 - 1934
John Ayldon
1943 - 2013
Tunde Jegede
Born 1972
Elsie Randolph
1904 - 1982
Alfred Nichols
1890 - 1952
Mary Ann Bevan
1874 - 1933
James Howell (chess player)
Born 1967
Cecil Haig
1862 - 1947
Albert Stewart
1900 - 1965
John Sheldon (anatomist)
1752 - 1808
Allen Apsley (administrator)
1562 - 1630
Shloime Gertner
Born 1980
Nicolas Hodges
Born 1970
James Robert Longden
1827 - 1891
Paul Neile
1613 - 1686
John Leycester Adolphus
1795 - 1862
Jasmine James
Born 1990
Jack Raine
1897 - 1979
Aleksander Kolkowski
Born 1959
Lynne Franks
Born 1948
Masa Yamaguchi
Born 1974
Phil Walker (footballer, born 1954)
Born 1954
Ruth Harrison
1920 - 2000
Patricia Ward Hales
1929 - 1985
Léonard Keigel
1929 - 2020
Flora Lion
1878 - 1958
Charles Ritchie Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen
1908 - 1986
Peter Abell
Born 1939
Oritsé Williams
Born 1986
Ben Goodger
Born 1980
Christabel Rose Coleridge
1843 - 1921
Peter Vanneck
1922 - 1999
John Arthur Fraser
1838 - 1898
Tarik O'Regan
Born 1978
George Fownes
1815 - 1849
Lindsey Coulson
Born 1960
Brian Woledge
1904 - 2002
Trisha Goddard
Born 1957
Cheryl Fergison
Born 1964
Jennifer Caron Hall
Born 1958
Henry Bentinck, 11th Earl of Portland
1919 - 1997
John Critchinson
1934 - 2017
Tommaso Benedetti
1797 - 1863
Dave Thompson (comedian)
Born 1957
Paul Johnson (squash player)
Born 1972
John Pritchard (rower)
Born 1957
Thomas N. Morahan
1906 - 1969
Susan Stephen
1931 - 2000
John Stafford (producer)
1893 - 1967
Emma Paterson
1848 - 1886
Lennie Bush
1927 - 2004
John Burch (musician)
1932 - 2006
Gary Locke (English footballer)
Born 1954
J. Hartley Manners
1870 - 1928
Wilfrid Ball
1853 - 1917
Nick Franglen
Born 1965
Joan Vickers, Baroness Vickers
1907 - 1994
John Penn (governor)
1729 - 1795
Heydon Prowse
Born 1981
Rhema Obed
Born 1991
John Payne (engraver)
1607 - 1647
Marcus Coates
Born 1968
James William Davison
1813 - 1885
J. Mordaunt Crook
Born 1937
Vera Laughton Mathews
1888 - 1959
Simon Wallfisch
Born 1982