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.
Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex
1591 - 1646
Kate Greenaway
1846 - 1901
Dave Murray (musician)
Born 1956
Tulisa
Born 1988
Ashley Madekwe
Born 1981
Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
1661 - 1724
Daniel Massey (actor)
1933 - 1998
Samuel Palmer
1805 - 1881
Thomas Mun
1571 - 1641
Freddie Francis
1917 - 2007
John Graunt
1620 - 1674
William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire
1748 - 1811
Charlotte Lewis
Born 1967
Sam Bailey
Born 1977
Gary Kemp
Born 1959
Stella Gibbons
1902 - 1989
Julia Sawalha
Born 1968
Joanna Pettet
Born 1942
John Negroponte
Born 1939
William Boyce (composer)
1711 - 1779
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood
1880 - 1959
Henry Daniell
1894 - 1963
Chris Huhne
Born 1954
Nevil Maskelyne
1732 - 1811
Tiago Ilori
Born 1993
David Edward Hughes
1831 - 1900
Herbert Morrison
1888 - 1965
Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers
1854 - 1918
Tony Hadley
Born 1960
Daniel Sharman
Born 1986
Gavin Harrison
Born 1963
Aubrey de Grey
Born 1963
Benjamin Clementine
Born 1988
Stuart Pearce
Born 1962
Oliver Letwin
Born 1956
Howard Hodgkin
1932 - 2017
Patrick Wolf
Born 1983
Israel Kirzner
Born 1930
Paul Epworth
Born 1974
Sonique (musician)
Born 1968
Jill Esmond
1908 - 1990
Hamilton Camp
1934 - 2005
King Krule
Born 1994
Siobhán Donaghy
Born 1984
Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild
1840 - 1915
Henry Allingham
1896 - 2009
Shirley Williams
Born 1930
Conn Iggulden
Born 1971
Zak Starkey
Born 1965
William Huggins
1824 - 1910
Chris Anderson (writer)
Born 1961
Alicia Markova
1910 - 2004
Sidney Smith (Royal Navy officer)
1764 - 1840
Georgia Moffett
Born 1984
G. I. Taylor
1886 - 1975
Vernon Reid
Born 1958
Ella Eyre
Born 1994
Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany
1158 - 1186
Jonathan Glazer
Born 1965
Dana Rosemary Scallon
Born 1951
John Needham
1713 - 1781
Tina Charles (singer)
Born 1954
Edmund Andros
1637 - 1714
Princess Augusta of Great Britain
1737 - 1813
Alan Mowbray
1896 - 1969
Pops Mensah-Bonsu
Born 1983
Zac Goldsmith
Born 1975
Sarah Alexander
Born 1971
Sarah Churchill (actress)
1914 - 1982
Andrew Ng
Born 1976
Luke Mably
Born 1976
Herbert James Draper
1863 - 1920
Jonathan Miller
1934 - 2019
William Camden
1551 - 1623
Sydney Chaplin
1885 - 1965
Luke Howard
1772 - 1864
Sophie Ward
Born 1964
Michael Gothard
1939 - 1992
Rafael Merry del Val
1865 - 1930
David Haye
Born 1980
Owen Barfield
1898 - 1997
Julia Donaldson
Born 1948
Jade Goody
1981 - 2009
William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford
1768 - 1856
Ernest Dowson
1867 - 1900
John Standing
Born 1934
Femi Kuti
Born 1962
Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere
1868 - 1940
Emily Lloyd
Born 1970
Cressida Cowell
Born 1966
Edmund Crouchback
1245 - 1296
Lynn Fontanne
1887 - 1983
Ellie Kendrick
Born 1990
Thomas Campion
1567 - 1620
Richard Wiseman
Born 1966
Reginald Gardiner
1903 - 1980
Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild
Born 1936
Cyril Burt
1883 - 1971
Justin Fashanu
1961 - 1998
Anthony Phillips
Born 1951
Nellie McKay
Born 1982
Jessie Cave
Born 1987
Anthony Steel (actor)
1920 - 2001
Suzanna Hamilton
Born 1960
Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter
1907 - 2003
Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst
1858 - 1944
Samuel Hearne
1745 - 1792
Duff Cooper
1890 - 1954
Richard Addinsell
1904 - 1977
Angel Coulby
Born 1980
Danny John-Jules
Born 1960
Norman Tebbit
Born 1931
Jack Osbourne
Born 1985
Rupert Sanders
Born 1971
Gayatri Devi
1919 - 2009
Roland Penrose
1900 - 1984
Basil Bernstein
1924 - 2000
George Monbiot
Born 1963
Verity Lambert
1935 - 2007
Reginald Maudling
1917 - 1979
Layla El
Born 1977
Simon Phillips (drummer)
Born 1957
Susannah Harker
Born 1965
Chris Blackwell
Born 1937
John Frederic Daniell
1790 - 1845
Julien Temple
Born 1952
Max Newman
1897 - 1984
Kim Newman
Born 1959
Theresa Villiers
Born 1968
Nicholas Stoller
Born 1976
Sampha
Born 1988
Stafford Beer
1926 - 2002
Frederick Rolfe
1860 - 1913
Dan Leno
1860 - 1904
George Peele
1556 - 1596
Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer
Born 1964
André Morell
1909 - 1978
Louis de Bernières
Born 1954
Arthur Hughes (artist)
1832 - 1915
Constance Lloyd
1859 - 1898
Christina Cole
Born 1982
John Michael Wright
1617 - 1694
Don Black (lyricist)
Born 1938
Frank Dicksee
1853 - 1928
Chip (rapper)
Born 1990
John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham
1792 - 1840
Friedrich Hollaender
1896 - 1976
David Rose (songwriter)
1910 - 1990
Charles Forbes René de Montalembert
1810 - 1870
George Carey
Born 1935
Duke Dumont
Born 1982
Hannah New
Born 1994
Justin Pierce
1975 - 2000
Pannonica de Koenigswarter
1913 - 1988
Colin Chapman
1928 - 1982
Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany
1739 - 1767
Gary Daniels
Born 1963
Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh
1743 - 1805
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading
1860 - 1935
Don Letts
Born 1956
William Speirs Bruce
1867 - 1921
Frank Thornton
1921 - 2013
Frederick Browning
1896 - 1965
Stephanie Leonidas
Born 1984
Percivall Pott
1714 - 1788
Natalie Press
Born 1980
Peter Asher
Born 1944
William Watson (scientist)
1715 - 1787
John Alcott
1930 - 1986
Herbert Beerbohm Tree
1852 - 1917
I. J. Good
1916 - 2009
Frank Bruno
Born 1961
Aml Ameen
Born 1985
Kathryn Beaumont
Born 1938
Teresa Ann Savoy
1955 - 2017
Fanny Kemble
1809 - 1893
Nerina Pallot
Born 1975
Peter R. Hunt
1925 - 2002
George Blagden
Born 1989
Roy Urquhart
1901 - 1988
John Hampden
1594 - 1643
David Heyman
Born 1961
Brian Auger
Born 1939
Amber Rudd
Born 1963
Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel
1557 - 1595
Archer Martin
1910 - 2002
Joseph Lancaster
1778 - 1838
John Florio
1553 - 1625
Kathleen Kenyon
1906 - 1978
Richard Overy
Born 1947
Edith Durham
1863 - 1944
Patricia Hayes
1909 - 1998
John Chadwick
1920 - 1998
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
1835 - 1915
Martin Litchfield West
1937 - 2015
Henry Maitland Wilson
1881 - 1964
Julie Covington
Born 1946
Tom Rob Smith
Born 1979
Lilian, Princess of Réthy
1916 - 2002
Hari Kunzru
Born 1969
Clive Brook
1887 - 1974
John Colet
1467 - 1519
Jack Butler Yeats
1871 - 1957
Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild
1910 - 1990
Peter Geach
1916 - 2013
Rose Tremain
Born 1943
Roots Manuva
Born 1972
Roy Ward Baker
1916 - 2010
Charlotte Turner Smith
1749 - 1806
William Smith (lexicographer)
1813 - 1893
Constant Lambert
1905 - 1951
Diana Wynyard
1906 - 1964
Peaches Geldof
1989 - 2014
Hugh Cornwell
Born 1949
William Michael Rossetti
1829 - 1919
Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans
1881 - 1957
W. Ross Ashby
1903 - 1972
Julian Marley
Born 1975
Jenny Beavan
Born 1950
William Dobson
1610 - 1646
Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond
1672 - 1723
Jade Ewen
Born 1988
Emma Pooley
Born 1982
Hannah Glasse
1708 - 1770
Val Guest
1911 - 2006
Demis Hassabis
Born 1976
Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke
1705 - 1781
George Henry Lewes
1817 - 1878
Robyn Hitchcock
Born 1953
Rutherford Alcock
1809 - 1897
Kathleen Byron
1921 - 2009
Thomas Humphrey Marshall
1893 - 1981
Wiley (musician)
Born 1979
Thomas Girtin
1775 - 1802
Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton
1663 - 1690
Alan Howard
1937 - 2015
Finn Jones
Born 1988
Beatie Edney
Born 1962
W. Heath Robinson
1872 - 1944
Freddie Young
1902 - 1998
Joe Cornish
Born 1968
Peter Cheyney
1896 - 1951
Vashti Bunyan
Born 1945
Caroline Norton
1808 - 1877
Oliver Parker
Born 1960
Edwin Flack
1873 - 1935
Martin Peters
1943 - 2019
George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan
1800 - 1888
Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn
1745 - 1790
Jourdan Dunn
Born 1990
Richard Lydekker
1849 - 1915
James McCartney
Born 1977
Violet Trefusis
1894 - 1972
Franz Drameh
Born 1993
Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville
1815 - 1891
Keisha Buchanan
Born 1984
Edmund Gosse
1849 - 1928
Jon Hiseman
1944 - 2018
Ernest Starling
1866 - 1927
Princess Hélène of Orléans
1871 - 1951
Edward Robert Hughes
1851 - 1914
Lionel de Rothschild
1808 - 1879
Pearl Mackie
Born 1987
Roger Christian (filmmaker)
Born 1944
Carlo Rota
Born 1961
Simon Curtis (filmmaker)
Born 1960
John Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer
1835 - 1910
Francis L. Sullivan
1903 - 1956
Isabel Jeans
1891 - 1985
David Bellamy
1933 - 2019
Maurice Dobb
1900 - 1976
Ray Lankester
1847 - 1929
Nicholas Barbon
1640 - 1698
Thomas Lodge
1558 - 1625
Ray Cooney
Born 1932
Jimmy Hill
1928 - 2015
John Nunn
Born 1955
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto
1845 - 1914
Jeanette (singer)
Born 1951
Phoebe Fox
Born 1987
Charles Cameron (architect)
1746 - 1812
Frances Ruffelle
Born 1965
Samantha Ronson
Born 1977
Granville Bantock
1868 - 1946
Bruno Heller
Born 1960
Polly Samson
Born 1962
Ann Sophie
Born 1990
John M. Allegro
1923 - 1988
Dave Stewart (keyboardist)
Born 1950
Johnny Haynes
1934 - 2005
William John Swainson
1789 - 1855
Lawrence Dallaglio
Born 1972
Nina Bawden
1925 - 2012
Phillips Idowu
Born 1978
Anne Conway (philosopher)
1631 - 1679
Galyani Vadhana
1923 - 2008
Alicia Moreau de Justo
1885 - 1986
Jake Wood
Born 1972
Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon
1831 - 1890
Elliot Cowan
Born 1976