51.5072° N, 0.1275° W — 14,227 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.
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
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
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
Gayatri Devi
1919 - 2009
Roland Penrose
1900 - 1984
Basil Bernstein
1924 - 2000
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
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
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
Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon
1831 - 1890
Elliot Cowan
Born 1976
George Butterworth
1885 - 1916
Yvonne Mitchell
1915 - 1979
Carmen Chaplin
Born 1977
Peter Fleming (writer)
1907 - 1971
Michael Green (physicist)
Born 1946
Geoffrey Palmer (actor)
1927 - 2020
Oliver Leese
1894 - 1978
Guy Henry (actor)
Born 1960
Jax Jones
Born 1987
Peter Mark Roget
1779 - 1869
Richard Crashaw
1612 - 1649
Frederick Selous
1851 - 1917
Yasmin Paige
Born 1991
Benita Hume
1906 - 1967
Daniel Mendoza
1764 - 1836
Blake Ritson
Born 1978
Israel Regardie
1907 - 1985
Mary Midgley
1919 - 2018
Simon Reynolds
Born 1963
Marlon Roudette
Born 1983
Amelia Edwards
1831 - 1892
James P. Hogan (writer)
1941 - 2010
Martin Kemp
Born 1961
Richard Barbieri
Born 1957
Ben Gordon
Born 1983
Peter Bowles
Born 1936
Ed Stoppard
Born 1974
Anton Ferdinand
Born 1985
Gavin Menzies
1937 - 2020
Daniel Jones (phonetician)
1881 - 1967
Joseph Johnson (publisher)
1738 - 1809
Monty Norman
Born 1928
Charlie Bewley
Born 1981
Paul Bernays
1888 - 1977
Theodore Dalrymple
Born 1949
DJ Fresh
Born 1977
Clive Donner
1926 - 2010
Gordon Jacob
1895 - 1984
Amber Rose Revah
Born 1986
Jez Butterworth
Born 1969
Frederic William Maitland
1850 - 1906
John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan
1934 - 1974
Nick Glennie-Smith
Born 1951
David Bedford
1937 - 2011
Steven Isserlis
Born 1958
Andrew Motion
Born 1952
Amanda Pays
Born 1959
James Elroy Flecker
1884 - 1915