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.
James Hessey
1814 - 1892
William Selby
1738 - 1798
James Barenger
1780 - 1831
Derek Austin
1921 - 2001
Steven Rea
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Leslie Barnett
1920 - 2002
Rumi Suizu
Born 1990
Mark Neville
Born 1966
Juan Aparicio Belmonte
Born 1971
Krutika Desai Khan
Born 1968
Harold Hitchcock
1914 - 2009
Robert Porrett
1783 - 1868
Joe Sowerbutts
Born 1988
James Aumonier
1832 - 1911
William Wadden Turner
1810 - 1859
James Mulley
Born 1988
Josette Bushell-Mingo
Born 1964
George Moon
1909 - 1981
Jim Barrett Sr.
1907 - 1970
John Raphael Rodrigues Brandon
1817 - 1877
Andrew Butterfield
Born 1972
Katie Kim (Irish musician)
Born 1983
Omar Samra
Born 1978
Lydia Sherwood
1906 - 1989
Robert Ball Hughes
1804 - 1868
T. F. Thiselton-Dyer
1848 - 1923
Simon Aldridge
Born 1974
Jay Simpson (actor)
Born 1967
Ron Richards (producer)
1929 - 2009
Stan Butcher
1920 - 1987
Princess Katarina of Yugoslavia
Born 1959
Eric Bertram Rowcroft
1891 - 1963
Gerry Carr (athlete)
1936 - 2019
Dinah Christie
Born 1942
Guy Armitage
Born 1991
Romilly Weeks
Born 1972
George Belcher
1875 - 1947
Daniel Sam
Born 1981
Rowan Varty
Born 1986
Richard Smith (East India Company officer)
1734 - 1803
Jack de Haas
1875 - 1940
Celia Sawyer
Born 1966
Amanda Boxer
Born 1948
Ivor Kirchin
1905 - 1997
Douglas Robert Hadow
1846 - 1865
David Gilbert Thomas
1928 - 2015
Matti Järvinen (ice hockey, born 1989)
Born 1989
Eric Andrews
1933 - 2001
Caroline Douglas
1821 - 1904
Ned Miller (composer)
1899 - 1990
Liz Calder
Born 1938
Josh Chetwynd
Born 1971
Nigel Parry
Born 1961
Laura Patch
Born 1980
Oswald John Frederick Crawfurd
1834 - 1909
Sophie Troiano
Born 1987
Kinahan Cornwallis (writer)
1839 - 1917
Tim Rathbone
1933 - 2002
Horus Engels
1914 - 1991
Camilla Beeput
Born 1984
Michael William Sharp
1776 - 1840
Bernard Adeney
1878 - 1966
William Anderson (missionary)
1769 - 1852
Henry Gillard Glindoni
1852 - 1913
John Elwes (tenor)
Born 1946
Beryl Crockford
1950 - 2016
Tennyson Cole
1862 - 1939
Jeffrey Segal
1920 - 2015
Graham Vines
Born 1930
Francis Bird
1667 - 1731
Hugh Green (martyr)
1584 - 1642
Nicholas Hudson (bishop)
Born 1959
Catherine Powell
Born 1967
Simon Callery
Born 1960
Alf Goddard
1897 - 1981
Abram Belskie
1907 - 1988
Steve Scott (poet)
Born 1951
Theodorick Bland of Westover
1629 - 1671
Nishat Monsur
Born 1994
Walter Venning
1882 - 1964
Marc Sinden
Born 1954
Luke Owen Pike
1835 - 1915
Paul Judge
1949 - 2017
Ayo Jay
Born 1989
Horace Castelli
1825 - 1889
Charles-Gustave Smith
1826 - 1896
Joseph Goodall
1760 - 1840
Thomas Turner à Beckett
1808 - 1892
Richard Ingle
1609 - 1653
Susie Harries
Born 1951
Ian Strang
1886 - 1952
Alexander Harris (writer)
1805 - 1874
Metcalf Bowler
1726 - 1789
Anne Cobden-Sanderson
1853 - 1926
Robin Birley (businessman)
Born 1958
Charles Wild
1781 - 1835
Albert Henry Collings
1868 - 1947
Francis Laking
1847 - 1914
Emil Nava
Born 1985
Jimmy Farrell
1903 - 1979
Robert Davies-Jones
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John Le Neve
1679 - 1741
Thomas Gibson (artist)
1680 - 1751
Jeremiah Davison
1695 - 1745
Frederick Yeates Hurlstone
1800 - 1869
Jack Barnato Joel
1862 - 1940
Julia Copus
Born 1969
Sheila Finch
Born 1935
Primula Rollo
1918 - 1946
Adrian Maurice Daintrey
1902 - 1988
Roger M. Bobb
Born 1966
Eggy Ley
1928 - 1995
Howard Nixon
1909 - 1983
George Sclater-Booth, 1st Baron Basing
1826 - 1894
Lucie Cave
Born 1972
Bartholomew Dandridge (artist)
1691 - 1754
Anna Fantastic
Born 1970
Samuel Fell
1584 - 1649
John Vaughan Campbell
1876 - 1944
Athena (Andreadis)
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A. R. Quinton
1853 - 1934
Charles Ruffell
1888 - 1923
William Bernard Cooke
1778 - 1855
Weaver Hawkins
1893 - 1977
Antonis Nikolaidis
Born 1967
George Grey Wornum
1888 - 1957
John Dark
1927 - 2015
Gerard Woodward
Born 1961
Darius Guppy
Born 1964
Osher Günsberg
Born 1974
Susan Skipper
Born 1951
Robin Squire
Born 1944
John Moyer Heathcote
1834 - 1912
Eric Arthur Cleugh
1894 - 1964
Hugh O'Donnell (artist)
Born 1950
William John Newton
1785 - 1869
Joanna Tuffy
Born 1965
Norman Potter
1923 - 1995
Serafina Steer
Born 1982
Marc Silver
Born 1977
Godfrey Lushington
1832 - 1907
Percy Edward Pinkerton
1855 - 1946
Tommy Sandhu
Born 1976
Charles Lamb (actor)
1900 - 1989
Christopher Wren (priest)
1589 - 1658
James Clarke (rower)
Born 1984
Joseph Whitaker (publisher)
1820 - 1895
Herbert Evans (actor)
1882 - 1952
Gareth Lewis
Born 1973
John Payne (voice actor)
Born 1960
Frank Eyton
1894 - 1962
George Nelson, 1st Baron Nelson of Stafford
1887 - 1962
Robert Lloyd (poet)
1733 - 1764
Jay Burridge
Born 1971
David Haig-Thomas
1908 - 1944
Alfred Davies (Carmarthen MP)
1848 - 1907
Nina Frances Layard
1853 - 1935
Gabriel Tschumi
1883 - 1957
Arthur Gnahoua
Born 1992
Lennie Felix
1920 - 1981
Gareth Wigan
1931 - 2010
William Kendall (actor)
1903 - 1984
Ore Oduba
Born 1986
Max Salpeter
1908 - 2010
Charles Alexander Calvert
1828 - 1879
Edward Dutton Cook
1829 - 1883
Albert Welling
Born 1952
Harold Spiro
1925 - 1996
Alfred Gosden
1873 - 1941
Edward Northey (barrister)
1652 - 1723
Billie Black
Born 1994
Caroline Watson
1761 - 1814
Henry Cavendish (British Army officer)
1789 - 1873
William Richmond
1821 - 1895
Alfred Henry Forrester
1804 - 1872
Mary Smirke
1779 - 1853
Gerard Monaco
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Frederick Hamilton (Royal Navy officer)
1856 - 1917
Eustace Loraine
1879 - 1912
Laura Janner-Klausner
Born 1963
Frederick Crouch
1808 - 1896
Langston Uibel
Born 1998
Thomas William Brotherton
1785 - 1868
Desmond Roberts
1894 - 1968
Dominic Alldis
Born 1962
Paul Lucien Dessau
1909 - 1999
Alastair Hamilton
Born 1941
Charles Craufurd Fraser
1829 - 1895
Felix Oswald
1866 - 1958
John Moultrie (poet)
1799 - 1874
William Skelton
1763 - 1848
John Louis Taylor
1769 - 1829
Liam Stewart
Born 1994
Charlotte Paul
Born 1973
Margaret Harrison (violinist)
1899 - 1995
Tara Hoyos-Martínez
Born 1990
Isaac Panchaud
1737 - 1789
Mark F. Watts
Born 1964
Peter Linehan
1943 - 2020
Colm Kiernan
1931 - 2010
Eric Sharp, Baron Sharp of Grimsdyke
1916 - 1994
Mary Dorothy George
1878 - 1971
Coolie Ranx
Born 1965
Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary
Born 1990
Lewis Melville
1874 - 1932
Rebecca Hollweg
Born 1964
Georgie Ripper
Born 1977
Frances Freeling Broderip
1830 - 1878
Sebastian Knapp
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Lucy Harrison
Born 1970
Arthur Trevor Haddon
1864 - 1941
Barry Myers (director)
1937 - 2016
David James O'Donoghue
1866 - 1917
Alan Shacklock
Born 1951
Kim Richard Nossal
Born 1952
Mark Glanville
Born 1959
Paul McDowell (actor)
1931 - 2016
Horace Barnet
1856 - 1941
Edward Russell, 1st Baron Russell of Liverpool
1834 - 1920
Lucia Newman
Born 1952
Billy Hague
1885 - 1969
James Carreras
1909 - 1990
Sophie McKenzie
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George Humphreys
1863 - 1945
Vincent Holman
1886 - 1962
Lady Gwendolen Gascoyne-Cecil
1860 - 1945
Norman Blamey
1914 - 2000
Keith Butler (cyclist)
1938 - 2019
David Brewer (broker)
Born 1940
Thomas Talbot Bury
1809 - 1877
Janet Colquhoun
1781 - 1846
Tom Gilbey (designer)
1939 - 2017
Derek Blomfield
1920 - 1964
Raymond Gubbay
Born 1946
Peter Craze
Born 1946
Kathleen Richards
1895 - 1984
James McSweeney
Born 1980
John Joseph Mechi
1802 - 1880
Thomas Bond Walker
1861 - 1933
Adam Shaw (journalist)
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Claude Cooper (actor)
1880 - 1932
Margaret MacDonald (philosopher)
1907 - 1956
David Montagu, 4th Baron Swaythling
1928 - 1998
Marcel McCalla
Born 1981
Allan Flanders
1910 - 1973
Adam Back
Born 1970
Martha Mears (author)
1767 - 1810
Lee Howard (journalist)
1914 - 1979
Eva Carrington
1887 - 1979
Bill Thomas (actor)
Born 1952
Joyce Kennedy
1898 - 1943
Mowbray Thomson
1832 - 1917
Ridgwell Cullum
1867 - 1943
Dan Caplen
Born 1992
Francis Peirson
1757 - 1781
Wally Nightingale
1956 - 1996
Jason Salkey
Born 1962
Henry Monro
1791 - 1814
Mary Dibley
1883 - 1928
Clive Shorten
Born 1973
Charles Sharpes
Born 1992
Charles Binger
1907 - 1974
Charlie Wassmer
Born 1991
Ross Jenkins (footballer, born 1951)
Born 1951
Sunny Hundal
Born 1977
Michael Coles (actor)
1936 - 2005
David J. Cooney
Born 1954
Bunny Roger
1911 - 1997
Robert Gentilis
1590 - 1655
Nigel Morland
1905 - 1986
Robert Lee (golfer)
Born 1961
Bryn Vaile
Born 1956
Richard Campbell (classical musician)
1956 - 2011
Paul Hendricks
Born 1956
Carolyn Cowan
Born 1960
Thomas Mervyn Horder, 2nd Baron Horder
1910 - 1997
Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
Born 1979
Helen Makower
1910 - 1998
Gale Benson
1944 - 1972
Guy Lloyd-Jones
Born 1966
William Henry Toms
1700 - 1765
Kate Dimbleby
Born 1973
Sophie Adell
Born 1975
Peter Cawley
Born 1965
Henry Shaw (antiquary)
1800 - 1873
Iris Rogers
Born 1931
Alfred Frank Hardiman
1891 - 1949
Andrew Alexander (producer)
Born 1944
Ray Sonin
1907 - 1991
William Christian Symons
1845 - 1911
Arthur La Bern
1909 - 1990
James McNally (musician)
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Caleb Carr (governor)
1624 - 1695
Charles Pope
1883 - 1917
Tony Collins (footballer)
Born 1926
Alrick Riley
Born 1964
Wesley Carr
1941 - 2017
Catherine Norton Sinclair
1817 - 1891
Nicholas Elliott
1916 - 1994
Simon Milton (politician)
1961 - 2011