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.
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
Lenora Crichlow
Born 1985
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
Danny Kirwan
1950 - 2018
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
Mrs Patrick Campbell
1865 - 1940
Amanda Pays
Born 1959
James Elroy Flecker
1884 - 1915
George Benjamin (composer)
Born 1960
Christopher R. W. Nevinson
1889 - 1946
William Nicholson (chemist)
1753 - 1815
Paterson Joseph
Born 1964
Julie Driscoll Tippetts
Born 1947
Skye Edwards
Born 1974
Virginia Field
1917 - 1992
Eric Blore
1887 - 1959
David Cubitt
Born 1965
Kay Walsh
1911 - 2005
George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville
1716 - 1785
Dennis Brain
1921 - 1957
Edward Shearmur
Born 1966
Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford
1905 - 2001
Judie Tzuke
Born 1956
Ronald Firbank
1886 - 1926
Norman Hartnell
1901 - 1979
Lola Kirke
Born 1990
Charles Rothschild
1877 - 1923
Louise Mensch
Born 1971
Steven Severin
Born 1955
Frederick Abel
1827 - 1902
Peter Egan
Born 1946
James Guthrie (record producer)
Born 1953
Micachu
Born 1987
John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville
1690 - 1763
Nick Broomfield
Born 1948
George Robert Gray
1808 - 1872
Stewart Menzies
1890 - 1968
Isaac Hempstead Wright
Born 1999
Marc Quinn
Born 1964
Frederick William Beechey
1796 - 1856
Ray Fearon
Born 1973
John Leland (antiquary)
1502 - 1552
Josiah Conder (architect)
1852 - 1920
Alan Bush
1900 - 1995
John Suckling (poet)
1609 - 1642
Abraham Beame
1906 - 2001
Lily Loveless
Born 1990
Stephen Norrington
Born 1964
Jonathan King
Born 1944
Henri Alleg
1921 - 2013
George Cohen
Born 1939
Chris Thomas (record producer)
Born 1947
Roy Harrod
1900 - 1978
Phil Mogg
Born 1948
Phyllis Calvert
1915 - 2002
George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough
1739 - 1817
John Hopkins (actor)
Born 1974
Francesco Giuseppe Casanova
1727 - 1803
Jon Amiel
Born 1948
Marie Spartali Stillman
1844 - 1927
Lemar
Born 1978
Henry Sweet
1845 - 1912
David Held
1951 - 2019
Robert Smirke (architect)
1780 - 1867
Angie Sage
Born 1952
Bernard Butler
Born 1970
Jon Foo
Born 1982
Elizabeth Jane Howard
1923 - 2014
Robert Byron
1905 - 1941
Labi Siffre
Born 1945
Julian Opie
Born 1958
Owen Jones (architect)
1809 - 1874
Quentin Bell
1910 - 1996
Marie Lloyd
1870 - 1922
John Leech (caricaturist)
1817 - 1864
Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond
1735 - 1806
John Michael McDonagh
Born 1967
Harry Ricardo
1885 - 1974
Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood
1882 - 1947
Dorothy Garrod
1892 - 1968
Peter Hilton
1923 - 2010
Joe Cole (actor)
Born 1988
Jessie Matthews
1907 - 1981
Alia Bhatt
Born 1993
Paul Eddington
1927 - 1995
Matthew Carter
Born 1937
Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough
1790 - 1871
Thomas Sopwith
1888 - 1989
Colin Clark (economist)
1905 - 1989
Mark Burnett
Born 1960
David Seidler
Born 1937
Paul Hardcastle
Born 1957
George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon
1800 - 1870
Ivy Compton-Burnett
1884 - 1969
Michael Grant (classicist)
1914 - 2004
Anthony Harvey
1931 - 2017
Charles Robert Cockerell
1788 - 1863
Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer
1892 - 1975
Kwabs
Born 1990
Douglas Carswell
Born 1971
Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby
1865 - 1948
Eros Vlahos
Born 1995
Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield
1939 - 2005
Eric A. Havelock
1903 - 1988
John Heywood
1497 - 1580
Hannah Taylor-Gordon
Born 1987
Adrian Biddle
1952 - 2005
A. Edward Sutherland
1895 - 1973
Sophie Thompson
Born 1962
Max Mosley
Born 1940
Oliver Wallace
1887 - 1963
Ol Parker
Born 1969
Margaret Wycherly
1881 - 1956
Marmaduke Pickthall
1876 - 1936
Henry Lincoln
Born 1930
Alex Comfort
1920 - 2000
Aston Webb
1849 - 1930
Peter Lovesey
Born 1936
Joe Penny
Born 1956
Kate Reid
1930 - 1993
Sheila Chandra
Born 1965
John G. Bennett
1897 - 1974
Ana Mulvoy-Ten
Born 1992
Lynn Chadwick
1914 - 2003
Colin Groves
1942 - 2017
Calvert Vaux
1824 - 1895
George Atwood
1745 - 1807
Mark Mazower
Born 1958
Charles La Trobe
1801 - 1875
James Shirley
1596 - 1666
Alexi Murdoch
Born 1973
Bernard Rose (director)
Born 1960
Jem Karacan
Born 1989
Margaret Roper
1505 - 1544
Max Pirkis
Born 1989
Conrad Lant
Born 1963
E. Phillips Oppenheim
1866 - 1946
Sacha Gervasi
Born 1966
Reginald McKenna
1863 - 1943
DeObia Oparei
Born 1971
Carole Shelley
1939 - 2018
Robert Muchamore
Born 1972
Alexander William Williamson
1824 - 1904
Henry Thomas Colebrooke
1765 - 1837
Ben Bradshaw
Born 1960
Alex Hepburn
Born 1986
Adolph Deutsch
1897 - 1980
Andrea Levy
1956 - 2019
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone
1907 - 2001
Eileen Essell
1922 - 2015
Paul Buckmaster
1946 - 2017
Edward Gibbon Wakefield
1796 - 1862
Les Tremayne
1913 - 2003
Martin Benson (actor)
1918 - 2010
Fara Williams
Born 1984
David Winters (choreographer)
1939 - 2019
Ted Heath (bandleader)
1902 - 1969
Joan Littlewood
1914 - 2002
Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife
1891 - 1959
Thomas Francis Wade
1818 - 1895
John Frederick Lewis
1804 - 1876
Christopher Kelk Ingold
1893 - 1970
Sir Richard Wallace, 1st Baronet
1818 - 1890
Tina Barrett
Born 1976
George Albert Smith (film pioneer)
1864 - 1959
Audley Harrison
Born 1971
Edward Dickinson Baker
1811 - 1861
Philip Ridley
Born 1964
Infante Alfonso Carlos, Duke of San Jaime
1849 - 1936
Gladys Aylward
1902 - 1970
Valerie French (actress)
1928 - 1990
Justin Hoyte
Born 1984
Natasha Parry
1930 - 2015
William Edward Ayrton
1847 - 1908
Jane Franklin
1791 - 1875
Kenneth Connor
1918 - 1993
York Bowen
1884 - 1961
Frank Dillane
Born 1991
Simon Cadell
1950 - 1996
Renée Asherson
1915 - 2014
Jacob Collier
Born 1994
Thomas Heatherwick
Born 1970
David Robb
Born 1947
Paul Brunton
1898 - 1981
Osbert Sitwell
1892 - 1969
Hannah Arterton
Born 1989
Tom McCarthy (novelist)
Born 1969
Duncan Sandys
1908 - 1987
Josef Altin
Born 1983
Douglas Wilmer
1920 - 2016
Poppy Delevingne
Born 1986
Pamela Brown (actress)
1917 - 1975
Martin Wolf
Born 1946
C. Lloyd Morgan
1852 - 1936
Leslie Ward
1851 - 1922
Henry De la Beche
1796 - 1855
Chris Larkin
Born 1967
Edward Blyth
1810 - 1873
Alan Aldridge
1943 - 2017
Liz Cambage
Born 1991
Lancelot Andrewes
1555 - 1626
Mark Thatcher
Born 1953
Eugene Simon
Born 1992
Fay Compton
1894 - 1978
Archibald Garrod
1857 - 1936
Percy Herbert (actor)
1920 - 1992
Charles Jarrott
1927 - 2011
Ernest Henry Wilson
1876 - 1930
Taiye Selasi
Born 1979
Harry Price
1881 - 1948
Ashley Long
Born 1979
Matthew Briggs
Born 1991
Maurice Baring
1874 - 1945
Charles Robert Ashbee
1863 - 1942
Nicholas Hooper
Born 1952
Betty Boo
Born 1970
William Tenn
1920 - 2010
Naomi Alderman
Born 1974
John Moulder-Brown
Born 1953
Simon Keenlyside
Born 1959
Jonathan Israel
Born 1946
Ilan Eshkeri
Born 1977
Stanley William Hayter
1901 - 1988
Bunny Austin
1906 - 2000
Rollo Armstrong
Born 1966
Charles Hatchett
1765 - 1847
Henry Victor
1892 - 1945
John Collier (fiction writer)
1901 - 1980
Philip Catherine
Born 1942
Edward Walter Maunder
1851 - 1928
Dee Palmer
Born 1937
Lucy Walker (director)
Born 1970
Harry Golombek
1911 - 1995
Arthur Wing Pinero
1855 - 1934
Lilian Bond
1908 - 1991
Anthony D. Smith
1939 - 2016
Ernesto Nathan
1845 - 1921
Antony C. Sutton
1925 - 2002
Justine Frischmann
Born 1969
George Dawe
1781 - 1829
William Henry Smyth
1788 - 1865
Ruth Sheen
Born 1952
Tyrone Power Sr
1869 - 1931
Clifford Curzon
1907 - 1982
Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel
1725 - 1786
Flood (producer)
Born 1960
Jakko Jakszyk
Born 1958
Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch
1746 - 1812
Agnes Arber
1879 - 1960
Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe
1858 - 1945
Ronny Jordan
1962 - 2014
Chijindu Ujah
Born 1994
Adrian Sherwood
Born 1958
Harry Johnston
1858 - 1927
Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst
1762 - 1834
Elisabeth Risdon
1887 - 1958
Richard Wollheim
1923 - 2003