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LONDON
Most Famous People Born in London, United Kingdom
A comprehensive ledger of notable people across arts, science, politics, sport, and public life.
Anna Walton
Born 1980
Yazz
Born 1960
Peter Bardens
1945 - 2002
James Mellaart
1925 - 2012
David Lidington
Born 1956
Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma
1924 - 2017
George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland
1758 - 1833
Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover
1802 - 1867
Patrick Caulfield
1936 - 2005
Ronnie Scott
1927 - 1996
Marina Warner
Born 1946
Henry Litolff
1818 - 1891
William Lloyd Webber
1914 - 1982
Donovan Leitch (actor)
Born 1967
Jane Shore
1445 - 1527
Grace Aguilar
1816 - 1847
Steve Dillon
1962 - 2016
Cecily Brown
Born 1969
Thomas Cavalier-Smith
Born 1942
James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury
1861 - 1947
W. O. Bentley
1888 - 1971
Robert Addie
1960 - 2003
Henry Bishop (composer)
1786 - 1855
Norman Cohn
1915 - 2007
Norma Varden
1898 - 1989
Brian Bennett
Born 1940
Henry Wallis
1830 - 1916
Chris Howland
1928 - 2013
Colin Thubron
Born 1939
Carlos Raúl Villanueva
1900 - 1975
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
1875 - 1956
Edmund Blunden
1896 - 1974
Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet
1772 - 1853
Gerald du Maurier
1873 - 1934
Raymond Keene
Born 1948
Vincent Riotta
Born 1959
James Ward (artist)
1769 - 1859
William, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe
1724 - 1777
John Edwards (musician)
Born 1953
Albert Adomah
Born 1987
Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton
1683 - 1757
Julian Symons
1912 - 1994
Mary Lamb
1764 - 1847
Leonard Feather
1914 - 1994
Angela Scoular
1945 - 2011
Tom Helmore
1904 - 1995
Solomon (pianist)
1902 - 1988
Godfrey Rampling
1909 - 2009
Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk
1561 - 1626
Robert William Seton-Watson
1879 - 1951
Keith Joseph
1918 - 1994
John Stanley (composer)
1712 - 1786
Heather Sears
1935 - 1994
Roger O'Donnell
Born 1955
Jane Taylor (poet)
1783 - 1824
Christien Anholt
Born 1971
John Harvey (author)
Born 1938
Marie Belloc Lowndes
1868 - 1947
Joe Armstrong (actor)
Born 1978
Guy Chambers
Born 1963
Alistair Horne
1925 - 2017
Christopher Neame
Born 1947
Timothy Bateson
1926 - 2009
Adnan Sami
Born 1971
Peter Bull
1912 - 1984
Henry McGee
1929 - 2006
Anne Keothavong
Born 1983
William Burnside
1852 - 1927
Susie Amy
Born 1981
Ronald Howard (British actor)
1918 - 1996
Daniel Miller (music producer)
Born 1951
Lord George Gordon
1751 - 1793
Robert Aickman
1914 - 1981
Peter Howson
Born 1958
Maurice Greene (composer)
1696 - 1755
Ernest Thesiger
1879 - 1961
Henry Mayhew
1812 - 1887
Martyn Poliakoff
Born 1947
Daniela Denby-Ashe
Born 1978
Georgina Leonidas
Born 1990
Eric Christmas
1916 - 2000
Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer
1798 - 1857
Patrick McGrath (novelist)
Born 1950
Denys Lasdun
1914 - 2001
Carol Thatcher
Born 1953
Terence O'Neill
1914 - 1990
Noreena Hertz
Born 1967
Andrew Mitchell
Born 1956
Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet
1628 - 1699
Erol Alkan
Born 1974
Samuel Parris
1653 - 1720
Dora Russell
1894 - 1986
Javine Hylton
Born 1981
Ken Scott
Born 1947
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne
1780 - 1863
George Morland
1763 - 1804
Howard Blake
Born 1938
Kenneth J. Alford
1881 - 1945
Chris Stringer
Born 1947
Charlotte Hatherley
Born 1979
Bel Powley
Born 1992
Jack Hedley
Born 1930
Irving Rapper
1898 - 1999
Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne
1862 - 1938
Bill Owen (actor)
1914 - 1999
James Strachey
1887 - 1967
Jonathan Hill, Baron Hill of Oareford
Born 1960
Julian Bell
1908 - 1937
Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester (seventh creation)
1754 - 1842
James Stuart (1713–1788)
1713 - 1788
Neil Maskell
Born 1976
Alfred Percy Sinnett
1840 - 1921
Nicolas Coster
Born 1934
Nikolai Tolstoy
Born 1935
Dennis Stratton
Born 1952
Sydney Bromley
1909 - 1987
Fad Gadget
1956 - 2002
Perri Shakes-Drayton
Born 1988
Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet
1783 - 1862
Matthew Prior
1664 - 1721
Lloyd Owen
Born 1966
Henry Carey (writer)
1687 - 1743
Vanessa Branch
Born 1973
George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham
1753 - 1813
Neil Ross
Born 1944
Nigel McGuinness
Born 1976
Walter Legge
1906 - 1979
James DeGale
Born 1986
Sister Bliss
Born 1970
Elisabeth Lutyens
1906 - 1983
Nick Brandt
Born 1966
James Dasaolu
Born 1987
Jim Marshall (businessman)
1923 - 2012
Stella Rimington
Born 1935
Josiah Child
1630 - 1699
Jean Kent
1921 - 2013
Peter Suschitzky
Born 1941
Julius Vogel
1835 - 1899
David Kossoff
1919 - 2005
Jeremy Thomas
Born 1949
Angus Ogilvy
1928 - 2004
Jack Whitehall
Born 1988
Charles Vyner Brooke
1874 - 1963
Jack Peñate
Born 1984
Danny Webb (actor)
Born 1958
Caspar Lee
Born 1994
Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland
1705 - 1774
Charlotte Mew
1869 - 1928
Larry Burrows
1926 - 1971
Ella Mai
Born 1994
Mary McCartney
Born 1969
Steven Rose
Born 1938
John Burns
1858 - 1943
George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend
1724 - 1807
Kevin Connor (director)
Born 1937
Mark Lindsay Chapman
Born 1954
Stewart Home
Born 1962
Keaton Henson
Born 1988
Oliver Wood (cinematographer)
Born 1950
Francis Dashwood, 11th Baron le Despencer
1708 - 1781
Ainsley Maitland-Niles
Born 1997
Sir Charles Dilke, 2nd Baronet
1843 - 1911
David Yallop
1937 - 2018
Briton Rivière
1840 - 1920
Ivor Montagu
1904 - 1984
Jasper Morrison
Born 1959
J. Eric S. Thompson
1898 - 1975
Beatriz Batarda
Born 1974
Manny Shinwell
1884 - 1986
Harriet Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland
1806 - 1868
Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian
1882 - 1940
Nigel Nicolson
1917 - 2004
Tom Kristensen (poet)
1893 - 1974
Marcus Clarke
1846 - 1881
Lionel Penrose
1898 - 1972
James Booth
1927 - 2005
Robin Sachs
1951 - 2013
Peter Philips
1561 - 1628
Esther Freud
Born 1963
Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton
1505 - 1550
Harley Granville-Barker
1877 - 1946
Elizabeth Craven
1750 - 1828
George Hayter
1792 - 1871
Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe
1786 - 1880
Danny Cohen (cinematographer)
Born 1963
W. K. C. Guthrie
1906 - 1981
Phil Palmer
Born 1952
Raymond Leppard
1927 - 2019
Jeremy Deller
Born 1966
Dorothy Tutin
1930 - 2001
Rosalie Crutchley
1920 - 1997
Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts
1814 - 1906
William Banting
1797 - 1878
Yinka Shonibare
Born 1962
Auguste Couder
1790 - 1873
Alexander John Ellis
1814 - 1890
Charles Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond
1818 - 1903
Barry Windsor-Smith
Born 1949
Joseph Severn
1793 - 1879
David O'Leary
Born 1958
Mica Paris
Born 1969
Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale
1872 - 1945
Jermaine Beckford
Born 1983
Kate Barry (photographer)
1967 - 2013
Marti Webb
Born 1944
Jamie Woon
Born 1983
Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough
1880 - 1956
Raj Patel
Born 1972
Rosemary Brown (spiritualist)
1916 - 2001
Thomas Day
1748 - 1789
Liberty Ross
Born 1978
Matthew Beard (English actor)
Born 1989
Barbara Murray
1929 - 2014
Richard Whately
1787 - 1863
Abigail Masham, Baroness Masham
1670 - 1734
Robert Knox (sailor)
1641 - 1720
Elizabeth Canning
1734 - 1773
Carter Brown
1923 - 1985
Teddy Thompson
Born 1976
Alex Scott (footballer, born 1984)
Born 1984
Bill Moggridge
1943 - 2012
Edwin Charles Tubb
1919 - 2010
Thomas Carew
1594 - 1640
William Heberden
1710 - 1801
John Carlin (journalist)
Born 1956
Nigel Planer
Born 1953
Charles Rosher
1885 - 1974
John Hough (director)
Born 1941
Ashley Hutchings
Born 1945
Philip Doddridge
1702 - 1751
Gilli Smyth
1933 - 2016
Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter
1542 - 1623
Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry
1878 - 1949
Ralph Forbes
1904 - 1951
Dennis Hoey
1893 - 1960
Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Cleveland
1662 - 1730
William Ellis (missionary)
1794 - 1872
William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp
1872 - 1938
Rupert Hine
1947 - 2020
David Lack
1910 - 1973
Mark Thompson (media executive)
Born 1957
Dusa McDuff
Born 1945
J. G. A. Pocock
Born 1924
Kirsty Hawkshaw
Born 1969
Harold Spencer Jones
1890 - 1960
James Guillaume
1844 - 1916
Daniel Purcell
1664 - 1717
Sarah Morris
Born 1967
Richard Leacock
1921 - 2011
Tony Palmer
Born 1941
John Abbott (actor)
1905 - 1996
John Pope-Hennessy
1913 - 1994
Tino Sehgal
Born 1976
Misha Glenny
Born 1958
Nick Love
Born 1969
Henry Hyndman
1842 - 1921
Montagu Norman, 1st Baron Norman
1871 - 1950
David Horovitch
Born 1945
Jack Savoretti
Born 1983
St. George Jackson Mivart
1827 - 1900
Dan Cruickshank
Born 1949
Harriet Cohen
1895 - 1967
Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond
1791 - 1860
William Henry Ireland
1775 - 1835
Martin Bernal
1937 - 2013
Miles Aldridge
Born 1964
Morris Travers
1872 - 1961
Denis Mack Smith
1920 - 2017
John Walter Gregory
1864 - 1932
John Pritchard (conductor)
1921 - 1989
Arthur Conolly
1807 - 1842
Richie Faulkner
Born 1980
Bishop Briggs
Born 1992
Linda Thompson (singer)
Born 1947
Nancy Storace
1765 - 1817
Denis Quilley
1927 - 2003
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
1807 - 1894
Charles Wirgman
1832 - 1891
Mandy Smith
Born 1970
Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope
1753 - 1816
Paul Stewart (writer)
Born 1955
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Born 1985
Anne McLaren
1927 - 2007
Leslie Orgel
1927 - 2007
Will Tudor
Born 1987
John Scott, 9th Duke of Buccleuch
1923 - 2007
Ben Davis (cinematographer)
Born 1961
Clare Torry
Born 1947
J. R. Ackerley
1896 - 1967
Arthur Hallam
1811 - 1833
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh
1818 - 1887
Edward Burra
1905 - 1976
George FitzClarence, 1st Earl of Munster
1794 - 1842
Lesley Blanch
1904 - 2007
John White (colonist and artist)
1540 - 1593
Wendy Hall
Born 1952
Philip MacDonald
1900 - 1980
Edwin Montagu
1879 - 1924
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook
1826 - 1904
Jane Marcet
1769 - 1858