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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.
Paul Brooke
Born 1944
M. J. Arlidge
Born 1974
Heather Thatcher
1896 - 1987
John Pratt, 1st Marquess Camden
1759 - 1840
Danny Green (actor)
1903 - 1973
Peter Kosminsky
Born 1956
Akala (rapper)
Born 1983
Mark Sanger
Born 1974
Christine Truman
Born 1941
Dorothy Tennant
1855 - 1926
John Altman (composer)
Born 1949
John Strachey (civil servant)
1823 - 1907
Edward Newman (entomologist)
1801 - 1876
Karel Mark Chichon
Born 1971
Charles Montagu-Scott, 4th Duke of Buccleuch
1772 - 1819
Alfred W. Pollard
1859 - 1944
John Bloom (film editor)
Born 1935
Nat Gonella
1908 - 1998
Frederic Austin
1872 - 1952
Ralph Smart
1908 - 2001
Maggie Aderin-Pocock
Born 1968
Adrian Legg
Born 1948
Garrick Hagon
Born 1939
Victoria, Lady Welby
1837 - 1912
Frederick Corder
1852 - 1932
Luciana Caporaso
Born 1973
Thomas Deloney
1543 - 1600
Claire Rayner
1931 - 2010
Nathaniel de Rothschild
1812 - 1870
Michael Landy
Born 1963
William Henry Hunt (painter)
1790 - 1864
John Lawson (explorer)
1674 - 1711
Hugh Seton-Watson
1916 - 1984
Thomas Banks
1735 - 1805
Tom Holt
Born 1961
Edward Molyneux
1891 - 1974
James Marsh (chemist)
1794 - 1846
Nick Kent
Born 1951
James Richardson (explorer)
1809 - 1851
Alistair McAlpine, Baron McAlpine of West Green
1942 - 2014
Simon Winchester
Born 1944
Katie Carr
Born 1973
Hardinge Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury
1823 - 1921
Tom Vek
Born 1981
John Rich (producer)
1692 - 1761
Pelham Humfrey
1647 - 1674
Harriet Leveson-Gower, Countess Granville
1785 - 1862
Clara Novello
1818 - 1908
David Masser
Born 1948
George Augustus Robinson
1791 - 1866
Alexander Bassano
1829 - 1913
Mick Tucker
1947 - 2002
James Dearden
Born 1949
Thomas Gibson Bowles
1841 - 1922
Ian Russell, 13th Duke of Bedford
1917 - 2002
Loulou de la Falaise
1947 - 2011
Healey Willan
1880 - 1968
François-Guillaume Ménageot
1744 - 1816
Jade Johnson
Born 1980
Margaret Rhodes
1925 - 2016
Gillian Cross
Born 1945
David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech
1918 - 1985
Robin Ticciati
Born 1983
Ariane Sherine
Born 1980
Neil Pearson
Born 1959
Jonathan Cecil
1939 - 2011
Barbara Everest
1890 - 1968
Joseph Gallagher
Born 1964
Peter Lamont
Born 1929
Perry Bamonte
Born 1960
Anastasia Hille
Born 1965
Lilian Gibbs
1870 - 1925
Steve Woolgar
Born 1950
Francis Haskell
1928 - 2000
Jill Johnston
1929 - 2010
Doug Sampson
Born 1957
Robert Freeman (photographer)
1936 - 2019
Roxanna Panufnik
Born 1968
Gervase de Peyer
1926 - 2017
Derrick De Marney
1906 - 1978
George Wyndham
1863 - 1913
William Babell
1690 - 1723
Gerald Reitlinger
1900 - 1978
Tim Blake
Born 1952
Jacqueline Durran
Born 1966
Bridget St John
Born 1946
Amanda Foreman (historian)
Born 1968
Paul Strathern
Born 1940
Percy Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford
1780 - 1855
Gareth Malone
Born 1975
David Thompson (Barbadian politician)
1961 - 2010
Treva Etienne
Born 1965
Ronnie Stevens (actor)
1925 - 2006
Kynaston Reeves
1893 - 1971
Derren Nesbitt
Born 1935
Charles Keating (actor)
1941 - 2014
Suzannah Lipscomb
Born 1978
Michael Dapaah
Born 1991
Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles
1599 - 1680
KatieJane Garside
Born 1968
Oscar Eckenstein
1859 - 1921
Vic Elford
Born 1935
Philip Leacock
1917 - 1990
Lady Frieda Harris
1877 - 1962
Valerie Leon
Born 1943
Ewen Montagu
1901 - 1985
Alfred de Rothschild
1842 - 1918
Rennell Rodd, 1st Baron Rennell
1858 - 1941
Peter Monamy
1681 - 1749
Horace Smith (poet)
1779 - 1849
Alexandra Dowling
Born 1990
Angus Douglas-Hamilton, 15th Duke of Hamilton
1938 - 2010
Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
1862 - 1932
Jeremy Black (historian)
Born 1955
Paul McCreesh
Born 1960
Alan Cobham
1894 - 1973
Dan Mazer
Born 1971
Shane Briant
Born 1946
Albert Meltzer
1920 - 1996
Frances Anne Hopkins
1838 - 1919
Philip Locke
1928 - 2004
Charles Gordon-Lennox, 10th Duke of Richmond
1929 - 2017
Chris Cleave
Born 1973
Robert Grosvenor, 5th Duke of Westminster
1910 - 1979
Edith Maryon
1872 - 1924
George Dunlop Leslie
1835 - 1921
John Freeman (British politician)
1915 - 2014
William Pleeth
1916 - 1999
Samantha Beckinsale
Born 1966
Francis Russell, 9th Duke of Bedford
1819 - 1891
Alfred Cobban
1901 - 1968
Quincy Jones III
Born 1968
Oscar Browning
1837 - 1923
Edward Garnett
1868 - 1937
William Lionel Wyllie
1851 - 1931
Robert Bartlett (historian)
Born 1950
Cipriani Potter
1792 - 1871
John Ellis (guitarist)
Born 1952
W. Franke Harling
1887 - 1958
Caroline Lawrence
Born 1954
William Henry Giles Kingston
1814 - 1880
Eleanor Summerfield
1921 - 2001
Kelenna Azubuike
Born 1983
Robert S. Baker
1916 - 2009
Bertie Carvel
Born 1977
Kenneth Grange
Born 1929
George Steevens
1736 - 1800
Kylie Travis
Born 1966
Sam Houser
Born 1972
Lauren MacMullan
Born 1964
Angus McBride
1931 - 2007
Dillinja
Born 1974
Justin Chancellor
Born 1971
Bilinda Butcher
Born 1961
Johnston Forbes-Robertson
1853 - 1937
Edgar Bainton
1880 - 1956
Adam Willaerts
1577 - 1664
Frederick Manson Bailey
1827 - 1915
Alfred Kempe
1849 - 1922
E. M. Hull
1880 - 1947
Tony Maylam
Born 1943
Edmund FitzAlan-Howard, 1st Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent
1855 - 1947
Savannah Gold
1984 - 2011
Liza Lehmann
1862 - 1918
Simon Climie
Born 1957
Kenneth Bulmer
1921 - 2005
Philip Howard (cardinal)
1629 - 1694
Andrew White (Jesuit)
1579 - 1656
Ben Silverstone
Born 1979
Frederick William Hope
1797 - 1862
Annabel Jankel
Born 1955
Henry, Duke of Cornwall
1511 - 1511
John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne
1924 - 2005
Sophie Choudry
Born 1981
Oliver Stanley
1896 - 1950
Kate Duchêne
Born 1959
Tim Hughes
Born 1978
Arabella Churchill (charity founder)
1949 - 2007
Myfanwy Piper
1911 - 1997
Gilbert Thomas Burnett
1800 - 1835
Derek Royle
1928 - 1990
Anthony Bacon (1558–1601)
1558 - 1601
Cecilia Colledge
1920 - 2008
Elizabeth Philpot
1780 - 1857
Sarah Jane Hamilton
Born 1971
Arkie Whiteley
1964 - 2001
Frederick Vine
Born 1939
Andrew Brown (writer)
Born 1955
Jack Cutmore-Scott
Born 1987
William Deakin
1913 - 2005
Dan Luger
Born 1975
John Hall Gladstone
1827 - 1902
Plum Sykes
Born 1969
Julian Tudor Hart
1927 - 2018
Thomas Anstey Guthrie
1856 - 1934
Philip Hensher
Born 1965
John Barton (director)
1928 - 2018
Thomas Weld (cardinal)
1773 - 1837
Emily Fitzroy
1860 - 1954
Peter Ellis (director)
1948 - 2006
George Percy, 5th Duke of Northumberland
1778 - 1867
Norman Del Mar
1919 - 1994
Francis Ronalds
1788 - 1873
John Henry Pepper
1821 - 1900
Sydney Buxton, 1st Earl Buxton
1853 - 1934
Frankmusik
Born 1985
Madge Syers
1881 - 1917
John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland
1784 - 1859
Charles Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax
1839 - 1934
Cecil Chesterton
1879 - 1918
William Ormsby-Gore, 4th Baron Harlech
1885 - 1964
George Cornewall Lewis
1806 - 1863
Fionn Whitehead
Born 1997
Gemma Gibbons
Born 1987
Alexander Dalgarno
1928 - 2015
George Bailey Sansom
1883 - 1965
Evelyn Anthony
1928 - 2018
Milo Parker
Born 2002
Nigel Shadbolt
Born 1956
Myles Burnyeat
1939 - 2019
Irving Finkel
Born 1951
Richard Earlom
1743 - 1822
Frederick Cayley Robinson
1862 - 1927
Rosalyn Landor
Born 1958
Jovanka Houska
Born 1980
Virginia Maskell
1936 - 1968
Robin Atkin Downes
Born 1963
Henry James Pye
1745 - 1813
Hugh J. Schonfield
1901 - 1988
Anne Hamilton, 3rd Duchess of Hamilton
1631 - 1716
Frank Dobson (sculptor)
1886 - 1963
Tom Hurndall
1981 - 2004
Daniel Clark (basketball)
Born 1988
Maro Itoje
Born 1994
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
1861 - 1907
Miles Chamley-Watson
Born 1989
Patrick Kennedy (actor)
Born 1977
Frederic Harrison
1831 - 1923
David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles
1904 - 1999
Melvyn Grant
Born 1944
John Bryan (art director)
1911 - 1969
Emily Young
Born 1951
Lucia Elizabeth Vestris
1797 - 1856
Isao Yamagata
1915 - 1996
David Parry (conductor)
Born 1949
Joseph Jefferson Farjeon
1883 - 1955
Colin Matthews
Born 1946
Etienne Girardot
1856 - 1939
Gretchen Franklin
1911 - 2005
Lucian Msamati
Born 1976
Jack Farthing
Born 1985
Edie Campbell
Born 1990
Alec B. Francis
1867 - 1934
Eily Malyon
1879 - 1961
Lovell Augustus Reeve
1814 - 1865
John Lanchbery
1923 - 2003
Joel Hopkins
Born 1970
Abraham Cooper
1787 - 1868
Irene Manton
1904 - 1988
Michael Pertwee
1916 - 1991
Nick Willing
Born 1961
Gillian Rose
1947 - 1995
K. A. C. Creswell
1879 - 1974
Alex Metric
Born 1984
Jason Euell
Born 1977
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland
1893 - 1977
Dawn Primarolo
Born 1954
James Sant
1820 - 1916
Edward Turner
1901 - 1973
Maxine Audley
1923 - 1992
Robert Thomas Wilson
1777 - 1849
Herbert Blaché
1882 - 1953
Sir John Lubbock, 3rd Baronet
1803 - 1865
Bill Fay
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J. Ann Tickner
Born 1937
Marcus Stone
1840 - 1921
Mark Warburton
Born 1962
Lizzy Hawker
Born 1976
Hardy Amies
1909 - 2003
Steve Nieve
Born 1958
John Miers (botanist)
1789 - 1879
Hope Bridges Adams Lehmann
1855 - 1916
Dorothy Brett
1883 - 1977
John Daly (producer)
1937 - 2008
Jane Rogers
Born 1952
Ashley McKenzie
Born 1989
Samuel Birch
1813 - 1885
Bruce Shand
1917 - 2006
John Lill
Born 1944
Paul Rosenberg (music manager)
Born 1971
Douglas Cooper (art historian)
1911 - 1984
Benjamin Farjeon
1838 - 1903
Enrico Hillyer Giglioli
1845 - 1909
John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont
1711 - 1770
Samuel Joslin
Born 2002
Bettany Hughes
Born 1968
Henry Wellesley, 6th Duke of Wellington
1912 - 1943
Emily Young (film director)
Born 1970
Thea Sharrock
Born 1976
Irene Azuela
Born 1979