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NORWICH
Most Famous People Born in Norwich, United Kingdom
- Notable people
- 426
- Peak decade
- 1970s
- Median birth year
- 1918
- Most distinctive
- Organist 16.2×
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Norwich during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Norwich Is Known For
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Football is Norwich's biggest profession — 9% of all notables (39).
Norwich over-indexes on organist — 16.2× the global rate.
Norwich under-produces politician — only 0.3× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Norwich's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Sports
- Art & Design
- Science
- Writing
- Music
- Film & TV
- Other
Philip Pullman
Born 1946
Olivia Colman
Born 1974
Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick
1428 - 1471
Harriet Martineau
1802 - 1876
Julian of Norwich
1342 - 1416
Paul Nurse
Born 1949
China Miéville
Born 1972
Tony Sheridan
1940 - 2013
Elizabeth Fry
1780 - 1845
Robert Greene (dramatist)
1558 - 1592
Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York
1373 - 1415
Thomas Morley
1557 - 1602
Ed Balls
Born 1967
William Jackson Hooker
1785 - 1865
Samuel Clarke
1675 - 1729
Matthew Parker
1504 - 1575
Paige (wrestler)
Born 1992
James Edward Smith
1759 - 1828
Peter Barlow (mathematician)
1776 - 1862
John Sell Cotman
1782 - 1842
Cathy Dennis
Born 1969
Frederick Sandys
1829 - 1904
Reyner Banham
1922 - 1988
John Playford
1623 - 1686
Sigala
Born 1993
Julian Jarrold
Born 1960
John Crome
1768 - 1821
Richard Westall
1765 - 1836
Mary F. Lyon
1925 - 2014
John Caius
1510 - 1573
Edward Bullard
1907 - 1980
William of Norwich
1132 - 1144
John Taylor (oculist)
1703 - 1772
Stuart Craig
Born 1942
Matthew Brettingham
1699 - 1769
Alex Bruce (footballer, born 1984)
Born 1984
Danny Mills
Born 1977
William Wilkins (architect)
1778 - 1839
Roger Lancelyn Green
1918 - 1987
Sydney Ringer
1835 - 1910
Elizabeth Eastlake
1809 - 1893
William Crotch
1775 - 1847
Robert Hinde
1923 - 2016
Emily Stowe
1831 - 1903
Robert Woodhouse
1773 - 1827
Angus Gunn
Born 1996
Michael Andrews (artist)
1928 - 1995
Alex Scarrow
Born 1966
Amelia Opie
1769 - 1853
Nicholas Herkimer
1728 - 1777
Chris Cohen
Born 1987
Nicholas Barker
Born 1973
John Curtis (entomologist)
1791 - 1862
Christopher Bishop
Born 1959
John Sutton (footballer)
Born 1983
Jocelyn Lovell
1950 - 2016
Ben Youngs
Born 1989
George Henry Boughton
1833 - 1905
Jed Steer
Born 1992
Bridget Bishop
1632 - 1692
James Martineau
1805 - 1900
James Hook (composer)
1746 - 1827
Zoe Telford
Born 1973
Sarah Austin (translator)
1793 - 1867
Nick Dempsey
Born 1980
Arthur Roy Clapham
1904 - 1990
Henry Woodward (geologist)
1832 - 1921
Barry Pinches
Born 1970
Tom Youngs
Born 1987
Simon Quarterman
Born 1981
Bernard Meadows
1915 - 2005
Robert John Tillyard
1881 - 1937
John Lombe
1693 - 1722
Chris Baker (athlete)
Born 1991
Ruth Madoc
Born 1943
John Henry Gurney Sr.
1819 - 1890
Richard V. Southwell
1888 - 1970
Sarah Ann Glover
1785 - 1867
Natasha Barrett (composer)
Born 1972
Francis Cooke
1583 - 1663
Peter Trudgill
Born 1943
Beryl Bryden
1920 - 1998
Mark Tyler (footballer)
Born 1977
Joe Farman
1930 - 2013
Gary Pine
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Richard Taylor (editor)
1781 - 1858
Eloise Harriet Stannard
1829 - 1915
John Cosin
1594 - 1672
William Albert Setchell
1864 - 1943
William Taylor (man of letters)
1765 - 1836
Keith Simpson (politician)
Born 1949
Mike Gascoyne
Born 1963
Pablo Fanque
1796 - 1871
Ambrose Reeves
1899 - 1980
John Capgrave
1393 - 1464
Stuart Ashen
Born 1976
James Puckle
1667 - 1724
Edward Miller (musician)
1735 - 1807
Arthur Henry Mann
1850 - 1929
E. Cobham Brewer
1810 - 1897
James Stark (painter)
1794 - 1859
Heather Wheeler
Born 1959
Stuart Agnew
Born 1949
Edward Browne (physician)
1644 - 1708
Alfie Hewett
Born 1997
Francis Lathom
1774 - 1832
Hannah Diamond
Born 1991
Joseph Stannard
1797 - 1830
Samuel Woodward
1790 - 1838
Steve Smith (academic)
Born 1952
Evelyn Pinching
1915 - 1988
Donald Burton
1934 - 2007
Peter Oakley
1927 - 2014
D. J. Taylor
Born 1960
Poppy Miller
Born 1969
Thomas Legge
1535 - 1607
Jon Tickle
Born 1974
Luke Hansard
1752 - 1828
Nicholas Shaxton
1485 - 1556
Charles D. Hall
1888 - 1970
John Berney Crome
1794 - 1842
David Holbrook
1923 - 2011
Sam Sexton
Born 1984
Oliver Rackham
1939 - 2015
Mary Selway
1936 - 2004
Emma Sandys
1843 - 1877
Jimmy Hanley
1918 - 1970
Richard Hearne
1908 - 1979
Henry Reeve (journalist)
1813 - 1895
Charles Porter (Lord Chancellor of Ireland)
1631 - 1696
Adam Sedgwick (zoologist)
1854 - 1913
Ralph Firman
Born 1975
Ralph Hale Mottram
1883 - 1971
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
1821 - 1865
Ailwyn Fellowes, 1st Baron Ailwyn
1855 - 1924
Jane Hissey
Born 1952
Daniel Wright (footballer)
Born 1984
John Taylor (footballer, born 1964)
Born 1964
Bella Bayliss
Born 1977
James Auckland
Born 1980
George Mountain
1789 - 1863
Hay Plumb
1883 - 1960
Philip Taylor (civil engineer)
1786 - 1870
Bill Jacobson
Born 1955
Eileen Mayo
1906 - 1994
Ron Turner (illustrator)
1922 - 1998
Paul Easter
Born 1963
John Dalrymple (physician)
1803 - 1852
John Palgrave Simpson
1807 - 1887
Joseph Wiggins
1832 - 1905
Emily Coppin Stannard
1802 - 1885
Ahasuerus Fromanteel
1607 - 1693
James Rutherford (baritone)
Born 1972
Darren Webster
Born 1968
A. H. Fox Strangways
1859 - 1948
William Beloe
1756 - 1817
William Capon (artist)
1757 - 1827
Joe Duddell
Born 1972
Henry Kett
1761 - 1825
Jonathan Partington
Born 1955
Vernon Castle
1887 - 1918
Richard Bloomfield
Born 1983
Richard Brindley
Born 1993
Edward Seago
1910 - 1974
George Vincent (painter)
1796 - 1832
Diana Burrell
Born 1948
Thomas Phaer
1510 - 1560
Derek Rayner, Baron Rayner
1926 - 1998
Richard Mackenzie Bacon
1775 - 1844
Elizabeth Bentley (writer)
1767 - 1839
Tanya Burr
Born 1989
Chris Bailey (tennis)
Born 1968
Luke Bullen
Born 1973
Alfred Pearce Gould
1852 - 1922
Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
1790 - 1846
Rebecca Grinter
Born 1960
Edward Maltby
1770 - 1859
Philip R. Goodwin
1881 - 1935
John Coates Carter
1859 - 1927
Christopher Boardman
1903 - 1987
Oliver Oakes
Born 1988
Robert Ladbrooke
1768 - 1842
Jane Shaw
Born 1965
Michael Falcon
1888 - 1976
Philip May
Born 1957
George Lathan
1875 - 1942
Herman Klein
1856 - 1934
Dominic Byrne
Born 1972
Paul Warne
Born 1973
Simon Tunsted
Died 1369
Colin Self
Born 1941
Alexander Gordon Smith
Born 1979
Cecil Havers
1889 - 1977
Andy Miah
Born 1975
Jane Manning
Born 1938
Robert Taylor (footballer)
Born 1971
John Taylor (civil engineer)
1779 - 1863
John Middleton (Norfolk artist)
1827 - 1856
John Thirtle
1777 - 1839
Miles Edmund Cotman
1810 - 1858
Charles Sutton
1756 - 1846
Anna Litvinenko
Born 2001
Tom Sutcliffe (opera critic)
Born 1943
Zechariah Buck
1798 - 1879
Alfred Gaul
1837 - 1913
Charles Catton
1728 - 1798
Geoffrey Shakespeare
1893 - 1980
David Shipman (writer)
1932 - 1996
George Richard Potter
1900 - 1981
James Sillett
1764 - 1840
Jon Thaxton
Born 1974
Frank Perfitt
1880 - 1958
Charles Latham, 1st Baron Latham
1888 - 1970
Peter Amory
Born 1962
Hudson Gurney
1775 - 1864
Thomas Green (bishop)
1658 - 1738
Joseph Cundall
1818 - 1895
Narissara France
Born 1990
John Adey Repton
1775 - 1860
Matthew Hollis
Born 1971
George Julius
1873 - 1946
John Taylor (Unitarian hymn writer)
1750 - 1826
John Browne (anatomist)
1642 - 1702
Sir John Hobart, 2nd Baronet
1593 - 1647
Robert Barnes (physician)
1817 - 1907
Caitlin Leach
Born 1996
Mary E. Mann
1848 - 1929
Norman Jewson
1884 - 1975
George Paston
1860 - 1936
Walter Murton
1893 - 1968
Josh Files
Born 1991
Henry Ninham
1793 - 1874
Olly Stone
Born 1993
Elizabeth Yates (actress)
1799 - 1860
Roy Bevis
Born 1982
Michael Brunson
Born 1940
Ivan Zagni
Born 1942
Andy Walker (journalist)
Born 1967
Obadiah Short
1803 - 1886
Becky Mantin
Born 1980
William Say (engraver)
1768 - 1834
Kenneth Hubbard
1920 - 2004
Samuel Foxe
1560 - 1630
Edward Boardman
1833 - 1910
Aubrey Feist
1903 - 1976
Alison Halford
Born 1940
Louise Latimer (tennis)
Born 1978
Alan Howard (nutritionist)
1929 - 2020
Alistair John
Born 1987
Matthew Howson
Born 1983
Flo Allen (footballer)
Born 1999
Edward Taylor (music writer)
1784 - 1863
Frank Styant Browne
1854 - 1938
Joseph J. Daynes
1851 - 1920
Harriet Siddons
1783 - 1844
Malcolm Quantrill
1931 - 2009
William Harrold
Born 1988
Mark Howard (racing driver)
Born 1965
Thomas Lound
1802 - 1861
Jim Chapman (Internet celebrity)
Born 1987
George Jennings Hinde
1839 - 1918
Alfred Stannard
1806 - 1889
Darren Cann (referee)
Born 1969
Samuel David Colkett
1806 - 1863
Carol Barnes
1944 - 2008
Jeremy C. Smith
Born 1959
Sophie Wright (cyclist)
Born 1999
William Inglott
1554 - 1621
Dorothy Jewson
1884 - 1964
Graham George
1912 - 1993
Jacko Page
Born 1959
John Winter (architect)
1930 - 2012
Warren Carlyle
-
Kit Downes
Born 1986
Rob Ferley
Born 1982
Richard Rodger
Born 1947
Alfred Priest
1810 - 1850
Arthur Havers
1898 - 1980
Donald Cunnell
1893 - 1917
Ciarán O'Keeffe
Born 1971
Rainer Hönisch
Born 1936
Tony Barber (musician)
Born 1943
Bernard Reynolds
1915 - 1997
Mel Blyth
Born 1944
John Brand (political writer)
Died 1808
Frederick Ringer
1838 - 1907
Edgar Larner
1869 - 1930
Adam Cole (cricketer)
Born 1974
Marek Larwood
Born 1976
Thomas Miller (bookseller)
1731 - 1804
Alfred Stephenson
1908 - 1999
Thomas Starling Norgate
1772 - 1859
John Patteson (1755–1833)
1755 - 1833
Bland Holt
1851 - 1942
Horace Beevor Love
1800 - 1838
John Wells (architect)
1789 - 1864
Edward Rushton (Komponist)
Born 1972
Callum Taylor
Born 1997
Alan Michette
1950 - 2013
John Metcalf (athlete)
Born 1934