51.4686° N, 0.2068° W
WANDSWORTH
Most Famous People Born in Wandsworth, United Kingdom
- Notable people
- 365
- Peak decade
- 1900s
- Median birth year
- 1920
- Most distinctive
- Rower 7.4×
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Wandsworth during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Wandsworth Is Known For
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Football is Wandsworth's biggest profession — 18% of all notables (66).
Wandsworth over-indexes on rower — 7.4× the global rate.
Wandsworth under-produces politician — only 0.3× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Wandsworth's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Sports
- Film & TV
- Music
- Military
- Writing
- Science
- Other
Phil Collins
Born 1951
Emily Blunt
Born 1983
Thomas Cromwell
1485 - 1540
Edward Gibbon
1737 - 1794
Jason Flemyng
Born 1966
Carol Reed
1906 - 1976
Lesley-Anne Down
Born 1954
James D'Arcy
Born 1975
Example (musician)
Born 1982
Lawrence Oates
1880 - 1912
Four Tet
Born 1978
Mick Jones (The Clash guitarist)
Born 1955
Camille Coduri
Born 1965
Peter Sinfield
Born 1943
Nathan Stewart-Jarrett
Born 1985
Ryan Sessegnon
Born 2000
Michail Antonio
Born 1990
Robin Knox-Johnston
Born 1939
Neil Ruddock
Born 1968
Edward Shackleton, Baron Shackleton
1911 - 1994
William John Burchell
1781 - 1863
Ademola Lookman
Born 1997
Jon Moss
Born 1957
Yootha Joyce
1927 - 1980
Henry Holland (architect)
1745 - 1806
Christopher Caudwell
1907 - 1937
Hugh Clifford
1866 - 1941
Bernard Archard
1916 - 2008
Martin Bashir
Born 1963
Peter Bonetti
1941 - 2020
Cyril Aldred
1914 - 1991
Jason Rebello
Born 1969
Ron Springett
1935 - 2015
Callum Hudson-Odoi
Born 2000
Derek Fowlds
1937 - 2020
Brian Sibley
Born 1949
Hannah Waddingham
Born 1974
Matt Elliott (footballer)
Born 1968
Lynden David Hall
1974 - 2006
Henry Nottidge Moseley
1844 - 1891
Gwyneth Dunwoody
1930 - 2008
Paul Clement (football manager)
Born 1972
Sam Bird
Born 1987
Dan Maskell
1908 - 1992
Albert Sammons
1886 - 1957
Arthur Blomfield
1829 - 1899
Christopher Chope
Born 1947
Stan Webb
Born 1946
A. L. Lloyd
1908 - 1982
H. Jones
1940 - 1982
Marvin Elliott
Born 1984
Arthur Lovegrove
1913 - 1981
Jill Craigie
1914 - 1999
Gerry Turpin
1925 - 1997
Rosie Marcel
Born 1977
Seb Dance
Born 1981
Emily Head
Born 1988
Richard Wilson (physicist)
1926 - 2018
Teresa Gorman
1931 - 2015
Steven Sessegnon
Born 2000
Isabella Blake-Thomas
Born 2002
Kyle Sinckler
Born 1993
Harvey Spencer Stephens
Born 1970
Bryony Shaw
Born 1983
Leslie S. Hiscott
1894 - 1968
Peter Zinovieff
Born 1933
Chi-chi Nwanoku
Born 1956
Damien Francis
Born 1979
Neal Arden
1909 - 2014
William Butts
1486 - 1545
Frank Southall
1904 - 1964
Duffy Power
1941 - 2014
Harry South
1929 - 1990
Dominic Lawson
Born 1956
Alan Winstanley
Born 1952
Bob Simmons (stunt man)
1923 - 1987
Tim Fywell
Born 1951
John Ford (musician)
Born 1948
Thomas Johnson (cyclist)
1886 - 1966
William Isaacs
1884 - 1955
Gordon Thomson (rower)
1884 - 1953
Roarie Deacon
Born 1991
David Thwaites
Born 1976
Caron Keating
1962 - 2004
Nicky Gooch
Born 1973
Charles King (cyclist)
1911 - 2001
Ernest Johnson (cyclist)
1912 - 1997
John Alexander Sinclair
1897 - 1977
Alvar Lidell
1908 - 1981
John William Douglas
1814 - 1905
Joshua Compston
1970 - 1996
Richard O'Connor (footballer)
Born 1978
Darren Kenton
Born 1978
Dawid Malan
Born 1987
Duncan Carse
1913 - 2004
Alec John Dawson
1872 - 1951
Claude Hulbert
1900 - 1964
Bruce Byron
Born 1959
Sarah Lawson (actress)
Born 1928
Tracy Hyde
Born 1959
John Bindon
1943 - 1993
Robert Lynn (director)
1918 - 1982
Abigail Hopkins
Born 1968
Harold Harding
1900 - 1986
Liam Davis (footballer)
Born 1986
Byron Harrison (footballer)
Born 1987
Robert MacAndrew
1802 - 1873
Jack Dearlove
1911 - 1967
George Southall
1907 - 1993
Josh Cooper (cryptographer)
1901 - 1981
Ernest Thorn
1887 - 1968
Cyril Peacock
1929 - 1992
Dan Thompson (footballer)
Born 1994
Florence Brudenell-Bruce
Born 1985
William Moore (athlete)
1890 - 1960
Dai Jones
Born 1943
Ann Lynn
1933 - 2020
Martin Hotine
1898 - 1968
Freya Wilson
Born 1999
Francis Searle
1909 - 2002
Hiram Boateng
Born 1996
Wilfred Waters
Born 1923
Frank Rutter
1876 - 1937
Holly Weston
Born 1985
Thomas Elliot Harrison
1808 - 1888
Marjorie Sweeting
1920 - 1994
Edith Marguerite Harrington
1893 - 1981
Tony Macaulay
Born 1944
Alex Macintosh
1925 - 1997
Edward Julius Detmold
1883 - 1957
Billy Griffith
1914 - 1993
Keith Branagan
Born 1966
Hugh Last
1894 - 1957
Ibrahim Meité (footballer)
Born 1996
Hazel Douglas
1923 - 2016
Winston Marshall
Born 1988
Ella Pardy
Born 1990
Roy Williams (playwright)
Born 1968
Robert James Clayton
1915 - 1998
Peter Gerald Charles Dickens
1917 - 1987
Nadia Sawalha
Born 1964
Scott Morriss
Born 1973
Anthony Holles (actor)
1901 - 1950
Ed Wynne
Born 1961
Tariqe Fosu
Born 1995
Richard Birkett
Born 1979
Meriel Forbes
1913 - 2000
Annette Mills
1894 - 1955
Mark Pharaoh
Born 1931
Viola Compton
1886 - 1971
Dorothy Tarrant
1885 - 1973
Clifford Hall (painter)
1904 - 1973
Michael Gordon (footballer)
Born 1984
Leslie Arthur Wilcox
1904 - 1982
Bill Boddy
1913 - 2011
Henry Self
1890 - 1975
Sam Parkin
Born 1981
Edward Dwyer
1895 - 1916
Gordon Killick
1899 - 1962
Elizabeth Wyckes
1489 - 1528
Jackie Gibbons
1914 - 1984
Frank Parr
1918 - 2003
Jill Hyem
1937 - 2015
Edward Evans (actor)
1914 - 2001
Julie Alexander
1938 - 2003
James Davies (cyclist, born 1906)
1906 - 1999
Henry Lukin
1860 - 1925
Arthur John Butler
1844 - 1910
Samuel Lucas
1811 - 1865
Llewellyn W. Longstaff
1841 - 1918
Bob Andrews (guitarist)
Born 1959
Isabel Jay
1879 - 1927
Leonard Appelbee
1914 - 2000
Manny Oyeleke
Born 1992
Michael Cook (playwright)
1933 - 1994
Gus Casely-Hayford
Born 1964
Cameron Nichol
Born 1987
George Oakley (footballer)
Born 1995
Kenneth Kove
1892 - 1984
Bas Savage
Born 1982
Ryan Peters (footballer)
Born 1987
Tony Pigott
Born 1958
Ross Cullum
Born 1957
Simon Milton (footballer)
Born 1963
William de Burgh (philosopher)
1866 - 1943
Hubert Brasier
1917 - 1981
Will Nightingale
Born 1995
Matt Beard
Born 1978
Edward Percy Smith
1891 - 1968
Anne Kerr (politician)
1925 - 1973
Melville Henry Massue
1868 - 1921
Peter Allday
1927 - 2018
Vera Bogetti
1908 - 1953
Alice Garnett
1903 - 1989
Alfred Blomfield
1833 - 1894
John Bicourt
Born 1945
Norman Bennett
1922 - 2005
Nish Kumar
Born 1985
John Seymour Chaloner
1924 - 2007
Cyril Pullin
1892 - 1973
Peter Vaughan-Clarke
Born 1957
Mark Beard (footballer)
Born 1974
Chloe Hayward
Born 1989
Joseph Baillon
1895 - 1951
Stewart Castledine
Born 1973
Jimmy Dack
Born 1972
William Sidney Gibson
1814 - 1871
Tony Rudd (stockbroker)
1924 - 2017
John Batten (physician)
1924 - 2013
Phil Vincent
1908 - 1979
Pierre Turquet
1913 - 1975
Richard Mounteney
1707 - 1768
Bryan Langley
1909 - 2008
Claude Fenner
1916 - 1978
Alfred Hackman
1811 - 1874
Muriel Nissel
1921 - 2010
Alun Lewis (actor)
Born 1949
John Graham Hearn
1929 - 1980
Dave Hewson (composer)
Born 1953
Norah Blaney
1893 - 1983
Fred Callaghan
Born 1944
Ken Sykora
1923 - 2006
Miriam Allott
1920 - 2010
Eric Hambro
1872 - 1947
Betty Birch
1923 - 2016
Peter Vince
Born 1942
Charl Malan
Born 1989
Giles Baring
1910 - 1986
Don Smoothey
1919 - 2015
Albert Dorrington
1871 - 1953
Frank Haynes
1926 - 1998
William David Doherty
1893 - 1966
Jack Foreman Mantle
1917 - 1940
Alex Wyatt
Born 1990
Frederick Lawton (judge)
1911 - 2001
George Grimson
1915 - 1944
Les Barrett
Born 1947
Henry Cave-Browne-Cave
1887 - 1965
Winifred Copperwheat
1905 - 1976
Peter Southey
1962 - 1983
David Scase
1919 - 2003
Norah Howard
1900 - 1968
William Frith (English cricketer)
1871 - 1956
Robert Winston (coach)
1847 - 1913
Terry Rowe
Born 1964
Mike Belfield
Born 1961
Les Gore
Born 1915
Trevor Sidney Wade
1920 - 1951
Tony Boncza
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Leslie Broderick
1921 - 2013
Michael Matthews (cricketer)
1914 - 1940
Margaret Baring
1868 - 1906
Ian Lomax
1931 - 1996
Agnes Lauchlan
1905 - 1993
Edward Argent
1898 - 1968
David Thompson (cricketer)
Born 1976
Arthur Chapman (cricketer)
1834 - 1867
Raymond Raikes
1910 - 1998
Geoffrey Lowndes
1898 - 1982
John Thornton Down
1842 - 1866
Peter Springett
1946 - 1997
Nigel Gray (footballer)
Born 1956
Will Carrick-Smith
Born 1992
Derek Davis (artist)
1926 - 2008
Derek Birnage
1913 - 2004
Harry Hutchens
1857 - 1939
Ronald Rowe
1902 - 1977
Esther Bruce
1912 - 1994
Jason Drummond
Born 1969
Sandie Okoro
Born 1964
Harry Becker (politician)
1892 - 1980
Walter Dicketts
1900 - 1957
Laurence Minot (RFC officer)
1896 - 1917
Fred Cheesmur
1908 - 1987
Frank Rist
1914 - 2001
David Coles (footballer)
Born 1964
Len Oliver (footballer)
1905 - 1967
Jim Dear
1910 - 1981
Norman Morley
1899 - 1989
Douglas Young (cricketer)
1917 - 1995
G. W. Young (athlete)
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Jenkin Thompson
1911 - 1944
Leonard Summers
1904 - 1977
Coleridge Grove
1839 - 1920
Zoe Palmer
1903 - 1983
Alex Greenwood (footballer, born 1933)
1933 - 2006
Freddie Clarke
Born 1992
Tony Brooker
1925 - 2019
John Lawrence Hickson
1862 - 1920
Kenny Stroud
Born 1953
Simon Watkins
Born 1989
Malcolm Ashworth
1925 - 1978
Reginald Leonard Haine
1896 - 1982
Roy Cotton
Born 1955
John Clift
1877 - 1953
Philip Meninsky
1919 - 2007
Charles Robert Malden
1797 - 1855
Ray Goddard
1949 - 2007
Reginald Bare
1900 - 1984
Michael Bellhouse
Born 1976