53.9542° N, 1.0834° W
YORK
Most Famous People Born in York, United Kingdom
- Notable people
- 713
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- Median birth year
- 1924
- Most distinctive
- Novelist 2.8×
A cathedral city whose deep bench reads like a thirteen-century ledger, from Alcuin onward: a thick Priest cohort sitting beside an unusually literary Novelist and Mathematician showing, with a Cricket bench that over-indexes in the way only a certain kind of English county town manages. It is the sort of place where the medieval and the Victorian lecture hall somehow share the same page.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in York during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What York Is Known For
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Football is York's biggest profession — 12% of all notables (89).
York over-indexes on novelist — 2.8× the global rate.
York under-produces singer — only 0.6× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of York's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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William Etty
1787 - 1849
Branwell Brontë
1817 - 1848
Henry Scott Tuke
1858 - 1929
John Flaxman
1755 - 1826
Albert Joseph Moore
1841 - 1893
John Roddam Spencer Stanhope
1829 - 1908
Henry Moore (painter)
1831 - 1895
Ian McKeever (artist)
Born 1946
Mary Ellen Best
1809 - 1891
William Doughty (painter)
1755 - 1782
Will Ashton
1881 - 1963
Harland Miller
Born 1964
Dean Wolstenholme Sr.
1757 - 1837
James Alfred Turner
1850 - 1908
Henry Robinson Hall
1859 - 1927
Lewis Vaslet
1742 - 1808
Dorothy A. Cadman
Born 1885
Simon Burton (artist)
Born 1973