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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David Davis (British politician)
Born 1948
Vince Cable
Born 1943
Gladwyn Jebb
1900 - 1996
Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds
1632 - 1712
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
1633 - 1695
Frank Dobson
1940 - 2019
Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron
1584 - 1648
William Harcourt (politician)
1827 - 1904
Alan Haselhurst
Born 1937
John Aislabie
1670 - 1742
Isaac Allerton
1586 - 1659
George Abbot (author)
1600 - 1648
Weetman Pearson, 1st Viscount Cowdray
1856 - 1927
Lucy Frazer
Born 1972
Thomas Fairfax, 1st Lord Fairfax of Cameron
1560 - 1640
Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn
1800 - 1886
Julian Sturdy
Born 1971
Walter Welford
1868 - 1952
William Pickering (governor)
1798 - 1873
Ernest Greenwood
1884 - 1955
Richard Leonard (Scottish politician)
Born 1962
Thomas W. Bradley
1844 - 1920
Wilfrid Roberts
1900 - 1991
Samuel S. Lewis
1874 - 1959
Arthur Ingram
1565 - 1642
Martin Bladen
1680 - 1746
William Rolleston
1831 - 1903
George Okill Stuart Jr.
1807 - 1884
George Leeman
1809 - 1882
Giles Shaw
1931 - 2000
William Milnes Jr.
1827 - 1889
Sir Peter Buckton
1350 - 1414
Sir James Sanderson, 1st Baronet
1741 - 1798
Robert Simms (politician)
Born 1984
Sue Doughty
Born 1948
James Charles Wilson
1816 - 1861
Geoffrey Dodsworth
1928 - 2018
William Bladen
1672 - 1718
William Hemmant
1837 - 1916
Henry Buckley
1813 - 1888
Joseph Hannan
1873 - 1943
Sheila McHale
Born 1953
George H. Collin
1856 - 1938
John William Jagger
1859 - 1930
Ian Parsley
Born 1977
William Rookes Crompton Stansfield
1790 - 1858
Bev Lewis
1906 - 1986
Thomas Cass (surveyor)
1817 - 1895
Mike Wolfe (politician)
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Andrea McCall
Born 1952
Constance Hamilton
1862 - 1945
William Kaye
1813 - 1890
Alfred Lee Smith
1838 - 1917
Norm Marlborough
Born 1945
Barbara Boyce
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Charles Howroyd
1867 - 1917
Leonard Burnett
1845 - 1932
Don Barker (politician)
1904 - 1956
William Cortis
1847 - 1909
Joseph Dixon (Australian politician)
1911 - 2002
James Reginald Colley
1880 - 1968
James T. Oliver
1849 - 1923
George Henry Tomlinson Jr.
1896 - 1963