Most Famous People from United Kingdom
United Kingdom has produced 9,803 notable individuals throughout history, with athletes and politicians being the most represented categories. The highest-ranked is Winston Churchill. Rankings are based on a cross-verified academic dataset of 152,953 people.
Category All
Citizenship All
WC
Winston Churchill British Politician 1874 – 1965
#
7
WS
William Shakespeare British Playwright 1564 – 1616
#
8
CD
Charles Darwin British Biologist 1809 – 1882
#
12
CC
Charlie Chaplin British Film 1889 – 1977
#
23
JL
John Lennon British Producer 1940 – 1980
#
27
DB
David Bowie British Painter 1947 – 2016
#
32
SH
Stephen Hawking British Physicist 1942 – 2018
#
40
IN
Isaac Newton British Mathematician 1643 – 1727
#
41
PM
Paul McCartney British Guitar Born 1942
#
52
CD
Charles Dickens British Writer 1812 – 1870
#
54
EI
Elizabeth I of England British Queen 1533 – 1603
#
71
QV
Queen Victoria British Queen 1819 – 1901
#
72
JR
J. R. R. Tolkien British Writer 1892 – 1973
#
74
AH
Alfred Hitchcock British Film 1899 – 1980
#
77
JK
J. K. Rowling British Film Born 1965
#
79
AC
Agatha Christie British Playwright 1890 – 1976
#
81
OW
Oscar Wilde British Poet 1854 – 1900
#
89
JA
Jane Austen British Writer 1775 – 1817
#
121
VW
Virginia Woolf British Novelist 1882 – 1941
#
125
GO
George Orwell British Novelist 1903 – 1950
#
142