Famous Britons
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Famous people born in London:
A A Milne |
Abi Titmuss |
Adam Ant |
Adele |
Ainsley Harriott |
Alan Parker |
Alan Sugar |
Alan Ayckbourn |
Alan Bush |
Alan John Sainsbury |
Alan Rickman |
Alec Guinness |
Alec Douglas-Home |
Alexander Pope |
Alexander McQueen |
Alfred Hitchcock |
Alfred Mason |
Algernon Swinburne |
Alice Meynell |
Alicia Markova |
Amy Winehouse |
Andi Peters |
Andrew Huxley |
Andrew Lloyd Webber |
Angela Lansbury |
Anita Brookner |
Ann Radcliffe |
Anna Neagle |
Anna Russell |
Annie Nightingale |
Anthony Trollope |
Anthony Tudor |
Anthony Gormley |
Anthony Joshua |
Anthony Powell |
Arnold Bax |
Arthur Cayley |
Arthur Sullivan |
Ashley Cole |
Ashley Walters |
Audley Harrison |
Augustus Pugin |
Barbara Windsor |
Barry Norman |
Barry Sheene |
Beatrix Potter |
Beau Brummell |
Ben Bradshaw |
Ben Elton |
Ben Fogle |
Ben Jonson |
Ben Maher |
Ben Miller |
Ben Nicholson |
Ben Travers |
Benedict Cumberbatch |
Benjamin Jowett |
Bernard Montgomery |
Bernard Miles |
Beryl Grey |
Bill Wyman |
Bob Hope |
Bobby Moore |
Boris Karloff |
Boy George |
Brian Sewell |
Bridget Riley |
Bruce Forsyth |
Cameron Mackintosh |
Camilla Parker Bowles |
Carey Mulligan |
Carl Giles |
Carl Hester |
Carol Reed |
Caroline Ahern |
Catherine Tate |
Cecil Beaton |
Cecil Sharp |
Celia Johnson |
Charles Lamb |
Charles Barry |
Charles Churchill |
Charles Cornwallis |
Charles Cowden Clarke |
Charles George Gordon |
Charles Gibbs-Smith |
Charles Hill |
Charles II |
Charles James Fox |
Charlie Boorman |
Charlie Chaplin |
Charlie George |
Charlie Watts |
Charlotte Dujardin |
Charlotte Mew |
Cheryl Baker |
Chris Bonington |
Chris Eubank |
Christian Jessen |
Christine Keeler |
Christine Ohuruogu |
Christopher Lee |
Christopher Nevinson |
Christopher Strachey |
Clarence Hatry |
Claudia Winkleman |
Clement Attlee |
Cleo Laine |
Clive Anderson |
Clive Dunn |
Constantine Louloudis |
Daley Thompson |
Dame Cicely Saunders |
Dame Gladys Cooper |
Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett |
Dame Vera Lynn |
Damian Lewis |
Damon Hill |
Dan Maskell |
Dan Snow |
Daniel Defoe |
Daniel Day Lewis |
Daniel Radcliffe |
Daniella Westbrook |
Danny Baker |
Dante G Rossetti |
Daphne du Maurier |
David Attenborough |
David Bailey |
David Beckham |
David Bellamy |
David Bowie |
David Essex |
David Haye |
David Jason |
David Lean |
David Linley |
David Lodge |
David Miliband |
David Niven |
David Puttnam |
David Schneider |
Davina McCall |
Denis Compton |
Dennis Norden |
Dennis Waterman |
Derek Jarman |
Des O'Connor |
Diane Abbott |
Dirk Bogarde |
Donald Soper |
Douglas Bader |
Douglas Douglas-Hamilton |
Douglas Scott |
Dusty Springfield |
E H Shepard |
E M Forster |
Ed Miliband |
Edith Evans |
Edith Nesbit |
Edmond Halley |
Edmund Spenser |
Edward Alleyn |
Edward Fox |
Edward Gibbon |
Edward I |
Edward Lear |
Edward Lucas |
Edward Sharpey-Schafer |
Edward V |
Edward VII |
Edward VIII |
Edward, Duke of Kent |
Edwin Landseer |
Elizabeth Butler-Sloss |
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson |
Elizabeth Gaskell |
Elizabeth I |
Elizabeth II |
Elizabeth Taylor |
Elton John |
Elvis Costello |
Emily Davison |
Emma Thompson |
Emma Forbes |
Emmanuel Shinwell |
Enid Blyton |
Eric Bristow |
Eric Newby |
Eric Ravilious |
Evelyn Waugh |
Fearne Cotton |
Fern Britton |
Flinders Petrie |
Ford Madox Ford |
Frank Bruno |
Frank Richards |
Frederick Blackman |
Frederick Lanchester |
Frederick Marryat |
Frederick Rolfe |
Garry Bushell |
Gary Oldman |
Gary Rhodes |
Gemma Gibbons |
Geoffrey Chaucer |
Geoffrey Jellicoe |
Geoffrey Palmer |
George Brown |
George Cole |
George III |
George IV |
George Lamb |
George Martin |
George Michael |
George Osborne |
George Robey |
George Selwyn |
George Smith |
George Symons |
George V |
Gerald Scarfe |
Gerard Manley Hopkins |
Gerry Anderson |
Gertrude Jekyll |
Gertrude Lawrence |
Giles Coren |
Gillian Ayres |
GK Chesterton |
Glen Hoddle |
Glen Johnson |
Graham Hill |
Greer Garson |
Gregg Wallace |
Harold Pinter |
Harold Jones |
Harold Macmillan |
Harriet Harman |
Harry H Johnston |
Heath Robinson |
Heath Robinson |
Heddle Nash |
Helen Mirren |
Helena Bonham Carter |
Henry Addington |
Henry Bolingbroke |
Henry Cooper |
Henry Head |
Henry Holland |
Henry Maudsley |
Henry Palmerston |
Henry Purcell |
Henry VIII |
Henry Wood |
Herbert Gladstone |
Horace Walpole |
Horatio Bottomley |
Howard Carter |
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall |
Hugh Gaitskell |
Hugh Grant |
Ian Fleming |
Ian Wright |
Ida Lupino |
Idris Elba |
Inigo Jones |
Jack Hawkins |
Jack Osbourne |
Jack Whitehall |
Jackie Collins |
Jacqueline Gold |
Jade Johnson |
James Cameron |
James Gillray |
James Glaisher |
James Halliwell |
James Parkinson |
James VII |
Jane Asher |
Jason Statham |
Jasper Conran |
Jean Simmons |
Jeffrey Archer |
Jemima Khan |
Jeremy Beadle |
Jermaine Defoe |
Jessica Hynes |
Jessie Wallace |
Jim Davidson |
Jim Sturgess |
Jimmy Carr |
Jimmy Greaves |
Jimmy Hill |
Jimmy Page |
Jimmy White |
Jo Brand |
Joan Collins |
Joan Greenwood |
Joan Hassall |
Joan Littlewood |
Joe Calzaghe |
Joe Cole |
John Donne |
John Gielgud |
John Keats |
John Vanbrugh |
John Betjeman |
John Bratby |
John Gregory |
John Hoppner |
John Howard |
John Latham |
John Lilburne |
John Lydon (Johnny Rotten) |
John Major |
John McCarthy |
John McVie |
John Milton |
John Nash |
John Newlands |
John Newton |
John Osborne |
John Phillips |
John Ruskin |
John Stainer |
John Stuart Mill |
John Tooke |
John Wilkes |
Johnny Briggs |
Johnny Speight |
Jon Pertwee |
Jonathan Ross |
Jonathon Porritt |
Jools Holland |
Joseph Banks |
Joseph Chamberlain |
Joseph M W Turner |
Joseph Somes |
Joyce Grenfell |
Jude Law |
Julia McKenzie |
Julian Clary |
June Whitfield |
Kaikhosru Sorabji |
Karl Pearson |
Karren Brady |
Kate Beckinsale |
Kate Humble |
Kate Moss |
Kate Nash |
Kathy Burke |
Keeley Hawes |
Keira Knightley |
Keith Moon |
Kelly Osbourne |
Ken Livingstone |
Kenneth Williams |
Kim Wilde |
Kitty Godfree |
Lady Violet Bonham Carter |
Larry Lamb |
Lawrence Dallaglio |
Lawrence Gowing |
Lawrence Oates |
Leigh Hunt |
Len Deighton |
Lennox Lewis |
Leon Kossoff |
Leona Lewis |
Leslie Ash |
Leslie Grantham |
Leslie Howard |
Leslie Phillips |
Lester Smith |
Lily Allen |
Linda Lusardi |
Linda Robson |
Lionel Bart |
Lionel Jeffries |
Lord Byron |
Lord North |
Lord Snowdon |
Louise Mensch |
Louise Redknapp |
Lutalo Muhammad |
Malcolm McLaren |
Marc Bolan |
Margaret Prout |
Margaret Rutherford |
Margherita Taylor |
Marie Lloyd |
Mark Gertler |
Mark Hunter |
Mark Ronson |
Martin Clunes |
Martin Kemp |
Mary Shelley |
Mary II |
Mary Kingsley |
Mary Tudor |
Mary Wollstonecraft |
Matt Lucas |
Max Wall |
Max Beerbohm |
Max Bygraves |
Mel Smith |
Michael Faraday |
Michael Tippett |
Michael Aspel |
Michael Barrymore |
Michael Caine |
Michael McIntyre |
Michael Rosen |
Michael Winner |
Mike Gatting |
Mischa Barton |
Miss Dynamite |
Moira Stuart |
Morris Travers |
Mrs Beeton |
Nancy Mitford |
Naomi Campbell |
Nevil Shute |
Nigel Gresley |
Nigel Havers |
Nigella Lawson |
Noel Coward |
Noel Fielding |
Noele Gordon |
Norman Wisdom |
Norman Tebbit |
Oliver Postgate |
Oliver Reed |
Omid Djalili |
Ozwald Boateng |
Paloma Faith |
Pat Smythe |
Patrick Blackett |
Patrick Moore |
Patsy Kensit |
Patsy Palmer |
Paul Eddington |
Paul Mckenna |
Paul Merton |
Paul Ross |
Paul Scott |
Pete Townshend |
Peter Ustinov |
Peter Bazalgette |
Peter Bonetti |
Peter Green |
Phil Collins |
Phil Daniels |
Phil Tufnell |
Philip Glenister |
Phillips Idowu |
Phyllis Pearsall |
Prince Charles |
Prince Harry |
Prince William |
Princess Anne |
Professor Green |
Queen Anne |
Queen Victoria |
Rachel Whiteread |
Rachel Stevens |
Ray Winstone |
Raymond Briggs |
Reggie Kray |
Reggie Yates |
Reginald Maudling |
Richard Branson |
Richard Briers |
Richard Carrington |
Richard Hamilton |
Richard Hounslow |
Richard Lovelace |
Rio Ferdinand |
Robert Browning |
Robert Baden-Powell |
Robert Grabarz |
Robert Graves |
Robert Pattinson |
Robert Peston |
Robert Sherard |
Robert South |
Robin Day |
Robin Knox-Johnston |
Rod Stewart |
Roger Bannister |
Roger Daltrey |
Roger Hilton |
Roger Moore |
Ron Pickering |
Ron Todd |
Ron Wood |
Ronald Coase |
Ronnie Kray |
Ronnie Scott |
Russell Kane |
Ruth Watson |
Sacha Baron Cohen |
Samantha Fox |
Samuel Pepys |
Samuel Rogers |
Samuel Romilly |
Samuel Wilberforce |
Sebastian Coe |
Shane Richie |
Sharon Osbourne |
Shirley Porter |
Sian Williams |
Sid Owen |
Sidney Herbert |
Sidney Thomas |
Simon Callow |
Simon Mayo |
Sir Derek Jacobi |
Sir Edward Tylor |
Sir Francis Bacon |
Sir Gordon Russell |
Sir John Barbirolli |
Sir John Mortimer |
Sir Kingsley Amis |
Sir William Roberts-Austen |
Sir William Sidney Smith |
Spencer Perceval |
Stanley Hayter |
Stanley Holloway |
Stella McCartney |
Stephen Poliakoff |
Stephen Spender |
Stephen Fry |
Stephen Mangan |
Steve Davis |
Steve Marriott |
Steve McFadden |
Steve Rider |
Steven Berkoff |
Stirling Moss |
Sue Perkins |
Susannah York |
Sylvia Warner |
T H Huxley |
Terence Stamp |
Terry Thomas |
Thomas Sopwith |
Thomas a Becket |
Thomas Cromwell |
Thomas Girtin |
Thomas Gray |
Thomas Hodgkin |
Thomas Letts |
Thomas Lodge |
Thomas More |
Thomas Wainewright |
Tim Berners-Lee |
Tim Lovejoy |
Tim Roth |
Timothy Spall |
Tinie Tempah |
Tom Hardy |
Tom Keating |
Tommy Steele |
Tommy Trinder |
Tony Benn |
Tony Robinson |
Tracy-Ann Oberman |
Trisha Goddard |
Twiggy |
Vanessa Feltz |
Vanessa Redgrave |
Victor Horsley |
Victoria Coren |
Vidal Sassoon |
Virginia Woolf |
W S Gilbert |
W W Jacobs |
Walter Pater |
Warren Mitchell |
Wilkie Collins |
William Hogarth |
William Morris |
William Penn |
William Blake |
William Fox-Pitt |
William Henry Smith |
William IV |
William Medlicott |
William Orbit |
William Perkin |
William Pitt (The Elder) |
William Roberts |
William Roberts-Austen |
William Smith |
William Smith |
Willie Rushton |
Wolf Mankowitz |
Zadie Smith |
Zara Phillips |
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