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This is partial list of some notable individuals born in England, alphabetically within categories:
Actors/Actresses
Archaeologists and Anthropologists
- Mick Aston
- Richard Atkinson
- Churchill Babington
- Howard Carter
- Grahame Clark
- David Clarke
- Barry Cunliffe
- Glyn Daniel
- John Disney, (1779-1857), barrister and archaeologist
- E. E. Evans-Pritchard, (1902-1973), social
anthropologist
- Cyril Fox
- Dorothy Garrod
- William
Greenwell
- Kathleen Kenyon
- John Leland, (1502-1552), antiquary
- John Lubbock, (1834-1913), banker, politician, naturalist and
archaeologist
- John Robert Mortimer
- Colin Renfrew, (born 1937), archaeologist
- E.B. Tylor, (1832-1917), anthropologist
- Mortimer Wheeler
Architects
- George Basevi
- Nicholas Hawksmoor, (1661-1736), architect
- Norman Foster, (born 1935), architect
- Inigo Jones, (1573-1652), architect
- Edwin Lutyens, (1869-1944), architect
- William Morris, (1834-1896), architect, author
- August Pugin, (1812-1852), architect
- Christopher Wren, (1632-1723), architect
Artists
- William Blake, (1757-1827), painter, poet
- Thomas Gainsborough, (1727-1788), painter
- Elizabeth Gaskell, (1810-1865), novelist
- David Hockney, (1937-), painter
- Henry Moore, (1898-1986), sculptor
- Sir Joshua Reynolds, (1723-1792), artist
- J.M.W. Turner, (1775-1851), landscape and marine artist
- Flora Twort, (1893-1985), painter
Criminals
Economists
- William Beveridge, (1879-1963), economist and social
reformer
- John Maynard Keynes, (1883-1946), economist
- Thomas Malthus, (1766-1834), demographer
- Alfred Marshall, (1842-1924), economist
- John Stuart Mill, (1806-1873), economist, philosopher
Engineers
- Sir Benjamin Baker, (1840-1907), civil engineer
- Sir Henry Bessemer, (1813-1898), metallurgy engineer
- James Brindley, (1716-1772), canal engineer
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel, (1806-1859), transport
engineer
- Sidney Camm (1894-1966), aeronautical engineer
- William Tierney Clark, (1783-1852), civil
engineer
- Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, (1882 - 1965),
aeronautical engineer
- Sir John Ambrose Fleming, (1848-1945), electrical
engineer
- R.J. Mitchell, (1895-1937), aeronautical engineer
- Sir Samuel Morton Peto, (1809-1889), civil engineer
- Sir Henry Royce, (1863-1933), engineer
- Nevil Shute, (1899-1960), aeronautical engineer and author
- George Stephenson, (1781-1848), railway engineer
- Richard Trevithick, (1771-1833), engineer
- Sir Barnes Wallis, (1887-1978), engineer
- Sir Frank Whittle, (1907-1996), aeronautical engineer
- Sir Joseph Whitworth, (1803-1887), engineer
Entrepreneurs
Filmmakers
Humourists
Inventors
- Christopher Cockerell, (1910-1999), inventor of the
hovercraft
- Abraham Darby, (c. 1678-1717), ironmaster
- James Hargreaves, (1720-1778), weaver and inventor
- John Harrison, (1693-1776), clockmaker
- Rowland Hill, (1795-1879), inventor of the modern postal service
- Thomas Newcomen, (1664-1729), inventor
- Isaac Newton, (1642-1727), founder of modern physics, inventor of the reflector telescope
- James Starley, (1831-1881), bicycle pioneer
- George Stephenson, (1781-1848), engineer
- Charles Wheatstone, (1802-1975), inventor
- Frank Whittle, (1907-1996), co-inventor of the jet engine
Military men and women
- Alan
Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, (1883-1963), Field Marshal, CIGS during World War II
- George Monck, 1st Duke of
Albemarle, (1608-1670), Civil War era General
- Harold
Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, (1891-1969), Field Marshal, World War II hero
- Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Montreal, (1717-1797), General
- Henry
William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, (1768-1854), General, Hero of the Napoleonic Wars
- Sir Claude Auchinleck, (1884-1981), World War II
commander
- Robert Baden-Powell, (1857-1941), soldier
- Sir Douglas Bader, (1910-1982), fighter pilot
- William
Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood, (1865-1951), General, World War I
- Robert Blake, (1599 - 1657), reforming Royal Navy Admiral
- Prince George, Duke of
Cambridge, (1819-1904), Commander in Chief
- James
Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, (1797-1888), Commander of the Light Brigade
- Sir Winston Churchill, (1874-1965), British prime
minister
- Charles
Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, (1738-1805), General
- Prince
William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, (1721-1765), Captain-General, victor of Culloden
- Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, (1882-1970), RAF Commander in World
War II
- Sir Francis Drake, (1540-1596), sailor
- Charles George Gordon, (1833-1885), "Chinese Gordon",
killed at Khartoum
- John Manners, Marquess of
Granby, (1721-1770), General
- Sir Arthur Harris, (1892-1984), airman
- Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe,
(1726-1799), Admiral
- William Howe, 5th Viscount
Howe, (1729-1814), General in American Revolutionary War
- John Jellicoe, 1st Earl
Jellicoe (1859-1935), Admiral, World War I
- Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, (1850-1916), Field
Marshal
- John Ligonier, 1st Earl
Ligonier, (1680-1770), General
- George Charles
Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, (1800-1888), Commander of cavalry at the Battle of Balaclava
- John Churchill, 1st
Duke of Marlborough, (1650-1722), soldier
- Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein ("The
Desert Rat"), (1887-1976), Field Marshal and hero of World War II
- Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, (1900-1979), statesman,
sailor
- Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson of the Nile, (1758-1805),
sailor, Admiral
- Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Baron
Raglan, (1788-1855), British commander in the Crimean War
- Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar, (1832-1914), Field
Marshal, last Commander in Chief of the Forces
- Siegfried Sassoon, (1886-1967), war poet
- Henry Seymour Conway, (1721-1795), General
- William Slim, 1st Viscount
Slim, (1897-1970), Commander in Burma during World War II, Governor-General of Australia.
- Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien, (1858-1930), General, World
War I
- Archibald
Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, (1883-1950), World War II general, second to last Viceroy of India
- Arthur Wellesley,
1st Duke of Wellington ("The Iron Duke"), (1769-1852), Commander-in-Chief of the British Army (see also his entry under
Politicians)
- James Wolfe, (1727-1759), General, hero of Quebec
- Prince Frederick, Duke of York,
(1763-1827), son of King George
III, commander in French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
- John French, 1st Earl of Ypres,
(1852-1925), World War I general and Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland
Monarchs
- Queen Anne, (1665-1714), also Queen of Scotland, then
Queen of Great Britain after 1707
- King Charles II, (1660-1685), also King of
Scotland
- King Edward I, (1272-1307), English monarch
- King Edward III, (1327-1377), English monarch
- King Edward IV, (1461-1470 and 1471-1483), English
monarch
- King Edward V, (1470-1483?), English monarch
- King Edward VI, (1547-1553), first English Protestant
monarch
- King Edward VII,
(1841-1910)
- King Edward VIII,
(1894-1972), (formerly Edward VIII)
- Queen Elizabeth I, (1558-1603), Protestant queen and first Supreme Governor of the
Church of England
- Queen Elizabeth II, (born
1926) reigning monarch
- King George III, (1801-1820),
English, British monarch
- King George IV, (1762-1830)
- King George V, (1910-1936),
English, British monarch
- King George VI, (1895-1952), of
England
- King Henry III, (1207-1272), English monarch
- King Henry IV, (1367-1413), English monarch
- King Henry VI, (1421-1471), English monarch
- King Henry VIII, (1491-1547), separated English
Catholicism from link with the Roman Catholic Church
- King James II, (1685-1688), also King James VII of
Scotland
- Queen Mary I, (1553-1558), Roman Catholic queen
- Queen Mary II, (1662-1694)
- Queen Victoria, (1819-1901)
- King William IV,
(1765-1837)
Musicians
- Malcolm Arnold, (born 1921), composer
- John Barbirolli, (1899-1970), conductor
- David Bedford, (born 1937), composer and musician
- Thomas Beecham, (1879-1961), conductor
- Harrison Birtwistle, (born 1934), composer
- Adrian Boult, (1889-1983), conductor
- Havergal Brian, (1876-1972), composer
- Benjamin Britten, (1913-1976), composer and pianist
- Andrew Davis, (born 1944), conductor
- Colin Davis, (born 1927), conductor
- Frederick Delius, (1862-1934), composer
- Edward Elgar, (1857-1934), composer
- Ron Goodwin, (1925-2003) composer and conductor
- Gustav Holst, (1874-1934)), composer
- Nigel Kennedy, (born 1956), violinist
- John Lennon, (1940-1980), pop star
- Andrew Lloyd Webber, (born 1948), composer of
musicals
- Peter Maxwell Davies, (born 1934), composer
- Peter Pears, (1910-1986), tenor
- Jacqueline du Pré, (1945-1987), cellist
- Henry Purcell, (1659-1695), composer
- Simon Rattle, (born 1955), conductor
- Malcolm Sargent, (1895-1967), conductor
- Michael Tippett, (1905-1998), composer
- Ralph Vaughan Williams, (1872-1958), composer
- Henry Wood, (1869-1944), conductor
Philosophers
- Francis Bacon, (1561-1626), philosopher and essayist
- Jeremy Bentham, (1748-1832), philosopher
- Robert Boyle, (1627-1691), philosopher and physicist
- Thomas Hobbes, (1588-1679), philosopher
- John Locke, (1632-1704), philosopher
- John Stuart Mill, (1806-1873), economist, philosopher
- William of Ockham (c. 1285-1349), philosopher
- Bertrand Russell, (1872-1970), philosopher
- William Whewell, (1794-1866), philosopher
- Alfred North Whitehead, (1861-1947),
mathematician
- Bernard Williams, (1929-2003), philosopher
Politicians
- Henry Addington, 1st
Viscount Sidmouth, (1757-1844)
- Herbert Henry Asquith, (1852-1928), British prime minister
- Clement Attlee, (1883-1967), British prime minister
- Stanley Baldwin, British prime minister
- Ernest Bevin
- Margaret Bondfield
- Richard Austen Butler
- George Canning, (1770-1827), politician
- William
Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire
- William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
- Sir Austen Chamberlain, (1863-1937)
- Joseph Chamberlain, (1836-1914)
- Neville Chamberlain, (1869-1940), British prime
minister\
- Lord Randolph Churchill, (1849-1895)
- Winston Churchill, (1874-1965), British prime minister
- Kenneth Clarke
- Spencer Compton,
1st Earl of Wilmington
- Sir Stafford Cripps
- George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston,
(1859-1925)
- Archibald Dalzel, (1740-1811), Governor of the Gold
Coast
- Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire, (1833-1908)
- Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, (1799-1869)
- Edward Henry
Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby, (1826-1893)
- Benjamin Disraeli, (1804-1881), British prime minister
- Alec Douglas-Home, (1903-1995)
- Anthony Eden, (1897-1977), British prime minister
- Hugh Gaitskell, (1906-1963)
- William Ewart Gladstone, (1809-1898), British
prime minister
- Augustus
Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton
- Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville
- George Grenville, British prime minister
- William
Wyndham Grenville, 1st Lord Grenville
- Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey
- Denis Healey
- Edward Heath, British prime minister
- John Wodehouse, 1st
Earl of Kimberley
- George Lansbury, (1859-1940)
- Nigel Lawson
- Robert
Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool
- John Lubbock, (1834-1913), banker, politician, naturalist and
archaeologist
- Harold Macmillan, British prime minister
- John Major, (born 1943), British prime minister
- Reginald Maudling
- William Lamb, 2nd
Viscount Melbourne
- Thomas
Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle
- Frederick North, Lord North
- Sir Robert Peel, British prime minister
- Henry John
Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, British prime minister
- Henry Pelham
- Spencer Perceval
- William Pitt (the Elder), 1st
Earl of Chatham, (1708-1778)
- William Pitt the Younger, (1759-1806), British
prime minister
- Enoch Powell
- Cecil Rhodes, (1853-1902), imperialist
- Frederick
John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon, (1782-1859)
- Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham
- John Russell, 1st Earl
Russell
- Michael
Hicks-Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn, (1837-1916)
- Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of
Salisbury, (1830-1903)
- John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon, (1873-1954)
- Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw, (1864-1937)
- Margaret Thatcher, (born 1925), British prime minister
- Sir Robert Walpole, British prime minister
- Arthur Wellesley,
1st Duke of Wellington, (1769-1852), British prime minister
- William Wilberforce, (1759-1833), abolitionist
- Henry Willink, (1894-1973), politician
- Harold Wilson, (1916-1995), British prime minister
Scientists
- Arthur Aikin, (1773-1854), chemist and mineralogist
- Charles Babbage, (1791-1871), mathematician
- Joseph Banks, (1743-1820), naturalist
- Thomas Bayes, (c. 1702-1761), mathematician
- Tim Berners-Lee, (born 1955), computer scientist
- George Boole, (1815-1864), mathematician
- Robert Boyle, (1627-1691), philosopher and physicist
- Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett,
(1897-1974), physicist
- Isaac Barrow, (1630-1677), mathematician
- Henry Cavendish, (1731-1810), scientist
- Sir George Cayley, (1773-1857), polymath and aviator
- Francis Crick, (born 1916), molecular biologist
- John Dalton, (1766-1844), chemist and physicist
- Charles Darwin, (1809-1882), Founder of The Theory of Evolution
- Humphry Davy, (1778-1829), chemist
- Richard Dawkins, (born 1941), biologist
- Horace Donisthorpe (1870-1951), entomologist, myrmecologist
and coleopterist
- Paul Dirac, (1902-1984), physicist
- Arthur Eddington, (1882-1944), physicist
- Michael Faraday, (1791-1867), scientist
- Ronald Fisher, (1890-1962), geneticist and statistician
- Rosalind Franklin, (1920-1958), molecular biologist
- J. B. S. Haldane, (1892-1964), geneticist
- Stephen Hawking, (born 1942), cosmologist
- Oliver Heaviside, (1850-1925), physicist
- C. A. R. Hoare, computer scientist
- Robert Hooke, (1635-1703), scientist
- John Herschel, (1792-1871), mathematician and astronomer
- Edward Jenner, (1749-1823), doctor
- R. V. Jones, (1911-1997), physicist
- James Prescott Joule, (1818-1889), physicist
- Joseph Lister, (1827-1912), surgeon
- Bernard Lovell, astronomer
- James Lovelock, (born 1919), scientist
- Martin Lowry, (1874-1936), chemist
- John William Lubbock, (1803-1865), banker,
mathematician and astronomer
- Sir Charles Lyell, (1797-1875), geologist
- John Maynard Smith, geneticist
- Desmond Morris, (born 1928), zoologist
- Roger Needham, (1935-2003), computer scientist
- Isaac Newton, (1642-1727), founder of modern physics, last of the alchemists
- Roger Penrose, (born 1931), cosmologist
- Joseph Prestwich, (1812-1896), geologist
- Joseph Priestley, (1733-1804), chemist
- Adam Sedgwick, (1785-1873), geologist
- Joseph Wilson Swan, (1828-1914), physicist and chemist
- J. J. Thomson, (1856-1940), physicist
- Henry Tizard, scientist
- Alan Turing, (1912-1954), mathematician
- Alfred Russel Wallace, (1823-1913), naturalist
- Robert Watson-Watt, (1892-1973), scientist
- Alfred North Whitehead, (1861-1947),
mathematician
- Maurice Vincent Wilkes, (born 1913), computer
scientist
- James H. Wilkinson, (1919-1986), mathematician
- William Hyde Wollaston, (1766-1828), chemist
- Thomas Young, (1773-1829), scientist
Sportsmen/sportswomen
- Harold Abrahams (1899-1978), athlete, one of the two subjects of
Chariots of Fire
- Roger Bannister (born 1929), first sub-four-minute miler
- Alan Ball (born 1945), 1966 football World Cup winner
- Gordon Banks (born 1937), goalkeeper of 1966 World Cup winning team
- David Beckham (born 1975), football player
- Ian Botham (born 1955), cricketer
- Geoffrey Boycott (born 1940), cricketer
- Sir Bobby Charlton (born 1937), 1966 football World Cup winner
- Jack Charlton (born 1935), 1966 football World Cup winner
- Don Cockell (born 1928),
heavyweight boxer
- Sir Henry Cooper (born 1930), heavyweight boxer
- Jonathan Edwards (born 1966), athlete
(triple jump)
- Godfrey Evans (1920-1999),
cricketer (wicket-keeper)
- James Figg, Boxing's first world champion
- Bob Fitzsimmons (1863-1917), boxing's first world champion in
three divisions
- Paul Gascoigne (born 1967), football player
- Sir Steve Redgrave (born 1962), rower, winner of gold medal in five
consecutive Olympics
- W. G. Grace (1848-1915), cricketer
- Naseem Hamed (born 1974), world champion featherweight boxer
- Ricky Hatton (born 1978),
highly touted boxing prospect
- Sir Geoff Hurst (born 1941), 1966 football World Cup winner
- Len Hutton (1916-1990), cricketer
- Martin Johnson (born 1970), rugby player
- Lennox Lewis (born 1965), world champion heavyweight boxer
- Gary Lineker (born 1960), football player
- George Mallory (1886-1924), mountaineer
- Nigel Mansell (born 1953), racing driver, F1 and CART champion
- Alan Minter (born 1951), world champion boxer
- Bobby Moore (1941-1993), captain of 1966 soccer World Cup winning
team
- Michael Owen (born 1979), football player
- Fred Perry (1909-1995), Wimbledon champion tennis player
- Martin Peters (born 1943), 1966 football World Cup winner
- Paula Radcliffe (born 1973), athlete (distance runner)
- Alan Shearer (born 1970), football player
- Randolph Turpin
(1928-1966), middleweight boxer
- Virginia Wade (born 1945), tennis player
- Jonny Wilkinson (born 1979), rugby player
Writers
- Matthew Arnold, (1822-1888), poet
- David Attenborough, (born 1926), naturalist and
broadcaster
- W. H. Auden, (1907-1973), poet
- Jane Austen, (1775-1817), novelist
- Pam Ayres, (born 1947), poet
- Enid Blyton, (1897-1968), author
- William Blake, (1757-1827), painter, poet
- Anne Bronte, (1820-1849), author
- Charlotte Bronte, (1816-1855), author
- Emily Bronte, (1818-1848), author
- Rupert Brooke, (1887-1915), poet
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, (1806-1861),
poet
- Robert Browning, (1812-1889), poet
- Anthony Buckeridge, (1912-2004) children's author
- George Gordon, Lord Byron
- Lewis Carroll, (1832-1898), author of Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland
- Winston Churchill, (1874-1965), British prime minister,
author
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (1772-1834), poet
- William Congreve, (1670-1729), poet
- Charles Dickens, (1812-1870), author
- John Dryden, (1631-1700), poet
- George Eliot, (1819-1880), (Mary Ann Evans)
- E.M. Forster, (1879-1970), author
- Elizabeth Gaskell, novelist
- Robert Graves, (1895-1985), author
- Thomas Gray, (1716-1771), poet
- Thomas Hardy, (1840-1928), poet
- William Hazlitt, (1778-1830)
- Nick Hornby, (born 1957), novelist
- Leigh Hunt, (1784-1859), poet
- Aldous Huxley, (1884-1963), writer
- Thomas Henry Huxley, (1825-1895), coiner of the term
agnosticism
- Samuel Johnson, (1709-1784), poet
- Ben Jonson, (1573-1637), poet
- D.H. Lawrence, (1885-1930), poet
- Thomas Malory, (c. 1430-c. 1471), author of Le Morte d'Arthur
- Christopher Marlowe, (1564-1593), playwright
- Eric Maschwitz, (1901-1969), writer, lyricist and entertainer
- John Milton, (1608-1674), poet
- William Morris, (1834-1896), architect, author
- William Ralph Inge, clergyman, writer, mysticist
- George Orwell, (1903-1950), (Eric Blair), journalist and
novelist
- Wilfred Owen, (1893-1918), war poet
- Samuel Pepys, (1633-1703), diarist and public official in 17th century
England
- Alexander Pope, (1688-1744), poet
- Philip Pullman, (born 1946), author
- Christina Rossetti, (1830-1894), poet
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti, (1828-1882), poet
- J. K. Rowling (born 1965), author, creator of Harry Potter
- John Ruskin, (1819-1900)
- Siegfried Sassoon, (1886-1967), war poet
- William Shakespeare, (c. 1564-1616), poet
- Mary Shelley, (1797-1851), author
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, (1792-1822), poet
- Nevil Shute, (1899-1960), aeronautical engineer and author
- Robert Southey, (1774-1843), Poet Laureate 1813
- Algernon Swinburne, (1837-1909), poet
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Anthony Trollope, (1815-1882), novellist
- John Webster, (died 1630), poet
- Gilbert White, (1720-1795)
- P. G. Wodehouse, (1881-1975), humorous author
- Mary Wollstonecraft, (1759-1797), pioneer feminist known for her work A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
- Virginia Woolf, (1882-1941), author and feminist.
- William Wordsworth, (1770-1850), Romantic poet
Other Notables
- Pope Adrian IV (c. 1100 - 1159)
- David Attenborough, (born 1926), naturalist and
broadcaster
- Robert Blake, (1599 - 1657), reforming Royal Navy Admiral
- William Camden, (1551-1623), historian
- William Caxton, (c. 1422-c. 1491), printer
- James Cook, (1728-1779), British explorer
- Grace Darling, (1815-1842), heroine
- Thomas de Quincey
- Edward Gibbon, (1737-1794), historian
- Gildas, (c. 510 - c.570), monk
- William Godwin, (1756-1836)
- Ebenezer Howard, (1850-1928), urban planner
- Florence Nightingale, (1820-1910), nurse
- Joshua A. Norton, (1811-1880), Emperor of the United States and
Protector of Mexico
- John Reith, (1889-1971), broadcaster
- John Speed, (1542-1629), historian and cartographer
- William Wakefield, (1801-1848), founder of Wellington, New Zealand
- William Wilberforce, (1759-1833), abolitionist
The following were born English, but changed nationality later in their life.
See also: List of people by
nationality, List of Britons, List of Welsh people, List of Scots, UK topics
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