List of English people

This is a partial list of English people of note and of some notable individuals born in England, alphabetically within categories:

Actors and actresses

Mischa Barton, (born 1986)
Barry Foy, (born 1975)
Dame Julie Andrews (born 1935)
Tom Baker, (born 1934)
Christian Bale, (born 1974)
Sean Bean, (born 1959)
Orlando Bloom, (born 1977)
Tim Curry, (born 1946)
Dame Judi Dench, (born 1934)
Ralph Fiennes, (born 1962)
George Formby, (born 1904-died 1961)
Stephen Fry, (born 1958)
Sir Michael Gambon, (born 1940)
Sir John Gielgud, (born 1904-2000)
Cary Grant, (1904-1986)
John Gregson, (born 1919-1975)
Rupert Grint, (born 1988)
Sir Alec Guinness, (1914-2000)
Will Hay, (1888-1949)
Hugh Laurie, (born 1959)
Jude Law, (born 1972)
Jack Hawkins, (1910-1973)
Audrey Hepburn, (Belgian-born to Anglo-Irish-Dutch descent).
Dame Wendy Hiller, (1912-2003)
Stanley Holloway, (1890-1982)
Leslie Howard, (1893-1943)
Davy Jones, (born 1945 in Manchester.)
Keira Knightley, (born 1985)
Charles Laughton, (1899-1962)
Joanna Lumley, (born India 1946)
Margaret Lockwood, (1916-1990)
Hayley Mills, (born 1946)
John Mills, (1908-2005)
Sir Roger Moore, (born 1928)
Kenneth More, (1914-1982)
Anthony Newley, (1931-1999)
Sir Laurence Olivier, (1907-1989)
Cecil Parker, (1897-1971)
Daniel Radcliffe, (born 1989)
Joely Richardson
Miranda Richardson, (born 1958)
Sir Ralph Richardson, (1902-1983)
Dame Margaret Rutherford, (1892-1972)
Peter Sellers, (1925-1980)
Dame Maggie Smith, (born 1934)
Dame Elizabeth Taylor, (born 1932)
Emma Thompson, (born 1959)
Sir Peter Ustinov (English-born), (1921-2004)
Jack Warner, (1896-1981)
Emily Watson, (born 1967)
Emma Watson, (born 1990)
Michael Wilding, (1912-1979)
Googie Withers, (born 1917)
Sienna Miller, (born 1981)
Patrick Stewart, (born 1940)
Sir Ian McKellen, (born 1939)

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
Charles Darwin,(12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882)

Architects

Charles Barry, (1795-1860), architect (Houses Of Parliament)
George Basevi
William Burges, (1827-1881), architect and interior designer
William Butterfield, (1814-1900), leader in Gothic revival movement
William Chambers, (1723-1796), (Kew Gardens pagoda and Somerset House)
Sir Norman Foster, (born 1935), architect
Nicholas Hawksmoor, (1661-1736), architect
Inigo Jones, (1573-1652), architect
Denys Lasdun, (1914-2001), architect
Edwin Lutyens, (1869-1944), architect
William Morris, (1834-1896), architect, author
John Nash, (1752-1835), (Regent's Park, St. Jame's Park, Trafalgar Square)
Joseph Paxton, (1801-1865), (Great Exhibition Building, London)
August Pugin, (1812-1852), architect (Houses Of Parliament)
Richard Rogers, (born 1933), (the Pompidou Centre)
Gilbert Scott, (1880-1960), Waterloo Bridge, also supervised rebuilding of House Of Commons, London)
John Vanbrugh, (1664-1726), Baroque architect (Blenheim Palace)
Alfred Waterhouse, (1830-1905), (National History Museum, London)
William Wilkins, (1778-1839), (National Gallery, London)
Christopher Wren, (1632-1723), architect

Artists

Sophie Gengembre Anderson, (1823-1903), painter.
William Blake, (1757-1827), painter, poet
John Constable, (1776-1837), landscape painter.
Tracey Emin (born 1963), conceptual artist
Thomas Gainsborough, (1727-1788), painter
Elizabeth Gaskell, (1810-1865), novelist
Damien Hirst (born 1965), sculptor/ conceptual artist
David Hockney, (born 1937), painter
Sir Edwin Landseer, (1802-1873), animal painter.
Henry Moore, (1898-1986), sculptor
Sir Joshua Reynolds, (1723-1792), portrait painter.
J.M.W. Turner, (1775-1851), landscape and marine artist
Flora Twort, (1893-1985), painter

Criminals

Myra Hindley, (1942-2002), Moors murderer
Ian Huntley, (born 1974), Soham murderer
The Kray twins, (Ronald 1933-1995, Reginald 1933-2000), East London gangsters
Harold Shipman, (1946-2004), serial killer
Peter Sutcliffe, (born 1946), Yorkshire Ripper
Fred West, (1941-1995), serial killer
Graham Young, (1947-1990), The Teacup Poisoner
Jack the Ripper
Banksy Graffiti Artist

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
Sir Barnes Wallis, (1887-1978), engineer
Sir Frank Whittle, (1907-1996), aeronautical engineer
Sir Joseph Whitworth, (1803-1887), engineer

Entrepreneurs

Sir Richard Branson (born 1950)
Abraham Darby (c. 1678-1717), ironmaster
Sir Freddie Laker (1922-2006), Pioneer of cheap air travel
William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield (1877-1963)
Sir Ivan Stedeford (1897-1975), Industrialist
Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795), industrialist

Filmmakers

Lindsay Anderson (1923-1994)
Roy Boulting (1913-2001)
Charlie Chaplin, (1889-1977)
Mike Figgis (born 1948)
Lewis Gilbert (born 1920)
David Hare (born 1947)
Alfred Hitchcock, (1899-1980)
Peter Howitt, (born 1957)
Humphrey Jennings (1907-1950)
Stan Laurel (1890-1965)
David Lean (1908-1991)
Mike Leigh (born 1943)
Ken Loach (born 1936)
Anthony Minghella (born 1954)
Mike Newell (born 1942)
Nick Park (born 1958)
Michael Powell (1905-1990)
Ken Russell (born 1927)
Ridley Scott (born 1942)
John Boorman (born 1933)

Humorists

Rowan Atkinson (born 1955)
Jasper Carrott(born Robert Davis, 1945)
John Cleese (born 1939)
Peter Cook (1937-1995)
Les Dawson (1931-1993)
Ken Dodd (born 1929)
Stephen Fry (born 1958)
Ricky Gervais (born 1961)
Tony Hancock, (1924-1968)
Eric Idle (born 1943)
Hugh Laurie, (born 1959)
Eric Morecambe (1926-1984)
Frank Muir (1920-1998)
Denis Norden (born 1922)
Michael Palin (born 1943)
Jennifer Saunders (born 1958)
Norman Wisdom (born 1915)
Ernie Wise (1925-1999)

Inventors

Christopher Cockerell, (1910-1999), inventor of the hovercraft
William Congreve, (1772-1828) rocketry pioneer
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
Sir 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

Soldiers

Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, (1883-1963), Field Marshal, CIGS during World War II
Sir Alexander John Ball, (1759-1809), admiral, governor of Malta
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
Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, (1782-1859)
Charles George Gordon, (1833-1885), "Chinese Gordon", killed at Khartoum
John Manners, Marquess of Granby, (1721-1770), General
Sir Arthur Travers Harris, (1892-1984), Marshal of the Royal Air Force, 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
Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard, (1873-1956), father of the RAF and first Chief of the Air Staff
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

Alfred The Great, (849?-899), English monarch
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
Queen Mary I, (1553-1558), Roman Catholic queen
Queen Mary II, (1662-1694)
Queen Victoria, (1819-1901)
King William IV, (1765-1837)

Musicians and bands

Arctic Monkeys
Malcolm Arnold, (born 1921), composer
John Barbirolli, (1899-1970), conductor
David Bedford, (born 1937), composer and musician
The Beatles
Thomas Beecham, (1879-1961), conductor
The Bee Gees
Harrison Birtwistle, (born 1934), composer
Black Sabbath
James Blunt, (born 1977)
Adrian Boult, (1889-1983), conductor
David Bowie
Havergal Brian, (1876-1972), composer
Benjamin Britten, (1913-1976), composer and pianist
William Byrd, (1543-1623), composer
The Chemical Brothers
Eric Clapton
The Clash
Coldplay
Cream
Andrew Davis, (born 1944), conductor
Colin Davis, (born 1927), conductor
Craig David, (born 1981)
Deep Purple
Frederick Delius, (1862-1934), composer
John Dowland, (c. 1563-c. 1626), composer of songs
John Dunstable, (c. 1383-1453), composer
Duran Duran
Edward Elgar, (1857-1934), composer
Orlando Gibbons, (1583-1625), composer
Ron Goodwin, (1925-2003) composer and conductor
George Harrison, (1943-2001), composer, member of The Beatles
Gustav Holst, (1874-1934), composer
Saul Hudson, (born 1965), guitarist, member of Guns N' Roses, Slash's Snakepit and Velvet Revolver
John Ireland, (1879-1962), composer
Sir Elton John, (born 1947), pop star and composer
Olivia Newton-John, (born 1948), pop star
Davy Jones (born 1945, Singer/Percussionist, "The Monkees"
Nigel Kennedy, (born 1956), violinist
The Kinks
Led Zeppelin
Albert Lee, (born 1945), guitarist
Leftfield, dance music pioneers
John Lennon, (1940-1980), pop star, co founder of The Beatles
Andrew Lloyd Webber, (born 1948), composer of musicals
Massive Attack
Peter Maxwell Davies, (born 1934), composer
Sir Paul McCartney, (born 1942), pop star, co-founder of The Beatles
Thomas Morley, (c. 1557-1602), consort composer
Morrissey, (born 1959), composer, member of The Smiths
Mike Oldfield, (born 1953), composer and instrumentalist
Muse
Oasis (band)
Ozzy Osbourne
Jimmy Page OBE, (Born 1944), guitarist
Peter Pears, (1910-1986), tenor
Pink Floyd
Jacqueline du Pré, (1945-1987), cellist
Robert Plant
Henry Purcell, (1659-1695), composer
Queen (band)
Radiohead
Simon Rattle, (born 1955), conductor
The Rolling Stones
Malcolm Sargent, (1895-1967), conductor
Sex Pistols
The Spice Girls
Ringo Starr, (born 1940), composer, member of The Beatles
Thomas Tallis, (c. 1505-1585), composer
Lionel Tertis, (1876-1975), violist
Michael Tippett, (1905-1998), composer
Ralph Vaughan Williams, (1872-1958), composer
William Walton, (1902-1983), composer
Thomas Weelkes, (c.1575-1623), composer
The Who
John Wilbye, (1574-1638), composer
Henry Wood, (1869-1944), conductor
Roger Waters, (born 1943) founder of Pink Floyd
Robbie Williams
Underworld (band), dance music pioneers

Philosophers

Francis Bacon, (1561-1626), philosopher and essayist
Jeremy Bentham, (1748-1832), philosopher
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)
H. H. Asquith, (1852-1928), British prime minister
Clement Attlee, (1883-1967), British prime minister
Stanley Baldwin, British prime minister
Ernest Bevin
Margaret Bondfield
Rab 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 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, (1916 - 2004), molecular biologist
John Dalton, (1766-1844), chemist and physicist
Charles Darwin, (1809-1882), Founder of The Theory of Evolution
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
A. J. Morgan, (born 1987), chemist
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
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 and sportswomen

Harold Abrahams (1899-1978), athlete, one of the two subjects of Chariots of Fire
Chris Adams (1955-2001), pro wrestler and judoka
Neil Adams (born 1958), judoka and two-time silver medalist in Judo (1980 and 1984). Younger brother of Chris Adams
Tony Adams (Born 1966), football player
Roger Bannister (born 1929), first sub-four-minute miler
Alan Ball (born 1945), 1966 football World Cup winner
Steven Gerrard (Football Player for Liverpool And England)
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
Ashley Cole (born 1980) , Football Player
Sir Henry Cooper (born 1934), heavyweight boxer
John Deacon (1962-2001), motorcycle endurance racer
Christopher Dean (born 1958), figure skater (ice dance)
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
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
Dougie Lampkin, (born 1976), Motorcycle Trials World Champion
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)
Wayne Rooney (born 1985), football player
Sir Gordon Richards (1904-1988), jockey
Alan Shearer (born 1970), football player
Teddy Sheringham (born 1966), football player
Nobby Stiles (born 1942), football World Cup winner
Jayne Torvill (born 1957), figure skater (ice dance)
Randolph Turpin (1928-1966), middleweight boxer
Michael Vaughan (born 1974), cricketer player
Virginia Wade (born 1945), tennis player
Jonny Wilkinson (born 1979), rugby player
Justin Wilson (Born 1978), Champ Car Racer

Writers

Matthew Arnold, (1822-1888), poet
David Attenborough, (born 1926), naturalist and broadcaster
W. H. Auden, (1907-1973), poet
Jane Austen, (1775-1817), novelist
Alan Ayckbourn, (born 1939) playwright
Pam Ayres, (born 1947), poet
Hilaire Belloc, (1870-1953), writer and poet
John Betjeman, (1906-1984), poet laureate
Enid Blyton, (1897-1968), author
William Blake, (1757-1827), painter, poet
Robert Bolt, (1924-1995), dramitist and screenwriter. Wrote A Man For All Seasons
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
John Bunyan, (1628-88), author
Samuel Butler (1612-1680), poet and satirist
Samuel Butler (1835-1902), writer and satirist
George Gordon, Lord Byron
Lewis Carroll, (1832-1898), author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Geoffrey Chaucer, (c. 1343-1400), poet, author of The Canterbury Tales.
G. K. Chesterton, (1874-1936), author essayist
Dame Agatha Christie, (1891-1976), mystery writer
Winston Churchill, (1874-1965), British prime minister, author
John Clare, (1793-1864), poet.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (1772-1834), poet
Wilkie Collins, (1824-1889), novelist
William Congreve, (1670-1729), poet
Walter de la Mare, (1873-1956),poet and novelist
Daniel Defoe (or De Foe), (1660?–1731), writer
Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859), writer
Charles Dickens, (1812-1870), author
John Donne, (1572-1631), poet.
John Dryden, (1631-1700), poet
Daphne Du Maurier, (1907–89), novelist
George Eliot, (1819-1880), (Mary Ann Evans)
T. S. Eliot, (1888-1965), poet, playwright and Nobel prizewinner
Ian Fleming, James Bond author
C.S. Forester, 1899-1966) author
E.M. Forster, (1879-1970), author
Christopher Fry, (1907-2005), dramatist
John Galsworthy, (1867-1933) author and dramatist
Elizabeth Gaskell, novelist
William Golding, writer, Nobel prizewinner
Kenneth Grahame, (1859-1931), author
Robert Graves, (1895-1985), author
Thomas Gray, (1716-1771), poet
Graham Greene, (1904-1991), author, writer
Thomas Hardy, (1840-1928), poet
William Hazlitt, (1778-1830)
Gerard Manley Hopkins, (1884-1889), poet
Nick Hornby, (born 1957), novelist
A. E. Housman, (1859-1936),poet and scholar.
Ted Hughes, 1930-1998), poet laureate.
Leigh Hunt, (1784-1859), poet
Aldous Huxley, (1884-1963), writer
Thomas Henry Huxley, (1825-1895), coiner of the term agnosticism
Jerome K. Jerome, (1859-1927), humorist and playwright
Samuel Johnson, (1709-1784), poet
Ben Jonson, (1573-1637), poet
John Keats, (1795-1821), poet
Rudyard Kipling, (1865-1936), author
Frank Lampard, (born 1978), footballer
Philip Larkin, (1922-1985), poet
D.H. Lawrence, (1885-1930), poet
Edward Lear, (1812-1888), artist, humorist and poet
Thomas Malory, (c. 1430-c. 1471), author of Le Morte d'Arthur
Andrew Mango, (born 1926), author
Christopher Marlowe, (1564-1593), playwright
Eric Maschwitz, (1901-1969), writer, lyricist and entertainer
John Masefield, (1878-1967), poet laureate, and novelist
William Somerset Maugham, (18741965), writer
A. A. Milne, (1882-1956), author and poet
John Milton, (1608-1674), poet
Nancy Mitford, (1904-1973), novelist
William Morris, (1834-1896), architect, author
Kim Richard Nossal, professor, author
William Ralph Inge, clergyman, writer, mysticist
Joe Orton, (1933-1967), dramatist
George Orwell, (1903-1950), (Eric Blair), journalist and novelist
John Osborne, (1929-1994), dramatist, wrote Look Back In Anger
Wilfred Owen, (1893-1918), war poet
Samuel Pepys, (1633-1703), diarist and public official in 17th century England
Harold Pinter, (born 1930), playwright
Alexander Pope, (1688-1744), poet
Beatrix Potter, (1866-1943),author and illustrator
J. B. Priestley, (1894-1984), dramatist and novelist
Philip Pullman, (born 1946), author
Arthur Ransome, (1884–1967), author
Christina Rossetti, (1830-1894), poet
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, (1828-1882), poet
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter author
John Ruskin, (1819-1900), writer, critic and reformer
Dorothy L. Sayers, (1893-1957), mystery writer
William Shakespeare, (c. 1564-1616), poet and playwright
Mary Shelley, (1797-1851), author
Percy Bysshe Shelley, (1792-1822), poet
Philip Sidney, (1554-1586), poet and soldier
Edmund Spenser,(c. 1552-1599), poet. Wrote The Faerie Queene
Nevil Shute, (1899-1960), aeronautical engineer and author
Stevie Smith, (1902-1971), poet and novelist
Robert Southey, (1774-1843), Poet Laureate 1813
Liam P Spencer, (born 1990), Wrote article on M.E in 2006
Algernon Swinburne, (1837-1909), poet
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate
William Makepeace Thackeray, (1811-193), novelist
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 – 1973), author of The Lord of the Rings
Anthony Trollope, (1815-1882), novelist
Evelyn Waugh, (1903-1966), novelist
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

Prince William, second in line to the throne
Douglas Adams (1952-2001), author, comic and radio dramatist
Pope Adrian IV (c. 1100 - 1159)
Lisa Andreas, represented Cyprus in Eurovision 2004 (English father, Greek-Cypriot mother)
Marlen Angelidou, singer in Greece (of English and Greek-Cypriot extraction)
David Attenborough, (born 1926), naturalist and broadcaster
Robert Blake, (1599 - 1657), reforming Royal Navy Admiral
Capability Brown, (1715–83), landscape gardener
William Camden, (1551-1623), historian
William Caxton, (c. 1422-c. 1491), printer
Sir Malcolm Campbell, (1885–1949), automobile and speedboat racer.
Sir Francis Chichester, (1901-1972), yachtsman.
James Cook, (1728-1779), British explorer
Grace Darling, (1815-1842), heroine
Elizabeth Fry, (1780-1845), prison reformer
Edward Gibbon, (1737-1794), historian
Gildas, (c. 510 - c.570), monk
William Godwin, (1756-1836)
Ebenezer Howard, (1850-1928), urban planner
Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (1208?-1265). English statesman and soldier.
Sir Patrick Moore, (born 1923), Writer, T.V. Presenter, Astronomer.
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
Sir Ivan Stedeford, (1897-1975), Industrialist
Wat Tyler, (?-1381), leader of the Peasants' Revolt (1381)
William Wakefield, (1801-1848), founder of Wellington, New Zealand
William Wilberforce, (1759-1833), abolitionist, led campaign which ended the slave trade within the British empire

The following were born English, but changed nationality later in their life.

Alistair Cooke, (1908-2004)
Bob Hope, (1903-2003)
Thomas Paine, (1737-1809)

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