List of English people (original) (raw)

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
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, novelist
David Hockney, (1937-), painter
Henry Moore, (1898-1986), sculptor
Sir Joshua Reynolds, artist
Flora Twort, (1893-1985)

Criminals

Myra Hindley, Moors murderer
Ian Huntley, Soham murderer
Harold Shipman, (1946-2004), serial killer
Peter Sutcliffe, Yorkshire Ripper

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

Benjamin Baker, (1840-1907), engineer
Henry Bessemer, (1813-1898), engineer
James Brindley, (1716-1772), engineer
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, (1806-1859), engineer
Sidney Camm, engineer
William Tierney Clark, (1783-1852), civil engineer
Geoffrey de Havilland, (1882 - 1965), aeronautical engineer
John Ambrose Fleming, (1848-1945), electrical engineer
R.J. Mitchell, (1895-1937), aeronautical engineer
Samuel Morton Peto, (1809-1889), railways, harbours
Henry Royce, (1863-1933), engineer
Nevil Shute, (1899-1960), aeronautical engineer and author
George Stephenson, (1781-1848), engineer
Richard Trevithick, (1771-1833), engineer
Barnes Wallis, (1887-1978), engineer
Frank Whittle, (1907-1996), co-inventor of the jet engine
Joseph Whitworth, (1803-1887), engineer

Entrepreneurs

Richard Branson, (born 1950)
Abraham Darby, (c. 1678-1717), ironmaster
William Richard Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield (1877-1963)
Josiah Wedgwood, (1730-1795), industrialist

Filmmakers

Roy Boulting

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

Robert Baden-Powell, (1857-1941), soldier
Douglas Bader, (1910-1982), fighter pilot
Robert Blake, (1599 - 1657), reforming Royal Navy Admiral
Rupert Brooke, (1887-1925), poet
Winston Churchill, (1874-1965), British prime minister
Francis Drake, (1540-1596), sailor
Arthur Harris, (1892-1984), airman
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, (1650-1722), soldier
Bernard Montgomery ("The Desert Rat"), (1887-1976), soldier
Louis Mountbatten, (1900-1979), sailor
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson of the Nile, (1758-1805), sailor, Admiral
Siegfried Sassoon, (1886-1967), war poet
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington ("The Iron Duke"), (1769-1852), soldier

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), (later Queen Elizabeth II)
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)

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
Andrew Lloyd Webber, (born 1948), composer of musicals
Peter Maxwell Davies, (born 1934), composer
Peter Pears, (1910-1986), tenor
Jacqueline du Pr�, (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

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

Politicians

Henry Addington
Herbert Henry Asquith, (1852-1928), British prime minister
Clement Attlee, (1883-1967), British prime minister
Stanley Baldwin, British prime minister
Margaret Bondfield
James Callaghan, British prime minister
George Canning, (1770-1827), politician
William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
Joseph Chamberlain, (1836-1914)
Neville Chamberlain, (1869-1940), British prime minister
Winston Churchill, (1874-1965), British prime minister
Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington
Archibald Dalzel, (1740-1811), Governor of the Gold Coast
Benjamin Disraeli, (1804-1881), British prime minister
Alec Douglas-Home
Anthony Eden, (1897-1977), British prime minister
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
William Ewart Gladstone, (1809-1898), British prime minister
Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey
Edward Heath, British prime minister
Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool
David Lloyd George, British prime minister
George Grenville, British prime minister
William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Lord Grenville
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
John Lubbock, (1834-1913), banker, politician, naturalist and archaeologist
Harold Macmillan, British prime minister
John Major, (born 1943), British prime minister
Frederick North, Lord North
Sir Robert Peel, British prime minister
Henry Pelham
Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle
Spencer Perceval
William Pitt (the Elder), 1st Earl of Chatham, (1708-1778)
William Pitt the Younger, (1759-1806), British prime minister
Cecil Rhodes, (1853-1902), imperialist
Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham
Lord Russell
Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, British prime minister
Margaret Thatcher, (born 1925), British prime minister
Sir Robert Walpole, British prime minister
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham
Arthur Wellesley, (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 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 Wilkes, (born 1913), computer scientist
James Wilkinson, (1919-1986), mathematician
William Hyde Wollaston, (1766-1828), chemist
Thomas Young, (1773-1829), scientist

Sportsmen/sportswomen

Roger Bannister, (born 1929)first sub-four-minute miler
David Beckham, (born 1975), soccer player
Don Cockell, heavy weight boxer
James Figg Boxing's first world champion
Bob Fitzsimmons, (1863-1917), Boxing's first world champion in three divisions.
W.G. Grace, (1848-1915), cricketer
Naseem Hamed world champion boxer
Ricky Hatton highly touted boxing prospect
Len Hutton, (1916-1990), cricketer
Lennox Lewis, (born 1965), world champion boxer
George Mallory, mountaineer
Alan Minter, (born 1951), world champion boxer
Michael Owen, (born 1979), soccer player
Fred Perry, (1909-1995), Wimbledon champion tennis player
Alan Shearer soccer player
Randolph Turpin, (1928-1966), middleweight boxer

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
William Blake, (1757-1827), painter, poet
Anne Bronte, (1820-1849), author
Charlotte Bronte, (1816-1855), author
Emily Bronte, (1818-1848), author
Rupert Brooke, (1887-1925), poet
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, (1806-1861), poet
Robert Browning, (1812-1889), poet
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)
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
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)
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

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
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.

Thomas Paine, (1737-1809)