List of English people

Actors and actresses

• Vanessa Angel
• Gabrielle Anwar
• Richard Armitage
• Gemma Arterton
• Tom Baker
• Christian Bale
• Ben Barnes
• Sacha Baron Cohen
• Mischa Barton
• Mathew Baynton
• Sean Bean
• Kate Beckinsale
• Richard Beckinsale
• Eliza Bennett
• Rosalind Bennett
• Martin Benson
• Steven Berkoff
• Brian Blessed
• Orlando Bloom
• Emily Blunt
• Richard Briers
• Tony Britton
• Millie Bobby Brown
• Kelly Brook
• Kathy Burke
• Saffron Burrows
• Sebastian Cabot
• Sir Michael Caine
• Brian Cant
• Helena Bonham Carter
• Kim Cattrall
• Joan Collins
• Daniel Craig
• Michael Crawford
• Mackenzie Crook
• Benedict Cumberbatch
• Tim Curry
• Jack Davenport
• Anthony Dawson
• Daniel Day-Lewis
• Roger Delgado
• Dame Judi Dench
• Sarah Douglas
• Minnie Driver
• Christopher Eccleston
• Tamsin Egerton
• Jennifer Ehle
• Idris Elba
• Jennifer Ellison
• Alice Eve
• Rupert Everett
• Craig Fairbrass
• JJ Feild
• Tom Felton
• Emerald Fennell
• Joseph Fiennes
• Ralph Fiennes
• Colin Firth
• Dexter Fletcher
• Jamie Foreman
• George Formby
• Claire Forlani
• Emilia Fox
• James Frain
• Martin Freeman
• Anna Friel
• Sadie Frost
• Sir Michael Gambon
• Romola Garai
• Patricia Garwood
• Sir John Gielgud
• Stephen Graham
• Cary Grant
• Hugh Grant
• Leslie Grantham
• Sydney Greenstreet
• John Gregson
• Rupert Grint
• Sienna Guillory
• Sir Alec Guinness
• Brian Hall
• Rebecca Hall
• Dani Harmer
• Ricci Harnett
• Frank Harper
• Jack Hawkins
• Will Hay
• Georgie Henley
• Audrey Hepburn
• Tom Hiddleston
• Dame Wendy Hiller
• Stanley Holloway
• Bob Hoskins
• Nicholas Hoult
• Leslie Howard
• Annie Hulley
• Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
• Elizabeth Hurley
• John Hurt
• Jeremy Irons
• Theo James
• Sir David Jason
• Aaron Johnson
• Boris Karloff
• Toby Kebbell
• William Kempe
• Skandar Keynes
• Sir Ben Kingsley
• Keira Knightley
• Bobby Knutt
• Charles Laughton
• Stan Laurel
• Hugh Laurie
• Jude Law
• Jane Leeves
• Vivien Leigh
• Margaret Lockwood
• Joanna Lumley
• Patrick Macnee
• Roy Marsden
• Anna Massey
• Martine McCutcheon
• Sir Ian McKellen
• Sienna Miller
• Wentworth Miller
• Hayley Mills
• Sir John Mills
• Dame Helen Mirren
• Georgia Tennant
• Dominic Monaghan
• Sir Roger Moore
• Nick Moran
• Kenneth More
• Joseph Morgan
• Samantha Morton
• William Moseley
• Carey Mulligan
• Billy Murray
• Sophia Myles
• Parminder Nagra
• Anthony Newley
• Bill Nighy
• David Niven
• Merle Oberon
• Sophie Okonedo
• Gary Oldman
• Sir Laurence Olivier
• Clive Owen
• Cecil Parker
• Dev Patel
• Robert Pattinson
• Simon Pegg
• Alex Pettyfer
• Tim Pigott-Smith
• Rosamund Pike
• Billie Piper
• Anna Popplewell
• Dominic Purcell
• Daniel Radcliffe
• Oliver Reed
• Joely Richardson
• Miranda Richardson
• Natasha Richardson
• Sir Ralph Richardson
• Alan Rickman
• William Roache MBE
• Tim Roth
• Dame Margaret Rutherford
• George Sanders
• Peter Sellers
• Jane Seymour
• Robert Shaw
• Nicollette Sheridan
• Dame Maggie Smith
• Matt Smith
• Terence Stamp
• Shirley Stelfox
• Rachel Stevens
• Patrick Stewart
• Tilda Swinton
• Dame Elizabeth Taylor
• Juno Temple
• Kristin Scott Thomas
• Michael Wilding
• Tom Wilkinson
• Kate Winslet
• Ray Winstone
• Katherine Woodville

  Archaeologists and anthropologists

• George Adamson
• Leslie Alcock
• Mick Aston
• Richard Atkinson
• Edward Russell Ayrton
• Churchill Babington
• Philip Arthur Barker
• Thomas Bateman
• James Theodore Bent
• Geoffrey Bibby
• Howard Carter
• Grahame Clark
• David Clarke
• Barry Cunliffe
• Glyn Daniel
• John Disney, barrister and archaeologist
• E. E. Evans-Pritchard, social anthropologist
• Cyril Fox
• Dorothy Garrod
• William Greenwell
• Phil Harding
• Kathleen Kenyon
• John Leland, antiquary
• John Lubbock, banker, politician, naturalist and archaeologist
• John Robert Mortimer
• Francis Pryor
• Colin Renfrew, archaeologist
• Alice Roberts, anatomist, osteoarchaeologist and anthropologist
• Andrew Sherratt
• E.B. Tylor, anthropologist
• Mortimer Wheeler

  Architects

• Hubert Austin
• Charles Barry
• George Basevi
• William Burges, architect and designer
• William Butterfield, leader in Gothic revival movement
• Rowland Carter
• William Chambers
• John Douglas
• Henry Flitcroft
• Sir Norman Foster
• James Harrison
• Thomas Harrison
• Nicholas Hawksmoor
• Inigo Jones
• William Kent, architect, landscape architect and furniture designer
• Edmund Kirby
• Denys Lasdun
• Thomas Lockwood
• Edwin Lutyens
• William Morris, architect and author
• John Nash
• Henry Paley
• Joseph Paxton
• Thomas Mainwaring Penson
• August Pugin
• Anthony Salvin
• George Gilbert Scott
• Giles Gilbert Scott
• Edmund Sharpe
• John William Simpson
• George Edmund Street
• John Vanbrugh, Baroque architect
• Derek Walker
• Alfred Waterhouse
• Aston Webb
• William Wilkins
• Christopher Wren

  Artists

• Sophie Gengembre Anderson, painter
• James Andrews, botanical artist
• Richard Ansdell, painter
• Banksy, graffiti artist
• Aubrey Beardsley, illustrator
• Suzzan Blac, painter
• Sir Peter Blake, pop artist
• William Blake, painter, poet
• Henry Charles Bryant, portrait and landscape artist
• Albin R. Burt, portrait painter
• Sir Anthony Caro, sculptor
• Anna Maria Charretie, miniature painter
• John Constable, landscape painter
• Tracey Emin, conceptual artist
• Thomas Gainsborough, painter
• Andy Goldsworthy, sculptor
• Antony Gormley OBE RA, sculptor
• James Henry Govier, painter, etcher and engraver
• Steven Harris, cartoonist
• Thomas Hazlehurst, miniature painter
• Dame Barbara Hepworth DBE, sculptor
• Jamie Hewlett, comic book artist and designer
• Nicholas Hilliard, miniature painter
• Damien Hirst, sculptor/ conceptual artist
• David Hockney, painter
• Sir Howard Hodgkin, painter
• William Hogarth, painter, engraver
• Master Hugo, illuminated manuscript artist active in Bury St Edmunds
• William Holman Hunt
• Sir Edwin Landseer, animal painter
• Celia Levetus, illustrator
• Richard Long, land artist
• Sir John Everett Millais, painter
• Henry Moore, sculptor
• William Morris
• Lawrence Mynott, illustrator, designer and portrait painter
• Chris Ofili, painter
• George Passmore, artist
• Sir Joshua Reynolds, portrait painter
• Bridget Riley, painter
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti, painter
• Sir Stanley Spencer, painter
• George Stubbs, painter
• Joseph Mallord William Turner, landscape and marine artist
• Flora Twort, painter
• Mark Wallinger, conceptual artist
• Rachel Whiteread, sculptor
• Joseph Wright of Derby, Enlightenment painter

  Broadcasters

• Michael Aspel
• Sir David Attenborough, naturalist and broadcaster
• Richard Baker, broadcaster and newsreader
• Jeremy Clarkson, TV presenter, broadcaster and writer
• Simon Cowell, TV personality, record producer
• Johnny Kingdom, wildlife TV presenter
• Ray Mears, author, TV presenter and survival expert
• Sir Patrick Moore, writer, TV presenter, astronomer
• Michael Parkinson, presenter of British television chat show Parkinson
• John Peel, disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist
• Jonathan Ross
• Jimmy Savile, disc jockey, TV presenter, writer and media personality
• Mike Smith, TV and radio presenter
• Ed Stewart, radio and TV presenter

  Businessmen

• Sir Frederic Bolton, shipping
• Sir Richard Branson
• Sir John Brunner, chemicals
• Frank Bustard, shipping
• Joseph Crosfield, soap and chemicals
• Ron Dennis, McLaren automotive
• William Gossage, soap
• Philip Green, retail
• James Hanson, Baron Hanson, industrialist
• Thomas Hazlehurst, soap and alkali
• Robert Spear Hudson, soap powder
• John Hutchinson, alkali
• Peter Jones
• Sir Freddie Laker, pioneer of cheap air travel
• William Losh, alkali
• Alfred Mond, chemicals
• Henry Mond, chemicals
• Julian Mond, industrialist
• Stephan Morais
• William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield
• Edmund Knowles Muspratt, industrialist
• Richard Muspratt, industrialist
• Charles Roe, silk industry
• Titus Salt, industrialist
• Sir Ivan Stedeford, industrialist
• Sir Alan Sugar, electronics
• Richard Tompkins, Green Shield trading stamps
• Jamie Waller, entrepreneur
• Josiah Wedgwood, industrialist

  Chefs

• Lisa Allen
• Frances Atkins
• April Bloomfield
• Heston Blumenthal
• Avis Crocombe
• Tamasin Day-Lewis
• Fuchsia Dunlop
• Keith Floyd
• Rose Gray
• Sophie Grigson
• Fiona Hamilton-Fairley
• Angela Hartnett
• Rosemary Hume
• Robert Irvine
• Rachel Khoo
• Diana Kennedy
• Nigella Lawson
• Rosa Lewis
• Elizabeth Marshall
• James Martin
• Allegra McEvedy
• Mary-Ellen McTague
• Jamie Oliver
• Merrilees Parker
• Jennifer Paterson
• Marguerite Patten
• Gordon Ramsay
• Rosemary Shrager
• Delia Smith
• Rick Stein
• Emily Watkins
• Marco Pierre White
• Anne Willan
• Sophie Wright
• Antony Worrall Thompson

  Clergy

• Pope Adrian IV, only English Pope
• Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury
• Richard Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury
• Richard Barnes, bishop
• Archbishop Lawrence Booth, of York
• Thomas Cobham, Archbishop-elect of Canterbury, Bishop of Worcester
• William Charles Cotton, missionary and beekeeper
• Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury
• William Edington, Bishop of Winchester
• Gildas, monk
• William Howley, Archbishop of Canterbury
• Trevor Huddleston, anti-Apartheid activist
• Simon Islip, Archbishop of Canterbury
• Simon Langham, Archbishop of Canterbury
• John Leland, Presbyterian minister
• Henry Mackenzie, Anglican Bishop of Nottingham
• Walter Maidstone, Bishop of Worcester
• Simon Mepeham, Archbishop of Canterbury
• John Henry Newman, Catholic cardinal
• Adam Orleton, Bishop of Winchester
• Plegmund, Archbishop of Canterbury
• Walter Reynolds, Bishop of Worcester, Archbishop of Canterbury
• William Smyth, bishop
• Charles Spurgeon, Particular Baptist minister
• John de Stratford, Archbishop of Canterbury, Bishop of Winchester
• Simon Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury
• Joshua Toulmin, radical dissenting minister
• John Wesley, Methodist minister and evangelist
• Wilfrid, Bishop of York
• William Whittlesey, Bishop of Rochester, Bishop of Worcester, Archbishop of Canterbury

  Conspirators

• Guy Fawkes

  Criminals

• Myra Hindley, Moors murderer
• Ian Huntley, Soham murderer
• The Kray twins, east London gangsters
• Jimmy Moody, armed robber, reputed contract killer and prison escapee
• Raymond Morris, murderer
• Harold Shipman, possibly the most prolific serial killer worldwide; convicted of 15 murders; probably killed over 250
• Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper"
• Fred West and Rosemary West, serial killers
• Steve Wright, serial killer
• Graham Young, the "Teacup Poisoner"

  Economists

• R. G. D. Allen, economist, mathematician, and statistician
• Norman Angell, British internationalist and economist
• William Beveridge, economist and social reformer
• Edwin Cannan, economist and historian
• Colin Clark, British and Australian economist
• Ronald Coase, Nobel Prize–winning economist
• Martin Ellison, consultant to the Bank of England
• Friedrich Hayek, Nobel Prize–winning economist
• John Hicks, Nobel Prize–winning economist
• John Holland, founder of the Bank of Scotland in 1695
• William Stanley Jevons, economist and logician
• John Maynard Keynes, economist
• John Neville Keynes, economist, father of John Maynard Keynes
• Arthur Lewis, economist
• Thomas Malthus, demographer
• Alfred Marshall, economist
• Mary Paley Marshall, economist, wife of Alfred Marshall
• James Meade, Nobel Prize–winning economist
• John Stuart Mill, philosopher and economist
• Arthur Cecil Pigou, economist
• Lionel Robbins, economist
• Joan Violet Robinson, economist
• Richard Stone, Nobel Prize–winning economist
• Robert Torrens, army officer and economist
• Philip Wicksteed, economist

  Engineers

• Sir Benjamin Baker, civil engineer, co-designer of the Forth Railway Bridge
• William Baker, railway engineer
• Joseph Bazalgette, civil engineer, best known for creating the London Sewer System, hence making the city a healthier place to live
• James Beatty, railway engineer
• Sir Henry Bessemer, metallurgy engineer
• Ronald Eric Bishop, chief designer of the de Havilland Mosquito
• James Brindley, canal engineer
• Isambard Kingdom Brunel, transport engineer
• Sir Sydney Camm, aeronautical engineer
• Donald Campbell, railway engineer
• William Tierney Clark, civil engineer
• Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, aeronautical engineer
• Edmund Dummer, naval engineer
• Sir John Ambrose Fleming, electrical engineer
• Tommy Flowers, designer and builder of the first electronic computer
• Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet, civil engineer most famous as co-designer, alongside Benjamin Baker, of the Forth Railway Bridge
• Benjamin Hick, civil and mechanical engineer
• John Hick, civil and mechanical engineer
• Eric Laithwaite, engineer
• Sir William Lyons, engineer, co-founder of the automobile manufacturer Jaguar
• William Mackenzie, civil engineer and contractor
• R.J. Mitchell, aeronautical engineer
• Sir Henry Royce, engineer
• Nevil Shute, aeronautical engineer and author
• George Stephenson, railway engineer
• Charles Todd, meteorologist, in charge of constructing the Overland Telegraph across Australia
• Sir Barnes Wallis, engineer
• John Webster, engineer
• Sir Joseph Whitworth, engineer

  Explorers

• Gertrude Bell, traveller in Iraq
• Thomas Cavendish, one of the Elizabethan Sea Dogs, privateer, navigator
• Capt. James Cook, sailor, explorer
• William Dampier
• John Davis, Sea Dog, explorer and navigator
• Charles Montagu Doughty, explorer in the Middle East
• Sir Francis Drake
• Sir Ranulph Fiennes, listed as the "greatest living explorer" by the Guinness Book of Records
• Martin Frobisher, navigator, one of the Elizabethan Sea Dogs
• Rob Gauntlett, youngest Briton to summit Everest
• Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, first person to perform single handed non-stop circumnavigation of the globe
• Michael Palin
• Sir Walter Raleigh
• Robert Falcon Scott, Antarctic explorer
• Ed Stafford, first person to walk the complete length of the Amazon River
• Freya Stark, Middle East explorer
• Wilfred Thesiger, explorer in East Africa and the Middle East
• Henry Timberlake, merchant and traveller

  Filmmakers

• Richard Attenborough
• John Boorman
• John and Roy Boulting
• Alan Clarke
• Charlie Chaplin
• Mike Figgis
• Lewis Gilbert
• David Hare
• Alfred Hitchcock
• Peter Howitt
• Humphrey Jennings
• Stan Laurel
• David Lean
• Mike Leigh
• Ken Loach
• Nick Love
• Anthony Minghella
• Carol Morley
• Mike Newell
• Christopher Nolan
• Nick Park
• Michael Powell
• Guy Ritchie
• Ken Russell
• Ridley Scott
• Tony Scott

  Historians

• Frank Barlow
• William Camden
• Edward Gibbon
• Richard Holmes, military historian and author
• Sir Peter Leycester, historian and antiquarian
• George Ormerod, historian and antiquary
• Nicholas Rodger, naval historian
• John Speed, historian and cartographer
• A.J.P. Taylor, popular historian

  Comedians

• Chris Addison
• Chesney Allen
• Stephen K. Amos
• Rowan Atkinson
• Charlie Chaplin
• Richard Ayoade
• Ronnie Barker
• Sacha Baron Cohen
• Julian Barratt
• Matt Berry
• John Bird
• Jo Brand
• Charlie Brooker
• Roy 'Chubby' Brown
• Adam Buxton
• Alan Carr
• Jimmy Carr
• Jasper Carrott
• Graham Chapman
• John Cleese
• Steve Coogan
• Peter Cook
• Tommy Cooper
• Barry Cryer
• Jon Culshaw
• Jim Davidson
• Les Dawson
• Angus Deayton
• Hugh Dennis
• Ken Dodd
• Ade Edmondson
• Jo Enright
• Lee Evans
• Noel Fielding
• Bud Flanagan
• John Fortune
• Dawn French
• Stephen Fry
• Ricky Gervais
• Dave Gorman
• Tony Hancock
• Jeremy Hardy
• Miranda Hart
• Lenny Henry
• Richard Herring
• Matthew Holness
• Russell Howard
• Lee Hurst
• Eric Idle
• Robin Ince
• Eddie Izzard
• Jethro
• Russell Kane
• Peter Kay
• Hugh Laurie
• Stewart Lee
• Alice Lowe
• Matt Lucas
• Lee Mack
• Bernard Manning
• Rik Mayall
• Alistair McGowan
• Rory McGrath
• Paddy McGuinness
• Michael McIntyre
• Stephen Merchant
• Paul Merton
• Sarah Millican
• David Mitchell
• Bob Monkhouse
• Eric Morecambe
• Chris Morris
• Bob Mortimer
• Frank Muir
• Al Murray
• Denis Norden
• John Oliver
• Michael Palin
• Andy Parsons
• Sue Perkins
• Lucy Porter
• Jan Ravens
• Vic Reeves
• Mike Reid
• Jennifer Saunders
• Peter Sellers
• Frank Skinner
• Arthur Smith
• Freddie Starr
• Tracey Ullman
• Tim Vine
• David Walliams
• Holly Walsh
• Robert Webb
• Jack Whitehall
• Norman Wisdom
• Ernie Wise

  Inventors

• Ruth Amos, entrepreneur and inventor of StairSteady
• Richard Arkwright, revolutionised the cotton industry in England during the Industrial Revolution; once called the "father of the Industrial Revolution"
• Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web
• Henry Bessemer, inventor of the Bessemer Process which was the first way of mass-producing steel
• Hubert Cecil Booth, inventor of the vacuum cleaner
• Joseph Bramah, inventor of the hydraulic press
• Sir Henry Cavendish, discoverer of hydrogen
• Christopher Cockerell, inventor of the hovercraft
• William Congreve, rocketry pioneer
• Abraham Darby, ironmaster
• James Dyson, inventor
• James Hargreaves, weaver and inventor
• Sir John Harington, poet and inventor of the first water closet
• John Harrison, clockmaker
• Rowland Hill, inventor of the modern postal service
• Benjamin Huntsman, inventor of crucible steel
• Archibald Low, radio guidance
• Thomas Newcomen, inventor
• Sir Isaac Newton, founder of modern physics, inventor of the reflector telescope
• Hans Ramzan, HIV detector
• James Starley, bicycle pioneer
• George Stephenson, engineer
• Joseph Wilson Swan, inventor of the light bulb
• Charles Wheatstone, inventor
• Sir Frank Whittle, inventor of the jet engine
• Joseph Whitworth, inventor, known for standardising the screw thread

  Journalists

• Mark Austin
• Reginald Bosanquet
• Christopher Booker
• Michael Buerk
• Sir Alastair Burnet
• Edward Chattaway, editor of The Star
• Jill Dando
• Sir Robin Day
• Katie Derham
• Peter Donaldson
• Julie Etchingham
• Anna Ford
• Paul Foot
• Andrew Gardner
• Krishnan Guru-Murthy
• Nina Hossain
• Richard Ingrams
• Natasha Kaplinsky
• Mary Nightingale
• Jeremy Paxman
• Sophie Raworth
• Angela Rippon
• Willie Rushton
• Peter Sissons
• Jon Snow
• Alastair Stewart
• Moira Stuart

  Military personnel

• John Adams, last survivor of the Bounty Mutineers
• Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, field marshal, Second World War commander
• Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Montreal, general
• George Anson, 1st Baron Anson, Admiral of the Fleet, noted naval reformer
• Sir Claude Auchinleck, Second World War commander
• Reginald Bacon, admiral, pioneer of submarines and torpedoes for the Royal Navy
• Robert Baden-Powell, soldier
• Sir Douglas Bader, fighter pilot
• Ralph Bagnold, founder of the Long Range Desert Group; explorer
• Sir Alexander John Ball, admiral, governor of Malta
• Samuel Barrington, rear admiral
• Lord Aubrey Beauclerk, Officer of the Royal Navy
• John Benbow, admiral
• George Charles Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, Commander of cavalry at the Battle of Balaclava
• William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood, general, Robert Blake, reforming Royal Navy Admiral
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• [William Bligh, best known for the mutiny of the Bounty
• James Henry Robinson Bond, corporal in the Royal Army Medical Corps
• Sir John Borlase Warren, 1st Baronet, admiral
• Philip Broke, rear admiral, known for his capture of USS Chesapeake
• Thomas Bruce, Lieut-General and politician
• James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, Commander of the Light Brigade
• Richard Francis Burton, soldier, spy, linguist and explorer
• Freddie Spencer Chapman, known for his exploits in the jungle during the Second World War
• Leonard Cheshire VC, Royal Air Force pilot during Second World War and founder of the Cheshire Homes
• John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, soldier
• Sir Winston Churchill, British prime minister
• Charles Clerke, sailed with James Cook on all three of his expeditions, was the Captain of Discovery at the time of Cook's death he then took command until his own death at sea shortly after
• Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet, Admiral of the Fleet, admiral in charge at the capture and burning of Washington in 1814
• Edwin Cole, Squadron Leader
• Cuthbert Collingwood, vice admiral, Commander-in-chief of the Mediterranean Fleet
• Henry Seymour Conway, general
• John Cooke, captain of at the Battle of Trafalgar, where he was subsequently killed
• Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, general
• Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England
• Christopher Augustus Cox, Private
• Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, statesman and soldier
• Miles Dempsey, commander of the British Second Army During the D-Day landing
• Sir Francis Drake, sailor
• Sir John Duckworth, admiral, known for the Battle of San Domingo
• Thomas Farrington, lieutenant general
• Alexander Fraser, general
• Bruce Fraser, Admiral of the Fleet, commander of the British Pacific Fleet during the Second World War
• Prince Frederick, Duke of York, son of King George III, Commander-in-Chief of the Forces during French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
• John French, 1st Earl of Ypres, general, World War I and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
• Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, Commander-in-Chief of the Forces
• Charles George Gordon , killed at Khartoum
• Hubert Gough, general
• Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet, vice-admiral, captained at the Battle of Trafalgar
• Sir Arthur Travers Harris, Marshal of the Royal Air Force, airman
• Eliab Harvey, admiral, captain of, which played a crucial role at the Battle of Trafalgar
• Edward Hawke, Admiral of the Fleet, best known as the admiral at the Battle of Quiberon Bay
• John Hawkwood, famous medieval mercenary
• Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, mentor of Nelson
• Brian Horrocks, highly regarded general during World War II
• William Hoste, well-known frigate captain during the Napoleonic War
• William Hotham, 1st Baron Hotham, admiral
• John Howard, major, led the raid that captured Pegasus Bridge on D-Day that was part of Operation Deadstick
• Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe, admiral
• William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe, general in the American Revolutionary War
• John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, admiral during the First World War
• Louis Fleeming Jenkin, captain
• Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes, admiral
• Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, field marshal
• Lofty Large, SAS soldier, author
• FitzRoy Henry Lee, Vice Admiral, Commodore Governor of the Colony of Newfoundland
• John Ligonier, 1st Earl Ligonier, general
• Trafford Leigh-Mallory, air commander of the Allied invasion of Normandy
• John Manners, Marquess of Granby, general
• William McMurdo, general
• Andy McNab, former Special Air Service soldier and commander of the infamous Bravo Two Zero mission during the first Iraq Gulf War
• Samuel Mitchell , killed in action during the New Zealand Wars
• George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, Civil War era general in Chief Command
• Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein , field marshal and hero of World War II
• Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, statesman, sailor
• Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson of the Nile, sailor, admiral
• Augustus Charles Newman VC, The Essex Regiment, No.2 Commando, SAS, led the raid on St. Nazaire
• John Norreys, Tudor soldier
• Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, general, hero of the Napoleonic Wars
• Sir William Parker, Admiral of the Fleet, was the admiral during the First Opium War
• Arthur Phillip, admiral, commanded the First Fleetinto what is now known as Port Jackson, First Governor of New South Wales
• Basil Charles Godfrey Place VC, along with Donald Cameron VC and crew crippled the pocket battleship Tirpitz during operation Source
• Dudley Pound, Admiral of the Fleet, First Sea Lord during the Second World War
• Henry Pulleine, Lieutenant-Colonel
• Bertram Ramsay, admiral, commander of operation Neptune during Second World War
• Bernard Rawlings, admiral, second in command of the British Pacific Fleet during Second World War
• Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar, field marshal, last Commander-in-Chief of the Forces
• Sir William Robertson, 1st Baronet, "Wully" Robertson, distinguished soldier; the only man ever in the British Army to rise from the rank of private soldier to field marshal; the head of the Army for much of World War I; a highly influential figure as to strategy
• Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich
• George Rooke, Admiral of the Fleet
• William Victor Trevor Rooper, Captain
• Chris Ryan, Former Special Air Service soldier and member of the infamous Bravo Two Zero mission during the first Iraq Gulf War
• Siegfried Sassoon, war poet
• Charles Saunders, Admiral, commanded the Fleet at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham
• Derek Anthony Seagrim, Lieutenant Colonel
• Sir James Simpson, general
• William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, Commander in Burma during Second World War, Governor-General of Australia
• Sir Sidney Smith, Napoleon famously said of him "that man made me miss my destiny"
• Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien, general, World War I
• Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, British commander in the Crimean War
• James Somerville, Admiral of the Fleet, Commander at Mers-El-Kabir
• Bill Speakman VC, Black Watch, SAS Regiment
• Richard Strachan, known for his action after the Battle of Trafalgar
• James Brian Tait VC, nicknamed" Tirpitz", commander of 617 squadron
• Henry Tandey VC, the most highly decorated private of the First World War
• Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard, "father of the RAF" and first Chief of the Air Staff
• Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford, general
• Sir Thomas Troubridge, 1st Baronet, rear admiral
• Reginald Tyrwhitt, Admiral of the Fleet, commander of the Harwich Force during World War I
• George Vancouver, distinguished Royal Navy Captain and explorer
• Edward Vernon, Admiral
• Philip Vian, Admiral of the Fleet, distinguished destroyer captain also Commander in Charge of Air Operations, British Pacific Fleet during Second World War
• Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, World War II general, second to last Viceroy of India
• Sir William Welsh, Air Marshal
• Jane Whorwood, Royalist agent during the English Civil War
• Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, captain-general, victor of Culloden
• James Wolfe, general, hero of Quebec during the Seven Years' War
• John Woodhouse, reformed SAS selection and training techniques after World War Two

  Monarchs

• Alfred the Great , King of the Anglo-Saxons
• Queen Anne, also Queen of Scotland, then Queen of Great Britain after 1707
• Charles I, also King of Scotland, and Ireland
• Charles II, also King of Scotland
• Cnut
• Saint Edward the Confessor
• Edward I, English monarch
• Edward II, English monarch
• Edward III, English monarch
• Edward IV, English monarch
• Edward V, English monarch
• Edward VI, first English Protestant monarch
• Elizabeth I, Protestant queen and first Supreme Governor of the Church of England
• Elizabeth II
• Harold Godwinson, died in Battle of Hastings
• Harold Harefoot
• Harthacnut
• Henry I
• Henry III, English monarch
• Henry IV, English monarch
• Henry V
• Henry VI, English monarch
• Henry VII
• Henry VIII, separated English Catholicism from link with the Roman Catholic Church
• James II
• Lady Jane Grey , beheaded 1554, aged 16
• King John
• Mary I, Roman Catholic queen
• Mary II, reigned jointly with her husband William III
• Richard of Cornwall, King of the Romans
• Richard the Lionheart, Richard I, English monarch, leader and hero of the Third Crusade
• Richard II
• Richard III, last Plantagenet King, and last British monarch to die in Battle
• William I, "William the Conqueror", William of Normandy
• William II
• William III, "William of Orange", born 1650 at The Hague in Holland, married an English princess, reigned jointly with his wife Mary II, until her death

  Musicians

• Stuart Adamson, lead singer of Big Country
• Adele, singer
• Thomas Adès, composer
• Damon Albarn, singer-songwriter
• John Alldis, chorus master and conductor
• Lily Allen
• Marsha Ambrosius, singer, songwriter
• David Arnold, composer, musician and film scorer
• Malcolm Arnold, composer
• Quenton Ashlyn, society entertainer
• Rick Astley, singer-songwriter
• Alexander Baillie, cellist
• Bryan Balkwill, conductor
• John Barbirolli, conductor
• Gary Barlow, singer, songwriter and member of Take That
• Syd Barrett, singer, songwriter, member of the early Pink Floyd
• Norman Beaker, blues guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer
• Victoria Beckham, singer, songwriter, dancer, fashion designer, author, businesswoman, actress and model
• David Bedford, composer and musician
• Mark Bedford, musician, songwriter and composer, bass guitarist for Madness
• Natasha Bedingfield, singer
• Thomas Beecham, conductor
• Matthew Bellamy, composer for Muse
• Lisa Beznosiuk, flautist
• Acker Bilk, clarinettist and vocalist
• Alan Parsons, composer and musician
• Roger Birnstingl, bassoonist
• Harrison Birtwistle, composer
• Colin Vearncombe aka Black best known for the song Wonderful life.
• Cilla Black, British singer and television presenter
• James Blunt
• Ian Gillan, Singer For Deep Purple
• John Bonham, drummer for Led Zeppelin
• Ritchie Blackmore
• Tim Booth, singer-songwriter and actor
• Adrian Boult, conductor
• James Bourne, member of the former rock group Busted, singer and songwriter
• David Bowie
• Robin Gibb, singer-songwriter member of Bee Gees
• William Boyce, composer
• Billy Bragg
• Havergal Brian, composer
• Sarah Brightman, singer, actress, songwriter and dancer
• Benjamin Britten, composer and pianist
• Justin Broadrick, vocalist and guitarist, member of Godflesh and Jesu
• Pete Burns, singer-songwriter and lead vocalist with Dead or Alive
• Kate Bush, singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
• Bilinda Butcher, singer-songwriter, vocalist and guitarist of My Bloody Valentine
• William Byrd, composer
• Justin Chancellor, bassist, member of Tool
• Eric Clapton
• Rick Wakeman, piano, keyboardist, musician
• Adam Clayton, bassist, member of U2
• Cheryl Cole, singer
• Jon Anderson, singer-songwriter, member of Yes
• Phil Collins, singer-songwriter, musician, member of Genesis
• Imogen Cooper, pianist
• Graham Coxon, guitarist, singer-songwriter, former member of Blur and solo artist
• Ian Curtis, lead singer and composer for Joy Division
• Roger Daltrey, singer, lead of The Who
• Peter Maxwell Davies, composer
• Andrew Davis, conductor
• Colin Davis, conductor
• Chris de Burgh, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
• Gervase de Peyer, clarinetist and conductor
• Norman Del Mar, conductor
• Frederick Delius, composer
• Dido, singer and songwriter
• Pete Doherty, former co-lead singer of The Libertines; current lead singer of Babyshambles; solo artist
• Peter Donohoe, pianist
• John Dowland, composer of songs
• Nick Drake, singer-songwriter
• Jacqueline du Pré, cellist
• John Dunstaple, composer
• Ian Dury, lyricist and vocalist for The Blockheads
• Edward Elgar, composer
• John Entwistle
• George Ezra, singer-songwriter
• Marianne Faithfull
• Gerald Finzi, composer
• Lita Ford
• Chris Foreman, musician, singer-songwriter and composer, guitarist for Madness
• George Formby, wartime entertainer, famous for his playing of the Banjolele and contribution to film
• Peter Gabriel, singer-songwriter and former lead vocalist with Genesis
• Noel Gallagher, singer-songwriter
• Orlando Gibbons, composer
• David Gilmour, guitarist, singer and composer of Pink Floyd
• Ron Goodwin, composer and conductor
• Debbie Googe, bassist of My Bloody Valentine
• Ellie Goulding, singer-songwriter, musician
• Bella Hardy folk musician, singer, songwriter
• Dhani Harrison, guitarist, son of George Harrison
• George Harrison, composer, member of The Beatles
• PJ Harvey
• Anthony Hewitt, pianist
• Steve Hogarth, songwriter, musician and leadsinger of the band Marillion
• Gustav Holst, composer
• Dominic Howard, member of Muse
• Tony Iommi, guitarist for Black Sabbath
• John Ireland, composer
• Robert Irving, conductor
• Jessie J, singer-songwriter
• Mick Jagger, rock singer and frontman of The Rolling Stones
• Sir Elton John, pop star and composer
• Brian Johnson, rock singer
• Brian Jones, founding member and guitarist of The Rolling Stones
• Davy Jones, singer/percussionist, member of The Monkees
• John Paul Jones, bassist, mandolinist and keyboardist for Led Zeppelin
• Nigel Kennedy, violinist
• Thea King, clarinetist
• Adrian Lambert, bassist
• Jen Ledger, drummer and backing vocalist for Skillet
• Albert Lee, guitarist
• John Lennon, pop star, co-founder of The Beatles
• Leona Lewis, singer and songwriter
• Cher Lloyd, singer
• Andrew Lloyd Webber, composer of musicals
• Pixie Lott, singer
• Chris Lowe, keyboardist and composer, member of Pet Shop Boys
• Zayn Malik, member of British-Irish boy band One Direction
• Chris Martin, singer-songwriter, lead of Coldplay
• Sir Paul McCartney, pop star, co-founder of The Beatles
• Graham McPherson, aka Suggs, Lead Vocalist of Madness
• George Michael
• Tony Mills, singer and guitarist, member of Shy
• Keith Moon
• Thomas Morley, consort composer
• Ella Mai, singer, songwriter
• Gareth Morris, flautist
• Morrissey, composer, member of The Smiths
• Freddie Mercury leadsinger of the band Queen
• Olivia Newton-John, pop star
• John Ogdon, pianist
• Mike Oldfield, composer and instrumentalist
• Ozzy Osbourne, vocalist for Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne
• Jimmy Page, guitarist
• Hubert Parry, composer
• Liam Payne, member of British-Irish boy band One Direction
• Bob and Alf Pearson, singers and pianist
• Peter Pears, tenor
• Robert Plant, singer, member of Led Zeppelin
• Anthony Pleeth, cellist
• Stephen Preston, flautist
• Henry Purcell, composer
• Simon Rattle, conductor
• Paul Rodgers, singer
• Martin Roscoe, pianist
• Malcolm Sargent, conductor
• 21 Savage, rapper, record producer
• Ed Sheeran, singer-songwriter
• Elsie Southgate, violinist
• Zak Starkey, drummer, son of Ringo Starr
• Ringo Starr, composer, member of The Beatles
• Crispin Steele-Perkins, trumpeter
• Rod Stewart
• Joss Stone
• Joe Strummer, singer, member of The Clash
• Harry Styles, member of British-Irish boy band One Direction
• Bernard Sumner, lead singer of New Order
• Connie Talbot, child singer and reality star
• Thomas Tallis, composer
• Benson Taylor, composer
• Tinie Tempah, rapper
• Neil Tennant, vocalist, member of Pet Shop Boys
• Lionel Tertis, violist
• Frederick Thurston, clarinetist
• Lee Thompson, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and composer, founder and saxophonist of Madness
• Michael Tippett, composer
• Louis Tomlinson, member of British-Irish boy band One Direction
• Pete Townshend
• Alex Turner leader singer of the band Arctic Monkeys
• Ralph Vaughan Williams, composer
• Sid Vicious, bassist for Sex Pistols
• Ricky Walters, aka rapper Slick Rick
• William Walton, composer
• Roger Waters, founder of Pink Floyd
• Thomas Weelkes, composer
• Florence Welch, lead singer of Florence and The Machine
• John Wilbye, composer
• Cliff Williams, bassist
• Robbie Williams
• Steven Wilson, musician, producer, composer and founder of Porcupine Tree
• Amy Winehouse, singer-songwriter
• Christopher Wolstenholme, member of Muse
• Henry Wood, conductor
• Dan Woodgate musician, songwriter, composer and record producer, drummer for Madness
• Thom Yorke, singer-songwriter, musician, member of Radiohead
• Marvin Young, aka rapper Young MC

  Philosophers

• Donald Adamson
• G. E. M. Anscombe, philosopher
• Anselm of Canterbury, philosopher, famous for creation of the Ontological Argument
• A. J. Ayer, philosopher
• Francis Bacon, philosopher and essayist
• Roger Bacon, medieval philosopher, alchemist, and theologian
• Jeremy Bentham, philosopher, founder of Utilitarianism
• R. M. Hare, philosopher
• H. L. A. Hart, legal philosopher
• Thomas Hobbes, philosopher
• William Godwin, political philosopher
• John Locke, philosopher
• John Stuart Mill, economist, political philosopher
• G. E. Moore, philosopher
• William of Ockham, philosopher, theologian, created Ockham's Razor
• Thomas Paine, theorist
• Derek Parfit, philosopher
• Bertrand Russell, philosopher
• Gilbert Ryle, philosopher
• Henry Sidgwick, philosopher
• Herbert Spencer
• Peter Strawson, philosopher
• William Whewell, philosopher
• Alfred North Whitehead, mathematician
• Bernard Williams, philosopher

  Photographers

• David Bailey
• Emma Barton
• Cecil Beaton
• George Beldam, first-class cricketer and a pioneer of action photography in sport
• John Blakemore
• Samuel Bourne
• Larry Burrows, photojournalist
• George Davison
• Terence Donovan
• Brian Duffy
• Frederick H. Evans
• Roger Fenton
• John French
• Francis Frith
• Peter Wickens Fry, early amateur photographer
• Bert Hardy
• Alfred Horsley Hinton
• Don McCullin, photojournalist
• Eadweard Muybridge
• Horace Nicholls
• Tony Ray-Jones
• Henry Peach Robinson
• George Rodger, photojournalist
• Francis Meadow Sutcliffe
• William Henry Fox Talbot, photographer, inventor of the calotype process

  Politicians

• John FitzAlan, 1st Baron Arundel
• Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel
• Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel
• H. H. Asquith, British prime minister
• Clement Attlee, British prime minister
• Stanley Baldwin, British prime minister
• John Barrington, 1st Viscount Barrington
• Charles George Beauclerk
• Lord Sidney Beauclerk
• Tony Benn, Labour politician
• Ernest Bevin, Labour politician
• Margaret Bondfield, Labour politician and first female Cabinet Minister
• Harold Briggs
• John Bright, liberal politician
• Sir Paul Bryan
• Dorothy Boyle, Countess of Burlington
• George Canning, politician
• William Cartwright, politician
• Barbara Castle, politician
• Lord Henry Cavendish, nobleman and politician
• Sir Austen Chamberlain
• Joseph Chamberlain
• Neville Chamberlain, British prime minister
• James Chase
• Lord Randolph Churchill
• Winston Churchill, British prime minister
• Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence
• Kenneth Clarke, Conservative politician
• William Cobbett, MP and reformer
• Sir Stafford Cripps, Labour politician
• George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy of India
• Archibald Dalzel, Governor of the Gold Coast
• Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby
• Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
• William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, soldier, nobleman, and Whig politician
• Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire
• William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire
• Benjamin Disraeli, British prime minister
• Alec Douglas-Home, British prime minister
• Anthony Eden, British prime minister
• Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, nobleman and politician, also a commander in the Parliamentary army in the English Civil War
• Michael Foot, Labour leader
• William Bower Forwood, politician
• Sir Henry Bartle Frere, Colonial administrator
• Hugh Gaitskell, Labour politician
• William Ewart Gladstone, British prime minister
• Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton
• George Grenville, British prime minister
• William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Lord Grenville
• Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey
• William Hague, Conservative politician
• William Savile, 2nd Marquess of Halifax
• James Hamilton, Viscount Hamilton, Nobleman and politician
• Denis Healey, Labour politician
• Edward Heath, British prime minister
• Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland
• Boris Johnson, British prime minister
• William Kenrick
• Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent
• John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley
• Brownlow William Knox
• George Lansbury
• Nigel Lawson, Conservative politician
• Sir Francis Lee, 4th Baronet
• John Leland, English Member of Parliament for Stamford, 1796–1808
• Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville
• John de Lacy, 2nd Earl of Lincoln
• Henry de Lacy, 3rd Earl of Lincoln
• Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool
• John Lubbock, Banker, politician, naturalist and archaeologist
• Harold Macmillan, British prime minister
• John Major, British prime minister
• Reginald Maudling, Conservative politician
• William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
• Herbert Morrison, Labour politician
• Theresa May, British Prime Minister
• Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle
• Frederick North, Lord North
• Philip Oliver
• Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, British prime minister
• Sir Robert Peel, British prime minister
• Henry Pelham
• Gilbert de Clare, 1st Earl of Pembroke
• William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke
• Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke
• Spencer Perceval, British prime minister
• William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
• William Pitt the Younger, British prime minister
• William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
• Enoch Powell
• Cecil Rhodes, imperialist
• Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon, politician
• William Robson, Baron Robson
• Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham
• Sir Thomas Royden, 1st Baronet, ship-owner and Conservative Party politician
• Thomas Royden, 1st Baron Royden, businessman and Conservative Party politician
• John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
• Michael Hicks-Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn
• Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, British prime minister
• Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth
• John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon
• Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw
• Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans
• John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey
• Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney, Home Secretary in the Pitt government; suggested using what is now Australia as a penal colony for Britain
• Margaret Thatcher, British prime minister
• Sir Robert Walpole, British prime minister
• Sir Godfrey Webster, 4th Baronet
• Sir Godfrey Webster, 5th Baronet
• William Wilberforce, abolitionist
• William Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby de Eresby
• Robert Willoughby, 6th Baron Willoughby de Eresby
• Shirley Williams, SDP founder
• Henry Willink, politician
• Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington
• Harold Wilson, British prime minister
• Edward Maria Wingfield, also soldier and English colonist in America

  Scientists

• Arthur Aikin, chemist and mineralogist
• Nathan Alcock, doctor
• Jim Al-Khalili, theoretical physicist and broadcaster
• Charles Babbage, mathematician
• Joseph Banks, naturalist
• Isaac Barrow, mathematician
• Thomas Bayes, mathematician
• Tim Berners-Lee, computer scientist; inventor of the World Wide Web
• Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, physicist
• George Boole, mathematician
• Robert Boyle, natural philosopher
• Richard Bright, doctor, founder of Bright's Disease
• Henry Brunner, chemist
• Henry Cavendish, scientist
• Sir George Cayley, polymath and aviator
• Frank Close, physicist
• Brian Cox, physicist
• Francis Crick, molecular biologist
• John Dalton, chemist and physicist
• Charles Darwin, initiator of the theory of evolution
• Richard Dawkins, evolutionary theorist
• Henry Deacon, chemist
• Paul Dirac, physicist
• Horace Donisthorpe, entomologist, myrmecologist and coleopterist
• Arthur Eddington, physicist
• Michael Faraday, scientist
• Ronald Fisher, geneticist and statistician
• Jeff Forshaw, particle physicist
• Rosalind Franklin, chemist and x-ray crystallographer
• J. B. S. Haldane, geneticist
• James Hargreaves, chemist
• Stephen Hawking, cosmologist
• Oliver Heaviside, physicist
• John Herschel, mathematician and astronomer
• Peter Higgs, physicist
• C. A. R. Hoare, computer scientist
• Robert Hooke, scientist
• Edward Jenner, doctor
• R. V. Jones, physicist
• James Prescott Joule, physicist
• Joseph Lister, surgeon
• Bernard Lovell, astronomer
• James Lovelock, scientist
• Martin Lowry, chemist
• John William Lubbock, banker, mathematician and astronomer
• Sir Charles Lyell, geologist
• John Maynard Smith, geneticist
• John McClellan, chemist
• Robert Mond, chemist
• Desmond Morris, zoologist
• Roger Needham, computer scientist
• Sir Isaac Newton, founder of modern physics, last of the alchemists
• William Penney, mathematician, physicist, director of British nuclear weapon research
• Roger Penrose, cosmologist
• Joseph Prestwich, geologist
• Joseph Priestley, chemist
• Martin Rees, cosmologist and astrophysicist
• Adam Sedgwick, geologist
• John Snow, epidemiologist
• Joseph Wilson Swan, physicist and chemist
• George Paget Thomson, physicist
• J. J. Thomson, physicist
• Henry Tizard, chemist and inventor
• Alan Turing, mathematician
• Alfred Russel Wallace, naturalist
• Alfred North Whitehead, mathematician
• Maurice Vincent Wilkes, computer scientist
• James H. Wilkinson, mathematician
• William Hyde Wollaston, chemist
• Thomas Young, scientist

  Sportsmen and sportswomen

• Barney Aaron , lightweight boxer, Hall of Fame
• Harold Abrahams, athlete, Olympic champion and silver, one of the two subjects of Chariots of Fire
• Sir Sidney Abrahams, Olympic long jumper
• Chris Adams, pro wrestler and judoka
• Neil Adams, judoka and two-time silver medalist in Judo, younger brother of Chris Adams
• Tony Adams, footballer
• Simon Andrews, Isle of Man TT rider
• Jo Ankier, Britain, record holder
• Dina Asher-Smith, Fastest British woman; world champion
• Graham Atkinson, footballer
• Joe Baker, footballer and manager
• Alan Ball, member of the 1966 World Cup winning team
• Billy Balmer, footballer
• Gordon Banks, goalkeeper of 1966 World Cup winning team
• Sir Roger Bannister, first sub-four-minute miler
• Wade Barrett, WWE wrestler
• Cliff Bastin, footballer
• Arthur Bate, footballer
• Lord Frederick Beauclerk, cricket player and administrator
• David Beckham, footballer
• Charles Bennett track and field athlete
• Jack Kid Berg , world champion junior welterweight boxer, Hall of Fame
• Richard Bergmann, 7-time table tennis world champion, ITTFHoF
• Nick Blackman, English-Israeli footballer
• Andrulla Blanchette, IFBB professional bodybuilder
• Steve Bloomer, footballer and manager
• Chris Bonington, mountaineer
• Bernard Bosanquet, cricketer
• Sir Ian Botham, cricketer
• Mark Bott, cricketer
• Teddy Bourne, Olympic épée fencer
• Geoffrey Boycott, cricketer
• Eric Bristow, world champion darts player
• Tony Brooks, F1 driver
• Steve Bruce, footballer & manager
• Bobby Buckle, footballer
• Chris Buckley, footballer
• Frank Buckley, footballer and manager
• Paul Burchill, professional wrestler
• Cam Burgess, footballer
• Joe Butler, football player
• Jenson Button, 2009 Formula One World Champion
• Angela Buxton, won 1956 French Women's Doubles and 1956 Wimbledon Women's Doubles, highest world ranking #9
• Peter Broadbent, footballer
• Michael Carrick, footballer
• Herbert Chapman, football player and manager
• Sir Bobby Charlton, member of the 1966 World Cup winning team
• Jack Charlton, member of the 1966 World Cup winning team
• Sir Francis Chichester, yachtsman
• Ian Clough, mountaineer
• Don Cockell, heavyweight boxer
• Samuel Coe, first-class cricketer
• Chris Cohen, footballer
• George Cohen, association football right back, World Cup champion
• Andy Cole, footballer
• Paul Collingwood, cricketer
• Peter Collins, F1 driver
• Sir Henry Cooper, heavyweight boxer
• Ralph Cooperman, Olympic foil and sabre fencer
• Steve Coppell, footballer & manager
• Lisa Cross, IFBB professional bodybuilder
• Stan Cullis, footballer and manager
• Tom Daley, youngest diver ever to compete in Olympics
• Lawrence Dallaglio, World Cup winning rugby footballer
• Laura Davies, golfer
• Steve Davis, six-time World Snooker Champion
• Matt Dawson, World Cup winning rugby footballer
• John Deacon, motorcycle endurance racer
• Christopher Dean, figure skater
• John Derbyshire, swimmer
• Percy Down, rugby union player, represented England and Great Britain
• Ted Drake, footballer and manager, cricketer for Hampshire County Cricket Club
• Jimmy Dugdale, footballer
• Jonathan Edwards, triple jump
• Godfrey Evans, cricketer
• Percy Fender, cricketer
• James Figg, first English bare-knuckle boxing champion
• Tyson Fury, professional boxer
• Bob Fitzsimmons, boxing's first world champion in three divisions
• Andrew Flintoff, cricketer
• C B Fry, cricketer and all-round athlete
• Paul Gascoigne, football player
• Les Gaunt, footballer
• Dwight Gayle, football player
• Steven Gerrard, football player
• Graham Gooch, cricketer
• Pete Goss, around-the-world yachtsman
• W G Grace, cricketer
• Cyril Grant, footballer
• Jimmy Greaves, footballer
• Jack Greenwell, footballer and manager
• Ron Greenwood, footballer and manager
• Will Greenwood, rugby footballer
• Sam Haden, footballer and manager
• Naseem Hamed, featherweight boxer
• Lewis Hamilton, five-time Formula One World Champion
• Harry Hampton, football player
• Ricky Hatton, world champion boxer
• Mike Hawthorn, F1 World Champion
• David Haye, world champion boxer
• Johnny Haynes, footballer
• Emile Heskey, footballer
• Charlie Hewitt, footballer and manager
• Damon Hill, F1 World Champion
• Graham Hill, two times F1 World Champion
• Jimmy Hill, footballer
• Syd Hoar, footballer
• David Hobbs, Former Formula One driver
• Jack Hobbs, cricketer
• Glenn Hoddle, footballer
• Martin Hodgson, rugby footballer
• Leslie Housden, Olympic marathon runner
• John Howell, Olympic long jumper
• Kenneth Hunt, footballer
• James Hunt, F1 World Champion
• Sir Geoff Hurst, member of the 1966 World Cup winning team
• Nasser Hussain, cricketer
• Len Hutton, cricketer
• Anthony Joshua, professional boxer
• E.J. 'John' Jackett, rugby union player, represented England and Great Britain.
• Peter Jacobs, Olympic fencer
• Joe Jacobson, association football left back
• Peter Jaffe, Olympic silver
• Allan Jay, épée & foil fencer, Olympic two-time silver, world champion
• Martin Johnson, World Cup winning rugby union footballer
• Trish Johnson, golfer
• Mike Keen, footballer
• Howard Kendall, footballer and manager of Everton F.C.
• Joe Kennedy, footballer
• Josh Kennet, English-Israeli footballer
• Amir Khan, lightweight boxer
• Herbert Kingaby, footballer
• Paul Klenerman, Olympic sabre fencer
• Frank Lampard, footballer
• Dougie Lampkin, Motorcycle Trials World Champion
• Mark Lazarus, footballer, right winger
• Jason Leonard, World Cup winning rugby union footballer
• Edward Lawrence Levy, English world champion weightlifter
• Lennox Lewis, world champion heavyweight boxer
• Ted "Kid" Lewis , world champion welterweight boxer, Hall of Fame
• Josh Lewsey, rugby footballer
• Gary Lineker, footballer
• Sam Little, professional golfer
• Hyman Lurie, table tennis player
• Dar Lyon, cricketer
• Dame Ellen MacArthur, sailor who holds the world record for the fastest solo circumnavigation of the globe
• George Mallory, mountaineer
• Andy Mangan, footballer
• Nigel Mansell, racing driver, F1 and CART champion
• Terry Marsh, world champion boxer
• Darren Matthews, professional wrestler
• Stanley Matthews, footballer
• Thomas Matthews, cyclist
• Jock McAvoy, boxer
• Bill McGarry, footballer and manager
• Bertie Mee, footballer and manager
• Daniel Mendoza, world heavyweight champion boxer, Hall of Fame
• Sidney Merlin, sports shooter
• Colin Milburn, cricketer
• Gordon Miller, Olympic high jumper
• Alan Minter, world champion boxer
• Ivor Montagu, British national team and founder of the International Table Tennis Federation
• Bobby Moore, captain of the 1966 World Cup winning team
• Stirling Moss, F1 driver
• Andy Murray, tennis player, current number 2 seed
• Alfred Mynn, cricketer
• Gary Neville, footballer
• Phil Neville, footballer
• Alison Nicholas, golfer
• Ronnie O'Sullivan, three time World Snooker Champion
• Michael Owen, football player
• James Oyebola, heavyweight boxer
• Bob Paisley, 3-time European Cup winning manager with Liverpool F.C.
• Rachel Parish, markswoman and fencer
• Michael Park, WRC co-driver
• John Parrott, world snooker champion
• Fred Perry, Wimbledon champion tennis player
• Martin Peters, member of the 1966 World Cup winning team
• Eddie Phillips, boxer
• Kevin Pietersen, cricketer
• John Plant, footballer
• David Pratt, footballer and manager
• Daniel Prenn, tennis player, highest world ranking #6
• Stephanie Proud, backstroke swimmer
• Samuel Rabin, Olympic bronze wrestler
• Paula Radcliffe, distance runner
• Alf Ramsay, football player and manager
• John Raphael, cricket and rugby union
• Sir Steve Redgrave, rower, winner of gold medal in five consecutive Olympics
• William Regal, WWE wrestler and commentator
• Cyrille Regis, footballer
• Sir Gordon Richards, jockey, holder of several records
• Jack Robinson, footballer
• Sir Bobby Robson, football manager
• Wayne Rooney, footballer, all-time leading goal scorer for the England National Football Team and Manchester United Football Club
• David Seaman, footballer
• Archie Sexton, boxer
• Dave Sexton, footballer and manager
• Paul Scholes, footballer
• Alan Shearer, footballer, all-time leading goal scorer in the premiership
• Teddy Sheringham, football player
• Kelly Simm, artistic gymnast
• Davey Boy Smith, professional wrestler
• Nobby Stiles, football World Cup winner
• Andrew Stoddart, rugby and cricket player
• Frederick Stokes, rugby footballer
• Dr. Lennard Stokes, rugby footballer
• Karen Stupples, golfer
• Andrew Sznajder, English-born Canadian tennis player
• Laurie Taitt, Olympic sprint hurdler
• Graham Taylor, footballer and manager
• Peta Taylor, cricketer
• Phil Taylor, multi world champion darts player
• John Terry, footballer
• Jayne Torvill, figure skater
• Marcus Trescothick, cricketer
• Fred Trueman, fast bowler
• Phil Tufnell, cricketer
• Randolph Turpin, middleweight boxer
• George Tweedy, footballer
• Michael Vaughan, cricketer
• Virginia Wade, tennis player
• Sir William Wavell Wakefield, rugby footballer and politician
• Wallis Walters, hurdler
• Frank Warren, boxing promoter
• Matt Wells, lightweight champion of Great Britain and world champion welterweight
• Ruth Westbrook, cricketer
• Dan Wheldon, 2005 and 2011 Indy 500 Winner, 2005 Indycar Series Champion
• Jimmy White, snooker player
• Bradley Wiggins, first British man to win the Tour de France
• Jonny Wilkinson, world cup winning rugby footballer
• Joey Williams, footballer
• Charlie Wilson, footballer
• Justin Wilson, Champ Car racer
• Billy Wright, footballer

  Writers

• William Shakespeare, playwright, actor and poet

  Militants

• Sally-Anne Jones, ISIS terrorist

  Other notables

• Hannah Aldworth, philanthropist
• Margery Arnold, landowner
• Rachel Ashwell, author, designer and entrepreneur
• Edward Betts, civil engineering contractor
• Thomas Brassey, civil engineering contractor
• Capability Brown, landscape gardener
• Donald Campbell, world land and water speed record holder
• Sir Malcolm Campbell, automobile and speedboat racer
• William Caxton, printer
• Sir John Chesshyre, lawyer
• Grace Darling, heroine
• William Emes, landscape gardener
• Elizabeth Fry, prison reformer
• Thomas Grissell, public works contractor
• Hilda Hewlett, pioneer aviator and aviation entrepreneur
• Ebenezer Howard, urban planner
• Daniel Howell, YouTube personality and radio host
• Edward Kemp, garden designer
• Gideon Lester, dramaturg, adaptator, theatre artistic director
• Philip Lester, YouTube personality and radio host
• Peter Molyneux, video game designer
• Sir Samuel Morton Peto, civil engineering contractor
• Joshua A. Norton, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico
• Wat Tyler, leader of the Peasants' Revolt
• William Wakefield, founder of Wellington, New Zealand
• Richard Walker, writer and pioneer of modern-day angling in Britain
• Sarah Elizabeth Wardroper, Matron of St Thomas's Hospital from 1854 to 1887
• Harriet Shaw Weaver, political activist and suffragist
• Joseph Williamson, philanthropist, merchant and tunneler
• Philip Yates, coal miner awarded the Edward Medal

  English expatriates

• John Alden, one of the leaders of the Pilgrims to North America
• George Alsop,, author
• Anthony Aston, actor and dramatist
• Charlie Chaplin
• Alistair Cooke
• Cary Grant, film actor
• Avraham Harman, Israeli diplomat and president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Bob Hope
• Stephen Hough, concert pianist, became Australian citizen
• Thomas Paine