Londoners of note

John Abernethy (1764 – 1831) Surgeon
Dame Louisa Aldrich-Blake (1865 – 1925) Surgeon
Edward Alleyn (1566 – 1626) Actor, Impresario
Sir Kingsley Amis (1922 – 1995) Writer
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836 – 1917) Physician
Gerry Anderson (1929 – 2012) TV writer and director
John Julius Angerstein (1732 – 1823) Merchant & fine arts patron
Queen Anne (1665 – 1714) Monarch
George Arliss (1868 – 1946) Actor and Filmmaker
Thomas Arne (1710 – 1778) Composer
Dame Peggy Ashcroft (1907 – 1991) Actress
Clement Attlee (1883 – 1967) Politician
Charles Babbage (1791 – 1871) Computing pioneer
Robert Baden-Powell (1857 – 1941) Soldier
Walter Bagehot (1826 – 1877) Businessman and Essayist
Joseph Banks (1743 – 1820) Botanist
Barney Barnato (1851 – 1897) Businessman
Sir Charles Barry (1795 – 1860) Architect
“Prince” Roy Bates (1921 – 2012) Businessman and Eccentric
Lilian Baylis (1874 – 1937) Theatrical Producer
Sir Joseph Bazalgette (1819 – 1891) Engineer
Harry Beck (1902 – 1974) Draftsman
Thomas Becket (c1118 – 1170) Bishop and martyr
Sir Max Beerbohm (1872 – 1956) Essayist and Cartoonist
Jeremy Bentham (1748 – 1832) Philosopher
Sir Walter Besant (1836 – 1901) Historian and Writer
Sir John Betjeman (1906 – 1984) Poet and Broadcaster
Robert Bevan (1865 – 1925) Painter
Kenneth Bird (1887 – 1965) Cartoonist
William Blake (1757 – 1827) Poet and Artist
Enid Blyton (1897 – 1968) Writer
Evangeline Booth ( 1865 – 1960) Charity leader
William Booth (1829 – 1912) Charity leader
David Bowie (1947 – 2016) Musician and actor.
Christina Broom (1860 – 1939) Photographer
Georgia Brown (1933 – 1992) Singer and Actress.
Robert Browning (1812 – 1889) Poet
Beau Brummell (1778 – 1840) Socialite
James Burbage (1531 – 1597) Impresario
Decimus Burton (1800 – 1881) Architect
Max Bygraves (1922 – 2012) Entertainer
Lord Byron (1788 – 1824) Poet and Adventurer
John Caius (1510 – 1573) Physician and anatomist
William Camden (1551 – 1623) Antiquarian
Richard D’Oyly Carte (1844 – 1901) Impresario
Howard Carter (1874 – 1939) Archaeologist
William Caxton (c1420 – c1492) Printer and Publisher
Sir Edwin Chadwick (1800 – 1890) Social reformer
Charlie Chaplin (1889 – 1977) Actor & Filmmaker
Charles II (1630 – 1685) Monarch
Geoffrey Chaucer (c1343 – 1400) Writer
Philip Lindsey Clark (1889 – 1977) Sculptor
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875 – 1912) Composer
Denis Compton (1918 – 1997) Cricketer
Sir Henry Cooper (1934 – 2011) Pugilist
Alan Coren (1938 – 2007) Journalist, Editor.
Noel Coward (1899 – 1973) Playwright
Thomas Crapper (1836 – 1910) Inventor and businessman
Quentin Crisp (1908 – 1999) Writer and actor
Thomas Cromwell (c1485 – 1540) Politician
Will Crooks (1852 – 1921) Politician
George Cruikshank (1792 – 1878) Cartoonist
Thomas Cubitt (1788 – 1855) Builder
George Dance the Elder (1695 -1768) Architect
George Dance the Younger (1741 – 1825) Architect
Emily Wilding Davison (1872 – 1913) Suffragette
John Dee (1527 – c1609) Scientist
Felix Dennis (1947 – 2014) Publisher
John Diamond (1953 – 2001) Journalist
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870) Writer
Benjamin Disraeli (1804 – 1881) Politician
William Dobson (1611 – 1646) Painter
John Donne (1573 – 1631) Poet and cleric.
Alec Douglas-Home (1903 – 1995) Politician
Clive Dunn (1920 – 2012) Actor and Entertainer
Ian Dury (1942 – 2000) Singer and Songwriter
Edward I Monarch
Edward III Monarch
Edward VI Monarch
Edward VII Monarch
Elizabeth I Monarch
Dick Emery (1915 – 1983) Entertainer
John Evelyn (1620 – 1706) Diarist
Sir Charles Fairey (1887 – 1956) Aircraft manufacturer
Michael Faraday Scientist
Tommy Flowers Computing Pioneer
Bryan Forbes (1926 – 2013) Movie Director
Ford Madox Ford (1873 – 1939) Writer
E M Forster Novelist
Sir Bruce Forsyth (1928 – 2017) Entertainer
Charles James Fox Politician
Rosalind Franklin Unsung DNA pioneer
William Powell Frith Painter
C.B. Fry Cricketer and Polymath
Roger Fry Artist and critic
Hugh Gaitskell (1906 – 63) Politician
John Galsworthy (1867 – 1933) Writer
Elizabeth Gaskell Novelist
George III Monarch
George IV Monarch
George V Monarch
Edward Gibbon Historian
Sir John Gielgud Actor
W S Gilbert Lyricist
Ronald “Carl” Giles Cartoonist
James Gilray Cartoonist
George Gissing (1857 – 1903) Writer
Lewis Gompertz Animal welfare pioneer, Inventor
Charles Gordon Soldier
Henry Gray (1827 – 1861) Anatomist and surgeon.
James Greathead Engineer
Stanley Green “The Protein Man”
Leslie Green (1860 – 1908) Architect
Sir Thomas Gresham Merchant
Joseph Grimaldi Entertainer
Edmund Halley Astronomer
Jonas Hanway Entrepreneur and naval administrator
William Hartnell (1908 – 1975) Actor
Johnny Haynes Footballer
George Hayter (1792 – 1871) Portrait Painter
Oliver Heaviside Mathematician
Henry VIII Monarch
Graham Hill Racing Driver
Octavia Hill Social Reformer
Alfred Hitchcock Film director
Chas Hodges (1943 – 2018) Musician, entertainer
Thomas Hodgkin (1798 – 1866) Physician
William Hogarth Painter and Businessman
Charles Holden (1875 – 1960) Architect
Frank Holl (1845 – 1888) Painter
Henry Holland (1745 – 1806) Architect
John Hollingshead (1827 – 1904)) Impressario
Thomas Hood (1799 – 1845) Comic Writer and Poet
Gerard Manley Hopkins Poet
John Calcott Horsley Painter
Bob Hoskins (1942 – 2014) Actor.
Luke Howard (1772 – 1864) Meteorologist, Pharmacist
Edmond Hoyle Gaming expert
William Holman Hunt Painter
Leigh Hunt (1784 – 1859) Poet and Critic
Derek Jameson (1929 – 2012) Journalist and Editor
Samuel Johnson Writer and Lexicographer
Percival Norton Johnson (1792 – 1866) Mettalurgist & Entrepreneur
Inigo Jones Architect
Horace Jones Architect
Ben Jonson Dramatist and Poet
Richard Jupp (1728 – 1799) Architect
Boris Karloff Actor
Edmund Kean Actor
John Keats Poet
Charles Lamb Essayist
Mary Lamb Writer
George Lambert (1700 – 1765) Painter
Verity Lambert (1935 – 2007) TV Producer
Sir Edwin Landseer Artist and Sculptor
Gertrude Lawrence (1898 – 1952) Actress
Edward Lear (1812 – 1888) Writer
Frederic Leighton Artist and Administrator
John Leland Antiquary
Bernard Levin Journalist and Broadcaster
Marie Lloyd Music hall star
Edward Lloyd (1815-1890) Publisher
Ada Lovelace Computing pioneer
Sir Edwin Lutyens Architect
Harold Macmillan Politician
Sir John Blundell Maple (1845 – 1903) Businessman, MP, benefactor
George Martin (1916 – 1926) Recorded music producer.
Eleanor Marx (1855 – 1898) Political activist
Mary I Monarch
Mary II Monarch
Nevil Maskelyne Astronomer
John Nevil Maskelyne Illusionist and inventor
Henry Maudslay Engineer
Henry Mayhew Writer and Social Reformer
Richard Mead (1673 – 1754) Physician
Thomas Middleton (1580 – 1627) Playwright
John Stuart Mill Economist
A A Milne Writer
John Milton Poet
Lady Mary Wortley Monagu Writer & innoculation pioneer
Bobby Moore Footballer
Dudley Moore Comedian and Actor
Sir Roger Moore (1927 – 2017) Actor
Sir Thomas More Politician
William Morris Textile designer
Herbert Morrison Labour politician
Charles Morton 1819 – 1904 Impresario
John Maddison Morton (1811 – 1891) Dramatist
Eadweard Muybridge Photography Pioneer
Ian Nairn (1930 – 1983) Broadcaster, writer, critic.
Paul Nash (1889 – 1946) Artist
Airey Neave Soldier and Politician
Anthony Newley Entertainer
Cardinal Newman Theologian
Ben Nicholson Painter
Lord Palmerston Politician
Norman Parkinson (1913 – 1990) Photographer
Sir Bernard Partridge Cartoonist and Actor
Jennifer Paterson (1928 – 1999) Chef
Charles Pearson Reformer, Underground pioneer
William Penn Quaker missionary & colonist
Samuel Pepys Diarist and Administrator
Flinders Petrie (1853 – 1942) Egyptologist
Frank Pick Transportation visionary
Harold Pinter Playwright
William Pitt the Elder Politician
William Pitt the Younger Politician
Roy Plomley Broadcaster
John Polidori (1795 – 1821) Physician and vampire author.
Alexander Pope Poet
Anthony Powell (1905-2000) Writer and critic
Augustus Pugin Architect and Designer
Henry Purcell Composer
Claude Rains (1889 – 1967) Actor
Sir Terrence Rattigan Playwright
Oliver Reed Actor
Sir Carol Reed (1906 – 1972) Film director
Richard Rich (1497 – 1567) Tudor politician
John Rich (1692 – 1761) Theatre owner & Impresario
William Heath Robinson Illustrator and cartoonist
Peter Mark Roget Lexicographer
Charles Rolls (1877 – 1910) Motoring pioneer
Thomas Rowlandson Cartoonist
Willie Rushton Cartoonist
Fred Russell (1862 – 1957) Ventriloquist
Margaret Rutherford Actress
Sir Ralph Sadler Politician
Sir Peter Scott Naturalist
Giles Gilbert Scott (1880 – 1960) Architect
Ronnie Scott (1927 – 1996) Jazz Musician
Samuel Scott Painter
Frederick Courteney Selous Explorer
William Shakespeare Dramatist and Poet
Barry Sheene Motorcycle racer
Mary Shelley (1897 – 1851) Novelist
George Shillibeer (1797 – 1866) Coachmaker, omnibus inventor
William Shipley (1715 – 1803) Founder the Royal Society of Arts
Nevil Shute (1899 – 1960) Engineer and Novelist
Jean Simmons (1929 – 2010) Actress
Sir Hans Sloane Philanthropist
Sir Robert Smirke Architect
John Thomas Smith Engraver and Antiquarian
Sir John Soane Architect
Sir Thomas Sopwith Aviator and entrepreneur
Ruskin Spear Painter
Edmund Spenser Poet
William Spooner Academic
Dusty Springfield (1939 – 1999) Singer
Sir John Stainer Composer
Edward Stanford (1827 – 1904) Cartographer and publisher
John Stanley (1712 – 1786) Composer
John Stow Historian
Sir Arthur Sullivan Composer
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837 – 1909) Poet and writer.
Thomas Tallis Composer
Brook Taylor Mathematician
John Tenniel (1820 – 1914) Illustrator
Terry-Thomas Actor
William Makepeace Thackeray Novelist
Sir Denis Thatcher Businessman
Margaret Thatcher (1925 – 2013) Politician and Statesman
Walter Thornbury (1828 – 1876) Writer & art critic
Henry Thornton Banker and abolitionist
Sir William Tite Architect
Thomas Tompion Clock and watch maker
Arnold Toynbee Economist and Social Reformer
Anthony Trollope Novelist
JMW Turner Artist
John Vanbrugh Architect
Thomas Verity Theatre Architect
Victoria Monarch
Horace Walpole Historian and Politician
John Walter Publisher
Sir Leslie Matthew Ward, “Spy” Cartoonist
George Frederic Watts Painter and Sculptor
Sidney Webb (1859 – 1947) Political Academic
Bert Weedon (1920 – 2012) Guitarist
Sir Henry Wellcome (1853 – 1936) Entrepreneur & Philanthropist
Sir Richard Westmacott (1775 – 1856) Sculptor
Dennis Wheatley (1897 – 1977) Writer
Samuel Whitbread Brewer
Sir Richard Whittington Mayor and Philanthropist
Samuel Wilberforce Victorian Cleric
John Wilkes Politician
Maurice Wilkins Molecular biologist
William IV Monarch
Kenneth Williams (1926 – 1988) Comic Actor
Harriette Wilson (1786 – 1845) Cortesan
Amy Winehouse Singer
Michael Winner (1935 – 2013) Film Director
John Wisden Cricketer and publisher
Norman Wisdom Actor and comedian
Mary Wollstonecraft Writer and Philosopher
Virginia Woolf Writer
Sir Christopher Wren Architect and Scientist