Famous People Born in England

Discover 48 famous people born in England. Explore their birthplaces on the interactive map below.

🗺️ Birthplaces in England

48 Personalities

Mary Anning (Scientist) - Lyme Regis, England (May 21st, 1799)
W. H. Auden (Poet) - York, England (February 21st, 1907)
Jane Austen (Writer) - Steventon, England (December 16th, 1775)
Julian Barnes (Writer) - Leicester, England (January 19th, 1946)
Charlotte Bronte (Writer) - Thornton, England (April 21st, 1816)
Emily Bronte (Poet, Writer) - Thornton, England (July 30th, 1818)
Anne Bronte (Poet, Writer) - Thornton, England (January 17th, 1820)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Poet) - Durham, England (March 6th, 1806)
A.S. Byatt (Writer) - Sheffield, England (August 24th, 1936)
Lewis Carroll (Writer) - Daresbury, England (January 27th, 1832)
Barbara Cartland (Writer) - Evesham, England (July 9th, 1901)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Poet) - Ottery St Mary, England (October 21st, 1772)
Francis Crick (scientist) - Northampton, England (June 8th, 1916)
Charles Darwin (Biologist, Geologist, Naturalist, Scientist) - Shrewsbury, England (February 12th, 1809)
Torvill Dean (Athlete, Figure Skating) - Nottingham, England (July 27th, 1958)
Charles Dickens (Writer) - Portsmouth, England (February 7th, 1812)
George Eliot (Writer) - Nuneaton, England (November 22nd, 1819)
Tracey Emin (Installation artist, Painter) - Croydon, England (July 3rd, 1963)
Michael Faraday (scientist) - Newington Butts, England (September 22nd, 1791)
Ralph Fiennes (Actor) - Ipswich, England (December 22nd, 1962)
Thomas Hardy (Poet, Writer) - Dorset, England (June 2nd, 1840)
Stephen Hawking (scientist) - Oxford, England (January 8th, 1942)
Barbara Hepworth (Sculptor) - Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (January 10th, 1903)
Joanna Kavenna (Essayist, Novelist) - Oxford, England (January 1st, 1974)
Jason Kenny (Athlete, Cycling) - Bolton, England (March 23rd, 1988)
John Lennon (Singer) - Liverpool, England (October 9th, 1940)
Paul McCartney (Singer) - Liverpool, England (June 18th, 1942)
George Meredith (Poet, Writer) - Portsmouth, England (February 12th, 1828)
David Mitchell (Novelist) - Southport, England (1969)
Henry Moore (Sculptor) - Castleford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (July 30th, 1898)
Isaac Newton (Mathematician, Physicist, Scientist) - Woolsthorpe, England (January 4th, 1643)
Matthew Pincent (Athlete, Rowing) - Holt, England (October 10th, 1970)
Johny Pitts (Essayist) - Sheffield, England (January 1st, 1987)
Max Porter (Novelist) - High Wycombe, England (January 1st, 1981)
Charles Reade (Writer) - Oxford, England (June 8th, 1814)
Steve Redgrave (Athlete, Rowing) - Marlow, England (March 23rd, 1962)
Leone Ross (Novelist) - Coventry, England (January 1st, 1969)
William Shakespeare (Actor, Playwright, Poet, Writer) - Stratford-upon-Avon, England (April 23rd, 1564)
Ed Sheeran (Singer) - Halifax, England (February 17th, 1991)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (Poet) - Horsham, England (August 4th, 1792)
Nigel Short (Author, Chess player) - Leicester, England (June 1st, 1965)
Edith Sitwell (Poet) - Scarborough, England (July 7th, 1887)
C. P. Snow (Scientist, Writer) - Leicester, England (October 15th, 1905)
Jayne Torvill (Athlete, Figure Skating) - Nottingham, England (October 7th, 1957)
Naomi Watts (Actor) - Shoreham, England (September 28th, 1968)
H.G. Wells (Writer) - Bromley, England (September 21st, 1866)
Jeanette Winterson (Writer) - Manchester, England (August 27th, 1959)
William Wordsworth (Poet) - Cockermouth, England (April 7th, 1770)