Famous People Born in United Kingdom

Discover 93 famous people born in United Kingdom. Explore their birthplaces on the interactive map below.

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🗺️ Birthplaces in United Kingdom

93 Famous People born in United Kingdom

Adele Adkins (Singer) - London, England (May 5th, 1988)
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)
Charles Babbage (Engineer, Inventor, Mathematician, Philosopher) - London, UK (December 26th, 1791)
Julian Barnes (Writer) - Leicester, England (January 19th, 1946)
Gertrude Bell (Archaeologist, Traveller, Writer) - Washington New Hall, County Durham, England, UK (July 14th, 1868)
Tim Berners-Lee (scientist) - London, England (June 8th, 1955)
Emily Blunt (Actor) - London, England (February 23rd, 1983)
David Bowie (Singer) - London, England (January 8th, 1947)
Charlotte Bronte (Writer) - Thornton, England (April 21st, 1816)
Anne Bronte (Poet, Writer) - Thornton, England (January 17th, 1820)
Emily Bronte (Poet, Writer) - Thornton, England (July 30th, 1818)
Robert Browning (Poet) - London, England (May 7th, 1812)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Poet) - Durham, England (March 6th, 1806)
A.S. Byatt (Writer) - Sheffield, England (August 24th, 1936)
Lord Byron (Poet) - London, England (January 22nd, 1788)
Thomas Carlyle (Writer) - Ecclefechan, Scotland (December 4th, 1795)
Lewis Carroll (Writer) - Daresbury, England (January 27th, 1832)
Barbara Cartland (Writer) - Evesham, England (July 9th, 1901)
Gemma Chan (Actor) - London, England (November 29th, 1982)
Winston Churchill (Military officer, Statesman) - Blenheim, Oxfordshire, England (November 30th, 1874)
James Clerk Maxwell (scientist) - Edinburgh, Scotland (June 13th, 1831)
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)
Rana Dasgupta (Essayist, Novelist) - Canterbury, UK (November 5th, 1971)
Daniel Day-Lewis (Actor) - London, England (April 29th, 1957)
Charles Dickens (Writer) - Portsmouth, England (February 7th, 1812)
Reni Eddo-Lodge (Essayist) - London, England (September 25th, 1989)
Idris Elba (Actor, Producer) - London, England (September 6th, 1972)
George Eliot (Writer) - Nuneaton, England (November 22nd, 1819)
Tracey Emin (Installation artist, Painter) - Croydon, England (July 3rd, 1963)
Bernardine Evaristo (Novelist) - London, UK (May 28th, 1959)
Michael Faraday (scientist) - Newington Butts, England (September 22nd, 1791)
Ralph Fiennes (Actor) - Ipswich, England (December 22nd, 1962)
Rosalind Franklin (scientist) - London, England (July 25th, 1920)
Janice Galloway (Novelist) - Saltcoats, Scotland (January 1st, 1955)
Jane Goodall (scientist) - London, England (April 3rd, 1934)
Isabel Greenberg (Novelist) - London, England (February 9th, 1988)
Thomas Hardy (Poet, Writer) - Dorset, England (June 2nd, 1840)
Joanne Harris (Novelist) - Barnsley, UK (July 3rd, 1964)
Stephen Hawking (scientist) - Oxford, England (January 8th, 1942)
Barbara Hepworth (Sculptor) - Wakefield, England (January 10th, 1903)
Anthony Hopkins (Actor) - Port Talbot, Wales (December 31st, 1937)
Chris Hoy (Athlete, Cycling) - Edinburgh, Scotland (March 23rd, 1976)
Joanna Kavenna (Essayist, Novelist) - Oxford, England (January 1st, 1974)
John Keats (Poet) - London, England (October 31st, 1795)
Jason Kenny (Athlete, Cycling) - Bolton, England (March 23rd, 1988)
Jhumpa Lahiri (Writer) - London, England (July 11th, 1967)
John Lennon (Singer) - Liverpool, England (October 9th, 1940)
Ada Lovelace (scientist) - London, England (December 10th, 1815)
James Clerk Maxwell (Inventor, Physicist, Scientist, Writer) - Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (June 13th, 1831)
Paul McCartney (Singer) - Liverpool, England (June 18th, 1942)
George Meredith (Poet, Writer) - Portsmouth, England (February 12th, 1828)
Helen Mirren (Actor) - London, England (July 26th, 1945)
David Mitchell (Novelist) - Southport, England (1969)
Henry Moore (Sculptor) - Castleford, England, UK (July 30th, 1898)
Andy Murray (Athlete, Tennis) - Glasgow, Scotland (May 15th, 1987)
Isaac Newton (Mathematician, Physicist, Scientist) - Woolsthorpe, England (January 4th, 1643)
John Nunn (Author, Chess player) - London, England (April 25th, 1955)
Ozzy Osbourne (Artist, Musician, Singer) - Marston Green, Bickenhill and Marston Green, United Kingdom (December 3rd, 1948)
Dev Patel (Actor) - London, England (April 23rd, 1990)
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)
Bridget Riley (Painter) - London, England (April 24th, 1931)
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)
Ali Smith (Novelist) - Inverness, Scotland (August 24th, 1962)
Sam Smith (Singer) - London, England (May 19th, 1992)
C. P. Snow (Scientist, Writer) - Leicester, England (October 15th, 1905)
Muriel Spark (Writer) - Edinburgh, Scotland (February 1st, 1918)
Robert Louis Stevenson (Writer) - Edinburgh, Scotland (November 13th, 1850)
Tilda Swinton (Actor) - London, England (November 5th, 1960)
Dylan Thomas (Poet) - Swansea, Wales (October 27th, 1914)
Daley Thompson (Athlete, Track and Field) - London, England (July 30th, 1958)
Jayne Torvill (Athlete, Figure Skating) - Nottingham, England (October 7th, 1957)
Alan Turing (Computer Scientist, Mathematician, Scientist) - Maida Vale, London, England (June 23rd, 1912)
William Turner (Painter) - London, England (April 23rd, 1775)
Naomi Watts (Actor) - Shoreham, England (September 28th, 1968)
Rachel Weisz (Actor) - London, England (March 7th, 1970)
H.G. Wells (Writer) - Bromley, England (September 21st, 1866)
Amy Winehouse (Singer) - London, England (September 14th, 1983)
Jeanette Winterson (Writer) - Manchester, England (August 27th, 1959)
Virginia Woolf (Writer) - London, England (January 25th, 1882)
William Wordsworth (Poet) - Cockermouth, England (April 7th, 1770)