List of English people

Listed below are English people of note and some notable individuals born in England.

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
Thomas Edward Collcutt
James Cubitt
John Douglas
Sir Philip Dowson
Henry Flitcroft
Sir Norman Foster
Philip Hardwick
Thomas Hardwick
James Harrison
Thomas Harrison
Nicholas Hawksmoor
Horace Jones
Inigo Jones
Henry Keene
William Kent, architect, landscape architect and furniture designer
Edmund Kirby
Denys Lasdun
Thomas Lockwood
Edwin Lutyens
Hugh May
William Morris, architect and author
John Nash
Henry Paley
Sir 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
Ernest Berry Webber
William Wilkins
Sir Christopher Wren
James Wyatt

Artists

Sophie Gengembre Anderson, painter
James Andrews, botanical artist
Richard Ansdell, painter
Banksy, graffiti artist
Walter Daniel Batley, painter
Aubrey Beardsley, illustrator
Albanis Beaumont, painter
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
Frank Cadogan Cowper, artist
John Henry Dell, landscape artist and illustrator
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 and businesswomen

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
Charles D. Harman, investment banker
Thomas Hazlehurst, soap and alkali
Peter Van Herrewege, retirement homes
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
Harriet Samuel, jewellery
Sir Ivan Stedeford, industrialist
Sir Alan Sugar, electronics
Richard Tompkins, Green Shield trading stamps
Jamie Waller, entrepreneur
Josiah Wedgwood, industrialist

Chefs

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
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
William Williams, Bishop of Waiapu
Ñāṇamoli Bhikkhu, Theravada Buddhist monk and translator of Pali literature
Ñāṇavīra Thera, Theravada Buddhist monk and known as the author of Notes on Dhamma
Ajahn Amaro, Abbot of Amaravati Buddhist Monastery
Ajahn Khemadhammo, founder and director of "Angulimala, the Buddhist Prison Chaplaincy"
Ajahn Sucitto, former abbot of Chithurst Buddhist Monastery

Comedians

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"
Michael McCrea, former financial adviser and convicted killer who was jailed 24 years for the culpable homicide of a couple in Singapore.
John Martin Scripps, spree killer who was executed for murdering a South African tourist in Singapore.

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
Jesse Hartley, civil engineer
J. B. Hartley, civil engineer
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
Robert Rawlinson, 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
Helen Sharman, first British person in space and first woman to visit the Mir Space Station
Major Tim Peake, first British person in space under the European Space Agency and first British Person to visit the International Space Station

Filmmakers

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

Inventors

See also List of English inventions and discoveries.

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
Sir Clive Sinclair, most commonly known for his work in the consumer electronics sector
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

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, First World War
Robert Blake, reforming Royal Navy Admiral
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, lieutenant 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
Christopher Augustus Cox, private
Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England
Christopher Augustus Cox, private
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, British Army major who led the coup de main party that captured the Caen canal and Orne river bridges.
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 (VC), killed in action during the New Zealand Wars
George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, English Civil War era general in Chief Command
Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, statesman and soldier
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, 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

Elizabeth II, the longest reigning monarch in the UK history
Alfred the Great, King of the Anglo-Saxons
Queen of Great Britain|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
Charles III
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
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

Adele, singer
Thomas Adès, composer
Damon Albarn, singer-songwriter
John Alldis, chorus master and conductor
Lily Allen
Marsha Ambrosius, singer-songwriter
Jon Anderson, singer-songwriter, co-founder of Yes
David Arnold, composer, musician and film scorer
Malcolm Arnold, composer
Quenton Ashlyn, society entertainer
Rick Astley
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
Jazmin Bean, singer-songwriter
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
Black, best known for the song Wonderful Life.
Cilla Black, singer and television presenter
Ritchie Blackmore, guitarist, former member of Deep Purple and Rainbow
James Blunt
John Bonham, drummer for Led Zeppelin
Dave Gahan, singer of Depeche Mode
Martin Gore, songwriter and founder of Depeche Mode
Tim Booth, singer-songwriter and actor
Adrian Boult, conductor
James Bourne, member of the former rock group Busted, singer-songwriter
David Bowie
William Boyce, composer
Billy Bragg
Havergal Brian, composer
Sarah Brightman, singer-songwriter, actress, and dancer
Benjamin Britten, composer and pianist
Justin Broadrick, vocalist and guitarist, member of Godflesh and Jesu
Ian Broudie, singer-songwriter member of The Lightning Seeds
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
Geezer Butler, bassist with Black Sabbath
William Byrd, composer
Martyn Campbell, bassist of The Lightning Seeds
Les Chadwick, bassist of Gerry and the Pacemakers
Justin Chancellor, bassist, member of Tool
Eric Clapton
Adam Clayton, bassist, member of U2
Cheryl Cole, singer
Phil Collins
Imogen Cooper, pianist
David Coverdale, singer for bands: Deep Purple and Whitesnake
Graham Coxon, guitarist, singer-songwriter, former member of Blur and solo artist
Ian Curtis, lead singer and composer for Joy Division
Roger Daltrey, lead singer of The Who
Dave Davies, lead guitarist with The Kinks
Peter Maxwell Davies, composer
Ray Davies, singer-songwriter and lead vocalist with The Kinks
Andrew Davis, conductor
Colin Davis, conductor
Chris de Burgh, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
Gervase de Peyer, clarinettist and conductor
Norman Del Mar, conductor
Frederick Delius, composer
Dido, singer-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
Keith Emerson, keyboardist for The Nice and Emerson, Lake & Palmer
John Entwistle, bassist for The Who
George Ezra, singer-songwriter
Marianne Faithfull
Steve Ferrone, session drummer
Gerald Finzi, composer
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 of Genesis
Liam Gallagher, singer and former lead vocalist of Oasis
Noel Gallagher, singer-songwriter and former member of Oasis
Boy George, singer and lead vocalist of Culture Club
Andy Gibb, pop singer, brother of the Bee Gees
Sir Barry Gibb, musician, member of the Bee Gees
Maurice Gibb, musician, member of the Bee Gees
Robin Gibb, singer-songwriter, member of Bee Gees
Orlando Gibbons, composer
Ian Gillan, singer for Deep Purple
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, musician, composer, member of The Beatles
PJ Harvey
Anthony Hewitt, pianist
Steve Hogarth, songwriter, musician and lead singer of the band Marillion
Gustav Holst, composer
Dominic Howard, member of Muse
Glenn Hughes, briefly of bands Deep Purple and Black Sabbath
Tony Iommi, guitarist and co-founder of Black Sabbath
John Ireland, composer
Robert Irving, conductor
Jessie J, singer-songwriter
Sir Mick Jagger, rock singer and frontman of The Rolling Stones
Sir Elton John
Brian Johnson, singer, lead vocalist with AC/DC, former member of Geordie
Brian Jones, musician and founder of The Rolling Stones
Davy Jones, singer/percussionist, member of The Monkees
Howard Jones, singer and songwriter
John Paul Jones, bassist, mandolinist and keyboardist for Led Zeppelin
Nigel Kennedy, violinist
Thea King, clarinettist
David Knopfler, musician and former rhythm guitarist with Dire Straits
Mark Knopfler, musician, songwriter and co-founder of Dire Straits
Greg Lake, musician, songwriter, bassist of King Crimson and Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Adrian Lambert, bassist
Jen Ledger, drummer and backing vocalist for Skillet
Albert Lee, guitarist
John Lennon, singer-songwriter, co-founder of The Beatles
Leona Lewis, singer-songwriter
Cher Lloyd, singer
Andrew Lloyd Webber, composer of musicals
Julian Lloyd Webber, cellist
Pixie Lott, singer
Chris Lowe, keyboardist and composer, member of Pet Shop Boys
Les Maguire, pianist for Gerry and the Pacemakers
Zayn Malik, member of British-Irish boy band One Direction
Gerry Marsden, leader of Gerry and the Pacemakers
Chris Martin, singer-songwriter, co-founder of Coldplay
Sir Brian May, musician, astrophysicist and lead guitarist with Queen
Sir Paul McCartney, singer-songwriter, guitarist, 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, drummer for The Who
Gary Moore, blues guitarist, briefly in Thin Lizzy
Thomas Morley, consort composer
Ella Mai, singer-songwriter
Gareth Morris, flautist
Morrissey, composer, member of The Smiths
Olivia Newton-John, pop star
John Ogdon, pianist
Mike Oldfield, composer and instrumentalist
Ozzy Osbourne, singer and former lead vocalist for Black Sabbath
Jimmy Page, guitarist and co-founder of Led Zeppelin
Carl Palmer, drummer for Atomic Rooster, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, PM and Asia
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, former lead vocalist for Led Zeppelin
Anthony Pleeth, cellist
Cozy Powell, drummer for bands, including: Rainbow, Emerson, Lake & Powell and Black Sabbath
Stephen Preston, flautist
Henry Purcell, composer
Simon Rattle, conductor
Keith Richards, guitarist and member of the Rolling Stones
Paul Rodgers, singer
Martin Roscoe, pianist
Malcolm Sargent, conductor
21 Savage, rapper, record producer
Rina Sawayama, Japan-born singer-songwriter
Chris Sharrock, drummer for Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
Ed Sheeran, singer-songwriter
Elsie Southgate, violinist
Zak Starkey, drummer, son of Ringo Starr
Ringo Starr, composer, drummer, member of The Beatles
Crispin Steele-Perkins, trumpeter
Rod Stewart
Sting
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, clarinettist
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, guitarist and songwriter with The Who
Alex Turner, leader singer of the band Arctic Monkeys
Sid Vicious, bassist for Sex Pistols
Rick Wakeman, piano, keyboardist, musician
Ricky Walters, aka rapper Slick Rick
William Walton, composer
Bill Ward, drummer for Black Sabbath
Roger Waters, founder of Pink Floyd
Charlie Watts, drummer for The Rolling Stones
Thomas Weelkes, composer
Florence Welch, lead singer of Florence and The Machine
John Wilbye, composer
Cliff Williams, bassist for AC/DC
Ralph Vaughan Williams, composer
Robbie Williams
Steven Wilson, musician, producer, composer and founder of Porcupine Tree
Ronnie Wood, guitarist with the Rolling Stones, former member of Small Faces
Amy Winehouse
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
Mel B, singer, member of Spice Girls
Melanie C, singer, member of Spice Girls
Emma Bunton, singer, member of Spice Girls
Victoria Beckham, singer, member of Spice Girls
Geri Halliwell, singer, member of Spice Girls
Charli XCX, singer-songwriter

Philosophers

John Locke, author
Thomas Paine, theorist
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 Stuart Mill, economist, political philosopher
G. E. Moore, philosopher
William of Ockham, philosopher, theologian, created Ockham's Razor
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

William Wilberforce, abolitionist
Margaret Thatcher, British prime minister
Cecil Rhodes, imperialist
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 (the Elder), 1st Earl of Chatham
William Pitt the Younger, British prime minister
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
Enoch Powell
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
Sir Robert Walpole, British prime minister
Sir Godfrey Webster, 4th Baronet
Sir Godfrey Webster, 5th Baronet
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

Revolutionaries

Robert Aske, revolutionary leader of the Pilgrimage of Grace
Thomas Baker, leader of the Peasants' Revolt
John Ball, English priest and revolutionary leader of the Peasants' Revolt
Robert Catesby, lead planner of the Gunpowder Plot
Guy Fawkes, central participant in the Gunpowder Plot
Thomas Wyatt the Younger, leader of Wyatt's rebellion

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, mathematical physicist
Joseph Prestwich, geologist
Joseph Priestley, chemist
Martin Rees, cosmologist and astrophysicist
Frederick Sanger, double Nobel prize-winning molecular biologist
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

Writers

William Shakespeare, playwright, actor and poet
J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series

Other notables

Hannah Aldworth, philanthropist
Margery Arnold, landowner
Rachel Ashwell, author, designer and entrepreneur
Edward Betts, civil engineering contractor
John Brasbrigg or Bracebrigge, English book collector
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
Alice la Haubergere, earliest known female blacksmith in England
Natasha Hausdorff, barrister, international news commentator, and Israel advocate
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
Jeremy Wade, television presenter, angler and a biologist.
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

The following were born English, but changed nationality later in their life.

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