List of LGBTQ people from London

Activists

• Michael C. Burgess
• Jennifer Fear
• Peter Tatchell

Aviation and military

• James Wharton (author)
• Ethel Mary Smyth

Arts and entertainment

Actors

• Stephen Fry
• Ian McKellen
• Sir John Gielgud
• Kenneth Williams
• Saffron Dominique Burrows
• Amanda Donohoe
• Sophie Ward
• Jill Esmond

Artists

• Duncan Grant
• Bisila Noha, ceramic artist and director of the London LGBTQ+ Community Centre
• Charles Rose, New Zealand artist

Comedians

• Alan Carr

Culinary arts

• Yotam Ottolenghi
• Peter Gordon

Dance

• Frederick Ashton
• Matthew Bourne
• Frederic Franklin
• Wayne Sleep

DJs

• Samantha Ronson

Film

• Derek Jarman
• Anthony William Lars Asquith
• John Schlesinger
• Isaac Julien

Music

• Boy George
• Freddie Mercury
• George Michael
• Marc Almond
• Mika
• Pete Burns
• Rylan Clark-Neal
• Samantha Fox
• Thomas Adès
• Will Young
• Stephen Hough

Television

• Paul O'Grady
• Graham Norton
• Dale Winton

Theatre

• Oscar Wilde

Business

• John Maynard Keynes

Politics and law

Science, mathematics and technology

• Alan Turing
• Colin Turnbull
• James Joseph Sylvester

Sports

• Tom Daley

Writers

• Edward Morgan Forster
• Oscar Wilde
• Siegfried Sassoon
• Lytton Strachey
• Radclyffe Hall
• Virginia Woolf
• Joe Randolph "J. R." Ackerley
• Peter Ackroyd
• Daniel Tammet
• Colin MacInnes
• Daphne du Maurier