List of people from Hampstead
This is a list of notable people who have lived in Hampstead, an area of northwest London known for its intellectual, liberal, artistic, musical, and literary associations. After 1917, and again in the 1930s, it became base to a community of avant garde artists and writers and was host to a number of émigrés and exiles from the Russian Revolution and Nazi Europe.
Amongst the people on this list who were born in Hampstead are politician Nigel Lawson, racing driver Damon Hill, actors Stephen Fry and Dirk Bogarde, singer Jon English, novelist Evelyn Waugh, and the English educator and administrator Robert Laurie Morant. Several of the people on this list, including John Constable, Eleanor Farjeon, and Hugh Gaitskell are buried in the churchyard of St John-at-Hampstead. The Hampstead post code district includes the neighbourhoods of Frognal, Chalk Farm, Swiss Cottage, Belsize Park and parts of Primrose Hill.
Note: * ''indicates people born in Hampstead.''
Music and dance
- Larry Adler
- Thomas Augustine Barrett aka Leslie Stuart
- Sir Arnold Bax
- Arthur Bliss
- Dennis Brain
- Alfred Brendel
- Jonny Buckland
- Clara Butt
- Will Champion
- Sir Edward Elgar
- Frederick Delius
- Jacqueline du Pré
- Jon English Australian singer, songwriter, musician and actor
- Marianne Faithfull
- Howie Payne
- Kathleen Ferrier
- Liam Gallagher
- Tamara Karsavina
- Hans Keller
- Frederic King
- Stephen Kovacevich
- Nick Mason
- Tobias Matthay
- John McCormack
- Yehudi Menuhin
- Orlando Morgan, English music teacher, composer and musicologist, at Harvard Court, Honeybourne Road.
- Jon Moss
- Anna Pavlova
- Paul Robeson
- Cecil Sharp
- Slash *
- Sting
- Harry Styles
- Jess Glynne *
- Sam Smith *
- Jennifer Vyvyan
Literature
- Edwin Abbott Abbott
- Eliza Acton
- Robert Aickman
- Lucy Aikin
- Alfred Ainger
- Martin Amis
- William Allingham
- Christopher Andrewes
- John Armstrong
- Alan Ayckbourn *
- Joanna Baillie
- Robert Bakewell
- William Bayliss
- Enid Blyton
- Robert Dudley Baxter
- Sybille Bedford
- Walter Besant
- John Betjeman
- Basil Bunting
- Lord Byron
- Gilbert Cannan
- Elias Canetti
- Allan Chappelow
- Agatha Christie
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Hunter Davies
- Jean de Bosschère
- Daphne du Maurier
- George du Maurier
- Halide Edip
- T. S. Eliot
- Sir William Empson
- Eleanor Farjeon
- Ian Fleming
- Margaret Forster
- John Fowles
- Antonia Fraser
- Carlos Fuentes
- John Galsworthy
- Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
- Jane Green
- Geoffrey Grigson
- Thom Gunn
- Leigh Hunt
- Aldous Huxley
- John Keats
- Marghanita Laski
- Margaret Laurence
- D H Lawrence
- John Le Carré
- Eddie Linden
- Katherine Mansfield
- John Mortimer *
- John Middleton Murry
- George Orwell
- J. B. Priestley
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Edith Sitwell
- Stephen Spender
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Kate Summerscale
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Alec Waugh
- Evelyn Waugh *
- Anna Wickham
Theatre and film
- Simon Amstell
- Dame Peggy Ashcroft
- Peter Barkworth
- Dirk Bogarde *
- Michael Byrne Born, schooled and resided in Hampstead
- Richard Burton
- Rhys Matthew Bond
- Emilia Clarke
- Tom Conti
- Peter Cook
- Dame Judi Dench
- Gerald du Maurier *
- Stephen Fry *
- Ricky Gervais
- Michael Gothard
- Laurence Harvey
- Mamoun Hassan
- Jim Henson
- Sophie Hunter
- Jeremy Irons and Sinéad Cusack
- Wolf Kahler
- Valerie Leon
- Hugh Manning
- Helena Michell
- Margaret Nolan *
- Peter O'Toole
- Harold Pinter
- Karel Reisz
- Ralph Richardson
- Ridley Scott
- Alastair Sim
- Marie Studholme
- Dame Elizabeth Taylor *
- Marti Webb
- Anton Walbrook
- Tom Wilkinson
- Finty Williams
- Michael Williams
Visual arts and architecture
- Mary Adshead
- Helen Allingham
- Charles Baxter
- Cecil Beaton *
- Reginald Blomfield
- Robert Polhill Bevan
- Dorothy Bohm
- Jean de Bosschère
- Arthur Boyd
- Frank Brangwyn
- Patrick Caulfield
- Jessie Case Vesel
- Basil Champneys
- Ewan Christian
- John Constable
- Luis Ricardo Falero
- Horace Field
- Walter Field
- Lucian Freud
- Naum Gabo
- Nick Gentry
- Mark Gertler
- Kate Greenaway
- Ernő Goldfinger
- Walter Gropius
- John Heartfield
- Barbara Hepworth
- Frank Holl
- John Linnell
- Berthold Lubetkin
- Bernard Meadows
- Lee Miller
- Marie-Louise von Motesiczky
- Henry Moore
- Piet Mondrian
- Ben Nicholson
- Roland Penrose
- Arthur Rackham
- Brian Robb
- George Romney
- William Rothenstein
- Frank O. Salisbury
- George Gilbert Scott
- Henry Courtney Selous
- Richard Norman Shaw
- Eric Slater
- Alfred Stevens
- Vernon Ward
Politics and social activism
- H.H. Asquith
- Henrietta Barnett
- Samuel Augustus Barnett
- Aneurin Bevan
- Henry Brooke
- Anthony Crosland
- Andrew Fisher
- Michael Foot
- Charles de Gaulle, whose family lived at 99 Frognal for the last ten months of their English exile in the Second World War
- Hugh Gaitskell
- Denis Healey
- Louisa Gurney Hoare
- Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse
- Henry Hyndman
- Douglas Jay
- Roy Jenkins
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah
- Lord Leverhulme
- Gertrude Golda Lowy
- Ramsay MacDonald
- Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
- Temple Moore
- Onora O'Neill
- Frank Pakenham later Lord Longford
- William Pitt the Elder
- Barbara Robb
- Adrian Gilbert Scott
- Sir Neil Shields
- Harry Vane
- Beatrice Webb
- Sidney Webb
Science and medicine
- Lord Edgar Adrian
- Mark Akenside
- W. W. Rouse Ball
- Hugh Kerr Anderson
- Edward Victor Appleton
- George Armstrong
- Ronald Aylmer Fisher
- Thomas Balogh
- Henry Dale
- Anna Freud
- Sigmund Freud
- Harold Gillies
- Sir Alexander Houston
- Andrew Huxley
- Julian Huxley
- Florence Nightingale
- Karl Pearson
- Selwyn Selwyn-Clarke
- William Sharpey
- Rupert Sheldrake
- Marie Stopes
- Joseph Warren Zambra
Media, journalism, and broadcasting
- Ernest Belfort Bax
- Henry Brailsford
- John Passmore Edwards
- Judy Finnigan
- Clement Freud
- John Lawrence Hammond
- Richard Madeley
- Jonathan Romain
- Charles Saatchi
Sport
- Heung-min Son
- Andrey Arshavin
- Chris Bonington *
- Harriet Dart
- Harold Evans
- Cesc Fàbregas
- Thierry Henry
- Damon Hill *
- Alexander Hleb
- Tiago Ilori *
- Reginald Macaulay
- Gillian McKeith
- Samir Nasri
- Robin van Persie
- Patrick Vieira
- Christian Eriksen
- Geoffrey Wood
Other
- Gilbert Abbott à Beckett
- Lord Edgar Adrian
- Richard Amner
- Major John Thompson McKellar Anderson
- Richard Arde
- Cyril Asquith
- Raymond Asquith
- Sir A. J. Ayer
- Sir Richard Burton
- Lord Clark
- King Constantine and Queen Anne-Marie of Greece
- Fritz Dupre, iron and manganese ore merchant, known as the "Manganese Ore King"
- Maxime de la Falaise
- David Devant
- Margaret Gardiner
- Thomas Field Gibson
- Sir Ernst Gombrich
- Jane Goodall *
- Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh
- Rowland Hill
- Friedrich von Hügel
- Leonard Huxley
- Robert Laurie Morant *
- William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
- Flinders Petrie
- Caroline Anne James Skeel
- Michael Ventris
- Sir Nicholas George Winton
- Thomas Wise