Born in Greater London

Greater London

Administrative area, ceremonial county and region of England

Greater London as a birthplace has produced a number of famous personalities of various fields (e.g. British mathematician and professor, English children's writer, British singer and songwriter): Andrew Ranicki, Julia Donaldson, Alexandra Burke and some more.

Celebrities from Greater London

69

Andrew Ranicki

British mathematician and professor

*December 30th, 1948 †February 21st, 2018, Edinburgh

75

Julia Donaldson

English children's writer

*September 16th, 1948

35

Alexandra Burke

British singer and songwriter

*August 25th, 1988

76

Carol Drinkwater

British actress and author

*April 22nd, 1948

50

Stephen Wiltshire

Architectural artist

*April 24th, 1974

35

Julian Perretta

English singer-songwriter

*January 13th, 1989

80

Barbara Ewing

New-Zealand-born British actress

*January 1st, 1944

64

Mel Gaynor

British drummer

*May 29th, 1959

65

Paul Di'Anno

British heavy metal singer

*May 17th, 1958

84

Peter Hacker

British philosopher

*July 15th, 1939

60

Courtney Pine

British musician

*March 18th, 1964

75

John Waters

Australian actor

*December 8th, 1948

66

Beverley Cross

British screenwriter (1931-1998)

*April 13th, 1931 †March 20th, 1998, Greater London

85

Celia Franca

British dancer, founder and artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada (1921-2007)

*June 25th, 1921 †February 19th, 2007, Ottawa

50

Nicky Hopkins

English pianist and organist

*February 24th, 1944 †September 6th, 1994, Nashville

57

Alison Goldfrapp

English musician and record producer (born 1966)

*May 13th, 1966

90

Claire Tomalin

English biographer and journalist

*June 20th, 1933

47

Douglas Lee

British choreographer

*March 4th, 1977

53

Edzard Hüneke

German singer

*February 23rd, 1971

86

Henry Cass

British film director (1902-1989)

*June 24th, 1902 †March 15th, 1989, Hastings

41

Ashley Walters

British rapper and actor

*June 30th, 1982

70

John Hegley

British writer, musician and comedian

*October 1st, 1953

53

Lindy Layton

British singer

*December 7th, 1970

77

Paul Lytton

British musician

*March 8th, 1947

33

Maverick Sabre

British rapper

*July 12th, 1990

79

Nicolas Bratza

British judge

*March 3rd, 1945

77

Paul Cartledge

British ancient Greece historian (born 1947)

*March 24th, 1947

91

Giles Constable

British church historian and medievalist (1929-2021)

*June 1st, 1929 †January 17th, 2021, Princeton

67

John Gough Nichols

English printer and antiquary (1806-1873)

*May 22nd, 1806 †November 14th, 1873, Dorking

68

James Reeves

British poet (1909-1978)

*July 1st, 1909 †May 1st, 1978, Lewes

59

Andy Abraham

British singer

*July 16th, 1964

56

Rebecca Saunders

British ex-pat New Music composer based in Germany

*December 19th, 1967

69

Kwame Anthony Appiah

British-American philosopher and writer

*May 8th, 1954

72

Nick Gilder

Canadian singer

*December 21st, 1951

74

Imogen Cooper

British pianist

*August 28th, 1949

71

Raphael Wallfisch

British cellist

*January 1st, 1953

47

Simon Collins

British-Canadian musician

*September 14th, 1976

73

Vivienne Olive

English composer and harpsichordist

*May 31st, 1950

80

Graham Bonney

British singer

*June 2nd, 1943

72

Ajahn Brahm

British-Australian Theravada Buddhist monk (born 1951)

*August 7th, 1951

74

Linda Aronson

British screenwriter

*March 20th, 1950

82

Nigel Calder

British science writer

*December 2nd, 1931 †June 25th, 2014, Crawley

52

David Dawson

British choreographer

*March 4th, 1972

64

Orlando Figes

Canadian Lawyer

*November 20th, 1959

66

Simon Halsey

British conductor

*March 8th, 1958

83

Robert Winston

British scientist (born 1940)

*July 15th, 1940

82

Anne Evans

British operatic soprano

*August 20th, 1941

44

Derek B

British rapper

*January 15th, 1965 †November 15th, 2009, London

75

William Henry Monk

English organist, church musician, and music editor

*March 16th, 1823 †March 1st, 1899, Greater London

73

Francis Bourne

Catholic cardinal

*March 23rd, 1861 †December 31st, 1934, London

78

Johnny Speight

British screenwriter

*June 2nd, 1920 †July 5th, 1998, Hertfordshire

64

John Varley

British artist (1778–1842)

*August 17th, 1778 †November 17th, 1842, Greater London

55

Frederick Catherwood

British Mesoamericanist, explorer, artist, architect, and photographer (1799-1854)

*February 27th, 1799 †September 27th, 1854, Atlantic Ocean

62

Kate Saunders

English writer, actress and journalist

*August 7th, 1960 †April 21st, 2023, Archway district

67

Stuart Franklin

British photographer

*July 16th, 1956

47

Harry Escott

British composer

*September 9th, 1976

74

Terry Oldfield

English composer

*August 12th, 1949

75

Colin Towns

English composer

*May 13th, 1948

84

Anthony Payne

British composer (1936-2021)

*August 2nd, 1936 †April 30th, 2021, Islington

71

Colin Cotterill

Writer

*October 2nd, 1952

69

Kate Cann

British writer

*June 9th, 1954

72

Jill Murphy

UK children's writer

*July 5th, 1949 †August 18th, 2021, St Mabyn

49

Nikki Sudden

British musician

*July 19th, 1956 †March 26th, 2006, New York City

80

Marguerite Wolff

German-British lawyer

*December 10th, 1883 †May 21st, 1964

85

Jack Gold

British film and television director (1930–2015)

*June 28th, 1930 †August 9th, 2015

68

Paul Gilroy

Scholar of the Black diaspora and culture

*February 16th, 1956

85

John R. Taylor

British-born American physicist

*February 2nd, 1939

69

Simon Fisher Turner

English actor and musician

*November 21st, 1954

83

David Thomson

British film critic and historian

*February 18th, 1941

52

Adé Bantu

Nigerian-German musician, producer and social activist

*July 13th, 1971

84

Michael L. Klein

American chemist

*March 13th, 1940

61

Paul Clarvis

British musician

*April 9th, 1963

49

Paul Hough

British film director

*August 4th, 1974

64

David Huggins

British writer

*August 14th, 1959

37

Adi Alfa

British actress

*August 27th, 1986

64

Jonathan Dove

English composer (1959- )

*July 18th, 1959

78

Charles Michael Platt

UK-American writer (1945-)

*May 9th, 1945

63

Peter Hobday

English football player (born 1961)

*April 9th, 1961

35

King Charles

English singer and songwriter

*May 6th, 1988

37

Frank Vosper

British actor and playwright

*December 15th, 1899 †March 6th, 1937, sea

56

Simon Price

British academic

*September 27th, 1954 †June 14th, 2011, Oxford

50

Edward Hall

16th-century English lawyer, politician, and historian

*January 1st, 1497 †January 1st, 1547, London

64

Caroline Blackwood

English writer (1931–1996)

*July 16th, 1931 †February 14th, 1996, Manhattan

72

Felix de Mendelssohn

Austrian psychoanalyst

*January 1st, 1944 †October 7th, 2016, Vienna

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