List of London personalities
London is the birthplace of numerous prominent personalities. This list includes people who were born in the Greater London area . All areas that have belonged to the Greater London Administrative Region since 1965 are taken into account . In addition to the historic City of London, this also includes the County of London , Middlesex and parts of Essex , Hertfordshire , Kent and Surrey .
A.
- Ben Aaronovitch (* 1964), writer and screenwriter
- Temple Abady (1903-1970), composer
- Diane Abbott (born 1953), politician
- Abdullah ibn Mutaib Al Saud (* 1984), Saudi Arabian prince and equestrian
- Frederick Augustus Abel (1827–1902), chemist
- Henry Abel Smith (1900–1993), officer and Governor of Queensland
- John Abernethy (1764–1831), surgeon and anatomist
- Don Abi (* 1972), jazz, soul and reggae singer
- John Abineri (1928-2000), actor
- Frances Abington (1737–1815), actress
- Maryam d'Abo (born 1960), actress
- Olivia d'Abo (* 1969), actress and singer
- Tammy Abraham (born 1997), football player
- Harold Abrahams (1899–1978), track and field athlete
- Israel Abrahams (1858-1925), Judaist
- Kenneth Achampong (born 1966), football player
- Valentine Ackland (1906–1969), poet
- Brian Ackland-Snow (1940–2013), art director and production designer
- Peter Ackroyd (* 1949), writer
- Marcus Adam (* 1968), track and field athlete and bobsledder
- Barbara Adams (1945-2002), Egyptologist
- Christine Adams (* 1974), actress
- Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams (1775-1852), US First Lady
- Martin Adams (* 1956), darts player
- Tony Adams (born 1966), soccer player
- Cynthia Addai-Robinson (born 1985), actress
- Remi Adefarasin (* 1948), cameraman
- Marcus Adeney (1900–1998), Canadian cellist, composer, music teacher and writer
- Maggie Aderin-Pocock (* 1968), space scientist, science educator
- Christopher Adey (* 1943), conductor and violinist
- Adele (* 1988), singer
- Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian (1889–1977), anatomist and physiologist
- Benik Afobe (* 1993), football player
- Finette Agyapong (* 1997), sprinter
- Riz Ahmed (* 1982), actor and musician
- Jay Ajayi (born 1993), American football player
- Mobolade Ajomale (* 1995), Canadian sprinter
- Adeel Akhtar (born 1980), actor
- Chuba Akpom (born 1995), football player
- Damon Albarn (* 1968), pop musician
- Jodi Albert (* 1983), actress and singer
- Chemmy Alcott (* 1982), ski racer
- Sophie Aldred (born 1962), actress
- Sarah Alexander (* 1971), actress
- Kenneth J. Alford (1881-1945), composer
- Laurie Allan (1943), drummer
- Alfie Allen (born 1986), actor
- Lily Allen (born 1985), singer
- Edward Alleyn (1566–1626), actor
- Margery Allingham (1904–1966), writer
- John Altham (* 1949), composer and conductor
- Al Alvarez (1929–2019), poet, writer and literary critic
- Shola Ama (* 1979), singer
- Christiane Amanpour (* 1958), journalist
- Eric Ambler (1909-1998), writer
- Amélie von Orléans (1865–1951), Queen of Portugal
- Jon Amiel (* 1948), director and film producer
- Kingsley Amis (1922-1995), writer
- Bob Anderson (1931-1967), racing driver
- Gary Anderson (* 1967), racing cyclist
- Gerry Anderson (1929–2012), puppet artist and filmmaker
- Michael Anderson (1920–2018), film director
- WH Anderson (1882–1955), Canadian singer, choir director and vocal teacher
- Peter André (* 1973), pop singer
- Anthony Andrews (* 1948), actor and film producer
- Chris Andrews (* 1942), pop singer
- Naveen Andrews (born 1969), actor
- Anne (1665–1714), Queen of England
- Francesca Annis (* 1944), actress
- Michail Antonio (* 1990), football player
- Adam Ant (* 1954), pop musician
- Jeffrey Archer (* 1940), politician and writer
- Mildred Archer (1911–2005) ethnologist and art historian
- Tony Archer (* 1938), jazz musician
- George Arliss (1868-1946), actor
- Edward Armitage (1817-1896), history painter
- Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon (1930–2017), designer and photographer
- Dido Armstrong (* 1971), pop singer
- Rollo Armstrong (* 1966), music producer
- Thomas Arne (1710–1778), composer
- Samuel Arnold (1740–1802), composer
- Anthony Arndt (* 1952), actor and former racing cyclist
- Mathangi Arulpragasam (* 1975), singer and music producer
- Kali Arulpragasam (* 1974), jewelry designer and artist
- Timothy Garton Ash (born 1955), historian
- Charles Robert Ashbee (1863–1942), architect
- W. Ross Ashby (1903-1972), psychiatrist
- Peggy Ashcroft (1907-1991), actress
- Dina Asher-Smith (* 1995), sprinter
- Michael Francis Atiyah (1929–2019), mathematician
- Janice Atkinson (* 1962), politician
- Barry Atsma (* 1972), Dutch actor
- David Attenborough (born 1926), documentary filmmaker
- Clement Attlee (1883-1967), Prime Minister
- Hayley Atwell (* 1982), British-American actress
- Lionel Atwill (1885-1946), actor
- Mick Audsley (born 1949), film editor
- Brian Auger (* 1939), jazz rock organist
- Frederic Austin (1872–1952), singer and composer
- Henry Austin (1906-2000), tennis player
- Alan Ayckbourn (born 1939), writer
- Gladys Aylward (1902-1970), missionary
- Kelenna Azubuike (* 1983), basketball player
B.
- Katy B (* 1989), pop singer
- Plan B (* 1983), hip-hop and soul musician, actor
- William Bach (* 1946), politician and life peer
- Luciano Bacheta (* 1990), automobile racing driver
- Francis Bacon (1561–1626), philosopher and politician
- Wilfred Baddeley (1872-1929), tennis player
- Robert Baden-Powell (1857–1941), founder of the scout movement
- Douglas Bader (1910–1982), fighter pilot
- Amelia Bailey (1842-1932), Australian singer
- William Bailey (1888–1971), racing cyclist
- Eddie Baily (1925-2010), football player
- Alan Baker (1939-2018), mathematician
- Colin Baker (born 1943), actor
- Ginger Baker (1939-2019), drummer
- Roy Ward Baker (1916-2010), film director and film producer
- Samuel White Baker (1821-1893), African explorer
- Jack Baldwin (1938-2020), chemist
- Francis Balfour-Browne (1874-1967), entomologist
- Phil Bancroft (* 1967), jazz saxophonist
- Tom Bancroft (* 1967), jazz drummer
- Joseph Banks (1743-1820), naturalist
- Roger Bannister (1929–2018), track and field athlete
- Granville Bantock (1868-1946), composer
- John Barbirolli (1899–1970), conductor and composer
- Owen Barfield (1898–1997), philosopher, linguist, lawyer and writer
- Peter Barker (* 1983), squash player
- Nigel Barley (born 1947), author
- Woolf Barnato (1895–1948), racing car driver
- Ben Barnes (born 1981), actor
- Peter Barnes (1931–2004), playwright and screenwriter
- Corelli Barnett (* 1927), military historian
- Simon Barrington-Ward (1930–2020), Anglican theologian and Bishop of Coventry
- Isaac Barrow (1630–1677), clergyman and mathematician
- John D. Barrow (* 1952), physicist
- Charles Barry (1795-1860), architect
- Kate Barry (1967-2013), photographer
- Freddie Bartholomew (1924-1992), actor
- Mischa Barton (* 1986), actress
- Alfie Bass (1921–1987), actor
- Beatriz Batarda (* 1974), Portuguese actress
- Gerard Batten (* 1954), politician
- Arnold Bax (1883–1953), composer
- Thomas Bayes (1701–1761), mathematician
- Joseph Bazalgette (1819-1891), civil engineer
- Dorothea Beale (1831–1906), mathematician, university teacher and educational reformer
- Dave Beasant (born 1959), soccer player
- Cecil Beaton (1904–1980), photographer
- Gabrielle Beaumont (* 1942), film director and screenwriter
- Gordon Beck (1936–2011), jazz musician
- Jeff Beck (born 1944), rock musician
- Thomas Becket (1118–1170), Lord Chancellor and Archbishop of Canterbury
- David Beckham (born 1975), football player
- Kate Beckinsale (born 1973), actress
- Samantha Beckinsale (born 1966), actress
- David Bedford (born 1949), long-distance runner, Race Director of the London Marathon
- Dave Bedwell (1928-1999), racing cyclist
- Frederick William Beechey (1796-1856), polar explorer
- Herbert Beer (1914–1971), German politician
- Terence Beesley , actor
- Victor Beigel (1870–1930), pianist and singing teacher
- Catherine Bell (born 1968), actress
- Clive Bell (* 1950), musician and music critic
- Vanessa Bell (1879–1961), painter and interior designer
- Quentin Bell (1910–1996), art historian, artist and writer
- David Bellamy (1933–2019), botanist and author
- Ruth Belville (1854–1943), entrepreneur
- Benga (* 1986), dubstep producer and DJ
- Peter Benenson (1921–2005), lawyer and founder of Amnesty International
- Tiana Benjamin (* 1984), actress
- Brian Lawrence Bennett (born 1940), musician
- Steve Bennett (born 1961), soccer referee
- William Bennett (born 1936), flautist
- Darren Bent (* 1984), soccer player
- Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), lawyer and philosopher
- EC Bentley (1875-1956), writer
- Jack Beresford (1899-1977), rower
- John Berger (1926-2017), writer
- Paul Bernays (1888–1977), mathematician
- Tim Berners-Lee (* 1955), inventor of the World Wide Web
- Marina Berti (1924–2002), actress
- Andrew Bertie (1929–2008), Grand Master of the Order of Malta
- Annie Besant (1847-1933), feminist
- Paul Bettany (born 1971), actor
- Thomas Betterton (1635-1710), actor
- Adrian Biddle (1952-2005), cinematographer
- Julia Biel (* 1976), jazz singer
- Christabel Bielenberg (1909–2003), Anglo-Irish resistance fighter
- Rachel Billington (* 1942), writer and journalist
- Norman Bingley (1863-1940), regatta sailor
- Andrew Bird (born 1957), film editor
- Antonia Bird (1951–2013), film director and film producer
- Sam Bird (* 1987), racing car driver
- Andrew Birkin (* 1945), screenwriter and director
- Jane Birkin (* 1946), actress and singer
- Ferdinand von Bismarck (1930–2019), head of the Bismarck-Schönhausen house
- Jasper Blackall (* 1920), regatta sailor
- Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett (1897–1974), physicist
- Honor Blackman (1925-2020), actress
- Susan Blackmore (born 1951), writer and broadcaster
- Chris Blackwell (born 1937), music producer
- Algernon Blackwood (1869–1951), writer
- James Blake (* 1988), musician
- William Blake (1757–1827), painter and poet
- Melanie Blatt (* 1975), singer, actress and presenter
- Harry Blech (1910–1999), conductor
- Arthur Bliss (1891–1975), composer
- Nick Blood (born 1982), actor
- Claire Bloom (born 1931), actress
- Nicholas Bloom (* 1973), economist
- Eric Blore (1887–1959), theater and film actor
- Barry Blue (born 1950), singer, songwriter and producer
- Jonas Blue (* 1989) DJ and music producer
- Rafael Bluteau (1638–1734), Portuguese Theatine monk, Romanist and Lusitanist
- Isabella Blow (1958–2007), stylist, fashion journalist and patron
- Emily Blunt (born 1983), actress
- Edward Blyth (1810–1873), zoologist and ornithologist
- Enid Blyton (1897–1968), children's author
- Barny Boatman (born 1956), poker player
- Dirk Bogarde (1921–1999), actor and writer
- Marc Bolan (1947–1977), rock singer
- Jérôme Bonaparte-Patterson (1805–1870), nephew of Napoléon Bonaparte
- Alan Bond (1938–2015), Australian entrepreneur
- Edward Bond (born 1934), writer
- Graham Bond (1937–1974), jazz and blues musician
- Carlos Bonell (* 1949), guitarist and music teacher
- Chris Bonington (* 1934), mountaineer
- Hugh Bonneville (born 1963), actor
- Graham Bonney (* 1943), pop singer and entertainer
- James Bord (born 1981), poker player
- Johnny Borrell (* 1980), musician
- Henry Borsook (1897-1984), American biochemist
- James Boswell (1740–1795), writer and lawyer
- Derek Bourgeois (1941-2017), composer
- York Bowen (1884–1961), pianist and composer
- Dane Bowers (* 1979), pop singer, songwriter and record producer
- David Bowie (1947-2016), musician
- Liona Boyd (* 1949), guitarist
- Moses Boyd (* ≈1992), fusion musician
- Boy George (born 1961), pop singer
- David Brabham (* 1965), Australian racing car driver
- Charles Bradlaugh (1833-1891), politician
- Karren Brady, Baroness Brady (born 1969), businesswoman and life peeress
- Billy Bragg (* 1957), punk musician
- Dennis Brain (1921–1957), horn player
- Ernst Albrecht Braun (1857–1916), politician, Minister of the Grand Duchy of Hesse
- Julian Bream (1933-2020), guitarist
- Justin Brett , actor
- Lucy Briers (* 1967), actress
- Bishop Briggs (* 1992), musician
- Chris Bristow (1937-1960), racing driver
- Eric Bristow (1957-2018), darts player
- Sebastian Paul Brock (* 1938), syrologist
- Neville Brody (born 1957), graphic designer
- Peter Brook (* 1925), theater director
- Gary Brooker (* 1945), rock musician
- Anita Brookner (1928–2016), writer and art historian
- Brigid Brophy (1929-1995), author
- Carter Brown (1923–1985), crime writer
- Charles Brown (1827–1905), machine designer
- Derren Brown (* 1971), magician
- Georgia Brown (1933–1992), film and stage actress
- Herbert Charles Brown (1912–2004), physicist and chemist
- Sam Brown (born 1964), singer
- YolanDa Brown (* 1982), jazz musician
- Thomas Browne (1605–1682), philosopher
- Robert Browning (1812-1889), writer
- James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan (1797–1868), General
- Maya Bruney (* 1998), sprinter
- Jack Bruno (* 1951), drummer
- Peter Brunt (1917–2005), ancient historian
- Keisha Buchanan (* 1984), singer
- Henry Thomas Buckle (1821–1862), historian and chess player
- Steve Buckley (* 1959), jazz musician
- Paul Buckmaster (1946–2017), composer and arranger
- Mutya Buena (* 1985), singer
- Kathy Burke (born 1964), actress
- Anthony William Bulloch (1942–2014), classical philologist
- Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005), writer
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803–1873), novelist
- Stuart Bunce (born 1971), actor
- Emma Bunton (* 1976), pop singer
- John Burch (1932-2006), jazz and R&B musician
- William John Burchell (1782–1863), naturalist and botanist
- Ian Burgess (1930–2012), racing car driver
- John Fox Burgoyne (1782–1871), Field Marshal
- Alexandra Burke (* 1988), pop singer
- Aubrey Burl (1926-2020), prehistoric
- Larry Burrows (1926–1971), photographer and war correspondent
- Saffron Burrows (born 1972), actress
- Francis Burt (1926–2012), composer
- Isabel Burton (1831-1896), travel writer
- James Burton (1788-1862), Egyptologist
- Maurice Burton (* 1955), cyclist
- Philip John Kennedy Burton (* 1936), ornithologist and animal illustrator
- Les Bury (1913–1986), Australian politician
- Kate Bush (born 1958), pop singer
- Darcey Bussell (* 1969), ballet dancer
- Stan Butcher (1920–1987), pianist, composer, arranger and band leader
- Bernard Butler (* 1970), musician and music producer
- Asa Butterfield (born 1997), actor
- George Butterworth (1885–1916), composer
- George Gordon Byron (1788-1824), writer
- Kathleen Byron (1921–2009), actress
C.
- Simon Cadell (1950–1996), actor
- Alain de Cadenet (* 1945), racing car driver, racing team owner and entrepreneur
- Michael Caine (born 1933), actor
- Anthony Calf (born 1959), actor
- John Baptiste Calkin (1827–1905), organist, composer and music teacher
- James Callis (born 1971), actor
- Simon Callow (born 1949), actor
- Stephen E. Calvert (* 1935), Canadian geochemist and oceanographer
- Charlotte of Cambridge (* 2015), princess
- George of Cambridge (* 2013), Prince
- Richard Owen Cambridge (1717–1802), poet, landowner and historian
- David Cameron (1933–2012), actor
- David Cameron (born 1966), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- Heather Cameron (* 1969), social scientist
- DJ Campbell (* 1981), football player
- Malcom Campbell (1885–1948), racing driver and journalist
- Naomi Campbell (* 1970), model
- Sol Campbell (born 1974), football player
- Edmund Campion (1540–1581), Jesuit monk and martyr
- Thomas Campion (1567–1620), composer
- Carlos de Candamo (1871-1946), Peruvian diplomat and athlete
- Charles John Canning, 1st Earl Canning (1812–1862), politician
- George Canning (1770–1827), Prime Minister
- John Cannon (1933–1999), racing car driver
- Captain Sensible (* 1954), punk musician
- Arthur Carnell (1862-1940), marksman
- Benjamin Carr (1768–1831), American composer, organist, singer and music publisher
- Joseph Carr (1739-1819), American music publisher
- Thomas Carr (1780–1849), American music publisher, composer and organist
- Richard Christopher Carrington (1826–1875), astronomer
- Alison Carroll (* 1985), gymnast, actress, film producer and model
- John Paddy Carstairs (1910–1970), writer, film director and screenwriter
- Helena Bonham Carter (1966), actress
- Howard Carter (1874–1939), archaeologist and Egyptologist
- John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville (1690–1763), politician
- Katrin Cartlidge (1961–2002), actress
- James Carver (born 1969), politician
- Amira Casar (* 1971), actress
- Tony Cascarino (born 1962), Irish football player
- Henry Cass (1903–1989), film director, screenwriter, film and theater producer
- Francis de La Porte de Castelnau (1802–1880), explorer
- Geoff Castle (1949–2020), pianist, synthesizer player and composer of fusion jazz
- George Cathcart (1794-1854), General
- William Schaw Cathcart, 1st Earl Cathcart (1755–1843), General
- Philip Catherine (* 1942), jazz guitarist
- Paul Catty (* 20th century), game designer
- Patrick Caulfield (1936–2005), painter, illustrator and pop artist
- Jessie Cave (b.1987), actress
- Arthur Cayley (1821–1895), mathematician
- James Cecil, 1st Marquess of Salisbury (1748–1823), politician
- Owen Chadwick (1916–2015), theologian and historian
- Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914), politician
- Dwain Chambers (* 1978), track and field athlete
- Guy Chambers (* 1963), music producer
- Anna Chancellor (born 1965), actress
- Ben Chaplin (born 1969 or 1970), actor
- Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977), director, actor and comedian
- Colin Chapman (1928–1982), racing car designer
- Katie Chapman (* 1982), soccer player
- Frank Chapple, Baron Chapple of Hoxton (1921-2004), trade unionist
- Charles II (1630–1685), King of England
- Tina Charles (* 1954), singer
- Geoffrey Chaucer (around 1343–1400), writer and poet
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), writer
- Lionel Chetwynd (* 1940), screenwriter, film producer and film director
- Josiah Child (1630–1699), merchant, economist and mercantilist
- Anne Childes Seguin (1809–1888), opera singer
- David Chipperfield (* 1953), architect
- Sarita Choudhury (born 1966), actress
- Caryl Churchill (* 1938), writer
- Pete Churchill (* 1961), jazz musician and composer
- George Chuter (* 1976), national rugby union player
- Colley Cibber (1671–1757), theater director and writer
- Ruy Cinatti (1915–1986), Portuguese poet, anthropologist and agronomist
- Danny Cipriani (* 1987), national rugby union player
- Diane Clare (1938-2013), actress
- Mary Clare (1894–1970), actress
- Anne Clark (* 1960), pop singer
- Barney Clark (born 1993), actor
- James Clark (* 1964), computer scientist
- William Clark, Baron Clark of Kempston (1917-2004), politician
- Charles Clarke (born 1950), politician
- Emilia Clarke (born 1986), actress
- Marcus Clarke (1846-1881), writer
- Rebecca Clarke (1886–1979), composer
- Raphael Clarkson (* 1987), jazz musician
- Paul Clarvis (* 1963), drummer and percussionist
- Nicholas Clay (1946–2000), actor
- John Cleland (1709–1789), writer
- Brian Clemens (1931–2015), screenwriter and film producer
- Benjamin Clementine (* 1988), musician and songwriter
- Carol Cleveland (born 1942), actress
- Martin Clunes (born 1961), actor
- Ronald Coase (1910–2013), economist
- Justin Cochrane (* 1982), national soccer player from Antigua and Barbuda
- Sebastian Coe (* 1956), athlete and politician
- Alma Cogan (1932–1966), pop singer
- John Coghlan (born 1946), drummer
- Alan Cohen (* 1934), jazz musician
- Harriet Cohen (1895-1967), pianist
- Sacha Baron Cohen (* 1971), comedian
- Irving Cohn (1898–1961), American songwriter
- Nik Cohn (* 1946), rock journalist and travel writer
- Ashley Cole (born 1980), soccer player
- Joe Cole (born 1981), soccer player
- Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912), composer
- Henry Collen (1797–1879), painter and pioneer of photography
- Charles Collett (1871–1952), railroad engineer
- John Collier (1901–1980), British-American writer
- Jackie Collins (1937–2015), writer and actress
- Joan Collins (born 1933), actress
- Peter Collins (* 1951), music producer
- Phil Collins (* 1951), pop singer and drummer
- Wilkie Collins (1824-1889), writer
- George Colman the Younger (1762–1836), writer
- Edward Theodore Compton (1849–1921), painter and mountaineer
- Les Condon (1930-2007), jazz musician
- Jason Connery (born 1963), actor
- Kevin Connor (born 1937), director
- Arthur Conolly (1807–1842), traveler, military and diplomat
- Ernesto Consolo (1864–1931), Italian pianist
- Anne Conway (1631–1679), philosopher
- Mike Conway (* 1983), racing driver
- William Daniel Conybeare (1787–1857), geologist and paleontologist
- Norman Cook (* 1963), pop musician
- Paul Cook (* 1956), punk musician
- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury (1671–1713), politician and writer
- Charlotte Cooper (1870–1966), tennis player
- Dominic Cooper (born 1978), actor
- John Cooper (1923-2000), car designer
- Lindsay Cooper (1951–2013), bassoon and saxophone player and composer
- Phil Cordell (1947-2007), musician
- James Corden (* 1978), actor, screenwriter and comedian
- Frederick Corder (1852–1932), composer
- Paul Corder (1879–1942), composer
- Montagu Corry, 1st Baron Rowton (1838–1903), politician and philanthropist
- Elvis Costello (* 1954), pop musician
- Fearne Cotton (* 1981), TV presenter and DJ
- Francis Cotes (around 1725–1770), painter
- Elliot Cowan (born 1976), actor
- Noël Coward (1899–1973), actor
- Neil Cowley (* 1972), jazz musician
- Charlie Cox (born 1982), actor
- Ian Cox (born 1971), football player
- Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (1907-2003), mathematician
- Elizabeth Craven (1750–1828), travel writer
- Jack Crawford (born 1988), football player
- Janet Craxton (1929-1981), oboist
- John Craxton (1922–2009), painter
- Richard Stafford Cripps (1889–1952), politician
- Donald Crisp (1882–1974), actor and director
- Quentin Crisp (1908-1999), author and entertainer
- Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex (1485–1540), politician
- Gary Crosby (* 1955), jazz musician
- Ben Cross (1947-2020), actor
- Beverley Cross (1931–1998), screenwriter and opera and musical composer
- Else Cross (1902–1987), pianist and music teacher
- Adrian Cruft (1921–1987), composer
- George Cruikshank (1792–1878), caricaturist and illustrator
- Rosalie Crutchley (1920–1997), actress
- Greg Cruttwell (born 1962), actor
- Taio Cruz (* 1980), R&B singer and songwriter
- Frances Cuka (1936-2020), film and television actress
- Roland Culver (1900–1984), theater and film actor
- Benedict Cumberbatch (born 1976), film actor
- Edric Cundell (1893–1961), composer, horn player, pianist, conductor and music teacher
- George Dorrington Cunningham (1878–1948), organist and music teacher
- Clifford Curzon (1907-1982), pianist
- Peter Cusack (* 1948), musician and sound artist
- Peter Cushing (1913–1994), actor
- Angel Coulby (born 1980), actor
- Joel Corry (* 1989), DJ and music producer
D.
- Ernest Dainty (1891–1947), Canadian pianist, organist, composer and conductor
- Benjamin Dale (1885–1943), organist and composer
- Henry Hallett Dale (1875-1968), biochemist
- Roger Daltrey (born 1944), rock musician
- Dana Rosemary Brown (born 1950), Irish singer and politician
- John Frederic Daniell (1790-1845), chemist
- George Daniels (1926–2011), watchmaker and book author
- Colin Dann (* 1943), writer
- John Nelson Darby (1800–1882), co-founder of the Brethren Congregation
- Thurston Dart (1921–1971), harpsichordist, conductor and music teacher
- Dave (* 1998), rapper
- Theodore Davie (1852–1898), Canadian politician
- Dave Davies (born 1947), rock musician
- John Davies (1938-2003), New Zealand middle-distance runner
- Ray Davies (born 1944), rock guitarist
- Windsor Davies (1930–2019), actor and singer
- Ben Davis (* 1961 or 1962), cameraman
- Sammy Davis (1887–1981), racing car driver and journalist
- Steve Davis (born 1957), snooker player
- Emily Davison (1872-1913), suffragette
- George Dawe (1781–1829), painter
- William Rutter Dawes (1799–1868), astronomer and clergyman
- Julian Dawson (* 1954), musician
- Daniel Day-Lewis (born 1957), actor
- Henry Deacon (1822–1876), chemist and industrialist
- Malcolm Dedman (* 1948), composer
- Karl August Deinhard (1842-1892), German vice admiral
- Thomas Dekker (≈1572–1632), writer
- John Dee (1527–1608), philosopher and mathematician
- Daniel Defoe (1660-1731), writer
- Len Deighton (born 1929), writer
- Cyril Delevanti (1889–1975), actor
- Cara Delevingne (* 1992), model and actress
- Poppy Delevingne (* 1986), model
- Norman Del Mar (1919–1994), conductor
- Edmund Dell (1921–1999), politician
- John Henry Dell (1830–1888), landscape painter and illustrator
- Dixon Denham (1786-1828), African explorer
- Adolph Deutsch (1897–1980), music composer and Oscar winner
- David Devant (1868–1941), stage magician
- Terry Devon (1922-2013), singer
- Gerald Dewhurst (1872–1956), football player
- Roland De Wolfe (* 1979), poker player
- Matt Di Angelo (born 1987), actor
- Paul Di'Anno (born 1958), metal singer
- Terrance Dicks (1935–2019), writer and screenwriter
- Jeanette Dimech (* 1951), Spanish singer
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881), Prime Minister and writer
- Omid Djalili (* 1965), film actor and comedian
- William Dobson (1610-1646), painter
- Reginald Doherty (1872-1910), tennis player
- John Dollond (1706–1761), telescope maker
- Peter Dollond (1730-1820), optician
- Cyril Domb (1920–2012), physicist
- Alfred Domett (1811–1887), New Zealand Prime Minister
- Siobhán Donaghy (* 1984), singer
- Lily Donaldson (* 1987), model
- Clive Donner (1926-2010), film director
- Eliza Doolittle (* 1988), singer
- Kwadwo Duah (* 1997), Swiss football player
- John William Douglas (1814-1905), entomologist
- Alec Douglas-Home (1903–1995), Prime Minister
- Richard Doyle (1824-1883), illustrator
- Anthony Dowell (born 1943), ballet dancer and choreographer
- Herbert James Draper (1863–1920), painter
- Carol Drinkwater (born 1948), actress and author
- Minnie Driver (born 1970), actress
- Lucy Christiana Duff Gordon (1863–1935), designer
- Daniel Dumile (* 1971), American hip-hop artist
- Tony Dunham (born 1956), writer, actor and director
- Thomas Dunhill (1877–1946), composer
- Andrew Dunn (born 1950), cameraman
- Carola Dunn (* 1946), writer
- Clive Dunn (1920–2012), actor
- Jourdan Dunn (* 1990), model
- John Dunstable (≈1390–1453), composer
- June Duprez (1918–1984), actress
- Ann Sophie Dürmeyer (* 1990), German singer and songwriter
- Ian Dury (1942-2000), rock musician
- Judy Dyble (1949-2020), folk rock singer
- Danny Dyer (born 1977), actor and television presenter
- Deborah Dyer (born 1967), singer
- Mary Dyer (≈1611-1660), Quaker
- Ms. Dynamite (* 1981), musician
- George Malcolm Dyson (1902–1978), chemist
E.
- Michael East (around 1580–1648), organist and composer
- Layla El (born 1977), wrestler
- Norman Ebbutt (1894–1968), foreign correspondent
- Peter Ebdon (* 1970), snooker player
- John Eccles (around 1668–1735), composer
- Sophie Dorothea Eckener (1884–1975), German painter, graphic artist and portrait painter
- Beatie Edney (born 1962), actress
- Edward I (1239–1307), King of England
- Edward V (1470–1483), King of England
- Edward VI. (1537–1553), King of England
- Edward VII (1841–1910), King of the United Kingdom
- Edward VIII (1894–1972), King of the United Kingdom
- Amelia Edwards (1831-1892), writer and Egyptologist
- Jonathan Edwards (* 1966), triple jumper
- Sean Edwards (1986-2013), British racing driver
- Skye Edwards (* 1974), singer and front woman of the band Morcheeba
- Hubert Eisdell (1882–1948), singer
- Chiwetel Ejiofor (born 1977), actor
- Carmen Ejogo (* 1973), actress
- Vic Elford (born 1935), racing driver
- Elizabeth I (1533–1603), Queen of England
- Elizabeth II (born 1926), Queen of the United Kingdom
- Peter Ellenshaw (1913–2007), painter
- Ray Ellington (1916–1985), musician
- Sophie Ellis-Bextor (* 1979), singer
- Liberty Ellman (* 1971), jazz guitarist
- Dave Elsey (* 1967), makeup artist
- Cary Elwes (born 1962), actor
- Tracey Emin (* 1963), artist
- Horus Engels (1914–1991), German painter, sculptor and illustrator
- Alfred Enoch (* 1988), actor
- John Entwistle (1944–2002), rock bassist
- Fima Ephron (* 20th century), American jazz bassist
- Ralph Erskine (1914–2005), architect
- Wayne Escoffery (* 1975), jazz tenor saxophonist
- Ilan Eshkeri (* 1977), film composer
- Eileen Essel (1922–2015), actress
- David Essex (born 1947), singer and actor
- Dave Evans (born 1953), rock musician
- David Howell Evans (The Edge) (born 1961), rock guitarist
- Edith Evans (1888–1976), actress
- Frederick H. Evans (1853-1943), photographer
- Jasmin Evans (* 1960), singer, keyboardist and songwriter
- Alice Eve (born 1982), actress
- Barbara Everest (1890–1968), actress
- Example (* 1982), rapper
- Ella Eyre (* 1994), singer
F.
- Bernard Fagg (1915–1987), archaeologist
- Christopher Fairbank (born 1953), actor
- Marianne Faithfull (* 1946), musician and actress
- Paloma Faith (* 1981), actress and singer
- Michael Faraday (1791–1867), physicist and chemist
- Nigel Farage (* 1964), party leader of the UK Independence Party
- Chris Farlowe (* 1940), R'n'B singer
- Maitland Farmer (1904–1995), Canadian organist, harpsichordist and music teacher
- John Farmer (around 1570; † after 1601), composer
- Karl Farrent (* 1963), jazz musician
- Justin Fashanu (1961-1998), football player
- James Faulkner (born 1948), actor
- Marty Feldman (1934–1982), actor and director
- Victor Feldman (1934–1987), jazz musician
- George Fenton (born 1950), composer
- Sarah Ferguson (* 1959), divorced wife of the British Prince Andrew, the Duke of York
- Roger Field (* 1945), inventor
- Virginia Field (1917–1992), actress
- Orlando Figes (* 1959), historian
- Peter Finch (1916–1977), actor
- Mickey Finn (1947-2003), percussionist
- Michael Finnissy (* 1946), composer, pianist and music teacher
- Matthew Fisher (born 1946), musician
- Ronald Fisher (1890–1962), geneticist, statistician, evolutionist
- Caroline Flack (1979-2020), presenter
- Edwin Flack (1873–1935), athlete
- Herbert Fleischner (* 1944), Austrian mathematician
- Billie Fleming (1914-2014), cyclist
- Ian Fleming (1908–1964), writer
- Jason Flemyng (born 1966), actor
- Dexter Fletcher (born 1966), actor and director
- Jerome Flynn (born 1963), actor
- Bryan Forbes (1926–2013), actor and film director
- Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939), writer
- Lita Ford (* 1958), rock musician
- Jamie Foreman (born 1958), actor
- Claire Forlani (born 1971), actress
- Edward Morgan Forster (1879–1970), narrator
- Richard Fortey (* 1946), paleontologist
- Derek Fowlds (1937-2020), actor
- Charles James Fox (1749-1806), politician
- Emilia Fox (* 1974), actress and film producer
- Freddie Fox (born 1989), actor
- James Fox (born 1939), actor
- Samantha Fox (* 1966), singer and photo model
- Richard Frackowiak (* 1950), neurologist and neuroscientist
- Peter Frampton (born 1950), rock musician
- Celia Franca (1921–2007), Canadian dancer and choreographer
- Mary Frank (* 1933), painter and sculptor
- Benjamin Frankel (1906–1973), composer
- Mark Frankel (1962–1996), actor
- Gretchen Franklin (1911–2005), actress
- Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958), biochemist
- Antonia Fraser (* 1932), British bestselling author
- Michael Frayn (* 1933), writer
- Nicolas Freeling (1927–2003), writer
- Robert Freeman (1937–2019), photographer and graphic designer
- Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg (1889–1963), Lieutenant General in the British Army and Governor General of New Zealand
- Felix Eugen Fritsch (1879–1954), British botanist
- Justine Frischmann (* 1969), musician and visual artist
- Nick Frost (* 1972), actor and screenwriter
- Sadie Frost (born 1965), actress
- William Edward Frost (1810–1877), painter
- Martin Froy (1926–2017), painter and art teacher
- Roger Fry (1866–1934), painter
- Stephen Fry (* 1957), director and actor
- Ben Fuller (1875–1952), Australian theater entrepreneur
- William D. Furley (* 1953), classical philologist
- John Furniss (* 1935), costume designer
G
- Charlotte Gainsbourg (* 1971), actress
- John Gale (1953-2019), poker player
- William Gale (1823-1909), painter
- Elliot Galvin (* 1991), jazz musician
- James Gandon (1742–1823), architect
- Matthew Garber (1956–1977), actor
- Nubya Garcia (* 1991), jazz musician
- Henry Balfour Gardiner (1877–1950), composer
- Freddy Gardner (1910–1950), musician and band leader
- Alex Garland (* 1970), writer
- Michael Garrick (1933–2011), keyboard player and jazz composer
- Dorothy Garrod (1892–1968), prehistorian
- Greer Garson (1904–1996), actress
- James Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury (1791–1868), politician
- Barrie Gavin (born 1935), film director
- Mel Gaynor (* 1959), drummer
- Peaches Geldof (1989–2014), photo model and columnist
- Henry Gellibrand (1597-1637), astronomer
- Dave Gelly (* 1938), jazz musician and author
- David Gemmell (1948-2006), writer
- Susan George (born 1950), actress and film producer
- George III (1738-1820), King of the United Kingdom
- George IV (1762–1830), King of the United Kingdom
- George V (1865–1936), King of the United Kingdom
- Edward Gibbon (1737-1794), historian
- Humphrey Gibbs (1902–1990), Governor of Southern Rhodesia
- Keir Gilchrist (born 1992), Canadian actor
- Anthony Giddens (* 1938), sociologist
- John Gielgud (1904-2000), actor
- Anthony Gilbert (* 1934), composer
- Lewis Gilbert (1920–2018), film director, producer and screenwriter
- William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911), writer and librettist
- Anton Gill (* 1948), author
- Ian Gillan (* 1945), rock musician
- James Gillray (1757-1815), caricaturist
- Alfred Charles Gimson (1917–1985), linguist
- Pietro Carlo Guglielmi (1772–1817), composer
- James Glaisher (1809-1903), meteorologist
- Joe Glanfield (* 1979), regatta sailor
- Ranulph Glanville (1946–2014), philosopher and architect
- Jonathan Glazer (born 1965), director
- Peter Glenville (1913–1996), film director, screenwriter, producer and actor
- Sir William Glock (1908–2000), music patron, director of BBC Radio 3
- Stephen Glover (* 1974), American action artist, actor and author
- Oliver Godfrey (1887–1916), motorcycle racer and aviator in the First World War
- David Godin (1936-2004), soul musician
- Jack Gold (1930-2015), film director
- Laurie Gold (1918-2000), jazz musician
- Alison Goldfrapp (* 1966), singer
- Binker Golding (* 1985), jazz musician
- Angel Gomes (* 2000), English-Portuguese soccer player
- Joe Gomez (born 1997), soccer player
- Caroline Goodall (* 1959), film and stage actress
- Howard Goodall (born 1958), composer
- Fritha Goodey (1972-2004), actress
- Eugène Aynsley Goossens (1893–1962), conductor and composer
- Ben Gordon (born 1983), basketball player
- Charles George Gordon (1833-1885), General
- Lucy Christiana Duff Gordon (1863–1935), fashion designer
- Richard Gough (1735-1809), antiquarian
- Martin Gould (* 1981), snooker player
- Edmund Goulding (1891–1959), film director
- William Richard Gowers (1845-1915), neurologist
- Tony Gowland (* 1945), racing cyclist
- James Gow (1854–1923), school principal, mathematician and classical philologist
- Kenneth Grange (* 1929), industrial designer
- Kenny Graham (1924–1997), jazz musician and composer
- Adrian Grant (* 1980), squash player
- Gary Grant (born 1977), actor
- Hugh Grant (born 1960), actor
- Michael Grant (1914–2004), classical philologist and ancient historian
- Peter Grant (1935–1995), music producer
- John Graunt (1620–1674), statistician
- Robert Graves (1895–1985), writer and poet
- David Gray (* 1979), snooker player
- George Robert Gray (1808–1872), zoologist
- Louis Harold Gray (1905–1965), physicist and radiologist
- Thomas Gray (1716–1771), poet
- Jimmy Greaves (born 1940), football player
- Dave Green (* 1942), jazz musician
- Harry Green (1886-1934), long-distance runner
- Peter Green (1946-2020), blues rock musician
- Philip Green (* 1952), entrepreneur
- Lucas Gregorowicz (* 1976), German actor
- Kate Greenaway (1846–1901), painter
- Maurice Greene (1696–1755), composer
- Paul Greengrass (* 1955), director and screenwriter
- Richard Gregory (1923-2010), neuropsychologist
- George Grenville (1712-1770), politician
- Thomas Gresham (1519–1579), merchant
- Albert Gray, 4th Earl Gray (1851–1917), politician and politician
- Thomas Griffiths (1791–1847), Roman Catholic clergyman
- Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster (1795–1869), aristocrat
- Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster (1767–1845), aristocrat and politician
- Charles Groves (1915–1992), conductor
- William Barstow von Guenther (1815-1892), Prussian administrative lawyer, chief president in Posen
- Pietro Carlo Guglielmi (1772–1817), composer
- James Guillaume (1844–1916), anarchist and writer
- John Guillermin (1925-2015), director
- Alec Guinness (1914-2000), actor
- George Gyles (1877-1959), Canadian sailor
- Edmund Gwenn (1877–1959), stage and film actor
H
- Jacob de Haas (1872–1937), journalist, writer and editor
- Johannes Haas-Heye (1912–2008), journalist and diplomat
- Peter Hacker (* 1939), philosopher
- Steve Hackett (born 1950), rock guitarist
- Laura Haddock (born 1985), actress
- Tallulah Haddon (* 1997), actress and performance artist
- George Hadley (1685–1768), physicist and meteorologist
- John Hadley (1682–1744), astronomer and mathematician
- Tony Hadley (* 1960), pop singer
- Ernest Haley (1885–1975), track and field athlete
- Fitz Hall (born 1980), football player
- Rebecca Hall (* 1982), actress
- Edmond Halley (1656–1742), astronomer and mathematician
- Wyndham Neck Shaft (1882-1915), track and field athlete
- David Hamilton (1933–2016), art photographer
- Ishbel Maria Hamilton-Gordon (1857–1939), social reformer and women's rights activist
- Suzanna Hamilton (born 1960), actress
- Victoria Hamilton (born 1971), actress
- Christine Hamill (1923–1956), mathematician and professor at the University of Ibadan
- Peter Hammill (* 1948), rock musician
- Albert Hammond (* 1944), singer and music producer
- Tommy Hampson (1907-1965), middle distance runner and Olympic champion
- Paul Hardcastle (born 1957), pop musician
- Tom Hardy (born 1977), actor
- Joy Harington (1914–1991), actress and television producer
- Susannah Harker (* 1965), actress
- Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer (1661-1724), politician
- Nigel Harman (* 1973), actor
- Damian Harris (* 1958), film director and screenwriter
- Jared Harris (born 1961), actor
- Jasper Harris (born 1996), film actor
- Julie Harris (1921–2015), costume designer
- Steve Harris (* 1956), rock musician
- Cynthia Harrod-Eagles (born 1948), writer
- Tamer Hassan (* 1968), actor
- Max Hastings (* 1945), journalist
- Norman Hartnell (1901–1979), fashion designer
- John Harvard (1607-1638), theologian
- Anthony Harvey (1930-2017), film director
- Brian Harvey (born 1974), singer
- Lilian Harvey (1906–1968), actress and singer
- Frederick Haultain (1857–1942), Canadian politician
- Keeley Hawes (born 1976), actress
- Jack Hawkins (1910–1973), actor
- Sally Hawkins (born 1976), actress
- David Haye (born 1980), boxer
- Johnny Haynes (1934-2005), football player
- Ethan Hayter (* 1998), cyclist
- George Hayter (1792–1871), painter
- Stanley William Hayter (1901–1988), painter and printmaker
- Anthony Head (born 1954), actor
- Murray Head (born 1946), actor and singer
- Topper Headon (* 1955), punk musician
- Ted Heath (1902–1969), trombonist and band leader
- Spike Heatley (born 1933), double bass player
- Oliver Heaviside (1850–1925), mathematician and physicist
- Michael Hector (* 1992), Jamaican soccer player
- Arthur Helps (1813–1875), writer
- David Hemblen (* 20th century), British-Canadian actor
- Henry VIII (1491–1547), King of England
- Linda Henry (born 1963), actress
- Granz Henman (* before 1964), director and screenwriter
- Ken Hensley (* 1945), rock musician
- Mike Hennessey (1928–2017), music journalist, jazz pianist
- George Hepplewhite (unknown - 1786), cabinet maker
- Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon (1831–1890), politician
- Johnny Herbert (* 1964), racing driver
- Robert Herrick (1591–1674), poet
- Myra Hess (1890-1965), pianist
- David Heyman (* 1961), film producer
- Nick Heyward (* 1961), musician
- Tom Hiddleston (born 1981), actor
- Rosalyn Higgins (* 1937), member of the Int. Court of Justice
- Edward Highmore (born 1961), actor
- Freddie Highmore (born 1992), actor
- Albert Hill (1889–1969), track and field athlete
- Damon Hill (* 1960), racing driver
- Graham Hill (1929–1975), racing driver
- Kaylen Hinds (* 1998), soccer player
- Rupert Hine (1947-2020), musician and producer
- Geoffrey Hinton (* 1947), scientist
- Jon Hiseman (1944-2018), drummer
- Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980), film director
- Patricia Hitchcock (* 1928), American actress and film producer
- Alexander Hochberg (1905–1984), German-Polish nobleman, businessman and British Secret Intelligence Service officer
- Glenn Hoddle (* 1957), soccer coach and player
- Allan Hodgkiss (1917–1986), jazz musician
- John Evan Hodgson (1831–1895), painter
- Roy Hodgson (* 1947), football player and coach
- James P. Hogan (1941-2010), writer
- William Hogarth (1697–1764), painter and graphic artist
- Montague Holbein (1861–1944), cyclist and open water swimmer
- Joseph Holbrooke (1878–1958), composer, conductor and pianist
- Thomas Holcroft (1745-1809), writer
- Friedrich Hollaender (1896–1976), film and revue composer and cabaret artist
- Jools Holland (* 1958), pianist and television presenter
- Merlin Holland (* 1945), journalist
- Theodore Holland (1878–1947), composer and music teacher
- Tom Holland (* 1996), actor
- John Hollis (1927-2005), actor
- Stanley Holloway (1890-1982), actor
- Alfred Holmes (1837–1876), violinist and composer
- Andrew Holmes (1959-2010), rower
- Henry Holmes (1839–1905), composer, violinist and music teacher
- Imogen Holst (1907–1984), composer and conductor
- Martin Holt (1881–1956), fencer
- Tom Holt (* 1961), writer
- William F. Hooley (1861-1918), American singer
- Steve Hooper (born June 5, 1970), porn actor and model
- Tom Hooper (born 1972), director
- Anthony Hope (1863–1933), writer and lawyer
- Bob Hope (1903–2003), comedian, actor and entertainer
- Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889), poet and Jesuit
- Nicky Hopkins (1944-1994), rock musician
- Edward Hore (1849-?), Regatta sailor
- Ciara Horne (* 1989), cyclist
- David Horovitch (born 1945), actor
- Victor Horsley (1857-1916), physiologist and neurologist
- Dan Houser (* 1974), computer game developer
- Sam Houser (* 1971), computer game developer
- Alan Howard (1937–2015), theater and film actor
- Catherine Howard (between 1521 and 1525–1542), 5th wife of Henry VIII.
- Ebenezer Howard (1850–1928), urban planner
- John Howard (1912-1999), major
- Leslie Howard (1893-1943), actor
- Evlyn Howard-Jones (1877–1951), pianist, conductor and music teacher
- Steve Howe (born 1947), rock guitarist
- Sally Ann Howes (born 1930), actress
- Chris Howland (1928–2013), singer, presenter and actor
- Celia Hoyles (* 1946), mathematician and professor for didactics of mathematics
- Hugh Hudson (born 1936), film director
- Steve Hudson (born 1969), actor
- Monica Huggett (* 1953), violinist
- William Huggins (1824–1910), astronomer and physicist
- Arthur Hughes (1832–1915), illustrator and painter
- Arthur Hughes (1902–1949), Archbishop and Diplomat
- David Edward Hughes (1831–1900), designer and inventor
- Alan Hume (1924-2010), cinematographer
- Edzard Hüneke (* 1971), German a cappella singer
- Anthony Hunt (* 1932), civil engineer
- David Hunt (1960–2015), racing driver
- David Hunt (born 1934), regatta sailor
- Gareth Hunt (1942-2007), actor
- Les Humphries (1940-2007), pop musician
- William Henry Hunt (1790–1864), painter
- William Holman Hunt (1827-1910), painter
- Benita Hume (1906–1967), actress
- Douglas Hurd (* 1930), politician and diplomat
- Rachel Hurd-Wood (born 1990), actress
- William Hurlstone (1876-1906), composer
- Shabaka Hutchings (* 1984), jazz musician
- Werner Huth (* 1905), bobsleigh and motorcycle racer
- Daniel Huttlestone (* 1999), actor
- Andrew Fielding Huxley (1917–2012), biophysicist
- Julian Huxley (1887-1975), biologist
- Jessica Hynes (* 1972), actress and screenwriter
I.
- Jordon Ibe (born 1995), football player
- Menasheh Idafar (* 1991), racing driver
- Billy Idol (born 1955), rock musician
- Tiago Ilori (* 1993), Portuguese football player
- Paul Ince (* 1967), football player
- Peter Ind (* 1928), jazz musician
- Christopher Kelk Ingold (1893–1970), chemist
- Shinya Inoué , (1921–2019), Japanese-American cell biologist and microscope operator
- Jill Ireland (1936–1990), actress and producer
- HB Irving (1870-1919), actor, theater manager and author
- Harry Isaacs (1902–1973), pianist and music teacher
- Alan Isler (1934-2010), writer
- Jonathan Israel (* 1946), historian
- Wilfrid Israel (1899–1943), philanthropist and businessman
- Jonathan Ive (* 1967), designer
J
- Alan Jackson (born 1940), drummer
- Benjamin Daydon Jackson (1846-1927), botanist
- Gordon Jacob (1895–1984), composer and conductor
- Derek Jacobi (* 1938), actor
- Peter Jaffe (1913–1982), regatta sailor
- Edward Jakobowski (1856–1929), composer
- James II (1633–1701), King of England (1685–1689)
- Lennie James (* 1965), actor and screenwriter
- Michael H. Jameson (1924–2004), classical philologist, epigraphist and archaeologist
- Jonathan Janson (* 1930), regatta sailor
- Derek Jarman (1942–1994), film director
- Matti Järvinen (* 1989), ice hockey player
- Tai Jason (* 1979), German-English hip-hop producer
- Allan Jay (* 1931), fencer
- Maxi Jazz (* 1957), rapper
- Lionel Jeffries (1926-2010), actor, screenwriter and film director
- Ronald Jenkins (1907–1975), engineer
- Jāna Jēruma-Grīnberga (* 1953), Lutheran cleric of Latvian descent, Bishop of the Lutheran Church in Great Britain
- Roland Joffé (* 1945), director and producer
- Elton John (* 1947), pop musician
- Rosamund John (1913–1998), actress
- BS Johnson (1933-1973), writer
- Glen Johnson (born 1984), football player
- Paul Johnson (born 1972), squash player
- Henry Hamilton Johnston (1858–1927), African explorer
- Jill Johnston (1929-2010), author, journalist and LGBT activist
- Peter Jonas (1946–2020), cultural manager and opera director
- Diana Wynne Jones (1934-2011), writer
- Duncan Jones (born 1971), director
- Gemma Jones (born 1942), actress
- Harold Spencer Jones (1890-1960), astronomer
- Inigo Jones (1573-1652), architect
- Mick Jones (* 1944), guitarist, songwriter and music producer
- Nic Jones (* 1947), guitarist
- Owen Jones (1809–1874), architect and designer
- Steve Jones (* 1955), rock guitarist
- William Jones (1746-1794), Indologist
- Ben Jonson (1572–1673), playwright and poet
- Ronny Jordan (1962-2014), guitarist
- Tony Judt (1948-2010), historian and author
- Cush Jumbo (born 1985), actress
- James Robertson Justice (1907–1975), actor and ornithologist
K
- Amara Karan (* 1984), actress
- Miriam Karlin (1925–2011), actress
- Paul A. Kaufman (* 1964), English-Canadian-American director, film producer, screenwriter, actor and Emmy Award winner
- Colin Kâzım-Richards (* 1986), Turkish-English soccer player
- Barrie Keeffe (1945–2019), writer, screenplay and radio play writer
- Juliet Kelly (* 1970), jazz musician
- Patrick Kennedy (born 1977), actor
- Edward J. Kenney (1924–2019), classical philologist and Ovid specialist
- James Kenney (1930–1982), actor
- Emer Kenny (* 1989), actress and screenwriter
- Patsy Kensit (* 1968), actress and musician
- Herbert Kensington-Moir (1899–1961), racing car driver
- Linda Keough (born 1963), sprinter
- Bob Kerr (* 1940), jazz musician and music comedian
- Sara Kestelman (born 1944), actress
- Simon Khan (* 1972), golfer
- Skandar Keynes (born 1991), actor
- Jay Khan (* 1982), pop singer
- Jemima Khan (* 1974), society lady and UNICEF ambassador
- Paul Kidby (* 1964), artist and draftsman
- Beeban Kidron (born 1961), director
- Terry Kilburn (born 1926), actor
- Neil Kilkenny (born 1985), Australian football player
- Jonathan King (* 1944), musician and record producer
- William Kingsford (1819–1898), Canadian writer and journalist
- Mary Kingsley (1862–1900), explorer and ethnologist
- Rory Kinnear (born 1978), actor
- Sophie Kinsella (* 1969), writer
- Vanessa Kirby (born 1988), actress
- Ivor Kirchin (1905–1997), jazz and entertainment musician
- Jemima Kirke (* 1985), artist and actress
- Simon Kirke (* 1949), drummer
- Philip Kitcher (* 1947), business philosopher
- Charles Klein (1867–1915), actor and playwright
- Harry Klein (1928-2010), jazz musician
- Michael Lawrence Klein (* 1940), chemist and university professor
- Nick Knight (* 1958), fashion and documentary photographer
- Peter Knight (* 1947), folk and fusion musician
- Keira Knightley (born 1985), actress
- Will Knightley (born 1946), actor
- Peter Koenig (* 1947), money expert
- Adolph Koldofsky (1905–1951), Canadian violinist
- Aleksander Kolkowski (* 1959), violinist
- David Every Konstant (1930–2016), Roman Catholic clergyman, Bishop of Leeds
- Paul Kossoff (1950–1976), rock and blues guitarist
- Anthony Kosten (* 1958), chess grandmaster
- Susan Kramer, Baroness Kramer (* 1950), manager and politician, member of the House of Lords
- Reggie Kray (1933-2000), gang leader and criminal
- Ronnie Kray (1933–1995), gang leader and criminal
- Norah de Kresz (1882–1960), pianist and music teacher
- Bjørn Howard Kruse (* 1946), Norwegian composer and jazz musician
- Hanif Kureishi (* 1954), writer
- Kwabs (* 1990), soul singer
- Thomas Kyd (1558–1594), writer
L.
- Dora Labbette (1898–1984), singer
- Catherine Lacey (1904–1979), actress
- Peter Ladefoged (1925-2006), phonetician
- Derek Lamb (1936–2005), documentary and cartoons
- Charles Albert Lambert (1900 – after 1939), reporter, correspondent
- Constant Lambert (1905–1951), composer
- Martin Lamble (1949–1969), folk rock drummer
- Frank Lampard (* 1978), football player
- Alan Lancaster (born 1949), musician
- Ronnie Lane (1946-1997), rock musician
- Alex Lanipekun (born 1981), actor
- Angela Lansbury (born 1925), actress
- Jack Lauterwasser (1904–2003), racing cyclist
- Jude Law (born 1972), actor
- Peter Lawford (1923-1984), actor
- Nigella Lawson (* 1960), television cook and author
- Robert Laycock (1907–1968), former British Army officer and Governor of Malta
- Tony Lawson (born 1944), film editor
- Lindy Layton (born 1970), singer
- Walter Layton, 1st Baron Layton (1884–1966), newspaper publisher and economist
- Carlton Leach (born 1959), hooligan and writer
- Johnny Leach (1922-2014), table tennis player
- Mary Leakey (1913-1996), archaeologist
- Meave Leakey (born 1942), anthropologist
- David Lean (1908-1991), film director
- Edward Lear (1812–1888), painter, illustrator and writer
- Philip Leaver (1904 – after 1963), actor and playwright
- Bernard Lee (1908–1981), actor
- Christopher Lee (1922-2015), actor
- Dave Lee (* 1926), jazz musician and composer
- Phil Lee (born 1943), guitarist
- Sidney Lee (1859–1926), biographer and literary historian
- Tanith Lee (1947-2015), writer
- Dave Lasseno (1963–2014), actor and boxer
- Liza Lehmann (1862–1918), composer, singer and pianist
- Walter Leigh (1905–1942), composer
- Henry Lejeune (1819–1904), painter
- Bill Lenny (1924-1989), film editor
- Alan Leo (actually: William Frederick Allan , 1860–1917), author and astrologer
- Raymond Leppard (1927–2019), conductor, composer and harpsichordist
- Keith Levene (born 1957), musician
- Nick Leventis (* 1980), racing car driver and racing team owner
- Andrea Levy (1956–2019), writer
- Jules Levy (1838–1903), composer
- Brian Lewis, 2nd Baron Essendon (1903–1978), racing car driver
- Damian Lewis (born 1971), actor
- Lennox Lewis (born 1965), boxer
- Leona Lewis (born 1985), singer
- Matthew Lewis (1775-1818), writer
- Shaznay Lewis (* 1975), singer, actress and songwriter
- Eggy Ley (1928–1995), jazz musician and radio producer
- Andrew Lincoln (born 1973), actor
- Delroy Lindo (born 1952), actor
- David Lindsay (1876–1945), writer
- Dua Lipa (* 1995), singer
- Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister (1827–1912), medic
- Philip Charles Lithman (1949–1987), rock guitarist
- Henry Litolff (1818-1891), pianist and composer
- Ken Livingstone (* 1945), politician
- Emily Lloyd (born 1970), actress
- Harry Lloyd (born 1983), actor
- Mornington Lockett (* 1961), jazz musician
- Malcolm Lockyer (1923–1976), pianist, composer and conductor
- John Loder (1898–1988), actor
- David Lodge (* 1935), writer and literary scholar
- Louise Lombard (* 1970), film actress
- Laurie London (born 1944), singer
- Melvyn Lorenzen (* 1994), German soccer player
- Pixie Lott (born 1991), singer
- Alex Loudon (born 1980), cricketer
- Loulou de la Falaise (1948–2011), French model and fashion designer
- Ada Lovelace (1815-1852), mathematician
- Lily Loveless (born 1990), actress
- Ophelia Lovibond (* 1986), actress
- Archibald Low (1888–1956), engineer
- Daisy Lowe (* 1989), model and actress
- John William Lubbock, 3rd Baronet (1803–1865), astronomer, physicist, mathematician and banker
- Matt Lucas (* 1974), actor, writer, comedian and singer
- Ida Lupino (1918–1995), actress and director
- Elisabeth Lutyens (1906–1983), composer
- John Lydon (born 1956), punk musician
- William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp (1872–1938), politician
- Lashana Lynch (born 1987), actress
- Alex Lynn (* 1993), racing car driver
- Vera Lynn (1917-2020), singer
- Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham (1909–1977), Governor General of New Zealand
M.
- Luke Mably (born 1976), actor
- Kirsty MacColl (1959-2000), singer
- George MacKay (born 1992), actor
- Lance Macklin (1919–2002), racing driver
- Cyril McLaglen (1899-1987), British-American film actor
- Quentin Maclean (1896–1962), Canadian organist, composer and music teacher
- Patrick Macnee (1922-2015), actor
- George Macleay (1809-1891), politician, paleontologist and zoologist
- William Sharp Macleay (1792–1865), lawyer, zoologist and entomologist
- William Maddison (1882-1924), regatta sailor
- Kurt Maflin (* 1983), Norwegian snooker player
- Jonathan Magonet (* 1942), theologian and rabbi
- Sean Maguire (born 1976), actor
- John Major (* 1943), Prime Minister
- George Malcolm (1917–1997), pianist, harpsichordist, conductor and composer
- Arthur Thomas Malkin (1803–1888), mountaineering pioneer and writer
- James Mallet (* 1955), evolutionary biologist and entomologist
- Max Mallowan (1904–1978), archaeologist
- Daniel Man (* 1969), artist
- Peter Mandelson (* 1953), politician
- Peter Manley (* 1962), darts player
- Pippa Mann (* 1983), racing driver
- Philip Mansel (* 1951), historian
- Peter Mansfield (1933–2017), physicist and Nobel Prize winner
- Roots Manuva (* 1972), hip-hop artist
- Phil Manzanera (* 1951), musician
- James Henry Mapleson (1830–1901), opera impresario
- Kelly Marcel (* 1974), screenwriter
- Wayne Mardle (* 1973), darts player
- Howard Marion-Crawford (1914-1969), actor
- Constance Markiewicz (1868–1927), Irish freedom fighter
- Alicia Markova (1910-2004), prima ballerina
- Julian Marley (* 1975), reggae musician
- William Marlowe (1930–2003), actor
- Anthony Marriott (1931–2014), film and playwright
- Steve Marriott (1947-1991), rock musician
- Frederick Marryat (1792–1848), naval officer and writer
- Eddie Marsan (born 1968), actor
- Kate Marsden (1859-1931), leprosy researcher
- Alfred Marshall (1842–1924), economist
- Herbert Marshall (1890–1966), actor
- Archer JP Martin (1910–2002), chemist and Nobel Prize winner
- George Martin (1926–2016), musician and record producer
- John Martyn (1699-1768), botanist
- Thomas Martyn (1735-1825), botanist
- Mary I (1516–1558), Queen of England and Scotland
- Nevil Maskelyne (1732-1811), mathematician and astronomer
- David Masser (* 1948), mathematician
- Daniel Massey (1933–1998), actor
- Tobias Matthay (1858–1945), music teacher, pianist and composer
- Glen Matlock (* 1956), bassist
- Gervase Mathew (1905–1976), Dominican and Byzantineist
- Roger Matthews (1948-2020), criminologist
- Syrie Maugham (1879–1955), interior designer
- Annabel Maule (* 1922), actress
- Daphne du Maurier (1907–1989), writer
- Gerald du Maurier (1873–1934), actor
- Brian May (* 1947), rock guitarist
- Florence May (1845–1923), pianist, music writer and composer
- Raphael Ernst May (1858–1933), business journalist
- Richard May (1938-2004), lawyer
- Olga de Meyer (1871–1930), muse, art patron and high society lady
- Peter Mayhew (1944-2019), actor
- Tony Maylam (* 1943), film director and screenwriter
- Dan Mazer (* 1971), comedian, screenwriter and television and film producer
- Mark Mazower (* 1958), historian
- Nicko McBrain (* 1952), drummer
- Bob McCarron (born 1950), special effects artist, makeup artist and paramedic
- Perry McCarthy (* 1961), racing car driver
- Mary McCartney (* 1969), photographer
- James McCartney (born 1977), musician
- Stella McCartney (* 1971), fashion designer
- Helen McCrory (born 1968), actress
- Martine McCutcheon (* 1976), singer and actress
- Martin McDonagh (* 1970), Irish playwright and film director
- John Michael McDonagh (* 1967) Irish film director and screenwriter
- Roddy McDowall (1928-1998), actor
- Dusa McDuff (* 1945), mathematician
- Natascha McElhone (* 1969), actress
- Leo McFall (* 1981), conductor
- Zara McFarlane (* 1983), jazz / soul singer and songwriter
- Kathleen McKane Godfree (1896-1992), tennis player
- Reginald McKenna (1863-1943), politician
- Andrew V. McLaglen (1920-2014), film director
- Ian McNuff (born 1957), rower
- Susan McNuff (born 1956), rower
- Alexander McQueen (1969-2010), fashion designer
- Ralph McTell (born 1944), singer
- Derek Meddings (1931–1995), specialist in special effects
- Michael Medwin (1923-2020), actor
- Tony Meehan (1943-2005), rock musician
- Richard Meinertzhagen (1878–1967), officer and ornithologist
- Harry Melling (* 1989), actor
- Tamara Mellon (* 1967), fashion entrepreneur
- Murray Melvin (born 1932), actor
- Gavin Menzies (1937-2020), Royal Navy Commander and author
- Tobias Menzies (* 1974), actor
- Charlotte Mercier (1738–1762), painter
- Leon Meredith (1882–1930), cyclist
- John Merritt (1920-1999), film editor
- Helmut Meyer von Bremen (1902–1941), German composer
- George Michael (1963-2016), singer
- Eustace Miles (1868–1948), Jeu de Paume player, non-fiction author and innkeeper
- John Stuart Mill (1806–1873), philosopher and economist
- Daniel Miller (* 1951), music producer
- Jonathan Miller (1934–2019), theater and opera director
- Jonny Lee Miller (born 1972), actor
- Crispian Mills (* 1973), musician and film director
- George Pilkington Mills (1867–1945), racing cyclist
- Alan Alexander Milne (1882–1956), writer
- John Milton (1608-1674), poet
- Craig Milverton (* 1967), jazz musician
- Max Minghella (born 1985), actor
- Helen Mirren (born 1945), actress
- Mitch Mitchell (1947-2008), drummer
- Peter Mitchell (* 1990), cyclist
- Nancy Mitford (1904–1973), writer
- Unity Mitford (1914–1948), National Socialist
- Rhona Mitra (born 1976), actress
- Ernest John Moeran (1894–1950), composer
- Alfred Molina (born 1953), actor
- John Mollo (1931–2017), costume designer and Oscar winner
- Edward Molyneux (1891–1974), fashion designer
- Robert Montgomerie (1880-1939), fencer
- Bernard Montgomery (1887–1976), Field Marshal
- Ugo Monye (born 1983), rugby player
- Ron Moody (1924-2015), actor
- Keith Moon (1946–1978), drummer
- Andy Moor (* 1962), jazz guitarist
- Michael Moorcock (* 1939), writer
- Bobby Moore (1941-1993), football player
- Dudley Moore (1935–2002), actor
- John Moore-Brabazon (1884–1964), aviation pioneer and conservative politician and racing car driver
- Patrick Moore (1923–2012), astronomer
- Roger Moore (1927-2017), actor
- Stephen Campbell Moore (born 1979), actor
- Thomas Osbert Mordaunt (1730–1809), soldier and occasional poet
- Edmund Morel (1840–1871), railway engineer
- Conwy Lloyd Morgan (1852-1936), zoologist
- Jody Morris (born 1978), football player
- Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin (1914–1999), journalist and IOC President
- Phyllis Morris (1893–1982), actress
- Stewart Morris (1909-1991), regatta sailor
- William Morris (1834–1896), artist and socialist
- Stanley Morison (1889–1967), typographer
- Barry Morse (1918-2008), actor
- Emily Mortimer (born 1971), actress
- John Mortimer (1923–2009), lawyer and writer
- Thomas More (1478–1535), politician
- Oswald Mosley (1896–1980), politician
- William Moseley (born 1987), actor
- Jon Moss (born 1957), drummer
- Kate Moss (born 1974), model
- Stirling Moss (1929-2020), racing driver
- David Mostyn (1928–2007), General, Commander of the British Sector of Berlin
- Andrew Motion (* 1952), poet, novelist and biographer
- Dorothy Moulton-Mayer (1886–1974), singer and biographer
- Charles Mountbatten-Windsor, Prince of Wales (* 1948), Prince
- Henry Mountbatten-Windsor (* 1984), Prince
- William Mountbatten-Windsor, Duke of Cambridge (* 1982), Prince
- Alan Mowbray (1896–1969), theater and film actor
- Jojo Moyes (* 1969), journalist, writer and screenwriter
- Joe Mudele (1920-2014), bassist
- Malcom Muggeridge (1903-1990), journalist
- Andy Mulligan (* 20th century), author
- Carey Mulligan (born 1985), actress
- Sophie Muller (* 1962), music video director
- Hugh Munro (1856-1919), mountaineer
- James Murdoch (* 1972), entrepreneur
- Glenn Murcutt (* 1936), architect
- Barbara Murray (1929-2014), actress
- Dave Murray (born 1956), rock musician
- George Musgrove (1854–1916), Australian theater and opera entrepreneur
- Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904), photographer
- Sophia Myles (* 1980), actress
N
- Kenny Napper (* 1933), jazz musician, arranger
- James Nares (* 1953), painter, photographer and video artist
- Heddle Nash (1894–1961), English singer
- Kate Nash (* 1987), singer-songwriter
- Jack Nathan (1910–1990), jazz and entertainment musician
- Matthew Nathan (1862–1939), officer and governor of several British colonies
- Jake Nava (* 20th century), music video director
- Kunal Nayyar (born 1981), actor
- Ronald Neame (1911-2010), screenwriter and director
- Robert Nearn (* 1967), automobile racing driver
- Rosemary Neering (* 1945), Canadian writer and journalist
- Daryll Neita (* 1996), sprinter
- Reiss Nelson (* 1999), football player
- Shara Nelson (* 1965), singer and musician
- John Alexander Reina Newlands (1837–1898), chemist
- Anthony Newley (1931–1999), actor, pop singer and songwriter
- John Henry Newman (1801–1890), professor of theology and cardinal
- Remi Nicole (* 1983), pop singer and songwriter
- Jimmie Nicol (born 1939), drummer
- Simon Nicol (born 1950), folk rock singer
- Chris Niedenthal (* 1950), British-Polish photographer
- Annie Nightingale (born 1942), radio presenter
- Tessa Niles (born 1961), singer
- Liam Noble (* 1968), jazz musician
- Roden Noel (1834–1894), poet and essayist
- Philip Noel-Baker (1889–1982), Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
- Christopher Nolan (* 1970), director and producer
- John Nolan (born 1938), actor
- Paul Norell (born 1952), film actor
- Caroline Norton (1808–1877), writer
- Mary Norton (1903-1992), children's author
- John Nunn (* 1955), chess player
- David Nurney (* 1959), bird illustrator
- Betty Nuthall (1911-1983), tennis player
- Harry Nuttall, 4th Baronet (* 1963), motorsport official and automobile racing driver
- Celia Nyamweru (* 1942), cultural anthropologist and geoscientist
- Michael Nyman (* 1944), composer
O
- Paul Oakenfold (* 1963), producer and DJ
- Lawrence Oates (1880-1912), polar explorer
- Simon Oates (1932–2009), actor
- Chris Obi , actor
- Dax O'Callaghan (* 1986), singer in the Lexington Bridge group
- Endurance Ojokolo (* 1975), Nigerian athlete
- Sophie Okonedo (* 1968), actress
- Richard O'Connor (* 1978), Anguillian football player
- Kathleen Adebola Okikiolu , (* 1965), British-American mathematician and university professor
- Musa Okwonga (* 1979), author
- Gary Oldman (born 1958), actor
- David O'Leary (born 1958), soccer player and coach
- Vivienne Olive (* 1950), composer
- Gary O'Neil (born 1983), soccer player
- Christopher O'Neill (* 1974), businessman and husband of
- Terry O'Neill (1938-2019), photographer
- Julian Opie (* 1958), artist
- William Orbit (* 1956), music producer
- William Arundel Orchard (1867–1961), Australian organist, conductor, composer and music teacher of English origin
- George Osborne (* 1971), politician
- John James Osborne (1929–1994), writer
- Kelly Osbourne (* 1984), rock musician
- William Fitz Osbert (12th century – 1196), insurgent leader
- Arthur O'Shaughnessy (1844-1881), poet
- Darren O'Shaughnessy (born 1972), writer
- Sir Frederick Arthur Gore Ouseley (1825–1889), music scholar, organist and composer
- Cliff Owen (1919–1993), film and television director
P
- Gary Paffett (* 1981), racing driver
- Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (1768–1854), soldier and politician
- Thomas Pakenham, 8th Earl of Longford (born 1933), historian and writer
- Phil Palmer (* 1952), musician
- Andy Panayi (* 1964), jazz musician
- Archie Panjabi (born 1972), actress
- Roxanna Panufnik (* 1968), composer
- Alan Parker (1944-2020), screenwriter and director
- Graham Parker (born 1950), musician and songwriter
- Nathaniel Parker (born 1962), actor
- Oliver Parker (* 1960), director
- Thomas Jeffery Parker (1850-1897), zoologist
- James Parkinson (1755-1824), physician
- Ray Parlor (born 1973), football player
- John Humffreys Parry (1816–1880), lawyer and librarian
- Alan Parsons (born 1948), rock musician
- Charles Parsons (1854–1931), mechanical engineer
- Samuel Pasco (1834-1917), US politician
- Dev Patel (born 1990), actor
- Janet Monach Patey (1842-1894), singer
- Nigel Patrick (1913–1981), actor
- Robert Pattinson (born 1986), actor
- Adrian Paul (born 1959), actor
- Lynsey de Paul (1948-2014), singer
- Bruce Payne (born 1958), actor
- Stuart Pearce (born 1962), football player
- Karl Pearson (1857–1936), mathematician
- Stephen Peet (1920-2005), documentary filmmaker
- William Penn (1644-1718), founder of Pennsylvania
- Laurie Penny (* 1986), journalist, author and feminist
- Samuel Pepys (1633–1703), politician and writer
- Spencer Perceval (1762-1812), Prime Minister
- William Henry Perkin (1838–1907), chemist and industrialist
- Lisa Perli , singer, see Dora Labbette (1898–1984)
- Wallace Peters (1924-2018), medical doctor
- Flinders Petrie (1853–1942), Egyptologist
- Henry Petrie (1768–1842), antiquarian and archivist
- Dave Peverett (1943-2000), blues and rock musician
- Anthony Phillips (* 1951), pop musician
- Leslie Phillips (born 1924), actor
- Sid Phillips (1907–1973), jazz musician, arranger and band leader
- Simon Phillips (* 1957), drummer
- Zara Phillips (* 1981), rider and daughter of Princess Anne
- John Picard (* 1937), jazz musician
- Gavin Pickering (* 1980), automobile racing driver
- Stuart Pigott (* 1960), wine critic
- Rosamund Pike (* 1979), actress
- Courtney Pine (born 1964), jazz musician
- Harold Pinter (1930–2008), playwright and director
- João Pinto Coelho (* 1967), Portuguese writer and Holocaust researcher
- Richard Piper (* 1947), racing car driver
- Max Pirkis (* 1989), actor
- Wallace S. Pitcher (1919-2004), geologist and petrograph
- William Pitt the Younger (1759–1806), Prime Minister
- Mike Pointon (* 1941), jazz musician
- John Polidori (1795-1821), writer
- Emma Pooley (* 1982), cyclist
- Dennis Poore (1916–1987), racing driver
- Imogen Poots (* 1989), actress and model
- Alexander Pope (1688–1744), poet
- Dick Pope (born 1947), cameraman
- Maurice Pope (1926–2019), classical philologist
- Anna Popplewell (* 1988), film actress
- Alan Posener (* 1949), journalist
- Percivall Pott (1714-1788), surgeon
- Sally Potter (born 1949), director
- Will Poulter (born 1993), actor
- Anthony Powell (1905–2000), writer and literary critic
- Duffy Power (1941-2014), pop and blues singer
- Bel Powley (born 1992), actress
- John Pratt, 1st Marquess Camden (1759-1840), politician
- Nathalie Press (* 1980), actress
- Francis Preston (1913–1975), regatta sailor
- Dickie Pride (1941-1969), pop musician
- Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (1847–1929), politician
- Steve Priest (1948-2020), musician
- Richard Anthony Proctor (1837–1888), astronomer and author
- Lucy Punch (born 1977), actress
- Daniel Purcell (around 1664–1717), composer
- Henry Purcell (1659–1695), composer
- Ella Purnell (* 1996), actress
- Darren Purse (born 1977), soccer player
Q
- Mary Quant (* 1934), fashion designer
R.
- Rex Raab (1914-2004), architect
- Tom Rachman (* 1974), writer
- Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823), writer
- Daniel Radcliffe (born 1989), actor
- Claire Rafferty (* 1989), soccer player
- Claude Rains (1889–1967), actor
- Jan Rajchman (1911–1989), electrical engineer
- Andrew Ranicki (1948–2018), mathematician
- Bruce Rankin (1952-2017), opera singer (tenor)
- Robert Fleming Rankin (* 1949), writer
- Nicola Ransom (* 1971), German actress
- Frederick Leslie Ransome (1868-1935), American geologist
- Dizzee Rascal (* 1984), musician
- Emily Ratajkowski (* 1991), American model
- Terence Rattigan (1911–1977), playwright and screenwriter
- Rawson William Rawson (1812–1899) British colonial administrator and botanist
- Derek Raymond (1931–1994), writer
- Gary Raymond (born 1935), actor
- Jane Ray (* 1960), illustrator
- Mary Read (≈1685-1721), pirate
- Nicholas Read (* 1958), theoretical physicist
- Jason Rebello (born 1969), pianist
- Corin Redgrave (1939-2010), actor
- Jemma Redgrave (born 1965), actress
- Lynn Redgrave (1943-2010), actress
- Vanessa Redgrave (born 1937), actress
- Eddie Redmayne (* 1982), actor, singer and model
- Carol Reed (1906–1976), film director
- Oliver Reed (1938–1999), actor
- Israel Regardie (1907–1985), occultist and magician
- Julia Reid (* 1952), politician
- Vernon Reid (* 1958), American fusion and crossover guitarist
- Ramsay Richard Reinagle (1775-1862), painter
- Saskia Reeves (born 1961), actress
- Keith Relf (1943-1976), rock musician
- Mary Renault (1905-1983), writer
- Ruth Rendell (1930–2015), writer
- Simon Reynolds (* 1963), music editor, cultural journalist, non-fiction author
- David Ricardo (1772–1823), economist
- Declan Rice (born 1999), football player
- Dakota Blue Richards (born 1994), actress
- Tim Richards (* 1952), jazz musician
- Jim Richardson (* 1941), jazz and fusion musician
- Joely Richardson (born 1965), actress
- John Richardson , KBE (1924–2019), art historian, art critic, curator and Picasso biographer
- Natasha Richardson (1963–2009), actress
- Anthony B. Richmond (born 1942), cameraman
- Slick Rick (born 1965), rapper
- Charles Rickett (* 1963), entrepreneur and racing car driver
- Alan Rickman (1946-2016), actor
- Frank Ricotti (* 1949), musician
- Teresa del Riego (1876–1963), pianist, violinist and composer
- Bridget Riley (* 1931), painter
- Penny Rimbaud (* 1943), punk musician
- Andrew Roachford (born 1965), musician
- George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon (1827–1909), politician
- Orphy Robinson (* 1960), jazz musician
- Zuleikha Robinson (born 1977), actress
- John Rocca (* 1960), musician, singer and producer
- Maximillian Roeg (* 1985), actor
- Nicolas Roeg (1928–2018), film director
- Peter Mark Roget (1779–1869), doctor and lexicographer
- Charles Rolls (1877–1910), automobile manufacturer
- Landon Ronald (1873–1938), conductor, music teacher and composer
- Barney Ronay (* 20th century), journalist
- Mark Ronson (* 1975), music producer and DJ
- Henry Enfield Roscoe (1833-1915), chemist
- Mia Rose (* 1988), Portuguese pop musician
- Rochelle Rose (born 1974), actress
- Simon Rose , jazz and improvisation musician
- Jake Rosenzweig (* 1989), American racing driver
- James Clark Ross (1800–1862), explorer and navigator
- Jonathan Ross (* 1960), presenter
- Gavin Rossdale (born 1965), singer and actor
- Christina Rossetti (1830-1894), poet
- Francis Rossi (born 1949), rock musician
- Carlo Rota (born 1961), actor
- Tim Roth (born 1961), actor
- Nathan Mayer Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild (1840–1915), politician and banker
- Walter Henry Rothwell (1872–1927), conductor
- Martyn Rooney (b.1987), sprinter
- Marlon Roudette (born 1983), singer
- Patsy Rowlands (1931-2005), actress
- Erick Rowsell (* 1990), cyclist
- Joanna Rowsell (* 1988), cyclist
- Margaret M. Roxan (1924-2003), archaeologist
- Raymond Rôze (1875–1920), composer
- Charles Ruffell (1888–1923), track and field athlete
- John Ruskin (1819–1900), writer, painter and art historian
- Ray Russell (* 1947), guitarist and composer
- Margaret Rutherford (1892–1972), actress
- John Rutter (* 1945), conductor and composer
S.
- Paul Sackey (born 1979), rugby player
- Oliver Sacks (1933–2015), neurologist and writer
- Bukayo Saka (* 2001), soccer player
- Ralph Salmins (* 1964), drummer
- Felix Salmond (1888–1952), cellist
- Max Salpeter (1908-2010), violinist
- Jack Salter (born 1987), poker player
- Harold Samuel (1879–1937), pianist and composer
- Thomas Sangster (* 1990), actor
- Abe Saperstein (1902–1966), entrepreneur and basketball manager
- Vidal Sassoon (1928–2012), hairdresser and entrepreneur
- Ernest Satow (1843-1929), diplomat
- Charles Saunders (≈1715–1775), Admiral
- Cicely Saunders (1918-2005), doctor
- Rebecca Saunders (* 1967), composer
- Julia Sawalha (* 1968), actress
- Alan Scarfe (born 1946), actor
- Gerald Scarfe (* 1936), caricaturist, illustrator and draftsman
- Irene Scharrer (1888–1971), pianist
- John Schlesinger (1926-2003), director
- Hugh J. Schonfield (1901–1988), Bible Student
- Leo Schrattenholz (1872–1955), German composer, cellist and music teacher
- Danny Schwarz (* 1986), model
- Michael Scott-Joynt (1943-2014), Bishop
- Simon Scuddamore (1956-1984), actor
- Seal (born 1963), singer
- Jay Sean (born 1981), singer
- Heather Sears (1935–1994), actress
- Tim Sebastian (* 1952), television journalist
- David Sedley (* 1947), historian of philosophy and professor
- Edward Seguin (1809-1852), opera singer
- David Seidler (* 1937), British-American screenwriter
- Will Self (* 1961), writer and journalist
- Oliver Selfridge (1926–2008), computer scientist
- Percy Selwyn-Clarke (1893–1976), Colonial Administrator, Governor of the Seychelles
- Steve Severin (* 1955), musician and composer
- Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (≈1500–1552), politician
- Jane Seymour (born 1951), actress
- Adam Sharpe (* 1984), racing car driver
- Tom Sharpe (1928-2013), writer
- Charles Shaughnessy (born 1955), actor
- Sandie Shaw (born 1947), pop singer
- Ed Shearmur (born 1966), composer
- Gillian Sheen (* 1928), fencer
- Ireen Sheer (* 1949), pop singer
- Mary Shelley (1797-1851), writer
- Charles Shepherd Jr. (1829–1905), watchmaker, inventor and engineer
- William Morgan Sheppard (1932-2019), actor
- Andrew Sheridan (* 1979), national rugby union player
- Charles Scott Sherrington (1857-1952), neurophysiologist
- James Shirley (1596-1666), writer
- John Shirley (born 1922), film editor
- William B. Shockley (1910–1989), physicist and Nobel Prize winner
- Jane Shore (1445 – ≈1527), mistress of Edward IV.
- Nicky Shorey (born 1981), soccer player
- Nevil Shute (1899–1960), writer and aircraft engineer
- Shy FX (* 1976), jungle and drum and bass DJ
- Algernon Sidney (1623-1683), politician
- Nick Sillitoe (* 1971), DJ, jazz musician and composer
- Max Silver (* 1990), poker player
- Ben Silverstone (born 1979), actor
- Dave Simmonds (1939–1972), motorcycle racer
- Jean Simmons (1929-2010), actress
- Paul Simonon (* 1955), punk musician
- NF Simpson (1919-2011), playwright
- Alexander Sims (* 1988), racing driver
- Trevor Sinclair (* 1973), football player
- Dorothea Waley Singer (1882–1964), science and medicine historian
- Talvin Singh (* 1970), musician
- Marina Sirtis (born 1955), actress
- Len Skeat (1937), jazz musician
- Walter W. Skeat (1835-1912), philologist
- Mike Skinner (* 1978), musician
- Tom Skinner (* 1980), jazz drummer
- Skream (* 1986), dubstep producer
- Slash (born 1965), rock musician
- Heather Small (born 1965), singer
- George Smart (1776–1867), conductor, organist, violinist and composer
- Henry Smart (1813–1879), organist and composer
- C. Aubrey Smith (1863-1948), actor
- Charles-Gustave Smith (1826-1896), Canadian organist, composer, painter and music teacher
- Derek Smith (1931-2016), jazz musician
- Edgar Albert Smith (1847-1916), zoologist
- John Maynard Smith (1920-2004), geneticist
- Maggie Smith (born 1934), actress
- Norman Smith (1923–2008), sound engineer and music producer
- Peter David Smith (1943-2020), Catholic clergyman and Archbishop of Southwark
- Renny Smith (* 1996), Austrian-English soccer player
- Tom Smith (born 1971), rugby player
- Zadie Smith (* 1975), writer
- Edward Solomon (1855–1895), composer
- Eric Solomon (* 1935), game designer
- Sonique (* 1968), singer
- Steve Soper (* 1952), racing car driver
- Nina Sosanya (born 1969), actress
- Tessa Souter (* 1956), singer and songwriter
- James Sowerby (1757-1822), naturalist and painter
- James de Carle Sowerby (1787–1871), scientist and artist
- Douglas Alexander Spalding (≈1840–1877), behavioral scientist
- Rafe Spall (born 1983), actor
- Timothy Spall (born 1957), actor
- Philip Sparke (* 1951), composer and musician
- Scott Speedman (* 1975), Canadian actor
- Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland (1674–1722), politician
- Edmund Spenser (≈1552–1599), poet
- James Richardson Spensley (1867–1915), doctor, soccer player and coach
- Gordon Spice (* 1940), racing driver and racing car designer
- Terry Spinks (1938-2012), boxer
- Samantha Spiro (* 1968), actress
- Bryan Spring (1945), drummer
- Dusty Springfield (1939-1999), soul singer
- Sam Spruell (born 1977), actor
- James Squair (1881–?), Football player
- Chris Squire (1948-2015), rock bassist
- John Stainer (1840–1901), organist and composer
- Terence Stamp (born 1938), actor
- George Clarkson Stanfield (1828-1878), painter
- Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby (1865–1948), officer and politician
- Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby (1841–1908), politician
- Oliver Stapleton (* 1948), cameraman
- Steven Stapleton (born 1957), rock musician
- Alvin Stardust (1942–2014), rock musician and actor
- Zak Starkey (born 1965), rock musician
- Boris Starling (* 1970), writer
- Ernest Starling (1866-1927), physiologist
- Howard Staunton (1810-1874), chess player
- Imelda Staunton (* 1956), actress
- Toby Stephens (born 1969), actor
- Nicholas Stern (* 1946), economist
- Steve-O (* 1974), action artist
- Bernard Stevens (1916–1983), composer
- Cat Stevens (born 1948), singer and songwriter
- Courtenay Edward Stevens (1905–1976), ancient historian
- Dan Stevens (born 1982), actor
- Rachel Stevens (* 1978), pop singer
- David L. Stewart (born 1950), keyboardist, arranger and producer
- Rod Stewart (born 1945), pop singer
- Belinda Stewart-Wilson (born 1971), actress
- George Frederic Still (1868–1941), pediatrician
- Rachael Stirling (born 1977), actress
- Marcus Stock (* 1961), Catholic bishop
- Leopold Stokowski (1882–1977), conductor
- Richard Stone (1913–1991), economist
- Lytton Strachey (1880-1932), writer
- Oliver Strachey (1874–1960), cryptanalyst
- Dennis Stratton (* 1952), musician
- Stephen Street (* 1960), music producer
- Freddie Stroma (* 1987), actor
- Mark Strong (born 1963), actor
- Jim Sturgess (* 1978), actor and musician
- Howard O. Sturgis (1855-1920), writer
- Charles Sturridge (* 1951), film director, screenwriter and producer
- Tom Sturridge (born 1985), actor
- Jule Styne (1905–1994), composer
- David Suchet (born 1946), actor
- Terry Sue-Patt (1964-2015), actor
- Alan Sugar (born 1947), entrepreneur
- Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900), composer
- Big Jim Sullivan (1941–2012), guitarist
- Tara Summers (born 1979), actress
- Monty Sunshine (1928-2010), jazz clarinetist and band leader
- Screaming Lord Sutch (1940–1999), rock musician and politician
- Kiefer Sutherland (born 1966), actor
- Estelle Swaray (* 1980), singer
- Dave Swarbrick (1941-2016), folk fiddler
- Graham Swift (born 1949), writer
- Algernon Swinburne (1837-1909), writer
- Felix Swinstead (1880–1959), pianist, composer and music teacher
- Tilda Swinton (born 1960), actress
- Ken Sykora (1923-2006), jazz guitarist and radio presenter
- James Joseph Sylvester (1814–1897), mathematician
- Labi Siffre (* 1945), singer and poet
T
- Jamie T (* 1986), musician
- Joby Talbot (* 1971), composer
- Jessica Tandy (1909–1994), actress
- Arthur George Tansley (1871–1955), plant ecologist
- Catherine Tate (* 1968), actress, comedian and screenwriter
- Nahum Tate (1652–1715), poet and writer
- Friedrich Wilhelm von Taube (1728–1778), German administrative officer in Austrian service
- John Kenneth Tavener (1944-2013), composer
- Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011), actress
- Hannah Taylor-Gordon (* 1987), actress
- Harriet Taylor Mill (1807-1858), suffragette
- Helen Taylor (1831-1907), suffragette
- Michael Taylor (1934–2017), racing car driver
- Mike Taylor (1938–1969), musician and composer
- Noah Taylor (born 1969), Australian film actor
- Raynor Taylor (1747-1825), composer
- Stuart Taylor (born 1980), football player
- Sam Taylor-Johnson (* 1967), film director
- Stuart Taylor (born 1980), football player
- Norman Tebbit (born 1931), politician
- Mark Teltscher (* 1980), poker player
- Tinie Tempah (born 1988), rapper
- Julien Temple (born 1953), film director
- Juno Temple (born 1989), actress
- Natalia Tena (* 1984), actress
- William Tenn (1920–2010), writer and literary scholar
- Dorothy Tennant (1855-1926), painter
- Veronica Tennant (* 1947), Canadian dancer and choreographer
- John Tenniel (1820-1914), illustrator
- John Terry (born 1980), football player
- Anne Thackeray Ritchie (1837-1919), writer
- Denis Thatcher (1915–2003), businessman and husband of Margaret Thatcher
- Mark Thatcher (* 1953), entrepreneur and racing car driver
- Antonia Thomas (* 1986), actress
- Jameson Thomas (1888–1939), actor
- Sidney Thomas (1850-1885), metallurgist
- David Thomson (born 1941), writer
- Daley Thompson (born 1958), track and field athlete
- David Thompson (1961-2010), Barbadian politician
- Emma Thompson (born 1959), actress
- Gabriel Thomson (* 1986), film actor
- Harry Thompson (1960–2005), writer and producer
- Jasmine Thompson (* 2000), singer
- Linda Thompson (born 1947), folk singer
- Porl Stephen Thompson (* 1957), guitarist and painter
- Richard Thompson (* 1949), folk rock singer and guitarist
- Sophie Thompson (born 1962), actress
- Teddy Thompson (* 1976), folk rock musician and record producer
- David Thwaites (* 1976), actor and film producer
- Eric Till (* 1929), director, producer and screenwriter
- Michael Tippett (1905–1998), composer
- Julie Tippetts (* 1947), blues and jazz singer
- Trevor Tomkins (* 1941), jazz musician
- Eleanor Tomlinson (born 1992), actress
- Henry Tomlinson (1873–1958), writer and journalist
- Martina Topley-Bird (* 1975), singer
- Frank Tovey (1956–2002), pop musician
- George Townshend, 3rd Marquess Townshend (1778–1855), nobleman
- Pete Townshend (* 1945), rock musician
- Arnold Toynbee (1852-1883), economist
- Arnold J. Toynbee (1889–1975), cultural theorist and philosopher of history
- Morris William Travers (1872–1961), chemist
- Lawrence Trent (* 1986), chess player
- Antony Tudor (1908–1987), choreographer and ballet dancer
- Christopher Tugendhat (* 1937), politician (conservative)
- Alan Turing (1912–1954), mathematician and cryptanalyst
- William Turner (1775-1851), painter
- Twiggy (* 1949), photo model
- Edward Twining, Baron Twining (1899–1967), Governor of British North Borneo and Tanganyika
- Edward Tylor (1832-1917), anthropologist
U
- Rudolf Uhlenhaut (1906–1989), German engineer, designer and later board member of Mercedes-Benz
- Peter Ustinov (1921–2004), actor and director
V
- Bryn Vaile (born 1956), regatta sailor
- John Vallier (1920–1991), pianist, composer, music teacher and musicologist
- John Vanbrugh (1664–1726), architect and writer
- Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley (1766–1851), politician
- Matthew Vaughn (* 1971), film producer, director, screenwriter and entrepreneur
- Sid Vicious (1957–1979), punk rock musician
- Henry Victor (1892–1945), actor
- Victoria (1819–1901), Queen of the United Kingdom and Empress of India
- Theresa Villiers (* 1968), politician
- Julius Vogel (1835–1899), Prime Minister of New Zealand
W.
- Alan Wakeman (* 1947), jazz and rock saxophonist
- Patrick Walden (* 1978), jazz and rock guitarist
- Francis Walker (1809-1874), zoologist
- Edgar Wallace (1875–1932), writer and director
- Oliver Wallace (1887–1963), composer and conductor
- Byron Wallen (* 1969), jazz trumpeter
- Catarina Wallenstein (* 1986), Portuguese actress
- Raphael Wallfisch (* 1953), cellist
- David Walliams (born 1971), actor
- Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (1717–1797), writer and politician
- Kay Walsh (1911–2005), dancer and actress
- Francis Walsingham (1532–1590), founder of the British secret service
- John Walter (the Elder) (around 1739–1812), entrepreneur and publisher
- John Walter (the Younger) (1776–1847), entrepreneur and publisher
- John Walter III (1818–1894), entrepreneur and publisher
- Harriet Walter (born 1950), actress
- Henry Wansbrough (* 1934), Catholic biblical scholar
- James Ward (1769-1859), painter
- Hannah Ware (* 1982), actress
- Peter Warlock (1894–1930), composer and music critic
- HB Warner (1875-1958), actor
- Suki Waterhouse (* 1992), model and actress
- Katherine Waterson (* 1980), American actress
- Cleveland Watkiss (born 1959), singer and actor
- Emily Watson (born 1967), actress
- Charlie Watts (born 1941), rock musician
- Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966), writer
- Jamie Waylett (born 1989), actor
- Pete Way (* 1951), bassist
- David Weatherley (born 1939), actor
- James Weaver (* 1955), racing car driver
- Karen Webb (* 1971), German television presenter
- Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield (1859–1947), social scientist and politician
- Simon Webb (1949-2005), chess player
- Stan Webb (born 1946), blues rock guitarist
- Andrew Lloyd Webber (* 1948), composer
- Julian Lloyd Webber (* 1951), cellist and composer
- William Lloyd Webber (1914–1982), church musician and composer
- John Webster (~ 1579–1634), playwright
- Desiree Weeks (* 1968), singer
- Rachel Weisz (* 1970), actress
- Herbert Udny Weitbrecht (1851-1937), Protestant missionary of German origin and Vice President of the Church Mission Society
- Florence Welch (* 1986), singer
- Arthur Wellesley, 2nd Duke of Wellington (1807-1884), general
- Henry Wellesley, 3rd Duke of Wellington (1846–1900), Army officer
- Herbert George Wells (1866-1946), writer
- Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1593–1641), politician
- Arnold Wesker (1932–2016), playwright
- Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810–1876), organist, choir director and composer
- Rebecca West (1892–1983), writer and journalist
- Samuel West (* 1966), film and theater actor
- Harvey Weston (born 1940), jazz musician
- Caron Wheeler (* 1963), soul singer and songwriter
- Joe Wheeler (1927–1977), music researcher
- Antonia White (1899–1980), writer
- Jimmy White (born 1962), snooker player
- Patrick White (1912–1990), Australian writer, 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature
- Rachel Whiteread (* 1963), sculptor
- Leonard Whiting (born 1950), film actor
- Ed Whitlock (1931-2017), Canadian medium and long distance runner
- Edward Whymper (1840-1911), mountaineer
- Robin Widdows (* 1942), automobile racing driver
- Sophie Wilcox (* 1975), actress
- Kim Wilde (* 1960), pop singer
- Thomas Wildey (1782–1861), founder of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows
- Mike Wilds (* 1946), racing car driver
- Gladys Willan (1883–1964), Canadian music teacher and pianist
- Healey Willan (1880–1968), Canadian composer, organist and music teacher
- William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (1721–1765), general
- Charles Williams (1893–1978), composer
- Danny Williams (born 1973), boxer
- Fara Williams (* 1984), soccer player
- Finty Williams (born 1972), actress
- John Williams (* 1941), jazz musician
- Kate Williams , jazz musician
- Gareth Williams (* 1968), jazz musician
- Kenneth Williams (1926–1988), actor and comedian
- Roger Williams (1603-1683), founder of Rhode Island
- Olivia Williams (born 1968), actress
- Henry Williamson (1895–1977), writer
- Richard Williamson (born 1940), auxiliary bishop and Holocaust denier
- Frederick Wilson (1912-1994), film editor
- Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson (1881–1964), Field Marshal
- Maurice Wilson (1914–1987), painter and illustrator
- Richard Wilson (1926–2018), British-American physicist
- Arthur Wimperis (1874–1953), librettist, songwriter and screenwriter
- Nicholas Windsor (* 1970), second nephew of Elizabeth II.
- Amy Winehouse (1983-2011), soul singer
- Catherine Winkworth (1827–1878), translator of hymns
- Norma Winstone (* 1941), jazz singer
- Chris Wise (* 1956), civil engineer
- Dennis Wise (* 1966), soccer player and coach
- Elsie Wisdom (1904–1972), racing car driver
- Alex Winter (* 1965), actor, director and screenwriter
- David Winters (1939–2019), director, film producer, screenwriter, choreographer as well as actor and dancer
- Nicholas Winton (1909–2015), savior of Czech Jewish children from the Holocaust
- Anna Wintour (* 1949), journalist
- Jah Wobble (* 1958), musician and music producer
- Rudolf Wohlrab (1909–1995), German hygienist, bacteriologist and epidemiologist
- Brian Woledge (1904–2002), Romanist and Medievalist
- Lucien Wolf (1857–1930), publicist and historian
- Peter Wollen (1938–2019), film theorist, screenwriter and director
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), writer and suffragette
- Dudley Wood (born 1946), racing car driver
- Henry Wood (1869–1944), conductor
- Jake Wood (born 1972), actor
- Ian N. Wood (born 1950), Medievalist
- Lawson Wood (1878-1957), painter
- Oliver Wood , cameraman
- Ron Wood (born 1947), rock musician
- Nick Woodland (* 1951), rock'n'roll and blues guitarist
- Edward Woodward (1930–2009), actor
- Virginia Woolf (1882–1941), writer
- Leonard Woolley (1880-1960), archaeologist
- Stephen Woolley (* 1956), film producer
- William Wordsworth (1908–1988), composer
- Joe Worsley (born 1977), rugby player
- Bonnie Wright (born 1991), actress
- Cyril Wright (1885-1960), regatta sailor
- Dorothy Wright (1889–1960), regatta sailor
- Eric Wright (1929–2015), Canadian writer and university professor
- Joe Wright (born 1972), director
- Ian Wright (born 1963), football player
- Ronald Wright (* 1948), Canadian historian and writer
- Bradley Wright-Phillips (born 1985), football player
- Shaun Wright-Phillips (born 1981), football player
- Michela Wrong (* 1961), journalist
- Bill Wyman (born 1936), rock musician
Y
- Jason Yarde (* 1970), jazz musician
- Jack Butler Yeats (1871–1957), painter
- Gary Yershon (* 1954), composer
- Beatrice of York (* 1988), princess
- Eugenie of York (* 1990), princess
- Freddie Young (1902–1998), cameraman and Oscar winner
- Roland Young (1887–1953), actor
- William Henry Young (1863–1942), mathematician
- Luke Youngblood (born 1989), actor
Z
- David Zafer (1934–2019), Canadian violinist, conductor and music educator
- Louis Zborowski (1895–1924), automobile racing driver and engineer
- James EG Zetzel (* 1947), American classical philologist