List of people from Birmingham

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This is a list of famous or notable people born in, or associated with, Birmingham in England, who have a Wikipedia page.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by with reliable sources.

Famous people born in Birmingham[]

A–F[]

  • Walter Abbott – Footballer
  • Colin Abrahall - Singer
  • Gabriel Agbonlahor – Footballer
  • Moeen Ali – England cricketer
  • Dennis Amiss – Cricketer and Warwickshire Administrator
  • Keith Arkell – English Chess champion, 2008
  • Stephen Arlen – Opera manager
  • Ian Ashbee – Footballer
  • Francis William Aston – Nobel Prize winner, Physicist
  • Ian Atkins – Footballer
  • Albert Austin – Silent film star
  • Jack Badham – Footballer
  • Annette Badland – Actress
  • Kenny Baker – Actor
  • Sir Michael Balcon – Film director
  • Pato Banton – Reggae artist
  • Dave Barnett – Footballer
  • Simon Bates – DJ
  • Blaze Bayley – Musician, former vocalist of Wolfsbane and Iron Maiden
  • Ian Bell - Former England Cricketer, Former Warwickshire CCC Captain
  • Moazzam Begg – Outreach Director
  • Edward White Benson – Archbishop of Canterbury
  • Bev Bevan – Musician
  • Alfred Bird – Inventor of custard powder
  • Sir Alfred Frederick Bird – Food manufacturer and chemist
  • Dan Bull – Musician/ Youtuber
  • Elizabeth Baker Bohan - author, journalist, artist, social reformer
  • Daniel Boone – Musician
  • Sarah Booth – Actress
  • Matthew Boulton – Pioneering industrialist and member of the Lunar Society
  • Jon Bounds – Blogger, humorist
  • Paul Braddon — Artist
  • Peter Bradley – Politician
  • William Bragge – Civil engineer/Antiquarian
  • Tony Britton - Actor
  • Edward Burne-Jones – Pre-Raphaelite painter and William Morris Associate
  • Trevor Burton – Musician
  • Geezer Butler – Bassist, Black Sabbath
  • George Cadbury – Son of John Cadbury, Founder of the Cadbury chocolate company
  • John Cadbury – Founder of the Cadbury chocolate company
  • Richard Cadbury – Son of John Cadbury, Founder of the Cadbury chocolate company
  • Pogus Caesar – TV Director and photographer
  • Ali Campbell and Robin Campbell – Musician, UB40
  • Duncan Campbell – Musician
  • David Cannadine – Historian
  • Bob Carolgees TV Presenter Tiswas and Surprise Surprise
  • Lee Carsley – Footballer
  • Darren Carter – Footballer
  • John Carter – Musician
  • Barbara Cartland – Novelist
  • Jasper Carrott – Comedian
  • Austen Chamberlain – Politician
  • Neville Chamberlain – Prime Minister
  • Gary Childs – Footballer
  • Adrian Chiles – Broadcaster
  • Carl Chinn – Historian, broadcaster, writer
  • Charlie Christodoulou – Soldier and mercenary
  • Ian Clarkson – Footballer
  • Lisa Clayton – Solo yachtswoman
  • Janice Connolly – Comedy actress
  • Raymond Teague Cowern – Artist
  • Edward Cowie - Composer
  • Andy Cox Musician – Fine Young Cannibals and The Beat
  • David Cox – Artist
  • Lauren Crace – Actress
  • Sarah Crompton – children's writer
  • Chris Crudelli – Martial artist
  • John Curry – Olympic and World Champion figure skater
  • Arthur Darvill – Actor and singer-Doctor Who
  • Aidan Davis – Dancer and TV Presenter
  • Lindsey Davis Historical Novelist
  • Cat Deeley – Television presenter
  • Nathan Delfouneso – Footballer
  • Oscar Deutsch – Founder of the Odeon Cinemas chain
  • Fred Dinenage – T.V. presenter, broadcaster, author
  • Stefflon Don – Musician
  • Don Dorman – Paratrooper, 1st Airborne Division, footballer, manager and scout
  • K.K. Downing – Musician
  • Mark Duffus (Blak Prophetz) – Musician
  • Pete Dunne – Professional Wrestler
  • Dutchavelli, British Rapper
  • Jessie Eden - British communist activist and trade union leader
  • Leon Edwards – MMA Fighter
  • Electribe 101 – Electronic music groups who found fame in the early 90s
  • Hunt Emerson – Cartoonist
  • Ian Emes – Animator
  • Frederick Rowland Emett – Cartoonist, artist and kinetic sculptor
  • Jo Enright – Actress and comedian
  • Dan Evans - Tennis player
  • Niki Evans – Singer
  • Trevor Eve – Actor
  • Earl Falconer – Bass player, UB40
  • Frank Farrell – Rock bassist and co-writer of chart hit ""
  • Sid Field – Comedian
  • Robert Firth – Footballer and Real Madrid Manager
  • Philip Edward Fisher – Musician
  • Mark Foster - Actor
  • Winston Foster – Footballer
  • Kevin Francis – Footballer
  • Edward Augustus Freeman – Historian, architectural artist and liberal politician
  • Fuzzbox – late 1980s girl band

G–M[]

  • Sir Francis Galton – Scientist, founder of eugenics
  • Albert Gardner – Footballer
  • Mike Gayle – Author
  • Helen George – Actress
  • GeoWizard – Youtuber
  • Steve Gibbons – Musician
  • Jon Gittens – Footballer
  • John Goldingay – Theologian, currently a Professor of Old Testament, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California
  • Jaki Graham – Soul singer
  • Jack Grealish – Footballer
  • Mark "Barney" Greenway – Musician, Napalm Death
  • Tom Grosvenor – Footballer
  • George Dickinson Hadley – Gastroenterologist
  • Rob Halford – Musician, Judas Priest
  • Charlie Hall – Actor, most famous for his work with Laurel and Hardy
  • Anisa Haghdadi – Social entrepreneur
  • Alison Hammond – Television presenter
  • Richard Hammond – Broadcaster, Top Gear (2002)
  • John Hampson – Novelist
  • Tony Hancock – Comedian and actor
  • Ian Handysides – Footballer
  • Nic Harcourt – American radio personality
  • Nick Harding - Chief Medical Officer at Operose Health
  • David Harewood – Actor
  • Wally Harris – Footballer
  • Julia Hartley-Brewer – Journalist and TV panellist
  • Norman Hassan – Percussionist, UB40
  • Phil Hawker – Footballer
  • William Haywood – Architect, town planner and secretary of Birmingham Civic Society
  • John Hemming, Member of Parliament and businessman[1]
  • Lee Hendrie – Aston Villa, later Basford United F.C. midfielder
  • Duane Henry – Actor
  • Michael Higgs – Actor
  • Ian Hill – Musician
  • Jacqueline Hill – Actress, Doctor Who
  • Ken Hodge – NHL player
  • George Jacob Holyoake – Reformer
  • Jack Hood – Boxer
  • Martha Howe-Douglas – Actor
  • Dorothy Howell – Musician
  • Mr Hudson – Singer
  • David Hughes – Operatic tenor
  • Geoff Humpage – Cricketer
  • Al Hunter Ashton – Actor
  • Raymond Huntley – Actor
  • Kassem Ibadulla – Cricketer
  • Tony Iommi – Guitarist, Black Sabbath
  • Jamelia – R&B singer
  • Maureen Jennings – novelist[2]
  • Claudia Jessie – Actress
  • Seth Johnson – Footballer, Derby
  • Ann Jones – Tennis player, former World No. 2, 8 Grand Slam titles, including Wimbledon champion in 1969
  • Digby Jones – Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry
  • Felicity Jones – Actress
  • Geoffrey Jones (academic) – Business Historian
  • John Jones – Cricketer
  • Justin Jones – Musician
  • Simon Huw Jones – Musician and photographer
  • Ace Kefford – Musician
  • Mike Kellie – Musician, Spooky Tooth, The Only Ones
  • David Kelly – Republic of Ireland footballer
  • Albert William Ketèlbey – Composer
  • Rupert Alfred Kettle – County court judge and noted strike arbitrator
  • Guz Khan – Comedian
  • Robert Kilroy-Silk – Politician and television presenter
  • Lorna Laidlaw – Actress
  • Denny Laine – Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Frederick William Lanchester – Maker of the first petrol-driven car in Britain
  • Bunny Larkin – Footballer
  • Bob Latchford – Footballer
  • Dave Latchford – Footballer
  • Peter Latchford – Footballer
  • Ian Lavender – Actor
  • Alfred Law – Warwickshire cricketer and umpire
  • Stewart Lee - Comedian
  • Russell Leetch – Musician
  • Joleon Lescott – Footballer with Manchester City, Everton, Wolverhampton Wanderers
  • Adrian Lester – Actor
  • Dick Lilley – England and Warwickshire Cricketer
  • John Lodge – Musician
  • Jane C. Loudon – Author of Prose and Verse and The Mummy
  • Joseph Lucas – Founder of Lucas Industries
  • Joe Lycett – Comedian
  • Jeff Lynne – Musician; co-founder of the Electric Light Orchestra
  • Clare Maguire Musician born in Solihull but resides in London
  • Nigel Mansell – Sportsman, F1 driver
  • Lee Mantle – U.S. Senator from Montana[3]
  • Sarah Manners – Actress
  • Tony Martin – Musician, singer of Black Sabbath
  • Eric Maschwitz – lyricist
  • Herbert Mason MC – Film director, producer, stage actor, stage manager, choreographer and army officer in the First World War
  • Hilary Mason - Actor
  • Nick Mason – Musician, Pink Floyd; did not reside in Birmingham
  • Robert McCracken – Boxer, Commonwealth Middleweight champion and World Title challenger
  • Zena McNally – Singer, Mis-Teeq
  • Christine McVie – Musician, Fleetwood Mac
  • Gil Merrick – Footballer and club manager
  • Ken Miles – Sports Car Racing Driver / Engineer
  • Shazia Mirza – Comedian
  • Mist – Rapper
  • Alan Moore – Musician
  • William Moore - Actor
  • Everett Morton – Drummer, The Beat
  • Henry Vollam Morton – Journalist and travel writer
  • Peter Mucklow – Cricketer
  • George Frederick Muntz - Pioneering industrialist and MP
  • Laura Mvula – singer-songwriter
  • Stanley Myers – Film music composer
  • M1llionz – British rapper

N–Z[]

  • Constance Naden – Poet and philosopher
  • Alan Napier – Actor
  • Ritchie Neville - Singer from 5ive
  • Ernest Willmott Norton – Cricketer
  • Ocean Colour Scene – Band from Moseley
  • Oceans Ate Alaska - Metalcore Band
  • Ursula O'Leary - Actress
  • John Oliver – Comedian, host of Last Week Tonight, and former 'Senior British Correspondent' of The Daily Show
  • Ozzy Osbourne – Singer, Black Sabbath
  • Anri Okita - Singer and former pornographic actress
  • Carl Palmer – Musician, Emerson, Lake & Palmer
  • Janet Parker - Medical photographer and last recorded person to die from smallpox[4]
  • Kay Parker – Pornographic actress
  • Alexander Parkes – Inventor of the world's first plastic
  • Norman Partridge – Warwickshire Cricketer
  • Liam Payne - Singer in the British/ Irish band One Direction
  • William Pearce – Comedian
  • Dave Pegg – Musician, Fairport Convention, Jethro Tull
  • Stephen Perryman – Warwickshire Cricketer
  • Gerry Peyton – Footballer and goalkeeper coach
  • James and Oliver Phelps – Harry Potter movie actors
  • Jess Phillips – Politician
  • Michael Pinder – Musician, The Moody Blues
  • Jacki Piper – Actress
  • John Poole – Sculptor
  • Enoch Powell – Politician, poet and classical scholar
  • Peter Powell – Disc jockey
  • Bernard Quaife – Cricketer
  • Alfred Radcliffe-Brown – Anthropologist
  • Ranking Roger – Musician, The Beat
  • Mick Rathbone – Footballer
  • Adil Ray – "Comedian", "actor", can write name and presenter
  • Nick Rhodes – Musician, Duran Duran
  • Micah Richards – Manchester City F.C defender
  • Walter Richards – Cricketer and umpire
  • Pat Roach – Actor and wrestler
  • Dave Robinson – Footballer
  • John Rogers – Bible editor and martyr
  • Sax Rohmer (Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward) – Novelist
  • Adam Ruckwood - Swimming Commonwealth Champion (200m Backstroke)
  • Les Ross – Radio DJ
  • Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck – Author on Women in society and religion, slavery abolitionist
  • Gary Shaw – Footballer
  • Martin Shaw – Actor
  • Visanthe Shiancoe – American football player
  • Sukshinder Shinda – English-born Punjabi music producer and artist
  • Paul Simm – Musician
  • John Simmit – Actor and comedian best known for playing Dipsy on Teletubbies from 1997–2001
  • Jane Sixsmith – Hockey player
  • 1st Viscount Slim of Yarralumla and Bishopston – Military Commander
  • Gary Shaw – Footballer
  • Graham Short – International Micro-Artist
  • Sarah Smart – Actress
  • Alan Smith – Cricketer and England selector
  • Tiger Smith – England and Warwickshire cricketer
  • Maya Sondhi – Actress
  • Simon Sturridge – Footballer
  • Daniel Sturridge – Footballer
  • Ernest Suckling – Cricketer
  • Phil Summerill – Footballer
  • James Sutton – Actor
  • Andrew Symonds – Cricketer
  • Connie Talbot – Singer/Musician
  • John Taylor – Musician, Duran Duran
  • Roger Taylor – Musician, Duran Duran
  • Bobby Thomson – Footballer
  • Will Thorne – Trade union leader and MP
  • Charlie Tickle – Footballer
  • Andrew Tiernan – Actor
  • Charlie Timmins – Footballer
  • James Vaughan –Tranmere Rovers FC striker
  • Johnny Vincent – Footballer
  • Murray Walker – Racing driver and commentator
  • Kate Walsh – TV presenter-Live from Studio Five
  • Julie Walters – Actress
  • Bill Ward – Drummer, Black Sabbath
  • Clint Warwick – Musician, The Moody Blues
  • Alex Watson – Football manager
  • Carl Wayne – Musician, The Move The Hollies
  • Graham Webb – World Amateur Road Race Champion 1967
  • Brooke Foss Westcott – Theologian and Bishop of Durham
  • Peter Weston – Influential British science fiction fan
  • Ian Westwood – Cricketer
  • Fred Wheldon – Footballer
  • Toyah Willcox – Singer and television presenter
  • Emma Willis – Model
  • Jimmy Windridge – England footballer
  • Muff Winwood – Musician
  • Steve Winwood – Musician — solo and co-founder, Traffic
  • Colin Withers – Footballer
  • Chris Woakes – England and Warwickshire cricketer
  • Chris Wood – Musician; co-founder, Traffic
  • Roy Wood – Musician, co-founder of the Electric Light Orchestra
  • Richie Woodhall - World Boxing Champion
  • Kal Yafai – World champion boxer
  • Mark Yates – Footballer and manager
  • Benjamin Zephaniah – Poet

Lived in or associated with Birmingham[]

  • Francis William Aston – Nobel Prize winner, Physicist
  • W. H. Auden – Poet and author
  • W. V. Awdry – Author of The Railway Series
  • Sir Granville Bantock – Composer
  • Connor Ball – bassist and singer, vamps
  • John Baskerville – Printer and inventor of typefaces
  • Marie Bethell Beauclerc – First female shorthand teacher and reporter in England
  • William Bloye – Sculptor
  • William Booth – Forger
  • John Bright – Politician
  • Herbert Tudor Buckland – Architect
  • Elihu Burritt – US consul to Birmingham
  • Pogus Caesar – Broadcaster and artist
  • Jazzy B – Punjabi singer
  • Daniel Caines – track and field athlete
  • Joseph Chamberlain – Politician, Mayor of Birmingham
  • Bruce Chatwin – Author
  • Lee Child – Author
  • George Dawson – preacher
  • Arthur Conan Doyle – Author of Sherlock Holmes
  • John Boyd Dunlop – Industrialist, built Fort Dunlop
  • Rev. Richard Enraght – Vicar, religious controversialist
  • Reuben Fitzpatrick – YouTuber
  • Allan Ford – Soldier and convicted of manslaughter
  • Philippa Forrester– Attended Birmingham University
  • Harry Freeman – Music hall performer
  • Foji Gill – singer, music producer
  • Joseph Gillott – industrialist
  • Tommy Godwin – Racing cyclist and Olympic medallist
  • Rob Halford– Judas Priest
  • Ashia Hansen – track and field athlete
  • Duane Henry – Actor
  • James Hinks – Bred the Bull Terrier dog
  • Alex Hughes – Cartoonist
  • William Ick – Botanist
  • Washington Irving – Author
  • Jamelia – RnB singer
  • John Joubert – South African-born composer
  • Roi Kwabena – Author
  • Simon Le Bon – Studied drama at the University of Birmingham before joining Duran Duran in 1980
  • Louis MacNeice – Poet
  • Stuart Maconie – Radio DJ and television presenter
  • Josiah Mason – Industrialist and philanthropist
  • Nigel Mansell – Racing driver
  • Cardinal Newman – Theologian and founder of the English Oratory
  • William McGregor – Instrumental in forming the football league
  • William Murdoch – Inventor of gas lighting
  • Bill Oddie – Comedian and ornithologist
  • Syed Farradino Omar – Television presenter and producer
  • John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne – Rock musician
  • John Peel – Radio DJ
  • Geoffrey Pernell – Soldier, convicted of manslaughter
  • Sadie Plant – Author
  • Elizabeth "Tetty" Johnson – wife of Samuel Johnson
  • Joseph Priestley – Chemist and dissenting clergyman
  • Sir Simon Rattle – conductor of CBSO 1980–1998
  • John Ray – "Father of English natural history"
  • Sir Peter Rigby – Entrepreneur
  • Kevin Rowland – Dexys midnight Runners formed in Brum
  • Frank Skinner – Comedian
  • Mike Skinner – Musician – The Streets
  • Sir Benjamin Stone – Pioneering photographer
  • Simon Sturridge – Footballer
  • Dean Sturridge – Footballer
  • Daniel Sturridge – Footballer
  • Meera Syal – Actor, Writer
  • Dave Swarbrick – Musician
  • J. R. R. Tolkien – Author
  • Joshua Toulmin – Non-conformist preacher
  • Joshua Toulmin Smith – Political theorist
  • Ruby Turner – Singer (Originally from Montego Bay, Jamaica)
  • UB 40 – Reggae group
  • Julie Walters – Actress
  • James Watt – Inventor and member of the Lunar Society
  • Una White – Subject of public art-work
  • William Withering – Doctor, discoverer of digitalis
  • Victoria Wood – Actress
  • John Skirrow Wright – Social improver
  • John Wyndham – Author
  • Alastair Yates – Radio and television presenter
  • Dorian Yates – 6x Mr. Olympia
  • Malala Yousafzai – Pakistani Activist
  • Lauren Zhang – winner of BBC Young Musician 2018 (Originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America)

See also[]

  • Alumni of the University of Birmingham

References[]

  1. ^ "John Hemming: Self-styled 'love rat of the year' who became scourge of". The Independent. 9 January 2012.
  2. ^ Napier, Jim (14 May 2012). "Maureen Jennings". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
  3. ^ "MANTLE, Lee, 1851–1934". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 14 October 2012.
  4. ^ "The Lonely Death of Janet Parker".

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