List of English people

This is a partial list of English people of note and of some notable individuals born there, alphabetically within categories:

Other Notables

• Douglas Adams (1952-2001), author, comic and radio dramatist
• Pope Adrian IV (c. 1100 - 1159)
• David Attenborough, (born 1926), naturalist and broadcaster
• Robert Blake, (1599 - 1657), reforming Royal Navy Admiral
• Capability Brown, (1715–83), landscape gardener
• William Camden, (1551-1623), historian
• William Caxton, (c. 1422-c. 1491), printer
• Sir Malcolm Campbell, (1885–1949), automobile and speedboat racer.
• Sir Francis Chichester, (1901-1972), yachtsman.
• James Cook, (1728-1779), British explorer
• Grace Darling, (1815-1842), heroine
• Thomas de Quincey
• Elizabeth Fry, (1780-1845), prison reformer
• Edward Gibbon, (1737-1794), historian
• Gildas, (c. 510 - c.570), monk
• William Godwin, (1756-1836)
• Ebenezer Howard, (1850-1928), urban planner
• Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (1208?-1265). English statesman and soldier.
• Sir Patrick Moore, (1923-) Writer, T.V. Presenter, Astronomer.
• Florence Nightingale, (1820-1910), nurse
• Joshua A. Norton, (1811-1880), Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico
• John Reith, (1889-1971), broadcaster
• John Speed, (1542-1629), historian and cartographer
• Wat Tyler, (?-1381), leader of the Peasants' Revolt (1381)
• William Wakefield, (1801-1848), founder of Wellington, New Zealand
• William Wilberforce, (1759-1833), abolitionist

The following were born English, but changed nationality later in their life.

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• Alistair Cooke, (1908-2004)
• Bob Hope, (1903-2003)
• Thomas Paine, (1737-1809)
• Jerry Springer

See also: List of people by nationality, List of Britons, List of Welsh people, List of Cornish people, List of Scots, UK topics

Related Topics:
List of people by nationality - List of Britons - List of Welsh people - List of Cornish people - List of Scots - UK topics

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