List of English people

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

Politicians

• Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, (1757-1844)
• Herbert Henry Asquith, (1852-1928), British prime minister
• Clement Attlee, (1883-1967), British prime minister
• Stanley Baldwin, British prime minister
• Ernest Bevin
• Margaret Bondfield
• Rab Butler
• George Canning, (1770-1827), politician
• William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire
• William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
• Sir Austen Chamberlain, (1863-1937)
• Joseph Chamberlain, (1836-1914)
• Neville Chamberlain, (1869-1940), British prime minister
• Lord Randolph Churchill, (1849-1895)
• Winston Churchill, (1874-1965), British prime minister
• Kenneth Clarke
• Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington
• Sir Stafford Cripps
• George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, (1859-1925)
• Archibald Dalzel, (1740-1811), Governor of the Gold Coast
• Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire, (1833-1908)
• Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, (1799-1869)
• Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby, (1826-1893)
• Benjamin Disraeli, (1804-1881), British prime minister
• Alec Douglas-Home, (1903-1995)
• Anthony Eden, (1897-1977), British prime minister
• Hugh Gaitskell, (1906-1963)
• William Ewart Gladstone, (1809-1898), British prime minister
• Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton
• Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville
• George Grenville, British prime minister
• William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Lord Grenville
• Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey
• Denis Healey
• Edward Heath, British prime minister
• John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley
• George Lansbury, (1859-1940)
• Nigel Lawson
• Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool
• John Lubbock, (1834-1913), banker, politician, naturalist and archaeologist
• Harold Macmillan, British prime minister
• John Major, (born 1943), British prime minister
• Reginald Maudling
• William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
• Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle
• Frederick North, Lord North
• Sir Robert Peel, British prime minister
• Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, British prime minister
• Henry Pelham
• Spencer Perceval
• William Pitt (the Elder), 1st Earl of Chatham, (1708-1778)
• William Pitt the Younger, (1759-1806), British prime minister
• Enoch Powell
• Cecil Rhodes, (1853-1902), imperialist
• Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon, (1782-1859)
• Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham
• John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
• Michael Hicks-Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn, (1837-1916)
• Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, (1830-1903)
• John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon, (1873-1954)
• Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw, (1864-1937)
• Margaret Thatcher, (born 1925), British prime minister
• Sir Robert Walpole, British prime minister
• Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, (1769-1852), British prime minister
• William Wilberforce, (1759-1833), abolitionist
• Henry Willink, (1894-1973), politician
• Harold Wilson, (1916-1995), British prime minister