List of English people

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

Writers

• Matthew Arnold, (1822-1888), poet
• David Attenborough, (born 1926), naturalist and broadcaster
• W. H. Auden, (1907-1973), poet
• Jane Austen, (1775-1817), novelist
• Alan Ayckbourn, (b. 1939) playwright
• Pam Ayres, (born 1947), poet
• Hilaire Belloc, (1870-1953), writer and poet
• John Betjeman, (1906-1984), poet laureate
• Enid Blyton, (1897-1968), author
• William Blake, (1757-1827), painter, poet
• Robert Bolt, (1924-1995), dramitist and screenwriter. Wrote A Man For All Seasons
• Anne Bronte, (1820-1849), author
• Charlotte Bronte, (1816-1855), author
• Emily Bronte, (1818-1848), author
• Rupert Brooke, (1887-1915), poet
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning, (1806-1861), poet
• Robert Browning, (1812-1889), poet
• Anthony Buckeridge, (1912-2004) children's author
• John Bunyan, (1628-88), author
• Samuel Butler (1612-1680), poet and satirist
• Samuel Butler (1835-1902), writer and satirist
• George Gordon, Lord Byron
• Lewis Carroll, (1832-1898), author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• Geoffrey Chaucer, (c. 1343-1400), poet, author of The Canterbury Tales.
• G. K. Chesterton, (1874-1936), author essayist
• Dame Agatha Christie, (1891-1976), mystery writer
• Winston Churchill, (1874-1965), British prime minister, author
• John Clare, (1793-1864), poet.
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (1772-1834), poet
• Wilkie Collins, (1824-1889), novelist
• William Congreve, (1670-1729), poet
• Walter de la Mare, (1873-1956),poet and novelist
• Daniel Defoe (or De Foe), (1660?–1731), writer
• Charles Dickens, (1812-1870), author
• John Donne, (1572-1631), poet.
• John Dryden, (1631-1700), poet
• Daphne Du Maurier, (1907–89), novelist
• George Eliot, (1819-1880), (Mary Ann Evans)
• T. S. Eliot, (1888-1965), poet, playwright and Nobel prizewinner
• C.S. Forester, 1899-1966) author
• E.M. Forster, (1879-1970), author
• Christopher Fry, (1907-2005), dramatist
• John Galsworthy, (1867-1933) author and dramatist
• Elizabeth Gaskell, novelist
• William Golding, writer, Nobel prizewinner
• Kenneth Grahame, (1859-1931), author
• Robert Graves, (1895-1985), author
• Thomas Gray, (1716-1771), poet
• Graham Greene, (1904-1991), author, writer
• Thomas Hardy, (1840-1928), poet
• William Hazlitt, (1778-1830)
• Gerard Manley Hopkins, (1884-1889), poet
• Nick Hornby, (born 1957), novelist
• A. E. Housman, (1859-1936),poet and scholar.
• Ted Hughes, 1930-1998), poet laureate.
• Leigh Hunt, (1784-1859), poet
• Aldous Huxley, (1884-1963), writer
• Thomas Henry Huxley, (1825-1895), coiner of the term agnosticism
• Jerome K. Jerome, (1859-1927), humorist and playwright
• Samuel Johnson, (1709-1784), poet
• Ben Jonson, (1573-1637), poet
• John Keats, (1795-1821), poet
• Rudyard Kipling, (1865-1936), author
• Philip Larkin, (1922-1985), poet
• D.H. Lawrence, (1885-1930), poet
• Edward Lear, (1812-1888), artist, humorist and poet
• Thomas Malory, (c. 1430-c. 1471), author of Le Morte d'Arthur
• Andrew Mango, (born 1926), author
• Christopher Marlowe, (1564-1593), playwright
• Eric Maschwitz, (1901-1969), writer, lyricist and entertainer
• John Masefield, (1878-1967), poet laureate, and novelist
• William Somerset Maugham, (18741965), writer
• A. A. Milne, (1882-1956), author and poet
• John Milton, (1608-1674), poet
• Nancy Mitford, (1904-1973), novelist
• William Morris, (1834-1896), architect, author
• William Ralph Inge, clergyman, writer, mysticist
• Joe Orton, (1933-1967), dramatist
• George Orwell, (1903-1950), (Eric Blair), journalist and novelist
• John Osborne, (1929-1994), dramatist, wrote Look Back In Anger
• Wilfred Owen, (1893-1918), war poet
• Samuel Pepys, (1633-1703), diarist and public official in 17th century England
• Harold Pinter, (b. 1930), playwright
• Alexander Pope, (1688-1744), poet
• Beatrix Potter, (1866-1943),author and illustrator
• J. B. Priestley, (1894-1984), dramatist and novelist
• Philip Pullman, (born 1946), author
• Arthur Ransome, (1884–1967), author,
• Christina Rossetti, (1830-1894), poet
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti, (1828-1882), poet
• J. K. Rowling (born 1965), author, creator of Harry Potter
• John Ruskin, (1819-1900), writer, critic and reformer
• Siegfried Sassoon, (1886-1967), war poet
• Dorothy L. Sayers, (1893-1957), mystery writer
• William Shakespeare, (c. 1564-1616), poet
• Mary Shelley, (1797-1851), author
• Percy Bysshe Shelley, (1792-1822), poet
• Philip Sidney, (1554-1586), poet and soldier
• Edmund Spenser,(c. 1552-1599), poet. Wrote The Faerie Queene
• Nevil Shute, (1899-1960), aeronautical engineer and author
• Stevie Smith, (1902-1971), poet and novelist
• Robert Southey, (1774-1843), Poet Laureate 1813
• Algernon Swinburne, (1837-1909), poet
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate
• William Makepeace Thackeray, (1811-193), novelist
• Anthony Trollope, (1815-1882), novellist
• Evelyn Waugh, (1903-1966), novelist
• John Webster, (died 1630), poet
• Gilbert White, (1720-1795)
• P. G. Wodehouse, (1881-1975), humorous author
• Mary Wollstonecraft, (1759-1797), pioneer feminist known for her work A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
• Virginia Woolf, (1882-1941), author and feminist.
• William Wordsworth, (1770-1850), Romantic poet