Newcastle upon Tyne

Newcastle upon Tyne, often shortened to Newcastle, is a city in the county of Tyne and Wear in North East England. It is also a unitary authority with a population of around 259,000 (2001 census). However, the metropolitan boroughs of North Tyneside (population c.190,000), South Tyneside (population c. 150,000) and Gateshead (population c.200,000) are also part of Newcastle's conurbation. Newcastle is the main city in North East England, and around the 14th largest city in England. As such, it is one of England's core cities.

List of people from Newcastle

Born in Newcastle

• Rudolph Abel - Soviet super-spy
• Thomas Addison - Diagnostician
• Mark Akenside - Poet and physician
• David Almond - Children's writer
• Paul W. S. Anderson - Filmmaker, producer and screenwriter
• Lord Armstrong - Engineer and industrialist
• Ove Arup - Architect
• Mary Astell - "The first English feminist"
• Rowan Atkinson - Actor
• Peter Beardsley - Footballer
• Israel Brodie - Chief Rabbi of Great Britain
• Michael Bryan Art connoisseur
• Basil Bunting - Poet
• Lord Collingwood - Nelson's second-in-command at Trafalgar
• Lord Eldon - Lord Chancellor of England
• William Hardcastle - Pioneer BBC radio news presenter
• Basil Hume - Cardinal in Roman Catholic church
• Lady Lucinda Lambton - Writer, photographer, television presenter and producer
• Hank Marvin - Guitarist, singer, and songwriter
• George Redmayne Murray Pathologist
• Jimmy Nail - Actor, singer, and writer
• Brian Redhead - Author, journalist and broadcaster
• Lewis Fry Richardson Meteorologist
• Alan Shearer - Footballer
• Nancy Spain - Author, journalist and TV personality
• George Stephenson - Locomotive engineer
• Robert Stephenson - Son of George, locomotive engineer, railway and bridge builder
• Sting (Gordon Sumner) - Singer, and songwriter
• Peter Taylor, Baron Taylor of Gosforth - Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
• Andy Taylor - Musician, Duran Duran
• 'Seaman' Tommy Watson - British featherweight champion
• Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly - Light entertainers (Ant and Dec)

Residents (past and present)

• Janet Adam Smith - Critic, anthologist, wife of Michael Roberts
• Charles Avison - Composer and impresario
• William Beilby - Glass enameller
• Thomas Bewick - Engraver and ornithologist
• Richard Dawes - Classical scholar
• Jonathan Edwards - Olympic champion
• Mrs Gaskell - Novelist
• Eca de Queiros - 'The Portuguese Dickens'.
• Tony Harrison - Poet
• Oliver Heaviside - Engineer, mathematician and physicist
• Arthur Henderson - Politician, founder of the modern Labour Party
• Harold Jeffreys - Mathematician and astronomer
• W. E. Johns - Adventure writer
• Mark Knopfler - Dire Straits guitarist
• John Knox - Scottish religious reformer
• Rosamond Lehmann - Novelist
• Jean-Paul Marat - French revolutionary
• Harriet Martineau - Writer and journalist
• Mary Midgley - Philosopher
• Alan Milburn - Politician
• Sir Andrew Noble - Arms manufacturer and scientist
• Sean O'Brien - Poet, playwright and critic
• Charles Parsons - Engineer
• John Wigham Richardson - Quaker industrialist
• Michael Roberts - Poet and critic
• William Bell Scott - Poet and Pre-raphaelite painter.
• Jon Silkin - Poet
• John Snow - Physician
• Cecil Philip Taylor - Playwright
• Bruce Welch - Guitarist, singer, and record producer
• John Wesley - Founder of Methodism
• Ludwig Wittgenstein - Philosopher
• Yevgeni Zamyatin - Russian novelist