Famous People

Perry McCarthy

English racing driver

Luther Blissett

English association football player, coach and manager (born 1958)

Charley Webb

English actress

Charley Hull

English professional golfer

Penelope Keith

English actress (born 1940)

Penelope Boothby

English badminton and tennis player (1881–1970)

Penelope Wilton

English actress

Sammie Szmodics

English-born Irish association football player (born 1995)

Golda Rosheuvel

English actress

Freddie Woodman

English association football player

Freddie Flintoff

English cricketer and TV personality

Freddie Jones

English character actor (1927-2019)

Freddie Sears

English association football player (born 1989)

Clifford C. Grayling

English philosopher

Carey Mulligan

English actress (born 1985)

Eve Stone

English singer, songwriter, and actress (born 1987)

Margery Mason

English actress (1913–2014)

Margery Sharp

English writer (1905–1991)

Margery Allingham

English writer of detective fiction, editor (1904–1966)

Norah Baring

English actress (1905-1985)

Eloise Markovc

English long-distance runner (b. 1995)

Fay Ripley

English actress, television presenter, cookbook author

Fay Compton

English actress (1894–1978)

Sidney Woolf

English political theorist, author, publisher and civil servant (1880-1969)

Sidney Ackland

English actor (1928–2023)

Sidney Webb

English socialist economist, 1859–1947 (1859–1947)

Evie Boden

English actress

Clementine Laine

English jazz singer and actress (1927–2025)

Vesta Tilley

English music hall performer and male impersonator (1864–1952)

Octavia Hill

English social reformer (1838-1912)

Catharine Parr Traill

English-Canadian author and botanical artist (1802-1899)

Catharine Trotter

English novelist, dramatist, philosopher (1674-1749)

Catharine Macaulay

English historian, philosopher, feminist (1731-1791)

Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire

English socialite, style icon, author, and activist (1757–1806)

Madge Adam

English solar astronomer (1912-2001)

Violet Keppel Trefusis

English socialite and author (1894–1972)

Violet Robinson

English economist (1903–1983)

Katharine Douglass

English tennis and badminton player (1878–1960)

Nell Tiger Free

English actress

Bertie Mee

English footballer and manager (1918-2001)

Harriett Abrams

English musician, singer, composer

Winifred Cooper

noblewoman; English social figure, actress and memoirist, editor (1892–1986)

Winifred Dane

English novelist (1888-1965)

Winifred Beamish

English tennis player

Winifred McNair

English tennis player (1877–1954)

Winifred Beard

English classicist (born 1955)

Amelia Opie

English writer, novelist, abolitionist (1769-1853)

Amelia Edwards

English novelist, journalist, traveller and egyptologist (1831–1892)