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This is a list of famous or notable people born in, or associated with, Birmingham in England.
[edit] Born in Birmingham
- Albert Austin --- (Silent film star)
- Sir Michael Balcon --- (Film Director)
- Edward White Benson --- (Archbishop of Canterbury)
- Alfred Bird - (Inventor of custard powder)
- Sir Alfred Frederick Bird - (Food manufacturer and chemist)
- Matthew Boulton --- (Pioneering industrialist and member of the Lunar Society)
- William Bragge --- (Civil engineer/Antiquarian)
- Justin Broadrick --- (Musician - Godflesh)
- Geezer Butler --- bassist of (Black Sabbath)
- Pogus Caesar --- (TV Director and Photographer)
- John Cadbury --- (Founder of the Cadbury chocolate company)
- Ali Campbell and Robin Campbell --- (Music band UB40)
- David Cannadine --- (Historian)
- Barbara Cartland --- (Novelist)
- Jasper Carrott --- (Comedian)
- Austen Chamberlain --- (Politician)
- Neville Chamberlain --- (Former Prime Minister)
- Lee Child Author brought up in Birmingham
- Lisa Clayton --- (Solo yachtswoman)
- David Cox --- (Artist)
- Chris Crudelli --- (Martial artist)
- Cat Deeley --- (Television Presenter)
- Oscar Deutsch --- (Founder of the Odeon Cinemas chain)
- Hunt Emerson --- (Cartoonist)
- Frederick Roland Emett --- (Cartoonist, artist and kinetic sculptor)
- Trevor Eve --- (Actor)
- Sid Field --- (Comedian)
- Sir Francis Galton --- (Scientist, founder of eugenics)
- Roland Gift --- (Actor and musician - Fine Young Cannibals)
- Mark "Barney" Greenway ---(Musician - Napalm Death)
- Rob Halford --- (Musician - Judas Priest)
- Tony Hancock --- (Comedian and actor)
- William Haywood (architect) --- (Architect, Town Planner and Secretary of The Birmingham Civic Society)
- George Jacob Holyoake --- reformer
- Raymond Huntley --- (Actor)
- Tony Iommi --- (Musician - Black Sabbath)
- Jamelia --- (R&B singer)
- Seth Johnson --- (Sportsman Derby Footballer)
- Ann Jones --- (Tennis player)
- Sir Digby Jones --- (Director-General of the CBI)
- Edward Burne-Jones -- (Pre-Raphaelite painter)
- Albert William Ketèlbey --- (Composer)
- Frederick William Lanchester --- (builder, with his brother, of the first petrol-driven car in Britain)
- Jeff Lynne --- (Founder of the Electric Light Orchestra)
- Nigel Mansell --- (Sportsman- F1 Motorsport Driver)
- Eric Maschwitz --- (lyricist)
- Nick Mason --- (Musician - Pink Floyd)
- Christine McVie --- (Musician - Fleetwood Mac)
- Shazia Mirza --- (Comedian)
- Alan Napier --- (cousin of Neville Chamberlain, great-great grandson of Charles Dickens, acted in Orson Welles Macbeth, MGM's Julius Caesar and Joan of Arc, he is better known as Bruce Wayne's faithful butler Alfred in Batman)
- Henry Vollam Morton --- (Journalist and travel writer)
- Constance Naden --- (Poet & Philosopher)
- Ernest Willmott Norton, --- (Cricketer)
- Ozzy Osbourne --- (Musician - Black Sabbath, TV star)
- Carl Palmer --- (Musician - Emerson Lake and Palmer)
- Alexander Parkes --- (Inventor of the first thermoplastic and celluloids)
- Dave Pegg --- (Musician - Fairport Convention, Jethro Tull)
- Enoch Powell --- (Politician, poet and classical scholar)
- Michael Pinder --- (Musician - Moody Blues)
- Alfred Radcliffe-Brown --- (anthropologist)
- Nick Rhodes --- (Musician - Duran Duran)
- Pat Roach --- (Actor and wrestler)
- Sax Rohmer (Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward) --- (novelist - Fu Manchu)
- Gary Shaw --- (footballer)
- 1st Viscount Slim of Yarralumla and Bishopston --- (British Military Commander)
- Andrew Symonds --- (Famous cricketer now playing in Australia)
- John Taylor --- (Musician - Duran Duran)
- Roger Taylor --- (Musician - Duran Duran)
- Will Thorne --- (Trade union leader and Labour MP)
- Charlie Timmins ---(Former Coventry City Football Club Captain)
- Murray Walker --- (Racing driver and commentator)
- Bill Ward --- drummer of (Black Sabbath)
- Bill Watkins --- author now living in the USA.
- Brooke Foss Westcott --- (Theologian and Bishop of Durham)
- Willard Wigan --- (Sculptor)
- Toyah Willcox --- (Singer, actress and television presenter)
- Steve Winwood --- (Musician)
- Benjamin Zephaniah --- (Poet)
- Jennifer Guerin --- (Editor)
[edit] Lived in, or associated with, Birmingham
- Joan Armatrading --- (Singer/Songwriter)
- David Attenborough ( TV Wildlife Presenter)
- W. H. Auden --- (Poet and author)
- W. V. Awdry --- (Author of The Railway Series)
- Babu --- (Runaway Red Panda)
- Pato Banton --- (Reggae Artist)
- John Baskerville --- (Printer and inventor of typefaces)
- William Bloye --- (Sculptor)
- John Bright --- (Politician)
- Herbert Tudor Buckland --- (Architect)
- Elihu Burritt --- (US consul to Birmingham)
- Pogus Caesar --- (Broadcaster and artist)
- Jazzy B --- (Famous Punjabi singer)
- Daniel Caines - (Athlete, 400m event)
- Joseph Chamberlain --- (Politician, Mayor of Birmingham)
- Bruce Chatwin --- (Author)
- George Dawson --- (preacher and inspiration for Victorian Birmingham)
- Arthur Conan Doyle --- (Author of Sherlock Holmes)
- John Boyd Dunlop --- (Industrialist, built Fort Dunlop)
- Justin Edwards --- (UK Jazz Musician)
- Revd.Richard Enraght---religious controversialist, Vicar of Holy Trinity, Bordesley, 1874-1883
- Joseph Gillott --- industrialist
- Tommy Godwin --- (Racing cyclist and Olympic medallist)
- Ashia Hansen --- (Gold Medallist Athlete, European Indoor Championships)
- James Hinks --- (Bred the Bull Terrier dog)
- Washington Irving --- (Author)
- John Joubert --- (South African-born composer)
- Robert Lloyd --- (Musician - The Nightingales)
- Louis MacNeice --- (Poet)
- Josiah Mason --- (Industrialist and philanthropist)
- Nigel Mansell --- (Racing driver)
- Cardinal Newman --- (Theologian and founder of the English Oratory
- Sir Peter Brian Medawar --- (Zoologist)
- William Murdoch --- (Inventor of gas lighting)
- Roi Kwabena (author)
- Bill Oddie --- (Comedian and ornithologist)
- John Peel --- (Radio DJ)
- Sadie Plant --- (Author)
- Elizabeth "Tetty" Porter --- wife of Samuel Johnson
- Joseph Priestley --- (Chemist and dissenting clergyman)
- Sir Simon Rattle --- (conductor of City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra 1980-1998)
- John Ray --- ("the father of English natural history"; lived at Sutton Coldfield)in 1676-1677
- Sir Peter Rigby --- (Entrepreneur)
- John Robshaw - Eminent Physician
- Mike Skinner --- (Musician - The Streets)
- Sir Benjamin Stone --- (Pioneering photographer)
- Simon Sturridge --- (Footballer)
- Dean Sturridge --- (Footballer)
- Daniel Sturridge --- (Footballer)
- Dave Swarbrick --- (Musician - Fairport Convention, Dave Swarbrick and Martin Carthy)
- J. R. R. Tolkien --- (Fantasy author)
- Joshua Toulmin --- (Non-conformist preacher)
- Joshua Toulmin Smith --- (Political theorist)
- Bill Watkins --- (Author of The Once and Future Celt trilogy)
- James Watt --- (Inventor and member of the Lunar Society)
- Una White --- Subject of public art-work
- William Withering --- (Doctor, discoverer of digitalis)
- Alastair Yates --- (Radio and television presenter)
- Dorian Yates --- (92,93,94,95,96,97 Mr Olympia)
- Jamelia --- (RnB singer)
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