List of people from Newcastle upon Tyne
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This is a list of famous or notable people born in, or associated with, Newcastle upon Tyne in England.
[edit] Born in Newcastle
- Rudolf Abel - Soviet super-spy
- Thomas Addison - Diagnostician (Addison's Disease)
- Donna Air - Television presenter
- Mark Akenside - Poet and physician
- Paul W. S. Anderson - Film maker, producer and screenwriter
- Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly - Light entertainers (Ant and Dec)
- Lord Armstrong - Engineer and industrialist
- Ove Arup - Architect and civil engineer
- Mary Astell - Writer ('The first English feminist')
- Rowan Atkinson - Comedian
- Michelle Bass - Model and television pornography presenter
- Peter Beardsley - Footballer
- William Boutland Wilkinson - Inventor of Reinforced Concrete Buildings
- Israel Brodie - Chief Rabbi of Great Britain
- Basil Bunting - First English modernist poet
- Eric Burdon - Singer (The Animals)
- Peter Cadogan - Left wing social activist
- James Wilson Carmichael Painter
- Lord Collingwood - Nelson's second-in-command at Trafalgar
- Jack Common - Writer, friend of Orwell
- John Dewhirst - The only Briton to die in the Killing Fields of Cambodia.
- Chris Donald - Founder of VIZ comic magazine
- Lord Eldon - Lord Chancellor of England
- Helen (Dawson) Osborne - Editor and last wife of John Osborne
- Elizabeth Elstob - Anglo-Saxon scholar
- John Forster - Friend and biographer of Dickens.
- John Gregg - Founder of Gregg's bakers
- Lee Hall - Playwright (Billy Elliot screenplay)
- John Hancock - Zoologist (Hancock Museum)
- Peter Higgs - Theoretical physicist (Higgs'boson)
- Charlie Hunnam - Actor
- Alan Hull - Musician (Lindisfarne)
- Basil Hume - Cardinal in Roman Catholic church
- Charles Hutton - Mathematician
- Brian Johnson - Vocalist with Rock band AC/DC
- Wilfred Josephs - Composer
- (Gavin) Graham Laidler - Cartoonist ('Pont' of Punch)
- Ian La Frenais - TV scriptwriter ('Porridge', 'The Likely Lads')
- Lady Lucinda Lambton - Writer, photographer, television presenter and producer
- Andrew Laing - Marine engineer
- Carla Lynch - Comedienne and TV Presenter
- Hank Marvin - Guitarist, singer, and songwriter
- Esther McCracken - Playwright
- Rev Dr Paul McPartlan - Pre-eminent Catholic Theologian
- Janet McTeer - Oscar nominated actress
- Jimmy Nail - Actor, singer, and writer
- Ross Noble - Comedian and radio presenter
- Daniel Oliver - Botanist, Keeper at Kew
- Brian Redhead - Author, journalist and broadcaster
- Lewis Fry Richardson - Meteorologist
- Matt Ridley - Science writer
- Alan Robson - Radio DJ and Broadcaster
- Sue Rolph - Swimmer
- James Scott - Actor
- Lord Stowell - Legal authority
- Alan Shearer - Footballer
- Tod Slaughter - Actor and film star
- Nancy Spain - Author, journalist and TV personality
- Thomas Spence - Utopian writer
- George Stephenson - Locomotive engineer; Father of the Railway
- Robert Stephenson - Son of George, locomotive engineer, railway and bridge builder
- Sting - Musician
- Miriam Stoppard - Doctor and agony aunt Daily Mirror
- Peter Taylor, Baron Taylor of Gosforth - Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
- Andy Taylor - Musician, Duran Duran
- Peter Terson - Playwright
- Bill Travers - Actor
- Cheryl Tweedy - Member of pop group Girls Aloud
- Bill Ward - Actor
- Greg Wise - Actor. Married to Emma Thompson since 2003.
- Lord Woolf - Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
[edit] Residents (past and present)
- David Almond - Prize-winning author (Skellig)
- Charles Avison - Composer and impresario
- William Beilby - Glass enameller
- Nick Bell - Entrepreneur
- Thomas Bewick - Engraver and ornithologist
- Sid Chaplin - Writer
- Charles I - King of England a prisoner in Newcastle 1646-47
- Carol Clewlow - Novelist. Her Woman's Guide to Adultery is set in Newcastle.
- Ian Cottage - Film director
- Lucio Costa - Brazilian Architect, designed masterplan of Brasilia, grew up in Newcastle.
- Joseph Cowen - Radical MP and newspaper owner
- John Cunningham - Pastoral poet, dramatist, 'Love in a Mist' and stage actor
- Richard Dawes - Classical scholar
- Spencer de Grey - Architect, Head of design at Foster & Partners
- John Dobson - Architect
- Jonathan Edwards - Olympic champion
- José Maria Eça de Queiroz - Diplomat and novelist, 'the Portuguese Dickens'.
- John Meade Falkner - Head of Armstrongs and novelist (Moonfleet)
- Terry Farrell - Eminent modern architect
- James Louis Garvin Influential newspaper editor
- Paul Gascoigne - Footballer
- Mrs Gaskell - Novelist
- Giuseppe Garibaldi - revolutionary
- Tony Harrison - Poet
- Oliver Heaviside - Engineer, mathematician and physicist
- Ralph Hedley - Realist painter
- Arthur Henderson - Politician, founder of the modern Labour Party
- Charlton Heston - Actor
- Eva Ibbotson - Children's writer (Which Witch?)
- Harold Jeffreys - Geologist, mathematician and astronomer
- W. E. Johns - Adventure writer (Biggles)
- Brian Johnson - Lead singer of (AC/DC)
- Mark Knopfler - Dire Straits guitarist
- John Knox - Scottish religious reformer
- Jean-Paul Marat - French revolutionary
- John Martin - Painter
- Harriet Martineau - Writer and journalist
- Mary Midgley - Philosopher
- Charles Mitchell - Shipbuilder
- Robert Morrison - First Protestant missionary in China.
- Sir Andrew Noble - Arms manufacturer and scientist
- Sean O'Brien - Poet and critic
- Charles Parsons - Engineer and inventor.
- Michael Roberts - Poet and critic
- Diana Ross - Children's author (The Little Red Engine)
- Arnold Schwarzenegger - Bodybuilder, Actor, Politician.
- William Bell Scott - Poet and Pre-raphaelite painter.
- Jon Silkin - Poet
- John Smithson - Durham bred Modernist Architect, lived in Newcastle for 8 years as a youngster.
- John Snow - Anaesthetist and founder of epidemiology
- Sir James Calvert Spence - Paediatrician
- Cecil Philip Taylor - Playwright
- Bruce Welch - Guitarist, singer, and record producer
- Denise Welch - Actress
- John Wesley - Founder of Methodism
- Kevin Whately - Actor
- Ludwig Wittgenstein - Philosopher
- Yevgeny Zamyatin - Russian novelist, (We)
