List of people from Newcastle upon Tyne
This is a list of notable people born in, or associated with, Newcastle upon Tyne in England.
Born in Newcastle
- David Martin Abrahams - entrepreneur and philanthropist
- Thomas Addison - physician and scientist who first diagnosed Addison's disease
- Donna Air - television presenter
- Mark Akenside - poet and physician
- Paul W. S. Anderson - film maker, producer and screenwriter
- Amy Kelly - movie and television actress (won a BAFTA award for wolfblood)
- Ant & Dec - light entertainers (Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly)
- Lord Armstrong - engineer and industrialist
- Ove Arup - architect and civil engineer
- Mary Astell - writer ('The first English feminist')
- Robert Barker - painter, inventor of the panorama
- Michelle Bass - model and television pornography presenter
- Isaac Lowthian Bell - ironmaster and politician
- Israel Brodie - chief rabbi of Great Britain
- Basil Bunting - first English modernist poet
- Eric Burdon - singer (The Animals)
- John Dobson - the Milky Bar Kid
- Peter Cadogan - social activist
- Chas Chandler - bass guitarist with The Animals, manager of Jimi Hendrix and Slade
- Edward Clark - conductor and BBC music producer
- Cheryl Cole - singer in pop group Girls Aloud (also voted FHM's sexiest woman alive for the last two years)
- Lord Collingwood - Nelson's second-in-command at Trafalgar
- Jack Common - writer, friend of George Orwell
- David Scott Cowper - yachtsman and multiple circumnavigator by sailboat and powerboat
- Raffaello de Banfield – composer
- John Dewhirst - the only Briton to die in the Killing Fields of Cambodia.
- Chris Donald - founder of the comic paper VIZ
- Jack Douglas - actor in the Carry On series
- Lesley Douglas - former controller of BBC Radio 2 and BBC 6 Music
- Lord Eldon - lord chancellor of England
- Elizabeth Elstob - Anglo-Saxon scholar
- John Forster - friend and biographer of Dickens.
- Huck Gee - contemporary artist
- John and Benjamin Green - father & son architects.
- Julia Griffiths - abolitionist, edited and published the works of Frederick Douglass.
- Lee Hall - playwright (Billy Elliot screenplay)
- William Hardcastle - first presenter of The World at One.
- Peter Higgs - theoretical physicist (Higgs' boson)
- Charlie Hunnam - actor (Sons of Anarchy), (Queer as Folk), (Byker Grove)
- Alan Hull - musician (Lindisfarne)
- Basil Hume - cardinal in Roman Catholic church
- Charles Hutton - mathematician
- John Irvin - film director
- Wilfred Josephs - composer
- Paul Kennedy - historian, author, professor of history at Yale
- Ian La Frenais - TV scriptwriter ('Porridge', 'The Likely Lads')
- (Gavin) Graham Laidler - cartoonist ('Pont' of Punch)
- Andrew Laing - marine engineer
- Lady Lucinda Lambton - writer, photographer, television presenter and producer
- Herbert Laming, Baron Laming - life peer
- Carla Lynch - comedian and TV presenter
- Carole Malone - columnist and TV presenter
- Neil Marshall - director
- Hank Marvin - guitarist, singer, and songwriter
- Billy McCracken - footballer, invented the offside trap.
- Esther McCracken - playwright
- John Anthony McGuckin - theologian, Orthodox archpriest, Professor of History at Columbia, NY.
- Janet McTeer - Oscar nominated actress
- Charles Merz - electrical engineer noted for creating the electrical grid
- Jimmy Mullen - England football international
- Matthew Murray - steam engine and machine tool manufacturer; designed and built first commercially viable steam locomotive
- Jimmy Nail - actor, singer, and writer
- Ross Noble - stand-up comic
- Daniel Oliver - botanist, keeper at Kew
- Fred Olsen - inventor of the ball propellant manufacturing process[1]
- Ben Price - actor
- Brian Redhead - author, journalist and broadcaster
- Thomas Wemyss Reid - journalist, biographer
- Lewis Fry Richardson - meteorologist
- Matt Ridley - science writer
- Alan Robson - radio DJ and broadcaster
- George Robson - racing driver, winner of the 1946 Indianapolis 500
- Sue Rolph - swimmer
- Ralph Rumney - artist, co-founder of the Situationist International with Guy Debord
- Chris Ryan - soldier turned novelist
- Ben Satterly - professional wrestler known as PAC and Adrian Neville
- Hugh Stowell Scott – novelist who wrote as Henry Seton Merriman
- James Scott - actor
- Lord Stowell - legal authority
- Alan Shearer - international footballer, England captain.
- Tod Slaughter - actor and film star
- Nancy Spain - author, journalist and TV personality
- Thomas Spence - Utopian writer
- Sting - musician
- Miriam Stoppard - doctor and agony aunt (Daily Mirror)
- Peter Taylor, Baron Taylor of Gosforth - Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
- Peter Terson - playwright
- Dave Thomas – golfer, twice runner-up in The Open Championship
- Samuel Tolansky - scientist
- Bill Travers - actor
- Colin Veitch - Newcastle League and Cup winner, England international footballer, union negotiator, playwright.
- Abhisit Vejjajiva – Thailand’s prime minister from 2008.[2]
- Bill Ward - actor
- Greg Wise - actor, married to Emma Thompson since 2003
- Lord Woolf - Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
- Elsie Tu - social activist
- Adam Wakenshaw - recipient of the Victoria Cross
- William Hails - writer
Residents (past and present)
- David Almond - prize-winning author (Skellig)
- Gem Archer - guitarist, member of the band Oasis
- Charles Avison - composer and impresario
- William Beilby - glass enameller
- Nick Bell - entrepreneur
- Thomas Bewick - engraver and ornithologist
- Chaz Brenchley - writer
- Constance Briscoe - judge and bestselling author
- Sid Chaplin - writer
- Charles I - prisoner in Newcastle 1646-47
- Catherine Cookson - once the world's bestselling author
- Joseph Conrad - writer, served on Tyne colliers in 1878
- Ian Cottage - film director
- Lucio Costa - Brazilian architect, designed masterplan of Brasília, grew up in Newcastle
- Joseph Cowen - radical MP and newspaper owner
- John Cunningham - pastoral poet, dramatist, and stage actor
- Richard Dawes - classical scholar
- Flavio de Carvalho - Brazilian artist and architect
- Roger de Grey - artist
- Spencer de Grey - architect, head of design at Foster & Partners
- John Dobson - architect
- Jonathan Edwards - Olympic champion
- José Maria de Eça de Queiroz - diplomat and novelist, "the Portuguese Dickens".
- John Meade Falkner - head of Armstrongs and novelist (Moonfleet)
- Terry Farrell - eminent modern architect
- João Cândido Felisberto - Brazilian sailor, leader of the 1910 Chibata Revolt
- Mike Figgis - film-maker, in Newcastle from age of eight
- James Louis Garvin - influential newspaper editor
- Paul Gascoigne - footballer
- Mrs Gaskell - novelist
- Giuseppe Garibaldi - revolutionary
- Ingeborg Refling Hagen - Norwegian writer
- Tony Harrison - poet
- Oliver Heaviside - engineer, mathematician and physicist
- Ralph Hedley - Realist painter
- Arthur Henderson - politician, founder of modern Labour Party
- Paul Howson - Explorer, Natural Athlete and inventor of the BBQ
- 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
- John Lilburne - agitator, born in County Durham, grew up in Newcastle
- Ken Major (1928–2009), architect, author and molinologist, attended King's College, Newcastle upon Tyne
- Jean-Paul Marat - French revolutionary
- John Martin - painter
- Harriet Martineau - writer and journalist
- Mary Midgley - philosopher
- Charles Mitchell - shipbuilder
- Elizabeth Montagu - coal owner and bluestocking
- Alexei Mordashov - Russian billionaire
- Robert Morrison - first Protestant missionary in China.
- Mo Mowlam - politician
- Sir Andrew Noble - arms manufacturer and scientist
- Paul Noble - artist
- Sean O'Brien - poet and critic
- Nikolay Ogarev - Russian poet and political activist
- Lembit Opik - MP, worked at Procter and Gamble for ten years, local councillor
- Charles Parsons - engineer and inventor
- Michael Roberts - poet and critic
- Diana Ross - children's author (The Little Red Engine)
- Erik Routley - hymn writer
- William Bell Scott - poet and Pre-Raphaelite painter.
- Jon Silkin - poet
- Peter Smithson - Stockton-born Modernist architect.
- John Snow - anaesthetist and founder of epidemiology
- Sir James Calvert Spence - paediatrician
- William Thomas Stead - journalist
- Algernon Charles Swinburne - poet
- Cecil Philip Taylor - playwright
- Gerald Vann - Roman Catholic theologian and philosopher
- Don Warrington – actor
- Bruce Welch - guitarist, singer
- Denise Welch - actress
- John Wesley - founder of Methodism
- Kevin Whately - actor
- Ludwig Wittgenstein - philosopher
- Yevgeny Zamyatin - Russian novelist, (We)
- Jimi Hendrix - musician, singer, songwriter
References
- ↑ Saxon, Wolfgang. "Dr. Fred Olsen, Industrial Chemist, Art Collector and Scholar, is Dead". New York Times. Retrieved 20 February 2015.
- ↑ Powell, Sian (2008-12-15). "British-born Abhisit Vejjajiva is Thailand's new Prime Minister". Times Online.