From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of famous or notable people born in, or associated with, Birmingham in England.
Famous people born in Birmingham
- Emma Willis - (TV presenter)
- Walter Abbott – (Footballer)
- Gabriel Agbonlahor – (Footballer)
- Moeen Ali – (England cricketer)
- Dennis Amiss – (Cricketer and Warwickshire Administrator)
- Keith Arkell – (English Chess champion, 2008)
- Stephen Arlen – (Opera manager)
- Ian Ashbee – (Footballer)
- Francis William Aston – (Nobel Prize winner, Physicist)
- Ian Atkins – (Footballer)
- Albert Austin – (Silent film star)
- Jack Badham – (Footballer)
- Don Stanley – (Yodeller)
- Kenny Baker Actor R2D2 in Star Wars
- Sir Michael Balcon – (Film director)
- Pato Banton – (Reggae artist)
- Dave Barnett – (Footballer)
- Simon Bates – (DJ)
- Blaze Bayley – (Musician, former vocalist of Wolfsbane and Iron Maiden)
- Moazzam Begg - (Outreach Director)
- Edward White Benson – (Archbishop of Canterbury)
- Bev Bevan – (Musician)
- Big Dog Yogo (Rapper)
- Alfred Bird – (Inventor of custard powder)
- Cameron Blain - (Musician)
- Daniel Boone – (Musician)
- Sarah Booth – (Actress)
- Matthew Boulton – (Pioneering industrialist and member of the Lunar Society)
- Jon Bounds – (Blogger, humorist)
- Peter Bradley – (Politician)
- William Bragge – (Civil engineer/Antiquarian)
- Edward Burne-Jones – (Pre-Raphaelite painter and William Morris Associate)
- Trevor Burton – (Musician)
- Geezer Butler – Bassist, (Black Sabbath)
- George Cadbury – (Son of John Cadbury, Founder of the Cadbury chocolate company)
- John Cadbury – (Founder of the Cadbury chocolate company)
- Richard Cadbury – (Son of John Cadbury, Founder of the Cadbury chocolate company)
- Pogus Caesar – (TV Director and photographer)
- Ali Campbell and Robin Campbell – (Musician, UB40)
- Duncan Campbell – (Musician)
- David Cannadine – (Historian)
- Bob Carolgees TV Presenter Tiswas and Surprise Surprise
- Lee Carsley – (Footballer)
- Darren Carter – (Footballer)
- John Carter – (Musician)
- Barbara Cartland – (Novelist)
- Jasper Carrott – (Comedian)
- Austen Chamberlain – (Politician)
- Neville Chamberlain – (Prime Minister)
- Gary Childs – (Footballer)
- Adrian Chiles – (Broadcaster)
- Ian Clarkson – (Footballer)
- Lisa Clayton – (Solo yachtswoman)
- Janice Connolly – (Comedy actress)
- Andy Cox Musician – Fine Young Cannibals and The Beat
- David Cox – (Artist)
- Lauren Crace – (Actress)
- Aleem Iqbal – (YouTube and Award Winning Entrepreneur)
- Chris Crudelli – (Martial artist)
- John Curry – (Olympic and World Champion figure skater)
- Arthur Darvill – (Actor and singer-Doctor Who)
- Aidan Davis – (Dancer and TV Presenter)
- Lindsey Davis (Historical Novelist)
- Cat Deeley – (Television presenter)
- Nathan Delfouneso – (Footballer)
- Oscar Deutsch – (Founder of the Odeon Cinemas chain)
- Don Dorman – (Paratrooper, 1st Airborne Division, footballer, manager and scout)
- K.K. Downing – (Musician)
- Hunt Emerson – (Cartoonist)
- Ian Emes – (Animator)
- Frederick Rowland Emett – (Cartoonist, artist and kinetic sculptor)
- Jo Enright – (Actress and comedian)
- Niki Evans – (Singer)
- Trevor Eve – (Actor)
- Earl Falconer – Bass player, UB40
- Frank Farrell – (Rock bassist and co-writer of chart hit "Moonlighting")
- Sid Field – (Comedian)
- Robert Firth – (Footballer and Real Madrid Manager )
- Philip Edward Fisher – (Musician)
- Winston Foster – (Footballer)
- Kevin Francis – (Footballer)
- Edward Augustus Freeman – (Historian, architectural artist and liberal politician)
- Fuzzbox – late 1980s girl band
- Phil Hawker – (Footballer)
- Ian Hill – (Musician)
- Martha Howe-Douglas – (Actor)
- Sir Francis Galton – (Scientist, founder of eugenics)
- Albert Gardner – (Footballer)
- Mike Gayle – (Author)
- Helen George – (Actress)
- Steve Gibbons – (Musician)
- Roland Gift – (Actor and musician, Fine Young Cannibals)
- John Goldingay – Theologian; currently working as Professor of Old Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California.
- Jaki Graham – (Soul singer)
- Jack Grealish – (Footballer)
- Mark "Barney" Greenway – (Musician, Napalm Death)
- Tom Grosvenor – (Footballer)
- Rob Halford – (Musician, Judas Priest)
- Charlie Hall – (Actor, most famous for his work with Laurel and Hardy)
- Anisa Haghdadi – Social Entrepreneur
- Alison Hammond – (Television presenter)
- Richard Hammond – (Broadcaster, Top Gear)
- John Hampson – (Novelist)
- Tony Hancock – (Comedian and actor)
- Ian Handysides – (Footballer)
- Nic Harcourt – (American radio personality)
- David Harewood – (Actor)
- Wally Harris – (Footballer)
- Julia Hartley-Brewer – Journalist and TV panelist
- Norman Hassan – Perrcussionist, UB40
- William Hayward – (Architect, town planner and Secretary of The Birmingham Civic Society)
- Lee Hendrie – Former Aston Villa and current Basford United midfielder
- Duane Henry - (Actor)
- Michael Higgs – (Actor)
- Jacqueline Hill – (Actress, Doctor Who)
- Ken Hodge – (NHL player)
- George Jacob Holyoake – (Reformer)
- Jack Hood – (Boxer)
- Dorothy Howell – (Musician)
- Mr Hudson – (Singer)
- David Hughes – (Opera tenor)
- Geoff Humpage – (Cricketer)
- Raymond Huntley – (Actor)
- Kassem Ibadulla – (Cricketer)
- Tony Iommi – Guitarist, (Black Sabbath)
- Jamelia – (R&B singer)
- Seth Johnson – (Sportsman Derby Footballer)
- Ann Jones – (Tennis player)
- Digby Jones – (Director-General of the CBI)
- Felicity Jones – (Actress)
- Geoffrey Jones (academic) – (Business Historian)
- Ace Kefford – (Musician)
- Mike Kellie – (Musician, Spooky Tooth, The Only Ones)
- David Kelly – (Republic of Ireland footballer)
- Louise Kemble
- Albert William Ketèlbey – (Composer)
- Rupert Alfred Kettle – (County court judge and noted strike arbitrator)
- Robert Kilroy-Silk – (Politician and television presenter)
- Denny Laine – (Paul McCartney and Wings)
- Frederick William Lanchester – (Maker of the first petrol-driven car in Britain)
- Bunny Larkin – (Footballer)
- Bob Latchford – (Footballer)
- Dave Latchford – (Footballer)
- Peter Latchford – (Footballer)
- Ian Lavender – Actor in Dads Army and Eastenders
- Alfred Law – (Warwickshire Cricketer & Umpire)
- Russell Leetch – (Musician)
- Joleon Lescott – (Footballer, formerly of Man City, Everton and Wolves)
- Adrian Lester – (Actor)
- Dick Lilley – (England and Warwickshire Cricketer)
- John Lodge – (Musician)
- Jane C. Loudon – (Author of Prose and Verse and The Mummy)
- Joseph Lucas – (Founder of Lucas Industries)
- Joe Lycett - (Comedian)
- Jeff Lynne – (Musician; co-founder of the Electric Light Orchestra)
- Clare Maguire (Musician born in Solihull but resides in London)
- Nigel Mansell – (Sportsman, F1 driver)
- Lee Mantle – (U.S. Senator from Montana)[1]
- Sarah Manners – (Actress)
- Tony Martin – (Musician, singer of (Black Sabbath)
- Eric Maschwitz – (lyricist)
- Herbert Mason MC – (Film director, producer, stage actor, stage manager, choreographer and army officer in the First World War)
- Nick Mason – (Musician, Pink Floyd; did not reside in Birmingham)
- Robert McCracken – (Boxer, Commonwealth Middleweight champion and World Title challenger)
- Zena McNally – (Singer, Mis-Teeq)
- Christine McVie – Musician, Fleetwood Mac
- Gil Merrick – (Footballer and club manager)
- Shazia Mirza – (Comedian)
- Mist - (Rapper)
- Alan Moore – (Musician)
- Henry Vollam Morton – (Journalist and travel writer)
- Laura Mvula – (singer-songwriter)
- Stanley Myers – (Film music composer)
- Constance Naden – (Poet and philosopher)
- Alan Napier – (Actor)
- Ernest Willmott Norton – (Cricketer)
- Ocean Colour Scene – Band from Moseley
- John Oliver – Comedian and 'Senior British Correspondent' of (The Daily Show)
- Ozzy Osbourne – Singer, (Black Sabbath)
- Carl Palmer – (Musician, Emerson, Lake & Palmer)
- Kay Parker – (Pornographic actress)
- Alexander Parkes – (Inventor of the world's first plastic)
- Norman Partridge – (Warwickshire Cricketer)
- William Pearce – (Comedian)
- Dave Pegg – (Musician, Fairport Convention, Jethro Tull)
- Stephen Perryman – (Warwickshire Cricketer)
- Gerry Peyton – (Footballer and goalkeeper coach)
- James and Oliver Phelps – (Harry Potter movie actors)
- Michael Pinder – (Musician, The Moody Blues)
- Jacki Piper – (Actress)
- John Poole – (Sculptor)
- Enoch Powell – (Politician, poet and classical scholar)
- Peter Powell – (Disc jockey)
- Rick Price – (Musician)
- Bernard Quaife – (Cricketer)
- Alfred Radcliffe-Brown – (Anthropologist)
- Ranking Roger – (Musician, The Beat)
- Mick Rathbone – (Footballer)
- Adil Ray – (Comedian, actor, writer and presenter)
- Nick Rhodes – (Musician, Duran Duran)
- Micah Richards – (Manchester City F.C defender)
- Walter Richards – (Cricketer and umpire)
- Pat Roach – (Actor and wrestler)
- Dave Robinson – (Footballer)
- John Rogers (c.1500–1555) – (Bible editor and martyr)
- Sax Rohmer (Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward) – (Novelist)
- Les Ross – (Radio legend)
- Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck – (Author About Women in Society, Religion, & An Abolitionist)
- Gary Shaw – (Footballer)
- Martin Shaw – (Actor)
- Visanthe Shiancoe – (American football player)
- Sukshinder Shinda – (English born Punjabi music producer and artist)
- Paul Simm – (Musician)
- Brad Simpson (Musician, The Vamps)
- Jane Sixsmith – (Hockey player)
- 1st Viscount Slim of Yarralumla and Bishopston – (Military Commander)
- Gary Shaw - (Footballer)
- Sarah Smart – (Actress)
- Alan Smith – (Cricketer & England Selector)
- Denver Ed Smith (née Edward Corcoran) – (Boxer)
- Tiger Smith – (England & Warwickshire Cricketer)
- Maya Sondhi - (Actress)
- Simon Sturridge – (Footballer)
- Daniel Sturridge – (Footballer)
- Ernest Suckling – (Cricketer)
- Phil Summerill – (Footballer)
- James Sutton – (Actor)
- Andrew Symonds – (Cricketer)
- Connie Talbot – (Singer/Musician)
- John Taylor – (Musician, Duran Duran)
- Roger Taylor – (Musician, Duran Duran)
- Bobby Thomson – (Footballer)
- Will Thorne – (Trade union leader and MP)
- Charlie Tickle – (Footballer)
- Andrew Tiernan – (Actor)
- Charlie Timmins – (Footballer)
- James Vaughan – Everton F.C Striker
- Johnny Vincent – (Footballer)
- Murray Walker – (Racing driver and commentator)
- Kate Walsh – (TV presenter-Live from Studio Five)
- Julie Walters – (Actress)
- Bill Ward – Drummer, (Black Sabbath)
- Clint Warwick – (Musician, The Moody Blues)
- Alex Watson – (Football manager)
- Carl Wayne – (Musician, The Move The Hollies)
- Graham Webb – (World Amateur Road Race Champion 1967)
- Brooke Foss Westcott – (Theologian and Bishop of Durham)
- Peter Weston – (Influential British science fiction fan)
- Ian Westwood – (Cricketer)
- Fred Wheldon – (Footballer)
- Willard Wigan – (Sculptor)
- Toyah Willcox – (Singer, actress and television presenter)
- Emma Willis – (Model)
- Jimmy Windridge – (England Footballer)
- Muff Winwood – (Musician)
- Steve Winwood – (Musician—solo artist and co-founder, Traffic)
- Colin Withers – (Footballer)
- Chris Woakes – England and Warwickshire cricketer
- Chris Wood – (Musician; co-founder, Traffic)
- Roy Wood – (Musician, co-founder of the Electric Light Orchestra)
- Kal Yafai - (World champion boxer)
- Mark Yates – (Footballer and manager)
- Benjamin Zephaniah – (Poet)
- Oceans Ate Alaska (Metalcore Band)
Lived in, or associated with, Birmingham
References
External links
|
|---|
| History | | |
|---|
| Geography | |
|---|
| Government | |
|---|
| Culture | |
|---|
|
