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

• Rudolf Abel – Soviet spy
• David Martin Abrahams – entrepreneur and philanthropist
• Thomas Addison – physician and scientist who first diagnosed Addison's disease
• Mark Akenside – poet and physician
• 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 and inventor of the panorama
• Phyllida Barlow – artist
• Michelle Bass – model and television pornography presenter
• Joey Batey - actor and singer
• Anna Fisher Beiler – missionary and newspaper editor
• Isaac Lowthian Bell – ironmaster and politician
• Mary Bell – murderer
• Thomas Binney, "Archbishop of Nonconformity"
• David Bradley – science journalist and author
• Israel Brodie – Chief Rabbi of Great Britain
• Basil Bunting – first English modernist poet
• Eric Burdon – singer (The Animals)
• John Hodgson Campbell - portrait artist
• Horatio Caro – chess player
• Peter Cadogan – social activist
• Chas Chandler – bass guitarist with The Animals, manager of Jimi Hendrix and Slade
• Cheryl – singer (Girls Aloud)
• Edward Clark – conductor and BBC music producer
• Freddie Clayton – cricketer
• William Clayton – cricketer
• Lord Collingwood – Nelson's second-in-command at Trafalgar
• Jack Common – writer and friend of George Orwell
• David Scott Cowper – yachtsman and multiple circumnavigator by sailing boat and powerboat
• Raffaello de Banfield – composer
• John Dewhirst – only Briton to die in the Killing Fields of Cambodia
• Chris Donald – founder of Viz
• Jack Douglas – actor in the Carry On film series
• Lesley Douglas – former controller of BBC Radio 2 and BBC 6 Music
• Jeffrey Dunn - better known as Mantas, musician and former guitarist for the metal band Venom
• Lord Eldon – Lord Chancellor of England
• Anne Elliot – novelist
• Elizabeth Elstob – Anglo-Saxon scholar
• Sarah Lindsay Evans – temperance movement
• Harry Falconer - former professional footballer
• Mary J. Farnham – missionary and temperance advocate
• John Forster – friend and biographer of Charles Dickens
• Huck Gee – contemporary artist
• John and Benjamin Green – father and son architects
• Colin Gregson – keen footballer, 1976 FA Youth Cup winning team
• Julia Griffiths – abolitionist who edited and published the works of Frederick Douglass
• William Hails – writer
• Lee Hall – playwright and screenwriter (Billy Elliot)
• William Hardcastle – first presenter of The World at One
• John Harle - saxophonist and composer
• Tim Healy - actor
• Peter Higgs – theoretical physicist (Higgs' boson)
• Alan Hull – musician (Lindisfarne)
• Basil Hume – cardinal in the Roman Catholic church
• Charlie Hunnam – actor (Sons of Anarchy, Queer as Folk, Byker Grove)
• Charles Hutton – mathematician
• John Irvin – film director
• Wilfred Josephs – composer
• Martin Kenneavy – piper
• Paul Kennedy – historian, author and professor of history at Yale
• Lionel Kopelowitz – Jewish community leader
• Iain Laidlaw – former professional footballer
• Graham Laidler – cartoonist (Punch), also known under the pseudonym Pont
• Lady Lucinda Lambton – writer, photographer, television presenter and producer
• Herbert Laming, Baron Laming – life peer
• Stephanie Lawrence – actress and singer
• Charles Henry Laws – Methodist minister and administrator
• Carla Lynch – comedian and TV presenter
• Carole Malone – columnist and TV presenter
• Neil Marshall – director
• Hank Marvin – guitarist, singer, and songwriter
• Esther McCracken – playwright
• John Anthony McGuckin – theologian, Orthodox arch-priest, Professor of History at Columbia University, NY
• Janet McTeer – Oscar nominated actress
• Jacob Meltzer – New Zealand lawyer, unionist, coroner and community leader
• Charles Merz – electrical engineer noted for creating the electrical grid
• Marion Mingins – Anglican priest
• Jimmy Mullen – England football international
• Matthew Murray – machine-tool manufacturer who designed and built first commercially viable steam locomotive
• Jimmy Nail – actor, singer and writer
• Lesslie Newbigin – bishop and theologian, one of the first bishops of the Church of South India
• Ross Noble – stand-up comic
• Daniel Oliver – botanist and keeper at Kew Gardens
• Fred Olsen – inventor of the ball propellant manufacturing process
• Pac – professional wrestler
• Brian Redhead – author, journalist and broadcaster
• Thomas Wemyss Reid – journalist and biographer
• Lewis Fry Richardson – meteorologist
• Matt Ridley – science writer
• Alan Robson – radio DJ and broadcaster
• George Robson – racing driver, winner of the Indianapolis 500 in 1946
• Sue Rolph – swimmer
• LJ Ross – author writing locally-set crime thrillers
• Ralph Rumney – artist and co-founder with Guy Debord of the Situationist International
• Sakima – singer
• Hugh Stowell Scott – novelist writing as Henry Seton Merriman
• James Scott – actor
• Lord Stowell – legal authority
• Anna Howard Shaw – leader of the women's suffrage movement in the United States
• 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
• George Temperley – landowner and founder of the Argentine city Temperley
• Peter Terson – playwright
• Dave Thomas – golfer, twice runner-up in The Open Championship
• Samuel Tolansky – scientist
• Abigail Thorn - actress and creator of the Philosophy Tube YouTube channel
• Elsie Tu – social activist
• Colin Veitch – Newcastle League and Cup winner, England international footballer, union negotiator, and playwright
• Abhisit Vejjajiva – Thailand's prime minister from 2008
• Bill Ward – actor
• Greg Wise – actor, married to Emma Thompson since 2003
• Lord Woolf – Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
• Adam Wakenshaw – recipient of the Victoria Cross
• William G. Whittaker – composer, conductor and teacher
• Daniel Young – cricketer

Residents (past and present)

• David Almond, born 1951 – prize-winning author (Skellig)
• Gem Archer, born 1966 – guitarist, member of Oasis
• Charles Avison, 1709–1770 – composer and impresario
• William Beilby, 1840–1919 – glass enameller
• Nick Bell, born 1983 – entrepreneur
• Thomas Bewick, 1753–1828 – engraver and ornithologist
• Chaz Brenchley, born 1959 – writer
• Constance Briscoe, born 1957 – judge and bestselling author
• Flavio de Carvalho, 1899–1973 – Brazilian artist and architect
• Sid Chaplin, 1916–1986 – writer
• Charles I, 1600–1649 – prisoner in Newcastle 1646–47
• Catherine Cookson, 1906–1998 – bestselling author
• Joseph Conrad, 1857–1924 – writer, served on Tyne colliers in 1878
• Lucio Costa, 1902–1998 – Brazilian architect, designed masterplan of Brasília, grew up in Newcastle
• Ian Cottage, living – film director
• Joseph Cowen, 1829–1900 – radical MP and newspaper owner
• John Cunningham, 1729–1773 – pastoral poet, dramatist and stage actor
• Richard Dawes, 1708–1776 – classical scholar
• Robert Burns Dick, 1858–1954 – architect
• John Dobson, 1787–1865 – architect
• Jonathan Edwards, born 1966 – Olympic champion
• J. Meade Falkner, 1858–1932 – head of Armstrongs and novelist (Moonfleet)
• Terry Farrell, born 1938 – modern architect
• Bryan Ferry, born 1945 – lead singer of Roxy Music, attended Newcastle University.
• João Cândido Felisberto, 1880–1969 – Brazilian sailor, leader of the 1910 Chibata Revolt
• Mike Figgis, born 1948 – film-maker, in Newcastle from the age of eight
• Beryl Fowler, 1881–1963 – English painter
• James Louis Garvin, 1868–1947 – newspaper editor
• Paul Gascoigne, born 1967 – footballer
• Mrs Gaskell, 1810–1865 – novelist
• Tina Gharavi, living – film-maker
• Roger de Grey, 1918–1995 – artist
• Spencer de Grey, born 1944 – architect, head of design at Foster & Partners
• Ingeborg Refling Hagen, 1895–1989 – Norwegian writer
• Tony Harrison, born 1937 – poet
• Oliver Heaviside, 1850–1925 – engineer, mathematician and physicist
• Ralph Hedley, 1848–1913 – Realist painter
• Arthur Henderson, 1863–1935 – politician, founder of modern Labour Party
• Beda Higgins, living – poet and writer
• Rob Hubbard, born 1955 – video game musician
• Alan Hull, 1945–1995 – Lindisfarne lead singer
• Eva Ibbotson, 1925–2010 – children's writer (Which Witch?)
• Harold Jeffreys, 1891–1989 – geologist, mathematician and astronomer
• W. E. Johns, 1893–1968 – adventure story writer (Biggles)
• Brian Johnson, born 1947 – third lead singer of AC/DC
• David Knopfler, born 1952 – Dire Straits rhythm guitarist
• Mark Knopfler, born 1949 – Dire Straits lead guitarist and singer
• John Knox, c. 1514–1572 – Scottish religious reformer
• Gibson Kyle, 1820–1903 - architect resident in Gateshead, but his practice was in Newcastle
• Conrad Lant, born 1963 - better known by stage name Cronos, musician with metal band Venom
• John Lilburne, 1614–1667 – radical, 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, 1843–1893 – French revolutionary
• Arthur Hardwick Marsh, 1842–1909 – painter
• John Martin, 1789–1854 – painter
• Harriet Martineau, 1802–1876 – writer and journalist
• Mary Midgley, 1919–2018 – philosopher
• Charles Mitchell, 1820–1895 – shipbuilder
• Elizabeth Montagu, 1718–1800 – coal owner and bluestocking
• Alexei Mordashov, born 1965 – Russian billionaire
• Robert Morrison, 1882–1934 – Protestant missionary in China
• Mo Mowlam, 1949–2005 – Labour politician
• Sir Andrew Noble, 1831–1915 – arms manufacturer and scientist
• Paul Noble, born 1963 – artist
• Keith O'Brien, 1938–2018 – cardinal accused of predatory sexual activity
• Sean O'Brien, born 1952 – poet and critic
• Nikolay Ogarev, 1813–1877 – Russian poet and political activist
• Chi Onwurah, born 1965 – Labour politician
• Lembit Öpik, born 1965 – Liberal Democratic MP and local councillor
• Charles Parsons, 1854–1931 – engineer and inventor
• José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, 1845–1900 – diplomat and novelist ("the Portuguese Dickens")
• Michael Roberts, 1902–1948 – poet and critic
• Diana Ross, 1910–2000 – children's author (The Little Red Engine)
• Erik Routley, 1917–1982 – hymn writer
• William Bell Scott, 1811–1890 – poet and Pre-Raphaelite painter
• Freddy Shepherd, 1941–2017 – businessman and football club chairman
• Jon Silkin, 1930–1997 – poet
• Peter Smithson, 1928–1993 – Stockton-born Modernist architect
• John Snow, 1813–1858 – anaesthetist and founder of epidemiology
• James Calvert Spence, 1892–1954 – paediatrician
• W. T. Stead, 1849–1912 – journalist
• Algernon Charles Swinburne, 1837–1909 – poet
• Cecil Philip Taylor, 1929–1981 – playwright
• Gerald Vann, 1906–1963 – Roman Catholic theologian and philosopher
• Don Warrington, born 1951 – actor
• Bruce Welch, born 1941 – guitarist and singer
• Denise Welch, born 1958 – actress
• John Wesley, 1703–1791 – founder of Methodism
• Kevin Whately, born 1951 – actor
• Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889–1951 – philosopher
• Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1884–1937 – Russian novelist, (We)