List of people from the London Borough of Barnet
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Among those who were born in the London Borough of Barnet, or have dwelt within the borders of the modern borough are (alphabetical order, within category):
Notable residents
Key to "Notes" regarding the residents' affiliation to Barnet | |
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Letter | Description |
B | Indicates that the resident was born in Barnet. |
D | Indicates that the resident died in Barnet. |
I | Indicates that the subject is buried in Barnet. |
L | Indicates that the resident lived in Barnet. |
Citations in the Notes box refer to the information in the entire row |
Academia and research
Name | Notability | District [1] | Notes [2] |
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William Cattley | for whom the orchid species cattleya was named | ||
Peter Collinson | botanist | Mill Hill | [3] |
Harold Hopkins | physicist | ||
John Strugnell | Dead Sea Scrolls editor-in-chief and Harvard Professor |
Arts and entertainment
- Katrina Kaif – Indian-British actress in Bollywood [4]
- Anthony Andrews – actor
- Richard Baker – newsreader, lived for many years in Hadley Green
- Peter Banks – musician
- Stephanie Beacham – actress
- Claire Bloom – actress
- Emma Bunton – singer
- Shelley Conn – actor
- Nadine Coyle – singer
- D. C. Eyles – illustrator and comics artist
- Samantha Fox – model and singer
- Robert Fripp – musician
- Devin Griffin – BBC Radio 1 DJ (commonly known as Dev)
- Trevor Howard – actor
- Humphrey Lyttelton – jazz musician and broadcaster
- Tony Maudsley – actor[citation needed]
- Stephen Merchant – actor, writer and comedian [citation needed]
- George Michael – singer and songwriter
- Monica Michael – singer-songwriter
- Spike Milligan – comedian[5]
- Bob Monkhouse – comedian (lived in The Vale, NW11)
- Sir Roger Moore – actor
- Eric Morecambe – comedian
- Elaine Paige – singer and actress
- Nick Papadimitriou – author
- Frederick Peisley – actor
- Steve Pemberton – actor[citation needed]
- Anna Popplewell – actress[citation needed]
- Angharad Rees – actress (born in Edgware Hospital and lived at 13 Engel Park, Mill Hill, until she was 2)
- Sir Cliff Richard – singer [citation needed]
- Peter Sellers – comedian [citation needed]
- Feargal Sharkey – singer [citation needed]
- Reece Shearsmith – actor
- David Shepherd – painter
- Sir Donald Sinden – actor (lived at 60, Temple Fortune Lane, Hampstead Garden Suburb 1954–1997)
- Marc Sinden – film director, actor and theatre producer
- Mike Skinner – rapper and music producer
- John Somerville (born 1951)
- Jerry Springer – TV personality (born at East Finchley, or possibly Highgate)
- Steven Stapleton – musician
- Terry-Thomas – actor/comedian[6]
- Lee Thompson – musician
- Alan Tilvern – actor [citation needed]
- Tamás Vásáry – pianist and conductor [citation needed]
- Johnny Vaughan – radio presenter
- Amy Winehouse – singer-songwriter (1983–2011) (born in Southgate and lived on Osidge Lane until 1991 and moved to Whetstone when she was 7/8.
- Sir Norman Wisdom – actor, comedian
- Daniel Roche – actor
- Marc Warren – actor (lived/lives in Finchley) [7]
Crime
- Owen Suffolk – Australian transported convict and bushranger (born in Finchley in c.1830)[8]
- Thomas Nugent – chief gangster of the Borough of Barnet, inspiration for the TV character John Locke
Design
- Harry Beck – designer of the original Tube map
Travel and exploration
Name | Notability | District [1] | Notes [2] |
---|---|---|---|
Celia Fiennes | early recreational traveller, the first recorded woman to visit every county in England | Mill Hill | L[3] |
David Livingstone |
Judiciary
- Sir William Shee, the first Roman Catholic judge to sit in England and Wales since the Reformation
Literature
Name | Notability | District [1] | Notes [2] |
---|---|---|---|
Fleur Adcock | poet | ||
Kingsley Amis | novelist and poet | Barnet | L |
Martin Amis | novelist | Barnet | L |
Alison Weir | novelist, historian | Barnet | L |
Charles Dickens | novelist | Finchley | L |
Tim Parks | novelist (his semi-autobiographical Tongues of Flame is set in the North Finchley of 1968) | Finchley | |
Samuel Pepys | |||
Will Self | novelist, reviewer and columnist | Finchley | L [9] |
Journalism and the media
Name | Notability | District [1] | Notes [2] |
---|---|---|---|
Stephen Douglas | journalist, ITV | ||
Richard Baker | broadcaster | ||
Mark Kermode | film critic | Finchley | |
John Kennedy O'Connor | Broadcaster & writer | Finchley |
Politics and government
Name | Notability | District [1] | Notes [2] |
---|---|---|---|
John Bercow | Current Speaker of the House of Commons and the Member of Parliament for Buckingham | Edgware | B [10] |
Cyril Bibby | prospective Labour Party candidate opposing Reginald Maudling in 1958–1959 | ||
Robert Carr (Baron Carr of Hadley) | Conservative politician | ||
Sir Sydney Chapman | local MP 1979–2005 | ||
Nick Griffin | Political Leader of the BNP | ||
Octavia Hill | social reformer | L | |
Sir Stamford Raffles | founder of Singapore | Mill Hill | L [3] |
Reginald Maudling | local MP 1950–1979 | ||
Sir Vincent Tewson | TUC General Secretary | Arkley | |
Margaret Thatcher | local MP and Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1979–1990 | ||
William Wilberforce | politician, philanthropist and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade | Mill Hill | L [3] |
John Wilkes | radical, journalist and politician | Mill Hill | [3] |
Sport and games
Name | Notability | District [1] | Notes [2] | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
David Crawley | Gaelic football player | ||||
C. B. Fry | polymath best known as a cricketer | Childs Hill | L D[3] | ||
Darren Gerard | cricketer | ||||
Ram Vaswani | professional poker player | ||||
Phil Tufnell | cricketer | Finchley | |||
Peter Wells | Olympic high jumper |
References
- ^ a b c d e f All entries contain a reliably sourced reference. Entries may also contain a letter indicating Birth, Lived, or Death.
- ^ a b c d e f Hibbert, Christopher; Ben Weinreb; John Keay; Julia Keay (2008). The London Encyclopaedia (3rd ed.). Pan Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-4050-4924-5.
- ^ http://zeenews.india.com/entertainment/celebrity/katrina-kaif-s-success-journey-from-barnet-to-bollywood_32490.html
- ^ "Spike Milligan Statue Fund". Finchley Society. Archived from the original on 2009-03-26. Retrieved 2009-04-28.
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