Famous People Born in England

Mary Anning (Scientist) - Lyme Regis, England (May 21st, 1799)

W. H. Auden (Poet) - York, England (February 21st, 1907)

Jane Austen (Writer) - Steventon, England (December 16th, 1775)

Julian Barnes (Writer) - Leicester, England (January 19th, 1946)

Charlotte Bronte (Writer) - Thornton, England (April 21st, 1816)

Emily Bronte (Poet, Writer) - Thornton, England (July 30th, 1818)

Anne Bronte (Poet, Writer) - Thornton, England (January 17th, 1820)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Poet) - Durham, England (March 6th, 1806)

A.S. Byatt (Writer) - Sheffield, England (August 24th, 1936)

Lewis Carroll (Writer) - Daresbury, England (January 27th, 1832)

Barbara Cartland (Writer) - Evesham, England (July 9th, 1901)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Poet) - Ottery St Mary, England (October 21st, 1772)

Francis Crick (scientist) - Northampton, England (June 8th, 1916)

Charles Darwin (Biologist, Geologist, Naturalist, Scientist) - Shrewsbury, England (February 12th, 1809)

Torvill Dean (Athlete, Figure Skating) - Nottingham, England (July 27th, 1958)

Charles Dickens (Writer) - Portsmouth, England (February 7th, 1812)

George Eliot (Writer) - Nuneaton, England (November 22nd, 1819)

Michael Faraday (scientist) - Newington Butts, England (September 22nd, 1791)

Thomas Hardy (Poet, Writer) - Dorset, England (June 2nd, 1840)

Stephen Hawking (scientist) - Oxford, England (January 8th, 1942)

Joanna Kavenna (Essayist, Novelist) - Oxford, England (January 1st, 1974)

Jason Kenny (Athlete, Cycling) - Bolton, England (March 23rd, 1988)

John Lennon (Singer) - Liverpool, England (October 9th, 1940)

Paul McCartney (Singer) - Liverpool, England (June 18th, 1942)

George Meredith (Poet, Writer) - Portsmouth, England (February 12th, 1828)

David Mitchell (Novelist) - Southport, England (1969)

Isaac Newton (Mathematician, Physicist, Scientist) - Woolsthorpe, England (January 4th, 1643)

Matthew Pincent (Athlete, Rowing) - Holt, England (October 10th, 1970)

Johny Pitts (Essayist) - Sheffield, England (January 1st, 1987)

Max Porter (Novelist) - High Wycombe, England (January 1st, 1981)

Charles Reade (Writer) - Oxford, England (June 8th, 1814)

Steve Redgrave (Athlete, Rowing) - Marlow, England (March 23rd, 1962)

Leone Ross (Novelist) - Coventry, England (January 1st, 1969)

William Shakespeare (Actor, Playwright, Poet, Writer) - Stratford-upon-Avon, England (April 23rd, 1564)

Ed Sheeran (Singer) - Halifax, England (February 17th, 1991)

Percy Bysshe Shelley (Poet) - Horsham, England (August 4th, 1792)

Edith Sitwell (Poet) - Scarborough, England (July 7th, 1887)

C. P. Snow (Scientist, Writer) - Leicester, England (October 15th, 1905)

Jayne Torvill (Athlete, Figure Skating) - Nottingham, England (October 7th, 1957)

H.G. Wells (Writer) - Bromley, England (September 21st, 1866)

Jeanette Winterson (Writer) - Manchester, England (August 27th, 1959)

William Wordsworth (Poet) - Cockermouth, England (April 7th, 1770)

Birthplaces of Notable Celebrities