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
- Donna Air – television presenter
- Mark Akenside – poet and physician
- Paul W. S. Anderson – film maker, producer and screenwriter
- 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
- Isaac Lowthian Bell – ironmaster and politician
- David Bradley (UK journalist) – science journalist and author
- Israel Brodie – Chief Rabbi of Great Britain
- Basil Bunting – first English modernist poet
- Eric Burdon – singer (The Animals)
- John Dobson – architect
- Horatio Caro – chess player
- 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
- 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 the comic paper VIZ
- Jack Douglas – actor in the Carry On film series
- Lesley Douglas – former controller of BBC Radio 2 and BBC 6 Music
- Lord Eldon – Lord Chancellor of England
- Anne Elliot – novelist
- Elizabeth Elstob – Anglo-Saxon scholar
- John Forster – friend and biographer of Dickens
- Huck Gee – contemporary artist
- Ann Campbell Gillies – mother of American outlaw Robert Leroy Parker (Butch Cassidy)
- John and Benjamin Green – father and son architects
- Julia Griffiths – abolitionist who edited and published the works of Frederick Douglass
- William Hails – writer
- 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 the Roman Catholic church
- Charles Hutton – mathematician
- John Irvin – film director
- Wilfred Josephs – composer
- Paul Kennedy – historian, author and professor of history at Yale
- (Gavin) Graham Laidler – cartoonist ('Pont' of Punch)
- Lady Lucinda Lambton – writer, photographer, television presenter and producer
- Herbert Laming, Baron Laming – life peer
- Stephanie Lawrence – actress and singer
- 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
- 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
- Adrian Neville –Former WWE wrestler, former Cruiserweight Champion, NXT Champion, and twice NXT Tag Team Champion
- 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[1]
- Ben Price – actor
- 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 1946 Indianapolis 500
- 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
- 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
- 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[2]
- 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
Residents (past and present)
- David Almond – prize-winning author (Skellig)
- Gem Archer – guitarist, member of the band Oasis
- Charles Avison – composer and impresario
- Rob Hubbard – video game musician
- 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 – bestselling author
- Joseph Conrad – writer, served on Tyne colliers in 1878[3]
- 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 the age of eight
- James Louis Garvin – influential newspaper editor
- Paul Gascoigne – footballer
- Mrs Gaskell – novelist
- Giuseppe Garibaldi – revolutionary
- Tina Gharavi – film-maker
- 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
- Eva Ibbotson – children's writer (Which Witch?)
- Harold Jeffreys – geologist, mathematician and astronomer
- W. E. Johns – adventure story writer (Biggles)
- Brian Johnson – lead singer of (AC/DC)
- Mark Knopfler – Dire Straits guitarist
- John Knox – Scottish religious reformer
- John Lilburne – 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 – French revolutionary
- Arthur Hardwick Marsh – painter
- 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 – early Protestant missionary in China
- Mo Mowlam – politician
- Sir Andrew Noble – arms manufacturer and scientist
- Paul Noble – artist
- Keith O'Brien – cardinal accused of predatory sexual activity[4]
- Sean O'Brien – poet and critic
- Nikolay Ogarev – Russian poet and political activist
- Chi Onwurah – politician
- 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
- Freddy Shepherd – businessman and football club chairman
- 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)
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.
- ↑ http://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/h/heart-of-darkness/joseph-conrad-biography-2
- ↑ Cardinal Keith O'Brien, disgraced Catholic church leader, dies The Guardian
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