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Among those who were born in the London Borough of Barnet, or have dwelt within the border 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 | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
William Cattley | For whom the orchid species cattleya was named | ||
Peter Collinson | Botanist | Mill Hill | |
Harold Hopkins | Physicist | ||
John Strugnell | Dead Sea Scrolls editor-in-chief and Harvard Professor |
Arts and entertainment
Name | Notability | District | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Katrina Kaif | Indian-British actress in Bollywood | B | |
Anthony Andrews | Actor | ||
Richard Baker | Newsreader | ||
Paul Freeman | Actor | B | |
Peter Banks | Musician | B,D | |
Stephanie Beacham | Actress | ||
Claire Bloom | Actress | ||
Emma Bunton | Singer | Finchley | |
Dave Colwell | Guitar | ||
Shelley Conn | Actress | ||
Nadine Coyle | Singer | Chipping Barnet | |
Paul Carrack | Keyboards and Singer | Chipping Barnet | |
D. C. Eyles | Illustrator and comics artist | ||
Andy Ellison | Singer | Finchley | |
Samantha Fox | Model and singer | ||
Robert Fripp | Musician | ||
Morgan Fisher | Keyboards | Finchley | |
Devin Griffin | BBC Radio 1 DJ (commonly known as Dev) | ||
Trevor Howard | Actor | ||
Dhani Harrison | Singer | Chipping Barnet | |
Jade Jones | Singer | Finchley | |
Howard Jones | Singer | Chipping Barnet | |
Cariad Lloyd | Actress, writer and comedian | ||
Tony Maudsley | Actor | ||
Jo Maxwell-Muller | Actress | Hendon | |
Stephen Merchant | Actor, writer and comedian | ||
George Michael | Singer and songwriter | Finchley | |
Monica Michael | Singer-songwriter | ||
Spike Milligan | Comedian | Finchley | L |
Bob Monkhouse | Comedian | ||
Sir Roger Moore | Actor | ||
Eric Morecambe | Comedian | ||
Billy Nicholls | Singer | ||
Elaine Paige | Singer and actress | ||
Nick Papadimitriou | Author | ||
Frederick Peisley | Actor | ||
Steve Pemberton | Actor | ||
David Pentecost | Composer (Lived at Torrington Cottage, Church Path/Lodge Lane, 1940 to 1965) | Finchley | L |
Anna Popplewell | Actress | ||
Angharad Rees | Actress (born in Edgware Hospital and lived at 13 Engel Park, Mill Hill, until she was 2) | ||
Sir Cliff Richard | Singer | ||
Daniel Roche | Actor | ||
Peter Sellers | Comedian | ||
Feargal Sharkey | Singer | ||
Reece Shearsmith | Actor | ||
David Shepherd | Painter | ||
Sir Donald Sinden | Actor (lived at 60, Temple Fortune Lane, Hampstead Garden Suburb 1954–1997) | L | |
Marc Sinden | Film director, actor and theatre producer | ||
Jerry Shirley | Drummer | ||
Mike Skinner | Rapper and music producer | ||
John Somerville | Sculptor | ||
Jerry Springer | TV personality (born at East Finchley, or possibly Highgate) | B | |
Steven Stapleton | Musician | ||
Andy Summers | Musician | ||
Zak Starkey | Drums | Chipping Barnet | |
Terry-Thomas | Actor/comedian | Finchley | B |
Lee Thompson | Musician | Finchley | |
Simon Townshend | Singer | Finchley | |
Alan Tilvern | Actor | ||
Tamás Vásáry | Pianist and conductor | ||
Johnny Vaughan | Radio presenter | ||
Mark Vidler | Record producer, remixer, DJ | ||
Marc Warren | Actor | Finchley | L |
Amy Winehouse | Singer-songwriter | Southgate | I, L |
Sir Norman Wisdom | Actor/comedian | ||
Rick Wills | Bass Guitar | Finchley |
Crime
- Owen Suffolk – Australian transported convict and bushranger (born in Finchley in c.1830)
Design
- Harry Beck – designer of the original Tube map
Travel and exploration
Name | Notability | District | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Celia Fiennes | Early recreational traveller, the first recorded woman to visit every county in England | Mill Hill | L |
David Livingstone |
Judiciary
- Sir William Shee, the first Roman Catholic judge to sit in England and Wales since the Reformation
Literature
Name | Notability | District | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
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 |
Sally Laird | Writer, editor and translator | B | |
Tim Parks | Novelist (his semi-autobiographical Tongues of Flame is set in the North Finchley of 1968) | Finchley | |
Samuel Pepys | Writer | ||
Will Self | Novelist, reviewer and columnist | Finchley | L |
Journalism and the media
Name | Notability | District | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
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 | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
John Bercow | Former Speaker of the House of Commons and the Member of Parliament for Buckingham | Edgware | B |
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 |
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 |
John Wilkes | Radical, journalist and politician | Mill Hill |
Sport and games
Name | Notability | District | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Jayden Bennetts | Footballer | ||
Keanan Bennetts | Footballer | Edgware | |
David Crawley | Gaelic football player | ||
C. B. Fry | Polymath best known as a cricketer | Childs Hill | L D |
Darren Gerard | Cricketer | ||
Noni Madueke | Footballer | ||
Mark Thomson | Darts | Finchley | |
Phil Tufnell | Cricketer | Finchley | |
Ram Vaswani | Professional poker and snooker player | ||
Peter Wells | Olympic high jumper |
References
- ^ Entries with no sourced locality (district) of residence available are marked with a "?".
- ^ All entries contain a reliably sourced reference. Entries may also contain a letter indicating Birth, Lived, or Death.
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