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
• 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 – the 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
• 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
• Lee Hall – playwright (Billy Elliot screenplay)
• Lesslie Newbigin – bishop and theologian, one of the first bishops of the Church of South India
• 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
• Ian La Frenais – TV scriptwriter ('Porridge', 'The Likely Lads')
• (Gavin) Graham Laidler – cartoonist ('Pont' of Punch)
• Andrew Laing – marine engineer
• 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
• Billy McCracken – footballer, invented the offside trap
• Esther McCracken – playwright
• John Anthony McGuckin – theologian, Orthodox arch-priest, Professor of History at Columbia, NY
• Janet McTeer – Oscar nominated actress
• Charles Merz – electrical engineer noted for creating the electrical grid
• Jimmy Mullen – England football international
• Matthew Murray – machine-tool manufacturer who designed and built first commercially viable steam locomotive
• Tish Murtha – documentary photographer
• Jimmy Nail – actor, singer and writer
• Neville (wrestler) – WWE wrestler, former NXT Champion and twice NXT Tag Team Champion
• 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
• Ralph Rumney – artist and co-founder with Guy Debord of the Situationist International
• Chris Ryan – soldier turned novelist
• 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
• Bill Travers – actor
• 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
• Elsie Tu – social activist
• Adam Wakenshaw – recipient of the Victoria Cross
• William Hails – writer

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
• 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
• 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
• 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

1. Saxon, Wolfgang. "Dr. Fred Olsen, Industrial Chemist, Art Collector and Scholar, is Dead". New York Times. Retrieved 20 February 2015.
2. Powell, Sian (2008-12-15). "British-born Abhisit Vejjajiva is Thailand's new Prime Minister". Times Online.
3. http://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/h/heart-of-darkness/joseph-conrad-biography-2