List of people from Newcastle upon Tyne

This is a list of famous or notable people born in, or associated with, Newcastle upon Tyne in England.

Born in Newcastle

*Rudolf Abel - Soviet super-spy
*Thomas Addison - Diagnostician (Addison's Disease)
*Donna Air - Television presenter
*Mark Akenside - Poet and physician
*Paul W. S. Anderson - Film maker, producer and screenwriter
*Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly - Light entertainers ("Ant and Dec")
*Lord Armstrong - Engineer and industrialist
*Ove Arup - Architect and civil engineer
*Mary Astell - Writer ('The first English feminist')
*Rowan Atkinson - Comedian
*Michelle Bass - Model and television pornography presenter
*Peter Beardsley - Footballer
*Israel Brodie - Chief Rabbi of Great Britain
*Basil Bunting - First English modernist poet
*Eric Burdon - Singer (The Animals)
*Peter Cadogan - Left wing social activist
*Lord Collingwood - Nelson's second-in-command at Trafalgar
*Jack Common - Writer, friend of George Orwell
*John Dewhirst - The only Briton to die in the Killing Fields of Cambodia.
*Raffaello de Banfield – Composer
*Chris Donald - Founder of VIZ comic magazine
*Lord Eldon - Lord Chancellor of England
*Elizabeth Elstob - Anglo-Saxon scholar
*John Forster - Friend and biographer of Dickens.
* Founder of Greggs Bakers John Gregg.
*Lee Hall - Playwright (Billy Elliot screenplay)
*John Hancock - Zoologist (Hancock Museum)
*William Hardcastle - first presenter of The World at One.
*Peter Higgs - Theoretical physicist (Higgs' boson)
*Charlie Hunnam - Actor
*Alan Hull - Musician (Lindisfarne)
*Basil Hume - Cardinal in Roman Catholic church
*Charles Hutton - Mathematician
*Brian Johnson - Vocalist with Rock band AC/DC
*Wilfred Josephs - Composer
*(Gavin) Graham Laidler - Cartoonist ('Pont' of "Punch")
*Ian La Frenais - TV scriptwriter ('Porridge', 'The Likely Lads')
*Lady Lucinda Lambton - Writer, photographer, television presenter and producer
*Andrew Laing - Marine engineer
*Carla Lynch - Comedienne and TV Presenter
*Hank Marvin - Guitarist, singer, and songwriter
*Esther McCracken - Playwright
*Rev Dr Paul McPartlan - Pre-eminent Catholic Theologian
*Janet McTeer - Oscar nominated actress
*Jimmy Nail - Actor, singer, and writer
*Ross Noble - Comedian and radio presenter
*Daniel Oliver - Botanist, Keeper at Kew
*Brian Redhead - Author, journalist and broadcaster
*Reinforced Concrete - William Boutland Wilkinson built the first reinforced concrete houses in the world in Newcastle.
*Lewis Fry Richardson - Meteorologist
*Matt Ridley - Science writer
*Alan Robson - Radio DJ and Broadcaster
*Sue Rolph - Swimmer
*Ralph Rumney - Artist, co-founder of the Situationist International with Guy Debord
*James Scott - Actor
*Lord Stowell - Legal authority
*Alan Shearer - Footballer
*Tod Slaughter - Actor and film star
*Nancy Spain - Author, journalist and TV personality
*Thomas Spence - Utopian writer
*George Stephenson - Locomotive engineer; Father of the Railway
*Robert Stephenson - Son of George, locomotive engineer, railway and bridge builder
*Sting - Musician
*Miriam Stoppard - Doctor and agony aunt Daily Mirror
*Peter Taylor, Baron Taylor of Gosforth - Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
*Andy Taylor - Musician, Duran Duran
*Peter Terson - Playwright
*Bill Travers - Actor
*Cheryl Tweedy - Member of pop group Girls Aloud
*Bill Ward - Actor
*Greg Wise - Actor. Married to Emma Thompson since 2003.
*Lord Woolf - Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales

Residents (past and present)

*David Almond - Prize-winning author ("Skellig")
*Charles Avison - Composer and impresario
*William Beilby - Glass enameller
*Nick Bell - Entrepreneur
*Thomas Bewick - Engraver and ornithologist
*Sid Chaplin - Writer
*Charles I - King of England a prisoner in Newcastle 1646-47
*Carol Clewlow - Novelist. Her "Woman's Guide to Adultery" is set in Newcastle.
*Joseph Conrad - Writer, served on Tyne colliers in 1878
*Ian Cottage - Film director
*Lucio Costa - Brazilian Architect, designed masterplan of Brasilia, grew up in Newcastle.
*Joseph Cowen - Radical MP and newspaper owner
*John Cunningham - Pastoral poet, dramatist, 'Love in a Mist' and stage actor
*Richard Dawes - Classical scholar
*Flavio De Carvalho - Brazilian Artist and Architect
*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
*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
*Tony Harrison - Poet
*Oliver Heaviside - Engineer, mathematician and physicist
*Ralph Hedley - Realist painter
*Arthur Henderson - Politician, founder of the modern Labour Party
*Eva Ibbotson - Children's writer ("Which Witch?")
*Harold Jeffreys - Geologist, mathematician and astronomer
*W. E. Johns - Adventure writer ("Biggles")
*Brian Johnson - Lead singer of (AC/DC)
*Mark Knopfler - Dire Straits guitarist
*John Knox - Scottish religious reformer
*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 - First Protestant missionary in China.
*Sir Andrew Noble - Arms manufacturer and scientist
*Sean O'Brien - Poet and critic
*Nikolay Ogarev - Russian poet and political activist
*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")
*William Bell Scott - Poet and Pre-raphaelite painter.
*Jon Silkin - Poet
*Peter Smithson - Stockton-born Modernist Architect, lived in Newcastle for 8 years as a youngster.
*John Snow - Anaesthetist and founder of epidemiology
*Sir James Calvert Spence - Paediatrician
*Cecil Philip Taylor - Playwright
*Don Warrington Actor brought up in Newcastle
*Bruce Welch - Guitarist, singer, and record producer
*Denise Welch - Actress
*John Wesley - Founder of Methodism
*Kevin Whately - Actor
*Ludwig Wittgenstein - Philosopher
*Yevgeny Zamyatin - Russian novelist, ("We")