List of English people
Notable Individuals born or residing in England
Joseph Addison , (1672-1719), English poet
Queen Anne , (1665-1714), also Queen of Scotland, then Queen of Great Britain after 1707
Matthew Arnold , (1822-1888), English poet
Herbert Henry Asquith , (1852-1928)
Clement Attlee , (1883-1967), British prime minister
W. H. Auden , (1907-1973), English poet
Jane Austen , (1775-1817), British novelist
Stanley Baldwin , British prime minister
David Beckham , (born 1975), soccer player
Jeremy Bentham , (1748-1832), English philosopher
William Blake , (1757-1827), English painter, poet
Richard Branson , (born 1950)
Anne Bronte , (1820-1849), British author
Charlotte Bronte , (1816-1855), British author
Emily Bronte , (1818-1848), British author
Rupert Brooke , (1887-1925), English poet
Elizabeth Barrett Browning , (1806-1861), English poet
Robert Browning , (1812-1889), English poet
George Gordon, Lord Byron
George Canning , (1770-1827)
Lewis Carroll , (1832-1898), author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Joseph Chamberlain , (1836-1914)
Neville Chamberlain , (1869-1940), British prime minister
King Charles II , (1660-1685), also King of Scotland
Winston Churchill , (1874-1965), British prime minister
Samuel Taylor Coleridge , (1772-1834), English poet
William Congreve , (1670-1729), English poet
James Cook , (1728-1779), British explorer
Charles Darwin , (1809-1882), Founder of The Theory of Evolution
Thomas de Quincey
Charles Dickens , (1812-1870), A Christmas Carol
Benjamin Disraeli , (1804-1881), British prime minister
John Dryden , (1631-1700), English poet
Anthony Eden , (1897-1977), British prime minister
King Edward I , (1272-1307), English monarch
King Edward III , (1327-1377), English monarch
King Edward IV , (1461-1470 and 1471-1483), English monarch
King Edward V , (1470-1483?), English monarch
King Edward VI , (1547-1553), first English Protestant monarch
King Edward VII , (1841-1910)
King Edward VIII , (1894-1972), (formerly Edward VIII)
Edward Elgar , (1857-1934), English composer
George Eliot , (1819-1880), (Mary Ann Evans)
Queen Elizabeth I , (1558-1603), Protestant queen and first Supreme Governor of the Church of England
Queen Elizabeth II , (born 1926), (later Queen Elizabeth II)
James Figg[?] Boxing 's first world champion
Bob Fitzsimmons , (1863-1917), Boxing's first world champion in three divisions.
E.M. Forster , (1879-1970), author
Thomas Gainsborough , (1727-1788), English painter
Elizabeth Gaskell , English novelist
King George III , (1801-1820), English, British monarch
King George IV , (1762-1830)
King George V , (1910-1936), English, British monarch
King George VI , (1895-1952), of England
William Ewart Gladstone , (1809-1898), British prime minister
William Godwin , (1756-1836)
Robert Graves , (1895-1985), British author
Thomas Gray , (1716-1771), British poet
Naseem Hamed world champion boxer
Thomas Hardy , (1840-1928), English poet
Ricky Hatton[?] highly touted boxing prospect
Stephen Hawking , (1942-), British cosmologist
William Hazlitt , (1778-1830)
Edward Heath
King Henry III , (1207-1272), English monarch
King Henry IV , (1367-1413), English monarch
King Henry VI , (1421-1471), English monarch
King Henry VIII , (1491-1547), separated English Catholicism from link with the Roman Catholic Church
Thomas Hobbes , (1588-1679), English philosopher
David Hockney , (1937-), English painter
Leigh Hunt , (1784-1859), English poet
Aldous Huxley , (1884-1963), British writer
Thomas Henry Huxley , (1825-1895), coiner of the term agnosticism
King James II , (1685-1688), also King James VII of Scotland
Samuel Johnson , (1709-1784), English poet
Ben Jonson , (1573-1637), English poet
John Keats , (1795-1821), Irish poet
D.H. Lawrence , (1885-1930), English poet
Lennox Lewis , (born 1965), world champion boxer
John Locke , (1632-1704), English philosopher
Harold Macmillan , British prime minister
John Major , (born 1943), British prime minister
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough , (1650-1722)
Christopher Marlowe , (1564-1593), English playwright
Queen Mary I , (1553-1558), Roman Catholic queen
Queen Mary II , (1662-1694)
John Stuart Mill , (1806-1873), English economist, philosopher
John Milton , (1608-1674), English poet
Alan Minter , (born 1951), world champion boxer
Henry Moore , (1898-1986), English sculptor
William Morris , (1834-1896), English architect, author
Isaac Newton , (1642-1727), founder of modern physics , last of the alchemists
George Orwell , (1903-1950), (Eric Blair)
Michael Owen , (born 1979), soccer player
Wilfred Owen , (1893-1918), English poet
Sir Robert Peel
Samuel Pepys , (1633-1703), diarist and public official in 17th century England
Samuel Morton Peto , (1809-1889), railways , harbours
William Pitt the Elder , (1708-1778), 1st Earl of Chatham
William Pitt the Younger , (1759-1806)
Alexander Pope , (1688-1744), English poet
Philip Pullman , (born 1946), English author
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Christina Rossetti , (1830-1894), English poet
Dante Gabriel Rossetti , (1828-1882), English poet
John Ruskin , (1819-1900)
Siegfried Sassoon , (1886-1967), British war poet
William Shakespeare , (c. 1564-1616), English poet
Alan Shearer soccer player
Mary Shelley , (1797-1851), English author
Percy Bysshe Shelley , (1792-1822), (also his wife, Mary Shelley )
Robert Southey , (1774-1843), Poet Laureate 1813
Algernon Swinburne , (1837-1909), poet
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Margaret Thatcher , (born 1925), British prime minister
Anthony Trollope , (1815-1882), prolific documentor of life in Victorian England
Queen Victoria , (1819-1901), (numerous attempts)
Sir Robert Walpole
John Webster[?] , (died 1630), English poet
Gilbert White , (1720-1795)
Frank Whittle , (1907-1996), US co-developer of the jet engine
Harold Wilson , (1916-1995), Labour prime ministers of Great Britain
Mary Wollstonecraft , (1759-1797), British pioneer feminist known for her work A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Virginia Woolf , (1882-1941), author and feminist .
William Wordsworth , (1770-1850), English Romantic poet
The following were born English, but changed nationality later in their life.
See also: List of people by nationality
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fathomed the emptiness and vanity of this worldly farce , he will keep
esteem infinitely more the poorest of the workmen--a wood -sawyer or a
literary dame who sparkles like a window in the Palais-Royal, and is
grand -dame in her white cap, who still hoes, although sixty years old,
CHAPTER XIII
A SERPENT AT THE FIRESIDE
A little more than a year has passed. It is now the first days of
a blue and the air so pure and fresh, that Amedee Violette is almost
did in his youth. But the age for that has passed; Amedee's real kite is
pasted on one over another; it does not ascend very high yet, and the
reputation . He must work to sustain it; and always with the secret hope
since he earns at the ministry two hundred francs a month , and from time
He has also left his garret in the Faubourg St.-Jacques and lives on the
he can see , as he leans out, the coming and going of boats on the river
this summer , and it is nearly done; it is a modern drama in verse ,
but he believes it is sympathetic and touching , and it ends in a popular
nevertheless poetic lines, in which he has not feared to put in certain
made a successful debut in the 'Fourberies de Scapin', and who, since
aspires to play also in drama. He can do so in reality , but under
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