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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.

Thomas Paine, (1737-1809)