List of LGBT people from London

This is a list of notable LGBT people from the city of London.

Activists

 * Michael C. Burgess
 * Jennifer Fear
 * Peter Tatchell

Aviation and military

 * James Wharton (author)
 * Ethel Mary Smyth

Actors

 * Stephen Fry
 * Ian McKellen
 * Sir John Gielgud
 * Kenneth Williams
 * Saffron Dominique Burrows
 * Amanda Donohoe
 * Sophie Ward
 * Jill Esmond

Artists

 * Duncan Grant

Comedians

 * Alan Carr

Culinary arts

 * Yotam Ottolenghi
 * Peter Gordon

Dance

 * Frederick Ashton
 * Matthew Bourne
 * Frederic Franklin
 * Wayne Sleep

DJs

 * Samantha Ronson

Film

 * Derek Jarman
 * Anthony William Lars Asquith
 * John Schlesinger
 * Isaac Julien

Music

 * Boy George
 * Freddie Mercury (1946-1991)
 * George Michael (1963-2016)
 * Marc Almond
 * Mika
 * Pete Burns
 * Rylan Clark-Neal
 * Samantha Fox
 * Thomas Adès
 * Will Young
 * Stephen Hough

Television

 * Paul O'Grady
 * Graham Norton
 * Dale Winton

Theatre

 * Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

Business

 * John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946)
 * Caroline Cossey

Science, mathematics and technology

 * Alan Turing
 * Colin Turnbull
 * James Joseph Sylvester

Sports

 * Tom Daley

Writers

 * Edward Morgan Forster
 * Oscar Wilde
 * Siegfried Sassoon
 * Lytton Strachey
 * Radclyffe Hall
 * Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
 * Joe Randolph "J. R." Ackerley
 * Peter Ackroyd
 * Daniel Tammet
 * Colin MacInnes
 * Daphne du Maurier