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

• Mark Akenside – poet and physician

• 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

• Joey Batey - actor and singer

• Anna Fisher Beiler – missionary and newspaper editor

• Isaac Lowthian Bell – ironmaster and politician

• Mary Bell – murderer

• Thomas Binney, "Archbishop of Nonconformity"

• David Bradley – science journalist and author

• Israel Brodie – Chief Rabbi of Great Britain

• Basil Bunting – English modernist poet

• Eric Burdon – singer (The Animals)

• John Hodgson Campbell - portrait artist

• Horatio Caro – chess player

• Peter Cadogan – social activist

• Chas Chandler – bass guitarist with The Animals, manager of Jimi Hendrix and Slade

• Cheryl – singer (Girls Aloud)

• Edward Clark – conductor and BBC music producer

• Freddie Clayton – cricketer

• William Clayton – cricketer

• 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 – only Briton to die in the Killing Fields of Cambodia

• Chris Donald – founder of Viz

• Jack Douglas – actor in the Carry On film series

• Lesley Douglas – former controller of BBC Radio 2 and BBC 6 Music

• Jeffrey Dunn - better known as Mantas, musician and former guitarist for the metal band Venom

• Lord Eldon – Lord Chancellor of England

• Anne Elliot – novelist

• Elizabeth Elstob – Anglo-Saxon scholar

• Sarah Lindsay Evans – temperance movement

• Harry Falconer - former professional footballer

• Mary J. Farnham – missionary and temperance advocate

• John Forster – friend and biographer of Charles Dickens

• Huck Gee – contemporary artist

• John and Benjamin Green – father and son architects

• Colin Gregson – keen footballer, 1976 FA Youth Cup winning team

• Julia Griffiths – abolitionist who edited and published the works of Frederick Douglass

• William Hails – writer

• Lee Hall – playwright and screenwriter (Billy Elliot)

• William Hardcastle – first presenter of The World at One

• John Harle - saxophonist and composer

• Tim Healy - actor

• Peter Higgs – theoretical physicist (Higgs' boson)

• Ian Hogg, Actor

• Alan Hull – musician (Lindisfarne)

• Basil Hume – cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church

• Charlie Hunnam – actor (Sons of Anarchy, Queer as Folk, Byker Grove)

• Charles Hutton – mathematician

• John Irvin – film director

• Wilfred Josephs – composer

• Martin Kenneavy – piper

• Paul Kennedy – historian, author and professor of history at Yale

• Lionel Kopelowitz – Jewish community leader

• Iain Laidlaw – former professional footballer

• Graham Laidler – cartoonist (Punch), also known under the pseudonym Pont

• Lady Lucinda Lambton – writer, photographer, television presenter and producer

• Herbert Laming, Baron Laming – life peer

• Stephanie Lawrence – actress and singer

• Charles Henry Laws – Methodist minister and administrator

• Carla Lynch – comedian and TV presenter

• Carole Malone – columnist and TV presenter

• Neil Marshall – director

• Hank Marvin – guitarist, singer, and songwriter

• Esther McCracken – playwright

• John Anthony McGuckin – theologian, Orthodox arch-priest, Professor of History at Columbia University, NY

• Janet McTeer – Oscar nominated actress

• Jacob Meltzer – New Zealand lawyer, unionist, coroner and community leader

• Charles Merz – electrical engineer noted for creating the electrical grid

• Marion Mingins – Anglican priest

• Jimmy Mullen – England football international

• Matthew Murray – machine-tool manufacturer who designed and built first commercially viable steam locomotive

• Jimmy Nail – actor, singer and writer

• Lesslie Newbigin – bishop and theologian, one of the first bishops of the Church of South India

• Ross Noble – stand-up comic

• Daniel Oliver – botanist and keeper at Kew Gardens

• Fred Olsen – inventor of the ball propellant manufacturing process

• Pac – professional wrestler

• 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 Indianapolis 500 in 1946

• Sue Rolph – swimmer

• LJ Ross – author writing locally-set crime thrillers

• Ralph Rumney – artist and co-founder with Guy Debord of the Situationist International

• Sakima – singer

• Hugh Stowell Scott – novelist writing as Henry Seton Merriman

• James Scott – actor

• Lord Stowell – legal authority

• Anna Howard Shaw – leader of the women's suffrage movement in the United States

• 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

• Abigail Thorn - actress and creator of the Philosophy Tube YouTube channel

• Elsie Tu – social activist

• Colin Veitch – Newcastle League and Cup winner, England international footballer, union negotiator, and playwright

• Abhisit Vejjajiva – Thailand's prime minister from 2008

• Bill Ward – actor

• Greg Wise – actor, married to Emma Thompson since 2003

• Lord Woolf – Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales

• Adam Wakenshaw – recipient of the Victoria Cross

• William G. Whittaker – composer, conductor and teacher

• Daniel Young – cricketer

Residents (past and present)
• Laurence Acton, died 1386/87 – bailiff and MP

• Laurence Acton, died 1410 – bailiff, mayor, and MP; son of the previous Laurence Acton

• William Acton – 14th-century bailiff and MP

• William Acton – 14th-century bailiff and mayor; son of the previous William Acton

• David Almond, born 1951 – prize-winning author (Skellig)

• Gem Archer, born 1966 – guitarist, member of Oasis

• Charles Avison, 1709–1770 – composer and impresario

• William Beilby, 1840–1919 – glass enameller

• Nick Bell, born 1983 – entrepreneur

• Thomas Bewick, 1753–1828 – engraver and ornithologist

• Chaz Brenchley, born 1959 – writer

• Constance Briscoe, born 1957 – judge and bestselling author

• Flavio de Carvalho, 1899–1973 – Brazilian artist and architect

• Sid Chaplin, 1916–1986 – writer

• Charles I, 1600–1649 – prisoner in Newcastle 1646–47

• Catherine Cookson, 1906–1998 – bestselling author

• Joseph Conrad, 1857–1924 – writer, served on Tyne colliers in 1878

• Lucio Costa, 1902–1998 – Brazilian architect, designed masterplan of Brasília, grew up in Newcastle

• Joseph Cowen, 1829–1900 – radical MP and newspaper owner

• John Cunningham, 1729–1773 – pastoral poet, dramatist and stage actor

• Richard Dawes, 1708–1776 – classical scholar

• Robert Burns Dick, 1858–1954 – architect

• John Dobson, 1787–1865 – architect

• Jonathan Edwards, born 1966 – Olympic champion

• J. Meade Falkner, 1858–1932 – head of Armstrongs and novelist (Moonfleet)

• Terry Farrell, born 1938 – modern architect

• Bryan Ferry, born 1945 – lead singer of Roxy Music, attended Newcastle University.

• João Cândido Felisberto, 1880–1969 – Brazilian sailor, leader of the 1910 Chibata Revolt

• Mike Figgis, born 1948 – film-maker, in Newcastle from the age of eight

• Beryl Fowler, 1881–1963 – English painter

• James Louis Garvin, 1868–1947 – newspaper editor

• Paul Gascoigne, born 1967 – footballer

• Mrs Gaskell, 1810–1865 – novelist

• Tina Gharavi, living – film-maker

• Roger de Grey, 1918–1995 – artist

• Spencer de Grey, born 1944 – architect, head of design at Foster & Partners

• Ingeborg Refling Hagen, 1895–1989 – Norwegian writer

• Tony Harrison, born 1937 – poet

• Oliver Heaviside, 1850–1925 – engineer, mathematician and physicist

• Ralph Hedley, 1848–1913 – Realist painter

• Arthur Henderson, 1863–1935 – politician, founder of modern Labour Party

• Beda Higgins, living – poet and writer

• Rob Hubbard, born 1955 – video game musician

• Alan Hull, 1945–1995 – Lindisfarne lead singer

• Eva Ibbotson, 1925–2010 – children's writer (Which Witch?)

• Harold Jeffreys, 1891–1989 – geologist, mathematician and astronomer

• W. E. Johns, 1893–1968 – adventure story writer (Biggles)

• Brian Johnson, born 1947 – third lead singer of AC/DC

• David Knopfler, born 1952 – Dire Straits rhythm guitarist

• Mark Knopfler, born 1949 – Dire Straits lead guitarist and singer

• John Knox, c. 1514–1572 – Scottish religious reformer

• Gibson Kyle, 1820–1903 - architect resident in Gateshead, but his practice was in Newcastle

• Conrad Lant, born 1963 - better known by stage name Cronos, musician with metal band Venom

• John Lilburne, 1614–1667 – 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, 1843–1893 – French revolutionary

• Arthur Hardwick Marsh, 1842–1909 – painter

• John Martin, 1789–1854 – painter

• Harriet Martineau, 1802–1876 – writer and journalist

• Mary Midgley, 1919–2018 – philosopher

• Charles Mitchell, 1820–1895 – shipbuilder

• Elizabeth Montagu, 1718–1800 – coal owner and bluestocking

• Alexei Mordashov, born 1965 – Russian billionaire

• Robert Morrison, 1882–1934 – Protestant missionary in China

• Mo Mowlam, 1949–2005 – Labour politician

• Sir Andrew Noble, 1831–1915 – arms manufacturer and scientist

• Paul Noble, born 1963 – artist

• Keith O'Brien, 1938–2018 – cardinal accused of predatory sexual activity

• Sean O'Brien, born 1952 – poet and critic

• Nikolay Ogarev, 1813–1877 – Russian poet and political activist

• Chi Onwurah, born 1965 – Labour politician

• Lembit Öpik, born 1965 – Liberal Democratic MP and local councillor

• Charles Parsons, 1854–1931 – engineer and inventor

• José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, 1845–1900 – diplomat and novelist ("the Portuguese Dickens")

• Michael Roberts, 1902–1948 – poet and critic

• Diana Ross, 1910–2000 – children's author (The Little Red Engine)

• Erik Routley, 1917–1982 – hymn writer

• William Bell Scott, 1811–1890 – poet and Pre-Raphaelite painter

• Freddy Shepherd, 1941–2017 – businessman and football club chairman

• Jon Silkin, 1930–1997 – poet

• Peter Smithson, 1928–1993 – Stockton-born Modernist architect

• John Snow, 1813–1858 – anaesthetist and founder of epidemiology

• James Calvert Spence, 1892–1954 – paediatrician

• W. T. Stead, 1849–1912 – journalist

• Algernon Charles Swinburne, 1837–1909 – poet

• Cecil Philip Taylor, 1929–1981 – playwright

• Gerald Vann, 1906–1963 – Roman Catholic theologian and philosopher

• Don Warrington, born 1951 – actor

• Bruce Welch, born 1941 – guitarist and singer

• Denise Welch, born 1958 – actress

• John Wesley, 1703–1791 – founder of Methodism

• Kevin Whately, born 1951 – actor

• Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889–1951 – philosopher

• Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1884–1937 – Russian novelist, (We)