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This is a list of notable people born in, or associated with,
Newcastle upon Tyne in
England.
Born in Newcastle
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Rudolf Abel – Soviet spy
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David Martin Abrahams – entrepreneur and philanthropist
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Thomas Addison – physician and scientist who first diagnosed
Addison's disease
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Mark Akenside – poet and physician
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Ant & Dec – light entertainers (Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly)
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Lord Armstrong – engineer and industrialist
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Ove Arup – architect and civil engineer
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Mary Astell – writer ("the first English feminist")
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Robert Barker – painter and inventor of the
panorama
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Phyllida Barlow – artist
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Michelle Bass – model and television pornography presenter
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Joey Batey - actor and singer
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Anna Fisher Beiler – missionary and newspaper editor
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Isaac Lowthian Bell – ironmaster and politician
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Mary Bell – murderer
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Thomas Binney, "Archbishop of Nonconformity"
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David Bradley – science journalist and author
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Israel Brodie – Chief Rabbi of Great Britain
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Basil Bunting – first English modernist poet
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Eric Burdon – singer (
The Animals)
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John Hodgson Campbell - portrait artist
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Horatio Caro – chess player
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Peter Cadogan – social activist
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Chas Chandler – bass guitarist with
The Animals, manager of
Jimi Hendrix and
Slade
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Cheryl – singer (
Girls Aloud)
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Edward Clark – conductor and BBC music producer
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Freddie Clayton – cricketer
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William Clayton – cricketer
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Lord Collingwood – Nelson's second-in-command at Trafalgar
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Jack Common – writer and friend of
George Orwell
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David Scott Cowper – yachtsman and multiple circumnavigator by sailing boat and powerboat
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Raffaello de Banfield – composer
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John Dewhirst – only Briton to die in the
Killing Fields of Cambodia
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Chris Donald – founder of
Viz
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Jack Douglas – actor in the Carry On film series
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Lesley Douglas – former controller of
BBC Radio 2 and
BBC 6 Music
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Jeffrey Dunn - better known as Mantas, musician and former guitarist for the metal band
Venom
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Lord Eldon – Lord Chancellor of England
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Anne Elliot – novelist
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Elizabeth Elstob – Anglo-Saxon scholar
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Sarah Lindsay Evans – temperance movement
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Harry Falconer - former professional footballer
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Mary J. Farnham – missionary and temperance advocate
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John Forster – friend and biographer of
Charles Dickens
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Huck Gee – contemporary artist
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John and Benjamin Green – father and son architects
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Colin Gregson – keen footballer, 1976 FA Youth Cup winning team
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Julia Griffiths – abolitionist who edited and published the works of
Frederick Douglass
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William Hails – writer
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Lee Hall – playwright and screenwriter (
Billy Elliot)
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William Hardcastle – first presenter of
The World at One
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John Harle - saxophonist and composer
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Tim Healy - actor
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Peter Higgs – theoretical physicist (Higgs' boson)
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Alan Hull – musician (Lindisfarne)
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Basil Hume – cardinal in the Roman Catholic church
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Charlie Hunnam – actor (
Sons of Anarchy,
Queer as Folk,
Byker Grove)
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Charles Hutton – mathematician
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John Irvin – film director
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Wilfred Josephs – composer
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Martin Kenneavy – piper
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Paul Kennedy – historian, author and professor of history at Yale
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Lionel Kopelowitz – Jewish community leader
[1]
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Iain Laidlaw – former professional footballer
[2]
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Graham Laidler – cartoonist (
Punch), also known under the pseudonym Pont
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Lady Lucinda Lambton – writer, photographer, television presenter and producer
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Herbert Laming, Baron Laming –
life peer
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Stephanie Lawrence – actress and singer
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Charles Henry Laws – Methodist minister and administrator
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Carla Lynch – comedian and TV presenter
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Carole Malone – columnist and TV presenter
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Neil Marshall – director
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Hank Marvin – guitarist, singer, and songwriter
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Esther McCracken – playwright
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John Anthony McGuckin – theologian, Orthodox arch-priest, Professor of History at Columbia University, NY
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Janet McTeer –
Oscar nominated actress
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Jacob Meltzer – New Zealand lawyer, unionist, coroner and community leader
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Charles Merz – electrical engineer noted for creating the electrical grid
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Marion Mingins – Anglican priest
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Jimmy Mullen – England football international
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Matthew Murray – machine-tool manufacturer who designed and built first commercially viable steam locomotive
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Jimmy Nail – actor, singer and writer
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Lesslie Newbigin – bishop and theologian, one of the first bishops of the
Church of South India
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Ross Noble – stand-up comic
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Daniel Oliver – botanist and keeper at
Kew Gardens
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Fred Olsen – inventor of the
ball propellant manufacturing process
[3]
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Pac – professional wrestler
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Brian Redhead – author, journalist and broadcaster
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Thomas Wemyss Reid – journalist and biographer
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Lewis Fry Richardson – meteorologist
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Matt Ridley – science writer
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Alan Robson – radio DJ and broadcaster
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George Robson – racing driver, winner of the
Indianapolis 500 in
1946
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Sue Rolph – swimmer
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LJ Ross – author writing locally-set crime thrillers
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Ralph Rumney – artist and co-founder with
Guy Debord of the Situationist International
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Sakima – singer
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Hugh Stowell Scott – novelist writing as Henry Seton Merriman
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James Scott – actor
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Lord Stowell – legal authority
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Anna Howard Shaw – leader of the women's suffrage movement in the United States
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Alan Shearer – international footballer, England captain
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Tod Slaughter – actor and film star
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Nancy Spain – author, journalist and TV personality
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Thomas Spence – Utopian writer
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Sting – musician
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Miriam Stoppard – doctor and agony aunt (
Daily Mirror)
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Peter Taylor, Baron Taylor of Gosforth –
Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
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George Temperley – landowner and founder of the Argentine city
Temperley
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Peter Terson – playwright
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Dave Thomas – golfer, twice runner-up in
The Open Championship
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Samuel Tolansky – scientist
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Abigail Thorn - actress and creator of the
Philosophy Tube YouTube channel
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Elsie Tu – social activist
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Colin Veitch – Newcastle League and Cup winner, England international footballer, union negotiator, and playwright
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Abhisit Vejjajiva – Thailand's prime minister from 2008
[4]
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Bill Ward – actor
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Greg Wise – actor, married to
Emma Thompson since 2003
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Lord Woolf –
Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
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Adam Wakenshaw – recipient of the
Victoria Cross
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William G. Whittaker – composer, conductor and teacher
[5]
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Daniel Young – cricketer
Residents (past and present)
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David Almond, born 1951 – prize-winning author (
Skellig)
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Gem Archer, born 1966 – guitarist, member of
Oasis
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Charles Avison, 1709–1770 – composer and impresario
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William Beilby, 1840–1919 – glass enameller
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Nick Bell, born 1983 – entrepreneur
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Thomas Bewick, 1753–1828 – engraver and ornithologist
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Chaz Brenchley, born 1959 – writer
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Constance Briscoe, born 1957 – judge and bestselling author
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Flavio de Carvalho, 1899–1973 – Brazilian artist and architect
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Sid Chaplin, 1916–1986 – writer
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Charles I, 1600–1649 – prisoner in Newcastle 1646–47
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Catherine Cookson, 1906–1998 – bestselling author
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Joseph Conrad, 1857–1924 – writer, served on Tyne colliers in 1878
[6]
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Lucio Costa, 1902–1998 – Brazilian architect, designed masterplan of Brasília, grew up in Newcastle
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Joseph Cowen, 1829–1900 – radical MP and newspaper owner
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John Cunningham, 1729–1773 – pastoral poet, dramatist and stage actor
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Richard Dawes, 1708–1776 – classical scholar
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Robert Burns Dick, 1858–1954 – architect
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John Dobson, 1787–1865 – architect
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Jonathan Edwards, born 1966 – Olympic champion
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J. Meade Falkner, 1858–1932 – head of Armstrongs and novelist (
Moonfleet)
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Terry Farrell, born 1938 – modern architect
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Bryan Ferry, born 1945 – lead singer of
Roxy Music, attended Newcastle University.
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João Cândido Felisberto, 1880–1969 – Brazilian sailor, leader of the 1910
Chibata Revolt
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Mike Figgis, born 1948 – film-maker, in Newcastle from the age of eight
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Beryl Fowler, 1881–1963 – English painter
[7]
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James Louis Garvin, 1868–1947 – newspaper editor
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Paul Gascoigne, born 1967 – footballer
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Mrs Gaskell, 1810–1865 – novelist
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Tina Gharavi, living – film-maker
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Roger de Grey, 1918–1995 – artist
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Spencer de Grey, born 1944 – architect, head of design at Foster & Partners
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Ingeborg Refling Hagen, 1895–1989 – Norwegian writer
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Tony Harrison, born 1937 – poet
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Oliver Heaviside, 1850–1925 – engineer, mathematician and physicist
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Ralph Hedley, 1848–1913 – Realist painter
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Arthur Henderson, 1863–1935 – politician, founder of modern Labour Party
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Beda Higgins, living – poet and writer
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Rob Hubbard, born 1955 – video game musician
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Alan Hull, 1945–1995 – Lindisfarne lead singer
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Eva Ibbotson, 1925–2010 – children's writer (Which Witch?)
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Harold Jeffreys, 1891–1989 – geologist, mathematician and astronomer
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W. E. Johns, 1893–1968 – adventure story writer (
Biggles)
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Brian Johnson, born 1947 – third lead singer of
AC/DC
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David Knopfler, born 1952 –
Dire Straits rhythm guitarist
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Mark Knopfler, born 1949 –
Dire Straits lead guitarist and singer
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John Knox, c. 1514–1572 – Scottish religious reformer
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Gibson Kyle, 1820–1903 - architect resident in Gateshead, but his practice was in Newcastle
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Conrad Lant, born 1963 - better known by stage name Cronos, musician with metal band
Venom
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John Lilburne, 1614–1667 – radical, born in County Durham, grew up in Newcastle
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Ken Major, 1928–2009 –
architect,
author and
molinologist, attended
King's College, Newcastle upon Tyne
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Jean-Paul Marat, 1843–1893 – French revolutionary
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Arthur Hardwick Marsh, 1842–1909 – painter
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John Martin, 1789–1854 – painter
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Harriet Martineau, 1802–1876 – writer and journalist
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Mary Midgley, 1919–2018 – philosopher
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Charles Mitchell, 1820–1895 – shipbuilder
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Elizabeth Montagu, 1718–1800 – coal owner and bluestocking
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Alexei Mordashov, born 1965 – Russian billionaire
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Robert Morrison, 1882–1934 – Protestant missionary in China
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Mo Mowlam, 1949–2005 – Labour politician
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Sir Andrew Noble, 1831–1915 – arms manufacturer and scientist
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Paul Noble, born 1963 – artist
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Keith O'Brien, 1938–2018 –
cardinal accused of
predatory
sexual activity
[8]
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Sean O'Brien, born 1952 – poet and critic
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Nikolay Ogarev, 1813–1877 – Russian poet and political activist
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Chi Onwurah, born 1965 – Labour politician
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Lembit Öpik, born 1965 – Liberal Democratic MP and local councillor
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Charles Parsons, 1854–1931 – engineer and inventor
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José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, 1845–1900 – diplomat and novelist ("the Portuguese Dickens")
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Michael Roberts, 1902–1948 – poet and critic
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Diana Ross, 1910–2000 – children's author (The Little Red Engine)
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Erik Routley, 1917–1982 – hymn writer
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William Bell Scott, 1811–1890 – poet and
Pre-Raphaelite painter
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Freddy Shepherd, 1941–2017 – businessman and football club chairman
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Jon Silkin, 1930–1997 – poet
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Peter Smithson, 1928–1993 – Stockton-born Modernist architect
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John Snow, 1813–1858 – anaesthetist and founder of
epidemiology
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James Calvert Spence, 1892–1954 – paediatrician
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W. T. Stead, 1849–1912 – journalist
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Algernon Charles Swinburne, 1837–1909 – poet
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Cecil Philip Taylor, 1929–1981 – playwright
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Gerald Vann, 1906–1963 – Roman Catholic theologian and philosopher
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Don Warrington, born 1951 – actor
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Bruce Welch, born 1941 – guitarist and singer
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Denise Welch, born 1958 – actress
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John Wesley, 1703–1791 – founder of
Methodism
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Kevin Whately, born 1951 – actor
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Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889–1951 – philosopher
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Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1884–1937 – Russian novelist, (
We)
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