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 – first 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)
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^[1]
Iain Laidlaw – former professional footballer^[2]
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^[3]
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^[4]
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^[5]
Daniel Young – cricketer

Residents (past and present)

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^[6]
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^[7]
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^[8]
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)

Born in Newcastle

Residents (past and present)

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