List of people from the London Borough of Barnet

Location of the London Borough of Barnet within Greater London

Among those who were born in the London Borough of Barnet, or have dwelt within the border of the modern borough are (alphabetical order, within category):

Notable residents

	Key to "Notes" regarding the residents' affiliation to Barnet
Letter	Description
B	Indicates that the resident was born in Barnet.
D	Indicates that the resident died in Barnet.
I	Indicates that the subject is buried in Barnet.
L	Indicates that the resident lived in Barnet.
	Citations in the Notes box refer to the information in the entire row

Academia and research

Name	Notability	District^[1]	Notes^[2]
William Cattley	For whom the orchid species cattleya was named
Peter Collinson	Botanist	Mill Hill	^[3]
Harold Hopkins	Physicist
John Strugnell	Dead Sea Scrolls editor-in-chief and Harvard Professor

Arts and entertainment


Name	Notability	District^[1]	Notes^[2]
Katrina Kaif	Indian-British actress in Bollywood		B^[4]
Anthony Andrews	Actor
Richard Baker	Newsreader
Peter Banks	Musician		B,D
Stephanie Beacham	Actress
Claire Bloom	Actress
Emma Bunton	Singer	Finchley
Dave Colwell	Guitar
Shelley Conn	Actress
Nadine Coyle	Singer	Chipping Barnet
Paul Carrack	Keyboards and Singer	Chipping Barnet
D. C. Eyles	Illustrator and comics artist
Andy Ellison	Singer	Finchley
Samantha Fox	Model and singer
Robert Fripp	Musician
Morgan Fisher	Keyboards	Finchley
Alan A. Freeman	Record producer	Hendon	L^[5]
Johnny Franz	Record producer and accompanist	Hampstead Garden Suburb	L^[6]
Devin Griffin	BBC Radio 1 DJ (commonly known as Dev)
Trevor Howard	Actor
Dhani Harrison	Singer	Chipping Barnet
Jade Jones	Singer	Finchley
Howard Jones	Singer	Chipping Barnet
Cariad Lloyd	Actress, writer and comedian
Tony Maudsley	Actor
Jo Maxwell-Muller	Actress	Hendon
Stephen Merchant	Actor, writer and comedian
George Michael	Singer and songwriter	Finchley
Monica Michael	Singer-songwriter
Spike Milligan	Comedian	Finchley	L^[7]
Bob Monkhouse	Comedian
Sir Roger Moore	Actor
Eric Morecambe	Comedian
Billy Nicholls	Singer
Elaine Paige	Singer and actress
Nick Papadimitriou	Author
Frederick Peisley	Actor
Steve Pemberton	Actor
David Pentecost	Composer (Lived at Torrington Cottage, Church Path/Lodge Lane, 1940 to 1965)	Finchley	L
Anna Popplewell	Actress
Angharad Rees	Actress (born in Edgware Hospital and lived at 13 Engel Park, Mill Hill, until she was 2)
Sir Cliff Richard	Singer
Daniel Roche	Actor
Peter Sellers	Comedian
Feargal Sharkey	Singer
Reece Shearsmith	Actor
David Shepherd	Painter
Sir Donald Sinden	Actor (lived at 60, Temple Fortune Lane, Hampstead Garden Suburb 1954–1997)		L
Marc Sinden	Film director, actor and theatre producer
Jerry Shirley	Drummer
Mike Skinner	Rapper and music producer
John Somerville	Sculptor
Jerry Springer	TV personality (born at East Finchley, or possibly Highgate)		B
Steven Stapleton	Musician
Andy Summers	Musician
Zak Starkey	Drums	Chipping Barnet
Terry-Thomas	Actor/comedian	Finchley	B
Lee Thompson	Musician	Finchley
Simon Townshend	Singer	Finchley
Alan Tilvern	Actor
Tamás Vásáry	Pianist and conductor
Johnny Vaughan	Radio presenter
Mark Vidler^[8]^[9]	Record producer, remixer, DJ
Marc Warren	Actor	Finchley	L^[10]
Amy Winehouse	Singer-songwriter	Southgate	I, L
Sir Norman Wisdom	Actor/comedian
Rick Wills	Bass Guitar	Finchley

Crime

Owen Suffolk – Australian transported convict and bushranger (born in Finchley in c.1830)^[11]

Design

Harry Beck – designer of the original Tube map

Travel and exploration

Name	Notability	District^[1]	Notes^[2]
Celia Fiennes	Early recreational traveller, the first recorded woman to visit every county in England	Mill Hill	L^[3]
David Livingstone

Judiciary

Sir William Shee, the first Roman Catholic judge to sit in England and Wales since the Reformation

Literature

Name	Notability	District^[1]	Notes^[2]
Fleur Adcock	Poet
Kingsley Amis	Novelist and poet	Barnet	L
Martin Amis	Novelist	Barnet	L
Alison Weir	Novelist, historian	Barnet	L
Charles Dickens	Novelist	Finchley	L
Sally Laird	Writer, editor and translator		B^[12]
Tim Parks	Novelist (his semi-autobiographical Tongues of Flame is set in the North Finchley of 1968)	Finchley
Samuel Pepys	Writer
Will Self	Novelist, reviewer and columnist	Finchley	L^[13]

Journalism and the media

Name	Notability	District^[1]
Stephen Douglas	Journalist, ITV
Richard Baker	Broadcaster
Mark Kermode	Film critic	Finchley
John Kennedy O'Connor	Broadcaster & writer	Finchley

Politics and government

Name	Notability	District^[1]	Notes^[2]
John Bercow	Former Speaker of the House of Commons and the Member of Parliament for Buckingham	Edgware	B^[14]
Cyril Bibby	prospective Labour Party candidate opposing Reginald Maudling in 1958–1959
Robert Carr (Baron Carr of Hadley)	Conservative politician
Sir Sydney Chapman	Local MP 1979–2005
Nick Griffin	Political Leader of the BNP
Octavia Hill	Social reformer		L
Sir Stamford Raffles	Founder of Singapore	Mill Hill	L^[3]
Reginald Maudling	Local MP 1950–1979
Sir Vincent Tewson	TUC General Secretary	Arkley
Margaret Thatcher	Local MP and Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1979–1990
William Wilberforce	Politician, philanthropist and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade	Mill Hill	L^[3]
John Wilkes	Radical, journalist and politician	Mill Hill	^[3]

Sport and games

Name	Notability	District^[1]	Notes^[2]
Jayden Bennetts	Footballer
Keanan Bennetts	Footballer	Edgware
David Crawley	Gaelic football player
C. B. Fry	Polymath best known as a cricketer	Childs Hill	L D^[3]
Darren Gerard	Cricketer
Noni Madueke	Footballer
Mark Thomson	Darts	Finchley
Phil Tufnell	Cricketer	Finchley
Ram Vaswani	Professional poker and snooker player
Peter Wells	Olympic high jumper

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Entries with no sourced locality (district) of residence available are marked with a "?".
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g All entries contain a reliably sourced reference. Entries may also contain a letter indicating Birth, Lived, or Death.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Hibbert, Christopher; Weinreb, Ben; Keay, John; Keay, Julia (2008). The London Encyclopaedia (3rd ed.). Pan Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-4050-4924-5.
^ "Katrina Kaif's success journey from Barnet to Bollywood". Zee News. 13 June 2009. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
^ The National Archives; Kew, London, England; 1939 Register; Reference: Rg 101/831b. 1939 England and Wales Register [database on-line].
^ Principal Probate Registry; London, England; Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration made in the Probate Registries of the High Court of Justice in England
^ "Spike Milligan Statue Fund". Finchley Society. Archived from the original on 26 March 2009. Retrieved 28 April 2009.
^ Nelson, Jon (January 13, 2008). "Go Home Productions". Some Assembly Required.
^ Mark Andrew Vidler England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008. FamilySearch.
^ "Where I Live: Northhamptonshire - Marc Warren". BBC Local Northampton. 12 March 2004. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
^ Eastwood, Jill (1976). "Suffolk, Owen Hargraves (1830? – )". Australian Dictionary of Biography Online. Retrieved 29 April 2009.
^ Kellaway, Kate (10 August 2010). "Sally Laird obituary: Writer and translator of Russian literature". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 May 2023.
^ Self, Will (6 July 2007). "Head in the clouds". The Independent. Retrieved 28 April 2009.
^ "John Bercow: Electoral history and profile". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 20 September 2014. Retrieved 11 March 2010.

[Localityunavailable-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Entries with no sourced locality (district) of residence available are marked with a "?".

[notesexp-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g All entries contain a reliably sourced reference. Entries may also contain a letter indicating Birth, Lived, or Death.

[lon-3] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Hibbert, Christopher; Weinreb, Ben; Keay, John; Keay, Julia (2008). The London Encyclopaedia (3rd ed.). Pan Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-4050-4924-5.

[4] "Katrina Kaif's success journey from Barnet to Bollywood". Zee News. 13 June 2009. Retrieved 4 February 2019.

[5] The National Archives; Kew, London, England; 1939 Register; Reference: Rg 101/831b. 1939 England and Wales Register [database on-line].

[6] Principal Probate Registry; London, England; Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration made in the Probate Registries of the High Court of Justice in England

[7] "Spike Milligan Statue Fund". Finchley Society. Archived from the original on 26 March 2009. Retrieved 28 April 2009.

[8] Nelson, Jon (January 13, 2008). "Go Home Productions". Some Assembly Required.

[9] Mark Andrew Vidler England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008. FamilySearch.

[10] "Where I Live: Northhamptonshire - Marc Warren". BBC Local Northampton. 12 March 2004. Retrieved 6 March 2018.

[11] Eastwood, Jill (1976). "Suffolk, Owen Hargraves (1830? – )". Australian Dictionary of Biography Online. Retrieved 29 April 2009.

[12] Kellaway, Kate (10 August 2010). "Sally Laird obituary: Writer and translator of Russian literature". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 May 2023.

[13] Self, Will (6 July 2007). "Head in the clouds". The Independent. Retrieved 28 April 2009.

[14] "John Bercow: Electoral history and profile". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 20 September 2014. Retrieved 11 March 2010.

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