List of English people

Actors and actresses

Archaeologists and anthropologists

Architects

Artists
See also: List of English women artists

Broadcasters

Businessmen

Chefs

Clergy

Conspirators

Criminals

Economists

Engineers

Explorers

Filmmakers

Historians
  • Frank Barlow (1911–2009)
  • William Camden (1551–1623)
  • Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)
  • Richard Holmes (1946–2011), military historian and author
  • Sir Peter Leycester (1614–1678), historian and antiquarian
  • George Ormerod (1785–1873), historian and antiquary
  • Nicholas Rodger (born 1949), naval historian
  • John Speed (1542–1629), historian and cartographer
  • A.J.P. Taylor (1906–1990), popular historian

Comedians

Inventors

See also List of English inventions and discoveries.

Journalists

Military personnel
See also: List of English Victoria Cross recipients

Monarchs
See also: List of English royal mistresses
  • Alfred the Great (c. 849–899) (reigned 880s–899), King of the Anglo-Saxons
  • Queen Anne (reigned 1702–1714), also Queen of Scotland, then Queen of Great Britain after 1707
  • Charles I (reigned 1625–1649), also King of Scotland, and Ireland
  • Charles II (reigned 1660–1685), also King of Scotland
  • Cnut (reigned 1016–1035)
  • Saint Edward the Confessor (reigned 1042–1066)
  • Edward I (reigned 1272–1307), English monarch
  • Edward II (reigned 1307–1327), English monarch
  • Edward III (reigned 1327–1377), English monarch
  • Edward IV (reigned 1461–1470 and 1471–1483), English monarch
  • Edward V (reigned 1483–1483), English monarch
  • Edward VI (reigned 1547–1553), first English Protestant monarch
  • Elizabeth I (reigned 1558–1603), Protestant queen and first Supreme Governor of the Church of England
  • Elizabeth II (the current monarch)
  • Harold Godwinson (reigned 6 January 1066–14 October 1066), died in Battle of Hastings
  • Harold Harefoot (reigned 1035–1040)
  • Harthacnut (reigned 1040–1042)
  • Henry I (reigned 1100–1135)
  • Henry III (reigned 1216–1272), English monarch
  • Henry IV (reigned 1399–1413), English monarch
  • Henry V (reigned 1413–1422)
  • Henry VI (reigned 1422–1461), English monarch
  • Henry VII (reigned 1485–1509) (Henry Tudor, the first Tudor monarch)
  • Henry VIII (reigned 1509–1547), separated English Catholicism from link with the Roman Catholic Church
  • James II (reigned 1685–1689)
  • Lady Jane Grey (de facto 10 July 1553–19 July 1553) ("the nine days queen"), beheaded 1554, aged 16
  • King John (reigned 1199–1216)
  • Mary I (reigned 1553–1558), Roman Catholic queen
  • Mary II (reigned 1689–1694), reigned jointly with her husband William III
  • Richard of Cornwall (reigned 1257–1272), King of the Romans
  • Richard the Lionheart (reigned 1189–1199), Richard I, English monarch, leader and hero of the Third Crusade
  • Richard II (reigned 1377–1399)
  • Richard III (reigned 1483–1485), last Plantagenet King, and last British monarch to die in Battle
  • William I (reigned 1066–1087), "William the Conqueror", William of Normandy
  • William II (reigned 1087–1100)
  • William III (reigned 1689–1702), "William of Orange", born 1650 at The Hague in Holland, married an English princess, reigned jointly with his wife Mary II, until her death

Musicians

Philosophers

Photographers

Politicians

Scientists

Sportsmen and sportswomen
David Beckham
Jenson Button
Lewis Hamilton
Wayne Rooney
See also: List of Cornish sportsmen and sportswomen, List of England women Test cricketers, and List of England women Twenty20 International cricketers

Writers
Main article: List of English writers

Militants

Other notables

English expatriates

The following were born English, but changed nationality later in their life.

See also

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