List of people from 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 borders 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

• Katrina Kaif - Indian-British actress in Bollywood ^[4]
• Anthony Andrews – actor
• Juliette Ashby – singer-songwriter
• Richard Baker – newsreader, lived for many years in Hadley Green
• Peter Banks – musician
• Stephanie Beacham – actress
• Claire Bloom – actress
• Emma Bunton – singer
• Shelley Conn – actor
• Nadine Coyle – singer
• D. C. Eyles – illustrator and comics artist
• Samantha Fox – model and singer
• Robert Fripp – musician
• Devin Griffin – BBC Radio 1 DJ (commonly known as Dev)
• Trevor Howard – actor
• Humphrey Lyttelton – jazz musician and broadcaster
• Tony Maudsley – actor
• Stephen Merchant – actor, writer and comedian
• George Michael – singer and songwriter
• Monica Michael – singer-songwriter
• Spike Milligan – comedian^[5]
• Bob Monkhouse – comedian (lived in The Vale, NW11)
• Sir Roger Moore – actor
• Eric Morecambe – comedian
• Elaine Paige – singer and actress
• Frederick Peisley – actor
• Steve Pemberton – actor
• 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
• Peter Sellers – comedian
• Feargal Sharkey – singer
• Reece Shearsmith – actor
• Sir Donald Sinden – actor (lived at 60, Temple Fortune Lane, Hampstead Garden Suburb 1954–1997)
• Marc Sinden – film director, actor and theatre producer
• Mike Skinner – rapper and music producer
• John Somerville (born 1951)
• Jerry Springer – TV personality (born at East Finchley, or possibly Highgate)
• Steven Stapleton – musician
• Terry-Thomas – actor/comedian^[6]
• Lee Thompson – musician
• Alan Tilvern – actor
• Tamás Vásáry – pianist and conductor
• Johnny Vaughan – radio presenter
• Amy Winehouse – singer-songwriter (1983–2011) (born in Southgate and lived on Osidge Lane until 1991 and moved to Whetstone when she was 7/8.
• Sir Norman Wisdom – actor, comedian

Crime

• Owen Suffolk, Australian transported convict and bushranger (born in Finchley in c.1830)^[7]
• Thomas Nugent, chief gangster of the Borough of Barnet, inspiration for the TV character John Locke

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
Tim Parks	novelist (his semi-autobiographical Tongues of Flame is set in the North Finchley of 1968)	Finchley
Samuel Pepys
Will Self	novelist, reviewer and columnist	Finchley	L [8]

Journalism and the media

Name	Notability	District [1]	Notes [2]
Stephen Douglas	journalist, ITV
Richard Baker	broadcaster
Mark Kermode	film critic	Finchley
John Kennedy O'Connor	Broadcaster & writer	Finchely

Politics and government

Name	Notability	District [1]	Notes [2]
John Bercow	Current Speaker of the House of Commons and the Member of Parliament for Buckingham	Edgware	B [9]
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]
David Crawley	Gaelic football player
C. B. Fry	polymath best known as a cricketer	Childs Hill	L D[3]
Ram Vaswani	professional poker player
Phil Tufnell	cricketer	Finchley

References

1. Entries with no sourced locality (district) of residence available are marked with a "?".
2. All entries contain a reliably sourced reference. Entries may also contain a letter indicating Birth, Lived, or Death.
3. Hibbert, Christopher; Ben Weinreb; John Keay; Julia Keay (2008). The London Encyclopaedia (3rd ed.). Pan Macmillan. p. 550. ISBN 978-1-4050-4924-5.
4. http://zeenews.india.com/entertainment/celebrity/katrina-kaif-s-success-journey-from-barnet-to-bollywood_32490.html
5. "Spike Milligan Statue Fund". Finchley Society. Retrieved 2009-04-28.
6. {{cite news|url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1052851/I-say-What-bounder--All-dandy-comic-legend-Terry-Thomas-really-liked-jolly-eager-girls.html|title=I say! What a bounder... All dandy comic legend Terry-Thomas really liked was 'jolly eager girls' |last=Mccann |first=Graham|date=5 September 2008|publisher=Daily Mail|accessdate=2009-04-29}}
7. Eastwood, Jill (1976). "Suffolk, Owen Hargraves (1830? – )". Australian Dictionary of Biography Online. Retrieved 2009-04-29.
8. Self, Will (6 July 2007). "Head in the clouds". The Independent. Retrieved 2009-04-28.
9. "John Bercow: Electoral history and profile". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 March 2010.