List of people from Newcastle upon Tyne

The following list contains in Newcastle upon Tyne -born, and the temporary living persons, listed chronologically by year of birth. The list is not exhaustive.

Newcastle-born personalities

To 1900

1901-1950

  • Rudolf Ivanovich Abel (1903-1971), Agent
  • Andrew Aitken (1909-1984), football goalkeeper
  • Lesslie Newbigin (1909-1998), missionary and bishop
  • Arthur Blenkinsop (1911-1979), politician
  • Len Duns (1916-1989), football player
  • Michael Gough (1916-1973), archaeologist
  • Raffaello de Banfield (1922-2008), composer
  • Basil Hume (1923-1999), Archbishop
  • Jimmy Mullen (1923-1987), football player
  • Angus Maddison (1926-2010), economist
  • Jack Douglas (1927-2008), actor
  • Hugh Lindsay (1927-2009), Roman Catholic bishop
  • Joe Robinson ( * 1927), wrestler and actor
  • Jack Higgins ( born 1929 ), author
  • Doug Robinson ( born 1930 ), actor and stuntman
  • Neil Bartlett (1932-2008), Chemist
  • Harry Woolf ( born 1933), lawyer
  • Ralph Rumney (1934-2002), artist
  • Chas Chandler (1938-1996), musician, producer and manager
  • John Irvin ( born 1940 ), film director
  • Eric Burdon ( born 1941 ), rock musician
  • Hank B. Marvin ( born 1941 ), guitarist and songwriter
  • Lee Jackson ( born 1943 ), musician
  • Phyllida Barlow ( b. 1944 ), contemporary artist
  • Tony Scott (1944-2012), Film Director
  • Timothy Kirkhope ( born 1945 ), lawyer and politician
  • Derek Parkin ( b. 1946 ), football player
  • Richard Kersten ( b. 1949 ), musician
  • Pete Jacobsen (1950-2002), jazz musician

1951

  • Niel Francis Tennant (1954 ), musician
  • Kevin Whately ( born 1951 ), actor
  • Sting ( born 1951 ), singer
  • Jimmy Nail ( born 1954 ), actor and singer
  • Rowan Atkinson ( born 1955 ), actor
  • Paul Lamb ( b. 1955 ), harmonica player
  • Mary Bell ( b. 1957 ), child-murderer
  • Matt Ridley (born 1958 ), zoologist
  • Michael Shanks ( b. 1959 ), archaeologist
  • Willie Williams ( born 1959 ), video artists and designers
  • Peter Beardsley ( b. 1961 ), football player
  • Janet McTeer ( born 1961 ), actress
  • Imogen Stubbs ( born 1961 ), actress
  • Abhisit Vejjajiva (* 1964), politician
  • Paul WS Anderson (born 1965 ), film director, screenwriter and producer
  • Tim Burke (born 1965 ), a specialist in visual effects
  • Lee Hall ( b. 1966 ), playwright and screenwriter
  • Greg Wise (born 1966 ), actor
  • Emily Woof (born 1967 ), actress, director and screenwriter
  • Neil Marshall (born 1970 ), film director and screenwriter
  • Alan Shearer ( b. 1970 ), football player
  • Suzanne May (born 1971 ), actress
  • Alan Thompson (born 1973 ), football player
  • Shona Fraser ( born 1975 ), music journalist
  • Vanessa Atkinson (born 1976 ), squash player
  • Sue Rolph (born 1978 ), swimmer
  • Paul Nicholson ( b. 1979 ), Dartprofi
  • Charlie Hunnam ( born 1980 ), actor
  • Michael Chopra ( b. 1983 ), football player
  • Cheryl Cole ( b. 1983 ), pop singer
  • Harry Vaulkhard (* 1985), race car driver

Famous residents of Newcastle

  • Brian Johnson ( born 1947 ), singer (AC / DC), grew up in Newcastle
  • Mark Knopfler ( b. 1949 ), singer and guitarist ( Dire Straits ), grew up in Newcastle
  • Gordon Matthew Sumner aka Sting ( b. 1951 ), Pop, grew up in Newcastle
  • Neil Tennant (born 1954 ), musician and music journalist, grew up in Newcastle
  • List ( people by city in the United Kingdom)
William Hutchinson (privateer) John Baillie (railway engineer) William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong Joseph Frederick Laycock Andrew Aitken (footballer born 1909) Jack Douglas (actor) Hugh Lindsay (bishop) Joe Robinson (actor) Neil Bartlett (chemist) Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf Hank Marvin Lee Jackson (Bassist) Tim Burke (visual effects supervisor) Paul Nicholson (darts player) AC/DC
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