List of people from Northumberland

This list is of people who were born or raised in the County of Northumberland, in England. The area covered is the ceremonial county, hence the exclusion of places traditionally regarded as being in Northumberland which are now in Tyne and Wear for administrative and ceremonial purposes. The list is intended to complement Category:People from Northumberland.

Art and architecture

Business

Entertainment

Acting

  • Daniel Ainsleigh (born 1976), British actor and acting coach, born in Hexham
  • Robson Green (born 1964), television actor and singer
  • Jean Heywood (born 1921), British actress, appearing in films and television programmes
  • Alexander Knox (died 1995), Canadian actor; died at Berwick
  • Darren Newton (born 1969), actor and theatre director
  • Ben Roberts, television actor
  • Ray Stevenson (born 1964), Northern Irish film and television actor; grew up in Cramlington
  • Tip Tipping (1958–1993), actor, died in a parachuting accident at Alnwick
  • Henry Travers (1874–1965), born in Prudhoe; character actor best known for his roles in Hollywood film productions, most famously as Clarence the angel in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
  • Kevin Whately (born 1951), English television actor, starring in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, Peak Practice, Inspector Morse, and Lewis

Broadcasting

  • Tony Bastable (1944–2007), children's television presenter and producer
  • Ian Peacock, radio presenter
  • Sid Waddell (born 1940), English sports commentator and television personality

Comedy

Music

Military

Nobility

Politics

Religion

Science and medicine

Sport

Athletics

  • Jim Alder (born 1940), Commonwealth Games gold medal winning marathon runner
  • Vanessa Raw (born 1984), professional English triathlete, and member of the British Olympic Triathlon Academy Squad, born in Hexham

Cricket

  • Norman Graham (born 1943), cricketer who played for Kent, born at Hexham
  • Ken Graveney (born 1924), English cricketer who played for and captained Gloucestershire, born in Hexham
  • Tom Graveney (born 1927), former English cricketer; President of the Marylebone Cricket Club for 2004-5; played for England in 79 Tests; a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1953; born in Riding Mill
  • Steve Harmison (born 1978), Durham and England cricketer
  • John Wake (born 1953), Bedfordshire cricketer

Football

NB: Clubs listed are those at which the player made 100 or more League appearances or, if not applicable, club at which they made most appearances.

Horse racing

Other

Writers

Other people

  • John Ashenden (d. in or before 1368?), astrologer, born Northumberland
  • Bernard Bosanquet (1848–1923), philosopher and political theorist
  • John Busby (1765–1867), surveyor and civil engineer
  • Ned Coulson, celebrity of Haydon Bridge, noted for his wonderful swiftness of foot
  • Grace Darling (1815–1842), heroine of a celebrated maritime rescue
  • Richard Duncan (died 1819), judge and politician in Upper Canada
  • Matthew Festing (born 1949), Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta
  • Philip Hunter (born 1940), Schools Adjudicator for England
  • Robert Huntley (1920–2001), first Head of Scotland Yard's Bomb Squad
  • Ralph Hush (1779–1860), convict sent to Australia
  • Jonathan Martin (1782–1838), arsonist of York Minster
  • John Minto (1822–1915), American pioneer, sheep farmer, and Republican representative in the state legislature, born in Wylam
  • William Peel (born 1875), British colonial administrator who became the Governor of Hong Kong
  • Natalie Pike (born 1983), FHM High Street Honey winner and subsequent glamour model; used to live in Berwick
  • William Smith (1775–?), mariner and explorer
  • Edward Stamp (1814–1872), mariner and colonialist
  • John Stevens, Baron Stevens of Kirkwhelpington (born 1942), whose career included head of the Metropolitan Police Service, and Chancellor of Northumbria University
  • Robert Whinham (1776–1861), nurseryman; around the 1830s, bred the red gooseberry Whinham's Industry, which was given the RHS Award of Garden Merit in 1915 and 1993
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