List of famous residents of Birmingham, England

This is a list of famous or notable people born in, or associated with, Birmingham in England.

Born in Birmingham

• Albert Austin --- (Silent film star)
• Bishop Francis Asbury - (Founder of the American Methodist Church)
• Alfred Bird - (Inventor of custard powder)
• Matthew Boulton --- (Pioneering industrialist and member of the Lunar Society)
• Pogus Caesar --- (TV Director and Photographer)
• John Cadbury --- (Founder of the Cadbury chocolate company)
• Barbara Cartland --- (Novelist)
• Jasper Carrott --- (Comedian)
• Austen Chamberlain --- (Politician)
• Neville Chamberlain --- (Former Prime Minister)
• Lisa Clayton --- (Solo yachtswoman)
• David Cox --- (Artist)
• Oscar Deutsch --- (Founder of the Odeon cinema chain)
• Sir Francis Galton --- (Scientist, founder of eugenics)
• Hunt Emerson --- (Cartoonist)
• Sid Field --- (Comedian)
• Tony Hancock --- (Comedian and actor)
• George Jacob Holyoake --- reformer
• Jamelia --- (R&B singer)
• Ann Jones --- (Tennis player)
• Edward Burne-Jones -- (Pre-Raphaelite painter)
• Albert William Ketèlbey --- (Composer)
• Frederick William Lanchester --- (Inventor of the first petrol- driven car in Britain)
• Phil Lynott --- (Musician - Thin Lizzy)
• Shazia Mirza --- (Comedian)
• Henry Vollam Morton --- (Journalist and travel writer)
• Ozzy Osbourne --- (Musician - Black Sabbath, TV star)
• Carl Palmer --- (Musician - Emerson Lake and Palmer)
• Alexander Parkes --- (Inventor of the first thermoplastic)
• Enoch Powell -- (Politician, poet and classical scholar)
• Nick Rhodes --- (Musician - Duran Duran)
• Pat Roach --- (Actor and wrestler)
• Mike Skinner --- (Musician - The Streets)
• Roger Shannon --- (Film Producer)
• John Taylor --- (Musician - Duran Duran)
• Roger Taylor --- (Musician - Duran Duran)
• Murray Walker --- (Racing driver and commentator)
• Toyah Willcox --- (Singer, actress and television presenter)
• Steve Winwood --- (Musician)
• Benjamin Zephaniah --- (Poet)

Lived in, or associated with, Birmingham

• Joan Armatrading --- (Singer/Songwriter)
• W. H. Auden --- (Poet and author)
• John Baskerville --- (Printer and inventor of typefaces)
• John Bright --- (Politician)
• Dame Elizabeth Cadbury --- (Social worker and philanthropist)
• Joseph Chamberlain --- (Politician, Mayor of Birmingham)
• Arthur Conan Doyle --- (Author)
• John Boyd Dunlop --- (Industrialist, built Fort Dunlop )
• James Hinks --- (Bred the Bull Terrier dog)
• Washington Irving --- (Author)
• Josiah Mason --- (Industrialist and philanthropist)
• Nigel Mansell --- (Racing driver)
• Sir Peter Brian Medawar --- (Zoologist)
• William Murdoch --- (Inventor of gas lighting)
• Bill Oddie --- (Comedian and ornithologist)
• Joseph Priestley --- (Chemist and dissenting clergyman)
• J. R. R. Tolkien --- (Author)).
• James Watt --- (Inventor and member of the Lunar Society)
• William Withering --- (Doctor, discoverer of digitalis)