List of Famous people born in City of London, United Kingdom

Michaela Coel

Michaela-Moses Ewuraba O Boakye-Collinson
First Name Michaela
Height 160 cm | 5'3

Michaela Ewuraba Boakye-Collinson, known professionally as Michaela Coel, is a British actress, screenwriter, director, producer and singer. She is best known for creating and starring in the E4 sitcom Chewing Gum (2015–2017), for which she won the BAFTA Award for Best Female Comedy Performance; and the BBC One/HBO comedy-drama series I May Destroy You (2020).

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Thomas Becket

First Name Thomas
Last Name Becket
Born on December 21, 1119
Died on December 29, 1170 (aged 51)

Thomas Becket, also known as Saint Thomas of Canterbury, Thomas of London and later Thomas à Becket, was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 until his murder in 1170. He is venerated as a saint and martyr by both the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion. He engaged in conflict with Henry II, King of England, over the rights and privileges of the Church and was murdered by followers of the king in Canterbury Cathedral. Soon after his death, he was canonised by Pope Alexander III.

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John Keats

First Name John
Last Name Keats
Born on October 31, 1795
Died on February 23, 1821 (aged 25)

John Keats was an English Romantic poet. He was one of the main figures of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, despite his works having been in publication for only four years before his death from tuberculosis at the age of 25.

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Jeremy Bentham

First Name Jeremy
Last Name Bentham
Died on June 6, 1832

Jeremy Bentham was an English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism.

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Emilia Lanier

Aemilia Bassano
First Name Emilia
Died on April 1, 1645

Emilia Lanier, née Aemilia Bassano, was an English poet and the first woman to assert herself as a professional poet, through her volume Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum. Attempts have been made to identify her with Shakespeare's "Dark Lady".

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Daniel Defoe

Daniel Foe
First Name Daniel
Last Name Defoe
Died on April 24, 1731

Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. He is most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719, which is claimed to be second only to the Bible in its number of translations. He has been seen as one of the earliest proponents of the English novel, and helped to popularise the form in Britain with others such as Aphra Behn and Samuel Richardson. Defoe wrote many political tracts and was often in trouble with the authorities, and spent a period in prison. Intellectuals and political leaders paid attention to his fresh ideas and sometimes consulted with him.

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John Milton

First Name John
Last Name Milton
Born on December 9, 1608
Died on November 8, 1674 (aged 65)

John Milton was an English poet and intellectual who served as a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667). Written in blank verse, Paradise Lost is widely considered to be one of the greatest works of literature ever written.

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Richard Bowdler Sharpe

First Name Richard
Last Name Sharpe
Born on November 22, 1847
Died on December 25, 1909 (aged 62)

Richard Bowdler Sharpe was an English zoologist and ornithologist who worked as curator of the bird collection at the British Museum of natural history. In the course of his career he published several monographs on bird groups and produced a multi-volume catalogue of the specimens in the collection of the museum. He described many new species of bird and also has had species named in his honour by other ornithologists including Sharpe's longclaw and Sharpe's starling.

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Algernon Sidney

First Name Algernon
Died on December 7, 1683

Algernon Sidney or Sydney was an English politician and member of the middle part of the Long Parliament. A republican political theorist, colonel, and commissioner of the trial of King Charles I of England, he opposed the king's execution. Sidney was later charged with plotting against Charles II, in part based on his most famous work, Discourses Concerning Government, which was used by the prosecution as a witness at his trial. He was executed for treason. After his death, Sidney was revered as a "Whig patriot–hero and martyr".

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John Webb

First Name John
Last Name Webb
Born on January 1, 1611
Died on October 24, 1672 (aged 61)

John Webb was an English architect and scholar.

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