User:Stinglehammer/Artists from North East England

List of artists born in the North East of England

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article	image	description	place of birth	educated at	date of birth	notable work	Commons category
Arthur Bown		19th-century English architect	Harrogate		1851-01-22		Arthur Bown
Denis Mason Jones		English architect and artist	Linton		1918-03-19		Denis Mason Jones
Marmaduke Charles Frederick Morris			Crambe		1844-01-26
Straight Girl		music from Holly Readman	Hartlepool				Straight Girl
Toby Kendall		archaeologist	Saltburn-by-the-Sea	University of Bradford

female

article	image	description	place of birth	educated at	date of birth	notable work	Commons category
Abigail McLellan		British artist (1969-2009)	Middlesbrough	Glasgow School of Art	1969-07-11
Adele Parks		British writer	Teesside	University of Leicester	1969-02-11
Adelle Stripe		British poet	York	University of Manchester University of Greenwich Tadcaster Grammar School	1976-09-14
Aimée Kelly		British actress	Newcastle upon Tyne	Sacred Heart Catholic High School	1993-07-08
Alanna Knight		British writer	Tyne and Wear		1923-02-24
Alethea Charlton		British actress (1931-1976)	Middlesbrough		1931-08-09
Alexandra Davies		Australian actress	Newcastle upon Tyne	Western Sydney University	1977-03-08
Alice Lucas		English translator	Newcastle upon Tyne		1855-07-07	The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm	Alice Lucas (translator)
Alice Millar McGaw		Anglo-American pianist	Alnwick		1859-01-28
Alice Sprengel		jewelry designer	South Shields		1871-09-29
Alice Thornton		British autobiographer during civil war	Kirklington		1626		Alice Thornton
Alison Killing		British architect and urban designer	Newcastle upon Tyne				Alison Killing
Alison Parsons, Countess of Rosse		British artist and author	Darlington		1939-02-27
Alison Wright		English actress	Sunderland	Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute	1976-07-12
Amara Okereke		British actress	North Tyneside	Arts Educational School	1996
Amber Doig-Thorne		British actress	York		1994-10-25
Amelia Lily		British singer	Middlesbrough	Teesside High School	1994-10-16		Amelia Lily
Andrea Riseborough		British actress	Wallsend	Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Newcastle High School for Girls Newcastle upon Tyne Church High School	1981-11-20		Andrea Riseborough
Angela Crow		British television actor	Wharfedale		1935-12-13
Angela Milner		British paleontologist (1947-2021)	Gosforth	Newcastle upon Tyne Church High School	1947-10-03
Angela Readman		English poet and short story writer	Middlesbrough		1973
Ann Jellicoe		British actress, theatre director and playwright (1927-2017)	Middlesbrough	Central School of Speech and Drama Queen Margaret's School, York Polam Hall	1927-07-15		Ann Jellicoe
Ann Lancaster		British actress (1920-1970)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1920-05-05
Ann Liddell		political commentator	County Durham		1686
Anna Cetti		mexican actress and filmmaker	Redcar		1982
Anna Fisher Beiler		American missionary, newspaper editor	Newcastle upon Tyne	Ohio Wesleyan University	1848-02-25
Anna Howard Shaw		American physician and activist (1847-1919)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Albion College Boston University School of Theology Boston University School of Medicine	1847-02-14		Anna Howard Shaw
Anna Huntley			Stockton-on-Tees	Royal Academy of Music Royal College of Music	1982
Anna Maria Porter		English writer, poet, novelist (1780–1832)	Durham		1778-12-22		Anna Maria Porter
Anna Raeburn		British journalist	Middlesbrough		1944-04-03		Anna Raeburn
Anna Stéphany		opera singer	North East England		1977-12-14
Anne Astin		Australian biochemist	Durham		1973
Anne Clifford		noblewoman; English countess (1590-1676)	Skipton Castle		1590-01-30	Countess Pillar Skipton Castle Brough Castle Appleby Castle Brougham Castle Pendragon Castle	Lady Anne Clifford
Anne Cooke		British biologist	South Shields	University of Glasgow	1945-01-14
Anne Curry		British military historian	Chester-le-Street		1954-05-27
Anne Elliot		English writer	Newcastle upon Tyne		1856	Dr. Edith Romney
Anne Hepple		British writer and editor (1877-1959)	Widdrington Village		1877-10-16
Anne Isabella Byron		English mathematician and the wife of poet wife of Lord Byron	County Durham		1792-05-17		Anne Isabella Byron, Baroness Byron
Anne Lister		English natural history illustrator	York		1671
Anne Mandall Johnson		infectious disease epidemiologist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Newnham College Newcastle University	1954-01-30
Anne McElvoy		British journalist	County Durham	Wadham College Humboldt University of Berlin St Bede's Catholic School and Sixth Form College	1965-06-25		Anne McElvoy
Anne Monson		English botanist and collector of plants and insects (1726-1776)	Darlington		1726-06-25
Anne Reid		English actress	Newcastle upon Tyne	Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Rydal Penrhos	1935-05-28
Anne Rundle		British writer	Berwick-upon-Tweed		1920
Anne Seller		British philosopher	Harrogate	Bedford High School University of Leeds	1941
Anne Sharp		British actress (1934-2010)	Haltwhistle		1934
Anne Vavasour		Mistress to English Earl	Tadcaster		1560
Anne Yvonne Gilbert		British artist and book illustrator	Wallsend	Morpeth School	1951
Anne-Marie Owens		English mezzo-soprano	South Shields	Guildhall School of Music and Drama	1955
Annie Denton Cridge		UK-born suffragist, socialist, lecturer and author, in USA from around 1842	Darlington		1825
Annie E. Ridley		English author	Houghton-le-Spring		1839-05-02
Annie Miles		British actress	Tynemouth		1958-05-05
Annie Raine Ellis		British literary editor and novelist	Durham		1828
Ashley James		British reality television personality	Northumberland		1987-04-02		Ashley James
Audrey Amiss		British artist	Sunderland	City of Sunderland College Royal Academy of Arts	1933-10-28
Augusta Zelia Fraser		English writer working in Jamaica	East Cowton		1858
Barbara Harbottle		archaeologist	Gosforth	Girton College	1931-08-23
Barbara Ker Wilson		English-born Australian novelist	Sunderland		1929-09-24
Barbara Ward		British economist; life peer (1914-1981)	Heworth	University of Paris Somerville College	1914-05-23		Barbara Ward
Bea Priestley		British professional wrestler	Harrogate		1996-03-22		Bea Priestley
Belle Rennie		[née Moorhouse], (1875–1966), educationist	Westoe		1875-02-17
Benedicta Ward		British theologian and historian	Durham	St Anne's College University of Manchester Bolton School	1933-02-04
Betty Balfour		British actress (1903-1977)	Chester-le-Street		1903-03-27
Beverley Skeggs		British sociologist	Middlesbrough	University of York University of Keele	19th century
Billie Marten		British singer-songwriter	Ripon	Ripon Grammar School	1999-05-27		Billie Marten
Bryony Corrigan		Actress	Cullercoats	London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art	1992-08-12
Camilla Wedgwood		British anthropologist (1901-1955)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Bedales School Bedford College Newnham College Newcastle-under-Lyme School	1901-03-25
Carla Woodcock		English actress	York	Stagecoach Theatre Arts London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art	1998-10-04	Free Rein Ackley Bridge Tell Me Everything
Carole Boyd		British actress	Scarborough	Birmingham School of Acting	1947 1941-02-16
Caroline Hill		British actress	York		1845		Caroline Hill
Caroline John		English actress	York	Central School of Speech and Drama	1940-09-19 1940-10-11
Caroline Vout		British classicist and art historian (born c.1972)	Durham	Newnham College	1972
Caroline de Crespigny		English poet and translator.	Durham		1797-10-24		Caroline de Crespigny
Carolyn Hardy		Horticulturalist	Richmond		1930-06-16
Catharine Cappe		British writer, memoirist, and philanthropist	Long Preston		1744-06-03		Catharine Cappe
Catherine Cookson		British writer	South Shields Tyne Dock		1906-06-20		Catherine Cookson
Catherine Jacob		British freelance broadcast journalist and news presenter	Sunderland Sunderland	Durham University	1976
Catherine Mawer		English architectural sculptor	Bilton		1803		Catherine Mawer
Catherine Muriel Rob		British botanist (1906-1975)	Thirsk		1906
Catherine Rayner		British children's illustrator and writer	Harrogate	Edinburgh College of Art	1982
Cathleen Sabine Mann		Scottish portrait painter and costume designer	Newcastle upon Tyne	Slade School of Fine Art	1896-12-31		Cathleen Mann
Cathy Marston		British choreographer	Newcastle upon Tyne		1975
Charlie Hardwick		British actress	Wallsend		1960-11-03
Charlotte Cheverton		British artist	Ripon	Marlborough College Slade School of Fine Art	1960-01-16
Charlotte Crosby		British reality television personality	Sunderland		1990-05-16		Charlotte Crosby
Charlotte Richardson		British poet	York		1775-03-05		Charlotte Richardson
Charlotte Riley		British actress	Grindon	Durham University London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art Teesside High School St Cuthbert's Society	1981-12-29		Charlotte Riley
Charlotte Roberts		bioarchaeologist	Harrogate	University of Bradford University of Leicester	1957-05-25
Chelsea Halfpenny		actress	Gateshead		1991-09-26		Chelsea Halfpenny
Cheryl		British singer, dancer, and television presenter	Newcastle upon Tyne	Royal Ballet School	1983-06-30		Cheryl (singer)
Chloe Ferry		British reality television personality	Newcastle upon Tyne	Marden High School	1995-08-31
Chrissie Glazebrook		British writer (1945-2007)	Scarborough	Northumbria University	1945-03-19
Chrissie Parrott		English-Australian dancer and choreographer	Middlesbrough		1953
Christian Howard		British Anglican leader	Castle Howard		1916-09-05
Christiane Sinding			Hexham		1945-12-08
Christine Dobbin		English-born Australian historian	Bishop Auckland	University of Sydney University of Oxford	1941
Christine Holt		British developmental neuroscientist	Wylam	University of Sussex King's College London	1954-08-28
Christine Norden		British actress (1924–1988)	Sunderland		1924-12-28
Claire Hamill		British singer-songwriter	Port Clarence		1954-08-04
Clare McIntyre		British feminist playwright (1952-2009)	Harrogate		1952-07-21
Clare Teal		British musician	Kildwick	University of Wolverhampton South Craven School	1973-05-14
Claudia Scott		Norwegian/British singer, musician, composer and nurse	Newcastle upon Tyne		1957-10-08		Claudia Scott
Constance Sladen		English architectural historian and philanthropist	York		1848		Constance Sladen
Corinne Bonsma		Dutch visual artist	Stockton-on-Tees		1959-04-25
Courtney Hadwin		British singer	Sunderland		2004-07-06
D. M. E. Foster		Ph.D. University of London 1960	Darlington	University of London Polam Hall School Bedford College	1933-12-03
Deana Uppal		Indian model	Middlesbrough		1988-01-30		Deana Uppal
Debbie Arnold		British actress	Sunderland		1955-06-14 1957-06-14
Debbie Kurup		English actress	Sunderland	Edmonton County School	1979-07-03
Delena Kidd		British actress	Newcastle upon Tyne	Central School of Speech and Drama Cheltenham Ladies' College	1935-02-11
Denise Robertson		British writer and television broadcaster (1932-2016)	Sunderland	Sunderland High School	1932-06-09		Denise Robertson
Denise Welch		English Television presenter and actress	Ebchester	Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts	1958-05-22		Denise Welch
Diana V. Ashton			Durham		1840
Diane Atkinson		British historian	North East England	University of East Anglia University of London	19th century
Diane Youdale		British gladiator	Billingham	St Bede's Catholic College Billingham Campus School and Arts College	1970-02-13
Donna Air		English actress, television presenter, and media personality	Newcastle upon Tyne	Sacred Heart Catholic High School Gosforth Academy	1979-08-02		Donna Air
Dora Greenwell		English poet	Lanchester		1821-12-06		Dora Greenwell
Dora Russell		British novelist (1830-1905)	Willington		1830-06-21
Dora Wilson		Australian painter (1883-1946)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1883-08-31		Dora Wilson
Dorothy Auchterlonie		Australian writer and academic	Sunderland	University of Sydney	1915-05-28
Dorothy E. Smith		Canadian anthropologist	Northallerton	London School of Economics and Political Science University of California, Berkeley	1926-07-06		Dorothy Smith
Dorothy Ripley		missionary	Whitby		1767
Dorothy Robson		British scientist and World War II civilian casualty	Guisborough	University of Leeds	1919-11-10
Dorothy Samuelson-Sandvid		English dialect writer	South Shields		1902-11-14
Druie Bowett		English artist	Ripon	Queen Margaret's School, York	1924
E. H. Young		English writer (1880-1949)	Northumberland	Rydal Penrhos Gateshead Grammar School	1880-03-21
Eden Taylor-Draper		British actress	Selby		1997-10-28		Eden Taylor-Draper
Edith Sitwell		British poet (1887-1964)	Scarborough		1887-09-07	Façade	Edith Sitwell
Edna Walling		Australian gardener	York		1895		Edna Walling
Eileen Betsy Tranmer		British chess player and clarinetist	Scarborough		1910-05-05
Eileen O'Shaughnessy		British psychologist, participant in the Spanish Civil War and first wife of George Orwell (1905–1945)	South Shields	University College London Sunderland High School	1905-09-25
Eliza Carthy		English folk musician	Scarborough	Fyling Hall School Scarborough Sixth Form College	1975-08-23		Eliza Carthy
Eliza Clark		British novelist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Chelsea College of Art and Design	1994
Eliza Elizabeth Leaf		New Zealand studio photographer (c. 1818 – 1908)	Sutton		1818
Eliza Macauley		actor	York		1785
Eliza Tabor Stephenson		British novelist	York		1835
Elizabeth Barrett Browning		British poet, author	Coxhoe Hall Durham		1806-03-06	The Battle of Marathon: A Poem	Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Carling		English actress	Middlesbrough		1967-10-20
Elizabeth Elstob		English linguist and feminist (1683-1756)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1683-09-29		Elizabeth Elstob
Elizabeth Estensen		British actress	Stockton-on-Tees		1949-08-10
Elizabeth Frances Ann Simpson		English writer and cat fancier (1857-1926)	Haughton-le-Skerne		1857	The book of the cat Cats and all about them	Elizabeth Frances Ann Simpson
Elizabeth Gibson Cheyne		British writer	Hexham	Gateshead Grammar School	1869-01-02
Elizabeth Kelly		British actress	Newcastle upon Tyne		1921-05-29
Elizabeth Laurence		British opera singer	Harrogate	Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance	1949-11-22
Elizabeth M. Shaw		British hydrologist	Hebburn	Bedford College Durham University	1928-02-14	Hydrology in Practice
Elizabeth Montagu		British social reformer, patron of the arts, hostess, literary critic, and writer; (1718-1800)	York		1718-10-02 1720		Elizabeth Montagu
Elizabeth Smith		English translator, linguist, and Biblical scholar	Durham		1776-12
Elizabeth Sterling Haynes		Canadian theatre activist	Seaham	University of Toronto	1897-12-07
Ella Retford		English music hall comedian, singer and dancer	Sunderland		1885-07-02
Ellena Taylor		English score vocalist	Liverton		2001-06-29
Ellie Crisell		British journalist and television presenter	Chester-le-Street	University of Birmingham City, University of London Dame Allan's School	1976-07-19
Elma Soiron		English actor	Acomb		1918-06-08
Elspeth Garman		Professor of Molecular Biophysics	Rothbury	Durham University University of Oxford	1954	Cryo bio-crystallography
Emeli Sandé		British singer-songwriter	Sunderland	University of Glasgow	1987-03-10		Emeli Sandé
Emily Gerard		British writer	Chesters Roman Fort		1849-05-07
Emily Hesse		British artist	Middlesbrough	University of Sunderland	1980-04-27
Emily Horne		British model	York	Leeds Beckett University	1978-12-09
Emily J. Rayfield		British palaeontologist	Northallerton	University of Cambridge
Emily Woof		English actor, author	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Oxford	1967
Emma Dench		English ancient historian, classicist, and academic administrator	York	Wadham College The King's High School for Girls	1963-04-14
Emma Elliot		British novelist	Newcastle upon Tyne		1850
Emma Fielding		British actress	Catterick	Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Berkhamsted School	1966-07-10
Emma Hart		English computer scientist	Middlesbrough	University of Oxford	1967
Enid Stamp Taylor		British actress (1904-1946)	Monkseaton		1904-06-12
Erica Whyman		Acting Artistic Director at the Royal Shakespeare Company	Harrogate	Bristol Old Vic Theatre School	1969-10-27 1969-10
Esme Langley		writer, Publisher, Feminist	Guisborough		1919-08-26
Esther McCracken		British actress and playwright	Newcastle upon Tyne	Newcastle High School for Girls	1902-06-25
Eta Cohen		English violinist	Sunderland		1916
Ethel Snowden		British socialist, feminist, women's suffrage and pacifist campaigner (1881-1951)	Pannal		1881-09-08		Ethel Snowden
Eugenie Henderson		Henderson [married name Meier], Eugénie Jane Andrina (1914–1989), phonetician and linguistic scholar	Newcastle upon Tyne	University College London	1914-10-02
Evelyn Hope		actress (1904-1993)	Gateshead		1904-03-11
Faith Brook		British actress (1922-2012)	York	Royal Academy of Dramatic Art	1922-02-16		Faith Brook
Faith Gray		British diarist in York 1751-1826	York		1751-01-31
Faye Marsay		British actress	Middlesbrough	Bristol Old Vic Theatre School	1986-12-30		Faye Marsay
Fifi Colston		British-born New Zealand writer	York	Victoria University of Wellington	1960-07-05
Fiona Hill		American foreign policy adviser (born 1965)	Bishop Auckland	Harvard University University of St Andrews Moscow State Linguistic University	1965-10 1965		Fiona Hill
Flora Robson		English actress (1902-1984)	South Shields	Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Palmers Green High School City College Brighton & Hove	1902-03-28		Flora Robson
Florence Easton		English singer	Middlesbrough		1882-10-25 1884-10-25		Florence Easton
Florence Hooton		English cellist	Scarborough		1912-07-08
Florence Trevelyan		Italian conservationist (1852-1907)	Hexham		1852-02-07		Florence Trevelyan
Frances Bond			Newcastle upon Tyne		1905
Genevieve Barr		English actress	Harrogate	University of Edinburgh Harrogate Ladies' College	1985-12
Genevieve Florence		actress and former Team GB artistic swimmer	Northallerton		1997-12-19
Georgia Horsley		British model	Malton		1986-12-06		Georgia Horsley
Georgia Steel		English television personality and actress	Thirsk	Arts Educational School St Mary's University, Twickenham	1998-03-28
Georgina Anderson		English singer	Marske-by-the-Sea		1998-10-22
Geraldine Mitton		British writer (1868–1955)	Bishop Auckland	Durham High School for Girls	1868-10-14		G. E. Mitton
Gertrude Bell		British traveller, writer, mountaineer, politician, archaeologist and spy (1868–1926)	Washington	Lady Margaret Hall Queen's College London	1868-07-14		Gertrude Bell
Gina McKee		English actress	Peterlee		1964-04-14
Gladys Boot		British actress	Darlington		1890-03-28
Glenis Willmott		British politician (born 1951)	Horden	Nottingham Trent University	1951-03-04		Glenis Willmott
Grace Francis		British actress	Ingleby Barwick		1991
Gracie Cole		English trumpeter	Rowlands Gill		1924-09-08
Griselda Allan		English artist	Sunderland	Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art Royal College of Art University of Sunderland Saint Felix School	1905
Gwenllian Gill		British actress (1915–2004)	Hartlepool		1915-12-11
Hannah Burdon		English novelist	Morpeth		1800-07-15
Hannah Rickard		English folk musician	Newcastle upon Tyne
Harriet Bridgeman		British art historian	County Durham	Trinity College Dublin Heathfield School	1942-03-30		Harriet Bridgeman
Harriet Parr		British author of the Victorian era	York		1828-01-31
Hazel Osmond			Northumberland		1960-01-12
Helen Bailey		British writer	Newcastle upon Tyne	Ponteland High School	1965
Helen Collingwood Fortune Hopkins		British botanist (1953- )	Hartlepool		1953
Helen Glatz		English music teacher and composer	Durham	Royal College of Music	1908-03-13
Helen Grime		Scottish composer	York	City of Edinburgh Music School	1981
Helen McCookerybook		British musician	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Westminster			Helen McCookerybook
Henrietta Eliza Vaughan Stannard		English writer, editor	York		1856-01-13		John Strange Winter
Hermione Hammond		British painter (1910-2005)	Hexham	Francis Holland School	1910-08-11
Heulwen Isambard Owen		writer	Newcastle upon Tyne		1908
Hilary Lappin-Scott		British microbiologist	Middlesbrough	University of Warwick University of Calgary	1955-05-23
Hilda D. Oakeley		British philosopher	Durham	Somerville College McGill University University of Oxford University of London	1867-10-12
Holly Hagan		British reality television personality	Thornaby-on-Tees	St Mary's College, Middlesbrough	1992-07-07		Holly Hagan
Holly Matthews		British actress	Newcastle upon Tyne		1984-10-13
Huffty		British television presenter	Whitley Bay	Whitley Bay High School	1966
Ilona Rodgers		Australian actress	Harrogate		1942-04-28
Imogen Robertson		English director in different media, a poet and novelist	Darlington		1973
Imogen Stubbs		British actress	Rothbury	Exeter College Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Westminster School St Paul's Girls' School	1961-02-20
Isabella Bird		British explorer (1831-1904)	Boroughbridge		1831-10-15	Korea and Her Neighbours	Isabella Bird
Isabella Eleanor Aylmer		British novelist and travel writer	Bellshill		1840	Distant Homes; or, The Graham Family in New Zealand
Ivy Close		British actress (1890-1968)	Stockton-on-Tees		1890-06-15		Ivy Close
Jacqueline Baird		British writer	Northumberland		19th century
Jade Bird		British singer	Hexham	BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology	1997-10-01		Jade Bird (musician)
Jade Thirlwall		British pop singer	South Shields	Newcastle University	1992-12-26		Jade Thirlwall
Jan Dewing		Professor of Nursing and researcher (ORCID 0000-0002-7968-2213)	Gateshead	The Open University Harvard University	190s
Jan Fearnley			South Shields		1965-02-19
Jan Graveson		British actress	Easington		1965
Jan McLelland		English dermatologist	Newcastle upon Tyne	University College London Dame Allan's School	1957-09-26
Jan Michael		British writer	Wigglesworth		1947-03-03
Jane Bewick		English writer	Newcastle upon Tyne		1787-04-29
Jane Carr		British actor (1909–1957)	Whitley Bay	Harrogate Ladies' College	1909-08-01		Jane Carr
Jane Gardam		British novelist and children's writer	Coatham North Yorkshire	Bedford College	1928-07-11
Jane Glover		British-born conductor and music scholar	Helmsley	St Hugh's College Haberdashers Monmouth School for Girls	1949-05-13
Jane Gomeldon		British writer	Newcastle upon Tyne		1720
Jane Pollard		Female ; Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, 1972 -	Newcastle upon Tyne	Goldsmiths, University of London	1972-11
Jane Porter		Scottish historical novelist, dramatist and literary figure (1776-1850)	Durham		1776-01-17	The Scottish Chiefs	Jane Porter
Jane Ridley		English historian	Northumberland	Nuffield College Cranborne Chase School	1953-05-15
Jane Snowden		British actress	York		1965
Jane Squire		mathematician and feminist	York		1686
Jane Wilson		British artist	Newcastle upon Tyne		1967
Janet Graham		English composer, music educator and music therapist.	Consett		1948-06-04
Janet MacLeod Trotter		English writer	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Edinburgh	1958
Janet McTeer		British actress	Newcastle upon Tyne	Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Queen Anne Grammar School	1961-08-05 1961-05-08		Janet McTeer
Janice Adair		British actor (1905-1996)	Morpeth		1905-05-25
Janie Jones		British singer	Seaham		1941
Janis Freegard		poet and writer in New Zealand	South Shields		1963
Jayne Middlemiss		English TV presenter and former model	Bedlington	Bedlingtonshire Community High School	1971-02-03 1971-01-05		Jane Middlemiss
Jayne Secker		British news presenter	Northumberland	University of Stirling	1972
Jean Heywood		British actress (1921-2019)	Blyth		1921-07-15
Jean Southern		British actress	South Shields		1927-01-14
Jen Pringle		British actor and television presenter	York	University of Salford John Leggott Sixth Form College	1983-10-12
Jennie Heslewood		british actress	Thirsk		1941
Jessica Barden		British actress	Northallerton	Wetherby High School	1992-07-21		Jessica Barden
Jessica Robinson		British actress	Middlesbrough		1991-11-28
Jessie Douglas Kerruish		British writer (1884–1949)	Seaton Carew		1884
Jill Dawson		British writer	Durham		1962-04-08		Jill Dawson
Jill Halfpenny		British actress	Gateshead	Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art	1975-07-15
Jill Taylor		British costume designer (born 1957)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1957
Joan Hestor		British actress (1902-1977)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1902-08-26
Joan Lee		British model	Gosforth		1922-02-05
Joanna Constantinidis		Constantinidis [née Connell], Joanna (1927–2000), potter	York	Sheffield Hallam University Ecclesfield School	1927
Joanne Froggatt		English actress	Littlebeck	Redroofs Theatre School	1980-08-23		Joanne Froggatt
Joanne Heywood		English actress	York	Guildford School of Acting
Josephine Mary Moody		British embroiderer (1853-1923)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1853
Josephine Pryde		artist	Alnwick		1967
Joy Brook		British actress	Scarborough		1969-05-09
Judi Dench		English actress (born 1934)	York	Central School of Speech and Drama Clifton Pre-preparatory School	1934-12-09		Judi Dench
Julia Wilmotte Henshaw		Canadian botanist and writer (1869-1937)	Durham		1869-08-08		Julia Wilmotte Henshaw
Julie Mennell		vice chancellor of the University of Cumbria	Middlesbrough		1970-02-04		Julie Mennell
June Laverick		British actress (1931-)	Redcar		1931-06-11
June Markham		British ice dancer	Beamish		2000
Karen Harding		English singer	Consett		1991-11-18
Kate Adie		British journalist	Northumberland	Newcastle University Sunderland High School	1945-09-19		Kate Adie
Kate Atkinson		English writer of novels, plays and short stories	York	University of Dundee Queen Anne Grammar School	1951-12-20
Kate Maxwell			Gateshead	University of Glasgow	1979-06-17
Kate Wilson		British Molecular Biologist	Shipton	Harvard University University of Cambridge
Katherine Langrish		British writer	Newcastle upon Tyne	University College London King's College London Skipton Girls' High School		Troll Mill Troll Blood Troll Fell	Katherine Langrish
Katherine Mathieson		scientist; Chief Executive of the British Science Association.	Durham	Bayes Business School Selwyn College Imperial College London City, University of London University of Cambridge	1975-08-17
Katherine Routledge		British archaeologist	Darlington	Somerville College	1866-08-11		Katherine Routledge
Kathleen Gough		British anthropologist	Hunsingore	King James's School Girton College	1925-08-16
Kathleen Hughes		British historian (1926-1977)	Middlesbrough		1926-09-08
Kathleen Mary Tillotson		English literary scholar	Berwick-upon-Tweed	Ackworth School Somerville College	1906
Kathleen Winter		Canadian writer	Bill Quay		1960-02-25	Annabel
Kathryn Tickell		British musician	Northumberland	Gosforth Academy	1967-06-08		Kathryn Tickell
Kathy Stobart		British jazz musician	South Shields		1925-04-01
Katie Davies			Newcastle upon Tyne		1978
Katy Cavanagh		English actress	North Shields	Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Canon Slade School	1973-12-12		Katy Cavanagh
Kim Tserkezie		British actress	Newcastle upon Tyne		1973-07-30 1973-07-10
Kirsten O'Brien		actress, presenter	Nunthorpe	Birmingham City University Nunthorpe Academy	1972-02-23
Kristan Higgins		American author of contemporary romance	Durham	College of the Holy Cross	1965
L Devine		English singer-songwriter	Whitley Bay	Newcastle High School for Girls	1997-06-21
Laura Norton		English actress	Hazlerigg		1983-06-19
Laura Wilson Barker		English composer, violinist and pianist	Thirkleby	Royal Academy of Music	1819-03-06
Lauren Laverne		English radio DJ, model, television presenter	Sunderland	City of Sunderland College	1978-04-28		Lauren Laverne
Lauren Luke		English make-up artist	South Shields		1981-12-08
Lauren Mote		English actress	Sunderland		1997-02-10
Lavinia Derwent		British writer and broadcaster	The Cheviot Hills		1909
Leanne Crow		British glamour model	Sunderland		1988-06-02
Leia Zhu		British-Chinese violinist	Newcastle upon Tyne		2006
Lena Ashwell		British actress and acting manager (1872-1957)	River Tyne	Royal Academy of Music	1872-09-28		Lena Ashwell
Lesley Duncan		English singer-songwriter	Stockton-on-Tees		1943-08-12
Lesley Dunlop		actress	Newcastle upon Tyne		1956-03-10
Lesley Horton		British crime author	Farnhill
Lesley Milroy		American linguist	Newcastle upon Tyne		1944-03-05
Libby Davison		English actress	Durham		1966-08-22
Lila Kaye		British actress (1929-2012)	Middlesbrough		1929-11-07
Lillias Wassermann		British novelist	Newcastle upon Tyne		1846
Linda Chapman		British writer	Liverpool North Yorkshire		1969-01-15
Linda France		British poet, writer and editor	Wallsend	University of Leeds	1958
Linda Mason		British make-up artist	Sunderland		1946-09-13		Linda Mason
Linda McCullough Thew		British writer	Ashington		1918-04-13
Linden Travers		British actress	Durham		1913-05-27		Linden Travers
Lisa Kay		British actress	Levisham	Bush Davies School of Theatre Arts	1971-02-11
Livvi Franc		British singer	Harrogate		1988-05-31		Livvi Franc
Liz Sockett		British microbiologist	Newcastle upon Tyne	University College London University of Oxford	1962
Lorna Hill		British writer (1902-1991)	Durham	Durham University	1902-02-21
Lorraine Crosby		British singer	Walker		1960-11-27		Lorraine Crosby
Louise Ross		British author of crime thrillers set in the North of England	Newcastle upon Tyne	King's College London
Louise Wilson		British artist	Newcastle upon Tyne		1967
Lucinda Lambton		British author, photographer, producer, architectural historian	Newcastle upon Tyne	Queen's Gate School Sunderland High School	1943-05-10
Lucy Atkinson		traveller and writer, wife of Thomas Wiltlam Atkinson (1817-1893)	Sunderland		1817-04-15		Lucy Atkinson
Lucy Gunning		English sculptor, video artist, and filmmaker, born 1964	Newcastle upon Tyne		1964-06-20
Lucy Swann		British musician and singer	Newcastle upon Tyne		1981-10-24
Luise von Robiano			Newcastle upon Tyne		1823-01-27
Lyn Irvine		British journalist	Berwick-upon-Tweed	University of Aberdeen Girton College	1901-05-03
Lyn Paolo		costume designer	Sunderland
Lyndyann Barrass		English actress	Newcastle upon Tyne		1976
Lynn Dalby		British actress	Harrogate		1947-02-17
Lynne Dawson		English soprano	York		1956-06-03
M. Oldfield Howey		British writer (1882–1967)	York		1882-08-19
Madge Crichton		English actress	Scarborough		1879 1881-10-31		Madge Crichton
Madge Oliver		British painter (1874-1924)	Knaresborough	Slade School of Fine Art	1874
Maggie Moffat		British suffragette (1873-1943)	Spittal		1873-01-07
Mairin Mitchell		British journalist, author and translator	Darlington	St Winifred's School	1895		Mairin Mitchell
Maisie Adam		English stand-up comedian (b. 1994)	Pannal	St Aidan's Church of England High School	1994-01-24
Margaret Dryburgh		Teacher, Nurse and Missionary	Sunderland	Durham University	1890-02-21		Margaret Dryburgh
Margaret Green		British painter	West Hartlepool	Royal College of Art The Northern School of Art	1925
Margaret Greig		British mathematician	Gosforth	Newnham College Newcastle High School for Girls	1922-02-11
Margaret Harvey		English poet and scholar	Newcastle upon Tyne		1768
Margaret Hayman		British mathematics educator (1923-1994)	New Earswick	Newnham College	1923-08-07
Margaret Plues		English botanist (1828-1903)	Ripon		1828
Margaret Raine Hunt		British writer (1831-1912)	County Durham		1831-10-14
Margaret Rebecca Dickinson		British botanist, botanical artist & illustrator (1821-1918)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1821-07-22		Margaret Rebecca Dickinson
Margaret Stuart Barry		British writer	Richmond		1927-12-07	Simon and the Witch
Margaret Wrightson		English artist	Norton	Royal College of Art	1877
Marguerite J. Gascoigne		British writer	Durham	Durham University	1916-05-01
Mariam Rezaei		composer, performer, DJ, writer, academic, event organiser	Gateshead		1984-10-16
Marie Hall		British violinist (1884–1956)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1884-04-08		Marie Hall
Marie Lebour		British marine biologist (1876-1971)	Northumberland	Durham University University of Leeds	1876-08-20
Marina Palmer			Darlington		1973
Marion Angus		Scottish poet (1865-1946)	Sunderland	Arbroath High School	1865-03-27
Marion Emma Young		British botanist (1903—2000)	Benwell	University of Leeds	1903-06-22
Marion Isobel Newbigin		Scottish geographer, biologist and zoologist (1869-1934)	Alnwick	University of Edinburgh	1869		Marion Newbigin
Marion Paton		Accountant and code breaker	Aldborough		1923
Marion Ryan		English female pop singer (1931-1999)	Middlesbrough		1931-02-04
Marjorie Thomas		singer (1923-2008)	Sunderland	Royal Northern College of Music	1923-06-05
Marlene Sidaway		British actress	Teesside		1937
Martha Kneale		British philosopher	Skipton	Somerville College	1909
Mary Astell		English feminist writer (1666-1731)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1666-11-12
Mary Bateson		British historian (1865-1906)	Robin Hood's Bay	Newnham College The Perse School Stephen Perse Foundation	1865-09-12		Mary Bateson (historian)
Mary Berry		writer	Crakehall		1763-03-16
Mary Bradburn		British mathematics educator	Normanby	Royal Holloway, University of London	1918-03-17
Mary Burchell		British novelist who worked help Jews escape Nazi Germany	Sunderland	The Duchess's Community High School	1904-08-24 1902
Mary Elizabeth Carter		English writer (1853-1935)	Masham		1853
Mary Ellen Best		English artist	York		1809-10		Mary Ellen Best
Mary Ethel Hunter		British painter (1878-1936)	Ripon		1878
Mary Fitzpayne		British artist	Catterick	Central School of Art and Design	1928-03-23
Mary Grey		British theologian	Houghton-le-Spring	University of Oxford Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	1941-06-16
Mary Lawson		stage and film actress	Darlington		1910-08-30
Mary Linskill		English novelist (1840-1891)	Whitby		1840
Mary Nightingale		English newsreader and television presenter	Scarborough	King Edward VI Community College	1963-05-26		Mary Nightingale
Mary Osborn		British molecular biologist	Darlington	Pennsylvania State University Harvard University Cheltenham Ladies' College Newnham College	1940-12		Mary Osborn
Mary Robson		British actress (1893-1977)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1893-02-03	The House of a Thousand Candles	Mary Robson
Mary Stewart		English novelist	Sunderland	Durham University	1916-09-17 1916-08-17	Madam, Will You Talk? Wildfire at Midnight Nine Coaches Waiting My Brother Michael The Ivy Tree This Rough Magic Airs Above the Ground Touch Not the Cat Thornyhold
Mary Ward		English Venerated Catholic (1585-1645)	Newby with Mulwith		1585-01-23		Mary Ward
Maud Sellers		Curator and Guild Member	Harrogate	Trinity College Dublin Newnham College	1861
May Hallatt		British actress (1876-1969)	Scarborough		1876-05-01
Melanie Hill		British actress	Sunderland	Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Monkwearmouth Academy	1962-01-11
Melanie J. Leng		geoscientist and researcher	Scarborough	Scarborough Sixth Form College
Melody Sachs		English actress and author	Newcastle upon Tyne
Michelle Heaton		British singer	Gateshead	Emmanuel College, Gateshead Newcastle College	1980-07-19
Mildred Blaxter		sociologist (1925–2010)	Jesmond	St Anne's College	1925-03-27
Millicent Sowerby		English illustrator and painter	Gateshead		1878
Miriam Adams		actress	Heworth	Royal Academy of Dramatic Art	1907
Miriam Stoppard		British journalist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Durham University Newcastle University Newcastle High School for Girls	1937-05-12		Miriam Stoppard
Monica Dolan		British actress	Middlesbrough		1969-03-15		Monica Dolan
Muriel Foster		British opera singer (1877-1937)	Sunderland	Royal College of Music	1877-11-22		Muriel Foster
Muriel Gertrude Wilson		British painter	Saltburn-by-the-Sea		1893
Muriel Metcalfe		British artist and printmaker (1910-1994)	Yorkshire Dales		1910
Muriel Young		British broadcaster (1923-2001)	Bishop Middleham		1923-06-19
Nadine Shah		British singer and songwriter	Whitburn		1986-01-16		Nadine Shah
Nana Akua		British television presenter	Newcastle upon Tyne		1971
Nancy Siraisi		American medical historian	Catterick	University of Oxford CUNY Graduate School and University Center	1932
Nandi Mbatha		South African actress	Newcastle upon Tyne		1997-11-27
Naomi Jacob		British writer and actress (1884-1964)	Ripon		1884-07-01		Naomi Jacob
Nelly Erichsen		British painter and illustrator (1862-1918)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1862-12-09		Nelly Erichsen
Nicola Blackwell		British actor	Killingworth
Nicole Westmarland		British criminologist	Darlington	University of York Teesside University	1977
Nina Abbott		British writer	Ripon		1860
Octav1us King		British YouTuber and Twitch streamer	York		1988-08-07
Olive Checkland		English historian	Newcastle upon Tyne		1920
Olivia von Halle		British fashion designer	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Leeds	1983
Pat Barker		British writer	Thornaby-on-Tees	London School of Economics and Political Science Durham University	1943-05-08	Union Street Blow Your House Down The Century's Daughter Regeneration Trilogy Another World Border Crossing Double Vision Life Class Toby's Room	Pat Barker
Pauline Dixon		British writer	Newcastle upon Tyne		1962-02
Pauline Johnson		British actress (1899-1947)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1899-11-03
Pauline Murray		British singer	Waterhouses		1958-03-08		Pauline Murray
Penelope Walton Rogers		archaeologist	Newcastle upon Tyne		1950
Penelope Wilton		English actress	Scarborough	Drama Centre London	1946-06-03		Penelope Wilton
Perrie Louise Edwards		British singer	South Shields	Newcastle University St Joseph's Catholic Academy Newcastle College	1993-07-10		Perrie Edwards
Philippa Tomson		British television presenter	York		1978-08-30
Phillippa Wilson		actor	York		1970
Phoebe Power		British poet	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Cambridge	1993
Phyllida Barlow		British artist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Slade School of Fine Art Chelsea College of Art and Design	1944-04-04		Phyllida Barlow
Pip Culbert		British artist (1938-2016)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Royal College of Art	1938-12-15
Preeti Desai		British actress and model	Middlesbrough		1984-09-29		Preeti Desai
Rachel Bell		British actress	Newcastle upon Tyne		1950
Rachel Ford Thompson		English botanist and temperance activist (1856-1906)	York		1856-08-31
Rachel Howard		British artist	Easington	Goldsmiths, University of London Sunderland High School The Mount School (York)	1969
Rachel Lowe		English sculptor, born 1968	Newcastle upon Tyne		1968
Rachel Lumsden		British painter	Newcastle upon Tyne		1968-03-10
Rachel Pain		British geographer	Northumberland		1968-08-16		Rachel Pain
Rebecca Calder		English actress	Consett		1981
Robyn Bolam		poet	Newcastle upon Tyne		1953
Rose Frain		British artist	Sunderland	University of Edinburgh Newcastle University	20th century
Rosemarie Ford		British actor and dancer	Sherburn in Elmet		1962-03-05
Rosie Mac		English actress	Newcastle upon Tyne		1997-02-12
Roxie Cooper			Middlesbrough
Ruth Clark		British writer (1899-1964)	Sunderland		1899-11-29
Ruth Copeland		British singer	Consett		1946
Ruth Gemmell		English actress	Darlington	Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art Polam Hall	1967-01-02		Ruth Gemmell
Ruth Jenkins-Róbertsson		opera singer	Newcastle upon Tyne				Ruth Jenkins-Róbertsson
Ruth-Ann Boyle		British singer	Sunderland		1970-04-26
Sally Bidgood		British botanist (1948-2018)	Corbridge	Ackworth School	1948-04-13
Sally Grace		British actress	Harrogate		1938 1951-09-10
Sally Nicholls		novelist	Stockton-on-Tees	Bath Spa University University of Warwick Great Ayton Friends' School	1983-06-22	Ways to Live Forever
Sally Wildman			Northumberland	OCAD University	1939
Sam Ainsley		British artist	North Shields	Leeds Arts University Edinburgh College of Art Northumbria University	1950
Samia Said Chowdhory		Bangladeshi model and actress	South Shields	North South University
Sarah Connolly		English mezzo-soprano	County Durham	Royal College of Music Queen Margaret's School, York Nottingham College	1963-06-13		Sarah Connolly
Sarah Corina		English bass guitarist	Corbridge
Sarah F. Wood		UK tech executive & Quixote scholar (1973-)	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Cambridge University College London	1973-05
Sarah Fox		English soprano	Giggleswick	Royal College of Music Royal Holloway, University of London Giggleswick School	1973-09-19
Sarah Lynn Dawson		British actress and writer	Lake District	University of Leeds	1981-01-22		Sarah Lynn Dawson
Sarah Millican		English comedian	South Shields	Mortimer Community College	1975-05-29		Sarah Millican
Sarah Pickering		British visual artist	Durham	Royal College of Art University of Derby	1972
Sarah Preston		British actress	Middlesbrough	Royal Academy of Dramatic Art	1970
Sarah Wanless		English ornithologist and research ecologist	Scarborough	University of Aberdeen
Scarlett Moffatt		English reality television personality and presenter	Bishop Auckland	York St John University Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College	1990-10-17
Selina Cartmell		British theatre director	Lake District	Central School of Speech and Drama University of Glasgow Trinity College Dublin
Selina Scott		English newsreader, journalist, television producer and presenter	Scarborough	University of East Anglia Laurence Jackson School	1951-05-13
Selina Todd		British historian	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Sussex University of Warwick	1975-02-19	El poble. Ascensió i caiguda de la classe obrera britànica (1910-2010)
Sharon Percy		British actress	Newcastle upon Tyne		1971-09-28
Sheila Armstrong		English opera singer	Ashington	Royal Academy of Music	1942-08-13
Sheila Fournier			Filey		1930
Shelagh Stephenson		British writer	Northumberland	University of Manchester	1955
Shivaani Ghai		British actress	Newcastle upon Tyne	Gosforth Academy	1975-04-25
Shona Fraser		British journalist	Newcastle upon Tyne		1975-07-09
Sienna Day		British pornographic actress	Darlington		1991-05-07
Sophie Atkinson		British artist (1876-1972)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1876-11-28
Sophie Kasaei		British television personality	South Shields		1989-11-08
Sophy Gray		South African architect (1814–1871)	Easington		1814-01-05	All Saints Church, Uniondale St Mark's Cathedral, George, Western Cape	Sophy Gray (architect)
Stella Morton		British writer	Richmond
Stella Muir		English silent film actress	Scarborough		1900
Stella Rayner O'Donnell		English-born Australian pharmacologist and educator	Harrogate		1938-07-06
Stella Vine		English artist	Alnwick		1969		Stella Vine
Storm Jameson		British writer (1891-1986)	Whitby	University of Leeds King's College London	1891-01-08
Su Elliot		British actress	Newcastle upon Tyne		1950-12-18
Su Hart		British musician	Gateshead		1959-09-03
Sue Carroll		British writer and columnist (1953-2011)	Gosforth	Gosforth Academy	1953-12-06
Sue Clayton		film director and writer	Newcastle upon Tyne
Susan Hill		English author	Scarborough	King's College London Scarborough Convent School	1942-02-05	The Woman in Black The Mist in the Mirror I'm the King of the Castle
Susan Katherine Phillips		English poet	Aldborough		1831
Susan Maughan		British singer	Consett		1938-07-01 1942-07-01
Susan Sheridan		British actress	Newcastle upon Tyne	Guildhall School of Music and Drama Queensmead School Windsor	1947-03-18
Susanna Lister		English natural history illustrator	Carleton-in-Craven		1670		Susanna Lister (illustrator)
Suzanne May		British actress	Newcastle upon Tyne	London Studio Centre	1971
Sylvia Waugh		British children's writer	Gateshead	Gateshead Grammar School	1935
Syren Sexton		actress	Seaham		1986
Tamara Craig Thomas		Canadian actress	Whitby		20th century
Taylor Wane		British pornographic actress and director	Gateshead		1968-08-27		Taylor Wane
Teresa Copnall		British artist (1882-1972)	Haughton-le-Skerne	Slade School of Fine Art	1882-08-24
Thelma Barlow		British actress	Middlesbrough		1929-06-19
Tillie Cole			Stockton-on-Tees	Newcastle University
Tinashe Kajese		actress	County Durham
Tish Murtha		British photographer	South Shields	University of Wales, Newport	1956-03-14		Tish Murtha
Tricia Walker		British writer (1964-2018)	Ampleforth		1964-02-08
Trish Williamson		British television presenter and producer	Newcastle upon Tyne	Durham University	1955-01-03
Tryphosa Jane Wallis		English actress	Richmond		1774		Tryphosa Jane Wallis
Twinnie Lee Moore		British actress	York		1987-08-18		Twinnie Lee Moore
Ulorin Vex		British model	Newcastle upon Tyne	Durham University	1982		Ulorin Vex
Ursula Dronke		British scholar of Old Norse and medieval studies	Sunderland	Somerville College Newcastle High School for Girls Newcastle upon Tyne Church High School	1920-11-03
Val McLane		British actress	Newcastle upon Tyne		1943-02-25
Val Wilmer		British photographer	Harrogate		1941-12-07
Valerie Grove		British journalist	South Shields	Girton College	1946-05-11
Vera Cowie			South Shields		1928
Vera Stanley Alder		British artist (1898-1984)	Eglingham	Slade School of Fine Art	1898-10-29		Vera Stanley Alder
Veronica Carlson		English actress (1944–2022)	Emley York	Buckinghamshire New University	1944-09-18		Veronica Carlson
Veronica Wedgwood		English historian	Northumberland	Lady Margaret Hall Norland Place School	1910-07-20		Veronica Wedgwood
Vick Hope		television and radio presenter	Newcastle upon Tyne	Emmanuel College Dame Allan's School	1989-09-25
Vicky Hall		British nurse & actress	Newcastle upon Tyne	Queen Margaret University	1977-02-25
Vicky Pattison		British television personality	Newcastle upon Tyne	Liverpool John Moores University Burnside Business and Enterprise College	1987-11-16		Vicky Pattison
Victoria Hawkins		British actress	Gateshead		1983-09-24
Vineeta Rishi		English actress	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Bradford Benfield School	1975-02-15
Violet Hunt		British writer (1862-1942)	Durham	Notting Hill and Ealing High School	1862-09-28 1866-09-28		Violet Hunt
Virginia Nicholson		English historian	Newcastle upon Tyne Newcastle	King's College	1955
Wendy Bowman		British actor and singer	Sunderland		1945
Wendy Craig		British actress	Sacriston	Central School of Speech and Drama Durham High School for Girls Teesside University	1934-06-20
Wendy Ramshaw		British ceramicist, jeweler and sculptor (1939-2018)	Sunderland	University of Reading Central Saint Martins	1939-05-26		Wendy Ramshaw
Wendy Richard		British actress	Middlesbrough	Royal Masonic School for Girls Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts	1943-07-20		Wendy Richard
Wendy Smith		English musician	Middlesbrough		1963-05-31
William Scott Palmer		British physician, journalist and writer	York	London School of Medicine for Women University of Vienna Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland	1848-06-30
Wilma Archer		musical artist	Newcastle upon Tyne		1991
Wincey Willis		British television and radio broadcaster	Gateshead		1948-08-08
Zoe Birkett		British actor and singer	Consett	Stagecoach Theatre Arts	1985-06-16
Zuleika Robson		British actress	Acaster Malbis		1953-05-20		Zuleika Robson

genderfluid

article	image	description	place of birth	educated at	date of birth	notable work	Commons category
Cherry Valentine		British drag performer (1993–2022)	Darlington	University of Cumbria	1993-11-30	RuPaul's Drag Race UK, series 2

male

article	image	description	place of birth	educated at	date of birth	notable work	Commons category
A. Duncan Carse		British artist (1876-1938)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1876		Andreas Duncan Carse
A. V. Coton		English ballet critic (1906-1969)	York		1906-02-16
Aaron Arrowsmith		English cartographer and hydrographer	Winston		1750-07-14 1748-07-14		Aaron Arrowsmith
Abel Chapman		British conservationist and writer	Bishopwearmouth		1851-10-04		Abel Chapman
Abhisit Vejjajiva		Thai politician	Newcastle upon Tyne	St John's College Eton College Nuffield College	1964-08-03		Abhisit Vejjajiva
Aby Altson		painter (1866 - 1946)	Middlesbrough		1866-08-21
Adam Carse		English collector, historian and composer (1878-1958)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Royal Academy of Music	1878-05-19
Adam Hewison		former professional trader and entrepreneur	Newcastle upon Tyne		1945
Adam Maxwell		British writer	Sunderland		1976-10-24
Adam Stafford		Scottish musician and filmmaker	Sunderland	The McAuley Catholic High School	1982-02-24
Adam of Bockenfield		English Franciscan philosopher	Bockenfield		120s
Adrian Macintosh			Tadcaster		1942-03-07
Adrian Raine		British psychologist	Darlington	University of Oxford	1954-01-27
Adrian T. Bell		British musician	Newcastle upon Tyne		1964
Adrian Tilbrook		British drummer	Hartlepool		1948-07-20
Aelred of Rievaulx		English writer, abbot, and saint	Hexham		1110	De spirituali amicitia	Aelred of Rievaulx
Aidan Chambers		British children's writer	Chester-le-Street		1934-12-27		Aidan Chambers
Al Pease		British-born Canadian racing driver	Darlington		1921-10-15
Alan Brien		English novelist (1925-2008)	Sunderland	Jesus College	1925-03-12
Alan Broadbent		British mathematician	Consett	St John's College	1903-05-31
Alan Browning		British actor (1926-1979)	Sunderland		1926-03-23
Alan Bruce Thompson		English geologist and petrologist	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Manchester	1947-05-01
Alan C. Nixon			Lake District	University of Saskatchewan University of California, Berkeley	1908
Alan Carter		writer and documentary filmmaker	Sunderland		1959		Alan Carter
Alan Clark		British keyboardist	Great Lumley		1952-03-05		Alan Clark (keyboardist)
Alan Cowey		British neuroscientist (1935-2012)	Sunderland	Emmanuel College	1935-04-28
Alan E. M. Nairn		researcher	Newcastle upon Tyne		1927-09-09
Alan Garton		biochemist	Scarborough		1922-06-04
Alan Gray		British musician	York		1855-12-23
Alan Hockey		English actor (1924-1992)	South Shields		1924-10-08
Alan Hull		British singer-songwriter (1945–1995)	Benwell	St. Cuthbert's High School	1945-02-20		Alan Hull
Alan M. Hunt		British artist	Redcar		1947
Alan Melville		English broadcaster, writer, playwright and wit	Berwick-upon-Tweed	Edinburgh Academy	1910-04-09
Alan Milburn		British politician (born 1958)	Tow Law	University of Lancaster Stokesley School Pendle College, Lancaster	1958-01-27		Alan Milburn
Alan Myers		British translator	South Shields	Philological Faculty of Moscow State University University of London	1933-08-18
Alan Parkinson		english conceptual artist	Darlington		1949-07-29	Arquitects of Air	Alan Parkinson
Alan Plater		English screenwriter	Jarrow	Newcastle University	1935-04-15	Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt!
Alan Plumb		British American meteorology professor	Ripon	University of Manchester	1948-03-30
Alan Price		English musician	Fatfield		1942-04-19
Alan Race			Stockton-on-Tees		19th century
Alan Robson		British radio personality	Benwell		1955-10-01
Alan S. Duncan		British economist	Gateshead	University of York University of Manchester School of Social Sciences	1965-01-13
Alan Shearer		English footballer	Newcastle upon Tyne	Gosforth Academy	1970-08-13		Alan Shearer
Alan Simpson			Gateshead		1912-07-23
Alan Wareing		British director	Harrogate		1943-08-16
Alan Webb		actor (1906-1982)	York	Bramcote School	1906-07-02
Alan White		English rock drummer (1949–2022)	Ferryhill		1949-06-14		Alan White (drummer born 1949)
Alan Woodworth Johnson		English organic chemist (1917–1982)	South Shields		1917-09-29
Alan Young		British actor (1919–2016)	North Shields		1919-11-19		Alan Young
Albany E. Howarth		British engraver, 1872-1936	Durham		1872		Albany E. Howarth
Albany Hancock		English naturalist, biologist and supporter of Charles Darwin (1806-1873)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Royal Grammar School	1806-12-24		Albany Hancock
Albert Burdon		British actor (1900-1981)	South Shields		1900-07-04
Albert Charles Robinson Carter			York		1864-01-23
Albert Christopher Addison		writer, Newspaper reporter	Northallerton		1862-04-22		Albert Christopher Addison
Albert Joseph Moore		English artist (1841–1893)	York	Archbishop Holgate's School	1841-09-04		Albert Joseph Moore
Albert Robinson Bulman		British novelist	Newcastle upon Tyne		1841
Albert Shepherd		English actor (1936-2019)	York		1936
Albion Percy Alderson		English organist, conductor, and music teacher	Newcastle upon Tyne	Royal College of Music	1871
Alcuin		8th century English scholar, clergyman, poet, and teacher	York	St Peter's School	0724 0735		Alcuin
Alec Wainman		British photographer	North Yorkshire		1913-03-11
Alex Banfield		British opera and concert tenor	Morpeth	The King Edward VI Academy University of Leeds Royal Northern College of Music	1990-02-17
Alex Dordoy			Newcastle upon Tyne		1985
Alex Kershaw		American writer	York	University College, Oxford	1966
Alexander Armstrong		British comedian and actor	Rothbury	Durham School Trinity College St Mary's Music School Mowden Hall School	1970-03-02		Alexander Armstrong
Alexander Bone		British musician	Darlington	Chetham's School of Music	1996-09-08
Alexander Simpson Patterson		Scottish Presbyterian minister	Alnwick	University of Edinburgh University of Glasgow	1805
Alexis Petridis		British journalist	Sunderland	University of Cambridge Dr Challoner's Grammar School	1971-09-13
Alfie Joey		British comedian	Peterlee		1967
Alfred Backhouse		English photographer (1822-1888)	Bishopwearmouth		1822-09-28
Alfred Cardew Dixon		English mathematician (1865-1936)	Northallerton	Trinity College	1865-05-22	Dixon's identity Dixon's elliptic functions
Alfred James Jenkinson		translator; senior dean of Brasenose College, Oxford; O. B. E.	Tynemouth		1877
Alfred Nicholson		English landscapist, 1788-1833	Whitby		1788
Alfred Rayney Waller		English writer and editor (1867-1922)	York	Peterhouse	1867-08-02
Alfred Reuben Tanner		official war photographer of the British Army	North Shields		1904-05-14		Alfred Reuben Tanner
Alfred Richard Allinson		British academic, author, and voluminous translator of continental European literature	Newcastle upon Tyne	Lincoln College	1852-12		Alfred Richard Allinson
Alfred Richard Orage		British politician (1873-1934)	Dacre		1873-01-22
Alfred Sidgwick		British logician and philosopher	Skipton		1850
Algernon Ashton		English Composer and Piano Teacher (1859-1937)	Durham	Hoch Conservatory University of Music and Theatre Leipzig	1859-12-09
Ali Brownlee		English radio broadcaster	Middlesbrough		1959-04-14
Alistair Anderson		British musician	Wallsend		1948-03-18
Alistair Ian Blyth		translator and writer	Sunderland		1970
Alistair Petrie		British actor	Catterick	London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art	1970-09-30
Allan Boardman		British physicist	Northumberland	Durham University
Allan Prior		English television scriptwriter and novelist	Newcastle upon Tyne		1922-01-13
Allanson Brown		British organist and choirmaster	York		1902-05-31
Almroth Wright		British microbiologist and immunologist	Middleton Tyas	Trinity College Dublin Imperial College School of Medicine School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin	1861-08-10		Almroth Wright
Alpheus Aldersley		New Zealand early photographer (about 1849-1893)	Hawes		1849
Alun Armstrong		English actor	Annfield Plain		1946-07-17		Alun Armstrong
Anand Desai-Barochia		British actor	Nunthorpe
Andrew Ainslie Common		British astronomer	Newcastle upon Tyne		1841-08-07		Andrew Ainslie Common
Andrew Chadwick		political scientist	Middlesbrough	University of Birmingham London School of Economics and Political Science	1970
Andrew Falkous		Welsh musician	Newcastle upon Tyne		1975-04-05		Andrew Falkous
Andrew Festing		British artist	Northumberland	Royal Military Academy Sandhurst Ampleforth College	1941-11-30
Andrew Gibb Maitland		Australian geologist (1864-1951)	Birkby		1864-11-30
Andrew Haigh		English film director, screenwriter and producer	Harrogate		1973-03-07		Andrew Haigh
Andrew Hayden-Smith		British actor and television presenter	Gateshead	Roseberry College	1983-11-05
Andrew Hodgson		British translator	Northumberland		1994-01-15
Andrew Kennedy		British opera singer	Ashington	King's College Uppingham School	1977-05-26
Andrew Martin		British writer	York	Merton College	1962-07-06
Andrew McDermott		English male singer (1966-2011)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1966-01-26
Andrew McKenzie		British musician	Newcastle upon Tyne		1963-05-11
Andrew Morton		English portrait painter	Newcastle upon Tyne		1802-07-25		Andrew Morton (painter)
Andrew Scarborough		actor	Harrogate	Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art Harrogate Grammar School Nelson and Colne College	1973-09-26		Andrew Scarborough
Andrew Thomson		British historian (1936-2014)	Stockton-on-Tees	Cornell University St Edmund Hall St. Bees School	1936-01-26
Andrew White Tuer		British printer	Sunderland		1838-12-25		Andrew White Tuer
Andy Taylor		British guitarist	Cullercoats	Marden High School	1961-02-16		Andy Taylor
Angelo Raine		British priest and antiquarian	York		1877-09-29
Angus Maddison		British economist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Selwyn College Johns Hopkins University	1926-12-06		Angus Maddison
Angus McKie		artist	Newcastle upon Tyne		1951-07
Angus Watson		British journalist and writer of fantasy and science fiction (1972-)	Hexham	University of Bristol	1972-09-04	Age of Iron
Anthony Birley		British archaeologist (1937–2020)	Bardon Mill	Magdalen College Clifton College	1937-10-08
Anthony Forster		South Australian politician, financier and newspaper owner/editor (1813-1897)	Monkwearmouth		1813-05-15		Anthony Forster (Australian politician)
Anthony Havelock-Allan		British Baronet (1904-2003)	Darlington	Charterhouse School	1904-02-28
Anthony Howell		British actor	Lake District	Drama Centre London	1971-06-27
Anthony McPartlin		English television presenter, producer and actor	Newcastle upon Tyne		1975-11-18		Anthony McPartlin
Anthony Robinson		surgeon and botanist (1700-1768)	Sunderland		1700
Anthony Rowley		British author and linguist	Skipton	University of Bayreuth	1953-07-22		Anthony Rowley
Anthony Salvin		architect (1799-1881)	Sunderland Bridge	Durham School	1799-10-17	All Saints Church, Runcorn St Paul's Church, Whitley Bay	Anthony Salvin
Anthony Sampson		British writer and journalist	Billingham	Christ Church Westminster School	1926-08-03
Anthony Walker		English printmaker	Thirsk		1726		Anthony Walker (artist)
Archibald Matthias Dunn		British architect	Wylam	Ushaw College Stonyhurst College	1832
Arnold Barratt McMillin		British historian (born 1941)	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of London	1941-06-21
Arnold Sutherland Constable		American and British architect	Northumberland		1885-08-23
Arthur Brown		English singer (born 1942)	Whitby	University of London University of Reading Roundhay School	1942-06-24 1944-06-24		Arthur Brown
Arthur Carty		Canadian chemist	Rowlands Gill	University of Nottingham	1940-09-12
Arthur Dimmock		British writer, journalist and historian (1918-2007)	Whitley Bay		1918-07-15
Arthur Headlam		British bishop (1862–1947)	Whorlton	Winchester College New College Reading School	1862-08-02		Arthur Headlam
Arthur Heslop		Heslop, Arthur (1881-1955), artist	Newcastle upon Tyne		1881
Arthur Hinsley		Catholic cardinal	Carlton	English College Ushaw College	1865-08-25		Arthur Hinsley
Arthur Holmes		English geologist	Gateshead	Imperial College London Gateshead Grammar School	1890-01-14
Arthur Hubert Terry		English linguist, translator and critic	York	University of Cambridge St Peter's School Trinity Hall	1927-02-17
Arthur Humble Evans		British ornithologist (1855-1943)	Scremerston	Clare College University of Cambridge	1855-02-23		Arthur Humble Evans
Arthur Ibbetson		British cinematographer (1922-1997)	Bishop Auckland		1922-09-08
Arthur Jameson		UK‐born American illustrator	Jarrow		1872-03-26
Arthur Lawson		art director	Sunderland		1908-07-28
Arthur Lee Dixon		British mathematician	Pickering	Worcester College Kingswood School	1867-11-27
Arthur Munby		British writer	York	Trinity College	1828-08-19
Arthur Oglesby		British photographer (1923-2000)	Scarborough		1923-12-21		Arthur Oglesby
Arthur Penty		British architect (1875-1937)	York		1875-03-17
Arthur Riscoe		British actor (1895-1954)	Sherburn in Elmet		1895-11-18
Arthur Willey		director of Colombo Museum, Ceylon	Scarborough	University College London Christ's College Kingswood School	1867-10-09
Ashley Artus		English film, television and theatre actor	Newcastle upon Tyne		1971-01-28
August Vanistendael		Belgian poet and author	Northumberland		1917-01-09
BADVOID		British EDM Producer and DJ	Newcastle upon Tyne		2000-12-04
Banesh Hoffmann		American mathematician and physicist (1906-1986)	Richmond	Merton College Princeton University	1906-09-06
Barnabas Brough		British playwright	Newcastle upon Tyne		1796
Barrie Dobson		English historian (1931-2013)	Stockton-on-Tees	Wadham College Barnard Castle School	1931-11-03
Barrington Bramley			Knaresborough		1950
Barry Dransfield		British musician	Harrogate		20th century
Barry Duffield		Australian actor, director, scriptwriter and producer	Billingham		1962-02-28		Barry Duffield
Barry Unsworth		English novelist (1930–2012)	Wingate	University of Manchester	1930-08-10	Sacred Hunger
Basil Beattie		British artist	West Hartlepool	The Northern School of Art	1935-01-09
Basil Bunting		poet	Benwell & Scotswood	London School of Economics and Political Science Leighton Park School Ackworth School Royal Grammar School	1900-03-01
Basil Hall		British theologian and historian (1915-1994)	Ryton		1915-06-23
Basil Hume		Catholic cardinal (1923-1999)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Ampleforth College University of Fribourg Newcastle Preparatory School St Martin's Ampleforth	1923-03-02		Basil Hume
Baz Warne		English musician	Sunderland		1964-03-25
Bede		English monk and saint	Jarrow		0672	Ecclesiastical History of the English People Chronica minora The Reckoning of Time On times De natura rerum	Bede
Ben Anderson		British journalist, television reporter, and writer	Cleveland	Bedford Modern School
Ben Forster		British actor	Sunderland	Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts	1981-04-24
Ben Hemsley		British DJ	Newcastle upon Tyne		1996-06-06
Ben Hills		Australian journalist	Grassington		1942
Ben James-Ellis		English stage and script actor	Scarborough		1988-12-22
Ben Kingsley		English actor	Snainton	The Manchester Grammar School University of Salford Pendleton College	1943-12-31		Ben Kingsley
Ben Matthews		British musician	Hartlepool		1963-07-21
Ben Myers		British writer and journalist (1976-)	Durham	University of Bedfordshire Belmont Community School	1976	Richard: A Novel
Ben Price		British actor	Newcastle upon Tyne	Central School of Speech and Drama Gosforth Academy Gosforth East Middle School	1972-01-01
Ben Robson		British film actor	Newcastle upon Tyne		1984-02-04
Benjamin Francis Leftwich		English singer-songwriter	York	Bootham School	1989-09-04		Benjamin Francis Leftwich
Benjamin Linfoot		lithographer and architect	York		1840-09-01
Bentley Beetham		British mountain climber, ornithologist and photographer	Darlington	Barnard Castle School	1886-05-01
Bentley Collingwood Hilliam		singer, song-writer and musician	Scarborough	Scarborough College	1890-11-06
Bernard Alan Aaron			Newcastle upon Tyne		1939
Bernard Benedict Hemy		British painter (1845-1913)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1845
Bernard Bosanquet		English philosopher	Alnwick	Balliol College Harrow School	1848-06-14	The Distinction between Mind and Its Objects	Bernard Bosanquet
Bernard Comrie		British linguist	Sunderland	University of Cambridge	1947-05-23
Bernard Dearman Burtt		British botanist (1902-1938)	York		1902-06-14
Bernard Dixon		science journalist	Darlington	Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College Durham University Newcastle University	1938-07-17
Bernard Merivale		(1882-1939) Adm. pens. at ST JOHN\\'S, Oct. 8, 19‍00. [2nd] s. of John Herman, mining-engineer, of [Togstone], Northumberland (and Blanche Liddell). B. July 15, 18‍82, at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. School, Sedbergh (Mr H. G. Hart). Matric. Michs. 1	Newcastle upon Tyne	St John's College	1882-07-15
Berwick Kaler		British actor and pantomime dame	Sunderland		1946-10-31		Berwick Kaler
Bijan Omrani			York	Wellington College Lincoln College	1979
Bilge Ebiri		American filmmaker and journalist	York	Yale University	1973
Bill Fellows		British actor	Middlesbrough		1957-05-25
Bill Richardson		British newspaper editor (1909–1986)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Co-operative College	1909-01-16
Bill Rutherford		Professor and Chair in Biochemistry of Solar Energy in the Department of Life Sciences at Imperial College London	Morpeth	University College London University of Liverpool	1955-01-02
Bill Steer		British guitarist	Stockton-on-Tees	Calday Grange Grammar School	1969-12-03
Bill Thompson		English technology writer, born 1960	Jarrow	St Catharine's College, Cambridge	1960-10-06	The birth of a UK tech giant	Bill Thompson (technology writer)
Bill Travers		British activist (1922-1994)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1922-01-03		Bill Travers
Bill Ward		English actor	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Bristol	1967-05-05
Billy Fane		British actor	Tyne and Wear		1946
Billy Sanders		British singer	Ashington		1934-05-16
Blake Morrison		Poet and author	Skipton	University of Nottingham University College London McMaster University Ermysted's Grammar School	1950-10-08		Blake Morrison
Bob Davenport		British singer	Gateshead		1932-05-31 1932
Bob Langley		British television presenter	Newcastle upon Tyne		1939-08-28
Bob Mortimer		English comedian and actor	Acklam	University of Leicester University of Sussex King's Manor School	1959-05-23
Bobby Charlton		English association football player and manager (1937–2023)	Ashington	Bedlingtonshire Community High School Loreto Grammar School	1937-10-11		Bobby Charlton
Bobby Knoxall		British comedian	Sunderland		1933-12-24
Bobby Robson		English association football player and manager (1933-2009)	County Durham		1933-02-18		Bobby Robson
Bobby Thompson		British comedian	Penshaw		1911-11-18
Brad Copping		Canadian artist	Scarborough		1961
Brendan Healy		entertainer (1956-2016)	Newcastle upon Tyne	St. Cuthbert's High School	1956-12-18
Brian Casser		musician	Newcastle upon Tyne		1936-03-21
Brian Clough		English football player and manager (1935–2004)	Middlesbrough		1935-03-21		Brian Clough
Brian David Smith		British academic	Hebburn	Cranfield University Newcastle University	1961
Brian Dobson		British archaeologist (1931-2012)	Hartlepool	Hatfield College Durham University	1931-09-13
Brian Foster		British physicist	Crook	University of Oxford Wolsingham School	1954-01-04
Brian Hargreaves		English artist and scientific illustrator, known for his depictions of lepidoptera (1935-2011)	Sutton-in-Craven		1935-05-27
Brian Johnson		English singer, songwriter and television show host of car shows	Dunston		1947-10-05		Brian Johnson
Brian Kidd Ridley		British physicist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Durham University	1931-03-02 1931
Brian Lane		British fighter pilot	Harrogate		1917-06-18		Brian Lane (RAF officer)
Brian Lumley		English horror fiction writer (1937–2024)	County Durham		1937-12-02	Cthylla	Brian Lumley
Brian Redhead		British journalist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Downing College Royal Grammar School	1929-12-28 1929
Brian Robb		painter and illustrator (1913-1979)	Scarborough	Slade School of Fine Art	1913-05-07
Brian Ross		British singer	Durham		1954		Brian Ross (singer)
Brian Routh		contemporary artist (1948-2018)	Durham	East 15 Acting School	1948-03-09		Brian Routh
Bruce Haywood		American educator	York	McGill University Harvard University	1925-09-30
Bruce Thomas		British musician	Stockton-on-Tees		1948-08-14
Bruce Turner		English musician (1922-1993)	Saltburn-by-the-Sea	Dulwich College	1922-07-05
Bryan Ferry		English singer and songwriter (born 1945)	Washington	Newcastle University	1945-09-26		Bryan Ferry
Bryan Henry Darnell		British born South African politician and New Zealand land surveyor and civil engineer (1820-1906)	Darlington		1820
Byrom Bramwell		British pathologist	North Tyneside	University of Edinburgh	1847-12-18 1847		Byrom Bramwell
C. E. M. Joad		British philosopher	Durham	Balliol College Dragon School Blundell's School	1891-08-12		C.E.M. Joad
C. H. B. Kitchin		British writer	Harrogate	Clifton College Exeter College	1895-10-17
C. J. Bolland		Belgian musician	Stockton-on-Tees		1971-06-18
C. Northcote Parkinson		British naval historian	Barnard Castle	Emmanuel College Britannia Royal Naval College King's College London St Peter's School	1909-07-30	Parkinson's law	Cyril Northcote Parkinson
C. Peter Flynn		American physicist	Stockton-on-Tees	University of Cambridge University of Leeds	1935-08-18
Caesar Anthony Zambra		Studio photographer in Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand, formerly of Negretti and Zambra, London, United Kingdom. New Zealander (1835-1881)	Holburn		1835
Callum Keith Rennie		actor	Sunderland	Strathcona Composite High School	1960-09-14		Callum Keith Rennie
Callum Woodhouse		British actor	Stockton-on-Tees		1994-01-07
Carl Bradbury		British YouTuber	Sunderland		1996-11-04
Cecil Glossop		British cartoonist, 1889-1949	York Sheffield		1889-01-06		Cecil Glossop
Charles Aitken		British art administrator (1869-1936)	Bishophill	New College	1869-09-12
Charles Ambrose Storey		British academician (1888-1967)	Blackhill		1888-08-21
Charles Avison		English composer	Newcastle upon Tyne		1709-02		Charles Avison
Charles Bertram Smales		botanist and botanical collector (1870-1927)	Whitby		1870
Charles Cecil		British video game designer and director	York	Bedales School	1962-08-11		Charles Cecil
Charles Church		painter	Northumberland		1970-12-17
Charles Edmund Cyril Dyson		British-Canadian architect (1880-1960)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Durham University	1880-05-02
Charles Francis Riddell		British novelist	Felton Park		1817
Charles Gray		British illustrator	Newcastle upon Tyne		1810	Tales from Shakspere	Charles Gray (illustrator)
Charles Hansom		British architect	York		1817-07-27		Charles Francis Hansom
Charles Hardwick		British historian	Slingsby		1821
Charles Hedley		Australian zoologist (1862-1926)	North Yorkshire	Eastbourne College	1862-02-27		Charles Hedley
Charles Herbert Kitson		British musician	Leyburn	Selwyn College	1874-11-13
Charles Hutton		English mathematician	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Edinburgh Royal Grammar School	1737-08-14		Charles Hutton
Charles Laughton		British-American actor and director (1899–1962)	Scarborough	Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Scarborough College	1899-07-01		Charles Laughton
Charles Loraine Smith		MP, Artist and Sportsperson	Kirkharle	Eton College	1751-04-01		Charles Loraine Smith
Charles N. Allen		English-American violinist and composer	York		1837
Charles Napier Hemy		British artist (1841-1917)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Royal Academy of Fine Arts Ushaw College	1841-05-24		Charles Napier Hemy
Charles Robinson Sykes		British artist; sculptor, poster designer, magazine illustrator (1875-1950)	Brotton	Royal College of Art	1875-12-18	Spirit of Ecstasy	Charles Robinson Sykes
Charles Sandison		Scottish artist	Haltwhistle	Glasgow School of Art	1969-04-24
Charles Thomas Oldham		British actor, writer and producer	Gateshead	University of Cambridge	1982-11-28
Charles Thorp		Archdeacon of Durham (1783-1862)	Gateshead	Peterhouse	1783-10-13		Charles Thorp
Charles Tiffin		English architect who worked in Australia	Newcastle upon Tyne		1831		Charles Tiffin
Charles Tindal Gatty		English antiquary, musician, and author (1851-1928)	Bedale	Charterhouse School	1851-11-14
Charles Wakefield (numismatist)		British numismatist and museum curator	York		1834
Charles Whiting		British writer and historian (1926-2007)	York	University of Leeds	1926-12-18
Charles William Mitchell		British artist (1854-1903)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1854		Charles William Mitchell
Charles de Lacy		British artist	Sunderland		1856		Charles John De Lacy
Charlie Carrick		British actor	Newcastle upon Tyne		1986-06-25		Charlie Carrick
Charlie English		British journalist	York		1967
Charlie Hunnam		British actor	Newcastle upon Tyne	Cumbria Institute of the Arts Heaton Manor School Queen Elizabeth Grammar School Penrith Jesmond Park Academy University of Cumbria	1980-04-10		Charlie Hunnam
Charlie Mackesy		British artist and illustrator	Northumberland	Queen Elizabeth High School	1962
Chas Chandler		English musician (1938–1996)	Heaton		1938-12-18
Cherry Kearton		English nature photographer and filmmaker	Swaledale		1871		Cherry Kearton
Chris Clough		British television director and producer	Harrogate	University of Leeds	1951-03-09
Chris Corner		English producer and musician	Middlesbrough	Goldsmiths, University of London Mill Hill School	1974-01-23		Chris Corner
Chris Foggin		British film director	Sunderland		1985-09-15	Bank of Dave
Chris Harrison		English photographer	Jarrow	Royal College of Art Nottingham Trent University	1967-07-01
Chris Johnson		British guitarist, singer and record producer	York
Chris Kamara		English association football player and manager (born 1957)	Middlesbrough		1957-12-25
Chris McCrudden			South Shields
Chris Norman		English soft rock singer	Redcar		1950-10-25		Chris Norman
Chris Ramsey		actor and comedian	South Shields		1986-08-03
Chris Rea		English singer and guitarist	Middlesbrough		1951-03-04		Chris Rea
Chris Robson		British actor	Newcastle upon Tyne	St John's College Humboldt University of Berlin	1971-09-02
Chris Ryan		former British Special Forces operative and soldier turned novelist	Rowlands Gill		1961
Chris Stuart		British journalist	Durham	New College Longslade Community College	1948 1949-02-19
Chris Svensson		british automobile designer	Sunderland	Royal College of Art University of Sunderland	1965
Chris Waddle		English footballer (born 1960)	Felling		1960-12-14		Chris Waddle
Chris Walton		British librarian and music historian	Billingham		1963-07-06
Chris Williamson		British broadcaster (born 1987)	Stockton-on-Tees	Newcastle University	1988-02-23
Christian Forshaw		British musician	Knaresborough		1972-05-22
Christian Gamst Miller-Harris		Danish-British screenwriter	Ashington	University of Reading University of Copenhagen National Film School of Denmark
Christian Howard		British actor	Sunderland		1984-05-04
Christian Rodska		British actor	Cullercoats		1945-09-05
Christopher Clarke		Dutch scientific instrument maker	London Killerby		1668
Christopher Dawson		American classical philologist (1908-1972)	Sunderland		1908-04-20
Christopher Fox		English composer	York	University of York	1955-03-10
Christopher Hancock		British actor (1928-2004)	Bishop Auckland	Chorister School	1928-06-05
Christopher Hill		British historian	York	Balliol College St Peter's School	1912-02-06
Christopher John Lamb		English biologist (1950-2009)	York	University of Oxford University of Cambridge Fitzwilliam College	1950-03-19
Christopher Longé		French comics artist	Middlesbrough		1969-09-08
Christopher Maire		English Jesuit	Hardwick		1697-03-06
Christopher Moloney		Canadian writer and photographer	York	North Park Secondary School	1977-08-04
Christopher Quinten		British actor	Middlesbrough		1957-07-12
Christopher Wray		English actor and businessman (1940-2014)	Scarborough	Abingdon School	1940-03-08
Clarkson Frederick Stanfield		British artist (1793–1867)	Sunderland		1793-12-03		William Clarkson Stanfield
Claude Cover		English organist	Sherburn in Elmet		1870-03-13
Clement Antrobus Harris			York		1862-04-02
Clements Markham		British geographer (1830-1916)	Stillingfleet	Westminster School Cheam School	1830-07-20 1830		Clements Markham
Clennell Rawson		British animator and animation director	County Durham		1949-07-13
Cliff McNish		English writer	Sunderland	Cardinal Newman Catholic School A Specialist Science College	1962-08-24	The Doomspell Trilogy
Clive Coates		Wine expert	Darlington		1941
Clive MacDonnell Dixon		British artist (1870-1914)	Middlesbrough		1870-02-10		Clive MacDonnell Dixon
Clive Russell		Scottish actor	Reeth	Buckhaven High School	1945-12-07		Clive Russell
Colin Douglas		British actor (1912-1991)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Royal Military College, Sandhurst	1912-07-28
Colin Gibson		Bass guitarist and composer	Newcastle upon Tyne		1949-09-21
Colin McGinn		British philosopher (born 1950)	West Hartlepool	University of Manchester	1950-03-10
Colin McNaughton		British children's illustrator and writer	Wallsend	Royal College of Art Central School of Art and Design Central Saint Martins	1951-05-01 1951-05-18
Colin Potter		British musician	York		1952
Colin Renfrew		British archaeologist	Stockton-on-Tees	St John's College St Albans School	1937-07-25 1937-10-27		Colin Renfrew
Colin Rose		British sculptor (1950-)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1950		Colin Rose
Colin Snedeker		British-born American chemist (1936–2016)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1936-01-05
Colin T. Dawson			South Shields		1960		Colin T. Dawson
Colin Thain		British political scientist	Bedlington	University of Manchester	1959-01-20
Compton Mackenzie		Scottish writer, cultural commentator, raconteur and nationalist (1883-1972)	West Hartlepool	Magdalen College St Paul's School Colet Court	1883-01-17		Compton Mackenzie
Conyers Middleton		English 18th-century clergyman and writer	Richmond	Trinity College	1683-12-27		Conyers Middleton
Courtenay Foote		British actor	Harrogate		1879 1878-11-22		Courtenay Foote
Craig Conway		British actor (1975)	South Shields		1975
Craig Raine		poet	Shildon	Exeter College Barnard Castle School	1944-12-03
Cyril Francis Musgrove		British composer	Harrogate		1887
Cyril Smith		English virtuoso concert pianist	Middlesbrough	Royal College of Music	1909-08-11
D. A. Cruse		British linguist (1934-2020)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1934
Dale Meeks		British actor	South Shields		1975 1974-05-06
Dan Hicks		British archaeologist and anthropologist	Spennymoor	University of Bristol St John's College Bishop Vesey's Grammar School University of Oxford	1972		Dan Hicks (archaeologist)
Dan Smith		New Zealand tattooist and musician (1980)	Middlesbrough		1980
Dan Willis		Australia-based English comedian	York		1973-03-11
Daniel Ainsleigh		actor	Hexham	Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art	1976-02-08
Daniel Casey		British actor	Stockton-on-Tees	Durham University	1972-06-01
Daniel Charles Grose		American artist (1838-1900)	Whitby		1838		Daniel Charles Grose
Daniel Maier		Performer on stage, tv and radio	Newcastle upon Tyne		1968-11-12
Daniel Newman		British actor	York		1976-05-12
Daniel Oliver		English botanist (1830–1916)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1830-02-06
Daniel Pearson		British actor	Darlington		1996-07-16
Daniel Weyman		British actor	Newcastle upon Tyne	Huntington School	1977
Danny Murphy		British actor	Wallsend		2004-02-20
Danny Robins		British playwright and podcaster	Newcastle upon Tyne		1976
Darren Allison		English record producer,audio engineer, musician	Ashington		1968
Darren John Langford		British actor	Fairburn	Lostock College	1982-04-01
Darren Morfitt		British actor	Hartlepool		1973-09-12
Darren Newton		British actor and director	Ashington	University of Sussex Royal Conservatoire of Scotland	1969-05-16
Dave Bainbridge		Keyboardist and guitarist	Darlington
Dave Cliff		British musician	Hexham	Royal Birmingham Conservatoire	1944-06-25
Dave Hill		British actor	Skipton	Ermysted's Grammar School	1945-10-16
Dave Johns		English comedian, actor, and writer	Wallsend		1955
Dave Morris		British comedian	Middlesbrough		1896-07-05
Dave Thomas		professional golfer	Newcastle upon Tyne		1934-08-16
David A. Stewart		English musician, songwriter and record producer	Sunderland	City of Sunderland College	1952-09-09 1952-08-09		David A. Stewart
David Almond		British children's writer (1951-)	Newcastle upon Tyne Gateshead	University of East Anglia	1951-05-15	Skellig Kit's Wilderness The Fire-Eaters
David Armstrong		English footballer (1954–2022)	Durham		1954-12-26
David Blount		early English photographer, (1879-1948) based in Newcastle	Elswick		1879
David Bradley		British actor	York	Royal Academy of Dramatic Art St. George's RC Secondary School	1942-04-17		David Bradley
David Charles McClintock		English botanist (1913-2001)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Trinity College Harrow School	1913-07-04
David Coverdale		English rock singer	Saltburn-by-the-Sea	The Northern School of Art	1951-09-22		David Coverdale
David Cushing		British biologist	Alnwick	Balliol College	1920-03-14
David Daiches		British writer and historian	Sunderland	Balliol College University of Edinburgh George Watson's College	1912-09-02
David E. Daykin		Ph.D. University of Reading 1961	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Reading
David E. Minnikin		microbiologist	Newton	Trinity College, Oxford
David G. Robinson		British botanist	North Shields		1947-05-15
David George Kendall		British statistician	Ripon	The Queen's College Ripon Grammar School	1918-01-15	Kendall's notation
David Graham		British crime fiction author	South Shields		1919
David Hamer			Billingham		1934
David Harker		British historian of popular music	Guisborough	University of Cambridge	1946-11-05
David Holden		British journalist (1924–1977)	Sunderland	Emmanuel College	1924-11-20
David J. Richardson		British biochemist	Whitley Bay	University of Keele University of Birmingham	1964
David Laidler		Canadian economist	North Shields	London School of Economics and Political Science Syracuse University University of Chicago	1938-08-12
David Leon		English actor	Newcastle upon Tyne	Dame Allan's School	1980-07-24
David Lindsay Keir		British historian and Master of Balliol College, Oxford (1895-1973)	Bellingham	University of Glasgow New College	1895-05-22
David M. Moore		British botanist (1933-2013)	Barnard Castle	University College	1933-07-26
David M. Wilson		British archaeologist, art historian, and museum curator	Dacre	Kingswood School St John's College Lund University	1931-10-30
David MacBeth		English pop singer	Walker		1935
David Macey		British historian and translator	Sunderland		1949-10-05
David Mackenzie		British film director	Corbridge	University of Dundee Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design	1966-05-10		David Mackenzie
David Parfitt		British actor	Sunderland	Barbara Speake Stage School	1958-07-08
David Pawson		British minister	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Cambridge Durham University Wesley House	1930-02-25		David Pawson
David Phillips		British Chemist	South Shields	University of Birmingham	1939-12-03		David Phillips (chemist)
David Reed		British actor, writer and comedian (*1982)	York	University of Edinburgh	1982-05-26
David Richard Leitch		physician and medical officer	Stokesley		1943-09-23
David Roach		British musician	Darlington		1955
David S. Byrne		sociologist	South Shields	Newcastle University London School of Economics and Political Science	1947-01-09
David Stoddart		British geographer and scientific collector ( 1937– 2014)	Stockton-on-Tees	University of Cambridge	1937-11-15
David Sweetman		British writer	Dilston Castle		1943-03-16
David Thorns		New Zealand sociologist (1943–2020)	County Durham	University of Sheffield University of Exeter	1943-08-26
David W. Atkinson		Canadian academic administrator	Sunderland	University of Calgary Indiana University	1948		David William Atkinson
David Walter		British journalist and politician (1948-2012)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Trinity College, Oxford Charterhouse School	1948-02-01
David Watson		British painter	South Bank	Middlesbrough College	1944
David Wheatley		British film director (1949–2009)	Sunderland	Royal College of Art	1949-12-20
David Winter		British sculptor (1958- )	Catterick		1958
David Womersley			South Shields		1957-01-29
Dawson Williams		British medical editor	Ulleskelf	Pocklington School	1854 1854-07-17		Dawson Williams
Dean John-Wilson		British actor	Middlesbrough	Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts	1989-06-06
Dean Tidey		English rock musician	Newcastle upon Tyne		1970-11-28
Dean Wilkinson		British writer	Guisborough	Thornaby Academy	1967-04-18
Declan Donnelly		English television presenter (b.1975)	Newcastle upon Tyne	St. Cuthbert's High School	1975-09-25		Declan Donnelly
Denis Forster		American chemist	Hebburn	Imperial College London	1941-02-28
Dennis Chapman		British chemist (1927 - 1999)	Sunderland		1927-05-06
Dennis Gibson		Australian academic and mathematician	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Hull Newcastle University	1942
Dennis Kirkland		Television Producer (1942-2006)	North Shields		1942-12-02
Densil Neve Barr		UK science fiction author (1918-1994)	Harrogate United Kingdom		1918-09-12
Denys Hay		British historian (1915-1994)	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Oxford	1915-08-29
Denys Haynes		British classical archaeologist	Harrogate	University of Bonn Trinity College Marlborough College	1913-02-15
Denys Val Baker		English writer	Upper Poppleton		1917-10-24		Denys Val Baker
Derek Geldart			Stockton-on-Tees		1931-09-04
Derek Humble		British musician	Durham		1931-05-06
Derek Talbot		English badminton player	Newcastle upon Tyne		1947-03-23	Badminton to the Top	Derek Talbot
Derek Thompson		horseracing broadcaster	Stockton-on-Tees		1950-07-31
Derek W. Moore		British mathematician (1931-2008)	South Shields	University of Cambridge Jesus College	1931-04-19
Derek Wanless		British banker (1947-2012)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Harvard University King's College Royal Grammar School	1947-09-29
Derek Williams		British film maker	Newcastle upon Tyne		1929-08-20
Desmond C. Derbyshire		British linguist	Durham		1924
Dewey Bunnell		American folk-rock musician, founder of the group America	Harrogate	London Central Elementary High School	1952-01-19 1951-01-19		Dewey Bunnell
Don Airey		English keyboardist	Sunderland	University of Nottingham Royal Northern College of Music	1948-06-21		Don Airey
Don Nicholl		American screenwriter and producer	Sunderland		1925-08-09
Don Revie		English footballer and manager (1927-1989)	Middlesbrough		1927-07-10		Don Revie
Donald Pickering		British actor	Newcastle upon Tyne		1933-11-15
Donovan Pedelty		British journalist, film director and screenwriter (1903-1989)	Tynemouth		1903-07-26
Doug Robinson		British actor	Newcastle upon Tyne		1930-02-08
Duke		British singer	Newcastle upon Tyne
Dunstan Bruce		British singer	Billingham		1960-12-31
Dustin Gee		British comedian	York		1942-06-21 1942-06-24
E. Story Gofton		British actor (1846-1939)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1846-07-31
E. W. Middlemast		British educator in India	Wallsend	St John's College	1864-12-09
Eddie Jobson		British keyboardist and violinist	Billingham		1955-04-28 1955-05-28		Eddie Jobson
Eddie Robson		British writer, novelist and screenwriter (1978-)	York	Aylesbury Grammar School	1978-12-20		Eddie Robson
Eddy Huntington		British singer	Peterlee		1965-10-29
Edmund Arthur Harvey		Australian artist (1907-1994)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Académie Julian	1907-02-20
Edmund Ayrton		English organist	Ripon		1734
Edmund Hodgson Smart		British painter	Alnwick		1873		Edmund Hodgson Smart
Edmund Lee		British writer	Stokesley		1844-04-08		Edmund Lee
Eds Chesters		English drummer	Bishop Auckland		1970-10-24
Edward Backhouse		English Quaker philanthropist and writer	Darlington		1808-05-08		Cruise of the Nereid in 1869
Edward Blackett		British physician and novelist	Stokesley	Queen's University Belfast	1835
Edward Chapman		English actor (1901-1977)	Harrogate		1901-10-13
Edward Clark		English conductor	Newcastle upon Tyne	Royal Grammar School	1888-05-10
Edward Collingwood		Fellow of the Royal Society FRSE, mathemetician, and scientist	Lilburn Tower	University of Paris Trinity College University of Cambridge Royal Naval College, Osborne Britannia Royal Naval College Aberystwyth University	1900-01-17		Edward Collingwood (mathematician)
Edward Dalziel		English draughtsman and wood-engraver	Wooler		1817-12-05		Edward Dalziel
Edward Docx		British writer: novelist, dramatist, journalist.	Newcastle upon Tyne	Christ's College St Bede's College	1972
Edward Elihu Whitfield		English solicitor and schoolmaster	Newcastle upon Tyne		1848-11-05
Edward G. Brewis		British photographer	Gateshead		1864		Edward G. Brewis
Edward Girard Young Haslam		poet (1808-1878)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1808-12-26
Edward Graham Paley		English architect (1823-1895)	Easingwold		1823-09-03	Lancaster Cathedral St Peter's Church, Bolton St Peter's Church, Heysham St Thomas' Church, Stockton Heath	Edward Graham Paley
Edward Gregson		English composer; college principal	Sunderland	Royal Academy of Music	1945-07-23
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon		British Liberal statesman (1862-1933)	Fallodon	Balliol College Winchester College Temple Grove School	1862-04-25		Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
Edward James Glave		English travel writer	Ripon		1863-09-13		Edward James Glave
Edward Jones Williams		Welsh engineer in Patagonia	Durham		1857-07-19
Edward Joseph Dent		British musicologist	Yorkshire Little Ribston	Eton College King's College Bilton Grange	1876-07-06 1876-07-16
Edward Knox		comedian (1897-1974)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1897
Edward M. Richardson		English landscapist, born 1810	Newcastle upon Tyne		1810
Edward Mellanby		Medical scientist, discoverer of vitamin C	West Hartlepool	Emmanuel College Barnard Castle School	1884-04-08		Edward Mellanby
Edward Naylor		British musician	Scarborough	Emmanuel College Royal College of Music	1867-02-09
Edward Pritchard Gee		British zoologist	County Durham	Durham School Emmanuel College University of Cambridge	1904
Edward Robson		English botanist and antiquarian (1763–1813)	Darlington		1763
Edward Simpson		British geologist and forger (born 1815)	Sleights		1815
Edward Wilson		English television actor (1947-2008)	South Shields		1947-07-13
Edwin Bramwell		Scottish neurologist	North Shields	University of Edinburgh	1873
Edwin Clarke		British medical historian and neurologist	Felling	University of Chicago	1919-06-18		Edwin Sisterson Clarke
Edwin Cooper		British architect	Scarborough		1874	10 Trinity Square
Edwin Pears		British historian (1835–1919)	York	University of London	1835-03-18		Edwin Pears
Edwin Smyth		monumental sculptor	Sunderland		1885	Lucker War Memorial
Eille Norwood		British actor (1861-1948)	York	St John's College	1861-10-11		Eille Norwood
Eli Woods		English comedian and comic actor (1923-2014)	Stockton-on-Tees		1923-01-11
Elliot Francis		British actor	Stockton-on-Tees	Stagecoach Theatre Arts	1987-08-16
Elliot Johnson		Australian politician	Newcastle upon Tyne		1862-04-10		Elliot Johnson (politician)
Ephraim Anderson		British bacteriologist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Durham University	1911-10-28
Eric Burdon		English singer	Walker		1941-05-11		Eric Burdon
Eric Idle		British comedian, actor and writer	South Shields	University of Cambridge Pembroke College Royal Wolverhampton School	1943-03-29		Eric Idle
Eric Pringle		British writer (1935-2017)	Morpeth		1935-06
Ernest Arthur Bell		British biochemist and Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (1926-2006)	Gosforth	Durham University Trinity College Dublin	1926-06-20
Ernest Findlay Scott		theologican (1868-1954)	Durham		1868-03-18
Ernest Hodgson		toxicologist	Hetton-le-Hole		1932-07-26
Ernest Procter		English artist (1886-1935)	Tynemouth	Bootham School	1886-05-22		Ernest Procter
Ernest Race		English textile and furniture designer	Newcastle upon Tyne		1913
Ernest Thompson Seton		British/American author, artist and naturalist, and one of the founders of the scouting movement	South Shields	Académie Julian Jarvis Collegiate Institute	1860-08-14	Teachers' manual of bird-life; a guide to the study of our common birds Bird-life; a guide to the study of our common birds Bird-Lore, Volume I	Ernest Thompson Seton
Ernest Walter Brooks		English ancient historian and Syriac scholar (1863-1955)	Hambleton		1863-08-30
Ernest William Hornung		British writer	Middlesbrough	Uppingham School St Ninian's School, Moffat	1866-06-07		E. W. Hornung
Ernie Lotinga		British actor and comedian (1876-1951)	Sunderland		1876
Ethan Ash		British singer-songwriter	Newcastle upon Tyne
Ewan Howe		British rock drummer	North Shields		2004-03-27
Ewen Spencer		British photographer	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Brighton	1971		Ewen Spencer
F. M. Powicke		British historian (1879-1963)	Alnwick	Victoria University of Manchester Balliol College	1879-06-16
Fenwick Lawson		British artist	South Moor		1932-05-19		Fenwick Lawson
Fergus Craig		British actor and comedian	Sunderland		1980-04-19
Findlay Brown		British singer	York	Woldgate School and Sixth Form College	1980
Franc Roddam		English film director	Norton	London Film School	1946-04-29		Franc Roddam
Francis Arthur Bainbridge		British physiologist	Stockton-on-Tees	Trinity College	1874-07-29		Francis Arthur Bainbridge
Francis Blackburne		archdeacon of Cleveland and activist	Richmond	St Catharine's College, Cambridge	1705-06-09
Francis Carr		British writer and businessperson	Newcastle upon Tyne		1834-05-01
Francis Gibson		English writer	Whitby		1753-01-16
Francis Hastings Doyle		British academic and poet	Tadcaster	Eton College Christ Church	1810-08-21
Francis Henry Salvin		British Army officer and writer	Croxdale Hall		1817-04-04		Francis Henry Salvin
Francis Jackson		British organist and composer	Malton	Durham University	1917-10-02		Francis Jackson (composer)
Francis Matthews		British actor	York	Mount St Mary's Catholic High School, Leeds York	1927-09-02		Francis Matthews (actor)
Francis Nicholson		British artist (1753-1844)	Pickering		1753-11-14		Francis Nicholson
Francis Robert Raines		British vicar and historian (1805-78)	Whitby	Burnley Grammar School	1805
Francis Thompson		photographer and business owner	Aysgarth		1895
Francis William Doyle-Jones		English sculptor (1873-1938)	West Hartlepool		1873		Francis William Doyle-Jones
Frank Barrie		British actor	Scarborough	University of Hull Archbishop Holgate's School	1936-09-19		Frank Barrie
Frank Collins		SAS soldier and Church of England military chaplain	Newcastle upon Tyne	Oak Hill College Whitley Bay High School	1957
Frank Elgee		British archaeologist	North Ormesby		1880-11-08
Frank Hawley			Norton		1906-03-31
Frank Henry Algernon Mason		British artist (1875-1965)	Seaton Carew		1875-10-01		Frank Henry Algernon Mason
Frank Ifield		Australian-English easy listening and country music singer	Coundon	Moseley School and Sixth Form	1937-11-30
Frank Jarvis		British actor (1941-2010)	Stockton-on-Tees	Royal Academy of Dramatic Art	1941-05-13
Frank Mears		British urban theorist	Tynemouth	Edinburgh College of Art	1880
Frank Middlemass		actor (1919-2006)	Eaglescliffe		1919-05-28
Frank Oldfield		British geographer and paleoecologist	Pickering		1936-02-19
Frank Pasquill		English meteorologist	Trimdon	Durham University University College	1914-09-08
Frank Usher		Guitarist, guitar maker	Gateshead		1949-08-04
Frank Webster		British sociologist	Durham	Durham University	1950-09-27
Frankie Howerd		British actor, comedian (1917–1992)	York		1917-03-06		Frankie Howerd
Fred Appleyard		British artist (1874-1963)	Middlesbrough		1874-09-09
Fred Feast		British actor (1929-1999)	Scarborough		1929-10-05
Fred Jefferson		English wildlife photographer (born 1894)	York		1894
Fred Mayor		(1865-1916)	Ripon		1865-12-21
Fred Olsen		British-born American art collector and chemist (1891–1986)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Washington University in St. Louis	1891
Fred Taylor		British physicist (1944–2021)	Amble	University of Liverpool Jesus College	1944-09-24
Freddie 'Fingers' Lee		British pianist	Newcastle upon Tyne		1937-11-24
Frederic Leighton		English painter and sculptor (1830–1896)	Scarborough	Academy of Arts, Berlin Academy of Fine Arts, Florence Royal Academy of Arts Heatherley School of Fine Art	1830-12-03	Lieder ohne Worte The Villa Malta, Rome Flaming June	Frederic Leighton
Frederic Shields		British artist, illustrator and designer (1833-1911)	Hartlepool		1833-03-14		Frederic Shields
Frederick Apthorp Paley		English classical scholar (1815–1888)	Easingwold	Shrewsbury School St John's College	1815-01-14		Frederick Apthorp Paley
Frederick Dalberg		opera singer (1907-1988)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber	1907-01-07
Frederick Etchells		British artist and architect (1886-1973)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1886-09-14		Frederick Etchells
Frederick Hall		British artist (1860-1948)	Stillington	Lincoln School of Art	1860-02-06		Frederick Hall (English painter)
Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle		English noble and diplomat	Castle Howard	University of Cambridge	1748-05-28		Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle
Frederick John Jackson		British ornithologist and colonial administrator	Catterick	Shrewsbury School	1860-02-17		Frederick John Jackson
Frederick Miller (paediatrician)		British paediatrician	Newbiggin-by-the-Sea	Newcastle University	1911-11-05
Frederick Orpen Bower		British botanist (1855–1948)	Ripon	University of Strasbourg University of Strasbourg University of Würzburg	1855-11-04		Frederick Orpen Bower
Frederick Wilfrid Lancaster		British-American information scientist (1933-2013)	Durham		1933-09-04
Frederick William Sanderson		British educationist, headmaster at Oundle School from 1892 to 1922	Brancepeth	Christ's College Durham University Hatfield College	1857
Frederik Kiørboe		Danish architect (1878-1952)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1878-07-27		Frederik Kiørboe
G. H. E. Hudson		Canadian photographer	Scarborough		1885-03-13		G. H. E. Hudson
G. P. Taylor		British writer	Scarborough		1958-05-03
Gabriel Atkin		English painter	South Shields		1897
Gabriel Fielding		British writer (1916-1986)	Hexham	Trinity College Dublin St Edward's School	1916-03-25
Gabriel Lasker		American anthropologist	New Earswick	Harvard University	1912-04-24
Gareth Pugh		British fashion designer	Sunderland	Central Saint Martins City of Sunderland College	1981-08-31		Gareth Pugh
Garry Kilworth		British writer	York	King's College London	1941-07-05		Garry Kilworth
Gary Fildes		British astronomer	Sunderland		1965-09-27
Gavin Webster		comedian	Blaydon		1969-11-13
Gaz Beadle		English reality television personality	Northumberland		1987-03-22
Gem Archer		British musician	Durham		1966-12-07		Gem Archer
Geoff Heslop		British record producer	Corbridge		1947-06-03
Geoff Hoyle		British actor	Scarborough		1945-04-15
Geoff Smith		Classical/New Music composer	Newcastle upon Tyne		1966
Geoff Wonfor		film director	Newcastle upon Tyne		1948-12-08
Geoffrey Jefferson		British neurologist (1886-1961)	Stockton-on-Tees		1886-04-10
Geoffrey Laycock		organist, composer, and scholar of hymns	York	Royal College of Music	1927-01-27
Geordie Jackson		British amateur MMA fighter, boxer, personal trainer, dj, pornographic actor, adult model and escort	Newcastle upon Tyne		1988-03-08
Geordie Walker		British guitarist (1958–2023)	Chester-le-Street		1958-12-18		Geordie Walker
George Abbey		British gardener and horticulturalist (1835–1917)	Stillingfleet		1835-09-02
George Abbot		English religious writer and politician	York		1604
George Anderson		English cricketer born in 1826	Aiskew		1826-01-20
George Bellamy		English musician	Sunderland		1941-10-08
George Betts		Canadian political scientist	Skipton	University of London University of Alberta Victoria University of Wellington	1930-12-09	Betts on Wellington: a City And Its Politics
George Biddell Airy		English mathematician and astronomer (*1801 – †1892)	Alnwick	Colchester Royal Grammar School Trinity College	1801-07-27		George Biddell Airy
George Blackie Sticks		British painter (1843-1938)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1843		George Blackie Sticks
George Bolam		land agent and naturalist (1859-1934)	Barmoor		1859-11-08
George Brown		English missionary, anthropologist and natural history specimen collector (1835–1917)	Barnard Castle		1835-12-07		George Brown (missionary)
George Caley		English botanist and explorer in Australia (1770-1829)	Craven		1770-06-10
George Chambers		English painter (1803-1840)	Whitby		1803-10-23		George Chambers
George Clarke		British architect, television presenter, lecturer and writer	Sunderland	University College London Newcastle University Oxclose Community Academy City of Sunderland College	1974-05-27
George Clementson Greenwell senior		19th-century mining and civil engineer, and author	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Edinburgh	1821-07-25		George Clementson Greenwell senior
George Clinton		British musician	Newcastle upon Tyne		1850-12-16
George Craig		musician and model	Helmsley		1990-07-11
George Crooks Baskett		newspaper proprietor	Newcastle upon Tyne		1821
George Cuitt		English painter (1743-1818)	Moulton		1743		George Cuitt the elder
George Cuitt the Younger		English painter (1779-1854)	Richmond		1779
George Dalziel		English wood engraver, 1815-1902, eldest of the five Dalziel siblings and founder of the family firm	Wooler		1815-12-01		George Dalziel
George Daniels		British watchmaker	London Sunderland		1926-08-19
George Darvel Hill		New Zealand agronomist	Wallsend	University of Western Australia	1938-06-16		George Hill (agronomist)
George Edward Massee		British botanist (1850–1917)	Scampston		1845-12-20	British fungi with a chapter on lichens	George Edward Massee
George Fennell Robson		(1788 - 1833) British painter	Durham		1788		George Fennel Robson
George Frederick Stout		British philosopher and psychologist	South Shields	University of Cambridge	1860-01-06		George Frederick Stout
George French Angas		English explorer, naturalist and painter who emigrated to Australia and became a museum director (1822-1886)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1822-04-25	The Kafirs illustrated	George French Angas
George Goldie		English ecclesiastical architect	York	Ushaw College	1828-06-09	Saint Pancras Church	George Goldie
George Gray		English painter (1758-1819)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1758
George Henry Swan		New Zealand politician and photographer (1833-1913)	Sunderland		1833		George Henry Swan
George Hepplewhite		British furniture designer	Ryton		1727		George Hepplewhite
George Herbert Bailey		British chemist (1852-1924)	Teesdale		1852-05-17
George Irving		British actor	South Shields		1954-05-06
George Jobey		British archaeologist (1918-1991)	Percy Main	Durham University
George Lambert		English baritone and voice teacher in Canada	Long Preston		1900-12-17
George Leo Watson		mathematician (1909-1988)	Whitby	Trinity College University of London	1909-12-13
George Leybourne		British singer and comedian (1842-1884)	Gateshead		1842-03-17		George Leybourne
George Malcolm Brown		British geologist (1925-1997)	Redcar	St Cross College Durham University	1925-10-05
George Mallaby		British-Australian actor	Hartlepool		1939-11-04
George Mann		British writer	Darlington		1978
George McLeod Winsor		British writer	Gateshead		1856
George Nicholson		English botanist and horticulturist (1847–1908)	Ripon		1847-12-07		George Nicholson (horticulturalist)
George Peacock		English mathematician and Anglican cleric (1791–1858)	County Durham	Trinity College University of Cambridge	1791-04-09
George Redmayne Murray		British doctor	Newcastle upon Tyne	Eton College Trinity College	1865-06-20		George Redmayne Murray
George Relph		British stage and film actor (1888-1960)	Cullercoats		1888-01-27		George Relph
George Rochester		British physicist	Wallsend	Durham University	1908-02-04
George Russell		English horticulturist	Stillington		1857
George Sandys		English traveller, colonist, poet, translator	Bishopthorpe Palace	St Mary Hall	1578-03-02		George Sandys
George Slater		British geologist and glaciologist	Sharow	Royal College of Science	1874
George Stanley Turnbull		American journalism professor and author.	Salt Lake City Newcastle upon Tyne		1882-12-05 1881	History of Oregon Newspapers
George Stewardson Brady		British copepodologist (1832-1921)	Gateshead		1832-04-18		George Stewardson Brady
George Tate		English antiquarian, topographer and naturalist from Alnwick	Alnwick		1805-05-21 1805		George Tate (topographer)
George Vasey		19th century American botanist (1822-1893)	Snainton	Berkshire Medical College	1822-02-28		George Vasey (botanist)
George W. Temperley		British ornithologist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Gateshead Grammar School	1875-10-29
George Walker Milburn		master woodcarver, stonemason and sculptor	York	York School of Art	1844-06-17	Durham Light Infantry South African War Memorial Bamburgh War Memorial	George Walker Milburn
George Wall		botanist (1821-1894)	North Shields	Harrow School	1821
George Walton		English painter	Northumberland		1855
Gerald Laing		British artist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Saint Martin's School of Art Royal Military Academy Sandhurst	1936-02-11		Gerald Laing
Gerald Manners		British geographer (1932–2009)	County Durham		1932-08-07
Gerard Meynell		British typographer	Newcastle upon Tyne		1877
Gibb McLaughlin		actor	Sunderland		1884-07-19
Gibson Gowland		British film actor (1877-1951)	County Durham		1877-01-04		Gibson Gowland
Gil North		English writer	Skipton	Ermysted's Grammar School	1916
Gilbert Archey		New Zealand ethnologist, zoologist and museum director (1890–1974)	York	University of Canterbury	1890-08-04		Gilbert Archey
Gilbert Ronald Bainbridge		British physicist	Felling	Hatfield College	1925-11-28
Giles Deacon		British fashion designer	Darlington	Central Saint Martins Barnard Castle School	1969		Giles Deacon
Giles Munby		British naturalist (1813–1876)	York	University of Edinburgh	1813
Ginger		British rock musician	South Shields		1964-12-17
Ginger Johnson		British drag performer	Lanchester		1988-09-26
Glenn Brown		British artist	Hexham	Norwich University of the Arts	1966		Glenn Brown (artist)
Glenn Hugill		British television presenter	Durham	Barnard Castle School Christ Church	1970-02-08
Godfrey Linge		geographer	Durham	University of Canterbury	1932-09-05
Godfrey Norman Agmondisham Vesey			Harrogate		1923-06-22
Gordon Burn		English writer (1948-2009)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1948-01-16
Gordon Parker		British writer	Newcastle upon Tyne		1940-02-28
Gordon Peters		British actor	Durham		1926-11-29
Graeme Crallan		British musician (1958-2008)	Hartlepool		1958-06-05
Graham Bell		singer (1948-2008)	Blyth		1948-04-17
Graham Collier		English jazz bassist, bandleader and composer	Tynemouth	Berklee College of Music	1937-02-21
Graham Smith		British photographer	Middlesbrough	The Northern School of Art	1947
Graham Wallas		English socialist, social psychologist, educationalist	Sunderland	Corpus Christi College Shrewsbury School	1858-05-31		Graham Wallas
Grant Taylor		Australian actor (1917–1971)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1917-12-06
Greg Wise		English actor	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Edinburgh Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Heriot-Watt University St Peter's School	1966-05-15		Greg Wise
Guy Eaden Shewell		British entomologist (1913-1996)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1913-07-16
Guy Mowbray		English association football commentator (born 1972)	York	Huntington School	1972-02-16		Guy Mowbray
H. L. A. Hart		English legal philosopher (1907–1992)	Harrogate	Cheltenham College New College Bradford Grammar School	1907-07-18
H. Reeves-Smith		actor (1862-1938)	Scarborough		1862-05-17		H. Reeves-Smith
Hal Walters		English actor (1892-1940)	South Shields		1892-01-29
Hank Marvin		English musician; guitarist for the Shadows	Newcastle upon Tyne		1941-10-28		Hank Marvin
Hans Munthe-Kaas		Norwegian mathematician	Northallerton	Norwegian University of Science and Technology Norwegian Institute of Technology	1961-03-28
Harold A. Wilson		English physicist (1874-1964)	York	University of Cambridge	1874-12-01
Harold Heslop		British writer	Hunwick	King James I Academy	1898
Harold Holden		artist (1885-1977)	Settle		1885-12-07
Harold Jeffreys		British geophysicist and statistician	Fatfield	Durham University St John's College Newcastle University University of Cambridge	1891-04-22	Jeffreys number Jeffreys prior
Harold Manning		French radio producer and screenwriter	Durham		1968-05-26
Harry Beevers		English-born American physiologist (1924-2004)	County Durham	Durham University Wolsingham School	1924-01-10
Harry Faulkner Brown		architect (1920-2008)	South Shields		1920
Harry Hepple		English actor	Sunderland	Royal Academy of Dramatic Art	1983-09-26
Harry Lindgren		Australian mathematician and linguist	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Western Australia	1912
Harry Waller		English footballer (1864-1902)	Ashington		1864 1917-08-20
Harry Watson		British painter (1871–1936)	Scarborough	Royal College of Art Lambeth School of Art City and Guilds of London Art School	1871-06-13		Harry Watson
Henri Frederick Hemy		English organist and composer (1818-1888)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1818-11-12
Henrik Joesten Bleeker			South Shields		1869
Henry Alexander Cooper		British entertainer (1853-1899)	Norton-on-Derwent		1853-06-12		Henry Alexander Cooper
Henry Atkinson		British astronomer	Bavington		1781-06-28
Henry Augustus Rawes		British hymnwriter	Easington	Trinity College	1826-12-11
Henry Baker Tristram		English clergyman, Biblical scholar, traveller and ornithologist (1822-1906)	Eglingham	Lincoln College Durham School	1822-05-11		Henry Baker Tristram
Henry Bowman Brady		British paleontologist and pharmacist	Gateshead	Ackworth School	1835-02-23 1835
Henry Brown		engraver from Belgium	York		1816-04-03		Henry Brown (engraver)
Henry Cliffe		British graphic designer (1919-1983)	Scarborough		1919
Henry Conway		British socialite	Newcastle upon Tyne	Courtauld Institute of Art University of Cambridge Harrow School	1983-11-24
Henry Dresser Atkinson		Australian clergyman and naturalist (1841-1921)	Selby	Magdalene College Trinity College Dublin	1841-05-13		Henry Dresser Atkinson
Henry Eeles Dresser		English ornithologist and businessman (1838-1915)	Thirsk		1838-05-09		Henry Eeles Dresser
Henry Elderfield		British oceanographer and Geochemist who deciphered chemical signatures in the modern and ancient oceans	North Yorkshire	University of Liverpool University of Cambridge	1943-04-25
Henry Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton		British politician (1830-1911)	Sunderland	St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar School	1830-05-16		Henry Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton
Henry H. Slater		British ornithologist, entomologist and botanist (1851-1934)	Stanhope	St Catharine's College, Cambridge	1851
Henry Hare		British architect	Scarborough		1861		Henry Hare
Henry Hervey Baber		British philologist	Slingsby		1775
Henry Hetherington Emmerson		English painter	Chester-le-Street		1831-11-11		Henry Hetherington Emmerson
Henry Heylyn Hayter		Anglo-Australian statistician	Eden Vale	Charterhouse School	1821-10-28
Henry Hodgkin		Medical doctor and British Quaker missionary.	Darlington		1877-04-21		Henry Hodgkin
Henry Kendall		English architect	York		1776-03-23		Henry Edward Kendall
Henry Liddell		British classical scholar and administrator (1811–1898)	Bishop Auckland	Christ Church Charterhouse School	1811-02-06		Henry George Liddell
Henry Maudsley		British psychiatrist	Giggleswick	University College London Giggleswick School	1835-02-05		Henry Maudsley
Henry McIlwain			Newcastle upon Tyne		1912
Henry Moore		British painter (1831-1895)	York	Royal Academy of Arts	1831-03-07		Henry Moore (painter)
Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland		English aristocrat (1564-1632)	Tynemouth		1564-04-27		Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland
Henry Robinson Hall		British artist	York		1859
Henry Robson		British songwriter	Benwell		1775
Henry Scott Tuke		English painter and photographer (1858-1929)	York	Slade School of Fine Art	1858-06-12	All Hands to the Pumps August Blue	Henry Scott Tuke
Henry Sidgwick		English philosopher	Skipton	Trinity College Rugby School	1838-05-31		Henry Sidgwick
Henry Smeathman		British entomologist (1742-1786)	Scarborough		1742-02-09
Henry Taylor		English playwright and poet (1800-1886)	Bishop Middleham		1800-10-18		Sir Henry Taylor
Henry Travers		British-American actor	Berwick-upon-Tweed		1874-03-05		Henry Travers
Henry Tuke Mennell		British botanist and conchologist (1835 - 1923)	Scarborough		1835-06-19
Herbert Edward Read		English anarchist, poet, and critic of literature and art (1893-1968)	Muscoates	University of Leeds	1893-12-04 1893-11-04	Education Through Art	Herbert Read
Herbert Flowerdew		British novelist	York		1866-06-14
Herbert McCabe		English-born Irish Dominican priest, theologian and philosopher (1926-2001)	Middlesbrough	University of Manchester	1926-08-02
Herbert Raine		Canadian, 1875-1951; artist	Sunderland		1875
Herbert Tomlinson		Physicist and FRS; first Principal of Chelsea Polytechnic (1845-1931)	York	Christ Church St Peter's School	1846-11-18 1845-11
Hilton Valentine		British guitarist (1943–2021)	North Shields	John Spence Community High School	1943-05-21		Hilton Valentine
Howard Clewes		screenwriter	York		1912-10-27
Howard Davies		British theatre and television director (1945-2016)	Durham		1945-04-26
Howard Linskey		English novelist	County Durham		1967-05-16
Hubert Austin		architect	Redmarshall	Richmond School	1841-03-31	St George's Church, Heaviley
Huck Gee		American artist	Newcastle upon Tyne		1973-05-19
Hugh Edwin Strickland		British scientist (1811-1853)	Reighton	Oriel College	1811-03-02		Hugh Edwin Strickland
Hugh Miller		actor (1889-1976)	Berwick-upon-Tweed		1889-05-22
Hugh Trevor-Roper		British historian (1914-2003)	Glanton	Christ Church Charterhouse School Belhaven Hill School Merton College	1914-01-15	The Last Days of Hitler The Last Days of Hitler	Hugh Trevor-Roper
Hugh Watson		British malacologist (1885–1959)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1885-06-01
Hugo Speer		British actor	Harrogate	Arts Educational School Harrogate Grammar School	1969-03-17
Hunt Emerson		cartoonist	Newcastle upon Tyne		1952-01-28		Hunt Emerson
Hyam Maccoby		British scholar of Judeo-Christian religious tradition (1924-2004)	Sunderland	Balliol College	1924-03-20
I'Anson		musical artist	Gateshead
Iain Baxter		Canadian artist	Middlesbrough		1936-11-16
Iain Macleod		British politician, cabinet minister and contract bridge player (1913-1970)	Skipton	Gonville and Caius College Fettes College Ermysted's Grammar School	1913-11-11		Iain Macleod
Ian Almond		professor	Skipton	University of Edinburgh	1969-09-21
Ian Bousfield		English trombonist	York	Guildhall School of Music and Drama	1964-02-16		Ian Bousfield
Ian Cullen		British actor (1939-2019)	The Boldons	Royal Academy of Dramatic Art	1944-10-20 1939-10-20
Ian Graham Gass		British geologist (1926-1992)	Gateshead		1926-03-20
Ian H. Goodall		British archaeologist (1948-2006)	York	Cardiff University	1948
Ian Hogg		actor	Newcastle upon Tyne	Central School of Speech and Drama Durham School	1937-08-01
Ian Jarvie		British philosopher	South Shields	London School of Economics and Political Science	1937-07-08
Ian Kelsey		British actor	York	Guildford School of Acting	1966-12-17
Ian La Frenais		writer	Monkseaton	Dame Allan's School	1936-01-07 1937-01-07
Ian Littlewood			York	St John's College	1949-06-08
Ian Macmillan Ward		British physicist	Stockton-on-Tees	Magdalen College Royal Grammar School	1928-04-09
Ian Masser		British urban planner	York		1937-09-14
Ian McCallum		English guitarist, songwriter	Kenton		1965-09
Ian Melrose			Middlesbrough		19th century
Ian Moore		Japanese actor	Durham		1954-06-15
Ian Paul Cassidy		British actor	Harrogate		1964-11-04
Ian Peacock		British radio personality	Newcastle upon Tyne		1962-12-14
Ian Usher		English author and speaker	Durham		1963-07-25
Ian Vernon Hogg		British historian and author	Durham		1926-10-29
Iolo Aneurin Williams		British journalist, author, art historian and botanist	Middlesbrough	King's College Rugby School	1890-06-18		Iolo Aneurin Williams
Irshad Ashraf		British documentary film maker	York		1974
Isaac Coates		British painter (1808-1878)	Norton		1808-01-29		Isaac Coates
Isaac Thomas Shutt		architect	Harrogate		1818-02-21		Isaac Thomas Shutt
J Blakeson		English film director and screenwriter	Harrogate	University of Warwick	1977-03-02		J Blakeson
J. Douglas Porteous		geographer	York		1943-11-26
J. E. H. MacDonald		Canadian artist (1873-1932)	Durham		1873-05-12		J. E. H. MacDonald
J. E. Harold Terry		English novelist, playwright, actor and critic	York	Marlborough College Pembroke College	1885-09-21
J. Gunnis Davis		British actor (1873-1937)	Sunderland		1873-12-21
J. L. Carr		English novelist	Thirsk		1912-05-20		JL Carr
J. P. E. Harper-Scott			Easington	Durham University University of Oxford	1977-12-03
J. Thomas Looney		English school teacher	South Shields	University of Chester	1870-08-14
J. W. S. Cassels		British mathematician	Durham	University of Edinburgh George Heriot's School Trinity College University of Cambridge Neville's Cross Primary School	1922-07-11	JN-25
J. Wilfrid Jackson		British geologist and paleontologist (1880-1978)	Scarborough		1880-06-15
Jack Brymer		English clarinettist	South Shields		1915-01-27
Jack Charlton		English footballer and manager (1935-2020)	Ashington		1935-05-08		Jack Charlton
Jack Colman		British writer	North York Moors		1987
Jack Common		British novelist (1903-1968)	Heaton	Skerry's College	1903-08-15
Jack Douglas		British actor (1927–2008)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1927-04-26
Jack Heslop-Harrison		British botanist (1920-1998)	Middlesbrough	Queen's University Belfast Newcastle University Park View School	1920-02-10
Jack Higgins		British novelist	Newcastle upon Tyne	London School of Economics and Political Science Roundhay School	1929-07-27	The Eagle Has Landed
Jack Lynn		British architect	Ashington	Durham University	1926-10-30
Jack Massey Welsh		English YouTuber	Bishop Auckland		1996-06-24		JackSucksAtLife
Jack Robson		British songwriter	Annitsford		1885
Jack Scott		British meteorologist (1923-2008)	Ferryhill	Nottingham Trent University	1923-11-09
Jack Speirs		New Zealand composer and music professor	Harrogate		1939
Jack Taylor		British actor	Durham
Jackie Armstrong		British trombonist	County Durham		1920-04-13
Jake Attree		English painter	York	York School of Art Liverpool College of Art	1950
Jake Pratt		British actor	Scarborough	Hurtwood House	1996-09-25		Jake Pratt
James Anderson		miner, songwriter, poet, born 1825	Earsdon		1825
James Arthur		English singer and musician	Middlesbrough	British School of Bahrain	1988-03-02		James Arthur (singer)
James Backhouse		English botanist and missionary (1794–1869)	Darlington		1794-07-08		James Backhouse
James Backhouse		English botanist, archaeologist, and geologist (1825–1890)	York	Bootham School	1825
James Backhouse		English nurseryman and ornithologist (1861-1945)	York		1861-04-14
James Bate		English stage and screen actor	Tyne and Wear	Royal Academy of Dramatic Art	1945-04-10
James Baxter		British actor	Sunderland	Farringdon Community Academy	1990-08-03
James Bolam		British actor	Sunderland	Central School of Speech and Drama The Bemrose School	1935-06-16 1935
James Bragge		New Zealand photographer	South Shields		1833		James Bragge
James Cawthorn		British fantasy writer and illustrator	Gateshead		1929-12-21
James Chalmers		born 1974; British actor	York	Bradfield College London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art University of Edinburgh Eagle House School	1974-09
James Clark		English painter, born 1858	West Hartlepool		1858		James Clark (artist)
James Cook		British explorer, cartographer and naval officer (1728–1779)	Marton		1728-10-27		James Cook
James Dall		New Zealand botanist, botanical and zoological collector (1840-1912)	York		1840-11-25
James Dalton		clergyman and botanist (1764-1843)	York	University of Cambridge	1764-11-14
James Downey		English photographer	Newcastle upon Tyne		1868		James Downey
James Duncan Carey		British composer and conductor	Wallsend		1927
James Egan Moulton		Anglo-Australian headmaster and Methodist minister (1841–1909)	Northumberland	Kingswood School	1841-01-04
James Everett		British writer	Alnwick		1784
James Fairfax		British actor	Scarborough		1897-08-10
James Francis Baker		English poet (1891-?)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1891
James Gaddas		British politician and actor (born 1960)	Stockton-on-Tees		1960-06-17
James Garbutt		British actor (1925-2020)	Houghton-le-Spring		1925
James Griffiths		English-Canada Painter (1814-1896)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1814
James Harrison Rigg		British Methodist minister	Newcastle upon Tyne		1821-01-16
James Herriot		veterinary surgeon and writer (1916-1995)	Sunderland	University of Glasgow Hillhead High School	1916-10-03	All creatures great and small All Things Bright and Beautiful All things wise and wonderful‏ Lord god made them all‏	James Herriot
James Hugonin		British painter	Barnard Castle		1950-10-05
James Hutton Kidd		Horticulturist, community leader	Hexham		1877-09-12
James John Joicey		British entomologist	Newcastle upon Tyne		1871		James John Joicey
James Kenner		13 April 1885 - 30 June 1974	Morpeth		1885-04-13
James Kirkup		British writer	South Shields	Durham University	1918-04-23
James Martin		British chef and television presenter	Malton	Malton School	1972-06-30		James Martin (chef)
James Maxlow		Australian geologist and scientist	Middlesbrough		1949
James Mitchell		British writer of crime fiction and spy thrillers	South Shields	St Edmund Hall	1926-03-12
James Newman		British singer-songwriter	Settle		1985-10-19
James Peel		English landscape painter (1811-1906)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1811-07-01		James Peel
James Ramsay		English portrait painter (1789-1854)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1784 1786 1789		James Ramsay
James Redpath		American journalist and abolitionist	Berwick-upon-Tweed		1833-08-24		James Redpath
James Rewcastle		British songwriter	Newcastle upon Tyne		1802
James Robson		English poet, songwriter and Jacobite	Thropton		17th century
James Rutherford		1906–1963 professor at University of Auckland, historian	Dunston		1906
James Scott		British actor, born 1979	Newcastle upon Tyne	London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art	1979-01-14		James Scott (actor)
James Smetham		British artist (1821-1889)	Pateley Bridge		1821-09-09		James Smetham
James Stephenson		British-American actor (1889-1941)	Selby		1889-04-14		James Stephenson
James Stourton		English art historian	York	Ampleforth College Magdalene College	1956-07-03
James Tate		British headmaster	Richmond	Sidney Sussex College	1771-06-11
James Wilson Carmichael		English marine painter (1800-1868)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1799-06-09 1800-01-09		John Carmichael
James Wood		literary critic	Durham	Eton College Jesus College Chorister School	1965-11-01	The book against God (novel)
James Wycliffe Headlam		British historian	Durham	King's College Eton College	1863-12-24		James Headlam-Morley
Jamie Bell		English actor (born 1986)	Billingham	Stagecoach Theatre Arts Northfield School and Sports College	1986-03-14		Jamie Bell
Jamie Parker		British actor	Middlesbrough	Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Loretto School	1979-08-14
Janick Gers		English guitarist	Hartlepool	English Martyrs School and Sixth Form College	1957-01-27		Janick Gers
Jason Cook		British comedian	Hebburn		1973
Jason Isaacs		singer	Newcastle upon Tyne		1975-09-09
Jay Hutchinson Scott		(1924-1977) production designer, art, costume designer	Stakeford		1924
Jeffrey Dunn		British guitarist	Newcastle upon Tyne		1961-04-22		Jeffrey Dunn
Jeremiah Dixon		British astronomer	Cockfield		1733-07-27	Mason–Dixon Line	Jeremiah Dixon
Jeremiah Evarts		American missionary	Sunderland	Yale College	1781-02-03		Jeremiah Evarts
Jeremy Spencer		British musician	Hartlepool	Strand School	1948-07-04		Jeremy Spencer
Jeremy Swift		English actor	Stockton-on-Tees		1960-06-27 1960		Jeremy Swift
Jeremy Welsh			Gateshead	Nottingham Trent University Goldsmiths, University of London	1954
Jerry Desmonde		British actor (1908-1967)	Middlesbrough		1908-07-20
Jez Lowe		English singer-songwriter	Easington Colliery	English Martyrs School and Sixth Form College St Francis RC Grammar School	1955-07-14		Jez Lowe
Jim Carter		British actor	Harrogate	University of Sussex Ashville College	1948-08-19		Jim Carter
Jim Mageean		British singer	Gosforth		1948-01-27
Jim Parker		British composer (1934-2023)	Hartlepool	Guildhall School of Music and Drama	1934-12-18
Jim Threapleton		British film director	Wharfedale	Read School	1973
Jimi Mistry		British actor	Scarborough	Birmingham School of Acting Radyr Comprehensive School St James' Catholic High School	1973-01-01
Jimmy Campbell		British songwriter, lyricist	Newcastle upon Tyne		1903
Jimmy James		British comedian	Stockton-on-Tees		1892-05-20 1892
Jimmy Nail		English guitarist, singer-songwriter, actor, screenwriter	Newcastle upon Tyne	Jesmond Park Academy	1954-03-16
Jody Clark		British engraver	Lake District Windermere	University of Central Lancashire	1981-03-01 1981
Joe Bonner		English-born American actor	Newcastle upon Tyne		1881-11-03
Joe Caffrey		British actor	Wallsend	London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art	1967
Joe McElderry		English recording artist; singer, television personality	South Shields	Newcastle College	1991-06-16		Joe McElderry
Joe Robinson		English actor (1927-2017)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Royal Academy of Dramatic Art	1927-05-31		Joe Robinson (actor)
Joe Van Moyland		English actor and singer	York		1983
Joel Ross		British DJ	Scarborough		1977-05-31
Joey Batey		British actor and singer	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Cambridge L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq St. Cuthbert's High School	1989-01-01
John "Charlie" Whitney		British rock guitarist	Skipton		1944-06-24
John Alderson		British actor (1916-2006)	Horden		1916-04-10		John Alderson
John Alexander		British television director	Peterlee		1961
John Alexander Herbert		British Museum curator of manuscripts; (1862-1948)	Gateshead		1862		John Alexander Herbert
John Allanson		English engraver and graphic artist, ca. 1800-1859	Newcastle upon Tyne		1800
John Anthony		English music producer	Durham		1944-12-03
John Armatage		English jazz swing drummer and arranger	Newcastle upon Tyne		1929-08-05
John Arrowsmith		British geographer	Winston		1790		John Arrowsmith
John Arrowsmith		English theologian (1602-1659)	Gateshead	St John's College	1602-03-29
John Ash		British ornithologist (1925-2014)	Gosforth	Durham University Imperial College London Pocklington School	1925-05-26
John Atkinson II		British painter (1863-1924)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1863		John Atkinson
John Bailey		English agriculturist and engraver (1750-1819)	Blades Field Farmhouse And Attached Outbuilding To East		1750
John Bain		British game commentator (1984-2018)	Spennymoor	De Montfort University	1984-07-08		TotalBiscuit
John Barry		British composer and conductor (1933–2011)	York	St Peter's School	1933-11-03	Goldfinger Diamonds Are Forever Dances with Wolves	John Barry (composer)
John Basil Hume		British surgeon and lecturer	Whitby		1893-09-29
John Bates		British fashion designer	Ponteland		1938-12-13		John Bates
John Beckwith		English art exhibition curator (1918-1991)	Whitby		1918-12-02
John Bird		British mathematical instrument maker	County Durham		1709		John Bird (astronomer)
John Blackburn		British writer	Corbridge	Durham University	1923-06-26
John Blackwell		British architect	Richmond		1860		John Blackwell (architect)
John Bonett		British writer	Tynemouth		1906-08-10
John Brand		English clergyman, antiquarian, and club secretary (1744–1806)	Washington	Royal Grammar School	1744-08-19		John Brand (antiquarian)
John Brason		British screenwriter	South Shields		1924-06-29
John Brigham Ward		British born New Zealand entomologist and physicist (1928-2016)	Harrogate		1928-01-10
John Brookes		garden and landscape designer	Durham		1933-10-11
John Brown		English divine and author	Rothbury	St John's College	1715-11-05
John Burdon-Sanderson		English physiologist	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Edinburgh University of Paris	1828-12-21		John Scott Burdon-Sanderson
John Carr		English mathematician (1948-2016)	East Heddon	University of Oxford	1948-08-29
John Chambers		artist (1852-1928)	South Shields		1852-01-09
John Clarke		British writer and politician (1885-1959)	Jarrow		1885-02-04
John Close		English doggerel poet	Gunnerside		1816
John Convey		Canadian metallurgist	Craghead		1910-03-29
John Corner		British mathematician and physicist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Peterhouse Royal Grammar School	1916-01-24
John Crosthwaite		English race car designer and chassis engineer.	Thornaby-on-Tees		1925-10-09		John Crosthwaite
John Cuthbert Hedley		Bishop of Newport and Menevia; Bishop of Newport	Morpeth	Ampleforth College	1837-04-15 1837
John D. Omer-Cooper		British historian (1931-1998)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Rhodes University University of Cambridge	1931-10-23
John D. Thompson		British botanist (1959 - )	Berwick-upon-Tweed		1959
John Davies		British photographer	County Durham	University of Nottingham Nottingham Trent University	1949
John Downey		English photographer	South Shields		1823
John Earle		English cleric, author and translator (c. 1601 – 1665)	York	Christ Church	1601		John Earle (bishop)
John Edward Hull		arachnologist	Northumberland		1862
John Ella		British musician (1802-1888)	Thirsk		1802-12-19		John Ella
John Erickson		British military historian (1929-2002)	South Shields	St John's College	1929-04-17
John Everard		British diplomat	Newcastle upon Tyne	Emmanuel College Peking University King Edward VI School	1956-11-24 1956		John Everard (diplomat)
John Ewbank Leefe		botanist (1824-1889)	Richmond	Trinity College	1824 1813-05-13
John F. Runciman		musicologist and music critic	South Shields		1866
John Fairbairn		writer	Newcastle upon Tyne
John Fairfax-Blakeborough		England author and folklorist	Guisborough		1883-01-16		John Fairfax-Blakeborough
John Fendley		British television presenter	Scarborough	Raincliffe School Scarborough Sixth Form College	1967-09-06
John Fife-Cookson		British novelist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Royal Military College, Sandhurst	1844
John Flaxman Jr.		English artist (1755-1826)	York		1755-07-06		John Flaxman
John Fleming		British art historian, born 1919	Berwick-upon-Tweed	Trinity College	1919
John Forster		English biographer and critic	Newcastle upon Tyne	University College London Jesus College Royal Grammar School	1812-04-02	Life of Charles Dickens	John Forster (biographer)
John Foster		(1792-1875) pastoralist, merchant and member of parliament in Tasmania, Australia	Giggleswick		1792
John Fothergill		English physician and plant collector (1712–1780)	Bainbridge	University of Edinburgh Medical School	1712-03-08		John Fothergill (physician)
John Francis Walker		Geologist and Palaeontologist	York	Sidney Sussex College University of Bonn	1839-11-25
John Frank Davidson		British chemist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Trinity College	1926-02-07
John G. Capstaff		American photographer (1879-1960)	Gateshead		1879-02-24
John G. Hawthorne		English and American archaeologist and academic (1915–1977)	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Cambridge University of Chicago Harvard University	1915-06-06
John Gardner		English spy and thriller novelist (1926-2007)	Northumberland Seaton Delaval	St John's College	1926-11-20	Boysie Oakes
John Garth		British composer	Durham		1721
John George Brown		American-English painter (1831-1913)	Durham		1831-11-11	This Corner Don’t Pay Three For Five	John George Brown
John Gilbert Baker		British botanist (1834-1920)	Guisborough	Bootham School Ackworth School	1834-01-13	A new flora of Northumberland and Durham with sketches of its climate and physical geography	John Gilbert Baker
John Gilroy		British artist (1898-1985)	Whitley Bay	Royal College of Art Whitley Bay High School	1898-05-30		John Gilroy (artist)
John Gledson			Northumberland	Princeton University	1945
John Glover		British chemist (1817-1902)	Wallsend		1817-02
John Gordon		English writer of supernatural fiction	Jarrow	Wisbech Grammar School	1925-11-19	The Giant Under the Snow
John Graham Lough		English sculptor (1798–1876)	Consett		1798-01-08		John Graham Lough
John Grey		English land agent and agriculturist	Glendale		1785-08
John Gunn		Australian author	Northumberland		1925-02-26
John Haldon		British historian of Byzantine history	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Birmingham Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich	1948-10-23
John Hall		English poet, born 1627	Durham	Durham School St John's College	1627
John Hancock		English naturalist, ornithologist, taxidermist and landscape architect (1808-1890)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Royal Grammar School	1808		John Hancock (ornithologist)
John Harle		British saxophonist, composer, educator, and record producer	Newcastle upon Tyne	Royal College of Music Royal Grammar School	1956-09-20		John Harle
John Hebden		English composer	Harrogate		1705
John Henry Middleton		British archaeologist	York	Exeter College	1846-10-05		John Henry Middleton
John Hick		English philosopher of religion and theologian (1922-2012)	Scarborough	University of Edinburgh Oriel College Scarborough College	1922-01-20
John Hingeston		British composer and organ builder	York		1606
John Hodgson Campbell		Irish painter (1855-1927)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1855
John Hutchinson		English botanist, taxonomist and author (1884-1972)	Wark		1884-04-07
John Hutchinson		English theologian	Spennithorne		1674
John Hymers		British mathematician	Ormesby	St John's College	1803-07-20
John Irvin		British film director	Newcastle upon Tyne	London Film School	1940-05-07	A Month by the Lake
John Isaac Richardson		English painter, 1836-1913	Newcastle upon Tyne		1836-11-04
John Jackson		English painter (1778–1831)	Lastingham	Royal Academy of Arts	1778-05-31		John Jackson (painter)
John Jackson		English clergyman, born 1686	Sessay	Hall Cross Academy	1686-04-04
John Jackson		English engraver, born 1801	Ovingham		1801	Tales from Shakspere	John Jackson (engraver)
John Joule		British chemist	Harrogate	Princeton University Victoria University of Manchester University of Manchester	1937
John Kelly		British children's book illustrator and designer	Stockton-on-Tees		1964-09-08 1964
John Liddell		British band conductor	Newcastle upon Tyne		1829
John Lilburne		English political activist (1614-1657)	Sunderland	Royal Grammar School	1614		John Lilburne
John Lockwood Kipling		British artist (1837-1911)	Pickering	Woodhouse Grove School	1837-07-06		John Lockwood Kipling
John Lough		British university teacher (1913-2000)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1913-02-19
John Lynch		Emeritus Professor of Latin American History at the University of London (1927-2018)	The Boldons	University of Edinburgh University of London	1927-01-11
John Lyth			York		1821-03-13
John Marley		English mining engineer and geologist	Heighington		1823-11-11
John Martin		painter, engraver and illustrator (1789-1854)	Haydon Bridge		1789-07-19 1789-07-17	Belshazzar's Feast Manfred on the Jungfrau The end of the world	John Martin
John McGrady		English chemist and academic	Ryton	St Catherine's College Australian National University University of Oxford	1968-04-30
John McManners		British historian	Ferryhill	Durham University St Edmund Hall	1916-12-25
John Miles		English rock musician and singer	Jarrow		1949-04-23		John Miles (musician)
John Minto IV		American politician, poet and pioneer	Wylam		1822-10-10		John Minto (Oregon pioneer)
John Morrison		English-born, Australian novelist and short story writer	Sunderland		1904
John N. Gray		British political philosopher (born 1948)	South Shields	Exeter College	1948-04-17		John Gray
John Nelson Tarn		British historian of architecture and urban planning	Newcastle upon Tyne		1934-11-23
John Newman		British singer-songwriter	Settle	Settle College	1990-06-16		John Newman (singer)
John Nichol		Royal Air Force Navigator	North Shields	St. Cuthbert's High School	1963
John O'Neill		singer and whistler from England	Stanley		1926
John Oakesmith		British civil servant and writer	Middlesbrough	University of London	1866
John Oxley		Australian politician	Kirkham		1785-01-01 1784-07-06		John Oxley
John Palmer		British architect and historian (1785-1846)	Bishop Middleham		1785-01-28	Pleasington Priory Manchester Cathedral
John Peacock		English songwriter and poet from South Shields	South Shields		1799
John Percival		British agricultural botanist (1863-1949)	Carperby	St John's College	1863-04-03
John Reed		British actor, singer and dancer (1916-2010)	Close House		1916-02-13		John Reed (actor)
John Richard Walbran		British antiquarian	Ripon		1817
John Rickman		English statistician and civil servant (1771-1840)	Newburn	Lincoln College Royal Grammar School, Guilford	1771-08-22		John Rickman
John Scott		English engraver	Newcastle upon Tyne		1774-03-12		John Scott (engraver)
John Scott		British entomologist (1823-1888)	Morpeth		1823-09-21
John Scott Byerley			Brompton		1780-10-16
John Snow		English epidemiologist and physician	York	Westminster Hospital Medical School University of London	1813-03-15		John Snow (physician)
John St John Long		Irish quack and painter	Newcastle upon Tyne		1798		John St John Long
John Stansfield Gayner		British medical practicioner (1872-1954)	Sunderland		1872-05-03
John Starforth			Durham		1822
John Steel		English drummer	Gateshead	Gateshead Grammar School	1941-02-04		John Steel (drummer)
John Stewart Turner		Australian botanist, educationist, and conservationist (1908-1991)	Middlesbrough		1908-09-09
John Summerson		British architectural historian	Darlington	University College London Harrow School	1904-11-25		John Summerson
John T. Phillifent		British writer	Durham		1916-11-10
John Taylor		British architect	Warkworth		1833-11-15
John Taylor		19th century songwriter and poet	Dunston		1840
John Thackara		British writer	Newcastle upon Tyne		1951		John Thackara
John Thomas Dunn		19th and 20th-century analytical chemist and academic	Newcastle upon Tyne		1858
John Thomas Richardson		British-Australian painter and engraver (1835-1898)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1835
John Thomas Walbran		surveyor	Ripon		1848
John Thornhill		British naturalist, from Durham	County Durham		1760		John Thornhill
John Towler		British-American physician and writer on photography	Rathmell		1811-06-20
John Turnbull		English pop and rock guitarist and singer	Newcastle upon Tyne		1950-08-27
John Turnbull Thomson		British surveyor (1821-1884)	Glororum	University of Aberdeen	1821-08-10		John Turnbull Thomson
John Tweddell		English classical and archaeological scholar	Hexham		1769-06-01
John Vardy		British architect	Durham		1718
John Vaughan Thompson		British Military Surgeon, Marine Biologist, Zoologist, Botanist, and published Naturalist (1779-1847)	Berwick-upon-Tweed		1779-11-19		John Vaughan Thompson
John Vinycomb		heraldry expert, illustrator	Newcastle upon Tyne		1833		John Vinycomb
John Walker		British inventor	Stockton-on-Tees		1781-05-29		John Walker (inventor)
John Wallis		English cleric and antiquarian	Northumberland	The Queen's College	1714
John Ward Knowles		British York-based stained-glass manufacturer	York		1838
John Wesley Jarvis		American artist (1781-1839)	South Shields		170s		John Wesley Jarvis
John White		English-born scholar of Maori language and culture (1826-1891)	Cockfield		1826-01-03		John White (1826–1891)
John William Hall		British grocer and draper (1842-1929)	Hexham		1842
John William Heslop-Harrison		British botanist (1881-1967)	Birtley	Durham University	1881
John William Nicholson		English mathematician (1881-1955)	Darlington		1881-11-01		John William Nicholson (mathematician)
John Williamson		English portrait painter; (1751-1818)	Ripon		1751
John Wilson Ewbank		British artist (1799-1847)	Darlington		1799-05-04
John Windass			York		1843
John Woodhouse		English portrait and silhouette artist	Alnwick		1800
John Woodvine		British actor	South Shields	Royal Academy of Dramatic Art	1929-07-21
John Wycliffe		English theologian and early dissident in the Roman Catholic Church	Hipswell	Merton College The Queen's College	130s		John Wycliffe
John Wykeham Archer		British artist (1808-1864)	Newcastle-upon-Tyne		1806-08-02 1808-08-02		John Wykeham Archer
John of Hexham		English monk and historian	Hexham		1160
John-Luke Roberts		British comedian	Newcastle upon Tyne	Churchill College	1985
Johnny Leeze		British actor	York		1941-12-31
Jon Champion		British sports commentator	Harrogate	University of Leeds Leeds Trinity University	1965-05-23
Jon Iles		British actor	Ripon	Plymstock School	1954-05-17
Jon Paul Phillips		British actor	Darlington		1980-03-27		Jon Paul Phillips
Jonah Jones		Welsh artist	Tyne and Wear		1919-02-17		Jonah Jones
Jonathan Cullen		British actor (1960-)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Guildhall School of Music and Drama New College Royal Grammar School	1960
Jonathan Higgs		Artist, Falsetto Prophet	Newcastle upon Tyne		1985-02-23
Jonathan Myles-Lea		painter	Lake District	Queen Mary University of London Malvern College Hutton Grammar School	1969 1969-01
Jonathan Putra		British-American actor & television host	Middlesbrough		1982-09-12		Jonathan Putra
Jonathan Riley-Smith		British historian	Harrogate	Eton College Trinity College	1938-06-27 1938
Jonathan Wilson		British sports journalist and author	Sunderland	University of Oxford	1976-07-09
Jonathan Wright		British historian	Hartlepool		1969-10-14
Jonathan Wynyard Haynes		British army officer in the Gold Coast (Ghana; 1839–1914)	Osmotherley		1839-07-04
Jordan Riley		English producer and songwriter	North Tyneside	Guildhall School of Music and Drama	1994-05-30
Joseph Angus		English minister, teacher and biblical scholar	Bolam	King's College London Royal Grammar School	1816-01-16		Joseph Angus
Joseph Barnard Davis		British physician, craniologist.	York	University of St Andrews	1801-06-13		Joseph Barnard Davis
Joseph Barnby		British musician (1838-1896)	York	Royal Academy of Music	1838-08-12		Joseph Barnby
Joseph Blenkinsopp		American scholar	Durham	University of Oxford University of London Pontifical Biblical Institute	1927-04-03
Joseph Chatt		British chemist	Horden	University of Cambridge	1914-11-06
Joseph Crawhall		British artist (1861-1913)	Morpeth	King's College London	1861-08-20		Joseph Crawhall
Joseph Crawhall II		British songwriter	Newcastle upon Tyne		1821-05-18		Joseph Crawhall (1821-1896)
Joseph Desmond O'Connor		British linguist	Harrogate	University College London	1919-12-10
Joseph Foster		British genealogist (1844-1905)	Sunniside		1844-03-09	Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714 Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886 Men-at-the-Bar	Joseph Foster
Joseph Gillis		Israeli mathematician	Sunderland	Trinity College University of Cambridge	1911-08-03
Joseph Gray		English painter (1890-1963)	South Shields		1890-06-06		Joseph Gray
Joseph Halfpenny		British artist	Bishopthorpe		1748-10-09		Joseph Halfpenny
Joseph Hansom		English architect and inventor of the hansom cab	Micklegate		1803-10-26	Cathedral of St John the Evangelist Arundel Cathedral Oxford Oratory St Beuno’s Ignatian Spirituality Centre	Joseph Hansom
Joseph Hedley		English quilter and murder victim	Northumberland		170s		Joe the Quilter
Joseph John Jefferson		English Congregationalist minister and pacifist	Whitby	Rotherham Independant Academy	1795-12-29
Joseph Parker		English Congregational clergyman (1830-1902)	Hexham		1830-04-09		Joseph Parker (theologian)
Joseph Ratcliffe Skelton		(1865-1927) British, Painter, watercolourist. Figures, illustrations, genre scenes	Newcastle upon Tyne		1865		J. R. Skelton
Joseph Reed		English playwright and poet (1723-1787)	Stockton-on-Tees		1723-03
Joseph Ritson		British writer (1752-1803)	Stockton-on-Tees		1752-10-02	Ancient Songs, from the Time of King Henry the Third, to the Revolution	Joseph Ritson
Joseph Robinson Clarke			Stockton-on-Tees		1840
Joseph Shaw Bolton		British physician	Whitby	UCL Medical School	1867
Joseph Skipsey		English miner, author and poet	Tynemouth		1832-03-17
Joseph Stanislaus Hansom		British architect	York		1845	Oxford Oratory
Joseph Swan		British physicist and inventor (1828-1914)	Sunderland		1828-10-31		Joseph Wilson Swan
Joshua Alder		British zoologist (1792-1867)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1792		Joshua Alder
Joshua Harold Burn		British pharmacologist (1892-1981)	Barnard Castle	Emmanuel College Barnard Castle School	1892-03-06
Julian Higgins		statistician	Middlesbrough	University of Reading
Julian Kay		British actor	York	Guildford School of Acting	1974-08
Justin McDonald		English actor	Gateshead	Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts	1983-03-21
Karl J. Friston		British neuroscientist	York	University of Cambridge Gonville and Caius College	1959-07-12
Keith Boddy		English medical physicist	Stockton-on-Tees		1937-11-01
Keith Brown		visual artist (1947- )	Hexham		1947
Keith Browning		British meteorologist	Sunderland	Imperial College London The Commonweal School	1938-07-31
Keith Drinkel		English actor	York		1944-11-14
Keith Johnson		British computer programmer and writer	Darlington	University of Manchester	1938-10-14
Keith Kelly		musical artist	Selby		1935
Keith Lynch			Newcastle upon Tyne		1981-06-18
Keith Strachan		English composer and theatre director	Consett	University of London	1944-01-21
Keith Topping		British writer	Walker		1963-10-26
Keith Ward		British philosopher, theologian, priest and scholar	Hexham	University of Wales Linacre College	1938-08-22		Keith Ward
Keith Watson		British comics artist (1935-1994)	North Yorkshire		1935-02-01
Ken Currie		British artist; (born 1960)	North Shields	Glasgow School of Art	1960	Three Oncologists (Professor RJ Steele, Professor Sir Alfred Cuschieri and Professor Sir David P Lane of the Department of Surgery and Molecular Oncology, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee. art of painting 'Unfamiliar Reflection': Self-portrait by Ken Currie (b 1960)	Ken Currie
Ken Dowden		English classical scholar	Newcastle upon Tyne		1950
Ken Lockie		English musician and record producer	Newcastle upon Tyne		20th century
Kenneth Bowman		Canadian amateur lepidopterist	Durham	Dulwich College	1875-03-06
Kenneth C. Holmes		English artist	Skipton		1902
Kenneth Harker		British science fiction author (1927-2003)	Darlington		1927-04-02
Kenneth Rowntree		British artist (1915-1997)	Scarborough		1915-03-14
Kenneth Sillito		English violinist and conductor	Newcastle upon Tyne	Royal Academy of Music	1939-03-05
Kenny Craddock		British composer	Wrekenton		1950-04-18
Kevin Connelly		British comedian	Middlesbrough	St Mary's College, Middlesbrough	20th century
Kevin Dowd		economist	Middlesbrough	University of Sheffield	1958
Kevin Duhaney		Canadian actor, rapper and voice artist	Whitby		1984-06-02
Kevin Ridley		British musician and sound engineer	Northumberland		1957-10-24		Kevin Ridley
Kevin Whately		English actor	Hexham	Central School of Speech and Drama Barnard Castle School Northumbria University	1951-02-06		Kevin Whately
Kieran Bew		British actor	Hartlepool	London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art English Martyrs School and Sixth Form College	1980-08-18
Kirpal Nandra		British physicist	North Shields	University of Leicester	1966
Kjartan Poskitt		British writer	York	Collingwood College	1956-05-15
Kris Deedigan		British actor	Alnwick		1979
Kyle Christie		actor	South Shields		1992-06-21
Lancelot Brown		British landscape architect	Kirkharle		1716-08		Capability Brown
Lancelot de Carle		Bishop of Riez	Scarborough		1508	Épistre Contenant le Procès Criminel Faict à l'Encontre de la Royne Anne Boullant d'Angleterre
Laurence O'Keefe		English bass player	Newcastle upon Tyne		1965-01-02
Lawrence Freedman		military historian and foreign policy adviser	Tynemouth	University of York Nuffield College Victoria University of Manchester Whitley Bay High School	1948-12-07		Lawrence Freedman
Lee Jackson		British bass guitarist	Newcastle upon Tyne		1943-01-08
Lee Paul		British writer	Newcastle upon Tyne	Fitzwilliam College Benfield School	1966-09-20
Lee Ridley		stand-up comedian	Consett	University of Central Lancashire	1980-12-31		Lee Ridley (comedian)
Len Gibson		British World War II soldier and Japanese prisoner of war	Sunderland		1920-01-03
Les Welch		Australian musician	Newcastle upon Tyne		1925-08-06
Leslie Crombie		English chemist (1923-1999)	York	King's College London	1923-06-10
Leslie Curry		British-Canadian geographer	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Auckland Durham University Johns Hopkins University	1922-11-23
Leslie Faber		British actor (1879–1929)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1879-08-30
Leslie Marr		British painter and former racing driver	Durham		1922-08-14		Leslie Marr
Leslie Peter Wenham		British historian and archaeologist	Richmond	Durham University	1911
Leslie Randall		British actor (1924–2020)	South Shields		1924-10-19
Leslie Thornton		British painter and sculptor (1925-2016)	Skipton	Leeds Arts University	1925-05-26
Leslie W. Hepple		archaeologist	Tynemouth		1947-07-24
Lesslie Newbigin		Christian missionary	Newcastle upon Tyne	Queens' College Leighton Park School Westminster College	1909-12-08		Lesslie Newbigin
Lewis Fry Richardson		UK mathematician & polymath (1881–1953)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Newcastle University King's College Bootham School	1881-10-11	Richardson extrapolation modified Richardson iteration Richardson number	Lewis Fry Richardson (meteorologist)
Lewis Henry Meakin		American Impressionist artist (1850-1917)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1850		Lewis Henry Meakin
Lewis Vaslet		British painter (1742-1808)	York		1742		Lewis Vaslet
Lindsay Kemp		British mime (1938-2018)	South Shields		1938-05-03		Lindsay Kemp
Lionel Masters		archaeologist (1942-2019)	South Shields		1942-08
Lionel Roy McColvin		librarian	Heaton		1896-11-30
Lionel Tertis		British musician	West Hartlepool	Royal Academy of Music University of Music and Theatre Leipzig	1876-12-29		Lionel Tertis
Lucian Charles Collier		British actor	Harrogate		1990-11-21
Luke Clennell		English wood engraver and painter (1781-1840)	Ulgham		1781-04-08		Luke Clennell
Lyddell Sawyer		British photographer	North Shields		1856		Lyddell Sawyer
Lyndon Brook		actor (1926-2004)	York	University of Cambridge Stowe School	1926-04-10
Lyndon Emsley		British chemist	Durham	Imperial College London University of Lausanne	1964-11-29		Lyndon Emsley
Lysander Thompson		English actor (1817-1854)	Knaresborough		1817-07-15
MLT		computer hacker	Newcastle upon Tyne	Northumbria University	1994
Mak Wilson		English puppeteer, writer	Consett		1957-09-03
Malcolm Boyd			Newcastle upon Tyne	Durham University Dame Allan's School	1932-05-24
Malcolm Dixon		English actor	Crook		20th century
Malcolm Neesam		English historian and writer	Harrogate	University of Leeds	1946-06-28		Malcolm Neesam
Malcolm Ridley		British actor	Stanley		1966		Malcolm Ridley
Malcolm Riley		British composer	Northallerton	Christ's College	1960
Malcolm Rogers		British art curator, Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, from 1994 through 2015	Scarborough	Christ Church Magdalen College Oakham School	1949
Malcolm Terris		British actor (1941-2020)	Sunderland		1941-01-11
Marc Bolton		British actor	Durham	Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art	1968-02-16
Marc Smith		English-French historian and palaeographer	Newcastle upon Tyne	École des Chartes École pratique des hautes études French School of Rome	1963-07-25
Marcus Bentley		British actor	Gateshead	St Mary's College, Middlesbrough East 15 Acting School	1967-10-04
Mark Addy		English actor	York	Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Joseph Rowntree School	1964-01-14	The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas	Mark Addy
Mark Adlard		novelist	Durham	Trinity College	1932-06-19
Mark Akenside		English poet and physician	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Edinburgh Royal Grammar School	1721-11-09		Mark Akenside
Mark Benton		English actor	Guisborough	Royal Academy of Dramatic Art	1965-11-16
Mark Brydon		British musician	Sunderland		1960-12-22
Mark Burnell		screenwriter	Northumberland		1964	The Rhythm Section
Mark Elder		British conductor	Hexham	Corpus Christi College Bryanston School	1947-06-02
Mark Fairnington		British painter and photographer	Gateshead		1957
Mark Fiennes		English photographer and illustrator	Northumberland	Eton College	1933-11-11
Mark Gatiss		British actor, screenwriter and novelist	Sedgefield	University of Leeds Heighington CE Primary School Woodham Academy Bretton Hall College	1966-10-17		Mark Gatiss
Mark Rae		British DJ	Ashington
Mark Simpson		British writer	York	St Peter's School	1965
Mark Spencer Turner		writer and singer	York	University of Aberdeen Glasgow Caledonian University	1984-11-28
Mark Stobbart		British actor	Stockton-on-Tees
Mark Thompson		British artist, born 1812	Wearside		1812		Mark Thompson (painter)
Mark Umbers		British actor	Harrogate	University of Oxford	1973-06-17
Mark Wadlow		British screenwriter	Middlesbrough		1962	Dear Rosie
Mark Wood		English cricketer (born 1990)	Ashington		1990-01-11		Mark Wood (cricketer)
Mark Wood		British jazz guitarist	Newcastle upon Tyne		1954-08-29
Marmaduke Alexander Lawson		botanist (1840-1896)	Durham	Trinity College	1840
Martin Armstrong		British writer	Newcastle upon Tyne	Pembroke College Charterhouse School	1882-10-02
Martin Brammer		English singer, songwriter, composer and record producer	Seaham		1957-05-13
Martin Charlton		geographic information scientist	Newcastle upon Tyne		1957
Martin E. Mosely		English entomologist (1877-1948)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1877-08-06
Martin Rees		British cosmologist and astrophysicist	York	Trinity College Shrewsbury School University of Cambridge	1942-06-23		Martin Rees
Martyn Amos		British computer scientist	Hexham	Coventry University	1971
Martyn Moore		British journalist	Norton-on-Derwent		1961
Martyn Waites			Newcastle upon Tyne		1963
Mason Jackson		British engraver (1819-1903)	Ovingham		1819-05-25		Mason Jackson
Mason Kayne		British actor	Darlington		1985-06-11
Matt Baker		British TV presenter	Easington	Easington Academy Belmont Community School Durham Sixth Form Centre Queen Margaret University	1977-12-23		Matt Baker (presenter)
Matt Ridley		British author and journalist	Northumberland	Magdalen College Eton College	1958-02-07		Matt Ridley
Matt Stokoe		British actor	Durham		1989-01-13
Matthew Camidge		English organist (1764-1844)	York		1764-05-25
Matthew Golombisky		American musician	Durham	University of North Carolina at Asheville
Matthew Noble		British artist (1817-1876)	Hackness		1817-03-23	Statue of the Earl of Derby	Matthew Noble
Matthew Poole		English Nonconformist theologian and biblical commentator (1624–1679)	York	Emmanuel College	1624
Matthew White Ridley		British painter (1837-1888)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1837		Matthew White Ridley (1837-1888)
Maurice Elvey		British film director (1887-1967)	Stockton-on-Tees		1887-11-11
Maurice J. Summerfield		English jazz musician	Newcastle upon Tyne		1940-02-04		Maurice J. Summerfield
Maurice Platnauer		British classicist (1887-1974)	York	Shrewsbury School New College	1887-06-18
Maurice Roëves		English actor	Sunderland		1937-03-19
Max Ferguson		singer, songwriter who is also part of British boy band Bring it North	Darlington		2007-08-31
Max Pugh		British filmmaker	Durham		1977-08-29
Maxwell Staniforth		British soldier, railwayman, clergyman and scholar (1893–1985)	Hinderwell	Charterhouse School Christ Church	1893-06-23
Michael Algar		British guitarist, singer and songwriter	England South Shields		1962-09-21		Michael Algar
Michael Armstrong		British poet	Newcastle upon Tyne		1923-12-12
Michael Atkinson		British illustrator and economist	Newcastle upon Tyne		1947
Michael Blackburn		British writer	Newton Aycliffe	Richmond School	1954
Michael Boddy		British-Australian writer and actor (1934-2014)	Baldersby		1934-03-08	The Legend of King O'Malley
Michael Brough			York
Michael Brown		English footballer, born 1977	Hartlepool	High Tunstall College of Science	1977-01-25 1977-03-21		Michael Brown (footballer, born 1977)
Michael Bryan		British art historian (1757–1821)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1757-04-09	Dictionary of painters and engravers	Michael Bryan
Michael Chaplin		British television producer	County Durham	Magdalene College	1951-07
Michael Crawley		British ecologist, Emeritus Professor of Plant Ecology at Imperial College London	Rothbury	University of Edinburgh Imperial College London	1949-03-09
Michael Dean		artist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Goldsmiths, University of London	1977
Michael Dickinson		British artist	Durham	Fyling Hall School	1950		Michael Dickinson
Michael Gough		British archaeologist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Dragon School Peterhouse	1916-08-02	The Origins of Christian Art
Michael Hall		British conductor and musicologist	Tyne and Wear		1932-03-26
Michael J. C. Gordon		computer scientist	Ripon	University of Edinburgh Gonville and Caius College Dartington Hall	1948-02-28
Michael J. Ferguson		biochemist	County Durham	University of London University of Manchester	1957
Michael Jolliffe			Darlington		1945
Michael Lee		British rock drummer (1969-2008)	Darlington		1969-11-19
Michael Marshall		British skeptical activist and journalist	Bishop Auckland		1983-08-13		Michael Marshall
Michael O'Hare		British chef	Eston		190s
Michael Pink		British choreographer, director, dancer, and theatre producer	York		1956-11-18
Michael Rice		British singer	Hartlepool		1997-10-25		Michael Rice
Michael Rodd		British television presenter	North Shields	Glenalmond College	1943-11-29
Michael Shanks		British archaeologist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Peterhouse Whitley Bay High School	1959-06-26		Michael Shanks (archaeologist)
Michael Short		British Engineer and Professor	Stockton-on-Tees	University of Sunderland Teesside University	1975
Michael Skinner		English rugby union footballer	Newcastle upon Tyne		1958-11-26
Michael Sundin		Television presenter, actor, dancer	Gateshead	Heathfield Senior High School	1961-03-01
Michael Thomas		British conductor and composer	Middlesbrough		1960
Michael Young		British industrial designer and creative director	Sunderland	Kingston University	1966-08-23	Moke (revival)	Michael Young (industrial designer)
Mick Gallagher		British keyboardist	Newcastle upon Tyne		1945-10-29		Mick Gallagher
Mick Grabham		British musician	Sunderland		1948-01-22
Mick Herron		British novelist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Balliol College St. Cuthbert's High School	1963-07-11
Mick Hutson			Newcastle upon Tyne		1965
Micky Moody		British musician	Middlesbrough		1950-08-30		Micky Moody
Mik Kaminski		English violinist	Harrogate		1951-09-02
Mike Carr		British musician (1937-2017)	South Shields		1937-12-07
Mike Elliott		English stand-up comedian (1946-2014)	Sunderland		1946-07-17
Mike Neville		British television presenter	Willington Quay		1936-10-17
Mike Pratt		English sculptor	Seaham	Northumbria University De Ateliers	1987
Mike Thorne		British record producer	Sunderland		1948-01-25
Mikey North		British actor	Cayton	George Pindar School Scarborough Sixth Form College	1986-09-27
Milner Place		British author	Thirsk		1930-01-25
Milo Twomey		British actor, voice actor and radio host	York		1971-05-01
Mitch Laddie		musician	Shotley Bridge		1990-09-24
Myles Birket Foster		English illustrator, watercolour artist and engraver (1825-1899)	North Shields		1825-02-04		Myles Birket Foster
Myles Power		British science YouTuber	Middlesbrough	University of Manchester University of Toronto Macmillan Academy	1985		Myles Power
N. T. Wright		Anglican bishop	Morpeth	Exeter College Sedbergh School Merton College	1948-12-01 1948-11-01
Nat Jackley		British comedian	Sunderland		1909-07-16
Nathaniel Buck		English topographical draughtsman (fl. 1724–1759)	Richmond		1700		Nathaniel Buck
Nathaniel Davison		English diplomat, known for his writings on Egyptian archaeology	Longhoughton		1736
Neil Bartlett		English-American chemist (1932-2008)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Durham University Newcastle University	1932-09-15	noble gas compound
Neil Fingleton		British basketball player (1980-2017)	Durham	Holy Name Central Catholic High School University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill College of the Holy Cross	1980-12-18
Neil Marshall		British film director and writer	Newcastle upon Tyne	Northumbria University	1970-05-25		Neil Marshall
Neil Miller		New Zealand sculptor	County Durham	University of Auckland	1963		Neil Miller
Neil Tennant		English musician	North Shields	University of North London St. Cuthbert's High School	1954-07-10		Neil Tennant
Neil Young		British writer, curator and filmmaker	Easington		1971
Neville		British professional wrestler	Newcastle upon Tyne	Emmanuel College, Gateshead	1986-08-22		Ben Satterly
Neville Dickie		British musician	Durham		1937-01-01
Nic Armstrong		British singer	Newcastle upon Tyne		1980
Nicholas Bingham		British mathematician	York	Churchill College Trinity College Trinity College, Oxford University of Cambridge	1945-03-19
Nicholas Carlisle		Antiquary and librarian	York		1771
Nicholas Carr		British classical scholar	Newcastle upon Tyne	Christ's College Pembroke College	1524
Nicholas Darnell		English cricketer, barrister, and Catholic priest	Stockton-on-Tees	Exeter College	1817
Nicholas Hitchon		British nuclear physicist and participant in the Up documentary television series	Skipton	Merton College Ermysted's Grammar School	1957-10-22
Nicholas Patrick		American astronaut	Saltburn-by-the-Sea	Harrow School Trinity College Massachusetts Institute of Technology	1964-11-19		Nicholas Patrick
Nicholas Ridley		Bishop of London; Anglican Saint	Tynedale District	University of Paris Pembroke College Royal Grammar School	1500		Nicholas Ridley
Nicholas Temperley		English merchant, magistrate and mycologist (1844-1923)	Hexham		1844		Nicholas Temperley
Nick Bilton		British-American journalist	Darlington	Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School	20th century		Nick Bilton
Nick Brownlee		British writer	Blyth	University of Leeds Royal Grammar School	1967-12-16
Nick Garrie		British singer-songwriter	Ripon		1949-06-22
Nick Inman			Harrogate		1956
Niek Versteeg		British actor	Newcastle upon Tyne		1993-11-30
Niel Bushnell		English novelist	Hartlepool		1970-08-13		Niel Bushnell
Nigel Cumberland		British author and leadership coach	York	Queens' College Archbishop Holgate's School Scarborough College Barlby High School Strathclyde Business School	1967-07-26		Nigel Cumberland
Nigel Dick		British musician and film director	Catterick	University of Bath Gresham's School	1953-03-21
Nigel Fortune		English musicologist, political activist	Northumberland	University of Cambridge University of Birmingham Handsworth Grammar School	1924-12-05
Nigel Glover		British particle physicist	Sunderland	Durham University Downing College	1961-06-20
Nigel Hamilton		British writer, academic and broadcaster	Alnmouth	Trinity College Westminster School Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich	1944-02-16
Nigel Horne			Bishop Auckland		1965-07
Noel Leaver		painter (1889-1951)	Austwick	Royal College of Art	1889-03-23
Norman Creek		English footballer and manager (1898-1980)	Darlington	University of Cambridge Trinity College	1898-01-12		Norman Creek
Norman Dennis		British sociologist (1929-2010)	Sunderland	London School of Economics and Political Science	1929-08-16
Norman Penney		British historian of the Quakers, librarian, and editor	Darlington		1858
Norman Powell Williams		Anglo-Catholic theologian	Durham	Christ Church	1883
Norman Sherry		American writer (1935-2016)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1935-07-06
Oliver Gillie		British journalist and scientist	Northumberland	University of Edinburgh	1937-10-31
Oliver Kilbourn		British coal miner and painter	Ashington		1904-10-06
Olly James			Newcastle upon Tyne		1994-10-06
Ove Arup		English engineer (1895-1988)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Technical University of Denmark University of Copenhagen Sorø Academy Boarding School	1895-04-16		Ove Arup
Owen Oyston		British businessman	County Durham	St Mary's Catholic Academy	1934-03-24
P. Maurice Casey		British scholar of New Testament and early Christianity (1942-2014)	Sunderland	Durham University	1942-10-18
Paddy McAloon		English singer-songwriter and musician	Witton Gilbert	Northumbria University St Joseph's College, Upholland St Leonard's Catholic School, Durham	1957-06-07
Paolo Attivissimo		Italian journalist and writer	York		1963-09-28		Paolo Attivissimo
Patrick Durkin		British actor (1936-2009)	Middlesbrough		1936-06-09
Patrick Hall		English painter and draftsman, 1906-1992	York		1906-12-16		Patrick Hall
Patrick Topping		British DJ	North Shields		1989-02-25
Patrick Waddington		British actor	York	Gresham's School	1903-08-09 1901-08-19
Paul Banks		British musician	York		1973-07-06
Paul Batchelor		British poet	Northumberland	University of East Anglia Newcastle University	1977
Paul C. Doherty		British educator and author	Middlesbrough	University of Oxford University of Liverpool	1946-09-21
Paul Daniels		Magician and TV Personality	South Bank	Redcar & Cleveland College	1938-04-06		Paul Daniels
Paul Gascoigne		English association football player and manager (born 1967)	Gateshead	Breckenbeds Junior High School Heathfield Senior High School Joseph Swan Academy	1967-05-27		Paul Gascoigne
Paul Greenwood		British actor	Stockton-on-Tees		1943-08-02
Paul Kavanagh		Visual Effects Artist	Gateshead	Bournemouth University	20th century
Paul Kennedy		British historian	Wallsend	St Antony's College Newcastle University St. Cuthbert's High School	1945-06-17		Paul Kennedy
Paul Lamb		British blues harmonica player and bandleader	Blyth		1955-07-09
Paul Magrs		British writer	Jarrow	University of Lancaster Woodham Academy	1968-11-12	Doctor Who
Paul Mann		British conductor	Tyneside	York University	1965
Paul Noble		British artist	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Lincoln Whitley Bay High School	1963
Paul Rodgers		British-Canadian musician (born 1949)	Middlesbrough		1949-12-17		Paul Rodgers
Paul Smith		English rock singer (b. 1979)	Billingham	Newcastle University Northfield School and Sports College The Northern School of Art	1979-03-13		Paul Smith (rock vocalist)
Paul Stewart		British endocrinologist	Harrogate	University of Edinburgh	1959-07-06
Paul Summers		English poet	Blyth		1967
Paul Swift		British stunt performer	Darlington		1979-07-01
Paul Thomas		New Zealand writer (1951-)	Harrogate	University of Auckland	1951
Paul Thompson		English drummer	Newcastle upon Tyne		1951-05-13
Paul Tonkinson		English television and radio personality	Scarborough	Allertonshire School	1969-08-01
Paul Torday		British writer	County Durham	Pembroke College Royal Grammar School	1946-08-01
Paul Turner		English bass guitarist	Sunderland		1968-03-11		Paul Turner (bassist)
Paul Turner		English literary scholar (1917-2005)	West Hartlepool		1917-05-11
Paul W. Franks		American philosopher	Newcastle upon Tyne	Balliol College Harvard University Gateshead Talmudical College	1964
Paul W. S. Anderson		British filmmaker	Wallsend	University of Warwick Royal Grammar School	1965-03-04		Paul W. S. Anderson
Paul Youll		British artist	Hartlepool	University of Sunderland	1965-06-08
Paul Zenon		English magician	Skipton	Ermysted's Grammar School	1964-06-29		Paul Zenon
Percival Turnbull		British archaeologist (1953-2016)	Coxhoe	UCL Institute of Archaeology	1953
Percy Cradock		British diplomat (1923-2010)	Byers Green	St John's College	1923-10-26
Percy Thomas		English-born architect active in Wales	South Shields	Howardian High School	1883-09-13		Percy Thomas
Pete Doherty		English musician, actor and poet (born 1979)	Hexham	Queen Mary University of London	1979-03-12		Pete Doherty
Pete Donaldson		English broadcaster	Hartlepool	English Martyrs School and Sixth Form College	1981-04-30
Pete Firman		British magician	Middlesbrough	University of Hull Acklam Grange Secondary School	1980-04-26
Pete Graves		Sports Correspondent	Hexham	Mowden Hall School	1982-04-07
Pete Jacobsen		English jazz pianist (1950-2002)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Royal Academy of Music	1950-05-16
Pete Trewavas		British bassist	Middlesbrough		1959-01-15		Pete Trewavas
Pete York		British musician	Middlesbrough		1942-08-15		Pete York
Peter Addyman		British archaeologist	Harrogate	Sedbergh School Peterhouse	1939-07-12
Peter Anderson Graham			Crookham		1853
Peter Arnold-Craft		British headmaster and historian	Nunnington	Brasenose College	1926-01-08
Peter Auty		British singer	Richmond	St Paul's Cathedral School National Opera Studio	1969
Peter Beagrie		English professional footballer (born 1965)	Middlesbrough		1965-11-28
Peter Bland		British actor and poet	Scarborough	Victoria University of Wellington	1934-05-12
Peter Bond		English folk singer	Stockton-on-Tees		1945-12-16
Peter Coles		British astrophysicist	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Sussex Magdalene College Royal Grammar School	1963-06-04		Peter Coles
Peter Davison		American poet	Newcastle upon Tyne	Harvard University	1928-06-27
Peter Davison		Professor of English	Newcastle upon Tyne		1926
Peter Diamond		British actor (1929-2004)	Durham	Royal Academy of Dramatic Art	1929-08-10
Peter Eastman		South African artist	Newcastle upon Tyne		1976-07-01
Peter Evans		English musicologist	Hartlepool		1929-11-07
Peter Flannery		British playwright	Jarrow	Bath Spa University	1951-10-12
Peter Frank		Professor of Russian politics	Whitby		1934-05-06
Peter Gago		Australian writer and wine-maker	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Melbourne Roseworthy Agricultural College	1957-04-25
Peter Gilliver		British lexicographer	Middlesbrough	University of Sheffield Jesus College Barnard Castle School	1964-06-14
Peter Goodfellow		United Kingdom painter	Middlesbrough	Central School of Art and Design	1950-06-14
Peter Harrison		American architect (1716-1775)	York		1716-06-14		Peter Harrison
Peter Hicks		British musicologist	Wallsend	University College London St John's College	1964-02-01		Peter Hicks
Peter Higgs		British physicist	Newcastle upon Tyne	King's College London Cotham School Monash University	1929-05-29		Peter Higgs
Peter Horbury		British automobile designer	Alnwick	Royal College of Art King Edward VII School	1950
Peter Hunter Blair		British academic and historian (1912–1982)	Gosforth		1912-03-22
Peter John Allan		Canadian poet (1825-1848)	York	University of King's College	1825-06-06
Peter Kidson		English art historian (1925-2019)	York		1925-08-23
Peter Liddle		painter and sculptor	Blackwell	Nottingham Trent University	1940		Peter Liddle
Peter McArdle		British artist	Tynemouth	University of Sunderland	1965-12-17		Peter McArdle
Peter N. Walker		British crime writer	North Yorkshire		1936-05-18
Peter Rowell		English radio and television presenter and convicted criminal	Sunderland		1958-06-17
Peter Rushforth		English teacher and novelist (1945-2005)	Gateshead		1945-02-15
Peter Smith		British architectural historian (1926-2013)	Winlaton	King Edward VI School University of Oxford	1926
Peter Smithson		British architect (1923-2003)	Stockton-on-Tees		1923-09-18		Peter Smithson
Peter Straughan		English dramatist, screenwriter and short-story writer	Gateshead	Newcastle University	1968-08
Peter Swinnerton-Dyer		British mathematician (1927-2018)	Ponteland	Trinity College	1927-08-02
Peter Terson		British playwright (1932-2021)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1932-02-16 1932-02-24
Peter Townsend		British sociologist (1928-2009)	Middlesbrough	St John's College	1928-04-06
Peter Woodthorpe		British actor	York	Magdalene College Archbishop Holgate's School	1931-09-25
Phelan Gibb		British artist (1870-1948)	Alnwick		1870		Henry W. Gibb
Phil Donkin		British Jazz bassist	Sunderland	Guildhall School of Music and Drama	1980-11		Phil Donkin
Phil Hardy		British journalist and author (1945-2014)	Scarborough	University of Sussex	1945-04-07
Phil O'Keefe		British geographer and development specialist	North Shields	Ushaw College	1948-12
Philip Bunting			Lake District
Philip J Day		documentary film director and producer	Harrogate	Peterhouse Boys' School Ackworth School
Philip Knapton		English composer and music publisher	York		1788-10-20
Philip Lake		British geologist (1865–1949)	Morpeth	St John's College	1865-04-09
Philip Mennell		Australian journalist and writer	Newcastle upon Tyne		1851-03-10	The Dictionary of Australasian Biography The Coming Colony	Philip Mennell
Philip Middlemiss		British actor and presenter	Hartlepool	English Martyrs School and Sixth Form College	1963-06-19
Phillip Mann		British science fiction writer	Northallerton	Scarborough College	1942-08-07	Master of Paxwax	Phillip Mann
Piers Torday		British children's writer	Northumberland		1974-04-06
Pit Corder		language scholar from England (1918-1990)	York	Bootham School Merton College	1918-10-06
Prideaux John Selby		English ornithologist, botanist and illustrator (1788–1867)	Alnwick	University College, Oxford Durham School Durham University	1788-07-23		Prideaux John Selby
Punk Chef		celebrity deaf chef, television presenter and social media entertainer	Hartlepool		1980-01-22
R. O. Morris		English composer	York	Harrow School Royal College of Music New College	1886-03-03
R. W. Southern		British historian	Newcastle upon Tyne	Balliol College Royal Grammar School	1912-02-08
RJ Thompson		British singer songwriter	Bishop Auckland	Barnard Castle School Newcastle College	1985-06-25		RJ Thompson
Raffaello de Banfield		Italian composer	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Bologna Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello di Venezia	1922-06-02
Ralph Dodd		British civil engineer	South Shields		1756		Ralph Dodd
Ralph Dowey		miner, songwriter, poet	Backworth		1844-10
Ralph Hedley		British painter, woodcarver and illustrator (1848–1913)	Gilling West		1848-12-31		Ralph Hedley
Ralph Hodgson		British writer (1871-1962)	Darlington		1871-09-09		Ralph Hodgson
Ralph Hutchinson		British trombonist	Newcastle upon Tyne		1925-02-25
Ralph Nicholson Wornum		British art historian (1812-1877)	Norham	University College London	1812-12-29		Ralph Nicholson Wornum
Ralph Riley		British geneticist	Scarborough	Audenshaw School	1924-10-23
Ralph Rumney		British artist (1934-2002)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1934-06-05
Ralph Russell		British scholar of Urdu literature (1918-2008)	Kirk Hammerton	St John's College	1918-05-21
Ralph Tate		British botanist (1840-1901)	Alnwick		1840-03-11		Ralph Tate
Ralph Watson		actor	Newcastle upon Tyne		1936-01-20
Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland		English Earl	Raby Castle		1364		Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland
Raphael Sealey		British-American classical scholar, ancient historian (1927–2013)	Middlesbrough	University College, Oxford	1927-08-14
Ray Hudson		British footballer and manager (born 1955)	Gateshead		1955-03-24
Ray Kennedy		English footballer	Northumberland		1951-07-28		Ray Kennedy
Ray King		Footballer, goalkeeper (1924-2014)	Radcliffe		1924-08-15
Raymond Gibson		British zoologist	Catterick		1938-11-23
Reg Gadney		English painter	Cross Hills	Stowe School St Catharine's College, Cambridge	1941
Reg Smythe		British cartoonist (1917-1998)	Hartlepool		1917-07-10	Andy Capp	Reginald Smythe
Reginald Arthur		British painter (1871-1934)	Skipton		1871		Reginald Arthur
Reginald Beckwith		British actor	York		1908-11-02
Reginald Hill		British crime writer	West Hartlepool	St Catherine's College Trinity School	1936-04-03	A Clubbable Woman An Advancement of Learning Ruling Passion An April Shroud A Pinch of Snuff A Killing Kindness Bones and Silence Recalled to Life Pictures of Perfection Good Morning, Midnight Who Guards a Prince? Traitor's Blood Death’s Jest-Book One Small Step A Cure for All Disease The Death of Dalziel (UK) Midnight Fugue
Reginald Kell		clarinettist	York	Royal Academy of Music	1906-06-08
Reginald Spink		British journalist, translator and writer (1905-1994)	York		1905
Renford Bambrough		philosopher (1926-1999)	Sunderland		1926-04-29		Renford Bambrough
Rhys Pickering		English model	Middlesbrough		1995-05-13
Richard A. Fletcher		British medieval historian (born 1944)	York	Harrow School Worcester College	1944-03-28
Richard Abbay		British astronomer, botanist, parish priest and poet (1844-1927)	Ouseburn		1844-02-11
Richard Allen Downing		British hydrogeologist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Durham University	1928-03-18
Richard Anthony Hewson		English record producer, arranger, conductor and multi-instrumentalist	Stockton-on-Tees	Guildhall School of Music and Drama The Hutchins School	1943-11-17
Richard Armstrong		author (1903-1986)	Walbottle		1903-06-18
Richard Bartle		British writer, video game designer and computer scientist	Ripon	University of Essex	1960-01-10	MUD1 Designing Virtual Worlds From MUDs to MMORPGs: The History of Virtual Worlds	Richard Bartle
Richard Burridge		Screenwriter, author	Rothbury		1951
Richard Clarke		British painter	Newcastle upon Tyne		1955
Richard Clive Cookson		British chemist	Hexham	Harrow School Trinity College	1922-08-27 1922
Richard Dean		Church of England clergyman and essayist	Kirkby Malham		1727
Richard Drury		British curator and art critic	Scarborough		1967-09-03
Richard Ellis		19th-century English builder and alderman	Harrogate		1820-11		Richard Ellis (mayor of Harrogate)
Richard Flohil		Canadian music publicist, journalist and promoter	Selby		1934
Richard Fothergill		British politician	Lowbridge Estate		1822-11-08
Richard Griffiths		British actor	Thornaby-on-Tees	Manchester Metropolitan University Manchester School of Theatre	1947-07-31	Harry Potter, Odett Potter.	Richard Griffiths
Richard Henry Neville-Cumming			Newcastle upon Tyne		1843-04-17		Richard Henry Neville-Cumming
Richard Holdsworth		English theologian	Newcastle upon Tyne	St John's College	1590
Richard Hurndall		British actor (1910–1984)	Darlington	Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Scarborough College	1910-11-03
Richard Jack		British painter (1866-1952)	Sunderland	Académie Julian	1866-02-15	The Taking of Vimy Ridge, Easter Monday 1917	Richard Jack
Richard Kersten			Newcastle upon Tyne		1949
Richard Kidd		British painter (1952-2008)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1952-06-22
Richard Laws		English mammalogist and Antarctic scientist; 2nd Director BAS	Whitley Bay	St Catharine's College, Cambridge	1926-04-23
Richard Lockwood Boulton		English sculptor	Thornton-le-Dale		1832		Richard Lockwood Boulton
Richard Milward		British writer	Middlesbrough	The Northern School of Art Laurence Jackson School	1984-10-26	Apples
Richard Pickersgill		British sailor	West Tanfield		1749-04-18
Richard Platt		British children's writer and photographer	Northumberland		1953-04-15
Richard Robinson		British politician, chemist	Whitby		1849-10-16
Richard Robson		chemist	Glusburn	University of Oxford	1937-06-04
Richard Rolle		English hermit and religious writer (c.1300–1349)	North Yorkshire	University of Oxford University of Paris	130s		Richard Rolle
Richard Runciman Terry		British composer (1865-1938)	Ellington	King's College	1865-01-03
Richard Shilleto		British scholar	Ulleskelf	Trinity College Shrewsbury School Repton School	1809-11-25
Richard Short		British actor	South Shields	King Edward's School Witley The Bishop David Brown School	1975-10-08
Richard Spruce		British botanist and explorer (1817–1893)	Ganthorpe		1817-09-10		Richard Spruce
Richard Waugh		English merchant and botanist (1768-1806)	Lanchester		1768		Richard Waugh
Richard Wilfrid Selby		English Benedictine monk (-1659)	County Durham
Richmond Beetham		British-born painter and magistrate (1832-1912)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1832
Richy Ahmed		British Dj	South Shields
Rick Holden		English footballer (born 1964)	Skipton	University of Salford Ermysted's Grammar School	1964-09-09
Rick William		British bodybuilder	Ashington		1988-05-12
Ricky Fenson		British musician	Chopwell		1945-05-22		Ricky Fenson
Ridley Scott		British film director and producer (born 1937)	South Shields	Royal College of Art The Northern School of Art	1937-11-30		Ridley Scott
Riley Jones		British actor	Gateshead	Northumbria University
Riton		British DJ and music producer	Newcastle upon Tyne	Newcastle University	1978-09-13
Rob Heaps		British actor	York	St Peter's School	1983-07-11	Imposters
Rob Rackstraw		British voice-over actor	Sunderland		1965-10-31	Bob the Builder Thomas & Friends
Robert Acon		British printmaker, 1792-1880	Chollerton		1792		Robert Acon
Robert Arthur Wilson		English painter (1884-1979)	Sunderland	Royal College of Art Académie Julian	1884
Robert Atkinson		Anglo-Irish academic, philologist and textual scholar	Yorkshire Gateshead		1839-04-06		Robert Atkinson
Robert Barker		British artist (1739-1806)	Kells Newcastle upon Tyne		1739		Robert Barker
Robert Benson Bowman		Bookseller and publisher (1808-1882)	Richmond		1808-05-14
Robert Bernasconi		British philosopher	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Sussex	1950-08-05
Robert Brough Smyth		Anglo-Australian geologist, author and social commentator	Wallsend		1830 1830-02-18		Robert Brough Smyth
Robert Clephan		British merchant and archaeologist	Gateshead		1839-11-08
Robert Clow Todd		Canadian artist	Berwick-upon-Tweed		1809		Robert Clow Todd
Robert Douglas		American horticulturist (1813-1897)	Gateshead		1813-04-20
Robert Gold			Harrogate
Robert Henry Bow		British photographer and civil engineer	Alnwick		1832
Robert Holford Macdowall Bosanquet		English scientist and music theorist (1841-1912)	Alnwick	Balliol College Eton College Royal College of Music	1841-07-31		Robert Holford Macdowall Bosanquet
Robert Holman		British dramatist	Guisborough		1952
Robert Howard Hodgkin		British historian	Newcastle upon Tyne	Repton School Leighton Park School Balliol College	1877-04-24
Robert Hutchinson		illustrator	Durham
Robert Icke		English writer and theatre director (born 1986)	Stockton-on-Tees	University of Cambridge King's College Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College Ian Ramsey Church of England Academy	1986-11-29
Robert Jobling		British artist (1841-1923)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1841		Robert Jobling
Robert Johnson		English watercolorist (1770-1796)	Shotley Bridge		1770
Robert Kaye Greville		British botanist (1794-1866)	Bishop Auckland	University of Edinburgh	1794-12-13		Robert Kaye Greville
Robert Ker Porter		British artist, writer and diplomat	Durham	Durham School Royal Academy of Arts	1777		Robert Ker Porter
Robert Malcolm Errington		British historian and classical scholar (born 1939)	Howdon	Durham University	1939-07-05
Robert Morrison		British evangelist and first christian protestant missionary in China	Bullers Green	Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry	1782-01-05		Robert Morrison (missionary)
Robert Nares		English clergyman, author and philologist (1753-1829)	York	Christ Church	1753-06-09
Robert Olley		British artist	South Shields		1940-01-16	Westoe Netty
Robert Pashley		British economist	York	Trinity College	1805-09-04		Robert Pashley
Robert Pollard		British engraver	Newcastle upon Tyne		1755		Robert Pollard (engraver)
Robert Robson		English historian	Haltwhistle	Queen Elizabeth High School Trinity College	1929-08-11
Robert Saint		English composer	Hebburn		1905
Robert Sayer		English publisher, map and printseller	Sunderland		1725		Robert Sayer
Robert Sherlaw Johnson		British musician and scholar (1932-2000)	Sunderland	University of Leeds Durham University Royal Academy of Music Gosforth Academy	1932-05-21
Robert Spence Watson		politician (1837-1911)	Gateshead	University College London Bootham School	1837-06-08		Robert Spence Watson
Robert Story		British poet	Wark		1795-10-17
Robert Westall		English writer	North Shields Tynemouth	Slade School of Fine Art Durham University	1929-10-07	The Machine Gunners The Scarecrows Blitzcat
Robert Whitney		American conductor	Newcastle upon Tyne		1904-07-06
Robert William Atkinson		British chemist in Japan	Newcastle upon Tyne	Royal School of Mines	1850
Robert Wilson		British astronomer (1927-2002)	South Shields	University of Edinburgh King's College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne	1927-04-16
Robertus Dixon		British scientist	Heworth		1647-07-17
Robin Hawdon		English playwright and novelist	Newcastle upon Tyne		1939 1939-03-28
Robin Lester Carhart-Harris		British researcher	Durham	University of Bristol Brunel University London	19th century		Robin Carhart-Harris
Robson Green		British actor and musician	Hexham	North Gosforth Academy	1964-12-18		Robson Green
Rod Clements		British musician	North Shields	Durham University	1947-11-17		Rod Clements
Rod Rees		British writer	Scarborough		1948-11-26
Roderic Noble		British actor	Darley	Scorton Grammar School	1957-10-03
Roger Ascham		English scholar and didactic writer (1515-1568)	Kirby Wiske	St John's College	1515		Roger Ascham
Roger Avon		English actor (1914-1998)	Jarrow		1914-11-23
Roger Beaujolais			Harrogate		1952-11-22
Roger Kohn		British designer	York		1951		Roger Kohn
Roger Westman		English architect	Jarrow	Latymer Upper School Architectural Association School of Architecture Norland Place School	1939-09-16	Alexandra Theatre, Bognor Regis Jerma Palace Hotel Central Hill Estate Myatt's Fields South Estate Pepys Estate Lillington Gardens South Lambeth Estate The Origins of the International Style in England 1927 - 1939
Roland Carl Backhouse		British computer scientist and mathematician	Middlesbrough	Churchill College Imperial College London University of London	1948-08-18		Roland Carl Backhouse
Romarin Grazebrook		Brits; beeldhouwer; 1934-06-27; Catterick (North Yorkshire)	Catterick		1934-06-27
Ron Aspery		British saxophonist	Middlesbrough		1943-06-03 1946-06-09
Ron Cook		English actor	South Shields	Rose Bruford College Caludon Castle School	1948
Ron Fawcett		British rock climber	Embsay		1955-05-06
Ronald Illingworth		Illingworth, Ronald Stanley (1909–1990), expert in child health	Harrogate	Bradford Grammar School Yale University	1909
Ronald Radd		British actor (1929–1976)	Ryhope	Ryhope Grammar School	1929-01-22
Ronnie Stephenson		British musician	Sunderland		1937-01-26
Ross Adams		English television actor	Stanley	University of Salford
Ross Noble		English Comedian	Newcastle upon Tyne	Cramlington Learning Village Newcastle College	1976-06-05 1976-06-06		Ross Noble
Rowan Atkinson		English actor, comedian, and screenwriter	Consett	Newcastle University The Queen's College Chorister School St. Bees School	1955-01-06	Mr. Bean The Lion King Wonka	Rowan Atkinson
Rowland Harrison		English poet	Gateshead		1841-06-23
Roy Chubby Brown		British comedian	Grangetown		1945-02-03 1945-02-05
Russ Swift		stunt performer	Darlington		1951-03-24
Russell Mills		British artist	Ripon		1952
Russell Young		British artist	York	University of Chester	1959-03-13
Ryan Molloy		British singer, songwriter and actor	North Shields	The Poor School Monkseaton High School	1976-11-21
Ryan Swain		British television presenter	Malton		1990-02-24		Ryan Swain
Sacheverell Sitwell		British art and architectural historian and writer, baronet (1969-1988)	Scarborough	Balliol College Eton College	1897-11-15		Sacheverell Sitwell
Sakima		English singer	Newcastle upon Tyne		1991-03-20
Sam Blue		English hard rock singer	Newcastle upon Tyne		1959
Sam Fender		English singer-songwriter (born 1994)	North Shields	Whitley Bay High School John Spence Community High School	1994-04-25	Seventeen Going Under Hypersonic Missiles	Sam Fender
Sam Forrest		English rock musician	York		1977
Sam William Heads		British entomologist and palaeontologist	Northumberland	University of Portsmouth	1983-04-22
Sammy Johnson		British actor (1949-1998)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1949-05-14
Samuel Barnett		English actor	Whitby	London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art	1980-04-25		Samuel Barnett
Samuel Buck		Buck, Samuel (1696–1779), topographical draughtsman, engraver, and print publisher	Richmond		1696		Samuel Buck
Samuel Edward-Cook		British actor	York
Samuel Garth		British writer	Bolam	Peterhouse	1661		Samuel Garth
Samuel Newby Curle		British mathematician	Sunderland	Victoria University of Manchester St. Bede's Grammar School	1930-06-18
Samuel Sidley		English portrait painter (1829–1896)	York		1829		Samuel Sidley
Samuel Tolansky		British physicist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Durham University Imperial College London	1907-11-17		Samuel Tolansky (physicist)
Scott Davidson		academic	Newcastle upon Tyne	Downing College	1954-09-24
Scott Donohue		English artist	Newcastle upon Tyne		1982-08-19		Scott Donohue
Scott Frazer		British actor	Newcastle upon Tyne		1973-10-09
Scott Garnham		British actor	North Yorkshire	Royal Conservatoire of Scotland	1985-02-22		Scott Garnham
Scott Henshall		British fashion designer	Hartlepool	Northumbria University	1975-11-15
Scott Mann		British film director	Newton Aycliffe	Woodham Academy	1965-06-16
Scott Turnbull		British actor	Middlesbrough	Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts	1981
Sean Blowers		English actor	Middlesbrough		1961-01-12		Sean Blowers
Sean Landless		British actor	Sunderland		1986
Sean Tyla		English musician	Barlow		1947-08-03
Seebohm Rowntree		British philanthropist industrialist and sociologist writer	York	Bootham School	1871-07-07	How far it is possible to provide Satisfactory Houses for the Working Classes at rents which they can afford to pay	Seebohm Rowntree
Selby Knox		British chemist	Newcastle upon Tyne		1944-09-24
Sermstyle		songwriter	South Shields		1987-11-24
Shaun Lawton		British actor	New Marske		1941
Shaun Prendergast		British actor	North Shields	Norham High School	1958-11-28
Sid Chaplin		English writer of novels, television screenplays, poetry and short stories (1916-1986)	Shildon		1916-09-20	The Day of the Sardine
Sid Waddell		British sports commentator (1940–2012)	Alnwick	St John's College The King Edward VI Academy	1940-08-10
Silvanus P. Thompson		British academic physicist (1851-1916)	York	Bootham School University of London	1851-06-19		Silvanus P. Thompson
Simon Baynes		British politician	Lesbury		1960-04-21		Simon Baynes
Simon Cowe		English musician (1948-2015)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Fettes College	1948-04-01
Simon Farnaby		British actor	Darlington	Trinity College Dublin Richmond School	1973-04-02		Simon Farnaby
Simon Holloway			Newcastle upon Tyne		1971
Simon McKeown		British artist (born 1965)	Middlesbrough	Teesside University	1965
Simon Myers		Professor of Mathematical Genomics	Darlington	Royal Latin School Worcester College Jesus College	1977-06-27
Simon Slater		British actor	Scarborough	Goldsmiths, University of London	1959-03-07
Simon Turney			Ripon
Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet		Quaker, sinologist	Darlington	Winchester College Merton College	1873-10-20		Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet
Sir John Smith-Dodsworth, 8th Baronet		English-New Zealand naturalist	Thornton Watlass Hall	Ampleforth College	1935-03-04
Sir Lowthian Bell, 1st Baronet		Ironmaster, industrial chemist, railway owner (1816-1904)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1816-02-18 1816-02-15 1816		Lowthian Bell
Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan, 6th Baronet		British botanist and historian (1797-1879)	Newcastle upon Tyne	University College, Oxford Harrow School	1797-03-31		Walter Calverley Trevelyan
Smithson Tennant		British chemist (1761-1815)	Selby	University of Edinburgh Christ's College Beverley Grammar School	1761-11-30		Smithson Tennant
Speakman, William John		sculptor, installation artist of the Netherland	Hexham	SintLucas Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten Sint-Joost	1968-02-26		William Speakman
Spike		British musician	Newcastle upon Tyne		20th century
Spike Rawlings		English footballer (1944-2006)	Wallsend		1944-04-07
Stanley Eveling		British philosopher and writer	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Oxford Durham University	1925
Stanley Peat		British carbohydrate chemist	South Shields		1902-08-23
Stanley R. Dennison		British economist and university administrator	North Shields	Trinity College	1912 1912-06-15
Stephen Catterson Smith		English-Irish portrait-painter and president of the Royal Hibernian Academy (1806-1872)	Skipton		1806-03-12		Stephen Catterson Smith the Elder
Stephen Chapman		Australian teacher and chemist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Newcastle University	1959-05-12		Steve Chapman (chemist)
Stephen Graham		British urban theorist	North Shields		1965-02-26
Stephen Hancock		British actor (1925-2015)	Bishop Auckland	College of St Hild and St Bede Chorister School	1925-11-24 1925-11-25
Stephen Horseman		fl. 1702 - 1737	Brayton		1688
Stephen Laws		British novelist	Newcastle upon Tyne		1952
Stephen Liddle		British chemist	Sunderland	Newcastle University	19th century
Stephen Orton		British cellist, born in Ripon, Yorkshire, UK	Ripon
Stephen Paxton		British violoncellist and composer	Durham		1734-12-27 1735 1734		Stephen Paxton
Stephen Tompkinson		English actor	Stockton-on-Tees	Central School of Speech and Drama St Mary's Catholic Academy St Bede's Catholic High School	1965-10-15		Stephen Tompkinson
Stephen Uppal		British actor	Middlesbrough	Teesside University	1982
Stephen Yardley		English actor	Ferrensby	Royal Academy of Dramatic Art	1942-03-24
Stephen Youll		British cover artist (1965-)	Hartlepool	University of Sunderland	1965-06-08
Stephen of Sawley		English monk; abbot of Sawley and Fountains	Eston
Steve Biddulph		Australian activist and psychologist	Saltburn-by-the-Sea		1953-08-15
Steve Ellis		British poet and literary scholar	York		1952
Steve Flint		railway modeller, writer, editor and photographer	Scarborough		1954
Steve Furst		British comedian and actor	South Shields	University of Winchester	1967-11-28 1967-09-03
Steve McClure		British rock climber	Saltburn-by-the-Sea		1970-07-25
Steve Mould		presenter	Gateshead	St Hugh's College St Thomas More RC	1978-10-05		Steve Mould
Steve Robson		British record producer	Jarrow	Boldon School	1969-11
Steve Thompson		British songwriter	Consett		1952-04-24
Steven Appleby		cartoonist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Northumbria University	1956-01-27
Steven Moore		percussionist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Nuffield Health Newcastle upon Tyne Hospital	1978-12-14
Steven Runciman		British historian of the Middle Ages (1903–2000)	Northumberland Glasgow	Eton College Trinity College	1903-07-07	A History of the Crusades
Steven Savile		British writer	Newcastle upon Tyne	Ewell Castle School	1969-10-12		Steven Savile
Steven Sproat		English singer-songwriter	Lanchester United Kingdom		1960-11-18
Stevie Lynn		British professional wrestler	Teesside		1983-08-01
Sting		British musician	Wallsend	University of Warwick St. Cuthbert's High School Northumbria University	1951-10-02	Every Breath You Take Fields of Gold Englishman in New York	Sting (musician)
Stuart Bailey		graphic designer	York		1973
Stuart Colman		English Musician, record producer, disc jockey (1944-2018)	Harrogate	Harrogate Grammar School	1944-12-19
Stuart Fletcher		English bass player	York		1976-01-16
Stuart Hatton		English pageant winner, model, and dancer	South Shields	Newcastle University	1985-06-17		Stuart Hatton
Stuart Wells		British actor	Wallsend		1982-09-18
Syd Dale		British composer (1924-1994)	York		1924-05-20
T. J. Cobden-Sanderson		British artist and bookbinder.	Alnwick	Central School of Art and Design Royal Grammar School Worcester	1840-12-02		Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson
Tab Martin		English bass guitarist born 1944	Newcastle upon Tyne		1944
Ted Harrison		Canadian artist and author (1926-2015)	Wingate	Durham University The Northern School of Art	1926-08-28
Tempest Anderson		British eye surgeon, photographer and volcanologist	York	St Peter's School University College London University of Leeds	1846-12-07		Tempest Anderson
Terence Burns, Baron Burns		British economist	Hetton-le-Hole	University of Manchester	1944-03-13		Terence Burns, Baron Burns
Terry Deary		writer	Sunderland	University of Sunderland Monkwearmouth Academy East Point Academy	1946-03-04
Terry Pawson			Newcastle upon Tyne		1957
The Thrillseekers		English DJ and record producer	York		1973-10-24
Theo Hutchcraft		English singer-songwriter	Richmond	Richmond School Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College	1986-08-30
Theodore Rigg		New Zealand agricultural chemist, scientific administrator (1888–1972)	Settle	St John's College	1888-04-06		Theodore Rigg
Thomas Addison		19th-century British physician and scientist	Longbenton	University of Edinburgh King's College London Royal Grammar School	1793-04-02		Thomas Addison
Thomas Alcock Beck		British historian (1795-1846)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Trinity College Hawkshead Grammar School	1795-05-31
Thomas Allen		English operatic baritone (born 1944)	Seaham	Royal College of Music Ryhope Grammar School	1944-09-10
Thomas Baker		English antiquarian, born 1656	Lanchester	St John's College	1656-09-14
Thomas Bell		English Roman Catholic priest, later an anti-Catholic writer	Raskelf		1551
Thomas Bell		English land surveyor and book collector	Newcastle upon Tyne		1785-12-16
Thomas Belt		English geologist and naturalist (1832-1878)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1832-11-27
Thomas Bewick		English engraver and natural history author (1753-1828)	Mickley		1753-08-10 1753-08-12	Mother Goose’s Melody	Thomas Bewick
Thomas Binney		British reverend	Newcastle upon Tyne		1798		Thomas Binney
Thomas Bolton Gilchrist Septimus Dalziel		Engraver who joined the Dalziel Brothers (1823-1906)	Wooler		1823-05-09		Thomas Dalziel
Thomas Brasch		German author, poet and film director (1945-2001)	Westow	Kadettenschule der NVA	1945-02-19		Thomas Brasch
Thomas Burnet		English theologian and writer (1635-1715)	Croft-on-Tees		1635		Thomas Burnet
Thomas Bywater Smithies		English radical publisher and activist	York		1817-08-27		Thomas Bywater Smithies
Thomas Carter		British ornithologist and pastoralist (1863-1931)	Masham		1863-04-06
Thomas Caverhill Jerdon		British zoologist, botanist, and physician (1811-1872)	Durham	University of Edinburgh	1811-10-12		Thomas Caverhill Jerdon
Thomas Cresap		American settler	Skipton		1694
Thomas D Bennett		British materials chemist	South Shields	University of Cambridge	1986
Thomas D. Wilson		academic	Shincliffe	University of Sheffield Durham Johnston Comprehensive School	1935
Thomas Doubleday		English political activist, author, songwriter, poet	Newcastle upon Tyne		1790
Thomas Ebdon		English composer	Durham		1738
Thomas Ewbank		British writer	Barnard Castle		1792-03-11
Thomas Eyre Macklin		British painter (1863-1943)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1863-03-30		Thomas Eyre Macklin
Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron		Parliamentary commander-in-chief during the English Civil War (1612-1671)	Denton Hall, Wharfedale	St John's College Tadcaster Grammar School	1612-01-17 1612-01-12		Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron
Thomas G. Purvis		British marine artist (1861-1933)	Chirton		1861-04-12		Thomas G. Purvis
Thomas Gale		British antiquarian; (1635-1702)	Scruton	Trinity College Westminster School	1636
Thomas Gray		mining engineer and local historian (1847 -1924)	Washington		1847-09-22
Thomas Grey		English poet	Norham		1863-09-16
Thomas Guy Masters		Seismologist	York	University of Cambridge	1954
Thomas Harrison		English architect; (1744-1829)	Richmond	Richmond School	1744-08-07		Thomas Harrison (architect)
Thomas Harrison Hair		British artist of industrial revolution etc (1808-1875)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1808-12-23		Thomas Harrison Hair
Thomas Haswell		composer	Tynemouth		1807-12-08
Thomas Havelock		English mathematician	Newcastle upon Tyne	St John's College	1877
Thomas Heaviside		father of Oliver Heaviside	Stockton-on-Tees		1813
Thomas Hudson Nelson		British ornithologist (1856-1916)	Bishop Auckland		1856-02-12
Thomas Hutchinson		organist (1854-)	Sunderland		1854-04-23
Thomas Hutchinson		British educator, poet, and author	Newcastle upon Tyne		1856
Thomas J. Foggitt		British botanist (1810–1895)	Durham		1810
Thomas Jackson Foggitt		British botanist (1858–1934)	Thirsk		1858-03-02
Thomas Jefferson Hogg		British writer and barrister (1792-1862)	Stockton-on-Tees	Durham School University College, Oxford	1792-05-24
Thomas Johnson		English botanist and Royalist soldier of the English Civil War	Selby		1600-09-07
Thomas Manson		British biblical scholar	North Shields	University of Glasgow Westminster College	1893-07-22
Thomas Meriton		English playwright and cleric	Castlelevington	St John's College	1638
Thomas Miles Richardson		British artist (1784-1848)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1784		Thomas Miles Richardson Sr.
Thomas Miles Richardson II		British painter (1813–1890)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1813		Thomas Miles Richardson Jr.
Thomas Musgrave		captain, lighthouse keeper and Auckland Islands castaway (1832-1891)	Durham		1832-05-10
Thomas Nossiter		British academic	Stockton-on-Tees	Exeter College Nuffield College	1937-12-24
Thomas Nuttall		English botanist and zoologist in America (1786-1859)	Settle		1786-01-05		Thomas Nuttall
Thomas Potts		19th-century sculptor and monumental mason	Harrogate		1824-08-12		Thomas Potts (sculptor)
Thomas Raffles Davison		British architect	Stockton-on-Tees		1853		Thomas Raffles Davison
Thomas Ralph Spence		British painter, ca. 1845-1918	Gilling West		1845		Thomas Ralph Spence
Thomas Renton Elliott		physician and physiologist (1877-1961)	Willington		1877-10-11		Thomas Renton Elliott
Thomas Rymer Jones		British surgeon and zoologist	Whitby		1810		Thomas Rymer Jones
Thomas Sheraton		British furniture designer	Stockton-on-Tees	No/unknown value	1751		Thomas Sheraton
Thomas Stackhouse		English theologian and controversialist	Witton-le-Wear		1677
Thomas Stanley Westoll		English geologist	Hartlepool	Newcastle University	1912-07-03
Thomas Stevenson		English toxicologist and forensic chemist (1838-1908)	Rainton	University of London Guy's Hospital Medical School	1838-04-14		Thomas Stevenson (toxicologist)
Thomas Sword Good		English painter known for genre works (1789-1872)	Berwick-upon-Tweed		1789-12-04		Thomas Sword Good
Thomas Thompson		British poet	Bishop Auckland		1773
Thomas Thorlin			County Durham	HDK Konstfack	1893-12-25
Thomas Tredgold		British engineer	County Durham		1788-08-22		Thomas Tredgold
Thomas Turton		British mathematician and clergyman (1780-1864)	York	St Catharine's College, Cambridge Queens' College	1780-02-05		Thomas Turton
Thomas Ward		English writer (1652-1708)	Danby Castle		1652-04-13
Thomas Wemyss Reid		English newspaper editor, novelist and biographer (1842-1905)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1842-03-29		Thomas Wemyss Reid
Thomas Wharton		English anatomist (1614–1673)	Winston	Pembroke College	1614-08-31
Thomas Williams		English cartoonist, born 1940	Stockton-on-Tees		1940-10-17
Thomas Wright		astronomer (1711-1786)	County Durham	King James I Academy	1711-09-22	An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe	Thomas Wright (astronomer)
Tim Burke		British visual effects supervisor	Newcastle upon Tyne		1965-01-01
Tim Burstall		Australian film director	Stockton-on-Tees	Geelong Grammar School	1927-04-20 1929-04-20
Tim Healy		British actor	Benwell		1952-01-29		Tim Healy
Tim Kellett		English musician, songwriter and record producer	Knaresborough		1964-07-23
Tim Knight			Northallerton		1959-09-10
Tim Palmer		British record producer	North Shields		1962-10-04
Timothy Kristian Charles Mace			Catterick		1955-11-20
Timothy Sheader		British theatre director	Scarborough	Scarborough Sixth Form College	1971-11-23
Tod Slaughter		actor (1885-1956)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1885-03-19
Tom Ainsley		English actor	Scarborough		1991-12-19
Tom Brown		British anarchist (1900–1974)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1900
Tom Coyne		British television presenter	South Shields		1930
Tom Crewe		English novelist	Middlesbrough	University of Cambridge	1989
Tom Gill		actor (1916-1971)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1916-07-26
Tom Glenwright		radio presenter	Newcastle upon Tyne		1996-04-03
Tom Hodgkinson		British writer	Newcastle upon Tyne	Westminster School	1968	The Idler
Tom Lamb		English miner and artist	Ashington		1928-05-03
Tom Lister		British actor	Ingleton	Birmingham School of Acting	1978-06-21		Tom Lister
Tom Shankland		British director	Durham		1968-05-07
Tom Stoddart		British photographer	Morpeth		1953-11-28		Tom Stoddart
Tom Storer			Tynemouth		1915
Tony Bastable		British television presenter	Hexham	University College School	1944-10-15
Tony Bianchi		British writer	North Shields		1952-04-05
Tony Bray		British musician	Newcastle upon Tyne		1960-09-17		Abaddon (musician)
Tony Dolan		British musician	Newcastle upon Tyne		1964-01-21		Tony Dolan
Tony Grey		English musician	Newcastle upon Tyne	Berklee College of Music	1975-03-25		Tony Grey
Tony Hicks		British drummer	Middlesbrough		1948-08-08
Tony Rivers		English singer	Shildon	Raine's Foundation School	1940-12-21
Tony Scott		British film director and producer (1944–2012)	North Shields	Royal College of Art University of Sunderland Leeds Arts University The Grangefield Academy The Northern School of Art	1944-06-21		Tony Scott (director)
Tony Weetman		Dean of the Medical School at University of Sheffield	Durham	Newcastle University	1953-04-29
Tony Williams		English musician	Durham		1947-08-19
Trevor Horn		British record producer and musician	Hetton-le-Hole	Durham Johnston Comprehensive School	1949-07-15		Trevor Horn
Trevor McMillan		English radiobiologist, Vice-Chancellor of Keele University	Gateshead	University of Lancaster	1959-10-02
Trevor Metcalfe		British illustrator	Brotton		1939-05
Trevor Watts		English jazz musician	York		1939-02-26		Trevor Watts
Tweedy John Todd		English doctor (1789-1840)	Berwick-upon-Tweed	University of Aberdeen	1789
Ullin Place		British philosopher (1924-2000)	Yorkshire Northallerton	Rugby School Corpus Christi College	1924-10-24
Uthred of Boldon		Benedictine monk, theologian and writer	The Boldons		1320
Vaughan Oliver		British graphic designer	Sedgefield	Northumbria University	1957-09-12
Victor Noble Rainbird		British artist (1887-1936)	North Shields		1887-12-12		Victor Noble Rainbird
Vigo Auguste Demant		British priest and theologian	Newcastle upon Tyne	Durham University Harris Manchester College Ely Theological College	1893-11-08
Viking Will		British pornographic actor	York		1985-11-15
Vince Cable		British politician and former leader of the Liberal Democrats (born 1943)	York	Fitzwilliam College University of Glasgow	1943-05-09		Vince Cable
Vincent Cornier		British author	Redcar		1898
W D Welford		British cyclist, writer and publisher (1857-1919)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1857
W. B. R. King		British geologist	West Burton	Jesus College Uppingham School	1889-11-12
W. Brian Harland		British geologist (1917-2003)	Scarborough	Bootham School Gonville and Caius College	1917-03-22
W. H. Auden		British-American poet (1907–1973)	York	Christ Church University of Oxford Gresham's School St Edmund's School	1907-02-21		W.H. Auden
W. R. Mitchell		British writer and editor	Skipton		1928-01-15		W. R. Mitchell
W.B. Brydon		British actor	Newcastle upon Tyne		1933-09-20 1930-09-20
Wally Herbert		British polar explorer (1934-2007)	United Kingdom York		1934-10-24
Walter Crawley		British tennis player and entomologist (1880-1940)	Masham	St John's School, Leatherhead	1880-03-29		Walter Crawley
Walter Hargreaves Bourne			Darlington		1874-04-29		Walter Hargreaves Bourne
Warren Tute		English sailor, author and television executive	West Hartlepool		1914-02-22
Wee Georgie Wood		British comedian	Jarrow		1894-12-17
Wellington A. Playter		actor (1879-1937)	Rawcliffe		1879-12-09		Wellington A. Playter
Wesley Stoker Barker Woolhouse		British actuary	North Shields		1809-05-06		Wesley S. B. Woolhouse
Wilfred Ernest Alderson			Newcastle upon Tyne		1873-06-07
Wilfred Hudleston Hudleston		British geologist (1828-1909)	York	St John's College	1828-06-02
Wilfred Walter		English actor (1882-1958)	Ripon		1882-03-02
Wilfrid Norman Bailey		British mathematician (1893-1961)	County Durham	Victoria University of Manchester University of Cambridge	1893-09-05
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson		British poet (1878–1962)	Hexham		1878-10-02		Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Will Ashton		Australian artist (1881-1963)	Clifton	Académie Julian	1881-09-20
Will Atkinson		musician from Northumberland	Crookham		1908-01-31
Will Hay		English comedian, actor, film director & astronomer (1888-1949)	Stockton-on-Tees		1888-12-06		Will Hay
Will Lawson		Australian writer (1876-1957)	Durham		1876-09-02
Will Todd		British composer	County Durham	University of Bristol	1970-01-14
William Adam		English painter (1846-1931)	Tweedmouth		1846-08-29
William Alvara Humphrey		British geologist and mineralogist	York		1876-11-08
William Andrews Nesfield		English landscape architect and artist (1793-1881)	Chester-le-Street	Durham School	1793-06-16		William Andrews Nesfield
William Arthur Bone		British chemist	Stockton-on-Tees	University of Manchester Ackworth School	1871-03-19
William Bateson		British geneticist and biologist (1861-1926)	Whitby	St John's College Rugby School	1861-08-08		William Bateson
William Bedlington		New Zealand land surveyor (1823-1891)	Ovingham		1823-09-27
William Bell		English painter	Newcastle upon Tyne	Royal Academy of Arts	1740		William Bell (painter)
William Blanchard		English comic actor (1769-1835)	York		1769-01-02		William Blanchard
William Brice		British ethnographer and linguist	Richmond	Jesus College	1921-07-03
William Bullerwell		English geologist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Durham University	1916-09-27
William Burley Lockwood		historian	Normanby	University of Manchester	1917-04-13
William Chapman		British painter (1817-1879)	Sunderland		1817
William Chapman Hewitson		British naturalist	Newcastle upon Tyne		1806-01-09		William Chapman Hewitson
William Coldstream		British painter and teacher (1908-1987)	Belford	Slade School of Fine Art	1908-02-28		William Coldstream
William Corlett		British writer	Darlington	Fettes College	1938-10-08
William Crawford Williamson		English naturalist and palaeobotanist (1816-1895)	Scarborough	University College London	1816-11-24		William Crawford Williamson
William D. Clark		British economist	Haltwhistle	University of Chicago	1916-07-28
William Daniel Gill		geologist (1916–92)	Hillam		1916-06-29
William Delisle Hay		British mycologist, novelist, and pulp writer (1853-18??)	Bishopwearmouth		1853 1851
William Doughty		English painter and engraver	York		1755 1757		William Doughty (painter)
William Downey		English photographer (1829-1915)	South Shields		1829-07-14		William Downey
William Dunbar		painter, wainwright, coal miner, song writer, artist	Gateshead		1852
William Eden		English sportsman and artist	Windlestone Hall		1849-04-04
William Elstob		English chaplain	Newcastle upon Tyne	Eton College St Catharine's College, Cambridge The Queen's College	1674
William Emerson		British mathematician	Hurworth-on-Tees		1701-05-14		William Emerson (mathematician)
William Ernest Bowman		writer	Scarborough		1911-09-30	The Ascent of Rum Doodle
William Etty		British painter (1787-1849)	York	Royal Academy of Arts	1787-03-10		William Etty
William Foggitt		British botanist (1835–1917)	Yarm		1835-02-02
William Fox		Premier of New Zealand in the 19th century, company agent, explorer and artist	South Shields	Wadham College Durham School	1812-09-02		William Fox (New Zealand)
William G. Whittaker		English-Scottish composer, pedagogue, conductor, musicologist, Bach scholar, publisher and writer	Newcastle upon Tyne	Durham University	1876-07-23
William Gowland		British archaeologist	Sunderland	Imperial College London	1842-12-16
William Grainge		British antiquarian (1818-1895)	Dishforth		1818-01-25		William Grainge
William Green			Belford		1844
William Greenwell		British archaeologist	Lanchester	Durham University Durham School	1820-03-23		William Greenwell
William Harcus		19th century Anglo-Australian cleric, journalist and editor	Newcastle upon Tyne		1823
William Harrison Cook		chemist	Alnwick	Stanford University University of Alberta	1903-09-02
William Harvey		English engraver and designer (1796-1866)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1796-07-13		William Harvey (engraver)
William Hawley Smith		American writer	Sunderland		1845-10-07
William Henderson		author (1813–1891)	Kirk Merrington		1813	Notes on the Folk Lore of the Northern Counties of England and the Borders
William Hepworth Thompson		British classical philologist (1810-1886)	York	Trinity College	1810-03-27		William Hepworth Thompson
William Herdman Elliott		British Australian biochemist	Durham		1925-06-05
William Hewson		British physiologist	Hexham	University of Edinburgh	1739-11-14		William Hewson (surgeon)
William Heysham Overend		(1851 - 1898) marine Artist and Book Illustrator	Coatham	Charterhouse School Bruce Castle School	1851		William Heysham Overend
William Hutchinson		English mariner, privateer, author, and inventor	Newcastle upon Tyne		1715
William Hutton		British geologist (1797-1860)	Sunderland		1797-07-26
William Ingle		British sculptor	Bishop Thornton		1828		William Ingle
William J. Eccles		British historian of Canada	North Yorkshire	McGill University	1917
William J. Young		English organist and composer	Durham		1835-04-18
William Jackson Bean		British botanist (1863-1947)	Malton	Holgate School, Barnsley	1863-05-26	Trees and shrubs hardy in the British Isles
William John Greenwell		19th-century English barrister and writer	St Helen Auckland	Marlborough College New College	1847-05-21		William John Greenwell
William Kay		English cleric and academic	Pickering	Giggleswick School Lincoln College	1820-04-08
William Kay Blacklock		painter	Bishopwearmouth	Edinburgh College of Art Royal College of Art	1872	A Dutch Idyll	William Kay Blacklock
William Kenneth Richmond			Darlington		1910
William King		Anglo-Irish geologist	Sunderland		1809-04-22		William King (géologue)
William Lambton		British geographer	Northallerton		1756 1753		William Lambton
William Lax		astronomer	Ravensworth	Trinity College	1761
William Mackenzie Thomson		Marine painter from Great Britain	Newcastle upon Tyne		1840		William Mackenzie Thomson
William Marshall		English writer on agriculture (1745-1818)	Sinnington		1745
William Martin		eccentric and self-proclaimed philosopher (1772-1851)	Haltwhistle		1772-06-21
William Mercer		English cleric, hymnwriter	Barnard Castle	Trinity College	1811
William Mitcheson Timlin		painter, draftsman, architect	Ashington	Morpeth School	1892-04-11		William Mitcheson Timlin
William Neile		British mathematician	Bishopthorpe	Wadham College University of Oxford	1637-12-07 1637-12-16
William Nicholson		English portrait painter and etcher (1781-1844)	Ovingham		1781-12-25		William Nicholson (1781–1844)
William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse		Anglo-Irish astronomer (1800-1867)	York	Magdalen College Trinity College Dublin	1800-06-17	Leviathan of Parsonstown	William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
William Pearson		British painter/draughtsman (1772-1849)	Durham		1772
William Percy		Poet and playwright, d. 1648	Tynemouth	Worcester College	1574
William Philipson		English-born New Zealand botanist and explorer (1911–1997)	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Cambridge University of London Dame Allan's School Durham University Downing College	1911-12-06
William Powell Frith		English painter (1819-1909)	Aldfield		1819-01-19	A Private View at the Royal Academy, 1881 The Crossing Sweeper	William Powell Frith
William Price Turner		(1927-), British poet	York		1927
William Ralph Inge		English author, Anglican dean and professor of divinity (1860–1954)	Crayke	Eton College King's College	1860-06-06		William Ralph Inge
William Richardson			York		1814		William Richardson (artist)
William Rickarby Miller		American painter (1818-1893)	Staindrop		1818-05-20		William Rickarby Miller
William Robinson		English architect (c.1720–1775)	Durham		1720
William Russell		English actor, born 1924	Sunderland		1924-11-19		William Russell (English actor)
William Scoresby		English Arctic explorer and whaler (1789–1857)	Cropton	Queens' College	1789-10-05		William Scoresby
William Scoresby		Arctic whaler and navigator (1760–1829)	Cropton		1760-05-03
William Shanks		Amateur calculator, school owner	Corsenside		1812-01-25		William Shanks
William Shield		English composer, viola player and song collector	Swalwell		1748-03-05		William Shield
William Stubbs		British historian and Anglican bishop (1825–1901)	Knaresborough	Christ Church Ripon Grammar School	1825-06-21		William Stubbs
William Thomas Gowland		English photographer, painter and decorateur	York		1831-10-03
William Thomas Hamilton (frontiersman)		American frontiersman and author	River Till		1822-12-06
William Thomas Stead		English newspaper editor (1849–1912)	Northumberland	Silcoates School	1849-07-05		William Thomas Stead
William Turner		16th century English Protestant reformer, physician and natural historian	Morpeth	Pembroke College	1510		William Turner (naturalist)
William Walker		English engraver (1729-1793)	Thirsk		1729-11		William Walker (engraver born 1729)
William Whitfield		British architect	Stockton-on-Tees		1920-10-21	Chartered Accountants' Hall
William Yorke Fausset		Anglo-Irish clergyman	Bishop Middleham		1859
Willie Williams		British stage and lighting designer	Newcastle upon Tyne	Silverdale School	1959-09-08
Willy Taylor		fiddler	Wooler		1916-01-05
Wilson Hepple		British painter (1854-1937)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1854
Woods Hutchinson		English physician	Selby	University of Michigan William Penn University	1862
Zachary Grey		British historian	Burniston		1686-05-06
Zeke Lund		British musician, songwriter	York		1945-11-13

non-binary

article	image	description	place of birth	educated at	date of birth	notable work	Commons category
Beth Jeans Houghton		English musician	Newcastle upon Tyne		1990-01-03		Beth Jeans Houghton
Olly Alexander		British singer and actor	Harrogate	Hereford College of Arts	1990-07-15		Olly Alexander

trans woman

article	image	description	place of birth	educated at	date of birth	notable work	Commons category
Abigail Thorn		British actress and YouTuber	Newcastle upon Tyne	East 15 Acting School University of St Andrews Royal Grammar School	1993-04-24	Philosophy Tube The Prince	Philosophy Tube
Sakuraburst		English music producer	York

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