Curated category
English people of Irish descent
- Alfred HitchcockOn the 13th of August 1899, a boy named Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born in the flat above his parents' greengrocer shop at 517 High Road in Leytonstone.
- David BowieDavid Robert Jones was born on the 8th of January 1947 in Brixton, London. His mother worked as a waitress at a cinema while his father managed promotions…
- John LennonJohn Winston Lennon was born on the 9th of October 1940 at Liverpool Maternity Hospital. His father Alfred worked as a merchant seaman and was away during…
- Charlie ChaplinLondon, 1897. A seven-year-old boy named Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr. sat at the Central London District School for paupers, his head cocked slightly to one…
- Tom HardyEdward Thomas Hardy was born in Hammersmith, London, on the 15th of September 1977. He grew up as the only child of Anne Barrett and Edward Chips Hardy.
- Margaret ThatcherMargaret Hilda Roberts was born on the 13th of October 1925 in Grantham, Lincolnshire. Her father Alfred Roberts owned a tobacconist and grocery shop that…
- Paul McCartneyPaul McCartney was born on the 18th of June 1942 at Walton Hospital in the Walton area of Liverpool. His mother Mary Patricia Mohin worked as a nurse and…
- Peter O'ToolePeter James O'Toole was born on the 2nd of August 1932 at St James's University Hospital in Leeds, Yorkshire. His father Patrick Joseph O'Toole worked as an…
- Ed SheeranEdward Christopher Sheeran was born on the 17th of February 1991 in Halifax, West Yorkshire. His family moved to Framlingham, Suffolk, when he was four years…
- Kate BushKate Bush was born on the 30th of July 1958 at a maternity hospital in Bexleyheath, Kent. Her father Robert Bush worked as an English doctor and her mother…
- Judi DenchJudi Dench was born in the Heworth area of York on the 9th of December 1934. Her father, Reginald Arthur Dench, practiced medicine there while her mother…
- George HarrisonOn the 25th of February 1943, George Harrison was born at 12 Arnold Grove in Wavertree, Liverpool. He grew up as the youngest of four children to Harold and…
- Daniel Day-LewisOn a gray afternoon in 1971, fourteen-year-old Daniel Day-Lewis walked past the church parked cars in Greenwich. He held a can of spray paint and felt a…
- Alan RickmanAlan Sidney Patrick Rickman was born on the 21st of February 1946 in Brentford, London. He grew up in Acton, a district to the west of Wormwood Scrubs Prison.
- Alan TuringAlan Mathison Turing was born on the 23rd of June 1912 in Maida Vale, London. His father served with the Indian Civil Service while his mother came from a…
- Pete BestRandolph Peter Best arrived in the world on the 24th of November 1941 within Madras, then part of British India. His mother Mona Best was a…
- Hilary MantelHilary Mary Thompson was born on the 6th of July 1952 in Glossop, Derbyshire. She grew up as a Roman Catholic in the mill village of Hadfield.
- Sean LennonSean Taro Ono Lennon entered the world at Weill Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan on the 9th of October 1975. This date marked his father John Lennon's…
- Annie BesantAnnie Wood was born on the 1st of October 1847 in London. Her father William Burton Persse Wood died when she was five years old.
- John KeeganJohn Desmond Patrick Keegan was born in Clapham, London on the 15th of May 1934. His father served as an Irish First World War veteran before the boy grew up.
- Julian LennonOn the 8th of April 1963, a boy named John Charles Julian Lennon entered the world at Sefton General Hospital in Liverpool.
- Harry KaneHarry Edward Kane was born on the 28th of July 1993 at Whipps Cross University Hospital in Leytonstone, London. He grew up in Walthamstow before his family…