List of people from the London Borough of Barnet
# List of people from the London Borough of Barnet

Among those who were born in the London Borough of Barnet, or have dwelt within the border of the modern borough are (alphabetical order, within category):

## Notable residents

| | Key to "Notes" regarding the residents' affiliation to Barnet |
| - | - |
| Letter | Description |
| B | Indicates that the resident was born in Barnet. |
| D | Indicates that the resident died in Barnet. |
| I | Indicates that the subject is buried in Barnet. |
| L | Indicates that the resident lived in Barnet. |
| | Citations in the Notes box refer to the information in the entire row |

### Academia and research

| Name | Notability | District |
| - | - | - |
| William Cattley | For whom the orchid species cattleya was named | |
| Peter Collinson | Botanist | Mill Hill |
| Harold Hopkins | Physicist | |
| John Strugnell | Dead Sea Scrolls editor-in-chief and Harvard Professor | |

### Arts and entertainment

| Name | Notability | District | Notes |
| - | - | - | - |
| Katrina Kaif | Indian-British actress in Bollywood | | B |
| Anthony Andrews | Actor | | |
| Richard Baker | Newsreader | | |
| Paul Freeman | Actor | | B |
| Peter Banks | Musician | | B,D |
| Stephanie Beacham | Actress | | |
| Claire Bloom | Actress | | |
| Emma Bunton | Singer | Finchley | |
| Dave Colwell | Guitar | | |
| Shelley Conn | Actress | | |
| Nadine Coyle | Singer | Chipping Barnet | |
| Paul Carrack | Keyboards and Singer | Chipping Barnet | |
| D. C. Eyles | Illustrator and comics artist | | |
| Andy Ellison | Singer | Finchley | |
| Samantha Fox | Model and singer | | |
| Robert Fripp | Musician | | |
| Morgan Fisher | Keyboards | Finchley | |
| Devin Griffin | BBC Radio 1 DJ (commonly known as Dev) | | |
| Trevor Howard | Actor | | |
| Dhani Harrison | Singer | Chipping Barnet | |
| Jade Jones | Singer | Finchley | |
| Howard Jones | Singer | Chipping Barnet | |
| Cariad Lloyd | Actress, writer and comedian | | |
| Tony Maudsley | Actor | | |
| Stephen Merchant | Actor, writer and comedian | | |
| George Michael | Singer and songwriter | Finchley | |
| Monica Michael | Singer-songwriter | | |
| Spike Milligan | Comedian | Finchley | L |
| Bob Monkhouse | Comedian | | |
| Sir Roger Moore | Actor | | |
| Eric Morecambe | Comedian | | |
| Billy Nicholls | Singer | | |
| Elaine Paige | Singer and actress | | |
| Nick Papadimitriou | Author | | |
| Frederick Peisley | Actor | | |
| Steve Pemberton | Actor | | |
| David Pentecost | Composer (Lived at Torrington Cottage, Church Path/Lodge Lane, 1940 to 1965) | Finchley | L |
| Anna Popplewell | Actress | | |
| Angharad Rees | Actress (born in Edgware Hospital and lived at 13 Engel Park, Mill Hill, until she was 2) | | |
| Sir Cliff Richard | Singer | | |
| Daniel Roche | Actor | | |
| Peter Sellers | Comedian | | |
| Feargal Sharkey | Singer | | |
| Reece Shearsmith | Actor | | |
| David Shepherd | Painter | | |
| Sir Donald Sinden | Actor (lived at 60, Temple Fortune Lane, Hampstead Garden Suburb 1954–1997) | | L |
| Marc Sinden | Film director, actor and theatre producer | | |
| Jerry Shirley | Drummer | | |
| Mike Skinner | Rapper and music producer | | |
| John Somerville | Sculptor | | |
| Jerry Springer | TV personality (born at East Finchley, or possibly Highgate) | | B |
| Steven Stapleton | Musician | | |
| Andy Summers | Musician | | |
| Zak Starkey | Drums | Chipping Barnet | |
| Terry-Thomas | Actor/comedian | Finchley | B |
| Lee Thompson | Musician | Finchley | |
| Simon Townshend | Singer | Finchley | |
| Alan Tilvern | Actor | | |
| Tamás Vásáry | Pianist and conductor | | |
| Johnny Vaughan | Radio presenter | | |
| Mark Vidler | Record producer, remixer, DJ | | |
| Marc Warren | Actor | Finchley | L |
| Amy Winehouse | Singer-songwriter | Southgate | I, L |
| Sir Norman Wisdom | Actor/comedian | | |
| Rick Wills | Bass Guitar | Finchley | |

### Crime

* Owen Suffolk – Australian transported convict and bushranger (born in Finchley in c.1830)

### Design

* Harry Beck – designer of the original Tube map

### Travel and exploration

| Name | Notability | District | Notes |
| - | - | - | - |
| Celia Fiennes | Early recreational traveller, the first recorded woman to visit every county in England | Mill Hill | L |
| David Livingstone | | | |

### Judiciary

* Sir William Shee, the first Roman Catholic judge to sit in England and Wales since the Reformation

### Literature

| Name | Notability | District | Notes |
| - | - | - | - |
| Fleur Adcock | Poet | | |
| Kingsley Amis | Novelist and poet | Barnet | L |
| Martin Amis | Novelist | Barnet | L |
| Alison Weir | Novelist, historian | Barnet | L |
| Charles Dickens | Novelist | Finchley | L |
| Sally Laird | Writer, editor and translator | | B |
| Tim Parks | Novelist (his semi-autobiographical Tongues of Flame is set in the North Finchley of 1968) | Finchley | |
| Samuel Pepys | Writer | | |
| Will Self | Novelist, reviewer and columnist | Finchley | L |

### Journalism and the media

| Name | Notability | District |
| - | - | - |
| Stephen Douglas | Journalist, ITV | |
| Richard Baker | Broadcaster | |
| Mark Kermode | Film critic | Finchley |
| John Kennedy O'Connor | Broadcaster & writer | Finchley |

### Politics and government

| Name | Notability | District | Notes |
| - | - | - | - |
| John Bercow | Former Speaker of the House of Commons and the Member of Parliament for Buckingham | Edgware | B |
| Cyril Bibby | prospective Labour Party candidate opposing Reginald Maudling in 1958–1959 | | |
| Robert Carr (Baron Carr of Hadley) | Conservative politician | | |
| Sir Sydney Chapman | Local MP 1979–2005 | | |
| Nick Griffin | Political Leader of the BNP | | |
| Octavia Hill | Social reformer | | L |
| Sir Stamford Raffles | Founder of Singapore | Mill Hill | L |
| Reginald Maudling | Local MP 1950–1979 | | |
| Sir Vincent Tewson | TUC General Secretary | Arkley | |
| Margaret Thatcher | Local MP and Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1979–1990 | | |
| William Wilberforce | Politician, philanthropist and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade | Mill Hill | L |
| John Wilkes | Radical, journalist and politician | Mill Hill | |

### Sport and games

| Name | Notability | District | Notes |
| - | - | - | - |
| Jayden Bennetts | Footballer | | |
| Keanan Bennetts | Footballer | Edgware | |
| David Crawley | Gaelic football player | | |
| C. B. Fry | Polymath best known as a cricketer | Childs Hill | L D |
| Darren Gerard | Cricketer | | |
| Mark Thomson | Darts | Finchley | |
| Phil Tufnell | Cricketer | Finchley | |
| Ram Vaswani | Professional poker and snooker player | | |
| Peter Wells | Olympic high jumper | | |
