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List of writers born in the North East of England

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article	image	description	place of birth	educated at	date of birth	notable work	occupation
Marmaduke Charles Frederick Morris			Crambe		1844-01-26		writer
Toby Kendall		archaeologist	Saltburn-by-the-Sea	University of Bradford			archaeologist

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article	image	description	place of birth	educated at	date of birth	notable work	occupation
Adele Parks		British writer	Teesside	University of Leicester	1969-02-11		writer
Adelle Stripe		British poet	York	University of Manchester University of Greenwich Tadcaster Grammar School	1976-09-14		poet blogger writer journalist music critic
Alanna Knight		British writer	Tyne and Wear		1923-02-24		writer
Alexandra Davies		Australian actress	Newcastle upon Tyne	Western Sydney University	1977-03-08		screenwriter actor film actor film director
Alice Lucas		English translator	Newcastle upon Tyne		1855-07-07	The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm	translator
Alice Thornton		British autobiographer during civil war	Kirklington		1626		writer autobiographer
Alison Parsons, Countess of Rosse		British artist and author	Darlington		1939-02-27		artist writer
Angela Milner		British paleontologist (1947-2021)	Gosforth	Newcastle upon Tyne Church High School	1947-10-03		paleontologist curator
Angela Readman		English poet and short story writer	Middlesbrough		1973		poet writer
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		writer playwright director actor theatrical director
Ann Liddell		political commentator	County Durham		1686		pundit
Anna Cetti		Mexican actress and filmmaker	Redcar		1982		actor film director film screenwriter
Anna Fisher Beiler		American missionary, newspaper editor	Newcastle upon Tyne	Ohio Wesleyan University	1848-02-25		writer
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		suffragist theologian autobiographer physician Christian minister writer
Anna Maria Porter		English writer, poet, novelist (1780–1832)	Durham		1778-12-22		poet novelist writer
Anna Raeburn		British journalist	Middlesbrough		1944-04-03		columnist
Anne Astin		Australian biochemist	Durham		1973		academic biochemist
Anne Clifford		noblewoman; English countess (1590-1676)	Skipton Castle		1590-01-30	Countess Pillar Skipton Castle Brough Castle Appleby Castle Brougham Castle Pendragon Castle	diarist architect politician writer
Anne Cooke		British biologist	South Shields	University of Glasgow	1945-01-14		pathologist biologist
Anne Curry		British military historian	Chester-le-Street		1954-05-27		medievalist historian university teacher
Anne Elliot		English writer	Newcastle upon Tyne		1856	Dr. Edith Romney	writer novelist
Anne Hepple		British writer and editor (1877-1959)	Widdrington Village		1877-10-16		writer novelist poet publisher
Anne Isabella Byron		English mathematician and the wife of poet wife of Lord Byron	County Durham		1792-05-17		poet mathematician writer aristocrat activist
Anne Mandall Johnson		infectious disease epidemiologist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Newnham College Newcastle University	1954-01-30		epidemiologist
Anne Monson		English botanist and collector of plants and insects (1726-1776)	Darlington		1726-06-25		botanist botanical collector scientific collector
Anne Rundle		British writer	Berwick-upon-Tweed		1920		novelist writer
Anne Seller		British philosopher	Harrogate	Bedford High School University of Leeds	1941		philosopher university teacher
Anne Vavasour		Mistress to English Earl	Tadcaster		1560		poet writer
Annie Denton Cridge		UK-born suffragist, socialist, lecturer and author, in USA from around 1842	Darlington		1825		writer publisher suffragist
Annie E. Ridley		English author	Houghton-le-Spring		1839-05-02		writer
Annie Raine Ellis		British literary editor and novelist	Durham		1828		writer editor novelist
Augusta Zelia Fraser		English writer working in Jamaica	East Cowton		1858		writer novelist
Barbara Harbottle		archaeologist	Gosforth	Girton College	1931-08-23		archaeologist
Barbara Ker Wilson		English-born Australian novelist	Sunderland		1929-09-24		novelist
Barbara Ward		British economist; life peer (1914-1981)	Heworth	University of Paris Somerville College	1914-05-23		economist journalist writer politician
Belle Rennie		[née Moorhouse], (1875–1966), educationist	Westoe		1875-02-17		pedagogue
Benedicta Ward		British theologian and historian	Durham	St Anne's College University of Manchester Bolton School	1933-02-04		historian theologian nun
Beverley Skeggs		British sociologist	Middlesbrough	University of York University of Keele	20th century		sociologist
Camilla Wedgwood		British anthropologist (1901-1955)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Bedales School Bedford College Newnham College Newcastle-under-Lyme School	1901-03-25		anthropologist
Caroline Vout		British classicist and art historian (born c.1972)	Durham	Newnham College	1972		classical scholar academic
Caroline de Crespigny		English poet and translator.	Durham		1797-10-24		poet diarist translator
Carolyn Hardy		Horticulturalist	Richmond		1930-06-16		horticulturist
Catharine Cappe		British writer, memoirist, and philanthropist	Long Preston		1744-06-03		writer
Catherine Cookson		British writer	South Shields Tyne Dock		1906-06-20		novelist writer
Catherine Jacob		British freelance broadcast journalist and news presenter	Sunderland Sunderland	Durham University	1976		journalist television presenter broadcast journalist news presenter writer
Catherine Muriel Rob		British botanist (1906-1975)	Thirsk		1906		botanist botanical collector
Catherine Rayner		British children's illustrator and writer	Harrogate	Edinburgh College of Art	1982		illustrator children's writer writer
Charlotte Crosby		British reality television personality	Sunderland		1990-05-16		television presenter autobiographer television personality entertainer
Charlotte Richardson		British poet	York		1775-03-05		poet writer
Charlotte Riley		British actress	Grindon	Durham University London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art Teesside High School St Cuthbert's Society	1981-12-29		actor playwright stage actor film actor writer
Charlotte Roberts		bioarchaeologist	Harrogate	University of Bradford University of Leicester	1957-05-25		anthropologist archaeologist nurse nurse scientist pathologist
Chrissie Glazebrook		British writer (1945-2007)	Scarborough	Northumbria University	1945-03-19		writer
Christian Howard		British Anglican leader	Castle Howard		1916-09-05		theologian
Christiane Sinding			Hexham		1945-12-08		historian of science physician
Christine Dobbin		English-born Australian historian	Bishop Auckland	University of Sydney University of Oxford	1941		historian
Christine Holt		British developmental neuroscientist	Wylam	University of Sussex King's College London	1954-08-28		neuroscientist
Clare McIntyre		British feminist playwright (1952-2009)	Harrogate		1952-07-21		actor playwright writer
Constance Leetham		British physiologist	York		1888-04-22		physiologist
Constance Sladen		English architectural historian and philanthropist	York		1848		architectural historian philanthropist artist
D. M. E. Foster		Ph.D. University of London 1960	Darlington	University of London Polam Hall School Bedford College	1933-12-03		mathematician
Daisy Hildyard		British novelist and mathematics historian	Ryedale		1984		novelist historian of mathematics essayist
Denise Robertson		British writer and television broadcaster (1932-2016)	Sunderland	Sunderland High School	1932-06-09		television presenter writer
Denise Welch		English Television presenter and actress	Ebchester	Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts	1958-05-22		actor autobiographer television presenter writer television actor
Diana V. Ashton			Durham		1840		pianist music educator translator
Diane Atkinson		British historian	North East England	University of East Anglia University of London	20th century		historian biographer women's rights activist
Dora Greenwell		English poet	Lanchester		1821-12-06		poet writer
Dora Russell		British novelist (1830-1905)	Willington		1830-06-21		novelist
Dorothy Auchterlonie		Australian writer and academic	Sunderland	University of Sydney	1915-05-28		poet literary critic writer literary historian journalist opinion journalist university teacher
Dorothy E. Smith		Canadian anthropologist	Northallerton	London School of Economics and Political Science University of California, Berkeley	1926-07-06		anthropologist sociologist
Dorothy Ripley		missionary	Whitby		1767		missionary writer
Dorothy Robson		British scientist and World War II civilian casualty	Guisborough	University of Leeds	1919-11-10		scientist
Dorothy Samuelson-Sandvid		English dialect writer	South Shields		1902-11-14		journalist writer
E. H. Young		English writer (1880-1949)	Northumberland	Rydal Penrhos Gateshead Grammar School	1880-03-21		novelist
Edith Sitwell		British poet (1887-1964)	Scarborough		1887-09-07	Façade	poet essayist literary critic writer biographer
Eileen O'Shaughnessy		British psychologist and writer (1905–1945)	South Shields	University College London Sunderland High School	1905-09-25		poet writer
Eliza Clark		British novelist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Chelsea College of Art and Design	1994		novelist writer screenwriter
Eliza Macauley		actor	York		1785		actor lecturer writer
Eliza Tabor Stephenson		British novelist	York		1835		novelist
Elizabeth Barrett Browning		English poet (1806–1861)	Coxhoe Hall Durham		1806-03-06	The Battle of Marathon: A Poem Aurora Leigh	poet screenwriter essayist pamphleteer translator writer
Elizabeth Elstob		English linguist and feminist (1683-1756)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1683-09-29		linguist historian translator women's rights activist feminist
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	writer journalist rancher
Elizabeth Gibson Cheyne		British writer	Hexham	Gateshead Grammar School	1869-01-02		writer
Elizabeth M. Shaw		British hydrologist	Hebburn	Bedford College Durham University	1928-02-14	Hydrology in Practice	hydrologist university teacher
Elizabeth Montagu		British social reformer, patron of the arts, hostess, literary critic, and writer; (1718-1800)	York		1718-10-02 1720		salonnière writer socialite essayist
Elizabeth Smith		English translator, linguist, and Biblical scholar	Durham		1776-12		translator biblical scholar orientalist
Elspeth Garman		Professor of Molecular Biophysics	Rothbury	Durham University University of Oxford	1954	Cryo bio-crystallography	crystallographer
Emily Gerard		British-Austrian writer	Chesters Roman Fort		1849-05-07		novelist children's writer critic writer collector of fairy tales
Emily J. Rayfield		British palaeontologist	Northallerton	University of Cambridge			paleontologist paleobiologist
Emily Woof		English actor, author	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Oxford	1967		actor screenwriter film director director
Emma Dench		English ancient historian, classicist, and academic administrator	York	Wadham College The King's High School for Girls	1963-04-14		historian
Emma Elliot		British novelist	Newcastle upon Tyne		1850		writer
Emma Hart		English computer scientist	Middlesbrough	University of Oxford	1967		computer scientist artificial intelligence researcher
Esme Langley		writer, Publisher, Feminist	Guisborough		1919-08-26		writer
Esther McCracken		British actress and playwright	Newcastle upon Tyne	Newcastle High School for Girls	1902-06-25		playwright writer
Eta Cohen		English violinist	Sunderland		1916		writer music educator violinist
Ethel Snowden		British socialist, feminist, women's suffrage and pacifist campaigner (1881-1951)	Pannal		1881-09-08		politician women's rights activist pacifist suffragist
Eugenie Henderson		Henderson [married name Meier], Eugénie Jane Andrina (1914–1989), phonetician and linguistic scholar	Newcastle upon Tyne	University College London	1914-10-02		linguist university teacher
Faith Gray		British diarist in York 1751-1826	York		1751-01-31		diarist
Fifi Colston		British-born New Zealand writer	York	Victoria University of Wellington	1960-07-05		writer
Fiona Hill		American foreign policy adviser (born 1965)	Bishop Auckland	Harvard University University of St Andrews Moscow State Linguistic University	1965-10 1965		political scientist
Florence Trevelyan		Italian conservationist (1852-1907)	Hexham		1852-02-07		naturalist
Gabriela Cunninghame Graham		British writer	Masham		1861		writer translator
Geraldine Mitton		British writer (1868–1955)	Bishop Auckland	Durham High School for Girls	1868-10-14		novelist biographer writer editor
Gertrude Bell		British traveller, writer, mountaineer, politician, archaeologist and spy (1868–1926)	Washington	Lady Margaret Hall Queen's College London	1868-07-14		explorer archaeologist writer mountaineer diplomat photographer spy assyriologist politician arabist
Gladys Mary Wrigley		British American geologist	York	Aberystwyth University Yale University	1885-09-14		geologist journal editor
Glenis Willmott		British politician (born 1951)	Horden	Nottingham Trent University	1951-03-04		politician trade unionist medical researcher physician
Hannah Burdon		English novelist	Morpeth		1800-07-15		novelist painter
Hannah Morrish		actress	York		1993-04-13		actor voice actor screenwriter
Harriet Bridgeman		British art historian	County Durham	Trinity College Dublin Heathfield School	1942-03-30		art historian
Harriet Parr		British author of the Victorian era	York		1828-01-31		writer novelist
Hazel Osmond			Northumberland		1960-01-12		writer journalist
Helen Bailey		British writer	Newcastle upon Tyne	Ponteland High School	1965		writer
Helen Collingwood Fortune Hopkins		British botanist (1953- )	Hartlepool		1953		botanist
Henrietta Eliza Vaughan Stannard		English writer, editor	York		1856-01-13		writer novelist journalist editor
Heulwen Isambard Owen		writer	Newcastle upon Tyne		1908		writer
Hilary Lappin-Scott		British microbiologist	Middlesbrough	University of Warwick University of Calgary	1955-05-23		microbiologist
Hilda D. Oakeley		British philosopher	Durham	Somerville College McGill University University of Oxford University of London	1867-10-12		philosopher university teacher
Honor Bridget Fell		British scientist and zoologist	North Yorkshire	University of Edinburgh Madras College Wychwood School	1900-05-22		immunologist zoologist
Imogen Robertson		English director in different media, a poet and novelist	Darlington		1973		writer director
Imogen Stubbs		British actress	Rothbury	Exeter College Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Westminster School St Paul's Girls' School	1961-02-20		actor playwright writer stage actor film actor
Isabella Bird		British traveler, writer, photographer and naturalist (1831–1904)	Boroughbridge		1831-10-15	Korea and Her Neighbours	explorer writer naturalist geographer photographer traveler botanical collector
Isabella Eleanor Aylmer		British novelist and travel writer	Bellshill		1840	Distant Homes; or, The Graham Family in New Zealand	writer
Jacqueline Baird		British writer	Northumberland		20th century		novelist
Jan Dewing		Professor of Nursing and researcher (ORCID 0000-0002-7968-2213)	Gateshead	The Open University Harvard University	1900s		researcher academic
Jan Fearnley			South Shields		1965-02-19		children's writer illustrator
Jan McLelland		English dermatologist	Newcastle upon Tyne	University College London Dame Allan's School	1957-09-26		writer physician
Jan Michael		British writer	Wigglesworth		1947-03-03		writer
Jane Bewick		English writer	Newcastle upon Tyne		1787-04-29		writer
Jane Gardam		British novelist and children's writer	Coatham North Yorkshire	Bedford College	1928-07-11		writer novelist literary critic children's writer short story writer
Jane Glover		British-born conductor and music scholar	Helmsley	St Hugh's College Haberdashers Monmouth School for Girls	1949-05-13		conductor musicologist
Jane Gomeldon		British writer	Newcastle upon Tyne		1720		writer essayist poet
Jane Porter		Scottish historical novelist, dramatist and literary figure (1776-1850)	Durham		1776-01-17	The Scottish Chiefs	writer novelist
Jane Ridley		English historian	Northumberland	Nuffield College Cranborne Chase School	1953-05-15		historian biographer writer
Jane Squire		mathematician and feminist	York		1686		mathematician women's rights activist
Janet MacLeod Trotter		English writer	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Edinburgh	1958		writer
Janis Freegard		poet and writer in New Zealand	South Shields		1963		poet writer
Jessica Andrews		Englsh novelistr	Sunderland	King's College London University of Kent St Robert of Newminster Catholic School	1992		writer academic
Jessie Douglas Kerruish		British writer (1884–1949)	Seaton Carew		1884		writer science fiction writer
Jill Dawson		British writer	Durham		1962-04-08		novelist
Judi Dench		English actress (born 1934)	York	Central School of Speech and Drama Clifton Pre-preparatory School	1934-12-09		film actor television actor voice actor autobiographer stage actor film director theatrical director actor
Julia Wilmotte Henshaw		Canadian botanist and writer (1869-1937)	Durham		1869-08-08		botanist geographer writer political activist ambulance driver photographer
Julie Mennell		vice chancellor of the University of Cumbria	Middlesbrough		1970-02-04		scientist police officer
Kate Adie		British journalist	Northumberland	Newcastle University Sunderland High School	1945-09-19		journalist television presenter writer author
Kate Atkinson		English writer of novels, plays and short stories	York	University of Dundee Queen Anne Grammar School	1951-12-20		screenwriter novelist playwright journalist short story writer writer poet
Kate Maxwell			Gateshead	University of Glasgow	1979-06-17		composer scientist
Kate Wilson		British Molecular Biologist	Shipton	Harvard University University of Cambridge			molecular biologist
Katherine Langrish		British writer	Newcastle upon Tyne	University College London King's College London Skipton Girls' High School		Troll Mill Troll Blood Troll Fell	writer
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		biologist
Katherine Routledge		British archaeologist (1866 – 1935)	Darlington	Somerville College	1866-08-11		anthropologist archaeologist
Kathleen Gough		British anthropologist	Hunsingore	King James's School Girton College	1925-08-16		anthropologist university teacher feminist
Kathleen Hughes		British historian (1926-1977)	Middlesbrough		1926-09-08		church historian historian
Kathleen Mary Tillotson		English literary scholar	Berwick-upon-Tweed	Ackworth School Somerville College	1906		literary scholar literary critic
Kathleen Winter		Canadian writer	Bill Quay		1960-02-25	Annabel	writer screenwriter novelist short story writer
Katie Davies			Newcastle upon Tyne		1978		writer children's writer actor
Kristan Higgins		American author of contemporary romance	Durham	College of the Holy Cross	1965		writer novelist
Lavinia Derwent		British writer and broadcaster	The Cheviot Hills		1909		writer children's writer
Lesley Horton		British crime author	Farnhill				writer
Lesley Milroy		American linguist	Newcastle upon Tyne		1944-03-05		linguist sociologist
Lillias Wassermann		British novelist	Newcastle upon Tyne		1846		novelist short story writer journalist poet
Linda Chapman		British writer	Liverpool North Yorkshire		1969-01-15		writer children's writer
Linda France		British poet, writer and editor	Wallsend	University of Leeds	1958		poet writer
Linda McCullough Thew		British writer	Ashington		1918-04-13		writer
Liz Sockett		British microbiologist	Newcastle upon Tyne	University College London University of Oxford	1962		microbiologist
Lorna Hill		British writer (1902-1991)	Durham	Durham University	1902-02-21		writer novelist children's writer
Louise Ross		British author of crime thrillers set in the North of England	Newcastle upon Tyne	King's College London			novelist
Lucinda Lambton		British author, photographer, producer, architectural historian	Newcastle upon Tyne	Queen's Gate School Sunderland High School	1943-05-10 1943		photographer television presenter aristocrat writer broadcaster
Lucy Atkinson		traveller and writer, wife of Thomas Wiltlam Atkinson (1817-1893)	Sunderland		1817-04-15		writer explorer traveler
Luise von Robiano			Newcastle upon Tyne		1823-01-27		teacher writer
Lyn Irvine		British journalist	Berwick-upon-Tweed	University of Aberdeen Girton College	1901-05-03		journalist autobiographer biographer writer
M. Oldfield Howey		British writer (1882–1967)	York		1882-08-19		writer
Mairin Mitchell		British journalist, author and translator	Darlington	St Winifred's School	1895-05-20		journalist writer
Margaret Greig		British mathematician	Gosforth	Newnham College Newcastle High School for Girls	1922-02-11		mathematician
Margaret Harvey		English poet and scholar	Newcastle upon Tyne		1768		poet writer
Margaret Hayman		British mathematics educator (1923-1994)	New Earswick	Newnham College	1923-08-07		mathematician
Margaret Plues		English botanist (1828-1903)	Ripon		1828		botanist nun writer mycologist governess
Margaret Raine Hunt		British writer (1831-1912)	County Durham		1831-10-14		linguist novelist translator
Margaret Rebecca Dickinson		British botanist, botanical artist & illustrator (1821-1918)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1821-07-22		botanical illustrator watercolorist botanist botanical collector
Margaret Stuart Barry		British writer	Richmond		1927-12-07	Simon and the Witch	writer children's writer
Marguerite J. Gascoigne		British writer	Durham	Durham University	1916-05-01		novelist children's writer writer
Marie Lebour		British marine biologist (1876-1971)	Northumberland	Durham University University of Leeds	1876-08-20		biologist marine biologist scientific illustrator zoologist botanist
Marina Palmer			Darlington		1973		writer director
Marion Angus		Scottish poet (1865-1946)	Sunderland	Arbroath High School	1865-03-27		poet writer
Marion Emma Young		British botanist (1903—2000)	Benwell	University of Leeds	1903-06-22		botanist botanical collector
Marion Isobel Newbigin		Scottish geographer, biologist and zoologist (1869-1934)	Alnwick	University of Edinburgh	1869		biologist marine biologist zoologist editor geographer
Marion Paton		Accountant and code breaker	Aldborough		1923		cryptanalyst accountant
Martha Kneale		British philosopher	Skipton	Somerville College	1909		philosopher
Mary Astell		English feminist writer (1666-1731)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1666-11-12		writer philosopher women's rights activist
Mary Bateson		British historian (1865-1906)	Robin Hood's Bay	Newnham College The Perse School Stephen Perse Foundation	1865-09-12		historian suffragist
Mary Berry		writer	Crakehall		1763-03-16		writer
Mary Bradburn		British mathematics educator	Normanby	Royal Holloway, University of London	1918-03-17		mathematician
Mary Burchell		British novelist who worked help Jews escape Nazi Germany	Sunderland	The Duchess's Community High School	1904-08-24 1902		novelist table tennis player writer
Mary Elizabeth Carter		English writer (1853-1935)	Masham		1853		writer
Mary Grey		British theologian	Houghton-le-Spring	University of Oxford Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	1941-06-16		theologian
Mary Linskill		English novelist (1840-1891)	Whitby		1840		novelist short story writer poet writer
Mary Osborn		British molecular biologist	Darlington	Pennsylvania State University Harvard University Cheltenham Ladies' College Newnham College	1940-12		molecular biologist
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	novelist writer screenwriter poet primary school teacher gymnastics teacher
Mary Ward		English Venerated Catholic (1585-1645)	Newby with Mulwith		1585-01-23		pedagogue nun
Maud Sellers		Curator and Guild Member	Harrogate	Trinity College Dublin Newnham College	1861		curator historian archivist
Melanie J. Leng		geoscientist and researcher	Scarborough	Scarborough Sixth Form College			geologist
Melody Sachs		English actress and author	Newcastle upon Tyne				actor novelist
Mildred Blaxter		sociologist (1925–2010)	Jesmond	St Anne's College	1925-03-27		sociologist university teacher
Miriam Stoppard		British journalist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Durham University Newcastle University Newcastle High School for Girls	1937-05-12		columnist television presenter writer
Nancy Siraisi		American medical historian	Catterick	University of Oxford CUNY Graduate School and University Center	1932		medical historian historian university teacher
Naomi Jacob		British writer and actress (1884-1964)	Ripon		1884-07-01		actor writer novelist
Nicola Spaldin		Professor of Materials Theory at ETH Zurich	Sunderland	University of California, Berkeley	1969-01-03		university teacher researcher
Nicole Westmarland		British criminologist	Darlington	University of York Teesside University	1977		criminologist
Nina Abbott		British writer	Ripon		1860		teacher novelist
Olive Checkland		English historian	Newcastle upon Tyne		1920		historian
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	writer novelist screenwriter historian
Pauline Dixon		British writer	Newcastle upon Tyne		1962-02		writer
Penelope Walton Rogers		archaeologist	Newcastle upon Tyne		1950		medieval archaeologist
Phoebe Power		British poet	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Cambridge	1993		poet
Priscilla Bawcutt			Malton		1931		philologist literary scholar editor
Rachel Ford Thompson		English botanist and temperance activist (1856-1906)	York		1856-08-31		botanist botanical collector activist
Rachel Pain		British geographer	Northumberland		1968-08-16		geographer university teacher
Robyn Bolam		poet	Newcastle upon Tyne		1953		poet
Roxie Cooper			Middlesbrough				lawyer jurist writer
Ruth Clark		British writer (1899-1964)	Sunderland		1899-11-29		writer
Sally Bidgood		British botanist (1948-2018)	Corbridge	Ackworth School	1948-04-13		botanist trade unionist
Sally Nicholls		novelist	Stockton-on-Tees	Bath Spa University University of Warwick Great Ayton Friends' School	1983-06-22	Ways to Live Forever	writer children's writer
Sarah F. Wood		UK tech executive & Quixote scholar (1973-)	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Cambridge University College London	1973-05		businessperson entrepreneur merchant literary scholar investor academic business executive
Sarah Millican		English comedian	South Shields	Mortimer Community College	1975-05-29		comedian stand-up comedian autobiographer
Sarah Wanless		English ornithologist and research ecologist	Scarborough	University of Aberdeen			ornithologist
Selina Scott		English newsreader, journalist, television producer and presenter	Scarborough	University of East Anglia Laurence Jackson School	1951-05-13		journalist news presenter television producer television presenter writer
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)	historian university teacher
Shelagh Stephenson		British writer	Northumberland	University of Manchester	1955		playwright writer
Stella Morton		British writer	Richmond				writer
Stella Rayner O'Donnell		English-born Australian pharmacologist and educator	Harrogate		1938-07-06		pharmacologist academic
Storm Jameson		British writer (1891-1986)	Whitby	University of Leeds King's College London	1891-01-08		novelist writer science fiction writer
Sue Carroll		British writer and columnist (1953-2011)	Gosforth	Gosforth Academy	1953-12-06		columnist journalist
Sue Clayton		film director and writer	Newcastle upon Tyne				film director writer university teacher director
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	writer novelist screenwriter publisher playwright author journalist
Susan Katherine Phillips		English poet	Aldborough		1831		writer poet
Sylvia Waugh		British children's writer	Gateshead	Gateshead Grammar School	1935		writer science fiction writer children's writer
Taylor Wane		British pornographic actress and director	Gateshead		1968-08-27		pornographic actor erotic photography model actor pornographic film director entrepreneur writer film producer radio personality film director
Tillie Cole			Stockton-on-Tees	Newcastle University	1983-02-15		writer high school teacher
Tricia Walker		British writer (1964-2018)	Ampleforth		1964-02-08		writer
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		author university teacher translator
Val Wilmer		British photographer and writer	Harrogate		1941-12-07		photographer journalist non-fiction writer music journalist
Valerie Grove		British journalist	South Shields	Girton College	1946-05-11		journalist biographer
Vera Cowie			South Shields		1928		writer
Veronica Wedgwood		English historian	Northumberland	Lady Margaret Hall Norland Place School	1910-07-20		historian of Modern Age historian translator
Violet Hunt		British writer (1862-1942)	Durham	Notting Hill and Ealing High School	1862-09-28 1866-09-28		novelist writer
Virginia Nicholson		English historian	Newcastle upon Tyne Newcastle	King's College	1955		writer non-fiction writer opinion journalist historian
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		physician translator writer journalist

male

article	image	description	place of birth	educated at	date of birth	notable work	occupation
A. V. Coton		English ballet critic (1906-1969)	York		1906-02-16		writer dance critic
Aaron Arrowsmith		English cartographer and hydrographer	Winston		1750-07-14 1748-07-14		cartographer publisher
Abel Chapman		British conservationist and writer	Bishopwearmouth		1851-10-04		naturalist writer
Abhisit Vejjajiva		Thai politician	Newcastle upon Tyne	St John's College Eton College Nuffield College	1964-08-03		economist politician university teacher
Adam Hewison		former professional trader and entrepreneur	Newcastle upon Tyne		1945		floor trader writer
Adam Maxwell		British writer	Sunderland		1976-10-24		writer
Adam of Bockenfield		English Franciscan philosopher	Bockenfield		1220s		philosopher
Adrian Raine		British psychologist	Darlington	University of Oxford	1954-01-27		psychologist criminologist
Aelred of Rievaulx		English writer, abbot, and saint	Hexham		1110	De spirituali amicitia	writer hagiographer historian monk chronicler Catholic priest
Aidan Chambers		British children's writer	Chester-le-Street		1934-12-27		playwright writer children's writer
Alan Brien		English novelist (1925-2008)	Sunderland	Jesus College	1925-03-12		journalist novelist film critic
Alan Broadbent		British mathematician	Consett	St John's College	1903-05-31		mathematician
Alan Bruce Thompson		English geologist and petrologist	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Manchester	1947-05-01		geologist petrologist
Alan C. Nixon			Lake District	University of Saskatchewan University of California, Berkeley	1908		chemist
Alan Carter		writer and documentary filmmaker	Sunderland		1959		writer documentary filmmaker
Alan Cowey		British neuroscientist (1935-2012)	Sunderland	Emmanuel College	1935-04-28		neuroscientist
Alan E. M. Nairn		researcher	Newcastle upon Tyne		1927-09-09		researcher geologist
Alan Garton		biochemist	Scarborough		1922-06-04		biochemist
Alan Melville		English broadcaster, writer, playwright and wit	Berwick-upon-Tweed	Edinburgh Academy	1910-04-09		writer playwright screenwriter television actor
Alan Milburn		British politician (born 1958)	Tow Law	University of Lancaster Stokesley School Pendle College, Lancaster	1958-01-27		politician researcher administrator
Alan Myers		British translator	South Shields	Philological Faculty of Moscow State University University of London	1933-08-18		translator
Alan Plater		English screenwriter	Jarrow	Newcastle University	1935-04-15	Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt!	screenwriter writer
Alan Plumb		British American meteorology professor	Ripon	University of Manchester	1948-03-30		pedagogue meteorologist mathematician
Alan Race			Stockton-on-Tees		20th century		theologian
Alan S. Duncan		British economist	Gateshead	University of York University of Manchester School of Social Sciences	1965-01-13		economist
Alan Shearer		English footballer	Newcastle upon Tyne	Gosforth Academy	1970-08-13		association football player association football manager sports commentator
Alan Simpson			Gateshead		1912-07-23		historian
Alan T. Peacock		British economist	Ryton	University of St Andrews Grove Academy	1922-06-26		economist university teacher writer
Alan Woodworth Johnson		English organic chemist (1917–1982)	South Shields		1917-09-29		chemist
Alan Young		British actor (1919–2016)	North Shields		1919-11-19		actor voice actor comedian radio personality television presenter film director television actor screenwriter
Albany Hancock		English naturalist, biologist and supporter of Charles Darwin (1806-1873)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Royal Grammar School	1806-12-24		zoologist biologist geologist scientific illustrator
Albert Charles Robinson Carter			York		1864-01-23		journalist art critic
Albert Christopher Addison		writer, Newspaper reporter	Northallerton		1862-04-22		historian
Albert Robinson Bulman		British novelist	Newcastle upon Tyne		1841		novelist
Alcuin		8th century English scholar, clergyman, poet, and teacher	York	St Peter's School	740	De dialectica Propositiones ad Acuendos Juvenes Alcuin's sequence Quaestiones in Genesim	theologian poet writer philosopher Catholic priest
Alec Wainman		British photographer	North Yorkshire		1913-03-11		war photographer
Alex Kershaw		American writer	York	University College, Oxford	1966		journalist historian of Modern Age historian writer
Alexander Simpson Patterson		Scottish Presbyterian minister	Alnwick	University of Edinburgh University of Glasgow	1805		Christian minister translator
Alexis Petridis		British music journalist (born 1971)	Sunderland	University of Cambridge Dr Challoner's Grammar School	1971-09-13		journalist music critic
Alfred Cardew Dixon		English mathematician (1865-1936)	Northallerton	Trinity College	1865-05-22	Dixon's identity Dixon's elliptic functions	mathematician writer
Alfred James Jenkinson		translator; senior dean of Brasenose College, Oxford; O. B. E.	Tynemouth		1877		translator
Alfred Rayney Waller		English writer and editor (1867-1922)	York	Peterhouse	1867-08-02		journalist translator editor
Alfred Richard Allinson		British academic, author, and voluminous translator of continental European literature	Newcastle upon Tyne	Lincoln College	1852-12		writer linguist translator university teacher
Alfred Richard Orage		British politician (1873-1934)	Dacre		1873-01-22		philosopher publisher journalist
Alfred Sidgwick		British logician and philosopher	Skipton		1850		logician philosopher
Algernon Ashton		English Composer and Piano Teacher (1859-1937)	Durham	Hoch Conservatory University of Music and Theatre Leipzig	1859-12-09		composer pianist music educator diarist
Ali Brownlee		English radio broadcaster	Middlesbrough		1959-04-14		author editor sports commentator radio personality
Alistair Ian Blyth		translator and writer	Sunderland		1970		translator writer
Allan Boardman		British physicist	Northumberland	Durham University			physicist
Allan Prior		English television scriptwriter and novelist	Newcastle upon Tyne		1922-01-13		crime fiction writer screenwriter
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		immunologist microbiologist physician
Andrew Ainslie Common		British astronomer	Newcastle upon Tyne		1841-08-07		astronomer
Andrew Chadwick		political scientist	Middlesbrough	University of Birmingham London School of Economics and Political Science	1970		political scientist
Andrew Gibb Maitland		Australian geologist (1864-1951)	Birkby		1864-11-30		geologist
Andrew Haigh		English film director, screenwriter and producer	Harrogate		1973-03-07		screenwriter film producer film director film editor
Andrew Hodgson		British translator	Northumberland		1994-01-15		translator
Andrew Martin		British writer	York	Merton College	1962-07-06		journalist novelist non-fiction writer poet lawyer
Andrew Thomson		British historian (1936-2014)	Stockton-on-Tees	Cornell University St Edmund Hall St. Bees School	1936-01-26		historian
Andrew White Tuer		British printer	Sunderland		1838-12-25		writer historian
Angelo Raine		British priest and antiquarian	York		1877-09-29		priest historian antiquarian
Angus Maddison		British economist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Selwyn College Johns Hopkins University	1926-12-06		economist university teacher
Angus McKie		artist	Newcastle upon Tyne		1951-07		illustrator comics colorist
Angus Watson		British journalist and writer of fantasy and science fiction (1972-)	Hexham	University of Bristol	1972-09-04	Age of Iron	writer banker journalist science fiction writer
Anthony Birley		British archaeologist (1937–2020)	Bardon Mill	Magdalen College Clifton College	1937-10-08		anthropologist classical archaeologist university teacher
Anthony Havelock-Allan		British Baronet (1904-2003)	Darlington	Charterhouse School	1904-02-28		stockbroker film producer screenwriter film director producer
Anthony Robinson		surgeon and botanist (1700-1768)	Sunderland		1700		botanist
Anthony Rowley		British author and linguist	Skipton	University of Bayreuth	1953-07-22		linguist university teacher Germanist
Anthony Sampson		British writer and journalist	Billingham	Christ Church Westminster School	1926-08-03		journalist writer
Arnold Barratt McMillin		British historian (born 1941)	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of London	1941-06-21		literary scholar philologist slavist
Arthur Carty		Canadian chemist	Rowlands Gill	University of Nottingham	1940-09-12		chemist
Arthur Headlam		British bishop (1862–1947)	Whorlton	Winchester College New College Reading School	1862-08-02		theologian Anglican priest
Arthur Hinsley		Catholic cardinal	Carlton	English College Ushaw College	1865-08-25		theologian Catholic priest Catholic bishop
Arthur Holmes		English geologist	Gateshead	Imperial College London Gateshead Grammar School	1890-01-14		geophysicist geologist
Arthur Hubert Terry		English linguist, translator and critic	York	University of Cambridge St Peter's School Trinity Hall	1927-02-17		translator linguist university teacher
Arthur Humble Evans		British ornithologist (1855-1943)	Scremerston	Clare College University of Cambridge	1855-02-23		botanist ornithologist
Arthur Lee Dixon		British mathematician	Pickering	Worcester College Kingswood School	1867-11-27		mathematician university teacher
Arthur Munby		British writer	York	Trinity College	1828-08-19		barrister solicitor diarist writer
Arthur Willey		director of Colombo Museum, Ceylon	Scarborough	University College London Christ's College Kingswood School	1867-10-09		zoologist naturalist
August Vanistendael		Belgian poet and author	Northumberland		1917-01-09		poet writer trade unionist
Banesh Hoffmann		American mathematician and physicist (1906-1986)	Richmond	Merton College Princeton University	1906-09-06		mathematician physicist actor
Barnabas Brough		British playwright	Newcastle upon Tyne		1796		playwright
Barrie Dobson		English historian (1931-2013)	Stockton-on-Tees	Wadham College Barnard Castle School	1931-11-03		historian
Barry Duffield		Australian actor, director, scriptwriter and producer	Billingham		1962-02-28		actor film producer screenwriter film director television actor
Barry Unsworth		English novelist (1930–2012)	Wingate	University of Manchester	1930-08-10	Sacred Hunger	writer novelist
Basil Bunting		poet	Benwell & Scotswood	London School of Economics and Political Science Leighton Park School Ackworth School Royal Grammar School	1900-03-01		poet translator
Basil Hall		British theologian and historian (1915-1994)	Ryton		1915-06-23		historian theologian
Basil Hume		British Roman-Catholic Benedictine monk and prelate, archbishop of Westminster, cardinal (1923-1999)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Ampleforth College University of Fribourg Newcastle Preparatory School St Martin's Ampleforth	1923-03-02		theologian Catholic priest Catholic bishop
Bede		English monk and saint	Jarrow		672	Ecclesiastical History of the English People Chronica minora The Reckoning of Time On times De natura rerum	hagiographer poet church historian translator theologian writer Bible translator historian hymnwriter
Ben Anderson		British journalist, television reporter, and writer	Cleveland	Bedford Modern School			journalist reporter writer television producer television writer
Ben Hills		Australian journalist	Grassington		1942		journalist writer
Ben Myers		British writer and journalist (1976-)	Durham	University of Bedfordshire Belmont Community School	1976	Richard: A Novel	writer poet journalist
Bentley Beetham		British mountain climber, ornithologist and photographer	Darlington	Barnard Castle School	1886-05-01		ornithologist photographer school teacher
Bernard Bosanquet		English philosopher	Alnwick	Balliol College Harrow School	1848-06-14	The Distinction between Mind and Its Objects	philosopher
Bernard Comrie		British linguist	Sunderland	University of Cambridge	1947-05-23		linguist
Bernard Dearman Burtt		British botanist (1902-1938)	York		1902-06-14		botanist
Bernard Dixon		science journalist	Darlington	Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College Durham University Newcastle University	1938-07-17		journalist editor science writer
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		screenwriter playwright
Bijan Omrani			York	Wellington College Lincoln College	1979		classical scholar writer
Bilge Ebiri		American filmmaker and journalist	York	Yale University	1973		film director journalist film critic
Bill Green		English footballer and manager (1950-2017)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1950-12-22		association football player association football manager scout
Bill Richardson		British newspaper editor (1909–1986)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Co-operative College	1909-01-16		journalist writer newspaper editor
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		researcher
Bill Thompson		English technology writer, born 1960	Jarrow	St Catharine's College, Cambridge	1960-10-06	The birth of a UK tech giant	journalist radio personality writer programmer
Bill Travers		British activist (1922-1994)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1922-01-03		actor film director screenwriter film producer film actor
Blake Morrison		Poet and author	Skipton	University of Nottingham University College London McMaster University Ermysted's Grammar School	1950-10-08		poet writer novelist author
Bob Mortimer		English comedian and actor	Acklam Middlesbrough	University of Leicester University of Sussex King's Manor School	1959-05-23		comedian television presenter screenwriter
Bobby Charlton		English association football player and manager (1937–2023)	Ashington	Bedlingtonshire Community High School Loreto Grammar School	1937-10-11		association football player association football manager autobiographer
Bobby Robson		English association football player and manager (1933-2009)	Sacriston		1933-02-18		association football player autobiographer association football manager
Brian Clough		English football player and manager (1935–2004)	Middlesbrough		1935-03-21		association football player autobiographer association football manager
Brian David Smith		British academic	Hebburn	Cranfield University Newcastle University	1961		writer
Brian Dobson		British archaeologist (1931-2012)	Hartlepool	Hatfield College Durham University	1931-09-13		classical archaeologist docent
Brian Foster		British physicist	Crook	University of Oxford Wolsingham School	1954-01-04		physicist university teacher
Brian Kidd Ridley		British physicist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Durham University	1931-03-02 1931		physicist
Brian Lane		British fighter pilot	Harrogate		1917-06-18		fighter pilot biographer
Brian Lumley		English horror fiction writer (1937–2024)	County Durham		1937-12-02	Cthylla	novelist writer
Brian Walton		British bishop	Seamer	Peterhouse Magdalene College Royal Grammar School	1600	Walton Polyglot Bible	priest theologian writer
Bruce Haywood		American educator	York	McGill University Harvard University	1925-09-30		Germanist
Bryan Henry Darnell		British born South African politician and New Zealand land surveyor and civil engineer (1820-1906)	Darlington		1820		surveyor civil engineer politician
Byrom Bramwell		British pathologist	North Tyneside	University of Edinburgh	1847-12-18		pathologist surgeon physician neurosurgeon
C. E. M. Joad		British philosophera	Durham	Balliol College Dragon School Blundell's School	1891-08-12		civil servant professor philosopher peace activist author farmer
C. H. B. Kitchin		British writer	Harrogate	Clifton College Exeter College	1895-10-17		crime fiction writer lawyer
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	historian writer novelist opinion journalist journalist
C. Peter Flynn		American physicist	Stockton-on-Tees	University of Cambridge University of Leeds	1935-08-18		physicist
Charles Aitken		British art administrator (1869-1936)	Bishophill	New College	1869-09-12		exhibition curator
Charles Ambrose Storey		British academician (1888-1967)	Blackhill		1888-08-21		orientalist academic
Charles Avison		English composer	Newcastle upon Tyne		1709-02		composer music critic
Charles Bertram Smales		botanist and botanical collector (1870-1927)	Whitby		1870		botanist
Charles Cecil		British video game designer and director	York	Bedales School	1962-08-11		game designer video game producer screenwriter
Charles Daniels		British archaeologist (1932–1996)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1932-08-10		archaeologist
Charles Francis Riddell		British novelist	Felton Park		1817		novelist
Charles Hardwick		British historian	Slingsby		1821		historian
Charles Hedley		Australian zoologist (1862-1926)	North Yorkshire	Eastbourne College	1862-02-27		zoologist naturalist malacologist
Charles Herbert Kitson		British musician	Leyburn	Selwyn College	1874-11-13		organist musicologist music educator music theorist
Charles Hutton		English mathematician	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Edinburgh Royal Grammar School	1737-08-14		mathematician inventor
Charles Johnson		British archivist and historian (1870–1961)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1870-05-02		archivist historian
Charles Thomas Oldham		British actor, writer and producer	Gateshead	University of Cambridge	1982-11-28		actor banker screenwriter film producer television actor
Charles Thorp		Archdeacon of Durham (1783-1862)	Gateshead	Peterhouse	1783-10-13		writer
Charles Tindal Gatty		English antiquary, musician, and author (1851-1928)	Bedale	Charterhouse School	1851-11-14		writer
Charles Wakefield (numismatist)		British numismatist and museum curator	York		1834		numismatist
Charles Whiting		British writer and historian (1926-2007)	York	University of Leeds	1926-12-18		historian
Charlie English		British journalist	York		1967		journalist writer
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		actor screenwriter film actor model television actor
Charlie Mackesy		British artist and illustrator	Northumberland	Queen Elizabeth High School	1962		visual artist illustrator painter screenwriter film director
Chas Chandler		English musician (1938–1996)	Heaton		1938-12-18		guitarist record producer musician talent agent talent manager composer
Chris Foggin		British film director	Sunderland		1985-09-15	Bank of Dave	screenwriter film director
Chris Kamara		English association football player and manager (born 1957)	Middlesbrough		1957-12-25		association football player association football manager sports commentator journalist
Chris McCrudden			South Shields				writer
Chris Ryan		former British Special Forces operative and soldier turned novelist	Rowlands Gill		1961		writer military personnel
Chris Waddle		English footballer (born 1960)	Felling		1960-12-14		association football player association football manager sports commentator
Chris Walton		British librarian and music historian	Billingham		1963-07-06		librarian music historian university teacher musicologist conductor composer
Christian Gamst Miller-Harris		Danish-British screenwriter	Ashington	University of Reading University of Copenhagen National Film School of Denmark			screenwriter
Christopher Dawson		American classical philologist (1908-1972)	Sunderland		1908-04-20		classical scholar university teacher classical philologist
Christopher Hill		British historian	York	Balliol College St Peter's School	1912-02-06		historian
Christopher John Lamb		English biologist (1950-2009)	York	University of Oxford University of Cambridge Fitzwilliam College	1950-03-19		biologist
Christopher Longé		French comics artist	Middlesbrough		1969-09-08		comics artist
Christopher Maire		English Jesuit	Hardwick		1697-03-06		writer Catholic priest
Clement Antrobus Harris			York		1862-04-02		composer musicographer
Clements Markham		British geographer (1830-1916)	Stillingfleet	Westminster School Cheam School	1830-07-20 1830		explorer writer geographer civil servant historian translator traveler botanist
Cliff McNish		English writer	Sunderland	Cardinal Newman Catholic School A Specialist Science College	1962-08-24	The Doomspell Trilogy	writer children's writer
Clive Coates		Wine expert	Darlington		1941		wine critic
Colin McGinn		British philosopher (born 1950)	West Hartlepool	University of Manchester	1950-03-10		philosopher university teacher
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		writer illustrator
Colin Renfrew		British archaeologist	Stockton-on-Tees	St John's College St Albans School	1937-07-25 1937-10-27		archaeologist anthropologist prehistorian politician university teacher
Colin Snedeker		British-born American chemist (1936–2016)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1936-01-05		chemist inventor
Colin Thain		British political scientist	Bedlington	University of Manchester	1959-01-20		political scientist
Compton Mackenzie		Scottish writer, cultural commentator, raconteur and nationalist (1883-1972)	West Hartlepool	Magdalen College St Paul's School Colet Court	1883-01-17		writer politician publisher autobiographer screenwriter croquet player science fiction writer novelist journalist researcher
Conyers Middleton		English 18th-century clergyman and writer	Richmond	Trinity College St Peter's School	1683-12-27		writer librarian university teacher
Corbet Page Stewart		Scottish biochemist and academic	Durham	University of Edinburgh	1896		university teacher biochemist
Craig Raine		poet	Shildon	Exeter College Barnard Castle School	1944-12-03		poet librettist writer
Cyril Smith		English virtuoso concert pianist	Middlesbrough	Royal College of Music	1909-08-11		autobiographer music educator pianist
D. A. Cruse		British linguist (1934-2020)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1934		linguist docent
Dan Hicks		British archaeologist and anthropologist	Spennymoor	University of Bristol St John's College Bishop Vesey's Grammar School University of Oxford	1972		anthropologist archaeologist curator university teacher
Daniel Maier		Performer on stage, tv and radio	Newcastle upon Tyne		1968-11-12		writer screenwriter
Daniel Oliver		English botanist (1830–1916)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1830-02-06		botanist pteridologist librarian university teacher
Danny Robins		British playwright and podcaster	Newcastle upon Tyne		1976		podcaster playwright broadcaster journalist
Dave Cliff		British musician	Hexham	Royal Birmingham Conservatoire	1944-06-25		jazz musician jazz guitarist human computer scientist
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	writer children's writer author novelist young adult author
David Cushing		British biologist	Alnwick	Balliol College	1920-03-14		biologist
David Daiches		British writer and historian	Sunderland	Balliol College University of Edinburgh George Watson's College	1912-09-02		poet literary historian university teacher writer literary critic biographer
David E. Daykin		Ph.D. University of Reading 1961	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Reading			mathematician university teacher
David E. Minnikin		microbiologist	Newton	Trinity College, Oxford			microbiologist
David G. Robinson		British botanist	North Shields		1947-05-15		botanist university teacher
David George Kendall		British statistician	Ripon	The Queen's College Ripon Grammar School	1918-01-15	Kendall's notation	mathematician statistician
David Graham		British crime fiction author	South Shields		1919		writer fighter pilot flight instructor technical writer
David Hamer			Billingham		1934		cryptologist historian mathematician writer
David Harker		British historian of popular music	Guisborough	University of Cambridge	1946-11-05		music historian
David Holden		British journalist (1924–1977)	Sunderland	Emmanuel College	1924-11-20		journalist writer biographer
David J. Richardson		British biochemist	Whitley Bay	University of Keele University of Birmingham	1964		biochemist
David Laidler		Canadian economist	North Shields	London School of Economics and Political Science Syracuse University University of Chicago	1938-08-12		economist
David Leon		English actor	Newcastle upon Tyne	Dame Allan's School	1980-07-24		actor film actor film director screenwriter stage actor film producer television actor
David Lindsay Keir		British historian and Master of Balliol College, Oxford (1895-1973)	Bellingham	University of Glasgow New College	1895-05-22		historian
David M. Moore		British botanist (1933-2013)	Barnard Castle	University College	1933-07-26		botanist university teacher botanical collector
David M. Wilson		British archaeologist, art historian, and museum curator	Dacre	Kingswood School St John's College Lund University	1931-10-30		art historian archaeologist university teacher exhibition curator
David Macey		British historian and translator	Sunderland		1949-10-05		linguist translator historian
David Mackenzie		British film director	Corbridge	University of Dundee Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design	1966-05-10		film director screenwriter
David McClintock		English botanist (1913-2001)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Trinity College Harrow School	1913-07-04		botanist
David Pawson		British minister	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Cambridge Durham University Wesley House	1930-02-25		pastor writer chaplain theologian priest
David Phillips		British Chemist	South Shields	University of Birmingham	1939-12-03		chemist
David Reed		British actor, writer and comedian (*1982)	York	University of Edinburgh	1982-05-26		comedian actor writer
David Richard Leitch		physician and medical officer	Stokesley		1943-09-23		researcher
David S. Byrne		sociologist	South Shields	Newcastle University London School of Economics and Political Science	1947-01-09		academic sociologist university teacher
David Stoddart		British geographer and scientific collector ( 1937– 2014)	Stockton-on-Tees	University of Cambridge	1937-11-15		geographer university teacher
David Sweetman		British writer	Dilston Castle		1943-03-16		novelist literary critic biographer poet writer television director radio personality
David Thorns		New Zealand sociologist (1943–2020)	County Durham	University of Sheffield University of Exeter	1943-08-26		sociologist urban planner
David W. Atkinson		Canadian academic administrator	Sunderland	University of Calgary Indiana University	1948		writer
David Womersley			South Shields		1957-01-29		scholar of English
Dean Wilkinson		British writer	Guisborough	Thornaby Academy	1967-04-18		video game writer
Denis Forster		American chemist	Hebburn	Imperial College London	1941-02-28		chemist
Dennis Chapman		British chemist (1927 - 1999)	Sunderland		1927-05-06		chemist
Dennis Gibson		Australian academic and mathematician	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Hull Newcastle University	1942		mathematician academic administrator
Densil Neve Barr		UK science fiction author (1918-1994)	Harrogate United Kingdom		1918-09-12		writer chemist
Denys Hay		British historian (1915-1994)	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Oxford	1915-08-29		historian of Modern Age university teacher
Denys Haynes		British classical archaeologist	Harrogate	University of Bonn Trinity College Marlborough College	1913-02-15		curator classical archaeologist art historian archaeologist
Denys Val Baker		English writer	Upper Poppleton		1917-10-24		journalist autobiographer editor writer
Derek Geldart			Stockton-on-Tees		1931-09-04		chemist
Derek Talbot		English badminton player	Newcastle upon Tyne		1947-03-23	Badminton to the Top	badminton player non-fiction writer Olympic competitor
Derek W. Moore		British mathematician (1931-2008)	South Shields	University of Cambridge Jesus College	1931-04-19		mathematician university teacher saxophonist
Derek Wanless		British banker (1947-2012)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Harvard University King's College Royal Grammar School	1947-09-29		banker statistician
Derek Williams		British film maker	Newcastle upon Tyne		1929-08-20		film director screenwriter cinematographer film producer director producer
Desmond C. Derbyshire		British linguist	Durham		1924		linguist
Don Nicholl		American screenwriter and producer	Sunderland		1925-08-09		screenwriter film producer journalist
Don Revie		English footballer and manager (1927-1989)	Middlesbrough		1927-07-10		association football player association football manager autobiographer
Donovan Pedelty		British journalist, film director and screenwriter (1903-1989)	Tynemouth		1903-07-26		journalist film director screenwriter
E. W. Middlemast		British educator in India	Wallsend	St John's College	1864-12-09		mathematician academic
Eddie Robson		British writer, novelist and screenwriter (1978-)	York	Aylesbury Grammar School	1978-12-20		science fiction writer screenwriter writer
Edmund Lee		British writer	Stokesley		1844-04-08		writer lawyer
Edward Backhouse		English Quaker philanthropist and writer	Darlington		1808-05-08		drawer church historian philanthropist
Edward Blackett		British physician and novelist	Stokesley	Queen's University Belfast	1835		physician novelist
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		mathematician
Edward Docx		British writer: novelist, dramatist, journalist.	Newcastle upon Tyne	Christ's College St Bede's College	1972		literary critic novelist writer journalist
Edward Elihu Whitfield		English solicitor and schoolmaster	Newcastle upon Tyne		1848-11-05		solicitor teacher writer
Edward Girard Young Haslam		poet (1808-1878)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1808-12-26		poet editing staff
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon		British Liberal statesman (1862-1933)	Fallodon	Balliol College Winchester College Temple Grove School	1862-04-25		politician diplomat ornithologist tennis player real tennis player aristocrat
Edward James Glave		English travel writer	Ripon		1863-09-13		writer journalist
Edward Jones Williams		Welsh engineer in Patagonia	Durham		1857-07-19		engineer railway engineer geologist
Edward Joseph Dent		British musicologist	Yorkshire Little Ribston	Eton College King's College Bilton Grange	1876-07-06 1876-07-16		musicologist music historian composer translator
Edward Mellanby		Medical scientist, discoverer of vitamin C	West Hartlepool	Emmanuel College Barnard Castle School	1884-04-08		biochemist pharmacologist
Edward Naylor		British musician	Scarborough	Emmanuel College Royal College of Music	1867-02-09		composer organist musicologist
Edward Pritchard Gee		British zoologist	County Durham	Durham School Emmanuel College University of Cambridge	1904		naturalist zoologist
Edward Robson		English botanist and antiquarian (1763–1813)	Darlington		1763		botanist
Edward Simpson		British geologist and forger (born 1815)	Sleights		1815		geologist archaeologist
Edwin Bramwell		Scottish neurologist	North Shields	University of Edinburgh	1873		neurologist
Edwin Clarke		British medical historian and neurologist	Felling	University of Chicago	1919-06-18		medical historian neurologist physician
Edwin Pears		British historian (1835–1919)	York	University of London	1835-03-18		historian lawyer journalist barrister
Ephraim Anderson		British bacteriologist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Durham University	1911-10-28		bacteriologist microbiologist
Eric Idle		English comedian, actor and writer	South Shields	University of Cambridge Pembroke College Royal Wolverhampton School	1943-03-29		film actor actor comedian screenwriter novelist singer-songwriter playwright writer guitarist lyricist film director television actor
Eric Pringle		British writer (1935-2017)	Morpeth		1935-06		writer children's writer screenwriter
Ernest Arthur Bell		British biochemist and Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (1926-2006)	Gosforth	Durham University Trinity College Dublin	1926-06-20		biochemist botanist university teacher
Ernest Findlay Scott		theologican (1868-1954)	Durham		1868-03-18		theologian biblical scholar university teacher
Ernest Hodgson		toxicologist	Hetton-le-Hole		1932-07-26		professor entomologist toxicologist
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	naturalist writer screenwriter essayist scientific illustrator artist children's writer
Ernest Walter Brooks		English ancient historian and Syriac scholar (1863-1955)	Hambleton		1863-08-30		historian translator syriacist
Ernest William Hornung		British writer	Middlesbrough	Uppingham School St Ninian's School, Moffat	1866-06-07		novelist writer
Ernie Lotinga		British actor and comedian (1876-1951)	Sunderland		1876		actor comedian screenwriter
F. M. Powicke		British historian (1879-1963)	Alnwick	Victoria University of Manchester Balliol College	1879-06-16		medieval historian lecturer university teacher
Franc Roddam		English film director	Norton	London Film School	1946-04-29		film director writer screenwriter businessperson television producer director
Francis Arthur Bainbridge		British physiologist	Stockton-on-Tees	Trinity College	1874-07-29		physiologist
Francis Blackburne		archdeacon of Cleveland and activist	Richmond	St Catharine's College, Cambridge	1705-06-09		theologian
Francis Carr		British writer and businessperson	Newcastle upon Tyne		1834-05-01		writer businessperson
Francis Gibson		English writer	Whitby		1753-01-16		translator
Francis Hastings Doyle		British academic and poet	Tadcaster	Eton College Christ Church	1810-08-21		writer university teacher barrister poet
Francis Henry Salvin		British Army officer and writer	Croxdale Hall		1817-04-04		writer
Francis Robert Raines		British vicar and historian (1805-78)	Whitby	Burnley Grammar School	1805		writer
Frank Collins		SAS soldier and Church of England military chaplain	Newcastle upon Tyne	Oak Hill College Whitley Bay High School	1957		writer presbyter Anglican priest
Frank Elgee		British archaeologist	North Ormesby		1880-11-08		anthropologist archaeologist
Frank Hawley			Norton		1906-03-31		linguist
Frank Oldfield		British geographer and paleoecologist	Pickering		1936-02-19		geographer paleoecologist
Frank Pasquill		English meteorologist	Trimdon	Durham University University College	1914-09-08		meteorologist physicist
Frank Webster		British sociologist	Durham	Durham University	1950-09-27		sociologist
Frankie Howerd		British actor, comedian (1917–1992)	York		1917-03-06		actor comedian television presenter stage actor film actor screenwriter television actor
Fred Olsen		British-born American art collector and chemist (1891–1986)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Washington University in St. Louis	1891		chemist
Fred Taylor		British physicist (1944–2021)	Amble	University of Liverpool Jesus College University of Oxford	1944-09-24		physicist atmospheric physicist planetary scientist researcher
Frederick Apthorp Paley		English classical scholar (1815–1888)	Easingwold	Shrewsbury School St John's College	1815-01-14		classical scholar writer botanist
Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle		English noble and diplomat	Castle Howard	University of Cambridge	1748-05-28		politician diplomat writer
Frederick John Jackson		British ornithologist and colonial administrator	Catterick	Shrewsbury School	1860-02-17		explorer ornithologist
Frederick Miller (paediatrician)		British paediatrician	Newbiggin-by-the-Sea	Newcastle University	1911-11-05		scientist
Frederick Orpen Bower		British botanist (1855–1948)	Ripon	University of Strasbourg University of Strasbourg University of Würzburg	1855-11-04		botanist
Frederick Wilfrid Lancaster		British-American information scientist (1933-2013)	Durham		1933-09-04		librarian library scientist
Frederick William Sanderson		British educationist (1857-1922), headmaster at Oundle School from 1892 to 1922	Brancepeth	Christ's College Durham University Hatfield College	1857		educational theorist teacher
G. P. Taylor		British writer	Scarborough		1958-05-03		writer Anglican priest children's writer
Gabriel Fielding		British writer (1916-1986)	Hexham	Trinity College Dublin St Edward's School	1916-03-25		military physician novelist
Gabriel Lasker		American anthropologist	New Earswick	Harvard University	1912-04-24		anthropologist
Garry Kilworth		British writer	York	King's College London	1941-07-05		writer science fiction writer
Gary Fildes		British astronomer	Sunderland		1965-09-27		astronomer
Geoffrey Jefferson		British neurologist (1886-1961)	Stockton-on-Tees		1886-04-10		neurologist surgeon
George Abbey		British gardener and horticulturalist (1835–1917)	Stillingfleet		1835-09-02		botanist gardener horticulturist head gardener columnist
George Abbot		English religious writer and politician	York		1604		politician writer
George Anderson		English cricketer born in 1826	Aiskew		1826-01-20		cricketer actuary
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	political scientist
George Biddell Airy		English mathematician and astronomer (*1801 – †1892)	Alnwick	Colchester Royal Grammar School Trinity College	1801-07-27		mathematician astronomer physicist university teacher writer
George Bolam		land agent and naturalist (1859-1934)	Barmoor		1859-11-08		land agent naturalist
George Brown		English missionary, anthropologist and natural history specimen collector (1835–1917)	Barnard Castle		1835-12-07		missionary diarist writer translator collector ethnologist botanist ornithologist botanical collector
George Caley		English botanist and explorer in Australia (1770-1829)	Craven		1770-06-10		botanist explorer botanical collector
George Clementson Greenwell senior		19th-century mining and civil engineer, and author	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Edinburgh	1821-07-25		civil engineer mining engineer writer
George Daniels		British watchmaker	Sunderland		1926-08-19		watchmaker non-fiction writer inventor
George Edward Massee		British botanist (1850–1917)	Scampston		1845-12-20	British fungi with a chapter on lichens	botanist mycologist scientific illustrator
George Frederick Stout		British philosopher and psychologist	South Shields	University of Cambridge	1860-01-06		psychologist philosopher university teacher
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	explorer painter naturalist zoologist accountant
George Henry Turnbull			Berwick-upon-Tweed		1879		translator
George Herbert Bailey		British chemist (1852-1924)	Teesdale		1852-05-17		chemist university teacher
George Jobey		British archaeologist (1918-1991)	Percy Main	Durham University			archaeologist
George Leo Watson		mathematician (1909-1988)	Whitby	Trinity College University of London	1909-12-13		mathematician university teacher
George Malcolm Brown		British geologist (1925-1997)	Redcar	St Cross College Durham University	1925-10-05		geologist
George Mallaby		British-Australian actor	Hartlepool		1939-11-04		actor screenwriter television actor
George Mann		British writer	Darlington		1978		science fiction writer writer screenwriter editor
George McLeod Winsor		British writer	Gateshead		1856		science fiction writer
George Nicholson		English botanist and horticulturist (1847–1908)	Ripon		1847-12-07		horticulturist botanist
George Peacock		English mathematician and Anglican cleric (1791–1858)	County Durham	Trinity College University of Cambridge	1791-04-09		mathematician astronomer university teacher
George Redmayne Murray		British doctor	Newcastle upon Tyne	Eton College Trinity College	1865-06-20		biologist physician
George Rochester		British physicist	Wallsend	Durham University	1908-02-04		physicist university teacher
George Russell		English horticulturist	Stillington		1857		horticulturist
George Sandys		English traveller, colonist, poet, translator	Bishopthorpe Palace	St Mary Hall	1578-03-02		travel writer colonizer poet writer translator explorer politician
George Slater		British geologist and glaciologist (1874–1956)	Sharow	Royal College of Science	1874		geologist glaciologist teacher
George Stanley Turnbull		American journalism professor and author	Salt Lake City Newcastle upon Tyne		1882-12-05	History of Oregon Newspapers	writer educator university teacher journalist
George Stewardson Brady		British copepodologist (1832-1921)	Gateshead		1832-04-18		carcinologist zoologist copepodologist scientific illustrator writer
George Tate		English antiquarian, topographer and naturalist from Alnwick	Alnwick		1805-05-21 1805		naturalist topographer antiquarian draper postmaster businessperson botanist
George Vasey		19th century American botanist (1822-1893)	Snainton	Berkshire Medical College	1822-02-28		botanist agrostologist
George W. Temperley		British ornithologist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Gateshead Grammar School	1875-10-29		ornithologist
George Wall		botanist (1821-1894)	North Shields	Harrow School	1821		botanist
Gerald Manners		British geographer (1932–2009)	County Durham		1932-08-07		economic geographer geographer university teacher
Gil North		English writer	Skipton	Ermysted's Grammar School	1916		writer novelist
Gilbert Archey		New Zealand ethnologist, zoologist and museum director (1890–1974)	York	University of Canterbury	1890-08-04		ethnologist zoologist ornithologist paleontologist
Gilbert Ronald Bainbridge		British physicist	Felling	Hatfield College	1925-11-28		physicist
Giles Munby		British naturalist (1813–1876)	York	University of Edinburgh	1813		botanist physician
Godfrey Linge		geographer	Durham	University of Canterbury	1932-09-05		geographer
Godfrey Norman Agmondisham Vesey			Harrogate		1923-06-22		philosopher university teacher
Gordon Burn		English writer (1948-2009)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1948-01-16		writer journalist
Gordon Parker		British writer	Newcastle upon Tyne		1940-02-28		writer
Graham Collier		English jazz bassist, bandleader and composer	Tynemouth	Berklee College of Music	1937-02-21		bandleader conductor composer jazz musician non-fiction writer recording artist
Graham Wallas		English socialist, social psychologist, educationalist	Sunderland	Corpus Christi College Shrewsbury School	1858-05-31		psychologist sociologist
Guy Eaden Shewell		British entomologist (1913-1996)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1913-07-16		entomologist dipterologist
Guy Mowbray		English association football commentator (born 1972)	York	Huntington School	1972-02-16		sports commentator broadcaster
H. L. A. Hart		English legal philosopher (1907–1992)	Harrogate	Cheltenham College New College Bradford Grammar School	1907-07-18		jurist law professor philosopher
H. T. Dickinson		English historian	Gateshead	Durham University Gateshead Grammar School Newcastle University	1939-03-09		historian
Hans Munthe-Kaas		Norwegian mathematician	Northallerton	Norwegian University of Science and Technology Norwegian Institute of Technology	1961-03-28		mathematician
Harold A. Wilson		English physicist (1874-1964)	York	University of Cambridge	1874-12-01		physicist
Harold Heslop		British writer	Hunwick	King James I Academy	1898		novelist
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	mathematician astronomer statistician seismologist
Harold Manning		French radio producer and screenwriter	Durham		1968-05-26		radio producer screenwriter film director actor
Harry Beevers		English-born American physiologist (1924-2004)	County Durham	Durham University Wolsingham School	1924-01-10		biologist physiologist botanist
Harry Lindgren		Australian mathematician and linguist	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Western Australia	1912		mathematician linguist engineer
Henry Atkinson		British astronomer	Bavington		1781-06-28		astronomer mathematician
Henry Baker Tristram		English clergyman, Biblical scholar, traveller and ornithologist (1822-1906)	Eglingham	Lincoln College Durham School	1822-05-11		Anglican priest ornithologist botanist naturalist
Henry Bowman Brady		British paleontologist and pharmacist	Gateshead	Ackworth School	1835-02-23 1835		paleontologist pharmacist zoologist botanist
Henry Conway		British socialite	Newcastle upon Tyne	Courtauld Institute of Art University of Cambridge Harrow School	1983-11-24		writer
Henry Dresser Atkinson		Australian clergyman and naturalist (1841-1921)	Selby	Magdalene College Trinity College Dublin	1841-05-13		Anglican priest ornithologist naturalist
Henry Eeles Dresser		English ornithologist and businessman (1838-1915)	Thirsk		1838-05-09		ornithologist businessperson
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		chemist
Henry Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton		British politician (1830-1911)	Sunderland	St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar School	1830-05-16		politician statistician
Henry H. Slater		British ornithologist, entomologist and botanist (1851-1934)	Stanhope	St Catharine's College, Cambridge	1851		ornithologist entomologist botanist Anglican priest
Henry Hervey Baber		British philologist	Slingsby		1775		theologian librarian
Henry Heylyn Hayter		Anglo-Australian statistician	Eden Vale	Charterhouse School	1821-10-28		statistician civil servant writer
Henry Hodgkin		Medical doctor and British Quaker missionary.	Darlington		1877-04-21		physician missionary pacifist
Henry Liddell		British classical scholar and administrator (1811–1898)	Bishop Auckland	Christ Church Charterhouse School	1811-02-06		lexicographer linguist classical philologist university teacher classical scholar
Henry Maudsley		British psychiatrist	Giggleswick	University College London Giggleswick School	1835-02-05		psychiatrist essayist psychologist university teacher
Henry McIlwain			Newcastle upon Tyne		1912		biochemist university teacher
Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland		English aristocrat (1564-1632)	Tynemouth		1564-04-27		astronomer physician alchemist geographer mathematician
Henry Sidgwick		English philosopher	Skipton	Trinity College Rugby School	1838-05-31		philosopher economist university teacher writer
Henry Smeathman		British entomologist (1742-1786)	Scarborough		1742-02-09		botanist naval officer entomologist writer
Henry Taylor		English playwright and poet (1800-1886)	Bishop Middleham		1800-10-18		writer
Henry Tuke Mennell		British botanist and conchologist (1835 - 1923)	Scarborough		1835-06-19		botanist conchologist tea dealer
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	art historian poet writer philosopher anarchist literary critic critic
Herbert Flowerdew		British novelist	York		1866-06-14		crime fiction writer novelist
Herbert McCabe		English-born Irish Dominican priest, theologian and philosopher (1926-2001)	Middlesbrough	University of Manchester	1926-08-02		philosopher writer theologian
Herbert Tomlinson		Physicist and FRS; first Principal of Chelsea Polytechnic (1845-1931)	York	Christ Church St Peter's School	1846-11-18 1845-11		physicist designer
Howard Clewes		screenwriter	York		1912-10-27		novelist screenwriter writer playwright film screenwriter
Howard Linskey		English novelist	County Durham		1967-05-16		writer journalist
Hugh Edwin Strickland		British scientist (1811-1853)	Reighton	Oriel College	1811-03-02		ornithologist zoologist geologist
Hugh Stowell Scott		English novelist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Loretto School	1862		novelist writer
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	politician historian of Modern Age historian university teacher journalist essayist military officer intelligence officer opinion journalist
Hugh Watson		British malacologist (1885–1959)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1885-06-01		malacologist
Hunt Emerson		cartoonist	Newcastle upon Tyne		1952-01-28		comics artist
Hyam Maccoby		British scholar of Judeo-Christian religious tradition (1924-2004)	Sunderland	Balliol College	1924-03-20		Judaic scholar historian university teacher writer librarian theologian
Ian Almond		professor	Skipton	University of Edinburgh	1969-09-21		literary scholar writer university teacher man of letters
Ian Cullen		British actor (1939-2019)	The Boldons	Royal Academy of Dramatic Art	1944-10-20 1939-10-20		actor television actor screenwriter
Ian Graham Gass		British geologist (1926-1992)	Gateshead		1926-03-20		volcanologist geologist
Ian H. Goodall		British archaeologist (1948-2006)	York	Cardiff University	1948		archaeologist historian
Ian Jarvie		British philosopher	South Shields	London School of Economics and Political Science	1937-07-08		sociologist
Ian La Frenais		writer	Monkseaton	Dame Allan's School	1936-01-07 1937-01-07		screenwriter
Ian Littlewood			York	St John's College	1949-06-08		writer university teacher
Ian Macmillan Ward		British physicist	Stockton-on-Tees	Magdalen College Royal Grammar School	1928-04-09		researcher physicist
Ian Masser		British urban planner	York		1937-09-14		urban planner geographic information scientist geographer economist university teacher
Ian Peacock		British radio personality	Newcastle upon Tyne		1962-12-14		radio personality writer
Ian Usher		English author and speaker	Durham		1963-07-25		writer
Ian Vernon Hogg		British historian and author	Durham		1926-10-29		historian non-fiction writer writer weapon historian
Iolo Aneurin Williams		British journalist, author, art historian and botanist	Middlesbrough	King's College Rugby School	1890-06-18		journalist art historian author botanist
J Blakeson		English film director and screenwriter	Harrogate	University of Warwick	1977-03-02		film director screenwriter director
J. Douglas Porteous		geographer	York		1943-11-26		geographer
J. Drew Smith		mycologist (1922-2003)	Ireshopeburn	King's College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne	1922-08-02		mycologist priest
J. E. Harold Terry		English novelist, playwright, actor and critic	York	Marlborough College Pembroke College	1885-09-21		novelist playwright actor critic writer theatre critic
J. L. Carr		English novelist	Thirsk		1912-05-20		writer teacher
J. P. E. Harper-Scott			Easington	Durham University University of Oxford	1977-12-03		musicologist
J. Thomas Looney		English school teacher	South Shields	University of Chester	1870-08-14		writer teacher
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	mathematician university teacher
J. Wilfrid Jackson		British geologist and paleontologist (1880-1978)	Scarborough		1880-06-15		geologist archaeologist paleontologist
Jack Charlton		English footballer and manager (1935-2020)	Ashington		1935-05-08		association football player autobiographer association football manager association football national coach
Jack Colman		British writer	North York Moors		1987		writer
Jack Common		British novelist (1903-1968)	Heaton	Skerry's College	1903-08-15		novelist
Jack Heslop-Harrison		British botanist (1920-1998)	Middlesbrough	Queen's University Belfast Newcastle University Park View School	1920-02-10		botanist engineer university teacher
Jack Higgins		British novelist	Newcastle upon Tyne	London School of Economics and Political Science Roundhay School	1929-07-27	The Eagle Has Landed	novelist writer screenwriter author school teacher
Jack Scott		British meteorologist (1923-2008)	Ferryhill	Nottingham Trent University	1923-11-09		meteorologist television presenter
James Anderson		miner, songwriter, poet, born 1825	Earsdon		1825		poet songwriter
James Backhouse		English botanist and missionary (1794–1869)	Darlington		1794-07-08		botanist
James Backhouse		English botanist, archaeologist, and geologist (1825–1890)	York	Bootham School	1825		botanist
James Backhouse		English nurseryman and ornithologist (1861-1945)	York		1861-04-14		horticulturist
James Cawthorn		British fantasy writer and illustrator	Gateshead		1929-12-21		writer screenwriter illustrator
James Cook		British explorer, cartographer and naval officer (1728–1779)	Marton		1728-10-27		explorer cartographer naval officer seafarer botanist
James Dall		New Zealand botanist, botanical and zoological collector (1840-1912)	York		1840-11-25		botanist botanical collector scientific collector
James Dalton		clergyman and botanist (1764-1843)	York	University of Cambridge	1764-11-14		botanist vicar
James Egan Moulton		Anglo-Australian headmaster and Methodist minister (1841–1909)	Northumberland	Kingswood School	1841-01-04		translator theologian Bible translator
James Everett		British writer	Alnwick		1784		writer
James Francis Baker		English poet (1891-?)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1891		poet university student
James Harrison Rigg		British Methodist minister	Newcastle upon Tyne		1821-01-16		Christian minister writer
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	physician writer veterinarian autobiographer children's writer comedian
James Hutton Kidd		Horticulturist, community leader	Hexham		1877-09-12		horticulturist gardener
James John Joicey		British entomologist	Newcastle upon Tyne		1871		lepidopterist entomologist
James Kenner		13 April 1885 - 30 June 1974	Morpeth		1885-04-13		organic chemist
James Kirkup		British writer	South Shields	Durham University	1918-04-23		translator writer university teacher poet journalist
James Maxlow		Australian geologist and scientist	Middlesbrough		1949		geologist
James Mitchell		British writer of crime fiction and spy thrillers	South Shields	St Edmund Hall	1926-03-12		writer screenwriter spy
James Redpath		American journalist and abolitionist	Berwick-upon-Tweed		1833-08-24		journalist writer
James Rutherford		1906–1963 professor at University of Auckland, historian	Dunston		1906		military personnel historian
James Smetham		British artist (1821-1889)	Pateley Bridge		1821-09-09		painter printmaker poet art critic
James Stourton		English art historian	York	Ampleforth College Magdalene College	1956-07-03		art historian
James Tate		British headmaster	Richmond	Sidney Sussex College	1771-06-11		writer
James Wood		literary critic	Durham	Eton College Jesus College Chorister School	1965-11-01	The book against God (novel)	writer literary critic university teacher
James Wycliffe Headlam		British historian	Durham	King's College Eton College	1863-12-24		historian biographer
Jason Cook		British comedian	Hebburn		1973		comedian screenwriter showrunner
Jeremiah Dixon		British astronomer	Cockfield		1733-07-27	Mason–Dixon Line	astronomer
Jim Parker		British composer (1934-2023)	Hartlepool	Guildhall School of Music and Drama	1934-12-18		composer screenwriter film score composer
Jimmy Campbell		British songwriter, lyricist	Newcastle upon Tyne		1903		songwriter lyricist music publisher
Jimmy Nail		English guitarist, singer-songwriter, actor, screenwriter	Newcastle upon Tyne	Jesmond Park Academy	1954-03-16		actor singer-songwriter autobiographer singer composer screenwriter film actor television actor television producer
John Alexander Herbert		British Museum curator of manuscripts; (1862-1948)	Gateshead		1862		curator
John Arrowsmith		British geographer	Winston		1790		cartographer
John Arrowsmith		English theologian (1602-1659)	Gateshead	St John's College	1602-03-29		theologian
John Ash		British ornithologist (1925-2014)	Gosforth	Durham University Imperial College London Pocklington School	1925-05-26		ornithologist
John Bailey		English agriculturist and engraver (1750-1819)	Blades Field Farmhouse And Attached Outbuilding To East		1750		farmer writer land agent mathematician surveyor printmaker copper engraver teacher
John Bain		British game commentator (1984-2018)	Spennymoor	De Montfort University	1984-07-08		YouTuber video game critic esports commentator television producer video blogger professional gamer
John Basil Hume		British surgeon and lecturer	Whitby		1893-09-29		anatomist surgeon
John Beckwith		English art exhibition curator (1918-1991)	Whitby		1918-12-02		exhibition curator art historian curator university teacher
John Bird		British mathematical instrument maker	County Durham		1709		astronomer
John Blackburn		British writer	Corbridge	Durham University	1923-06-26		crime fiction writer science fiction writer bookseller
John Bonett		British writer	Tynemouth		1906-08-10		screenwriter
John Brand		English clergyman, antiquarian, and club secretary (1744–1806)	Washington	Royal Grammar School	1744-08-19		writer clergyman secretary
John Brason		British screenwriter	South Shields		1924-06-29		screenwriter film director
John Brigham Ward		British born New Zealand entomologist and physicist (1928-2016)	Harrogate		1928-01-10		entomologist physicist
John Brown		English divine and author	Rothbury	St John's College	1715-11-05		writer philosopher essayist poet playwright satirist Anglican priest
John Burdon-Sanderson		English physiologist (1828–1905)	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Edinburgh University of Paris	1828-12-21		physician university teacher physiologist
John Carr		English mathematician (1948-2016)	East Heddon	University of Oxford	1948-08-29		mathematician
John Clarke		British writer and politician (1885-1959)	Jarrow		1885-02-04		politician circus performer peace activist poet
John Close		English doggerel poet	Gunnerside		1816		poet
John Convey		Canadian metallurgist	Craghead		1910-03-29		metallurgist
John Corner		British mathematician and physicist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Peterhouse Royal Grammar School	1916-01-24		mathematician physicist
John Cuthbert Hedley		Bishop of Newport and Menevia; Bishop of Newport	Morpeth	Ampleforth College	1837-04-15 1837		Catholic priest writer Catholic bishop
John D. Omer-Cooper		historian of Africa (1931-1998)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Rhodes University Corpus Christi College	1931-10-23		historian history teacher university teacher editor
John D. Thompson		British botanist (1959 - )	Berwick-upon-Tweed		1959	Plant Evolution in the Mediterranean Plant Evolution in the Mediterranean: Insights for Conservation	botanist ecologist researcher
John Earle		English cleric, author and translator (c. 1601 – 1665)	York	Christ Church	1601		priest writer
John Edward Hull		arachnologist	Northumberland		1862		arachnologist Parson-naturalist parson
John Erickson		British military historian (1929-2002)	South Shields	St John's College	1929-04-17		historian
John Everard		British diplomat; (1956-)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Emmanuel College Peking University King Edward VI School	1956-11-24 1956		diplomat writer
John Ewbank Leefe		botanist (1824-1889)	Richmond	Trinity College	1824 1813-05-13		botanist
John F. Runciman		musicologist and music critic	South Shields		1866		music critic musicologist
John Fairbairn		writer	Newcastle upon Tyne				writer translator
John Fairfax-Blakeborough		England author and folklorist	Guisborough		1883-01-16		writer
John Fife-Cookson		British novelist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Royal Military College, Sandhurst	1844		novelist military officer
John Flaxman Jr.		English artist (1755–1826)	York		1755-07-06		painter poet sculptor illustrator graphic artist drawer designer visual artist
John Fleming		British art historian, born 1919	Berwick-upon-Tweed	Trinity College	1919		art historian
John Forster		English biographer and critic	Newcastle upon Tyne	University College London Jesus College Royal Grammar School	1812-04-02	Life of Charles Dickens	literary critic writer biographer journalist historian
John Foster		(1792-1875) pastoralist, merchant and member of parliament in Tasmania, Australia	Giggleswick		1792		pastoralist merchant politician company director magistrate poet ship-owner
John Fothergill		English physician and plant collector (1712–1780)	Bainbridge	University of Edinburgh Medical School	1712-03-08		botanist physician plantation owner
John Francis Walker		Geologist and Palaeontologist	York	Sidney Sussex College University of Bonn	1839-11-25		geologist paleontologist curator barrister
John Frank Davidson		British chemist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Trinity College	1926-02-07		chemical engineer chemist
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		archaeologist
John Gardner		English spy and thriller novelist (1926-2007)	Northumberland Seaton Delaval	St John's College	1926-11-20	Boysie Oakes	journalist theologian novelist writer screenwriter
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	botanist ecologist pteridologist
John Gledson			Northumberland	Princeton University	1945		translator
John Glover		British chemist (1817-1902)	Wallsend		1817-02		chemist
John Gordon		English writer of supernatural fiction	Jarrow	Wisbech Grammar School	1925-11-19	The Giant Under the Snow	writer journalist
John Gunn		Australian author	Northumberland		1925-02-26		writer
John Haldon		British historian of Byzantine history	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Birmingham Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich	1948-10-23		historian Byzantinist university teacher
John Hall		English poet, born 1627	Durham	Durham School St John's College	1627		poet essayist writer
John Hancock		English naturalist, ornithologist, taxidermist and landscape architect (1808-1890)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Royal Grammar School	1808		botanist ornithologist ichthyologist
John Henry Middleton		British archaeologist	York	Exeter College	1846-10-05		exhibition curator art historian
John Hick		English philosopher of religion and theologian (1922-2012)	Scarborough	University of Edinburgh Oriel College Scarborough College	1922-01-20		paramedic philosopher university teacher theologian
John Hutchinson		English botanist, taxonomist and author (1884-1972)	Wark		1884-04-07		botanist gardener
John Hutchinson		English theologian	Spennithorne		1674		philosopher
John Hymers		British mathematician	Ormesby	St John's College	1803-07-20		mathematician
John Jackson		English clergyman, born 1686	Sessay	Hall Cross Academy	1686-04-04		theologian author
John Jackson		English engraver, born 1801	Ovingham		1801	Tales from Shakspere	copper engraver carver engraver illustrator writer
John Joule		British chemist	Harrogate	Princeton University Victoria University of Manchester University of Manchester	1937		chemist
John Lilburne		English political activist (1614-1657)	Sunderland Royal Borough of Greenwich	Royal Grammar School	1614		politician philosopher
John Lockwood Kipling		British artist (1837-1911)	Pickering	Woodhouse Grove School	1837-07-06		illustrator painter visual artist art educator museologist
John Lough		British university teacher (1913-2000)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1913-02-19		university teacher romanist philosopher historian
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		historian
John Lyth			York		1821-03-13		hymnwriter
John Marley		English mining engineer and geologist	Heighington		1823-11-11		engineer mining engineer geologist
John Martin		English 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	painter engraver illustrator artist graphic artist etcher printmaker watercolorist landscape painter history painter writer architect
John McGrady		English chemist and academic	Ryton	St Catherine's College Australian National University University of Oxford	1968-04-30		chemist cricketer professor
John McManners		British historian	Ferryhill	Durham University St Edmund Hall	1916-12-25		historian military officer
John Middleton		British land surveyor and agriculturist (1751–1833)	Streatlam and Stainton		1751-02		land surveyor agronomist
John Minto IV		American politician, poet and pioneer	Wylam		1822-10-10		politician pioneer farmer miner poet legislator
John Morrison		English-born, Australian novelist and short story writer	Sunderland		1904		writer novelist
John N. Gray		British political philosopher (born 1948)	South Shields	Exeter College	1948-04-17		philosopher writer university teacher political scientist
John Nelson Tarn		British historian of architecture and urban planning	Newcastle upon Tyne		1934-11-23		architectural historian historian of urban planning
John Nichol		Royal Air Force Navigator	North Shields	St. Cuthbert's High School	1963		writer
John Oakesmith		British civil servant and writer	Middlesbrough	University of London	1866		writer civil servant
John Oxley		Australian politician	Kirkham		1785-01-01 1784-07-06		explorer naturalist botanist politician
John Percival		British agricultural botanist (1863-1949)	Carperby	St John's College	1863-04-03		botanist
John Richard Walbran		British antiquarian	Ripon		1817		anthropologist archaeologist historian
John Rickman		English statistician and civil servant (1771-1840)	Newburn	Lincoln College Royal Grammar School, Guildford	1771-08-22		civil servant statistician politician
John Scott		British entomologist (1823-1888)	Morpeth		1823-09-21		entomologist
John Scott Byerley			Brompton		1780-10-16		writer translator
John Snow		English epidemiologist and physician	York	Westminster Hospital Medical School University of London	1813-03-15		physician epidemiologist anesthesiologist
John Stansfield Gayner		British medical practicioner (1872-1954)	Sunderland		1872-05-03		medic naturalist
John Stewart Turner		Australian botanist, educationist, and conservationist (1908-1991)	Middlesbrough		1908-09-09		botanist
John Summerson		British architectural historian	Darlington	University College London Harrow School	1904-11-25		architectural historian university teacher
John T. Phillifent		British writer	Durham		1916-11-10		novelist writer science fiction writer
John Thackara		British writer	Newcastle upon Tyne		1951		writer researcher
John Thomas Dunn		19th and 20th-century analytical chemist and academic	Newcastle upon Tyne		1858		chemist
John Thomas Walbran		surveyor	Ripon		1848		surveyor
John Thornhill		British naturalist, from Durham	County Durham		1760		naturalist economic agent
John Towler		British-American physician and writer on photography	Rathmell		1811-06-20		writer physician academic university teacher
John Turnbull Thomson		British surveyor (1821-1884)	Glororum	University of Aberdeen	1821-08-10		civil engineer engineer surveyor
John Tweddell		English classical and archaeological scholar	Hexham		1769-06-01		classical scholar archaeologist
John Vaughan Thompson		British Military Surgeon, Marine Biologist, Zoologist, Botanist, and published Naturalist (1779-1847)	Berwick-upon-Tweed		1779-11-19		botanist zoologist marine biologist
John Walker		British inventor (1781-1859)	Stockton-on-Tees		1781-05-29	match	inventor chemist
John Wallis		English cleric and antiquarian	Northumberland	The Queen's College	1714		entomologist botanist
John White		English-born scholar of Maori language and culture (1826-1891)	Cockfield		1826-01-03		ethnologist ethnographer
John William Hall		British grocer and draper (1842-1929)	Hexham		1842		draper grocer writer
John William Heslop-Harrison		British botanist (1881-1967)	Birtley	Durham University	1881		botanist university teacher entomologist
John William Nicholson		English mathematician (1881-1955)	Darlington	Harris Manchester College University of Cambridge	1881-11-01		mathematician university teacher scientist
John Wycliffe		English theologian and early dissident in the Roman Catholic Church	Hipswell	Merton College The Queen's College	1320s		theologian translator philosopher Bible translator writer
John Wykeham Archer		British artist (1808-1864)	Newcastle-upon-Tyne		1806-08-02 1808-08-02		painter writer graphic artist watercolorist etcher
John of Hexham		English monk and historian	Hexham		1160		chronicler
Jon Champion		British sports commentator	Harrogate	University of Leeds Leeds Trinity University	1965-05-23		journalist sports commentator broadcaster
Jonathan Higgs		Artist, Falsetto Prophet	Newcastle upon Tyne		1985-02-23		writer singer
Jonathan Riley-Smith		British historian	Harrogate	Eton College Trinity College	1938-06-27 1938		medievalist historian university teacher
Jonathan Wilson		British sports journalist and author	Sunderland	University of Oxford	1976-07-09		sports journalist writer journalist
Jonathan Wright		British historian	Hartlepool		1969-10-14		historian non-fiction writer
Jonathan Wynyard Haynes		British army officer in the Gold Coast (Ghana; 1839–1914)	Osmotherley		1839-07-04		military officer zoological collector
Jono Armstrong		British entrepreneur (1980-)	Durham	Liverpool John Moores University	1980-02-01		entrepreneur English teacher internet marketer musician non-fiction writer
Joseph Allen Harris		Canadian politician and research chemist, discoverer of promethium (1900-1972)	Long Preston	University of British Columbia University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign	1900-07-06		chemist
Joseph Angus		English minister, teacher and biblical scholar	Bolam	King's College London Royal Grammar School	1816-01-16		Christian minister biblical scholar
Joseph Barnard Davis		British physician, craniologist.	York	University of St Andrews	1801-06-13		physician anthropologist
Joseph Barnby		British musician (1838-1896)	York	Royal Academy of Music	1838-08-12		conductor composer artist hymnwriter chorister organist
Joseph Blenkinsopp		American scholar	Durham	University of Oxford University of London Pontifical Biblical Institute	1927-04-03		biblical scholar university teacher theologian
Joseph Chatt		British chemist	Horden	University of Cambridge	1914-11-06		chemist university teacher
Joseph Desmond O'Connor		British linguist	Harrogate	University College London	1919-12-10		linguist phonetician
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	historian genealogist
Joseph Gillis		Israeli mathematician	Sunderland	Trinity College University of Cambridge	1911-08-03		mathematician
Joseph John Jefferson		English Congregationalist minister and pacifist	Whitby	Rotherham Independant Academy	1795-12-29		religious writer Christian minister pastor
Joseph Parker		English Congregational clergyman (1830-1902)	Hexham		1830-04-09		writer
Joseph Reed		English playwright and poet (1723-1787)	Stockton-on-Tees		1723-03		playwright poet
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	musicologist literary critic children's writer collector of fairy tales writer
Joseph Shaw Bolton		British physician	Whitby	UCL Medical School	1867		physician neurologist
Joseph Skipsey		English miner, author and poet	Tynemouth		1832-03-17		poet songwriter writer
Joseph Swan		British physicist and inventor (1828-1914)	Sunderland		1828-10-31		chemist physicist inventor
Joshua Alder		British zoologist (1792-1867)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1792		zoologist malacologist
Joshua Harold Burn		British pharmacologist (1892-1981)	Barnard Castle	Emmanuel College Barnard Castle School	1892-03-06		pharmacologist university teacher scientist
Julian Higgins		statistician	Middlesbrough	University of Reading			statistician researcher professor
Karl J. Friston		British neuroscientist	York	University of Cambridge Gonville and Caius College	1959-07-12	free energy principle	neuroscientist university teacher
Keith Boddy		English medical physicist	Stockton-on-Tees		1937-11-01		physicist
Keith Browning		British meteorologist	Sunderland	Imperial College London The Commonweal School	1938-07-31		meteorologist
Keith Johnson		British computer programmer and writer	Darlington	University of Manchester	1938-10-14		writer film director
Keith Lynch			Newcastle upon Tyne		1981-06-18		screenwriter film director
Keith Topping		British writer	Walker		1963-10-26		science fiction writer
Keith Ward		British philosopher, theologian, priest and scholar	Hexham	University of Wales Linacre College	1938-08-22		theologian university teacher Anglican priest philosopher priest
Keith Watson		British comics artist (1935-1994)	North Yorkshire		1935-02-01		comics artist
Ken Dowden		English classical scholar	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Oxford	1950		mythographer classical scholar classical philologist university teacher
Kenneth Bowman		Canadian amateur lepidopterist	Durham	Dulwich College	1875-03-06		collector lepidopterist
Kenneth Harker		British science fiction author (1927-2003)	Darlington		1927-04-02		science fiction writer
Kenneth Sillito		English violinist and conductor	Newcastle upon Tyne	Royal Academy of Music	1939-03-05		violinist conductor artistic director (music)
Kevin Dowd		economist	Middlesbrough	University of Sheffield	1958		economist
Kirpal Nandra		British physicist	North Shields	University of Leicester	1966		physicist astrophysicist
Kjartan Poskitt		British writer	York	Collingwood College	1956-05-15		writer children's writer
Lancelot Brown		British landscape architect	Kirkharle		1716-08		horticulturist architect landscape architect gardener
Lancelot de Carle		Bishop of Riez	Scarborough		1508	Épistre Contenant le Procès Criminel Faict à l'Encontre de la Royne Anne Boullant d'Angleterre	priest poet Catholic bishop
Lawrence Freedman		British military historian	Tynemouth	University of York Nuffield College Victoria University of Manchester Whitley Bay High School	1948-12-07		political scientist non-fiction writer university teacher
Lee Paul		British writer	Newcastle upon Tyne	Fitzwilliam College Benfield School	1966-09-20		screenwriter writer playwright librettist lyricist
Len Gibson		British World War II soldier and Japanese prisoner of war	Sunderland		1920-01-03		soldier autobiographer
Leslie Crombie		English chemist (1923-1999)	York	King's College London	1923-06-10		chemist
Leslie Curry		British-Canadian geographer	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Auckland Durham University Johns Hopkins University	1922-11-23		geographer
Leslie Peter Wenham		British historian and archaeologist	Richmond	Durham University	1911		anthropologist archaeologist historian
Leslie W. Hepple		archaeologist	Tynemouth		1947-07-24		archaeologist geographer
Lesslie Newbigin		Christian missionary	Newcastle upon Tyne	Queens' College Leighton Park School Westminster College	1909-12-08		theologian missionary writer
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	cartographer mathematician psychologist physicist meteorologist peace and conflict researcher polymath
Lindsay Kemp		British mime (1938-2018)	South Shields		1938-05-03		choreographer actor ballet dancer mime artist film actor stage actor dancer pedagogue
Lionel Masters		archaeologist (1942-2019)	South Shields		1942-08		archaeologist
Lionel Roy McColvin		librarian	Heaton		1896-11-30		librarian writer
Lyndon Brook		actor (1926-2004)	York	University of Cambridge Stowe School	1926-04-10		stage actor film actor television actor screenwriter
Lyndon Emsley		British chemist	Durham	Imperial College London University of Lausanne	1964-11-29		university teacher chemist researcher
MLT		computer hacker	Newcastle upon Tyne	Northumbria University	1994		hacktivist
Malcolm Boyd			Newcastle upon Tyne	Durham University Dame Allan's School	1932-05-24		musicologist
Malcolm Neesam		English historian and writer	Harrogate	University of Leeds	1946-06-28		historian librarian archivist writer
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		curator
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		historian palaeographer archivist research fellow
Marcus Graham		British entomologist	West Rainton	Trinity College Dublin University of Oxford	1915-03-25		entomologist
Mark Adlard		novelist	Durham	Trinity College	1932-06-19		science fiction writer novelist
Mark Akenside		English poet and physician	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Edinburgh Royal Grammar School	1721-11-09		poet physician physician writer writer
Mark Burnell		screenwriter	Northumberland		1964	The Rhythm Section	writer screenwriter
Mark Gatiss		British actor, screenwriter and novelist	Sedgefield	University of Leeds Heighington CE Primary School Woodham Academy Bretton Hall College	1966-10-17		actor comedian screenwriter novelist voice actor writer science fiction writer television producer film director film producer film editor stage actor film actor television actor director
Mark Simpson		British writer	York	St Peter's School	1965		journalist writer businessperson
Mark Spencer Turner		writer and singer	York	University of Aberdeen Glasgow Caledonian University	1984-11-28		poet writer
Mark Umbers		British actor	Harrogate	University of Oxford	1973-06-17		actor screenwriter television actor
Mark Wadlow		British screenwriter	Middlesbrough		1962	Dear Rosie	screenwriter playwright
Mark Wood		English cricketer (born 1990)	Ashington		1990-01-11		cricketer columnist
Marmaduke Alexander Lawson		botanist (1840-1896)	Durham	Trinity College	1840		botanist
Martin Armstrong		British writer	Newcastle upon Tyne	Pembroke College Charterhouse School	1882-10-02		journalist writer poet
Martin Charlton		geographic information scientist	Newcastle upon Tyne		1957		geographic information scientist
Martin Ephraim Mosely		English entomologist (1877-1948)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1877-08-06		entomologist
Martin Rees		British cosmologist and astrophysicist	York	Trinity College Shrewsbury School University of Cambridge	1942-06-23		physicist astronomer politician university teacher astrophysicist cosmologist
Martyn Amos		British computer scientist	Hexham	Coventry University	1971		computer scientist engineer
Martyn Waites			Newcastle upon Tyne		1963		crime fiction writer
Matt Ridley		British author and journalist	Northumberland	Magdalen College Eton College	1958-02-07		banker journalist zoologist politician economist writer land owner
Matthew Poole		English Nonconformist theologian and biblical commentator (1624–1679)	York	Emmanuel College	1624		theologian
Maurice Elvey		British film director (1887-1967)	Stockton-on-Tees		1887-11-11		film director screenwriter film producer
Maurice Platnauer		British classicist (1887-1974)	York	Shrewsbury School New College	1887-06-18		classical philologist translator
Maxwell Staniforth		British soldier, railwayman, clergyman and scholar (1893–1985)	Hinderwell	Charterhouse School Christ Church	1893-06-23		translator soldier classical scholar priest
Michael Armstrong		British poet	Newcastle upon Tyne		1923-12-12		poet
Michael Blackburn		British writer	Newton Aycliffe	Richmond School	1954		poet
Michael Boddy		British-Australian writer and actor (1934-2014)	Baldersby		1934-03-08	The Legend of King O'Malley	actor screenwriter
Michael Bryan		British art historian (1757–1821)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1757-04-09	Dictionary of painters and engravers	art historian art collector art dealer
Michael Chaplin		British television producer	County Durham	Magdalene College	1951-07		screenwriter television producer
Michael Crawley		British ecologist, Emeritus Professor of Plant Ecology at Imperial College London	Rothbury	University of Edinburgh Imperial College London	1949-03-09		ecologist academic
Michael Gough		British archaeologist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Dragon School Peterhouse	1916-08-02	The Origins of Christian Art	art historian archaeologist
Michael Hall		British conductor and musicologist	Tyne and Wear		1932-03-26		conductor musicologist
Michael J. C. Gordon		computer scientist	Ripon	University of Edinburgh Gonville and Caius College Dartington Hall	1948-02-28		computer scientist engineer
Michael J. Ferguson		biochemist	County Durham	University of London University of Manchester	1957		biochemist researcher
Michael Shanks		British archaeologist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Peterhouse Whitley Bay High School	1959-06-26		anthropologist art historian archaeologist university teacher historian academic classical scholar
Michael Short		British Engineer and Professor	Stockton-on-Tees	University of Sunderland Teesside University	1975		professor engineer researcher
Michael Skinner		English rugby union footballer	Newcastle upon Tyne		1958-11-26		rugby union player television presenter computer scientist
Mick Herron		British novelist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Balliol College St. Cuthbert's High School	1963-07-11		writer novelist short story writer
Milner Place		British author	Thirsk		1930-01-25		writer poet
Myles Power		British science YouTuber	Middlesbrough	University of Manchester University of Toronto Macmillan Academy	1985		YouTuber chemist podcaster
N. T. Wright		Anglican bishop	Morpeth	Exeter College Sedbergh School Merton College	1948-12-01 1948-11-01		theologian politician historian university teacher Anglican priest
Nathaniel Davison		English diplomat, known for his writings on Egyptian archaeology	Longhoughton		1736		diplomat archaeologist
Neil Bartlett		English-American chemist (1932-2008)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Durham University Newcastle University	1932-09-15	noble gas compound	chemist university teacher
Neil Marshall		British film director and writer	Newcastle upon Tyne	Northumbria University	1970-05-25		screenwriter film director film editor television director executive producer
Neil Young		British writer, curator and filmmaker	Easington		1971		writer curator filmmaker
Nicholas Bingham		British mathematician	York	Churchill College Trinity College Trinity College, Oxford University of Cambridge	1945-03-19		mathematician
Nicholas Carlisle		Antiquary and librarian	York		1771		lexicographer librarian antiquarian seller
Nicholas Carr		British classical scholar	Newcastle upon Tyne	Christ's College Pembroke College	1524		university teacher classical scholar
Nicholas Darnell		English cricketer, barrister, and Catholic priest	Stockton-on-Tees	Exeter College	1817		cricketer historian barrister
Nicholas Hitchon		British nuclear physicist and participant in the Up documentary television series	Skipton	Merton College Ermysted's Grammar School	1957-10-22		nuclear physicist university teacher
Nicholas Patrick		American astronaut	Saltburn-by-the-Sea	Harrow School Trinity College Massachusetts Institute of Technology	1964-11-19		astronaut engineer
Nicholas Ridley		Bishop of London; Anglican Saint	Tynedale	University of Paris Pembroke College Royal Grammar School	1500		priest theologian
Nicholas Temperley		English merchant, magistrate and mycologist (1844-1923)	Hexham		1844		merchant justice of the peace mycologist
Nick Bilton		British-American journalist	Darlington	Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School	20th century		journalist writer
Nick Brownlee		British writer	Blyth	University of Leeds Royal Grammar School	1967-12-16		writer
Nick Inman			Harrogate		1956		journalist translator photographer traveler writer
Niel Bushnell		English novelist	Hartlepool		1970-08-13		writer science fiction writer
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		writer life coach
Nigel Fortune		English musicologist, political activist	Northumberland	University of Cambridge University of Birmingham Handsworth Grammar School	1924-12-05		musicologist
Nigel Glover		British particle physicist	Sunderland	Durham University Downing College	1961-06-20		physicist
Nigel Hamilton		British writer, academic and broadcaster	Alnmouth	Trinity College Westminster School Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich	1944-02-16		military historian biographer
Nigel Horne			Bishop Auckland		1965-07		screenwriter manufacturer line producer film director executive producer film producer
Norman Creek		English footballer and manager (1898-1980)	Darlington	University of Cambridge Trinity College	1898-01-12		association football player cricketer association football manager writer
Norman Dennis		British sociologist (1929-2010)	Sunderland	London School of Economics and Political Science	1929-08-16		sociologist
Norman Penney		British historian of the Quakers, librarian, and editor	Darlington		1858		historian of religion librarian editor
Norman Powell Williams		Anglo-Catholic theologian	Durham	Christ Church	1883		theologian
Norman Sherry		American writer (1935-2016)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1935-07-06		novelist writer
Oliver Gillie		British journalist and scientist	Northumberland	University of Edinburgh	1937-10-31		science journalist journalist scientist science communicator
P. Anderson Graham		UK editor and author, active from before 1890 (1856-1925)	Northumberland		1856		writer
P. Maurice Casey		British scholar of New Testament and early Christianity (1942-2014)	Sunderland	Durham University	1942-10-18		biblical scholar
Paolo Attivissimo		Italian journalist and writer	York		1963-09-28		journalist writer blogger debunker radio personality
Paul Batchelor		British poet	Northumberland	University of East Anglia Newcastle University	1977		poet
Paul C. Doherty		British educator and author	Middlesbrough	University of Oxford University of Liverpool	1946-09-21		writer historian novelist
Paul Daniels		Magician and TV Personality	South Bank	Redcar & Cleveland College	1938-04-06		television presenter stage magician writer game show host
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		association football player autobiographer association football manager entertainer
Paul Kennedy		British historian	Wallsend	St Antony's College Newcastle University St. Cuthbert's High School	1945-06-17		geopolitical analyst university teacher historian
Paul Magrs		British writer	Jarrow	University of Lancaster Woodham Academy	1968-11-12	Doctor Who	writer science fiction writer children's writer
Paul Stewart		British endocrinologist	Harrogate	University of Edinburgh	1959-07-06		physiologist
Paul Summers		English poet	Blyth		1967		poet
Paul Thomas		New Zealand writer (1951-)	Harrogate	University of Auckland	1951		novelist journalist screenwriter
Paul Torday		British writer	County Durham	Pembroke College Royal Grammar School	1946-08-01		writer
Paul Turner		English literary scholar (1917-2005)	West Hartlepool		1917-05-11		scholar of English
Paul W. Franks		American philosopher	Newcastle upon Tyne	Balliol College Harvard University Gateshead Talmudical College	1964		philosopher university teacher
Paul W. S. Anderson		British film director, screenwriter and producer	Wallsend	University of Warwick Royal Grammar School	1965-03-04		film director screenwriter film producer
Percival Turnbull		British archaeologist (1953-2016)	Coxhoe	UCL Institute of Archaeology	1953		archaeologist university teacher
Percy Cradock		British diplomat (1923-2010)	Byers Green	St John's College	1923-10-26		diplomat writer
Pete Doherty		English musician, actor and poet (born 1979)	Hexham	Queen Mary University of London	1979-03-12		guitarist poet singer writer painter songwriter activist
Pete Graves		Sports Correspondent	Hexham	Mowden Hall School	1982-04-07		television presenter sports commentator
Peter Addyman		British archaeologist	Harrogate	Sedbergh School Peterhouse	1939-07-12		medieval archaeologist
Peter Anderson Graham			Crookham		1853		editor science fiction writer
Peter Arnold-Craft		British headmaster and historian	Nunnington	Brasenose College	1926-01-08		historian
Peter Beagrie		English professional footballer (born 1965)	Middlesbrough		1965-11-28		association football player sports commentator
Peter Bland		British actor and poet	Scarborough	Victoria University of Wellington	1934-05-12		poet
Peter Coles		British astrophysicist	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Sussex Magdalene College Royal Grammar School	1963-06-04		astrophysicist
Peter Davison		American poet	Newcastle upon Tyne	Harvard University	1928-06-27		writer poet literary historian editor university teacher
Peter Davison		Professor of English	Newcastle upon Tyne		1926		biographer
Peter Evans		English musicologist	Hartlepool		1929-11-07		musicologist university teacher
Peter Flannery		British playwright	Jarrow	Bath Spa University	1951-10-12		playwright writer
Peter Frank		Professor of Russian politics	Whitby		1934-05-06		political scientist
Peter Gago		Australian writer and wine-maker	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Melbourne Roseworthy Agricultural College	1957-04-25		winegrower writer winemaker school teacher
Peter Gilliver		British lexicographer	Middlesbrough	University of Sheffield Jesus College Barnard Castle School	1964-06-14		lexicographer linguist editor
Peter Hicks		British musicologist	Wallsend	University College London St John's College	1964-02-01		musicologist historian musician choir director organist translator classical philologist
Peter Higgs		British physicist and Nobel Prize winner (1929–2024)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Cotham School City of London School King's College London	1929-05-29	Higgs boson	theoretical physicist researcher particle physicist physicist
Peter Hunter Blair		British academic and historian (1912–1982)	Gosforth		1912-03-22		historian
Peter John Allan		Canadian poet (1825-1848)	York	University of King's College	1825-06-06		poet
Peter Kidson		English art historian (1925-2019)	York		1925-08-23		art historian architectural historian architect university teacher
Peter N. Walker		British crime writer	North Yorkshire		1936-05-18		crime fiction writer
Peter Rushforth		English teacher and novelist (1945-2005)	Gateshead		1945-02-15		writer novelist
Peter Smith		British architectural historian (1926-2013)	Winlaton	King Edward VI School University of Oxford	1926		writer architectural historian
Peter Straughan		English dramatist, screenwriter and short-story writer	Gateshead	Newcastle University	1968-08		screenwriter writer playwright film director
Peter Swinnerton-Dyer		British mathematician (1927-2018)	Ponteland	Trinity College	1927-08-02		mathematician bridge player university teacher
Peter Terson		British playwright (1932-2021)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1932-02-16 1932-02-24		screenwriter writer playwright
Peter Townsend		British sociologist (1928-2009)	Middlesbrough	St John's College	1928-04-06		sociologist university teacher
Phil Hardy		British journalist and author (1945-2014)	Scarborough	University of Sussex	1945-04-07		author journalist film critic
Phil O'Keefe		British geographer and development specialist	North Shields	Ushaw College	1948-12		geographer
Philip Bunting			Lake District				writer illustrator editor
Philip J Day		documentary film director and producer	Harrogate	Peterhouse Boys' School Ackworth School			writer television producer
Philip Lake		British geologist (1865–1949)	Morpeth	St John's College	1865-04-09		geologist
Philip Mennell		Australian journalist and writer	Newcastle upon Tyne		1851-03-10	The Dictionary of Australasian Biography The Coming Colony	journalist biographer
Phillip Mann		British science fiction writer	Northallerton	Scarborough College	1942-08-07	Master of Paxwax	writer science fiction writer prose writer
Piers Torday		British children's writer	Northumberland		1974-04-06		writer children's writer
Pit Corder		language scholar from England (1918-1990)	York	Bootham School Merton College	1918-10-06		paramedic linguist
Prideaux John Selby		English ornithologist, botanist and illustrator (1788–1867)	Alnwick	University College, Oxford Durham School Durham University	1788-07-23		botanist ornithologist illustrator
R. W. Southern		British historian	Newcastle upon Tyne	Balliol College Royal Grammar School	1912-02-08		historian
Ralph Hodgson		British writer (1871-1962)	Darlington		1871-09-09		writer poet
Ralph Nicholson Wornum		British art historian (1812-1877)	Norham	University College London	1812-12-29		art historian writer librarian curator art critic
Ralph Riley		British geneticist	Scarborough	Audenshaw School	1924-10-23		geneticist
Ralph Russell		British scholar of Urdu literature (1918-2008)	Kirk Hammerton	St John's College	1918-05-21		linguist academic
Ralph Tate		British botanist (1840-1901)	Alnwick		1840-03-11		botanist geologist
Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland		English Earl	Raby Castle		1364		writer
Raphael Sealey		British-American classical scholar, ancient historian (1927–2013)	Middlesbrough	University College, Oxford	1927-08-14		historian classical scholar
Ray Hudson		British footballer and manager (born 1955)	Gateshead		1955-03-24		association football player journalist association football manager sports commentator
Ray Kennedy		English association football player (1951–2021)	Northumberland		1951-07-28		association football player association football manager autobiographer
Ray King		Footballer, goalkeeper (1924-2014)	Radcliffe		1924-08-15		association football player autobiographer association football manager
Raymond Gibson		British zoologist	Catterick		1938-11-23		zoologist university teacher
Reg Smythe		British cartoonist (1917-1998)	Hartlepool		1917-07-10	Andy Capp	comics artist
Reginald Beckwith		British actor	York		1908-11-02		actor television actor screenwriter
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	writer novelist
Reginald Spink		British journalist, translator and writer (1905-1994)	York		1905		journalist translator writer
Renford Bambrough		philosopher (1926-1999)	Sunderland		1926-04-29		philosopher university teacher
Richard A. Fletcher		British medieval historian (born 1944)	York	Harrow School Worcester College	1944-03-28		historian university teacher
Richard Abbay		British astronomer, botanist, parish priest and poet (1844-1927)	Ouseburn		1844-02-11		clergyman botanist astronomer poet
Richard Allen Downing		British hydrogeologist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Durham University	1928-03-18		hydrogeologist
Richard Armstrong		author (1903-1986)	Walbottle		1903-06-18		writer
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	writer university teacher computer scientist
Richard Burridge		Screenwriter, author	Rothbury		1951		screenwriter
Richard Clive Cookson		British chemist	Hexham	Harrow School Trinity College	1922-08-27 1922		chemist
Richard Dean		Church of England clergyman and essayist	Kirkby Malham		1727		Anglican priest essayist
Richard Drury		British curator and art critic	Scarborough		1967-09-03		curator translator art critic art historian exhibition curator university teacher museologist gallerist
Richard Flohil		Canadian music publicist, journalist and promoter	Selby		1934		musician publicist artistic director reporter
Richard Fothergill		British politician	Lowbridge Estate		1822-11-08		politician ironmaster
Richard Holdsworth		English theologian	Newcastle upon Tyne	St John's College	1590		theologian
Richard Laws		English mammalogist and Antarctic scientist; 2nd Director BAS	Whitley Bay	St Catharine's College, Cambridge	1926-04-23		scientist
Richard Milward		British writer	Middlesbrough	The Northern School of Art Laurence Jackson School	1984-10-26	Apples	novelist
Richard Pickersgill		British sailor	West Tanfield		1749-04-18		seafarer cartographer
Richard Platt		British children's writer and photographer	Northumberland		1953-04-15		writer children's writer
Richard Robinson		British politician, chemist	Whitby		1849-10-16		chemist
Richard Robson		chemist	Glusburn	University of Oxford	1937-06-04		chemist
Richard Rolle		English hermit and religious writer (c.1300–1349)	North Yorkshire	University of Oxford University of Paris	1300s		translator hermit theologian
Richard Runciman Terry		British composer (1865-1938)	Ellington	King's College	1865-01-03		conductor musicologist composer
Richard Shilleto		British scholar	Ulleskelf	Trinity College Shrewsbury School Repton School	1809-11-25		classical scholar
Richard Spruce		British botanist and explorer (1817–1893)	Ganthorpe		1817-09-10		botanist explorer entomologist pteridologist bryologist naturalist
Richard Waugh		English merchant and botanist (1768-1806)	Lanchester		1768		botanist merchant
Richard Wilfrid Selby		English Benedictine monk (-1659)	County Durham				religious writer
Rick Holden		English footballer (born 1964)	Skipton	University of Salford Ermysted's Grammar School	1964-09-09		association football player association football manager autobiographer
Ridley Scott		English filmmaker (born 1937)	South Shields	Royal College of Art The Northern School of Art	1937-11-30	Gladiator Thelma & Louise Blade Runner Alien American Gangster	film producer film director executive producer television producer screenwriter director producer actor
Rob Rackstraw		British voice-over actor	Sunderland		1965-10-31	Bob the Builder Thomas & Friends	seiyū screenwriter voice actor
Robert Atkinson		Anglo-Irish academic, philologist and textual scholar	Yorkshire Gateshead		1839-04-06		writer linguist
Robert Benson Bowman		Bookseller and publisher (1808-1882)	Richmond		1808-05-14		botanist bookseller
Robert Bernasconi		British philosopher	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Sussex	1950-08-05		philosopher university teacher
Robert Blair		English archaeologist and antiquarian	South Shields		1845-06-08		archaeologist
Robert Brough Smyth		Anglo-Australian geologist, author and social commentator	Wallsend		1830 1830-02-18		geologist ethnologist mining engineer meteorologist writer
Robert Clephan		British merchant and archaeologist	Gateshead		1839-11-08		merchant archaeologist writer
Robert Douglas		American horticulturist (1813-1897)	Gateshead		1813-04-20		horticulturist naturalist
Robert Gold			Harrogate				salesperson writer
Robert Holford Macdowall Bosanquet		English scientist and music theorist (1841-1912)	Alnwick	Balliol College Eton College Royal College of Music	1841-07-31		astronomer musicologist music theorist barrister
Robert Holman		British dramatist	Guisborough		1952		writer
Robert Howard Hodgkin		British historian	Newcastle upon Tyne	Repton School Leighton Park School Balliol College	1877-04-24		historian university teacher
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		theatrical director writer playwright
Robert Kaye Greville		British botanist (1794-1866)	Bishop Auckland	University of Edinburgh	1794-12-13		botanist bryologist mycologist botanical illustrator
Robert Ker Porter		British artist, writer and diplomat	Durham	Durham School Royal Academy of Arts	1777		painter diplomat politician landscape painter traveler writer botanist
Robert Malcolm Errington		British historian and classical scholar (born 1939)	Howdon	Durham University	1939-07-05		historian of classical antiquity university teacher historian
Robert Morrison		British evangelist and first Christian Protestant missionary to China	Bullers Green	Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry	1782-01-05		lexicographer linguist translator writer Bible translator missionary
Robert Nares		English clergyman, author and philologist (1753-1829)	York	Christ Church	1753-06-09		writer librarian clergyman editor linguist scholar of English priest lexicographer
Robert Pashley		British economist	York	Trinity College	1805-09-04		economist
Robert Robson		English historian	Haltwhistle	Queen Elizabeth High School Trinity College	1929-08-11		historian
Robert Sayer		English publisher, map and printseller	Sunderland		1725		cartographer publisher visual artist
Robert Sherlaw Johnson		British musician and scholar (1932-2000)	Sunderland	University of Leeds Durham University Royal Academy of Music Gosforth Academy	1932-05-21		composer pianist scholar campanologist
Robert Spence Watson		politician (1837-1911)	Gateshead	University College London Bootham School	1837-06-08		politician jurist solicitor writer lawyer
Robert Story		British poet	Wark		1795-10-17		poet
Robert Westall		English writer	North Shields Tynemouth	Slade School of Fine Art Durham University	1929-10-07	The Machine Gunners The Scarecrows Blitzcat	writer novelist author journalist science fiction writer children's writer
Robert William Atkinson		British chemist in Japan	Newcastle upon Tyne	Royal School of Mines	1850		chemist
Robert Wilson		British astronomer (1927-2002)	South Shields	University of Edinburgh King's College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne	1927-04-16		astronomer
Robertus Dixon		British scientist	Heworth		1647-07-17		astronomer
Robin Hawdon		English playwright and novelist	Newcastle upon Tyne		1939 1939-03-28		playwright actor
Robin Lester Carhart-Harris		British researcher	Durham	University of Bristol Brunel University of London	20th century		researcher
Rod Rees		British writer	Scarborough		1948-11-26		writer science fiction writer
Roger Ascham		English scholar and didactic writer (1515-1568)	Kirby Wiske	St John's College	1515		writer
Roger Kohn		British designer	York		1951		author biographer designer artist
Roland Carl Backhouse		British computer scientist and mathematician	Middlesbrough	Churchill College Imperial College London University of London	1948-08-18		mathematician university teacher computer scientist programmer
Ron Fawcett		British rock climber	Embsay		1955-05-06		rock climber writer
Ronald Illingworth		Illingworth, Ronald Stanley (1909–1990), expert in child health	Harrogate	Bradford Grammar School Yale University	1909		scientist pediatrician
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	television actor film actor comedian voice actor stage actor screenwriter electrical engineer actor manufacturer film producer
Roy Chubby Brown		British comedian	Grangetown		1945-02-03 1945-02-05		comedian screenwriter actor singer stand-up comedian entertainer
Sacheverell Sitwell		British art and architectural historian and writer, baronet (1969-1988)	Scarborough	Balliol College Eton College	1897-11-15		writer literary critic poet biographer critic art historian architectural historian
Sam William Heads		British entomologist and palaeontologist	Northumberland	University of Portsmouth	1983-04-22		paleontologist entomologist
Samuel Garth		British writer	Bolam	Peterhouse	1661		physician poet writer
Samuel Newby Curle		British mathematician	Sunderland	Victoria University of Manchester St. Bede's Grammar School	1930-06-18		mathematician
Samuel Tolansky		British physicist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Durham University Imperial College London	1907-11-17		physicist
Scott Davidson		academic	Newcastle upon Tyne	Downing College	1954-09-24		political scientist
Scott Mann		British film director	Newton Aycliffe	Woodham Academy	1965-06-16		film director screenwriter
Sean Tyla		English musician	Barlow		1947-08-03		writer autobiographer guitarist
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	sociologist businessperson
Selby Knox		British chemist	Newcastle upon Tyne		1944-09-24		chemist professor
Shaun Lawton		British actor	New Marske		1941		actor playwright poet
Shaun Prendergast		British actor	North Shields	Norham High School	1958-11-28		actor film actor writer television actor
Shaykh Said Ismail		Imam from the Yemeni Community in Cardiff; from a mixed family background (1930-2011)	South Shields		1930-09		imam welder
Sid Chaplin		English writer of novels, television screenplays, poetry and short stories (1916-1986)	Shildon		1916-09-20	The Day of the Sardine	screenwriter writer poet television writer theatre critic essayist
Sid Waddell		British sports commentator (1940–2012)	Alnwick	St John's College The King Edward VI Academy	1940-08-10		television presenter journalist writer
Silvanus P. Thompson		British academic physicist (1851-1916)	York	Bootham School University of London	1851-06-19		engineer physicist university teacher writer
Simon Baynes		British politician	Lesbury		1960-04-21		politician stockbroker writer
Simon Farnaby		British actor	Darlington	Trinity College Dublin Richmond School	1973-04-02		writer comedian actor television actor
Simon Myers		Professor of Mathematical Genomics	Darlington	Royal Latin School Worcester College Jesus College	1977-06-27		statistician academic
Simon Turney			Ripon				writer novelist
Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet		Quaker, sinologist	Darlington	Winchester College Merton College	1873-10-20		linguist historian diarist
Sir John Smith-Dodsworth, 8th Baronet		English-New Zealand naturalist	Thornton Watlass Hall	Ampleforth College	1935-03-04		naturalist
Sir Lowthian Bell, 1st Baronet		Ironmaster, industrial chemist, railway owner (1816-1904)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1816-02-18 1816-02-15 1816		inventor politician metallurgist chemist businessperson entrepreneur aristocrat
Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan, 6th Baronet		British botanist and historian (1797-1879)	Newcastle upon Tyne	University College, Oxford Harrow School	1797-03-31		botanist geologist photographer
Smithson Tennant		British chemist (1761-1815)	Selby	University of Edinburgh Christ's College Beverley Grammar School	1761-11-30		chemist
Stanley Eveling		British philosopher and writer	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Oxford Durham University	1925		playwright journalist philosopher
Stanley Peat		British carbohydrate chemist	South Shields		1902-08-23		chemist
Stanley R. Dennison		British economist and university administrator	North Shields	Trinity College	1912 1912-06-15		economist
Stephen Chapman		Australian teacher and chemist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Newcastle University	1959-05-12		teacher chemist
Stephen Graham		British urban theorist	North Shields		1965-02-26		geographer university teacher urban theorist
Stephen Laws		British novelist	Newcastle upon Tyne		1952		novelist
Stephen Liddle		British chemist	Sunderland	Newcastle University	20th century		chemist researcher
Stephen of Sawley		English monk; abbot of Sawley and Fountains	Eston				monk writer
Steve Biddulph		Australian activist and psychologist	Saltburn-by-the-Sea		1953-08-15		psychologist writer human rights activist psychotherapist political activist
Steve Ellis		British poet and literary scholar	York		1952		poet literary critic literary scholar university teacher man of letters
Steve Flint		railway modeller, writer, editor and photographer	Scarborough		1954		model railroader writer railway historian photographer magazine editor
Steve McClure		British rock climber	Saltburn-by-the-Sea		1970-07-25		rock climber writer
Steven Appleby		cartoonist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Northumbria University	1956-01-27		cartoonist comics artist
Steven Runciman		British historian of the Middle Ages (1903–2000)	Northumberland Glasgow	Eton College Trinity College	1903-07-07	A History of the Crusades	medievalist historian Byzantinist
Steven Savile		British writer	Newcastle upon Tyne	Ewell Castle School	1969-10-12		science fiction writer writer editor teacher
Tempest Anderson		British eye surgeon, photographer and volcanologist	York	St Peter's School University College London University of Leeds	1846-12-07		volcanologist photographer surgeon
Terence Burns, Baron Burns		British economist	Hetton-le-Hole	University of Manchester	1944-03-13		economist politician business executive
Terry Deary		writer	Sunderland	University of Sunderland Monkwearmouth Academy East Point Academy	1946-03-04		writer children's writer stage actor theatrical director historian
Theodore Rigg		New Zealand agricultural chemist, scientific administrator (1888–1972)	Settle	St John's College	1888-04-06		chemist
Thomas Addison		19th-century British physician and scientist	Longbenton	University of Edinburgh King's College London Royal Grammar School	1793-04-02		physician scientist
Thomas Alcock Beck		British historian (1795-1846)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Trinity College Hawkshead Grammar School	1795-05-31		historian
Thomas Baker		English antiquarian, born 1656	Lanchester	St John's College	1656-09-14		antiquarian historian
Thomas Bell		English Roman Catholic priest, later an anti-Catholic writer	Raskelf		1551		writer
Thomas Bell		English land surveyor and book collector	Newcastle upon Tyne		1785-12-16		surveyor bookseller
Thomas Belt		English geologist and naturalist (1832-1878)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1832-11-27		geologist naturalist
Thomas Bewick		English engraver and natural history author (1753-1828)	Mickley		1753-08-10 1753-08-12	Mother Goose’s Melody	ornithologist printmaker painter illustrator wood engraver copper engraver historian xylographer
Thomas Brasch		German author, poet and film director (1945-2001)	Westow	Kadettenschule der NVA	1945-02-19		writer film director poet screenwriter translator playwright film actor
Thomas Burnet		English theologian and writer (1635-1715)	Croft-on-Tees		1635		philosopher theologian
Thomas Bywater Smithies		English radical publisher and activist	York		1817-08-27		editor writer publisher animal rights advocate
Thomas Carter		British ornithologist and pastoralist (1863-1931)	Masham		1863-04-06		ornithologist scientific collector
Thomas Caverhill Jerdon		British zoologist, botanist, and physician (1811-1872)	Durham	University of Edinburgh	1811-10-12		botanist physician zoologist ornithologist entomologist zoological collector botanical collector
Thomas Cresap		American settler	Skipton		1694		frontiersman politician surveyor trader soldier gentleman farmer
Thomas D Bennett		British materials chemist	South Shields	University of Cambridge	1986		researcher materials chemist
Thomas D. Wilson		academic	Shincliffe	University of Sheffield Durham Johnston Comprehensive School	1935		researcher
Thomas Doubleday		English political activist, author, songwriter, poet	Newcastle upon Tyne		1790		politician songwriter economist
Thomas Ewbank		British writer	Barnard Castle		1792-03-11		writer
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		military officer politician poet
Thomas Gale		British antiquarian; (1635-1702)	Scruton	Trinity College Westminster School	1636		classical philologist university teacher mythographer Anglican priest historian
Thomas Gray		mining engineer and local historian (1847 -1924)	Washington		1847-09-22		mining engineer historian
Thomas Grey		English poet	Norham		1863-09-16		poet
Thomas Guy Masters		Seismologist	York	University of Cambridge	1954		seismologist
Thomas Havelock		English mathematician	Newcastle upon Tyne	St John's College	1877		mathematician university teacher
Thomas Hudson Nelson		British ornithologist (1856-1916)	Bishop Auckland		1856-02-12		ornithologist
Thomas Hutchinson		British educator, poet, and author	Newcastle upon Tyne		1856		educator poet writer
Thomas J. Foggitt		British botanist (1810–1895)	Durham		1810		botanist
Thomas Jackson Foggitt		British botanist (1858–1934)	Thirsk		1858-03-02		botanist pharmacist
Thomas Jefferson Hogg		British writer and barrister (1792-1862)	Stockton-on-Tees	Durham School University College, Oxford	1792-05-24		barrister writer biographer
Thomas Johnson		English botanist and Royalist soldier of the English Civil War	Selby		1600-09-07		botanist
Thomas Manson		British biblical scholar	North Shields	University of Glasgow Westminster College	1893-07-22		biblical scholar religious studies scholar
Thomas Meriton		English playwright and cleric	Castlelevington	St John's College	1638		playwright Anglican priest
Thomas Musgrave		captain, lighthouse keeper and Auckland Islands castaway (1832-1891)	Durham		1832-05-10		non-fiction writer sailor lighthouse keeper
Thomas Nossiter		British academic	Stockton-on-Tees	Exeter College Nuffield College	1937-12-24		lecturer political scientist sociologist
Thomas Nuttall		English botanist and zoologist in America (1786-1859)	Settle		1786-01-05		botanist pteridologist zoologist ornithologist writer
Thomas Renton Elliott		physician and physiologist (1877-1961)	Willington		1877-10-11		physiologist
Thomas Rymer Jones		British surgeon and zoologist	Whitby		1810		zoologist surgeon
Thomas Stackhouse		English theologian and controversialist	Witton-le-Wear		1677		theologian
Thomas Stanley Westoll		English geologist	Hartlepool	Newcastle University	1912-07-03		anatomist geologist paleontologist
Thomas Stevenson		English toxicologist and forensic chemist (1838-1908)	Rainton	University of London Guy's Hospital Medical School	1838-04-14		toxicologist physician forensic scientist lecturer
Thomas Thompson		British poet	Bishop Auckland		1773		writer songwriter poet singer
Thomas Tredgold		British engineer	Brandon		1788-08-22		engineer writer
Thomas Turton		British mathematician and clergyman (1780-1864)	York	St Catharine's College, Cambridge Queens' College	1780-02-05		mathematician priest university teacher
Thomas Ward		English writer (1652-1708)	Danby Castle		1652-04-13		writer tutor
Thomas Wemyss Reid		English newspaper editor, novelist and biographer (1842-1905)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1842-03-29		editor writer journalist novelist biographer
Thomas Wharton		English anatomist (1614–1673)	Winston	Pembroke College	1614-08-31		anatomist
Thomas Wright		astronomer (1711-1786)	County Durham	King James I Academy	1711-09-22	An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe	astronomer mathematician architect
Tim Burstall		Australian film director	Stockton-on-Tees	Geelong Grammar School	1927-04-20 1929-04-20		film director director producer screenwriter
Timothy Kristian Charles Mace			Catterick		1955-11-20		engineer astronaut
Tom Brown		British anarchist (1900–1974)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1900		engineer writer shop steward
Tom Crewe		English novelist	Middlesbrough	University of Cambridge	1989		writer journalist
Tom Hodgkinson		British writer	Newcastle upon Tyne	Westminster School	1968	The Idler	writer journalist essayist bookseller
Tom Shankland		British director	Durham		1968-05-07		screenwriter director film director
Tony Bastable		British television presenter	Hexham	University College School	1944-10-15		presenter television producer writer biographer television presenter
Tony Bianchi		British writer	North Shields		1952-04-05		writer
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		film director film producer screenwriter actor television producer director
Tony Weetman		Dean of the Medical School at University of Sheffield	Durham	Newcastle University	1953-04-29		medical faculty endocrinologist
Trevor Ian Shaw		English biochemist and physiologist	York	Clare College	1928-03-18		physiologist
Trevor McMillan		English radiobiologist, Vice-Chancellor of Keele University	Gateshead	University of Lancaster	1959-10-02		biologist radiologist
Trevor Metcalfe		British illustrator	Brotton		1939-05		comics artist illustrator
True Geordie		British YouTuber	Newcastle upon Tyne		1987-01-26		YouTuber podcaster pundit Twitch streamer
Tweedy John Todd		English doctor (1789-1840)	Berwick-upon-Tweed	University of Aberdeen	1789		biologist surgeon
Ullin Place		British philosopher (1924-2000)	Yorkshire Northallerton	Rugby School Corpus Christi College	1924-10-24		philosopher psychologist university teacher
Uthred of Boldon		Benedictine monk, theologian and writer	The Boldons		1320		monk theologian
Vaughan Oliver		British graphic designer	Sedgefield	Northumbria University	1957-09-12		graphic designer visiting professor
Vigo Auguste Demant		British priest and theologian	Newcastle upon Tyne	Durham University Harris Manchester College Ely Theological College	1893-11-08		theologian Anglican priest
Vince Cable		British politician, leader of the Liberal Democrats (born 1943)	York	Fitzwilliam College University of Glasgow	1943-05-09		politician economist
Vincent Cornier		British author	Redcar		1898		writer
W D Welford		British cyclist, writer and publisher (1857-1919)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1857		writer photographer publisher editor journalist manufacturer film director
W. B. R. King		British geologist	West Burton	Jesus College Uppingham School	1889-11-12		geologist
W. Brian Harland		British geologist (1917-2003)	Scarborough	Bootham School Gonville and Caius College	1917-03-22		geologist university teacher
W. H. Auden		British-American poet (1907–1973)	York	Christ Church University of Oxford Gresham's School St Edmund's School	1907-02-21	The Orators	poet screenwriter literary historian playwright writer librettist university teacher literary critic essayist composer translator
W. R. Mitchell		British writer and editor	Skipton		1928-01-15		writer editing staff
Wally Herbert		British polar explorer (1934-2007)	United Kingdom York		1934-10-24		explorer polar explorer surveyor writer illustrator
Walter Crawley		British tennis player and entomologist (1880-1940)	Masham	St John's School, Leatherhead	1880-03-29		tennis player entomologist
Warren Tute		English sailor, author and television executive	West Hartlepool		1914-02-22		novelist
Wesley Stoker Barker Woolhouse		British actuary	North Shields		1809-05-06		actuary musicologist music theorist musician mathematician
Wilfred Ernest Alderson			Newcastle upon Tyne		1873-06-07		dentist writer
Wilfred Hudleston Hudleston		British geologist (1828-1909)	York	St John's College	1828-06-02		geologist ornithologist paleontologist curator
Wilfrid Norman Bailey		British mathematician (1893-1961)	County Durham	Victoria University of Manchester University of Cambridge	1893-09-05		mathematician
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson		British poet (1878–1962)	Hexham		1878-10-02		writer poet
Will Ashton		Australian artist (1881-1963)	Clifton	Académie Julian	1881-09-20		painter curator
Will Hay		English comedian, actor, film director & astronomer (1888-1949)	Stockton-on-Tees		1888-12-06		actor comedian screenwriter astronomer film director stand-up comedian stage actor film actor engineer
Will Lawson		Australian writer (1876-1957)	Durham		1876-09-02		historian poet
William Alvara Humphrey		British geologist and mineralogist	York		1876-11-08		geologist
William Andrews Nesfield		English landscape architect and artist (1793-1881)	Chester-le-Street	Durham School	1793-06-16		horticulturist painter
William Arthur Bone		British chemist	Stockton-on-Tees	University of Manchester Ackworth School	1871-03-19		chemist university teacher
William Bateson		British geneticist and biologist (1861-1926)	Whitby	St John's College Rugby School	1861-08-08		geneticist biologist
William Bedlington		New Zealand land surveyor (1823-1891)	Ovingham		1823-09-27		surveyor engineer
William Brice		British ethnographer and linguist	Richmond	Jesus College	1921-07-03		linguist ethnologist anthropologist ethnographer
William Bullerwell		English geologist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Durham University	1916-09-27		geologist geophysicist
William Burley Lockwood		historian	Normanby	University of Manchester	1917-04-13		linguist writer lexicographer
William Chapman Hewitson		British naturalist	Newcastle upon Tyne		1806-01-09		naturalist lepidopterist illustrator ornithologist
William Corlett		British writer	Darlington	Fettes College	1938-10-08		writer children's writer
William Crawford Williamson		English naturalist and palaeobotanist (1816-1895)	Scarborough	University College London	1816-11-24		botanist geologist paleontologist paleobotanist
William D. Clark		British economist	Haltwhistle	University of Chicago	1916-07-28		economist writer
William Daniel Gill		geologist (1916–92)	Hillam		1916-06-29		geologist
William Delisle Hay		British mycologist, novelist, and pulp writer (1853-18??)	Bishopwearmouth		1853 1851		botanist science fiction writer mycologist
William Elstob		English chaplain	Newcastle upon Tyne	Eton College St Catharine's College, Cambridge The Queen's College	1674		rector linguist translator theologian historian
William Emerson		British mathematician	Hurworth-on-Tees		1701-05-14		mathematician
William Ernest Bowman		writer	Scarborough		1911-09-30	The Ascent of Rum Doodle	writer
William Foggitt		British botanist (1835–1917)	Yarm		1835-02-02		botanist
William G. Whittaker		English-Scottish composer, pedagogue, conductor, musicologist, Bach scholar, publisher and writer	Newcastle upon Tyne	Durham University	1876-07-23		composer musicologist music journalist conductor music professor
William Gowland		British archaeologist	Sunderland	Imperial College London	1842-12-16		anthropologist archaeologist engineer
William Grainge		British antiquarian (1818-1895)	Dishforth		1818-01-25		antiquarian poet stationer bookseller historian
William Green			Belford		1844		photographer chemist
William Greenwell		British archaeologist	Lanchester	Durham University Durham School	1820-03-23		anthropologist archaeologist priest
William Harrison Cook		chemist	Alnwick	Stanford University University of Alberta	1903-09-02		chemist biochemist
William Hawley Smith		American writer	Sunderland		1845-10-07		writer
William Henderson		author (1813–1891)	Kirk Merrington		1813	Notes on the Folk Lore of the Northern Counties of England and the Borders	writer
William Hepworth Thompson		British classical philologist (1810-1886)	York	Trinity College	1810-03-27		classical philologist academic classical scholar university teacher
William Herdman Elliott		British Australian biochemist	Durham		1925-06-05		biochemist
William Hewson		British physiologist	Hexham	University of Edinburgh	1739-11-14		anatomist surgeon physiologist
William Hutchinson		English mariner, privateer, author, and inventor	Newcastle upon Tyne		1715		writer
William Hutton		British geologist (1797-1860)	Sunderland		1797-07-26		botanist geologist paleontologist
William J. Eccles		British historian of Canada	North Yorkshire	McGill University	1917		historian
William Jackson Bean		British botanist (1863-1947)	Malton	Holgate School, Barnsley	1863-05-26	Trees and shrubs hardy in the British Isles	botanist
William John Greenwell		19th-century English barrister and writer	St Helen Auckland	Marlborough College New College	1847-05-21		barrister writer
William Kay		English cleric and academic	Pickering	Giggleswick School Lincoln College	1820-04-08		biblical scholar cleric
William Kenneth Richmond			Darlington		1910		pedagogue
William King		Anglo-Irish geologist	Sunderland		1809-04-22		archaeologist prehistorian geologist paleoanthropologist university teacher paleontologist
William Lambton		British geographer	Northallerton		1756 1753		surveyor geographer
William Lax		astronomer	Ravensworth	Trinity College	1761		mathematician astronomer
William Marshall		English writer on agriculture (1745-1818)	Sinnington		1745		author farmer writer
William Martin		eccentric and self-proclaimed philosopher (1772-1851)	Haltwhistle		1772-06-21		philosopher poet
William Mercer		English cleric, hymnwriter	Barnard Castle	Trinity College	1811		cleric hymnwriter
William Mitcheson Timlin		painter, draftsman, architect	Ashington	Morpeth School	1892-04-11		architect writer
William Neile		British mathematician	Bishopthorpe	Wadham College University of Oxford	1637-12-16	Semicubical parabola	mathematician
William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse		Anglo-Irish astronomer (1800-1867)	York	Magdalen College Trinity College Dublin	1800-06-17	Leviathan of Parsonstown	astronomer politician
William Percy		Poet and playwright, d. 1648	Tynemouth	Worcester College	1574		poet playwright
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		botanist writer explorer botanical collector academic
William Price Turner		(1927-), British poet	York		1927		poet
William Ralph Inge		English author, Anglican dean and professor of divinity (1860–1954)	Crayke	Eton College King's College	1860-06-06		priest writer theologian
William Scoresby		English Arctic explorer and whaler (1789–1857)	Cropton	Queens' College	1789-10-05		explorer scientist
William Scoresby		Arctic whaler and navigator (1760–1829)	Cropton		1760-05-03		scientific explorer
William Shanks		Amateur calculator, school owner	Corsenside		1812-01-25		mathematician
William Stubbs		British historian and Anglican bishop (1825–1901)	Knaresborough	Christ Church Ripon Grammar School	1825-06-21		cleric Anglican priest legal historian medievalist historian university teacher parson writer
William Thomas Hamilton		American frontiersman and author	River Till		1822-12-06		mountain man writer pioneer
William Thomas Stead		English newspaper editor (1849–1912)	Northumberland	Silcoates School	1849-07-05		writer journalist Esperantist journal editor
William Turner		16th century English Protestant reformer, physician and natural historian	Morpeth	Pembroke College	1510		physician naturalist Anglican priest ornithologist botanist
William Yorke Fausset		Anglo-Irish clergyman	Bishop Middleham		1859		writer Anglican priest
Woods Hutchinson		English physician	Selby	University of Michigan William Penn University	1862		writer physician
Zachary Grey		British historian	Burniston		1686-05-06		historian

non-binary

article	image	description	place of birth	educated at	date of birth	notable work	occupation
Beth Jeans Houghton		English musician	Newcastle upon Tyne		1990-01-03		composer lyricist singer

trans woman

article	image	description	place of birth	educated at	date of birth	notable work	occupation
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	actor YouTuber video essayist playwright

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