This is a list of notable people with a Wikipedia page associated with York, a city in North Yorkshire, England.
Actors and performers
Arts
Confectioners
Musicians
Historians
Politicians and rulers
Religion
- Aaron of York (c. 1190 – c. 1253), financier and Chief Rabbi of England
- Alcuin (c. 735–804), Christian scholar.[11]
- John Ball (c. 1338–1381), Lollard priest and rebel.[12]
- Margaret Clitherow (died 1586), Catholic saint and martyr
- John Earle (c.1601–1665), bishop and writer on social customs.[13]
- Guy Fawkes (1570–1606), Roman Catholic revolutionary.[14]
- Josce of York (died 1190), Jewish martyr
- Francis Mason (1799–1874), American missionary.[15]
- Thomas Morton (1564–1659), bishop.[16]
- Matthew Poole (1624–1679), theologian.[17]
- Beilby Porteus (1731–1809), successively Bishop of Chester and of London.[18]
- Richard Sterne (c. 1596–1683), Archbishop of York (1664–83), revised the 1662 Book of Common Prayer.[19]
- William of York (1110–1154), archbishop, patron saint of York
Sciences and architecture
- Jocelyn Bell (born 1943), radio astronomer and discoverer of pulsars
- Moses B. Cotsworth (1859 - 1943] Egyptologist and 13-month calendar reformer, inventor of the International Fixed Calendar
- William Etty (c. 1675–1734), architect
- John Goodricke (1764–86), astronomer
- Joseph Hansom (1803–1882), architect and inventor.[20]
- Peter Harrison (1716–1775), architect
- George Hennet (1799–1857), railway contractor and entrepreneur
- Ivar the Boneless (794–872), Viking chieftain.[21]
- Christopher Hill (1912–2003), historian of 17th-century England and Master of Balliol College, Oxford
- John Middleton (1820–1885), architect
- William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse (1800–1867), astronomer.[22]
- Martin Rees (born 1942), Lord Rees of Ludlow, current Astronomer Royal
- George Russell (1857–1951), horticulturalist who developed Russell hybrid lupins
- John Snow (1813–1858), physician
Sports
Football
Rugby
Cricket
Motor sport
Basketball
Writers
- Kate Atkinson (born 1951), novelist and playwright
- W. H. Auden (1907–1973), poet and essayist[24]
- Nathan Drake (1766–1836), essayist and physician.[25]
- Matt Haig (born 1975), novelist and journalist
- Justin Hill (born 1971), novelist
- Alison Hume (living), television writer
- Sheelagh Kelly (born 1948), novelist
- Andrew Martin (born 1962), novelist and journalist
- Fiona Mozley (born 1988), novelist
- Laurence Sterne (1713–1768), author of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.[26]
- J. E. Harold Terry (1885–1939), novelist, playwright and critic[27]
- Silvanus P. Thompson (1851–1916), author and electrical engineer
- Charles Whiting (1926–2007), novelist and military historian
Others
- Benedict of York (died 1189), money lender
- Jon Champion (born 1965), broadcaster
- William B. Franklin (1823–1903) a career US Army officer.[28]
- Captain Christopher Levett (1586–1630), explorer of New England, first settler of York (present-day Portland), Maine
- Elizabeth Montagu (1718–1800) social reformer and patron of the arts.[29]
- Guy Mowbray (born 1972), football commentator
- Laura Sayers (born 1978), radio producer and diarist
- Siward, Earl of Northumbria (died 1055), army commander.[30]
- James Hack Tuke (1819–1896), social campaigner.[31]
- Daniel Hack Tuke (1827–1895), social campaigner.[32]
- Henry Tuke (1755–1814), social campaigner.[33]
- Samuel Tuke (1784–1857), social campaigner.[34]
- William Tuke (1732–1822), social campaigner.[35]
See also
References
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- ^ "Etty, William" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 9 (11th ed.). 1911. pp. 863–864.
- ^ Colvin, Sidney (1911). "Flaxman, John" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). pp. 489–491.
- ^ "Moore, Albert Joseph" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). 1911. pp. 807–808.
- ^ "Barnby, Sir Joseph" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 412.
- ^ "Herbert, Sir Thomas" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 13 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 340.
- ^ "Thompson, William Hepworth" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 26 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 871.
- ^ "Aislabie, John" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 1 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 447.
- ^ "Hudson, George" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 13 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 849.
- ^ Reid, James Smith (1911). "Severus, Lucius Septimius" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 24 (11th ed.). pp. 724–726.
- ^ Pfister, Christian (1911). "Alcuin" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 1 (11th ed.). pp. 529–530.
- ^ "Ball, John (priest)" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 263.
- ^ "Earle, John" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 796.
- ^ Yorke, Philip Chesney (1911). "Fawkes, Guy" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). pp. 217–218.
- ^ "Mason, Francis" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 17 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 837.
- ^ "Morton, Thomas (bishop)" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 882.
- ^ "Poole, Matthew" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 22 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 72.
- ^ "Porteus, Beilby" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 22 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 117.
- ^ "Sterne, Richard" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 25 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 903.
- ^ "Hansom, Joseph Aloysius" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 931.
- ^ "Ivarr, Beinlausi" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 91.
- ^ "Rosse, William Parsons, 3rd Earl of" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 23 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 745.
- ^ "Player profile: Tim Walton". CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 December 2011.
- ^ "W. H. Auden". www.bl.uk. Retrieved 20 November 2022.
- ^ "Drake, Nathan" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 474.
- ^ Minto, William; Dobson, Henry Austin (1911). "Sterne, Laurence" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 25 (11th ed.). pp. 901–903.
- ^ Parker, John, ed. (1922). Who's Who in the Theatre, 4th edition. Boston: Small, Maynard and Company. p. 789. Retrieved 12 October 2022.
- ^ "Franklin, William Buel" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 11 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 33.
- ^ "Montagu, Elizabeth Robinson" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 746.
- ^ "Siward" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 25 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 164.
- ^ "Tuke" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 365.
- ^ "Tuke" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 365.
- ^ "Tuke" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 365.
- ^ "Tuke" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 365.
- ^ "Tuke" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 365.