Lived In, or Associated With, Birmingham
- Francis William Aston – (Nobel Prize winner, Physicist)
- W. H. Auden – (Poet and author)
- W. V. Awdry – (Author of The Railway Series)
- John Baskerville – (Printer and inventor of typefaces)
- Marie Bethell Beauclerc – (First female shorthand teacher and reporter in England)
- William Bloye – (Sculptor)
- William Booth – (Forger)
- John Bright – (Politician)
- Herbert Tudor Buckland – (Architect)
- Elihu Burritt – (US consul to Birmingham)
- Pogus Caesar – (Broadcaster and artist)
- Jazzy B – (Punjabi singer)
- Daniel Caines - (Athlete)
- Joseph Chamberlain – (Politician, Mayor of Birmingham)
- Bruce Chatwin – (Author)
- Lee Child – Author
- George Dawson – preacher
- Arthur Conan Doyle – (Author of Sherlock Holmes)
- John Boyd Dunlop – (Industrialist, built Fort Dunlop)
- Revd.Richard Enraght– (Vicar, religious controversialist)
- Harry Freeman – Music hall performer
- Joseph Gillott – industrialist
- Tommy Godwin – (Racing cyclist and Olympic medallist)
- Ashia Hansen – (Athlete)
- James Hinks – (Bred the Bull Terrier dog)
- Alex Hughes – (Cartoonist)
- Washington Irving – (Author)
- Jamelia – (RnB singer)
- John Joubert – (South African-born composer)
- Roi Kwabena – (author)
- Robert Lloyd – (Musician - The Nightingales))
- Louis MacNeice – (Poet)
- Stuart Maconie – (Radio DJ and television presenter)
- Josiah Mason – (Industrialist and philanthropist)
- Nigel Mansell – (Racing driver)
- Cardinal Newman – (Theologian and founder of the English Oratory)
- William McGregor – (Instrumental in forming the football league)
- William Murdoch – (Inventor of gas lighting)
- Bill Oddie – (Comedian and ornithologist)
- John Peel – (Radio DJ)
- Sadie Plant – (Author)
- Elizabeth "Tetty" Porter – wife of Samuel Johnson
- Joseph Priestley – (Chemist and dissenting clergyman)
- Sir Simon Rattle – (conductor of CBSO 1980-1998)
- John Ray – ("the father of English natural history")
- Sir Peter Rigby – (Entrepreneur)
- Mike Skinner – (Musician - The Streets)
- Sir Benjamin Stone – (Pioneering photographer)
- Simon Sturridge – (Footballer)
- Dean Sturridge – (Footballer)
- Daniel Sturridge – (Footballer)
- Dave Swarbrick – (Musician)
- J. R. R. Tolkien – (Author)
- Joshua Toulmin – (Non-conformist preacher)
- Joshua Toulmin Smith – (Political theorist)
- Ruby Turner – (singer)
- UB 40 – (reggae group)
- Julie Walters – (Actress)
- Bill Ward – (Musician - Black Sabbath)
- James Watt – (Inventor and member of the Lunar Society)
- Una White – Subject of public art-work
- William Withering – (Doctor, discoverer of digitalis)
- Victoria Wood – (Actress)
- John Skirrow Wright – (Social improver)
- John Wyndham – (Author)
- Alastair Yates – (Radio and television presenter)
- Dorian Yates – (6x Mr. Olympia)
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