People from Gateshead

British politician (born 1983)

British Royal Navy admiral (1811-1883)

English dramatist, screenwriter and short-story writer (born 1968)

David Adetayo Olusoga is a British-Nigerian historian, writer, broadcaster, and BAFTA winning film-maker. He is Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester. Olusoga has presented historical documentaries on the BBC, has contributed to The Guardian and is the author of Black and British: A Forgotten History (2016).

British civil engineer (1825–1915)

British copepodologist (1832-1921)

South African naturalist (1822-1900)

Welsh politician and MP (born 1960)

Anglo-Irish academic, philologist and textual scholar

playwright and writer (1876-1970)

British politician (born 1966)

contemporary artist (1948-2018)

British politician (born 1943)

Royal Engineers officer

British electrical engineer (1874–1940)

politician (1837-1911)