Category
page 1People from Lichfield
Samuel Johnson
English writer and lexicographer (1709–1784)

Joseph Addison
English essayist, poet, playwright and politician (1672–1719)

Erasmus Darwin
English physician (1731-1802)

Elias Ashmole
English antiquarian, politician, officer of arms, astrologer and alchemist (1617-1692)
George Farquhar
Irish dramatist (1677–1707)
John Obadiah Westwood
English entomologist and archaeologist (1805-1893)

Robert Darwin
English medical doctor; father of naturalist Charles Darwin
Henry Salt
English artist, traveller, diplomat, and egyptologist (1780-1827)
Tony Christie
British musician, singer and actor
Thomas Day
Thomas Day, English author and political campaigner (1748-1789)
Richard Lovell Edgeworth
Anglo-Irish politician, writer and inventor
Anna Seward
English Romantic poet (1742-1809)
Sir William Parker, 1st Baronet, of Shenstone
British Royal Navy admiral (1781-1866)
Richard Garnett
British scholar, librarian, biographer and poet (1835-1906)

Sue Williamson
South African artist (born 1941)

John Hinch
British musician (1947-2021)
Gregory King
British herald, engraver, and political economist
Edmund Gennings
English martyr
John Floyer
English physician
Richie Edwards
British musician
Thomas Newton
British cleric, biblical scholar and author; (1704-1782)
Sabrina Sidney
British foundling girl taken in when she was 12 by author Thomas Day
Julian Argüelles
British musician
James Summers
British academic

Mary Ann Jackson
English botanical illustrator (1819-1915)
Penelope Boothby
British art model and subject of poetry

Frederick Thurston
British musician (1901-1953)