People from York

Guy Fawkes, also known as Guido Fawkes while fighting for the Spanish, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics involved in the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. He was born and educated in York; his father died when Fawkes was eight years old, after which his mother married a recusant Catholic.

Alcuin of York (; ; 735 – 19 May 804), also called Ealhwine, Alhwin, or Alchoin, was an Anglo-Latin scholar, clergyman, poet, and teacher from York, Northumbria. He was born around 735 and became the student of Archbishop Ecgbert at York. At the invitation of Charlemagne, he became a leading scholar and teacher at the Carolingian court, where he remained a figure in the 780s and 790s. Before that, he was also a court chancellor in Aachen. "The most learned man anywhere to be found", according to Einhard's Life of Charlemagne (–833), he is considered among the most important intellectual archit

British economist; life peer (1914-1981)

English martyr and saint of Roman Catholic Church (1555-1586)

American grammarian and lawyer (1745-1826)

British video game designer and director

British spree killer (1914–1942)

British philanthropist industrialist and sociologist writer (1871–1954)

British engineer (1914–1997)

mathematician and feminist

English journalist and broadcaster (1950–2022)

British animal rights activist, filmmaker and lecturer

British medieval historian (born 1944)

American filmmaker and journalist

Mountain climber

early-14th-century runaway English nun

British philanthropist (1836-1925)