William Hazlitt
1778 - 1830. Buried in St.Anne's Churchyard; native essayist and critic hailed by many as one of the greatest writers in English. He lectured on Shakespeare, other English poets and writers ("a despiser of the merely rich and great; a lover of the people, poor or oppressed…" Charles Wells.) Presently the site of Hazlitt's Hotel, favourite of Bill Bryson.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1757 - 1791. The Austrian composer was based here, as a child prodigy, with his father, Leopold, from 1764 - 1765.
John Logie Baird
1888 - 1946. The Scottish engineer who first developed television which he demonstrated here in 1926. His system was adopted by the BBC and led to the first public transmissions in 1936. He also experimented with colour, 3D, screen projection and stereophonic sound.
Dr. John Snow Â
1813 - 1858. Pioneer anaesthetist and epidemiologist. He proved in 1854 that the Broad Street pump (the original of which was situated outside The 'Newcastle-on-Tyne' public house - later renamed The John Snow in his honour) is indicated by a red granite kerbstone in Broadwick Street. Dr.Snow discovered that the source of the major outbreak of cholera in the area, in which above 500 Sohoites died, was water-borne and that the source of the infection was the pump. Cholera, a lethal infection of the intestines had reached epidemic proportions in Britain from the 1830's.