List of British architects
This list of British architects includes architects, civil engineers, and earlier stonemasons, from the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. People have also been included who were born outside the UK/Great Britain but who are primarily known for their practice within the UK.
Medieval stonemasons
- Richard Cementarius
- Elias of Dereham
- Gundulf of Rochester
- Hugh Herland
- Robert Janyns
- William Orchard
- William Ramsey
- James of St. George
- Alan of Walsingham
- William of Sens
- William the Englishman
- William Wynford
- Henry Yevele
Renaissance, Tudor and Jacobean architects and stonemasons
- John Abel
- Robert Adams
- William Arnold
- Simon Basil
- Robert Janyns the Younger
- Robert Lyminge
- John Mylne
- John Mylne
- John Mylne
- Robert Smythson
- John Thorpe
- Robert Vertue
- William Vertue
- William Wallace
- John Wastell
Palladian and English Baroque architects
- William Adam
- Henry Aldrich
- Thomas Archer
- John Bastard
- William Bastard
- Henry Bell
- Jean de Bodt
- Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington
- Sir William Bruce
- Colen Campbell
- Thomas Cartwright
- Richard Cassels
- Isaac de Caus
- George Clarke
- William Etty
- Henry Flitcroft
- Sir Balthazar Gerbier
- James Gibbs
- Sir Bernard de Gomme
- Nicholas Hawksmoor
- Robert Hooke
- John James
- Inigo Jones
- Christopher Kempster
- William Kent
- Giacomo Leoni
- Hugh May
- Robert Mylne
- Sir Edward Lovett Pearce
- Sir Roger Pratt
- Francis Smith
- James Smith
- Nicholas Stone
- William Talman
- Sir John Vanbrugh
- John Webb
- Elizabeth, Lady Wilbraham
- William Winde
- Sir Christopher Wren
Georgian architects
A–G
- James Adam
- John Adam
- Robert Adam
- Thomas Atkinson
- William Atkinson
- Thomas Baldwin
- Francis Octavius Bedford
- Ignatius Bonomi
- Joseph Bonomi the Elder
- Matthew Brettingham
- James Bridges
- James Brindley
- Lancelot "Capability" Brown
- Decimus Burton
- Charles Busby
- Patrick Byrne
- John Carr
- Sir William Chambers
- Samuel Pepys Cockerell
- Lewis Nockalls Cottingham
- Thomas Cooley
- James Craig
- George Dance the Elder
- George Dance the Younger
- John Donowell
- John Douglas
- Charles Dyer
- Archibald Elliot
- James Essex
- John Eveleigh
- John Forbes
- John Foster junior
- John Foulston
- James Gandon
- Henry Goodridge
- James Gillespie Graham
- Richard Grainger
- Benjamin Green
- George Gwilt
- John Gwynn
H–M
- William Halfpenny
- David Hamilton
- Thomas Hamilton
- Philip Hardwick
- Thomas Hardwick
- Thomas Harrison
- Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke
- William Hiorne
- Henry Holland
- Henry Inwood
- William Inwood
- Nathaniel Ireson
- Francis Johnston
- John Johnson
- Anthony Keck
- Henry Keene
- George Meikle Kemp
- Richard Payne Knight
- Alexander Laing
- David Laing
- Richard Lane
- Thomas Lee
- Thomas Leverton
- Charles Harcourt Masters
- Sanderson Miller
- Roger Morris
- Richard Morrison
- William Vitruvius Morrison
- Robert Mylne
- William Mylne
N–R
- John Nash
- James Paine
- John Palmer
- George Papworth
- John Buonarotti Papworth
- Thomas Paty
- William Paty
- Joseph Pickford
- John Pinch the elder
- John Pinch the younger
- William Henry Playfair
- William Porden
- George Porter
- James Pigott Pritchett
- James Pigott Pritchett junior
- John Rennie the Elder
- Sir John Rennie
- Thomas Rickman
- Nicholas Revett
- Thomas Ripley
- Peter Frederick Robinson
S–Z
- John Sanders
- Michael Searles
- Henry Hake Seward
- John Shaw Sr.
- Archibald Simpson
- John Smeaton
- Sir Robert Smirke
- Sir John Soane
- William Stark
- James "Athenian" Stuart
- Sir Robert Taylor
- Thomas Telford
- James Thornhill
- James Trubshaw
- John Vardy
- Isaac Ware
- Samuel Ware
- Amon Wilds
- Amon Henry Wilds
- William Wilkins
- John Wood, the Elder
- John Wood, the Younger
- Benjamin Dean Wyatt
- James Wyatt
- Lewis Wyatt
- Philip Wyatt
- Samuel Wyatt
- Sir Jeffry Wyattville
- John Yenn
- John Young
Victorian architects
A–G
- George Aitchison
- Thomas Allom
- Robert Rowand Anderson
- George Townsend Andrews
- Neville Ashbee
- Hubert Austin
- Sir Benjamin Baker
- Joseph Henry Ball
- William Swinden Barber
- Sir Charles Barry
- Charles Barry, Jr.
- Edward Middleton Barry
- George Basevi
- Sir Joseph Bazalgette
- John Francis Bentley
- Eugenius Birch
- Robert Knott Blessley
- Sir Arthur Blomfield
- Edward Blore
- George Frederick Bodley
- Cuthbert Brodrick
- George Washington Browne
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel
- David Bryce
- John Chessell Buckler
- Benjamin Bucknall
- James Bunstone Bunning
- William Burges
- William Burn
- William Butterfield
- Basil Champneys
- Thomas Edward Collcutt
- Richard Cromwell Carpenter
- John Henry Chamberlain
- Ewan Christian
- Charles Robert Cockerell
- Henry Conybeare
- William Henry Crossland
- Thomas Cubitt
- Lewis Cubitt
- Henry Currey
- Samuel Daukes
- Sir Thomas Deane
- Gabriel-Hippolyte Destailleur
- George Devey
- John Dobson
- Thomas Leverton Donaldson
- William Donthorne
- John Douglas
- Thomas Duff
- Robert Rippon Duke
- Peter Ellis
- Harvey Lonsdale Elmes
- Sir William Emerson
- Benjamin Ferrey
- Captain Francis Fowke
- Charles Fowler
- James Fowler
- Sir John Fowler
- William Frame
- Stephen Geary
- John Gibson
- Edward William Godwin
H–M
- Edward Habershon
- Joseph Hansom
- Philip Charles Hardwick
- Jesse Hartley
- Henry Hare
- James Harrison
- Edward Haycock, Sr.
- John Hayward
- William Hill
- Thomas Hopper
- George Gordon Hoskins
- A. J. Humbert
- Sir Thomas Graham Jackson
- Sir Horace Jones
- Sampson Kempthorne
- Henry Kennedy
- Edmund Kirby
- Sir James Knowles
- Edward Buckton Lamb
- Sir Charles Lanyon
- John Leeming
- William Leiper
- Henry Francis Lockwood
- Thomas Meakin Lockwood
- Charles Lynam
- William Henry Lynn
- MacGibbon and Ross
- George Vaughan Maddox
- Alexander Marshall Mackenzie
- Frank Matcham
- James Maxwell
- Edward John May
- John Stuart McCaig
- Alfred Meeson
- Edward William Mountford
- William Chadwell Mylne
N–R
- William Eden Nesfield
- William Adams Nicholson
- Edward Ould
- William Owen
- Edward Graham Paley
- Sir Joseph Paxton
- John Loughborough Pearson
- John Dick Peddie
- Sir James Pennethorne
- Charles John Phipps
- Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin
- Edward Welby Pugin
- William Railton
- Charles Reeves
- David Rhind
- Henry Roberts
- John Thomas Rochead
S–Z
- James Piers St Aubyn
- James Salmon
- Anthony Salvin
- Sir George Gilbert Scott
- George Gilbert Scott, Jr.
- John Oldrid Scott
- John Dando Sedding
- John Pollard Seddon
- Edmund Sharpe
- John Shaw Jr
- Richard Norman Shaw
- Cornelius Sherlock
- Isaac Thomas Shutt
- Sir John Simpson
- Sydney Smirke
- Sidney R. J. Smith
- William Smith
- Robert Stephenson
- George Edmund Street
- Sir John Taylor
- Samuel Sanders Teulon
- Yeoville Thomason
- Alexander "Greek" Thomson
- Sir William Tite
- John Thomas
- Alfred Hill Thompson
- Charles Harrison Townsend
- Silvanus Trevail
- Charles Trubshaw
- Charles Tuke
- Hugh Thackeray Turner
- Charles Underwood
- George Allen Underwood
- Henry Underwood
- Henry Jones Underwood
- Henry Hill Vale
- Thomas Verity
- Lewis Vulliamy
- Edward Walters
- Alfred Waterhouse
- Paul Waterhouse
- Philip Webb
- William White
- James William Wild
- Charles Wilson
- Henry Woodyer
- Benjamin Woodward
- Thomas Worthington
- Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt
- Thomas Henry Wyatt
- John Young
- William Young
Edwardian and inter-war period
A–G
- Theophilus Arthur Allen
- Stanley Davenport Adshead
- Charles Robert Ashbee
- Charles Herbert Aslin
- Robert Atkinson
- Sir Frank Baines
- Sir Herbert Baker
- Peter Behrens
- John Belcher
- Edward Ingress Bell
- Thomas Bennett
- Hendrik Petrus Berlage
- Sir Reginald Blomfield
- Bradshaw Gass & Hope
- Walter Henry Brierley
- Sir John James Burnet
- William Douglas Caroe
- Ethel Charles
- Serge Chermayeff
- Wells Coates
- Sir Ninian Comper
- Amyas Connell
- James Hoey Craigie
- Robert Cromie
- Peter Cummings
- Guy Dawber
- H. Kempton Dyson
- Vincent Esch
- Reginald Fairlie
- Cyril Farey
- Edmund Fisher
- Sir Banister Fletcher
- Ernest Gimson
- Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel
- William Curtis Green
- Sidney Greenslade
H–M
- Vincent Harris
- Gillian Harrison
- Thomas Hastings
- Stanley Heaps
- Oliver Hill
- Dr Harold Frank Hoar
- Charles Holden
- Arthur John Hope
- Thomas Cecil Howitt
- Charles Holloway James
- R.W.H. Jones
- Sir William Kininmonth
- John Kinross
- Ralph Knott
- Henry Vaughan Lanchester
- Archibald Leitch
- William Lethaby
- Sir Robert Lorimer
- Berthold Lubetkin
- Sir Edwin Lutyens
- Charles Rennie Mackintosh
- Elspeth Douglas McClelland
- Frank Maxwell
- Temple Moore
- Ernest Morgan, Swansea Borough architect
- G. Val Myer
N–Z
- Ernest Newton
- George Oatley
- Paul Paget
- Henry Paley
- F.W.J. Palmer
- Arthur Joseph Penty
- Stephen Rowland Pierce
- Arthur Beresford Pite
- John Russell Pope
- Henry Price
- Edward Schroeder Prior
- Sir Charles Herbert Reilly
- Sir Albert Richardson
- W. H. Romaine-Walker
- Herbert James Rowse
- James Salmon
- Adrian Gilbert Scott
- Baillie Scott
- Elisabeth Scott
- Sir Giles Gilbert Scott
- Arthur Shoosmith
- Sir John Simpson
- W. G. R. Sprague
- Leonard Stokes
- Walter Tapper
- Thomas S. Tait
- Tecton Group
- Sir Alfred Brumwell Thomas
- Sir Percy Thomas
- Walter Aubrey Thomas
- Sir Arnold Thornely
- Philip Tilden
- Twigg Brown Architects
- Sir Raymond Unwin
- Charles Voysey
- Wallis, Gilbert and Partners
- Frederick Arthur Walters
- George Henry Walton
- Sir Aston Webb
- Harry Weedon
- Sir Owen Williams
- Sir Clough Williams-Ellis
- Edgar Wood
- George Grey Wornum
- Sir Percy Worthington
Post–war architects
A–M
- Sir Patrick Abercrombie
- Robert Adam
- Jonathan Adams
- David Adjaye
- Simon Allford
- Will Alsop
- Bryan Avery
- George Grenfell Baines
- Basil Al Bayati
- Eric Bedford
- Corinne Bennett
- Julian Bicknell
- Stephen Dykes Bower
- Alexander Buchanan Campbell
- Sir Hugh Casson
- David Chipperfield
- Nigel Coates
- Edward Cullinan
- Jane Duncan
- Bill Dunster
- Ralph Erskine
- Sir Terry Farrell
- Richard Feilden
- Kathryn Findlay
- Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank
- Wendy Foster
- Kenneth Frampton
- Tony Fretton
- Maxwell Fry
- Sir Frederick Gibberd
- Ernő Goldfinger
- Sir Nicholas Grimshaw
- Piers Gough
- Zaha Hadid
- William Holford, Baron Holford
- Sir Michael Hopkins
- Patricia Hopkins
- Glenn Howells
- Geoffrey Jellicoe
- Percy Johnson-Marshall
- Edward Jones
- Shiu-Kay Kan
- Eric Kuhne
- Sir Denys Lasdun
- Gertrude Leverkus
- Richard Llewelyn-Davies, Baron Llewelyn-Davies
- Owen Luder
- Berthold Lubetkin
- Eric Lyons
- Kate Macintosh
- Robert Hamilton Macintyre
- Rick Mather
- Sir Robert Matthew
- Sir Leslie Martin
- Sir Edward Maufe
- John Melvin
- Peter Moro
- Hidalgo Moya
- Richard Murphy
N–Z
- George Pace
- Claud Phillimore
- Sir Philip Powell
- Brian Ring
- Ian Ritchie
- James A. Roberts
- Howard Morley Robertson president of the Royal Institute of British Architects from 1952 to 1954
- David Roberts
- Richard Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside
- Su Rogers
- Deborah Saunt
- Richard Seifert
- Sir Peter Shepheard
- Richard Sheppard
- Ken Shuttleworth
- Ian Simpson
- Alison Smithson
- Peter Smithson
- Ivor Smith
- Sir Basil Spence
- Sir James Stirling
- Rosemary Stjernstedt
- Quinlan Terry
- Ralph Tubbs
- John Wells-Thorpe
- Michael Wilford
- Keith Williams
- Sir Colin St John Wilson
- John Winter
- Georgie Wolton
- Jonathan Woolf
18th, 19th and 20th-century British and Irish architects who emigrated
A–M
- Edmund Anscombe
- John Lee Archer
- Benjamin Backhouse
- William Barnett Armson
- Herbert Baker
- James Barnet
- Edward Bartley
- Claude Batley
- John Begg
- Edward H. Bennett
- James Blackburn
- Edmund Blacket
- C.A. "Peter" Bransgrove
- Charles Cameron
- John James Clark
- Nicholas J. Clayton
- Frederick de Jersey Clere
- Josiah Condor
- Frederick William Cumberland
- Peter Dickinson
- John Donaldson
- John Ewart
- George Grant Elmslie
- Ralph Erskine
- Thomas Forrester
- Thomas Fuller
- Alfred Giles
- Francis Greenway
- Samuel Hannaford
- Alexander Nelson Hansell
- William Critchlow Harris
- John Haviland
- John Cyril Hawes
- Peter Harrison
- Peter Hemingway
- James Hoban
- Talbot Hobbs
- Herbert Horne
- William Jay
- Richard Roach Jewell
- Gordon Kaufmann
- Henry Bowyer Lane
- Benjamin Latrobe
- Robert Lawson
- Gordon W. Lloyd
- John M. Lyle
- Adam Menelaws
- Charles Donagh Maginnis
- William Mason
- Benjamin Mountfort
N–Z
- Percy Erskine Nobbs
- John Notman
- John Ostell
- John C. Parkin
- John Parkinson
- John A. Pearson
- Cecil Ross Pinsent
- Robert John Pratt
- Francis Rattenbury
- Thomas Rowe
- Frederick Preston Rubidge
- Robert Russell
- Robert Tor Russell
- Conrad Sayce
- Thomas Seaton Scott
- Arthur Shoosmith
- Frank Worthington Simon
- Eden Smith
- Robert Smith
- Frederick William Stevens
- George Strickland Kingston
- John Sulman
- Florence Mary Taylor
- James Walter Chapman-Taylor
- George Temple-Poole
- Frederick Thatcher
- William Thomas
- George Troup
- Kivas Tully
- Richard Upjohn
- Henry Vaughan
- Calvert Vaux
- John Verge
- Richard A. Waite
- William Wardell
- John Cliffe Watts
- Charles Webb
- Leslie Wilkinson
- George Wittet
- Charles Wyatt