This list of British architects includes notable 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
Aelric (12th century) Richard Cementarius (fl. 1264–1290) Elias of Dereham (fl. 1188–1245) Gundulf of Rochester (died 1108) Hugh Herland (c. 1330–1411) Robert Janyns (fl. 1438–1464) John Lewyn (fl. late 14th cent.) William Orchard (fl. 1468–1504) William Ramsey (fl. 1330–1411) James of St. George (c. 1230–1309) Alan of Walsingham (died c. 1364) William of Sens (fl. 1174–1184) William the Englishman (fl. 1174–1214) William Wynford (fl. 1360–1405) Henry Yevele (c. 1320–1400)
Renaissance, Tudor and Jacobean architects and stonemasons 16th and early 17th century
John Abel (c. 1578–1675) Robert Adams (1540–1595) William Arnold (fl. 1595–1637) Simon Basil (fl. 1590–1615) Robert Janyns the Younger (fl. 1499–1506) Robert Lyminge (fl. 1607–1628) John Mylne (died 1621) John Mylne (died 1657) John Mylne (1611–1667) Robert Smythson (1535–1614) John Thorpe (c. 1565–1655) Robert Vertue (died 1506) William Vertue (died 1527) William Wallace (died 1631) John Wastell (c. 1485–1515)
Palladian and English Baroque architects Early 17th century to mid–18th century
William Adam (1689–1748) Henry Aldrich (1647–1710) Thomas Archer (1668–1743) John Bastard (c. 1668–1770) William Bastard (c. 1689–1766) Henry Bell (died 1711) Jean de Bodt (also known as Johann von Bodt) (1670–1745) Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington (1694–1753) Sir William Bruce (c. 1630–1710) Colen Campbell (1676–1729) Thomas Cartwright (c. 1653–1703) Richard Cassels (1690–1751) Isaac de Caus (1590–1648) George Clarke (1661–1736) William Etty (c. 1675–1734) Henry Flitcroft (1697–1769) Sir Balthazar Gerbier (1592–1663) James Gibbs (1682–1754) Sir Bernard de Gomme (1620–1685) Nicholas Hawksmoor (c. 1661–1736) Robert Hooke (1635–1703) John James (1673–1746) Inigo Jones (1573–1652) Christopher Kempster (1627–1715) William Kempster (1651–1717) William Kent (c. 1685–1748) Giacomo Leoni (1686–1746) Hugh May (1621–1684) Robert Mylne (1633–1710) Sir Edward Lovett Pearce (1699–1733) Sir Roger Pratt (1620–1684) Francis Smith (1672–1738) James Smith (c. 1645–1731) Nicholas Stone (1586–1647) William Talman (1650–1719) Sir John Vanbrugh (1664–1726) John Webb (1611–1672) Elizabeth, Lady Wilbraham (1632–1705) William Winde (c. 1645–1722) Sir Christopher Wren (1632–1723)
Georgian architects Mid–18th century to 1837
A–G
James Adam (1732–1794) John Adam (1721–1792) Robert Adam (1728–1792) Thomas Atkinson (1799–1861) William Atkinson (c. 1774–1839) Thomas Baldwin (c. 1750–1820) Francis Octavius Bedford (1784–1858) Ignatius Bonomi (1787–1870) Joseph Bonomi the Elder (1739–1808) Matthew Brettingham (1699–1769) James Bridges (fl. 1757–1763) James Brindley (1716–1772) Lancelot "Capability" Brown (1716–1783) Decimus Burton (1800–1881) Charles Busby (1788–1834) Patrick Byrne (1783–1864) John Carr (1723–1807) Sir William Chambers (1723–1796) Samuel Pepys Cockerell (1754–1827) Lewis Nockalls Cottingham (1787–1847) Thomas Cooley (1740–1784) James Craig (1744–1795) George Dance the Elder (1695–1768) George Dance the Younger (1741–1825) John Donowell (fl. 1770s and 1780s) John Douglas (c. 1730–1778) Charles Dyer (1794–1848) Archibald Elliot (1760–1823) James Essex (c. 1722–1784) John Eveleigh (fl. 1756–1800) John Forbes (fl. 1825–1835) John Foster junior (1787–1846) John Foulston (1772–1841) James Gandon (1743–1823) Stephen Geary (1797–1854) Henry Goodridge (1797–1864) James Gillespie Graham (1776–1855) Richard Grainger (1797–1861) Benjamin Green (1811–1858) George Gwilt (1746–1807) John Gwynn (1713–1786)
H–M
William Halfpenny (fl. 1723–1755) David Hamilton (1768–1853) Thomas Hamilton (1784–1858) Philip Hardwick (1792–1870) Thomas Hardwick (1752–1829) Thomas Harrison (1744–1829) Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke (1693–1750) Isaac Hildreth (1741–1807) William Hiorne (c. 1712–1776) Henry Holland (1745–1806) Henry Inwood (1794–1843) William Inwood (c. 1771–1843) Nathaniel Ireson (1685–1769) Francis Johnston (1760–1829) John Johnson (1732–1814) Anthony Keck (1726–1797) Henry Keene (1726–1776) George Meikle Kemp (1795–1844) Richard Payne Knight (1750–1824) Alexander Laing (1752–1823) David Laing (1774–1856) Richard Lane (1795–1880) Thomas Lee (1794–1834) Thomas Leverton (1743–1824) Charles Harcourt Masters (born 1759) Sanderson Miller (1716–1780) Roger Morris (1695–1749) Richard Morrison (1767–1849) William Vitruvius Morrison (1794–1838) Robert Mylne (1734–1811) William Mylne (1734–1790)
N–R
John Nash (1752–1835) James Paine (1717–1789) John Palmer (c. 1738–1817) George Papworth (c. 1738–1817) John Buonarotti Papworth (1795–1847) Thomas Paty (c. 1713–1789) William Paty (1758–1800) Joseph Pickford (1734–1782) John Pinch the elder (1770–1827) John Pinch the younger (1796–1849) William Henry Playfair (1790–1857) William Porden (c. 1755–1822) George Porter (died 1856) James Pigott Pritchett (1789–1868) James Pigott Pritchett junior (1830–1911) John Rennie the Elder (1761–1821) Sir John Rennie (1794–1874) Thomas Rickman (1776–1841) Nicholas Revett (1720–1804) Thomas Ripley (1683–1758) Peter Frederick Robinson (1776–1858)
S–Z
John Sanders (1768–1828) Michael Searles (1750–1813) Henry Hake Seward (c. 1778–1848) John Shaw Sr. (1776–1832) Archibald Simpson (1790–1847) John Smeaton (1724–1792) Sir Robert Smirke (1781–1867) Sir John Soane (1753–1837) William Stark (1770–1813) James "Athenian" Stuart (1713–1788) Sir Robert Taylor (1714–1788) Thomas Telford (1757–1834) James Thornhill (c. 1676–1734) James Trubshaw (1777–1853) John Vardy (fl. 1736–1765) Isaac Ware (1704–1766) Samuel Ware (1781–1860) Amon Wilds (1762–1833) Amon Henry Wilds (1784 or 1790–1857) William Wilkins (1778–1839) John Wood, the Elder (1704–1754) John Wood, the Younger (1728–1782) Benjamin Dean Wyatt (1775–1852) James Wyatt (1746–1813) Lewis Wyatt (1777–1853) Philip Wyatt (died 1835) Samuel Wyatt (1737–1807) Sir Jeffry Wyattville (1766–1840) John Yenn (1750–1821) John Young (1797–1877)
Victorian architects The reign of Queen Victoria, from 1837 to 1901
A–G
George Edward Bond (1853–1914) George Aitchison (1825–1910) Thomas Allom (1804–1872) Robert Rowand Anderson (1834–1921) George Townsend Andrews (1804–1855) Neville Ashbee (1852–1919) Hubert Austin (1845–1915) Sir Benjamin Baker (1840–1907) Joseph Henry Ball (1861–1931) William Swinden Barber (1832–1908) Sir Charles Barry (1795–1860) Charles Barry, Jr. (1823–1900) Edward Middleton Barry (1830–1880) George Basevi (1794–1845) Sir Joseph Bazalgette (1819–1891) John Francis Bentley (1839–1902) Eugenius Birch (1818–1884) Robert Knott Blessley (1833–1923) Sir Arthur Blomfield (1829–1899) Edward Blore (1787–1879) George Frederick Bodley (1827–1907) Arthur Bown (1851–1916) Henry Edwin Bown (1845–1881) Cuthbert Brodrick (1821–1905) George Washington Browne (1853–1939) Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806–1859) David Bryce (1803–1876) John Chessell Buckler (1793–1894) Benjamin Bucknall (1833–1895) James Bunstone Bunning (1802–1863) William Burges (1827–1881) William Burn (1789–1870) William Butterfield (1814–1900) Basil Champneys (1842–1935) Thomas Edward Collcutt (1840–1924) Richard Cromwell Carpenter (1812–1855) John Henry Chamberlain (1831–1883) Ewan Christian (1814–1895) Charles Robert Cockerell (1788–1863) Henry Conybeare (1823–c. 1884) William Henry Crossland (c. 1834–1909) Thomas Cubitt (1788–1855) Lewis Cubitt (1799–1883) Henry Currey (1820–1900) Samuel Daukes (1811–1880) Sir Thomas Deane (1792–1871) Gabriel-Hippolyte Destailleur (1822–1893) George Devey (1820–1886) John Dobson (1787–1865) Thomas Leverton Donaldson (1795–1885) William Donthorne (1799–1859) John Douglas (1830–1911) Thomas Duff (1792–1848) Robert Rippon Duke (1817–1909) Arthur Edwards (1863–1927) Peter Ellis (1804–1888) Harvey Lonsdale Elmes (1813–1847) Sir William Emerson (1843–1924) Benjamin Ferrey (1810–1880) Captain Francis Fowke (1823–1865) Charles Fowler (1792–1867) James Fowler (1828–1892) Sir John Fowler (1817–1898) William Frame (1848–1906) John Gibson (1814–1892) Edward William Godwin (1833–1886)
H–M
Edward Habershon (1828–1900) Joseph Hansom (1803–1882) Philip Charles Hardwick (1822–1892) Jesse Hartley (1780–1860) Henry Hare (1861–1921) James Harrison (1814–1866) Edward Haycock, Sr. (1790–1870) John Hayward (1808–1891) William Hill (1827/8–1889) John Henry Hirst (1826–1882) Arthur Hiscoe (1848–1912) Thomas Hopper (1776–1856) George Gordon Hoskins (1837–1911) A. J. Humbert (1822–1877) Sir Thomas Graham Jackson (1835–1924) Sir Horace Jones (1819–1887) Sampson Kempthorne (1809–1873) Henry Kennedy (c. 1814–1898) Edmund Kirby (1838–1920) Sir James Knowles (1831–1908) Gibson Kyle (1820–1903) Edward Buckton Lamb (1806–1869) Sir Charles Lanyon (1813–1889) John Leeming (1849–1931) William Leiper (1839–1916) Henry Francis Lockwood (1811–1878) Thomas Meakin Lockwood (1830–1900) Charles Lynam (1829–1921) William Henry Lynn (1829–1915) MacGibbon and Ross (founded 1872, dissolved 1914) George Vaughan Maddox (1802–1864) Alexander Marshall Mackenzie (1847–1933) Frank Matcham (1854–1920) James Maxwell (1838–1893) Edward John May (1853–1941) John Stuart McCaig (11 July 1823 – 29 June 1902) Alfred Meeson (1808–1885) Edward William Mountford (1855–1908) William Chadwell Mylne (1781–1863)
N–R
William Eden Nesfield (1835–1888) William Adams Nicholson (1803–1853) Edward Ould (1852–1909) William Owen (1846–1910) Edward Graham Paley (1823–1895) Sir Joseph Paxton (1803–1865) John Loughborough Pearson (1817–1897) John Dick Peddie (1824–1891) Sir James Pennethorne (1801–1871) Charles John Phipps (1835–1897) Hans Price (1835–1912) Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812–1852) Edward Welby Pugin (1834–1875) William Railton (c. 1801–1877) Charles Reeves (1815–1866) David Rhind (1808–1883) Henry Roberts (1803–1876) John Thomas Rochead (1814–1878)
S–Z
James Piers St Aubyn (1815–1895) James Salmon (1805–1888) Anthony Salvin (1799–1881) Sir George Gilbert Scott (1811–1878) George Gilbert Scott Jr. (1839–1897) John Oldrid Scott (1841–1913) John Dando Sedding (1838–1891) John Pollard Seddon (1827–1906) Edmund Sharpe (1809–1877) John Shaw Jr (1803–1870) Richard Norman Shaw (1831–1912) Cornelius Sherlock (c. 1824–1888) Isaac Thomas Shutt (1818–1879) Sir John Simpson (1858–1933) Sydney Smirke (1798–1877) Sidney R. J. Smith (1858–1913) William Smith (1831–1901) Robert Stephenson (1803–1859) George Edmund Street (1824–1881) Sir John Taylor (1833–1912) Samuel Sanders Teulon (1812–1873) Yeoville Thomason (1826–1901) Alexander "Greek" Thomson (1817–1875) Sir William Tite (1798–1873) John Thomas (1813–1862) Alfred Hill Thompson (1839–1874) Charles Harrison Townsend (1851–1928) Silvanus Trevail (1851–1903) Charles Trubshaw (1841–1917) Charles Tuke (1843–1893) Hugh Thackeray Turner (1853–1937) Charles Underwood (1791–1883) George Allen Underwood (1793–1829) Henry Underwood (1787–1868) Henry Jones Underwood (1804–1852) Henry Hill Vale (1831–1875) Thomas Verity (1837–1891) Lewis Vulliamy (1791–1871) Edward Walters (1808–1872) Alfred Waterhouse (1830–1905) Paul Waterhouse (1861–1924) Philip Webb (1831–1915) John Dodsley Webster (1840–1913) William White (1825–1900) James William Wild (1814–92) Charles Wilson (1810–1863) John Wilson Walton-Wilson (1823–1910) Henry Woodyer (1816–1896) Benjamin Woodward (1816–1861) Thomas Worthington (1826–1909) Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt (1820–1877) Thomas Henry Wyatt (1807–1880) J. & G. Young (1885–1895) John Young (1797–1877) William Young (1843–1900)
Edwardian and inter-war period 1901 up to the end of the Second World War in 1945
A–G
Theophilus Arthur Allen (1846–1929) Stanley Davenport Adshead (1868–1947)"Stanley Davenport Adshead". Dictionary of Scottish Architects. Retrieved 7 October 2012. Charles Robert Ashbee (1863–1942) Charles Herbert Aslin (1893–1959)