Statues in London

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This is a gallery of statues and sculptural groups in London.

Actors

Edward Alleyn
(Louise Simson, 2005)
Dulwich College
Sarah Siddons
(L.-J. Chavalliaud, 1897)
Paddington Green
Sir Henry Irving
(Sir Thomas Brock, 1910)
Charing Cross Road
Charlie Chaplin
(John Doubleday, 1981)
Leicester Square
Lord Olivier
(Angela Conner, 2007)
National Theatre

Allegorical

Physical Energy

(G. F. Watts; erected 1907)
Kensington Gardens
Peace

(Adrian Jones, 1908–12)
Wellington Arch, Hyde Park Corner

Animals

Lion and Unicorn
(Grinling Gibbons, 1701)
Hampton Court
South Bank Lion
(W. F. Woodington, 1837)
County Hall, South Bank
Lion
(W. F. Woodington, 1837)
Twickenham Stadium
Prehistoric creatures
(Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, 1852–4)
Crystal Palace Park
Lions
(Sir Edwin Landseer, 1867)
Trafalgar Square
Guy the Gorilla
(William Timym, 1982)
London Zoo
Hodge
(Jon Bickley, 1997)
Gough Square
Eagle
(William Reid Dick, 1922)
RAF memorial, Victoria Embankment
Baby Tembo
(Derrick Hudson, 2002)
London School of Economics
Stephen and Stitt
(after W. W. Wagstaff, 2002)
HSBC Group, Canary Wharf
Isis
(Simon Gudgeon, 2009)
Hyde Park
Penguin
(Yolanda vanderGaast, 2009)
London School of Economics
Cats
Hampstead Road, Camden Town
Queen's Beasts
(James Woodford, 1958)
Kew Gardens
King's Beasts
Hampton Court
Eagle
(Mieczysław Lubelski, 1947)
Polish War Memorial, Northolt

Anonymous

The Building Worker
Tower Hill
Bronze Woman
Stockwell
The Black Friar
Blackfriars, on pub
The Cordwainer
Watling Street
The Gardener
London Wall
Greek Runner

St Peter’s Square, Hammersmith
The In-Penshioner
Royal Hospital, Chelsea
Juggling Figure

(Simon Stringer, 1994)
Hoxton Market
The Meeting Place
St Pancras Station
The Messenger
(Allan Sly, 1993)
St Mary's Hospital, Paddington
Out in the Fields

Kew Gardens
A Sower

Kew Gardens
The Window-Cleaner
Edgware Road
Young Dancer
Covent Garden

Architects and landscape architects

Andrea Palladio
Chiswick House
Inigo Jones
Chiswick House
Capability Brown
Hammersmith
Sir John Soane
Bank of England

Artists

Terence Cuneo
Waterloo station
William Hogarth
Chiswick
Sir John Everett Millais
Tate Britain
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Royal Academy
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Chelsea Embankment

See also: Category:Dante Gabriel Rossetti Memorial.

Authors

John Bunyan
Southampton Row
Thomas Carlyle
Chelsea Embankment Gardens
Samuel Johnson
St Clement Danes
Lord Byron
Hyde Park Corner

Composers and musicians

Béla Bartók
(Imre Varga, 2004)
South Kensington
Fryderyk Chopin
(Bronisław Kubica, 1975)
Royal Festival Hall
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(Philip Jackson, 1994)
Orange Square, Belgravia
Amy Winehouse
(Scott Eaton, 2014)
Stables Market, Camden

See also: Category:Bust of Ralph Vaughan Williams, Chelsea Embankment Gardens.

Engineers

Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Victoria Embankment
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Paddington station
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Brunel University, Uxbridge
James Henry Greathead
Royal Exchange
Robert Stephenson
Euston station
Richard Green
(E. W. Wyon, 1866)
Poplar Baths
Nigel Gresley
(Hazel Reeves, 2016)
King's Cross Station

Explorers

Christopher Columbus
Belgrave Square
Captain James Cook
(Sir Thomas Brock, 1914)
The Mall
Captain James Cook
(Sir Arthur Weller, 1994)
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
Sir Francis Drake
(William McMillan, 1959)
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
Matthew Flinders
(Mark Richards, 2014)
Euston Station
Yuri Gagarin
Royal Obeservatory, Greenwich
David Livingstone
(T. B. Huxley-Jones, 1953)
Royal Geographical Society, Kensington
Robert Falcon Scott
Waterloo Place
Ernest Shackleton
Royal Geographical Society, Kensington
Captain John Smith
(C. Renick afer W. Couper, 1960)
Bow Churchyard

Fictional characters

Sherlock Holmes
Baker Street tube station
John Jorrocks
George Street, Croydon
Paddington Bear
Paddington station
Peter Pan
Kensington Gardens
Prospero and Ariel
Broadcasting House

Mythological

The Rescue of Andromeda
Tate Britain
Atlas
Albert Embankment
Diana
Hyde Park
Diana
Bushy Park
Diana
Green Park
The Death of Dirce
Tate Britain
Hercules slaying the Dragon
Kew Gardens
Minerva
(Alan Collins, 1966)
Southwark
Neptune
10 Trinity Square, City of London

Merchants, businessmen and manufacturers

Sir Robert Clayton
(Grinling Gibbons, 1702)
St Thomas’Hospital
Sir Hugh Myddelton
Islington Green
Thomas Guy
(Peter Scheemakers, 1731)
Guy’s Hospital
Robert Milligan
(Richard Westmacott, 1813)
Museum of London Docklands
Samuel Bourne Bevington
Tooley Street, Southwark
Lord Nuffield
Guy’s Hospital

Military leaders

British Army

Lord Alanbrooke
(Ivor Roberts-Jones, 1993)
Whitehall
Lord Alexander
(James Butler, 1985)
Wellington Barracks, Victoria
Charles George Gordon
Victoria Embankment Gardens
Earl Haig
(Alfred Frank Hardiman, 1937)
Whitehall
Sir Henry Havelock
Trafalgar Square
Lord Kitchener
(John Tweed, 1926)
Horse Guards Road
Lord Montgomery
(Oscar Nemon, 1980)
Whitehall
Charles James Napier
Trafalgar Square
Lord Napier
(J. Edgar Boehm, 1891)
Queen’s Gate, Kensington
Sir James Outram
Victoria Embankment Gardens
Lord Roberts
(Henry Poole, 1924)
Horse Guards Parade
Lord Slim
(Ivor Roberts-Jones, 1990)
Whitehall
Sir George Stuart White
Portland Place, Fitzrovia
James Wolfe
(R. Tait McKenzie, 1927)
Greenwich Park
Lord Wolseley
(William Goscombe John, 1920)
Horse Guards Parade

Royal Navy

Admiral Lord Nelson
Trafalgar Square

See also: Category:Arthur Phillip Memorial, Cannon Street Gardens, London.

See also: Category:Busts in Trafalgar Square.

Royal Air Force

Lord Trenchard
Victoria Embankment Gardens
Lord Dowding
St Clement Danes
Sir Arthur Harris
St Clement Danes
Sir Keith Park
Waterloo Place
Lord Portal
Victoria Embankment Gardens

Other countries

Władysław Sikorski
(Faith Winter, 2000)
Portland Place
Ferdinand Foch
Victoria Station

Philosophers

Confucius
Maughan Library, Chancery Lane
Thiruvalluvar
SOAS, Bloomsbury
Sir Thomas More
Old City of London School, Victoria Embankment
Sir Thomas More
Corner of Serle St and Carey St, near Lincoln's Inn
Sir Thomas More
Chelsea Old Church
Francis Bacon
6 Burlington Gardens, Mayfair
Francis Bacon
Old City of London School, Victoria Embankment
Francis Bacon
Gray's Inn
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
6 Burlington Gardens, Mayfair
John Locke
6 Burlington Gardens, Mayfair
Adam Smith
6 Burlington Gardens, Mayfair
Sigmund Freud
Swiss Cottage
John Stuart Mill
(Thomas Woolner, 1878)
Victoria Embankment Gardens

Poets

William Shakespeare
(Giovanni Fontana, 1874)
Leicester Square
John Milton
St Giles-without-Cripplegate
Robert Burns
Victoria Embankment Gardens
Lord Byron
Hyde Park Corner
John Keats
Guy's Hospital
John Betjeman
St Pancras station

See also: Category:John Donne Memorial.

Politicians

Francis Russell, Duke of Bedford
Russell Square
Lord George Bentinck
(Thomas Campbell, 1848)
Cavendish Square
Richard Cobden
Camden High Street
Spencer Compton, Duke of Devonshire
Whitehall
William Edward Forster
Victoria Embankment Gardens
Charles James Fox
Bloomsbury Square
Sir Henry Bartle Frere
Victoria Embankment Gardens
William Huskisson
St George’s Gardens, Pimlico
Sir Wilfrid Lawson
Victoria Embankment Gardens
Sir Simon Milton
(Bruce Denny, 2014)
Paddington Basin
Sir Simon Milton
(Philip Jackson, 2016)
Potters Fields, Southwark
Alfred Salter
(Diane Gorvin, 2014)
Cherry Gardens, Bermondsey
Sir Sydney Waterlow
Waterlow Park, Highgate
Sir Sydney Waterlow
Palace Street, Westminster
Robert Grosvenor, Marquess of Westminster
Wilton Crescent, Belgravia
John Wilkes
(James Butler, 1988)
Fetter Lane

Prime ministers of the United Kingdom

William Pitt the Younger
Hanover Square
George Canning
Parliament Square
Duke of Wellington
Royal Exchange
Duke of Wellington
Hyde Park Corner
Duke of Wellington
Royal Arsenal, Woolwich
Robert Peel
Parliament Square
The Earl of Derby
Parliament Square
Lord Palmerston
Parliament Square
Benjamin Disraeli
Parliament Square
William Ewart Gladstone
Bow Church
William Ewart Gladstone
Strand
David Lloyd George
Parliament Square
Winston Churchill
Parliament Square
Winston Churchill
Woodford Green
Clement Attlee
Queen Mary University of London

Presidents of the United States

George Washington
Trafalgar Square
Abraham Lincoln
Parliament Square
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Grosvenor Square
Dwight Eisenhower
Grosvenor Square
Ronald Reagan
Grosvenor Square

Leaders of other countries

Charles de Gaulle
Carlton Gardens
Mahatma Gandhi
Parliament Square
Mahatma Gandhi
Tavistock Square
Nelson Mandela
Parliament Square
Francisco de Miranda
Fitzroy Street
Simón Bolívar
Belgrave Square
José de San Martín
Belgrave Square
Bernardo O'Higgins
Richmond Bridge, Richmond upon Thames
Jan Christiaan Smuts
Parliament Square
The Emperor Trajan
Tower Hill

Religious figures

William Tyndale
(J. Edgar Boehm, 1884)
Victoria Embankment Gardens
John Whitgift
Croydon Town Hall
John Wesley
Wesley’s Chapel, Shoreditch
John Wesley
St Paul’s Churchyard
Robert Raikes
(Sir Thomas Brock, 1880)
Victoria Embankment Gardens
Isaac Watts
Abney Park Cemetery
William Booth
William Booth College, Denmark Hill
Catherine Booth
William Booth College, Denmark Hill

See also: Category:Bust of Basaveshwara, Albert Embankment.

Saints

Saint Thomas Becket
(Edward Bainbridge Copnall, 1973)
St Paul’s Churchyard
Saint George and the Dragon (Adrian Jones, 1924)
Hyde Park
Saint George and the Dragon
Dorset Rise, City of London
Saint George and the Dragon (Charles Leonard Hartwell, 1935)
St John's Wood
Saint Joan of Arc
St Dominic's Priory Church, Kentish Town
Saint John Henry Newman (Léon-Joseph Chavaillaud, 1895)
Brompton Oratory
Saint Mary
St Mary's Church, Hampstead
Saint Michael the Archangel (Richard Reginald Goulden, 1920)
St Michael on Cornhill, City of London
Saint Paul
St Paul's Churchyard, City of London

Royalty

Boudica and her daughters (T. & H. Thornycroft, 1856–83)
Westminster Pier
King Lud and his sons
St Dunstan-in-the-West
Alfred the Great
Trinity Church Square, Southwark
Richard I
(Carlo Marochetti, 1856)
Old Palace Yard, Westminster
Edward I
National Westminster Bank, High Holborn
Henry VIII
St Bartholomew's Hospital
Edward VI
(Thomas Cartwright, 1682)
St Thomas’ Hospital
Edward VI
(Peter Scheemakers, 1736)
St Thomas’ Hospital
Elizabeth I
St Dunstan-in-the-West
Elizabeth I
Harrow School
Elizabeth I
(Matthew Spender, 2010)
Westminster School
Mary Queen of Scots
143 Fleet Street
James I and VI
Temple Bar Gate, Paternoster Square
Anne of Denmark
Temple Bar Gate, Paternoster Square
Charles I
(Hubert Le Sueur, 1633)
Charing Cross
Charles I
Temple Bar Gate, Paternoster Square
Charles II
Temple Bar Gate, Paternoster Square
Charles II
Royal Hospital, Chelsea
Charles II
(Caius Gabriel Cibber, 1681)
Soho Square
James II and VII
(Grinling Gibbons, 1686)
Trafalgar Square
William III
(John Bacon, Jr., 1807)
St James's Square
William III
Kensington Palace
Queen Anne
Queen Anne's Gate
Queen Anne
St Paul's Cathedral
Queen Anne
Kingston upon Thames Market Hall
George II
Old Royal Naval College
George II
Golden Square
George III
Somerset House
George III
Pall Mall
Queen Charlotte
Queen Square, Bloomsbury
George IV
Trafalgar Square
Prince Frederick, Duke of York (Richard Westmacott, 1832–4) Waterloo Place
William IV (Samuel Nixon, 1845) King William Walk, Greenwich
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (Sebastian Gahagan, 1824) Park Crescent
Queen Victoria
Croydon
Queen Victoria
Kensington Palace
Queen Victoria
Victoria Square, Belgravia
Queen Victoria
Blackfriars Bridge
Queen Victoria
Carlton House Terrace
Queen Victoria
Victoria Memorial, The Mall
Prince Albert
Albert Memorial, Kensington
Prince Albert
Holborn Circus
Prince Albert
(Joseph Durham, 1863)
Royal Albert Hall
Edward VII
Waterloo Place
Edward VII
Tooting Broadway
Edward VII
National Westminster Bank, High Holborn
Queen Alexandra
London Hospital, Mile End Road
George V
Old Palace Yard, Westminster
George VI
Carlton House Terrace
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
The Mall

Rulers of other countries

Henry the Navigator (Portugal)
Belgrave Square
(Saint) Olaf II (Norway)
Norway House, Cockspur Street
Peter the Great
(Russia)
Deptford
(Saint) Volodymyr the Great (Ukraine)
Holland Park

Scientists and naturalists

Georges Cuvier
6 Burlington Gardens, Mayfair
Carl Linnaeus
6 Burlington Gardens, Mayfair
Charles Darwin
Natural History Museum
Michael Faraday
Savoy Place
Sir Isaac Newton
British Library
Joseph Priestley
30 Russell Square, Bloomsbury
Sir Peter Scott
(Nicola Godden, 2000)
London Wetland Centre, Barnes
Alfred Russel Wallace
Natural History Museum

Social reformers

Fenner Brockway
Red Lion Square
John Cartwright
Cartwright Gardens, Bloomsbury
Thomas Coram
Brunswick Square
Millicent Fawcett
(Gillian Wearing, 2018)
Parliament Square
Rowland Hill
King Edward Street
Florence Nightingale
Waterloo Place
Emmeline Pankhurst
Victoria Tower Gardens
Ada Salter
(Diane Gorvin, 2014)
Cherry Gardens, Bermondsey

Sportspeople

boxing
Teddy Baldock
Langdon Park, Poplar
cricket
W. G. Grace
(Louis Laumen, 2000)
Lord's
football
Tony Adams
Emirates Stadium, Islington
football
Sam Bartram
The Valley, Charlton
football
Johnny Haynes
Craven Cottage, Fulham
football
Bobby Moore
(Philip Jackson, 2003)
Wembley Stadium
football
World Cup Sculpture: Bobby Moore, Geoff Hurst, Martin Peters and Ray Wilson (Philip Jackson, 2003) Upton Park, West Ham
rugby
Line-Out
(Gerald Laing, 2010)
Twickenham Stadium
tennis
Fred Perry
(David Wynne, 1984)
Wimbledon

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