List of British spies

The following is a list of people engaged in spying for the UK.

Pre-WWI

• Pierre Alamire
• John André
• Benedict Arnold
• Edward Bancroft
• Rachel Charlotte Biggs
• Arthur Conolly
• John Croft
• Andrew Dalgleish
• Sarat Chandra Das
• John Henry
• John Howe
• William Melville
• Balaji Pant Natu
• William Playfair
• Charles Carroll Tevis
• Bernard Frederick Trench
• William Wickham
• Richard Francis Burton
• Charles Hamilton Smith

World War I

• Aaron Aaronsohn
• Sarah Aaronsohn
• Gertrude Bell
• Louise de Bettignies
• Joseph W. Boyle
• R. H. Bruce Lockhart
• Cecil Aylmer Cameron
• Marthe Cnockaert
• Claude Dansey
• Paul Dukes
• Avshalom Feinberg
• Gerard H. L. Fitzwilliams
• Herambalal Gupta
• George Alexander Hill
• Vernon Kell
• Vincent Kraft
• Henry Landau
• Gerard Leachman
• René Lefebvre
• Yosef Lishansky
• W. Somerset Maugham
• William Melville
• Robert Nathan
• Nili
• Conrad O'Brien-ffrench
• Oren
• Gabrielle Petit
• St John Philby
• Oswald Rayner
• Hugh Sinclair
• Kirpal Singh
• Mansfield Smith-Cumming
• Bertrand Stewart
• Basil Thomson

Interwar period

• Christopher Draper
• Peter Ashmun Ames
• John Wheeler-Bennett

World War II

See also: List of spies in World War II § Spies for the United Kingdom, and List of SOE agents

• Carl Aschan
• Sverre Bergh
• Margery Booth
• John Brown
• Odette Marie Celine (Lise)
• Gösta Caroli
• Eddie Chapman
• Noor Inayat Khan
• Brian Cleeve
• Roman Czerniawski
• Roald Dahl
• Claude Dansey
• Wilfred Dunderdale
• Ian Fleming
• Gordon Fraser
• Graham Greene
• George Alexander Hill
• Ralph Izzard
• Johnny Jebsen
• Ron Jeffery
• Ginette Jullian
• Dagmar Lahlum
• George Langelaan
• René Lefebvre
• Charles Letts
• Peter Lunn
• Juan March Ordinas
• Ferdy Mayne
• Stewart Menzies
• Merlin Minshall
• Graham Russell Mitchell
• Mutt and Jeff
• Arthur Owens
• Kim Philby
• Dušan Popov
• Juan Pujol García
• Paddy Ridsdale
• Roland Rieul
• Eric Roberts
• William de Ropp
• Vera von Schalburg
• Wulf Schmidt
• Nathalie Sergueiew
• Peter Smithers
• Halina Szymańska
• Amy Elizabeth Thorpe
• Ted Tinling
• Jona von Ustinov
• Marie-José Villiers
• Valentine Vivian
• Edward Wharton-Tigar
• Archduke Wilhelm of Austria
• Alexander Wilson

Post WWII

• Mark Allen
• Paddy Ashdown
• Denis Donaldson
• Kevin Fulton
• Peter Lunn
• Oleg Lyalin
• Howard Marks
• Martin McGartland
• Omar Nasiri
• Michael Oatley
• Sergei Skripal
• Stakeknife
• Richard Tomlinson
• Sydney Wignall

See also

• History of espionage