This is a list of British television related events in 1929.

• 17 February – Patricia Routledge, actress
• 21 February – James Beck, actor (died 1973)
• 24 March – Francis Essex, television producer (died 2009)
• 5 April – Nigel Hawthorne, actor (died 2001)
• 14 April – Gerry Anderson, puppeteer, television producer and director (died 2012)
• 18 April – Peter Jeffrey, actor (died 1999)
• 25 May – Arthur Montford, Scottish sports journalist (died 2014)
• 26 May – Lloyd Reckord, Jamaican-born actor (died 2015)
• 9 July – Christopher Morahan, director and production executive (died 2017)
• 19 July – Denis Goodwin, comedy scriptwriter (suicide 1975)
• 30 August – Ian McNaught-Davis, television presenter (died 2014)^[4]
• 14 September – Michael Peacock, television executive (died 2019)
• 25 September – Ronnie Barker, comic actor (died 2005)
• 27 November – Alan Simpson, comedy scriptwriter (died 2017)
• 16 December – Nicholas Courtney, actor (Doctor Who) (died 2011)
• 25 December – Stuart Hall, journalist and television presenter
• 26 December – Irene Shubik, television drama producer (died 2019)
• 31 December – David Nixon, magician and television personality (died 1978)

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