Rachel Johnson

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Rachel Johnson (born 1965) is a English journalist and author based in London.

Johnson is the daughter of former Conservative MEP Stanley Johnson and artist Charlotte Johnson Wahl (née Fawcett), and the younger sister of the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson. She was educated at Winsford First School, Primrose Hill Primary, the European School in Brussels, Ashdown House School, Bryanston School and St Paul's Girls' School. In 1984 she went up to New College, Oxford to read Classics. She also edited Isis, the Oxford University student magazine.

In 1989 she joined the staff of the Financial Times, becoming the first female graduate trainee at the paper. She moved to the BBC in 1994, and then turned freelance in 1996. She has written weekly columns for the Sunday Telegraph, the Daily Telegraph, the Evening Standard and other regular columns for Easy Living magazine and the Financial Times. She is a contributing editor of The Spectator and contributes a weekly column to The Sunday Times.

Her works include Notting Hell, a novel about couples living in the Notting Hill area of London, Shire Hell a follow up to Notting Hell, The Mummy Diaries a diary of her London-Exmoor year and edited The Oxford Myth (1988).

She is married to Ivo Dawnay, the communications director of the National Trust, and lives in London with her three children.