Plaques will also honour novelist Barbara Pym, artist Graham Sutherland, ballerina Alicia Markova and Jamaican writer and campaigner Una Marson.The blue plaque scheme has been running since 1866.

Hepburn’s plaque will go up in Mayfair, a high-end neighbourhood of London where the actress landed her Oscar-winning role as Princess Anne in 1953 romance film Roman Holiday, starring alongside Gregory Peck.

The actress was sent to a boarding school in England by her parents, Irish-English businessman James Hepburn Ruston and a Dutch-Hungarian-French noblewoman, Baroness Ella Van Heemstra.

She has four Academy Award best actress nods for romantic comedies Sabrina and Breakfast At Tiffany’s, drama The Nun’s Story, and horror Wait Until Dark.