List of Chelsea people

This is a list of notable residents and former residents of the London, England borough of Chelsea.

• David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon

• Anne of Cleves died Chelsea Manor 1557

• Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban

• Hilaire Belloc (Cheyne Walk)

• John Betjeman (Radnor Walk)

• Honor Blackman (Markham Square)

• Enid Blyton (Beaufort Street)

• Dirk Bogarde (Lower Sloane Street)

• William Boyd

• Marc Isambard Brunel and Isambard Kingdom Brunel (civil engineers); 98 Cheyne Walk

• Charles Cadogan, 8th Earl Cadogan

• Phyllis Calvert (actress) was born in Chelsea

• Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge (Wife of Prince William) (Old Church Street)

• Thomas Carlyle the "Sage of Chelsea" (24 Cheyne Row – now National Trust House)

• Christian the lion

• Dame Agatha Christie

• Eric Clapton (lived on King's Road during the late 1960s)

• Petula Clark (lived at 4 Royal Avenue in the 1980s)

• Steve Clark (Spent the last few months of his life there while on a 6-month leave of absence from Def Leppard until his death on 8 January 1991.)

• Steve Coogan used to live in the area in the 1990s.

• Frank Cadogan Cowper, artist

• Thomas Crapper (plumbing supplies) (King's Road)

• John de Salis, at 12 First Street and then 28 Upper Cheyne Row (1970s and early 1980s)

• Quentin Crisp (Beaufort Street)

• George Devine & Jocelyn Herbert (Rossetti Studios, Flood Street)

• Charles Ejogo (born 1976), entrepreneur

• George Eliot (spent the last 3 weeks of her life at 4 Cheyne Walk)

• T. S. Eliot (19 Carlyle Mansions, Chelsea Embankment)

• Mary, Dowager Viscountess Fane (No. 2, Swan Walk)

• Rosalind Franklin

• John Fraser (botanist) (Paradise Row)

• Fredo, British rapper

• Judy Garland (spent the last few months of her life there with her fifth husband until death on 22 June 1969)

• Ava Gardner, the Hollywood actress spent the last twenty years of her life here, until her death in 1990

• Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury (Swan Walk)

• Elizabeth Gaskell (93 Cheyne Walk)

• Margaret Green, painter (Elm Park Gardens and Lucan Place)

• Joyce Grenfell (King's Road from 1945-57 and Elm Park Gardens from 1957-79)

• Adelaide Hall, jazz singer and entertainer lived at 74 Drayton Gardens with her husband Bert Hicks. Shirley MacLaine was a neighbour and very friendly with the Hicks.

• James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton Royalist General, owned Chelsea Place, his London residence from 1638 until his execution.

• James Edmund Harting, ornithologist, born 1841 in Chelsea

• Herbert Hughes (musician) (Old Church Street)

• Michael Hutchence (Redburn Street)

• Mick Jagger and all the Rolling Stones (Edith Grove, Cheyne Walk)

• Henry James (21 Cheyne Walk)

• Rory Jennings, (actor, presenter) starred in British television program EastEnders

• Jerome K. Jerome (Flat 104, Chelsea Gardens, Chelsea Bridge Road)

• William Jones, 18th century wine merchant and naturalist

• Henry George Kendall Ship Captain of the RMS Empress of Ireland.

• Roger Keyes

• Jiah Khan (born Nafisa Khan, a British actress who appeared in Bollywood films)

• Letitia Elizabeth Landon, poet and novelist. (Hans Place)

• Sir William Arbuthnot Lane, 1st Baronet CBE and Lady Frittie Arbuthnot Lane lived at 72 Drayton Gardens (next door to Adelaide Hall).

• David Lloyd George (10 Cheyne Walk)

• Harold Macmillan, prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963, was born there in 1894.

• Bob Marley composed his hit "I Shot the Sheriff" in a one-bedroom flat off Cheyne Walk in the mid-1970s. 42 Oakley Street

• Gavin Maxwell, novelist, journalist, explorer and author of Ring of Bright Water (9 Paultons Square)

• Arthur Meaby, engineer and a volunteer for the Youth Hostels Association

• Naomi Mitchison, novelist. (17 Cheyne Walk)

• A. A. Milne, playwright and author of Winnie-the-Pooh, lived at 13 (formerly 11) Mallord Street.

• Kylie Minogue (singer, songwriter, actress)

• Florence Montgomery Novelist and children's writer

• Sir Thomas More Lawyer, philosopher, author, statesman and Renaissance humanist

• John Camden Neild (5 Cheyne Walk)

• John O'Hara American novelist,author of BUtterfield_8_(novel)

• Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh

• Sylvia Pankhurst (Cheyne Walk)

• Sir Eduardo Paolozzi (artist & sculptor)

• Ramsay Weston Phipps (military historian. 21 Carlyle Square )

• Suzelle Poole, English ballerina

• Cyril Power (artist and architect) (16 Redcliffe Street)

• Katharine Susannah Prichard, novelist, communist. (Flat 64, Chelsea Gardens, Chelsea Bridge Road)

• Mary Quant (King's Road and Markham Square)

• Carol Reed (King's Road)

• Nick Rhodes, keyboardist and songwriter of Duran Duran.

• Dante Gabriel Rossetti (16 Cheyne Walk)

• John Shaw Jr., architect of the 19th century

• Mary Shelley author of Frankenstein

• Osbert Sitwell (Carlyle Square)

• George Smiley (9 Bywater Street) Fictional Character

• Ned Sherrin, broadcaster,writer. (3 Bywater Street. Died at 4 Cornwall Mansions, Ashburnham Road)

• Dame Maggie Smith (actress)

• Chris Squire

• Philip Wilson Steer (109 Cheyne Walk)

• Bram Stoker (author of Dracula)

• Algernon Charles Swinburne (16 Cheyne Walk)

• Thomas Fielden Taylor, New Zealand Anglican priest and city missioner

• Wilfred Thesiger (Tite Street)

• Gordon Thorne (first-class cricketer and British Army officer)

• J. R. R. Tolkien (Author of The Lord of the Rings)

• J. M. W. Turner (died at 119 Cheyne Walk on 19 December 1851)

• Mark Twain (23 Tedworth Square)

• James Webb painter/artist

• Mary Wesley Novelist,author of The Camomile Lawn. (31 & 39 Smith Street)

• James McNeill Whistler (21, 96 & 101 Cheyne Walk)

• Eric Whitacre (American composer and conductor)

• Oscar Wilde (today 34 Tite Street, 16 Tite Street in Wilde's lifetime)

• Thomas Young, recipient of the Victoria Cross

• Count Nicolaus Zinzendorf, founder of the Moravian Church, Lindsey House