List of people from Beckenham

Beckenham is a town in the London Borough of Bromley, England. The following is a list of those people who were either born or live in Beckenham, or else had important connections to make to the town.

A

 * Raymond Adamson (1920–2002), television actor
 * Rory Allen (born 1977), football player
 * Julie Andrews (born 1935), actress, singer, author
 * Claude Ashton (1901–1942), football player, cricketer, hockey player
 * Gerald Aste (1900–1961), cricketer

B

 * A.L. Barker (1918–2002), novelist, short story writer
 * Django Bates (born 1960), composer; multi-instrumentalist, band leader
 * Hugh Bean (1929–2003), violinist
 * Floella Benjamin (born 1949), actress, singer and TV presenter
 * John Bennett (1928–2005), actor
 * Enid Blyton (1897–1968), children’s writer
 * Frank Bourne (1984–1945), Anglo-Zulu War veteran
 * David Bowie (1947–2016), musician, actor, producer, arranger
 * Zowie Bowie (born 1971), film director (and son of David Bowie)
 * Betty Box (1915–1999), film producer and screenwriter
 * Sydney Box (1907–1983), film producer and screenwriter
 * Tony Bradman (born 1954), children’s author
 * Peircy Brett (1709–1781), admiral in Royal Navy; politician
 * Bob Broadbent (1924–1993), cricketer
 * Ali Brown (born 1970), cricketer
 * Godfrey Bryan (1902–1991), cricketer
 * Jack Bryan (1896–1985), cricketer
 * Ronnie Bryan (1898–1970), cricketer
 * Stuart Bunce (born 1971), actor
 * Arthur Gardiner Butler (1844–1925), entomologist

C

 * Pat Coombs (1926–2002), actress
 * James Cossins (1933–1997), actor

D

 * Richard Daintree (1831–1878), geologist and photographer
 * T. Pelham Dale (1821–1892), Anglo-Catholic ritualist clergyman
 * Samuel Daukes (1811–1880), architect
 * Maurice Denham (1909–2002), actor

E

 * George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland (1784–1849), politician and colonial administrator
 * William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland (1745–1814), politician and diplomat
 * Carl Erhardt (1897–1988), ice hockey player

F

 * Liam Fontaine (born 1986), football player
 * Philip Fotheringham-Parker (1907–1981), racing driver
 * Peter Frampton (born 1950), singer-songwriter and musician

H

 * Haircut 100, New wave/Jazz-funk band formed in 1980 by Nick Heyward
 * John Pennington Harman (1914–1944), recipient of the Victoria Cross
 * David Haye, boxer
 * Alec Hearne (1863–1952), cricketer
 * Nick Heyward (born 1961), singer, guitarist
 * Leigh Hinds (born 1978), football player
 * C. Walter Hodges (1909–2004), illustrator and author
 * Elizabeth Hope (1842–1922), evangelist; temperance movement
 * Charles Howard (1904–1982), cricketer

J

 * Steve Jansen (born 1959), musician
 * Graham Johnson (born 1946), cricketer

K

 * Georgina Kennedy (born 1997), professional squash player (Commonwealth Games champion 2022)
 * Robert Key (born 1979), cricketer
 * Daniel King (born 1963), chess player; writer and journalist
 * John Kingman (born 1939), mathematician

L

 * Kate Lawler (born 1980), TV presenter, disc jockey, winner of Big Brother UK
 * Alfred Layman (1858–1940), cricketer
 * Mark Lovell (born 1983), football player

M

 * Andrew Manze (born 1965), baroque violinist and conductor
 * Piers Merchant (1951–2009), politician
 * Bob Monkhouse (1928–2003), entertainer
 * Ivor Moreton (1908–1984), singer and pianist, lived in Beckenham during World War II

O

 * John Orchard (1928–1995), film actor (M*A*S*H)
 * Jonathan Orders (born 1957), cricketer

P

 * Arthur Beresford Pite (1861–1934), architect
 * Mary Potter (1900–1981), painter
 * James Pigott Pritchett (1789–1868), architect
 * Frank Pullen (1915–1992), businessman and builder

R

 * Cornthwaite Rason (1858–1927), Premier of Western Australia
 * Dorothy Richardson (1873–1957), novelist
 * Christopher Ricks (born 1933), literary critic
 * Ken Ritchie (born 1946), psephologist

S

 * Stanley Scott (1854–1933), cricketer
 * Richard Smith (born 1971), fingerstyle guitarist
 * Wende Snijders (born 1978), Dutch singer
 * Frank Spenlove-Spenlove (1868–1933), painter; founder of "Yellow Door School of Art" in Beckenham
 * David Sylvian (born 1958), singer, musician, composer

T

 * Richard Thorpe (born 1984), rugby union player

V

 * Paul Volley (born 1975), rugby union player

W

 * Wavell Wakefield, 1st Baron Wakefield of Kendal (1898–1983), rugby union player and politician
 * Bill Wyman, bass guitarist, member of the Rolling Stones, lived at 44 Birkbeck Road, Beckenham in the 1960s