List of people from Royal Tunbridge Wells

Royal Tunbridge Wells is a town in Kent, England. The following is a list of those people who were either born or live(d) in Royal Tunbridge Wells, or made some important contribution to the town. As a spa town Royal Tunbridge Wells was a popular resort for the upper classes, including members of the British royal family.

A

 * Peter Adolph (1916–1994), Inventor of Subbuteo Table Soccer
 * Joe Alwyn (born 1991), actor
 * Jonathan Anders (born 1971), Shropshire cricketer

B

 * Luke Baldwin (born 1990), rugby player
 * Gary Barden (born 1955), musician
 * The Reverend Thomas Bayes (1702–1761), mathematician, who lived in Ashton Lodge
 * Will Bayley (born 1988), paralympian
 * C. A. Bayly (1945–2015), historian
 * Jeff Beck (1944–2023), musician
 * Rachel Beer (1858–1927), newspaper editor
 * Compton Bennett (1900–1974), film director
 * Golding Bird (1814–1854), medical writer
 * Douglas Booth (born 1992), actor and musician
 * Frank W. Boreham (1871–1959), Baptist preacher
 * Jo Brand (born 1957), comedian
 * William Thomas Brande (1788–1866), chemist
 * Gary Brazil (born 1962), football player
 * Christopher Brown (born 1943), British composer
 * Nick Brown (born 1950), politician
 * Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803–1873), author
 * Thomas Harrison Burder (1789–1843), physician and author
 * Peter Burton (1924–2007), physicist, philosopher, logician
 * Ballard Berkeley, British actor

C

 * John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll (1845–1914), Governor General of Canada
 * Oliver Chris (born 1978), actor
 * George Cohen (born 1939), football player
 * Paul Condon, Baron Condon (born 1947), police commissioner
 * Emma Corrin (born 1995), actress
 * Martin Corry (born 1973), rugby player
 * The Reverend Arthur Shearly Cripps (1869–1952), missionary and writer
 * Sidney Elisabeth Croskery (1901–1990), doctor
 * Richard Cumberland (1732–1811), dramatist
 * Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham (1887–1963), military officer

D

 * Gerald Charles Dickens (born 1963), actor and performer
 * Marcus Dillistone (born 1961), film director
 * Sir Howard Douglas, (1776–1861), military officer
 * Keith Douglas (1920–1944), poet
 * Roy Douglas (1907–2015), classical composer
 * Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding (1882–1970), Royal Air Force officer

E

 * John Cox Dillman Engleheart (1784–1862), miniature painter

F

 * Arthur Fagg (1915–1977), cricketer
 * Caroline Fry (1787–1846), writer

G

 * Thomas Field Gibson (1803–1889), Tunbridge Wells improvement commissioner and Royal Commissioner for the Great Exhibition of 1851
 * Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, artist and educator
 * Jilly Goolden (born 1956), television personality
 * Léon Goossens (1897–1988), oboist
 * Edward Meyrick Goulburn (1818–1897), clergyman and writer ↑
 * David Gower (born 1957), cricketer
 * Pauline Gower (1910–1947) pilot, commandant of the Women's Air Transport Auxiliary in Second World War
 * Sir Robert Gower, MP (1880–1953)
 * Sarah Grand (1854–1943), suffragist and "New Woman" writer
 * Sir Tyrone Guthrie (1900–1971), theatrical director

H

 * Ker Baillie Hamilton (1804–1889), colonial governor
 * Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge (1785–1856), Viceroy of India
 * Jake Hill (born 1994), racing driver in the British Touring Car Championship
 * Philip Carteret Hill (1821–1894), Nova Scotia politician
 * Katrina Hodge, soldier and Miss England 2009

J

 * Louise Jameson (born 1951), actress
 * Richard Jones (1790–1855), economist

L

 * Danny La Rue (1927–2009), entertainer
 * Enid Lakeman (1903–1995), political reformer
 * Duncan Lamont (1918–1978), actor
 * Sydney Turing Barlow Lawford (1865–1953), Lieutenant-General and father of actor Peter Lawford
 * Ron Ledger (1920–2004), politician
 * Henry Bilson Legge (1708–1764), politician
 * Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (1848–1939), daughter of Queen Victoria

M

 * Annunzio Paolo Mantovani (1905–1980), conductor
 * Patrick Mayhew, Baron Mayhew (1929–2016), politician
 * Alec McCowen (1925–2017), actor
 * Victor McLaglen (1886–1959), actor

N

 * Richard (Beau) Nash (1674–1762), celebrated dandy and leader of fashion
 * William Nicholson (born 1948), writer

O

 * Sir Charles Ogle (1775–1858), naval officer

P

 * Tim Page (1944–2022), photojournalist
 * Charles Paulet, 3rd Duke of Bolton (1685–1754), politician
 * Tim Pears (born 1956), novelist
 * Eliza Phillips (1822/3–1916), conservationist and co-founder of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
 * Rose Pipette (born 1986), pop singer with The Pipettes

R

 * Sir Richard Robinson (1849–1928), businessman and local politician
 * Richard Rose (born 1982), footballer

S

 * Sir David Lionel Salomons (1851–1925), scientist
 * Sarah Sands (born 1961), journalist
 * Henry Albert Seymour (1861–1938), secularist, anarchist and gramophone pioneer
 * Mary Monica Maxwell-Scott (1852–1920), author
 * Dominic Sherwood (born 1990), actor
 * Slaves, musical band
 * Colin Smart (born 1950), rugby player
 * Horace Smith (1779–1849), poet and novelist
 * Jamie Spence (born 1963), golfer
 * Sir Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt (1811–1888), naval officer
 * The Reverend Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing (1835–1926), zoologist
 * Gary A. Stevens (born 1962), footballer
 * Francis Meadow Sutcliffe (1863–1941), photographer

T

 * William Temple (1833–1919), recipient of the Victoria Cross
 * William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863), novelist
 * Bob Todd (1921–1992), comedy actor

V

 * Krystal Versace (born 2001), Winner of RuPaul's Drag Race UK (Season 3)
 * Sid Vicious (1957–1979), musician

W

 * Virginia Wade (born 1945), tennis player
 * H T Waghorn (1842–1930), cricket historian
 * Scott Wagstaff (born 1990), footballer
 * Charity Wakefield (born 1981), actress
 * Arthur Waley (1889–1966), Orientalist
 * Nick Wallace (born 1972), writer
 * Frank Weare (1896–1971), World War I flying ace
 * William Webber (1800–1875), surgeon
 * James Whitbourn (born 1963), composer

Z

 * Andy Zaltzman, comedian and writer
 * Helen Zaltzman, co-host of popular podcast, Answer me this