List of people from Sevenoaks

Sevenoaks is a town in Kent, England. The following is a list of pages of people who were born, live or have lived in the town, or made some important contribution to it. Please add only notable people with a Wikipedia page.

A

 * John Miller Adye (1819–1900) Army officer
 * Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst (1717–97) colonial governor of Massachusetts
 * William Amherst (c. 1732–1781) Army officer
 * William Amherst, 3rd Earl Amherst (1836–1910) Member of Parliament, Freemason
 * Geoffrey Anson (1922–77) cricketer
 * Charles Robert Ashbee (1863–1942) member of Arts & Crafts Movement

B

 * Cheryl Baker (born 1954) singer in Bucks Fizz and TV presenter
 * Reg Balch (1894–1994) Canadian photographer and scientist
 * Anton du Beke (born 1966) ballroom dancer
 * Douglas Booth (born 1992) actor
 * Thomas Bourchier (c. 1404–1486) Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Chancellor
 * Tom Bosworth (born 1990) Olympic race walker
 * William Bowra (1752–1820) cricketer
 * Matthew Branton (born 1968) novelist
 * Bill Bruford (born 1949) drummer for bands such as Yes and King Crimson

C

 * Hugh Cecil (born 1889) photographer
 * Mike Conway (born 1983) 2006 British Formula Three and 2019–20 FIA World Endurance Championship champion
 * Simon Cope (born 1966) cyclist

D

 * Anne Seymour Damer (1748–1828) sculptor
 * W. H. Davies (1871–1940) poet and tramp
 * Daniel Day-Lewis (born 1957) actor, attended Sevenoaks School in his early teens
 * Christopher Don (Donny) (born 1984) disc jockey, drum and bass artist
 * John Donne (1572–1631) metaphysical poet and Dean of Old St Paul's Cathedral
 * Diana Princess of Wales (1961-1997) attended West Heath School in Sevenoaks.

E

 * Joan Adeney Easdale (1913–1989) poet, was born in Sevenoaks.
 * John Epps (1805–69) homeopathic physician; religious dissenter

F

 * John Farey (1791–1851) mechanical engineer
 * John Frith (1503–1533) priest and writer

G

 * Philip Game (1876–1961) Metropolitan Police Commissioner; Governor of New South Wales
 * Walter Gilliat (1869–1963) priest, Association football player
 * Cathy Gilliat-Smith (born 1981) England and Great Britain field hockey player
 * Paul Greengrass (born 1955) film director and screenwriter
 * George Grote (1794–1871) historian

H

 * Henry Moore (born 2008) Golden boot winner (2023)
 * Paul Hartnoll (born 1968) musician (Orbital)
 * Brian Hord (born 1934) politician
 * George Henry Horton (born 1993) filmmaker
 * John Humphrys (born 1943) radio broadcaster
 * Gloria Hunniford (born 1940) radio and television personality
 * John Hurt (born 1940) actor

K

 * Janet Kear (1933–2004) ornithologist
 * Caron Keating (1962–2004) TV presenter
 * Sam King (1911–2003) golfer
 * John Kirk (1832–1922) Scottish physician, naturalist, companion to explorer David Livingstone, British Consul in Zanzibar
 * John Buxton Knight (1843–1908) landscape painter
 * Dick Knowles (1917–2008) MP

L

 * Justine Lord (born 1938) actress

M

 * Joseph Miller (died 1794) cricketer
 * John Minshull (c. 1741–1793) cricketer
 * Sarah Morris (born 1967) British-born American artist and filmmaker based in New York
 * Netta Muskett (1887–1963) novelist

P

 * Lance Percival (born 1933) actor, comedian and singer
 * Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (1878–1957) President of Sevenoaks Boy Scouts Association and Sevenoaks Chess Club

R

 * Val Romney (c. 1718–1773) cricketer

S

 * Lionel Sackville-West, 2nd Baron Sackville (1827–1908) diplomat
 * Lionel Sackville-West, 6th Baron Sackville (1913–2004) stockbroker
 * Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962) author, member of the Bloomsbury group
 * John Salako (born 1969) association footballer
 * James Sharman (living) TV producer and sportscaster; host of The Footy Show on The Score
 * Peter Sissons (1942 - 2019) newsreader
 * Philip Stanhope, 1st Baron Weardale (1847–1923) politician and philanthropist
 * Tilda Swinton (born 1960) actress, attended West Heath School, Sevenoaks
 * Plum Sykes (born 1969) fashion writer and novelist

T

 * Andy Titterrell (born 1981) England rugby union international
 * Edward Thomas (1878–1917) poet and journalist

W

 * Tom Warren (born 1983) rugby union player
 * H. G. Wells (1866–1946) novelist and science fiction writer
 * James Whitbourn (born 1963) composer
 * Charlie Whiting (1952-2019) Formula One race director
 * Joe Wilkinson (born 1975) comedian

Y

 * Lizzy Yarnold (born 1988) Skeleton racer, most successful British Winter Olympian of all time

Z

 * Robert Charles Zaehner (1913–1974) British academic whose field of study was Eastern religions.