List of people from Tonbridge

This is a list of people from Tonbridge, Kent, England.

Born in Tonbridge

 * Elias Allen (1588–1653), maker of sundials and scientific instruments
 * Timothy Allen (born 1971), photojournalist†
 * Harry Andrews (1911–89), actor
 * Anna Atkins (1799–1871), botanist and photographer
 * Edwin Bramall (1923–2019), soldier
 * Ron Challis (1932–2001), football referee
 * John George Children (1777–1852), chemist, mineralogist and zoologist
 * William Cobbold (1862–1922), England international football player
 * Sir James Darling (1899–1955) Chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Commission
 * Marcus Dillistone (born 1961) Royal Premiered British film director, and music producer for the Athens 2004 Olympic Opening & Closing Ceremonies
 * Richard de Clare (1130–76), Earl
 * Neville Duke (1922–2007), World War II pilot and world air speed holder in 1953
 * Desmond Dupré, (1916–1974), lutenist and early music pioneer
 * Henry Fowler (1858–1933), educationist
 * Robin Hanley (1968–96), cricketer
 * Harold Langhorne (1866–1932), soldier
 * Shane MacGowan (born 1957), singer-songwriter
 * Cecil Powell (1903–1969), Nobel Prize Winner for Physics†
 * Reginald Punnett (1875–1967) geneticist
 * James Reynolds (1866–1950), cricketer
 * Malcolm Simmons (1946-2014) British Speedway Champion 1976–77 and former captain of England team
 * Ray Singer (born 19??), record producer
 * Johnnie Stewart (1917–2005), television producer
 * Walter Tirel (1065–1100+), nobleman
 * Sir Skinner Turner (1868–1935), chief judge of the British Supreme Court for China
 * James Welldon (1854–1937), Bishop of Calcutta
 * Sir Dick White (1906–1983), intelligence officer
 * Claud Woolley (1886–1962), cricketer
 * Frank Woolley (1887–1978), cricketer
 * Ian Wynne (born 1973), Olympic canoeist
 * ([Robert Smith]) (born 1981), Racing driver

Old Juddians
These people attended The Judd School
 * Timothy Allen (born 1971), photojournalist
 * Fergus Anckorn (born 1918), magician and soldier
 * Luke Baldwin (born 1990), rugby player
 * Torsten Bell, former Labour Party (UK) Special Adviser and Chief Executive of the Resolution Foundation
 * Humphrey Burton (born 1931), broadcaster, presenter and director
 * William Cockcroft (born c1950), Chief Scout Commissioner
 * Rob Crilly (born 1973), journalist and author
 * Richard Dixon, British chemist, fellow of the Royal Society, and winner of the Rumford Medal
 * Neville Duke (1922–2007), World War II pilot and world air speed holder in 1953
 * Angus Fairhurst (1966–2008), artist
 * Taylor Fawcett, actor from Life of Riley
 * David Fulton (born 1971), cricketer
 * John Gathercole, (1937–2010), Archdeacon of Dudley
 * Max Godden, (died 2000), Archdeacon of Lewis
 * Tom Greatrex (born 1974), MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West
 * Harold Hailstone (1897–1982), cartoonist and illustrator; brother of Bernard
 * Bernard Hailstone (1910–1987), artist; brother of Harold
 * Guy Hands (born 1959), financier
 * Donald Hodge (1894–2001), First World War veteran
 * Jack Holden (actor), actor
 * George Henry Horton (born 1993), filmmaker
 * Harry Kendall (born 1996), athlete
 * Terence Lewin (1920–99), First Sea Lord and Chief of Defence Staff
 * Sir Clive Loader, Air Chief Marshal
 * Rob Luft (born 1993), jazz guitarist and composer
 * Anton Matusevich (born 2001), British tennis player
 * Nathaniel Mellors (born 1974), artist & musician
 * James Miller, (born 1976), British novelist and academic
 * Richard Moth, former Bishop of the Forces and current Bishop of Arundel and Brighton
 * David Moule-Evans (1905–1988), composer
 * Mr Bingo (born 1979), illustrator
 * Geoffrey Paterson (born 1983), conductor
 * Cecil Powell (1903-1969), Nobel prize winner in Physics
 * Tom Probert (born 1986), cricketer
 * Martin Purdy (born 1981), Rugby Union player
 * Stuart Skeates, (born 1966), Major General and former Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
 * Tim Stanley, journalist
 * Rob Warner (academic), (born 1956), British academic
 * James Whiteaker (born 1998), athlete
 * Michael Willard, (born 1938) cricketer
 * Ronald Williams (1906–79), Bishop of Leicester
 * Stewart Wood, Baron Wood of Anfield, Member of the House of Lords

People connected with Tonbridge

 * Sir Adrian Baillie (1898–1947), MP for Tonbridge 1937–45
 * Hugh de Audley (1289–1347), English ambassador to France, was buried at Tonbridge Priory
 * Margaret de Audley (1318–47), baroness and countess, was buried at Tonbridge Priory
 * David Bartleet (1929–2002), Bishop of Tonbridge 1982–93
 * Brian Castle (born 1949), current bishop of Tonbridge
 * Margaret de Clare (1293–1342), countess, was buried at Tonbridge Priory
 * Ralph de Stafford (1301–72), nobleman, was buried in Tonbridge Priory
 * Richard fitz Gilbert (1030–1091), nobleman, built Tonbridge Castle
 * Richard Fitz Gilbert de Clare (died 1136), nobleman, founded Tonbridge Priory and held Tonbridge Castle
 * Philip Goodrich (1929–2001), Bishop of Tonbridge from 1973 to 1982
 * Jilly Goolden (born 1959), food critic, attended West Kent College
 * Arthur Griffith-Boscawen (1865–1946), MP for Tonbridge 1892–1906
 * David Halsey (1919–2009), Bishop of Tonbridge 1968–72
 * Victoria Hislop (born 1959), author, grew up in Tonbridge
 * Dame Kelly Holmes(born 1970), Olympic athlete, attended Hugh Christie School
 * Richard Hornby (1922–2007), MP for Tonbridge 1956–74
 * Andrea Leadsom (born 1963), educated at Tonbridge Girls' Grammar School
 * Robert Norton (1838–1926), MP for Tonbridge 1885–92
 * Adrian Quaife-Hobbs (born 1991), racing driver, lives in Tonbridge
 * Sophie Rhys-Jones (born 1965), now The Countess of Wessex, attended West Kent College
 * Angie Sage (born 1952), author, attended Tonbridge Grammar School for Girls
 * Margaret Sharp (born 1938) peer, attended Tonbridge Grammar School for Girls
 * Brian Smith (born 1943), Bishop of Tonbridge 1993–2001
 * John Stanley (born 1942), MP for Tonbridge and Malling since 1974
 * Holman F Stephens (1868–1931), ran a number of railway companies from offices in Tonbridge
 * Paul Watson (born 1942), artist and documentary film maker, lives in Tonbridge
 * Paul Way (born 1962), golfer, attended Hugh Christie School
 * Gerald Williams (1903–89), MP for Tonbridge 1945–56
 * Russell White (1896–1979), Bishop of Tonbridge from 1959 to 1968
 * Jonathan Williams (born 1993), footballer for Crystal Palace FC, lives in Tonbridge
 * Bob Woolmer (1948–2007), cricketer, attended Yardley Court School