Talk:List of people from the Royal Borough of Greenwich

Unreferenced list taken from Blackheath, London
Some may belong in List of people from Lewisham.


 * Sophie Aldred, actress and television presenter, was raised in Blackheath and attended Blackheath High School.
 * John Julius Angerstein, whose art collection formed the basis of the National Gallery in 1824, built Woodlands House, Mycenae Road, Westcombe Park.
 * Danny Baker, BBC London radio presenter and television personality.
 * Blade, British hip hop artist, was raised and schooled in Blackheath.
 * Sir Richard Branson, entrepreneur, was born in Blackheath.
 * Captain Samuel Brown, naval officer, engineer, and inventor, died at Vanbrugh Lodge, Vanbrugh Fields, Blackheath in 1852.
 * Caroline of Brunswick, married to the Prince Regent, was banished in 1799 to a private residence ('The Pagoda' - attributed to architect Sir William Chambers) in Blackheath.
 * James Callaghan, British Prime Minister 1976-1979, lived in Blackheath in the 1950s and 1960s, and his daughter Margaret went to Blackheath High School.
 * Fanny Cradock lived at 134 Shooters Hill Road.
 * Emily Davison, Suffragette, was born in Blackheath.
 * Clemence Dane, Playwright and novelist, was born in Blackheath.
 * Francis Dodd (1874–1949), artist, lived at Arundel House, 51 Blackheath Park.
 * Montague John Druitt, for many years a popular suspect in the Jack the Ripper murders, lived during the 1880s in Blackheath at 9 Eliot Place.
 * Peter Martin Duncan (1824–1891), palaeontologist and doctor, practised in Blackheath during the 1860s.
 * Astronomer Royal Sir Frank Watson Dyson lived at 6 Vanbrugh Hill, SE3 between 1894 and 1906 (blue plaque).
 * Sir Arthur Eddington (1882–1944), mathematician & astrophysicist, lived at 4 Bennett Park (blue plaque).
 * Nick Ferrari LBC 97.3 radio presenter.
 * James Glaisher (1809–1903), who pioneered modern weather forecasting techniques, lived at 22 Dartmouth Hill (blue plaque).
 * Charles Gounod, composer, lived at 4 Morden Road in 1870 (blue plaque).
 * Malcolm Hardee, anarchic comedian lived briefly at 33 Glenluce Road in the late 1990s.
 * Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864), American author, lived at 4 Pond Road in 1856 (blue plaque).
 * Ginnie Hole, author and screenwriter of The Bill and Casualty
 * Jools Holland OBE, a musician with the band Squeeze and solo artist, lives in Westcombe Park.
 * John Hughes, The Very Reverend, lived as a child on Mycenae Road, Black Heath.
 * Glenda Jackson, former actress and now MP for Hampstead lives in Blackheath.
 * Thomas Keell, prominent British anarchist of the early twentieth century.
 * Jude Law, actor, attended John Ball Primary School.
 * Albert Lee, guitarist, composer, and singer.
 * David Lindsay (1897–1945), novelist, born and raised in Blackheath.
 * Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen (Designer) lived in Blackheath.
 * Elisabeth Lutyens, composer, lived in Pond Road.
 * Donald McGill (1875–1962), postcard cartoonist lived at 5 Bennett Park (blue plaque).
 * John Stuart Mill (1806–1873), British philosopher and political economist.
 * Sir Stuart Milner-Barry, chess player and codebreaker, lived in Blackheath Park.
 * Ray Moore (1942–1989), broadcaster and supporter of BBC Children In Need, lived in Blackheath.
 * Blake Morrison, author, writer, prize-winning poet, Professor of creative writing at Goldsmiths College, former literary editor.
 * Edith Nesbit, author and Fabian, moved to 16 Dartmouth Row in 1879.
 * Sir Gregory Page, landowner, had houses in Westcombe Park and Wricklemarsh, near Lee.
 * Jack Peñate, singer/songwriter
 * Hugh Phillips (1940–2005), surgeon and later Deputy Lieutenant of Norfolk, born in Blackheath.
 * Keith Pyott (1902–1968), played Autloc in the Doctor Who serial The Aztecs, he had also featured in several other series and over 20 films.
 * Anthony Quiney, writer and historian.
 * Sir James Clark Ross, who in 1831 located the magnetic North Pole, and whom after the Ross Island and Ross sea are named, lived on Eliot Place.
 * Paul Rutherford (1940–2007), a jazz trombonist who later became the leading UK free improvising trombonist, lived in Blackheath.
 * Lee Ryan, singer, songwriter, and actor, formerly a member of the band Blue.
 * Ignatius Sancho, 18th century Black writer, composer, businessman and freed slave.
 * Axel Scheffler, book illustrator, lives in Blackheath.
 * Boris Starling, novelist, was born and brought up in Blackheath.
 * Walter Napleton Stone (1891–1917), recipient of the Victoria Cross, was born in Blackheath.
 * Terry Waite, humanitarian and hostage in Lebanon (1987–1991), lived in Blackheath and worked at the local All Saints church.
 * Mark Watson-Gandy, award-winning barrister, currently lives in Blackheath.
 * Sir Willard White, opera singer.
 * Maurice Wilkins, joint discoverer of DNA, lived on St Johns Park.
 * Sir Alfred Yarrow, shipbuilder, lived at Woodlands, Mycenae Road, Westcombe Park from 1896.

Taken from Greenwich

 * Astronomer Royal Sir George Airy lived in the White House, Crooms Hill.
 * Actor Dominic Cooper, was born in Greenwich
 * Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, statesman and man of letters, lived in the Ranger's House, Chesterfield Walk, Greenwich
 * Poet Cecil Day-Lewis lived at 6 Crooms Hill.
 * Evening Standard journalist Andrew Gilligan currently lives in Greenwich.
 * Malcolm Hardee (1950–2005), comedian, author, club proprietor, agent, manager and 'Father of British alternative comedy' spent most of his life in Greenwich and ran his two most famous clubs there - The Tunnel (near Blackwall Tunnel) and Up The Creek, which still exists in Creek Road.
 * Musician Jools Holland lives in Greenwich.
 * The London section of The Workshop for Non-Linear Architecture was based in a studio overlooking Nelson Road during the mid 1990s.
 * Jazz and blues guitarist Billy Jenkins ran the Wood Wharf rehearsal studios, situated to the west of the Cutty Sark, during the 1980s.
 * Glen Johnson, a footballer who plays for England and Liverpool was born in Greenwich, 23 August 1984
 * Dr Samuel Johnson, compiler of the first English dictionary, lived in Greenwich Church Street when he first came to London in 1736.
 * Henry Kelsey (c. 1667 – 1724), early explorer of Canada, was born and married in East Greenwich, and buried in St Alfege's Church
 * Comedian Dan Leno rented accommodation at the Spreadeagle Tavern, Stockwell Street in 1902.
 * Indie band Lucky Soul are based in Greenwich
 * Dr James Monro of Bethlem Hospital fame began his medical practice here in 1713
 * Architect Samuel Sanders Teulon was born in Greenwich.
 * Artist Sir James Thornhill was said to have lived in Park Hall on Crooms Hill (originally designed for architect John James who never actually occupied the house).
 * Interior designer and television presenter Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen lived in Greenwich.
 * Architect Sir John Vanbrugh lived at 121 Maze Hill in a house of his own design overlooking Greenwich Park.
 * Filmmaker John Walsh was born in and still resides in Greenwich. — Preceding unsigned comment added by RichardLyons74 (talk • contribs) 20:51, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Benjamin Waugh, founder of the UK charity the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, lived in Crooms Hill.
 * General James Wolfe lived in McCartney House in Crooms Hill, and was buried in St Alfege's Church.
 * King Henry VIII was born in Greenwich on 28 June 1491.
 * Steven Taylor, newcastle fc defender was born in greenwich

Taken from Charlton, London

 * Renowned 1930s and 1940s comic illustrator and artist Reginald Perrott (18th Oct 1916 - 16 May 1947) lived at 39 Mount Street, Charlton.
 * Children's author Bernard Ashley, after whom a street is named.
 * Civil engineer William Henry Barlow (1812–1902) lived at Highcombe, 145 Charlton Road, SE7.
 * TV presenter Dave Berry.
 * Andy Fordham, World darts champion was born and raised in Charlton.
 * Sir William Langhorne, 1st Baronet, an early administrator of British India, purchased the Manor of Charlton on his return to England in 1680.
 * Poet Walter de la Mare (1873–1956) was born in 83 Maryon Road (demolished in 1960s).
 * British prime minister Spencer Perceval (1762–1812) lived in Charlton Manor House as a child.
 * English Egyptologist, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853–1942) born at Maryon Road, Charlton, SE7.
 * Biblical scholar, writer, and minister Joseph Bryant Rotherham (1828–1910)
 * Italian novelist Italo Svevo (1861–1928) lived at 67 Charlton Church Lane, SE7.

Taken from Woolwich

 * Afrikan Boy, grime music MC
 * William Barefoot, born to Plymouth Brethren family, became the first socialist mayor of Woolwich in 1925.
 * Peter Barlow, mathematician, taught at the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich and his son Peter W. Barlow, civil engineer, was born there in 1809.
 * Hubert Bland, early socialist and co-founder of the Fabian Society, born in Wood Street, now Woodhill in 1855.
 * Tom Cribb, bare-knuckle boxing champion in the early 19th century, retired to, died, and was buried (1848) in Woolwich.
 * Bernardine Evaristo, novelist, raised in Woolwich, 1960-1978, attended Notre Dame Convent and Plumcroft Primary School
 * Andy Fordham, 2004 World darts champion, was publican of the Queen's Arms public house in Woolwich, although he has since moved to the Cutty Sark pub in Thamesmead.
 * Julius Francis, heavyweight boxer
 * General Charles George Gordon of Khartoum was born at 29 Woolwich Common and educated at the Royal Military Academy.
 * John Henry Hayes, politician, born in Woolwich
 * Frankie Howerd, comedian, was educated at Shooter's Hill Grammar School in Woolwich.
 * Marvin Humes, singer JLS, born in Herbert Road, Woolwich.
 * Colonel George Thomas Landmann, military and civil engineer, was born in Woolwich.
 * Richard Lovelace, poet
 * Merveille Lukeba, actor, born in D.R. Congo, raised in Woolwich
 * Scott Maslen, actor who plays Jack Branning in BBC's EastEnders, born and raised in Woolwich.
 * Henry Maudslay, engineer and tool-maker, was born in Salutation Alley (now demolished) and buried in the parish churchyard of St Mary Magdalen's.
 * Gareth Murdock, bass player of Alestorm, lives in Woolwich
 * Thomas Paine, author of the Rights of Man and The Age of Reason, spent a short time living in Woolwich.
 * Samuel Pepys lodged in Woolwich during 1665 to escape the Great Plague of London.
 * William Ranwell (1797–1861), artist and Army Drawing Master lived at 8 Beresford Terrace (now 42 Hillreach), from 1849-1861.
 * Oswald Hope Robertson, medical pioneer who invented blood banks, born in Woolwich in 1886.
 * James Joseph Sylvester, mathematician, taught at the Royal Military Academy from 1855-1869.
 * John A T Robinson was Bishop of Woolwich from 1959-1969.
 * David Sheppard, former England cricket captain, was Bishop of Woolwich from 1969-1975.
 * Sylvia Syms, actress born in Woolwich.
 * Glenn Tilbrook, singer, songwriter & guitarist of UK pop/rock band Squeeze, born there.
 * Ian Wright, former Arsenal footballer and later a television personality, born and raised in Woolwich.

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