List of people from Tower Hamlets

Notable people associated with Bow

Rosa Nouchette Carey, children's novelist, was born in Stratford-le-Bow.^[1]
Ashley Cole attended Bow Boys School
Grant Cornwell MBE, CEO, Tottenham Hotspur Foundation, born in Bow and went to Wellington Way and Bow Boys schools.
Donald Crisp, Academy Award Winning actor, born in Bow.
Liz English (actress) born in Bow.
Girls Aloud (band) – when first formed, had a flat in Bow
Richard Jones (actor) has a flat in Bow.
Ledley King (Tottenham Hotspur/England defender) was born in Bow.
Oona King (former Labour MP for Bethnal Green and Bow and political commentator)^[2]
Charlie McDonnell an English youtube celebrity shares a flat in Bow
Graham Norton (comedian and TV presenter) lives in Bow^[3]
Sylvia Pankhurst (suffragette and social campaigner – see Suffragettes section, above)
Dizzee Rascal, (grime artist)
John Robertson, Premier of New South Wales (Australia) on five occasions between 1881 and 1886, was born in Bow
Roll Deep (grime crew) ^[4]
Tinchy Stryder, (grime artist)
Joakim Sundström, Swedish sound editor, sound designer and musician, has a flat south of Bow
Danny Wallace (writer, TV Presenter, and king of Lovely) – lives in Bow^[5] and mentions it in his books.^[6]
Wiley (rapper), (Pioneer of grime (music), Urban Artist)
Amy Winehouse a British jazz singer had a flat in Bow

London Borough of Tower Hamlets

Districts	Bethnal Green Blackwall Bow Bow Common Bromley-by-Bow Cambridge Heath Canary Wharf Coldharbour Cubitt Town Globe Town East Smithfield Fish Island Isle of Dogs Leamouth Limehouse Mile End Millwall Old Ford Poplar Ratcliff St. George in the East Shadwell Spitalfields Stepney Wapping Whitechapel

Attractions	Brick Lane Christ Church, Spitalfields Museum of Childhood Museum in Docklands Ragged School Museum St Katharine Docks Tower Bridge Tower of London Traitors' Gate Whitechapel Art Gallery

Street markets	Petticoat Lane Brick Lane Columbia Road Old Spitalfields Roman Road

Parks and open spaces	Altab Ali Park Bartlett Park Island Gardens Langdon Park Mile End Park Mudchute Tower Hamlets Cemetery Victoria Park

Constituencies	Bethnal Green and Bow Poplar and Limehouse

Bridges and tunnels	Blackwall Tunnel Rotherhithe Tunnel Tower Bridge

Tube and rail stations	Aldgate East All Saints Bethnal Green Bethnal Green railway station Blackwall Bow Church Bow Road Bromley-by-Bow Cambridge Heath railway station Canary Wharf (DLR) Canary Wharf (tube) Crossharbour Devons Road East India Heron Quays Island Gardens Limehouse Mile End Mudchute Poplar Shadwell South Quay Stepney Green Tower Gateway Tower Hill Wapping railway station West India Quay Westferry Whitechapel

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