List of people from Lewisham
Among those who were born in the London Borough of Lewisham, or have dwelt within the borders of the borough are
- Danny Baker (broadcaster) lived in Deptford
- Rosa May Billinghurst (suffragette) lived in Lewisham
- Kate Bush (musician) lived in Brockley and Lewisham
- James Callaghan (politician) lived in Blackheath
- Sir James Clark Ross (explorer) lived in Blackheath
- Maxwell Confait, Colin Lattimore, Ronal Leighton and Ahmet Salih lived in Catford
- Jim Connell (socialist) lived in Crofton Park and Honor Oak
- Jean Cooke RA, artist, born in Blackheath
- Horatio Henry Couldery (1832–1893), animal artist noted for his paintings of cats, kittens and dogs, was born in Lewisham
- Ernest Dowson (poet) lived in Catford and Lee
- Gabrielle (musician) lived in Brockley and Honor Oak
- W. G. Grace (cricketer) lived in Sydenham
- Malcolm Hardee (comedian) lived in Blackheath and Lewisham
- Frank Harper (actor) grew up in the borough and attended Malory School in Downham
- George Julian Harney (chartist) lived in Deptford
- Will Hay (comedy actor) lived in Crofton Park
- Sir Isaac Hayward (politician) lived in Deptford
- Keely Hazell (Page 3 girl) born in Lewisham
- Jimi Hendrix (American rock legend) lived in Hither Green in late 1966
- Frederick John Horniman (collector) lived in Forest Hill
- Leslie Howard (British actor) lived in Forest Hill
- Glenda Jackson (politician) lived in Blackheath
- Alex James (bass guitarist of Blur) went to university in New Cross, Goldsmiths.
- David Jones (poet) lived in Brockley
- Kwes (music record producer) born in Lewisham
- Elsa Lanchester (Anglo-American actress) born in Lewisham
- Jude Law (actor) lived in Lewisham
- Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen (designer) lived in Blackheath
- Marie Lloyd (entertainer) lived in Lewisham and New Cross
- Eleanor Marx (politician) lived in Sydenham
- Spike Milligan (comedian) lived in Catford, Crofton Park and Honor Oak
- Laila Morse (actress and sister of Gary Oldman) lives in New Cross
- Edith Nesbit (writer) lived in Blackheath, Grove Park and Lewisham
- Gary Oldman (actor) was born in New Cross and grew up in Deptford
- P Money (grime artist) born and raised in Lewisham
- Mica Paris (musician) lived in Lewisham
- Gladys Powers (centenarian) was born in Lewisham
- Russian Tsar Peter the Great lived in Deptford
- Maxi Priest (musician) was born and raised in Lewisham
- Luke Pritchard (musician) was born in Lewisham
- Louise Redknapp (TV presenter and wife of footballer Jamie Redknapp) was born in Lewisham
- Ignatius Sancho (writer and campaigner) lived in Blackheath
- Dame Cicely Saunders (founder of hospice movement) lived in Sydenham
- Sir Ernest Shackleton, Antarctic explorer, lived in Sydenham
- Charlene Soraia (musician) was brought up in Sydenham
- Timothy Spall (actor) lives in Honor Oak
- Jason Statham (actor) lives in Forest Hill
- Doris Stokes (medium) lived in Lewisham
- E. W. Swanton (writer) lived in Forest Hill
- David Sylvian (musician) lived in Lewisham
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu lived on Brownhill Road Catford
- Terry Waite (humanitarian) lived in Blackheath
- Max Wall (comedian) lived in Lee
- Barnes Wallis (engineer) lived in New Cross
- Ian Wright (footballer) lived in Lewisham
- Shaun Wright-Phillips (footballer and son of Ian Wright) grew up in Brockley
- Bill Wyman (musician) lived in Sydenham
- Edmond Halley (astronomer royal, Greenwich observatory) lived in Lee and is buried here at St. Margaret church.[1]
Notable residents of Blackheath
20 Dartmouth Hill
(This list includes people associated with the portion of Blackheath that lies in Greenwich.)
- 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.
- His son John Angerstein, MP for Greenwich
- 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 and astrophysicist, lived at 4 Bennett Park (blue plaque).
- Eliza Fay (1756–1816), author of Original Letters from India, ran a school in Blackheath in 1805-14.
- Nick Ferrari LBC 97.3 radio presenter.
- James Glaisher (1809–1903), who pioneered modern weather forecasting techniques, lived at 20 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, musician with the band Squeeze and solo artist, lives in Westcombe Park.
- John Hughes, The Very Reverend, lived as a child on Mycenae Road, Blackheath.
- 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, 2nd Baronet, 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 after whom 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, 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.
- Sir Willard White, opera singer.
- Maurice Wilkins, joint discover of DNA, lived on St Johns Park.
- Sir Alfred Yarrow, shipbuilder, lived at Woodlands, Mycenae Road, Westcombe Park from 1896.
References
- ↑ Cook, Alan (12 April 1997). Edmond Halley: Charting the Heavens and the Seas (1 ed.). Oxford USA: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198500319. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
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