Notable People
The following people have lived, or currently live, in Battersea:
- George Shearing - Jazz pianist
- Ronnie Biggs - thief who took part in the Great Train Robbery
- Johnny Briggs - actor, best known as Mike Baldwin in Coronation Street
- Kathleen Byron - Actress
- G. K. Chesterton - writer
- Adrian Chiles - presenter
- Colin Douglas (actor) - stage and television actor
- Howard Eastman - boxer
- Craig Eastmond - footballer
- Freddie Foreman - criminal and associate of the Kray Twins, born in Sheepcote Lane
- Bob Geldof - singer and songwriter
- Pixie Geldof - socialite and model
- Rich Hall - comedian
- Harry Hill - comedian
- Dervla Kirwan - actress
- Simon Le Bon - musician
- Katie Leung - actress, best known as Cho Chang in Harry Potter films
- Kate Maberly - actress
- Terry Manning - music producer
- Buster Merryfield - actor, best known as Uncle Albert in Only Fools and Horses
- Dannii Minogue - musician
- John O'Farrell - writer
- Sean O'Casey - writer
- Rick Parfitt - singer with Status Quo
- William Page - historian and general editor of the Victoria County History
- Polly Paulusma - musician
- Mervyn Peake - author
- Rupert Penry-Jones - actor
- Gordon Ramsay - chef
- Joely Richardson - actress
- Greg Rusedski - tennis player
- Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
- John Scott - sociologist and Fellow of the British Academy
- So Solid Crew - musicians
- Timothy Spall - actor
- Shaker Aamer - held in Guantanamo without charge or trial
- Donald Swann - musician - of Flanders and Swann
- Gabriel Thomson - stars in My Family
- Vivienne Westwood - fashion designer
- William Wilberforce - prominent campaigner against the slave trade
- Ben Adams - musician from the band a1
- Nell Dunn - Playwright
- Mitchell Byrne - Writer
- James Aldridge - Writer
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