Politics and Government
- Henry Allingham, briefly the world's oldest man and World War I veteran.
- Major John André, soldier, executed as a spy by George Washington lived with his Huguenot family at Clapton.
- Tony Blair, later British Prime Minister, lived at 59 Mapledene Road in London Fields from 1980-86.
- Paul Boateng, previously High Commissioner to South Africa, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, and Labour Party Member of Parliament for Brent South, born in Hackney.
- Harry Cohen, Labour Member of Parliament was born in Hackney.
- William Randal Cremer Liberal MP for Haggerston, pacifist and winner of the 1903 Nobel Peace Prize.
- John Howard, prison reformer was born and raised in Lower Clapton.
- John Hunter, governor of New South Wales lived and is buried in Hackney.
- Samuel Morley (MP), philanthropist and abolitionist was born in Homerton and lived in Stamford Hill.
- Colonel John Okey, regicide of Charles I lived in Hackney.
- Nat Wei (Life Peer), youngest Life Peer ever to enter the House of Lords. Social entrepreneur and senior advisor to the Cabinet Office on Big Society; currently living in Haggerston.
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