Notable People
- Marc Isambard Brunel and his son Isambard Kingdom Brunel built the Thames Tunnel connecting Rotherhithe and Wapping.
- Max Bygraves, born in Rotherhithe.
- Michael Caine, born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite in Rotherhithe.
- Eliza Fay, author of Original Letters from India (1817), was born in Rotherhithe.
- Malcolm Hardee lived on a houseboat in Greenland Dock, Rotherhithe, and owned and ran the Wibbley Wobbley pub-boat on the same dock, and drowned there in 2005.
- Alfred Hitchcock filmed scenes for his first film as director, Number 13 (1922), in Rotherhithe before it was pulled from production.
- Myleene Klass lived in Rotherhithe in the early 2000s.
- Aaron Manby assembled and launched the world's first sea-going iron-hulled ship at Rotherhithe in 1822.
- Princess Margaret met her future husband, photographer Tony Armstrong-Jones, in a house in Rotherhithe.
- James Walker worked on the design and construction of Greenland Dock, where a memorial bust of him stands.
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