Notable People Connected With The Church
- Paul Bayning, 1st Viscount Bayning, was baptized here in 1588
- Peter Monamy (1681–1749), painter
- Henry Gauntlett, organist at St Olave's, 1827 to 1846
- Ralph Venning (c. 1621–1674), lecturer
- William Cooper (1650s and 1660s), Puritan minister
- Thomas Bennet (1673–1728), lecturer
- Sarah Coysh (c. 1742–1801), heiress
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