Notable Residents
- Susan Mary Auld - naval architect
- Thomas Bewick - engraver, spent many holidays at Bank Top and wrote most of his memoirs there in 1822
- Septimus Brutton - played a single first-class cricket match for Hampshire in 1904
- Harriet Martineau - novelist and journalist, lived at 57 Front Street 1840-45, now The Martineau Guest House named in her honour. She wrote three books here and some hundred pages of her autobiography are devoted to the Tynemouth period. Her eminent visitors included Richard Cobden and Thomas Carlyle. Carlyle (a Scotsman) considered that Tynemouth residents were Scottish in their features, character and dialect.
- Giuseppe Garibaldi - sailed into to the mouth of the River Tyne in 1854 and briefly stayed in Huntingdon Place. The house is marked by a commemorative plaque
- Andy Taylor - former lead guitarist for the New Wave group Duran Duran, was born and raised in Tynemouth, the son of a fisherman who raised him as a single parent after Taylor's mother abandoned the family.
- Henry Treece - Poet and editor, spent 1935-38 teaching at Tynemouth School for Boys. He certainly wrote one story set locally, The Black Longship in his collection The Invaders
- Ridley Scott - film director, was a pupil at The King's School
Toby Flood - England rugby player, was a pupil at kings school
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