Famous Residents
- Joan Armatrading - singer & musician, lived here in her early days
- Camila Batmanghelidjh - British businesswoman, charity leader and author
- Sacha Bennett - filmmaker
- Jim Carter - actor. Married to Imelda Staunton
- Marina Fiorato - author
- Angela Griffin - actress and television presenter
- Chaka Khan - Grammy Award Winning Singer
- Doris Lessing - author
- Matt Lucas - comedian and actor
- Slash - guitarist for Velvet Revolver and former guitarist for Guns N' Roses
- Dusty Springfield, pop singer, was born here
- Imelda Staunton - theatre and film actress
- Emma Thompson - actress, comedian, and screenwriter. Two-time Academy Award-winner
- Sophie Thompson - actress
- Johnny Vegas - actor, comedian
- Gerry Anderson - publisher, producer, director and writer, famous for his futuristic television programmes (Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet)
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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or residents:
“Hunger makes you restless. You dream about food—not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe-inspiring, the one piece of meat, the exact taste of buttery corn, tomatoes so ripe they split and sweeten the air, beans so crisp they snap between the teeth, gravy like mother’s milk singing to your bloodstream.”
—Dorothy Allison (b. 1953)
“In most nineteenth-century cities, both large and small, more than 50 percent—and often up to 75 percent—of the residents in any given year were no longer there ten years later. People born in the twentieth century are much more likely to live near their birthplace than were people born in the nineteenth century.”
—Stephanie Coontz (20th century)