Notable Natives or Residents
In addition to the prominent figures detailed in the article:
- Born in Whitechapel
- Damon Albarn – pop musician, lead singer of Blur and co-creator of virtual cartoon rock band Gorillaz, born 1968
- Abraham Beame, first Jewish mayor of New York City, 1906–2001
- Jack Kid Berg, boxer, "The Whitechapel Windmill", British Lightweight Champion 1934
- Stanley Black, bandleader, 1913–2002.
- Simon Blumenfeld, novelist, playwright and columnist, 1907–2005.
- Georgia Brown (born Lillian Klot), actress and singer, 1933–1992.
- Tina Charles, 1970s disco artist, born 1954
- Peter Cheyney, mystery writer and journalist, 1896–1951
- Jack Cohen, Anglo-Jewish businessman who founded the Tesco supermarket chain, 1898–1979
- Ashley Cole, Chelsea and England footballer 1980
- Jack "Spot" Comer, Jewish gangster and anti-Fascist, 1912–1996
- Roger Delgado, actor (known for playing "The Master" in Doctor Who), 1918–1973
- Lloyd Doyley, footballer
- Bud Flanagan, (born Chaim Reuven Weintrop), music hall comedian on stage, radio, film and television, 1896–1968
- Kemal Izzet, footballer
- Muzzy Izzet, footballer
- Charlie Lee, Peterborough United footballer
- Emanuel Litvinoff, Anglo-Jewish author of Journey Through a Small Planet
- Margaret Pepys (née Kite), mother of diarist Samuel Pepys, d. 1667
- Abe Saperstein, founder of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team
- Sarah Taylor, Cricketer
- Alan Tilvern, film and television actor, 1918–2003
- Anwar Uddin, captain of Dagenham and Redbridge
- Dan Ellis, 5x UK Windsurfing Champion, IFCA World Champion 2007. born 1978 on Parfett St
- Ezekiel Baker, Inventor of the Baker Rifle, used during the Napoleonic Wars. Born in Whitechapel
- Resident in or otherwise associated with Whitechapel
- Richard Brandon (? – 20 June 1649), the reputed executioner of King Charles I was buried at the Whitechapel parish church of St Mary Matfelon. The church register records that he lived in Rosemary Lane (modern Royal Mint Street).
- Jack the Ripper, serial killer.
- Charles Lahr, anarchist bookseller/publisher, secretary of Whitechapel branch of the Industrial Union of Direct Actionists (IUDA), 1885–1971.
- Jack London, who wrote The People of the Abyss while staying in Whitechapel.
- Richard Parker, Royal Navy mutineer buried in St Mary Matfelon.
- Rudolf Rocker, anarcho-syndicalist writer, historian and prominent activist, active in Whitechapel 1895–1918, 1873–1958
- Obadiah Shuttleworth, composer, violinist and organist of the parish church, d. 1734.
- Avrom Stencl, Yiddish poet, early companion of Franz Kafka, published Loshn and Lebn in Whitechapel, 1897–1983.
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Famous quotes containing the words notable, natives and/or residents:
“Every notable advance in technique or organization has to be paid for, and in most cases the debit is more or less equivalent to the credit. Except of course when it’s more than equivalent, as it has been with universal education, for example, or wireless, or these damned aeroplanes. In which case, of course, your progress is a step backwards and downwards.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“As I walked on the railroad causeway, I used to wonder at the halo of light around my shadow, and would fain fancy myself one of the elect. One who visited me declared that the shadows of some Irishmen before him had no halo about them, that it was only natives that were so distinguished.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“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)