Notable Residents
- Khalid Abdalla - actor, The Kite Runner and United 93
- Bob Astles - former associate of Ugandan presidents Milton Obote and Idi Amin
- Ben Barnes - actor, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
- Joseph Bazalgette - civil engineer; his creation in the mid 19th century of the sewer network for central London eliminated the incidence of cholera epidemics
- Raymond Briggs - cartoonist
- James Brunlees - engineer, lived at Argyle Lodge, Parkside
- Josephine Butler - feminist campaigner of the Victorian era, Blue Plaque at 8 North View, Wimbledon Common
- George Edward Cates - World War I Victoria Cross recipient
- Duke & Duchess of Cannizaro
- Ernst Boris Chain - joint winner of the 1945 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of penicillin. Blue Plaque at 9 North View, Wimbledon Common
- Mavis Cheek - novelist born and brought up in Wimbledon.
- Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough - close friend of Queen Anne
- Norman Coburn - actor played Donald Fisher in Australian soap opera Home and Away
- Vernon Corea - radio broadcaster
- Annette Crosbie - actress, screen wife of One Foot in the Grave's Victor Meldrew.
- Steve Curtis - Eight-times World Offshore powerboat racing champion
- Sean Davis footballer, plays for Bolton Wanderers, previously with Fulham, Tottenham Hotspur & Portsmouth
- Clint Dempsey - footballer, plays at Fulham
- Sandy Denny - singer, born at the Nelson Hospital
- Lawrence Doherty - winner of thirteen Wimbledon tennis championships and two Olympic gold medals
- Reginald Doherty - winner of twelve Wimbledon tennis championships and three Olympic gold medals
- Hugh Dowding - commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain in 1940, Blue Plaque at 3 St Mary's Road
- Henry Dundas, Viscount Melville - Home Secretary and Secretary of State for War to William Pitt the Younger, resident of Cannizaro House
- Mark Edgley Smith - composer
- Flora Gare - sculptor
- John William Godward - painter
- Charles Patrick Graves - journalist
- Robert Graves - poet
- Victoria Hamilton - actress
- George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen - prime minister 1852-55; resident of Cannizaro House
- Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia - guest at a house in Parkside while in exile from Ethiopia owing to the Italian invasion; his statue stands in Cannizaro Park
- Mikel John Obi - Chelsea FC defensive midfielder
- Georgette Heyer - novelist, was born and grew up in Wimbledon. She wrote her first five novels there. A later novel, 'Pastel', is set in a suburb very like Wimbledon.
- Leslie Hore-Belisha, 1st Baron Hore-Belisha - while Minister of Transport, 1934-7, he introduced the driving test and the Belisha Beacon; then Secretary of State for War, 1937–40
- John Horne Tooke - politician, lived at Chester House on Wimbledon Common
- Thomas Hughes - author of Tom Brown's Schooldays which was written in Wimbledon
- James Hunt - 1976 Formula 1 World Champion
- Vinnie Jones - former footballer and film actor
- Lorelei King - actress
- Hetty King famous Music Hall artiste and male impersonator. A blue commemorative plaque was erected on her home in Palmerston Road, Wimbledon by The Music Hall Guild of Great Britain and America in November 2010.
- Don Lang - Britain's answer to Bill Haley; with his band, a mainstay of Britain's first television rock and roll programme Six-Five Special
- Glen Little - footballer
- Frederick Marryat - author, lived at Wimbledon House
- Gillian Murphy - dancer, American Ballet Theatre
- Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer - scientist and astronomer; joint discoverer of helium
- John Lyde-Brown director of the Bank of England; resident of Cannizaro House; his collection of classical sculpture was acquired by Catherine II of Russia in 1787 and is held by the Hermitage Museum
- Tony McGuinness - musician, Above and Beyond
- Will Mellor - actor
- Thomas Ralph Merton - physicist
- Marcus Mumford - musician, Mumford & Sons
- Lord Horatio Nelson - Admiral; Nelson's estate, Merton Place, included part of Wimbledon at the eastern end of the Broadway, though, strictly he was a resident of Merton the neighbouring parish
- Michelle Paver - author, Chronicles of Ancient Darkness
- Alan Pardew - football manager
- Charles Pepys, 1st Earl of Cottenham - Lord Chancellor
- Augustus Porter - socialite
- Steve Punt - comedian
- Oliver Reed - actor
- Laura Robson - Junior Wimbledon tennis champion
- Margaret Rutherford - actress. Blue Plaque at 4 Berkeley Place
- Arthur Schopenhauer - philosopher, Blue Plaque at Eagle House where he lived in 1803
- Jay Sean - R&B singer
- Brian Sewell - art critic and media personality
- Jack Stanley - actor
- Jamie T - singer/songwriter and musician
- Joseph Toynbee - surgeon, Blue Plaque at 49 Wimbledon Parkside
- Arnold Toynbee - economic historian, Blue Plaque at 49 Wimbledon Parkside
- Steve-O - Jackass performer
- Ralph Tubbs - architect; his buildings include the Dome of Discovery and Charing Cross Hospital
- Terri Walker - R&B and soul singer
- Slick Rick (Richard Walters) - hip-hop musician, born in Wimbledon and moved to The Bronx, New York
- Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham - twice Prime Minister
- William Wilberforce - 19th century anti-slavery campaigner
- Young MC (Marvin Young) - hip-hop musician, born in Wimbledon and moved to Queens, New York
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