Notable People
- Charles Darwin, naturalist
- Charles Hayes (1678–1760) mathematician
- Sir John Lubbock, 3rd Baronet, banker, barrister, mathematician and astronomer
- John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, banker, biologist, archaeologist and Liberal politician
- Olive Willis (1877–1964), founder of Downe House School
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