Hanwell - Notable Hanwell Residents Past and Present

Notable Hanwell Residents Past and Present

• Anna Brownell Jameson writer and feminist.
• Al Bowlly, singer, is buried with other WW2 bombing victims in a mass grave in the City of Westminster Cemetery, Uxbridge Road, Hanwell.
• Brian Whelan, painter, author and film maker lived in two locations in Hanwell while growing up.

• Charlie Chaplin, actor, was boarded at and attended the Central London District School (Cuckoo Schools), Hanwell, from June 1896 until January 1898.
• Daniel Hack Tuke: Distinguished mental doctor and related to the line of Tuke's which founded the York Retreat.
• Deep Purple rock band, rehearsed for their 1970 album In Rock in the Hanwell Community Centre. Promotional photographs for the album were taken in the grounds.
• Derwent Coleridge distinguished scholar, author was rector at Hanwell.
• Edward Augustus Bond (1815–1898) was born in Hanwell. He was a librarian and palaeographer who co-founded the Palaeographical Society.
• John Conolly, superintendent at the Hanwell Asylum 1839-1844. He then ran a private asylum at Lawn House, Hanwell.
• Freddie Frinton, comedian, is buried in Westminster Cemetery.
• Fred Secombe (born 1918), one-time vicar of St. Marys church, Hanwell. Born in Swansea, he is the elder brother of the late Sir Harry Secombe. Since retiring he has become an author of seven books, in a style which has had him referred to as 'the ecclesiastical James Herriott.'
• Jay Kay of pop band Jamiroquai is also a former resident. He attended Drayton Manor School.
• Jimi Hendrix owned a house in Hanwell, but never lived in it.
• Jim Marshall had a small shop in Hanwell where he started manufacturing and selling his world-famous amplifiers. In an interview for Musicians Hotline, Jim Marshall said "So many players came to my Hanwell shop, it was almost like a rock and roll labor exchange because a lot of groups were formed there".
• Jonas Hanway, writer, philanthropist and the first man to carry an umbrella in London is buried in the crypt of St Mary's Church.
• Henry Corby, businessman and politician, born in 1806 at Hanwell, died 25 October 1881 at Belleville, Ontario, Canada.
• Henry Maudsley (1835–1918) was a pioneering English psychiatrist. From 1866-1874 he ran John Conolly's private asylum at Lawn House, Hanwell.
• Henry Scott TukeRA: son of Daniel, he became a famous painter. They both lived at Golden Manor.
• Peter Crouch, footballer, is a former pupil of Drayton Manor High School.
• Steve McQueen, artist and film director, is a former pupil of Drayton Manor High School.
• Sally Rose, Engineer
• Philip Jackson, actor.
• Philip "Swill" Odgers, vocalist and acoustic guitarist with British folk punk group The Men They Couldn't Hang (TMTCH) is a long time Hanwell resident.
• Rick Wakeman, keyboardist for the band, Yes. Although Wakeman never lived in Hanwell, he attended Drayton Manor Grammar School, on Drayton Bridge Road, leaving in 1966.
• Sir Montagu Sharpe: Lived at Brent Lodge. An historian and one time president of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society. On local history he wrote the books: Bygone Hanwell; The Great Ford of the lower Thames; Middlesex in Roman and Saxon Times and Middlesex in the Domesday Book.
• Steve Benbow (29 November 1931 – 17 November 2006) was a British folk guitar player, singer and music director.
• The Magic Numbers, indie-pop band.

• The Who rock band rehearsed in Hanwell Community Centre prior to their 1969 US Tour.
• William Frederick Yeames RA: Famous for having painted And When Did You Last See Your Father?, the artist lived at 8, Campbell Road, where there is a blue plaque to commemorate the fact. He was also a one-time churchwarden of St Mary's church.
• Ulmus × viminalis, a variety of elm tree, was first described from a specimen growing in Hanwell (in 1677).