Notable Residents
Notable former or current residents include:
- Cyril Barton - posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross during World War II
- Ian Bazalgette - posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross during World War II
- Bernard Braden - TV personality, mainly of the 1960s
- Anthony Caro - sculptor, born here in 1924
- Vernon Corea - SriLankan TV pioneer
- Paul Geraghty - author/illustrator
- Barbara Kelly - TV personality
- David Kynaston -author, historian
- John Martyn - singer-songwriter
- Sally Morgan - Celebrity Psychic Medium
- Diana Rigg - actress
- Dave Swarbrick - fiddler of Fairport Convention
- Max Wall - actor, comedian and entertainer
- Jamie Woon - singer-songwriter
New Malden also has links to a third recipient of the Victoria Cross, Humphrey Osbaldston Brooke Firman VC, whose parents lived in Coombe at the time of his death. A plaque bearing his name was unveiled on the war memorial in the High Street during April 2008 and a road in a new housing development near the High Street has been named Firman Close.
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