Famous Residents
- Joan Armatrading - singer & musician, lived here in her early days
- Camila Batmanghelidjh - British businesswoman, charity leader and author
- Sacha Bennett - filmmaker
- Jim Carter - actor. Married to Imelda Staunton
- Marina Fiorato - author
- Angela Griffin - actress and television presenter
- Chaka Khan - Grammy Award Winning Singer
- Doris Lessing - author
- Matt Lucas - comedian and actor
- Slash - guitarist for Velvet Revolver and former guitarist for Guns N' Roses
- Dusty Springfield, pop singer, was born here
- Imelda Staunton - theatre and film actress
- Emma Thompson - actress, comedian, and screenwriter. Two-time Academy Award-winner
- Sophie Thompson - actress
- Johnny Vegas - actor, comedian
- Gerry Anderson - publisher, producer, director and writer, famous for his futuristic television programmes (Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet)
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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or residents:
“My neighbors tell me of their adventures with famous gentlemen and ladies, what notabilities they met at the dinner-table; but I am no more interested in such things than in the contents of the Daily Times. The interest and the conversation are about costume and manners chiefly; but a goose is a goose still, dress it as you will.”
—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)