Notable People
- Edward Burne-Jones, architect, resided at the Grange, North End Crescent, West Kensington.
- William Crathern, composer, was organist of St Mary's, West Kensington (at that time known as "North End").
- Gustav Holst, composer, music director at St Paul's Girls School, an independent school on the south side of Brook Green, 1905–1934; for his pupils he wrote the St Paul's and Brook Green suites, the latter being his last composition in 1933; the girls from St.Paul's formed the choir in the first public performance of Neptune from the Planets Suite.
- Peg Entwistle, Broadway actress whose 1932 suicide from atop the Hollywood Sign forever tagged her as "The Hollywood Sign Girl", had her earliest childhood at 53 Comeragh Road.
- Estelle, rapper, was born and raised in West Kensington; her song "1980" was written about growing up in the area.
- Tom Felton, actor, was born there
- Marcus Garvey, Pan Africanist, founder of the Black Star Line shipping company and the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, lived and died in West Kensington.
- Mahatma Gandhi, lived on 20 Barons Court Road (West Kensington) while studying law.
- Henry Rider Haggard, author, lived for several years in Gunterstone Road and wrote King Solomon's Mines and She while there.
- Stephen Hester, chief executive, Royal Bank of Scotland
- James Hunt, Formula 1 champion, lived in Normand Mews, 1980-82.
- Konnie Huq, TV presenter, owns property in the area.
- James MacLaren, architect, designed 22 and 22A Avonmore Road for sculptor HR Pinkes.
- Freddie Mercury, pop singer, and Mary Austin lived at 100 Holland Road, W14.
- Sir Stirling Moss, Formula 1 champion, was born in West Kensington
- David Reuben, businessman, has lived at the same West Kensington house for the past 20 years.
- Queen (band) shared a flat at 36 Sinclair Road
- William Butler Yeats lived in Edith Villas with his family in 1867.
- Michael Winner
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