Notable Natives or Residents
In addition to the prominent figures detailed in the article:
- Born in Whitechapel
- Damon Albarn – pop musician, lead singer of Blur and co-creator of virtual cartoon rock band Gorillaz, born 1968
- Abraham Beame, first Jewish mayor of New York City, 1906–2001
- Jack Kid Berg, boxer, "The Whitechapel Windmill", British Lightweight Champion 1934
- Stanley Black, bandleader, 1913–2002.
- Simon Blumenfeld, novelist, playwright and columnist, 1907–2005.
- Georgia Brown (born Lillian Klot), actress and singer, 1933–1992.
- Tina Charles, 1970s disco artist, born 1954
- Peter Cheyney, mystery writer and journalist, 1896–1951
- Jack Cohen, Anglo-Jewish businessman who founded the Tesco supermarket chain, 1898–1979
- Ashley Cole, Chelsea and England footballer 1980
- Jack "Spot" Comer, Jewish gangster and anti-Fascist, 1912–1996
- Roger Delgado, actor (known for playing "The Master" in Doctor Who), 1918–1973
- Lloyd Doyley, footballer
- Bud Flanagan, (born Chaim Reuven Weintrop), music hall comedian on stage, radio, film and television, 1896–1968
- Kemal Izzet, footballer
- Muzzy Izzet, footballer
- Charlie Lee, Peterborough United footballer
- Emanuel Litvinoff, Anglo-Jewish author of Journey Through a Small Planet
- Margaret Pepys (née Kite), mother of diarist Samuel Pepys, d. 1667
- Abe Saperstein, founder of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team
- Sarah Taylor, Cricketer
- Alan Tilvern, film and television actor, 1918–2003
- Anwar Uddin, captain of Dagenham and Redbridge
- Dan Ellis, 5x UK Windsurfing Champion, IFCA World Champion 2007. born 1978 on Parfett St
- Ezekiel Baker, Inventor of the Baker Rifle, used during the Napoleonic Wars. Born in Whitechapel
- Resident in or otherwise associated with Whitechapel
- Richard Brandon (? – 20 June 1649), the reputed executioner of King Charles I was buried at the Whitechapel parish church of St Mary Matfelon. The church register records that he lived in Rosemary Lane (modern Royal Mint Street).
- Jack the Ripper, serial killer.
- Charles Lahr, anarchist bookseller/publisher, secretary of Whitechapel branch of the Industrial Union of Direct Actionists (IUDA), 1885–1971.
- Jack London, who wrote The People of the Abyss while staying in Whitechapel.
- Richard Parker, Royal Navy mutineer buried in St Mary Matfelon.
- Rudolf Rocker, anarcho-syndicalist writer, historian and prominent activist, active in Whitechapel 1895–1918, 1873–1958
- Obadiah Shuttleworth, composer, violinist and organist of the parish church, d. 1734.
- Avrom Stencl, Yiddish poet, early companion of Franz Kafka, published Loshn and Lebn in Whitechapel, 1897–1983.
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Famous quotes containing the words notable, natives and/or residents:
“In one notable instance, where the United States Army and a hundred years of persuasion failed, a highway has succeeded. The Seminole Indians surrendered to the Tamiami Trail. From the Everglades the remnants of this race emerged, soon after the trail was built, to set up their palm-thatched villages along the road and to hoist tribal flags as a lure to passing motorists.”
—For the State of Florida, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Here was a little of everything in a small compass to satisfy the wants and the ambition of the woods,... but there seemed to me, as usual, a preponderance of children’s toys,—dogs to bark, and cats to mew, and trumpets to blow, where natives there hardly are yet. As if a child born into the Maine woods, among the pine cones and cedar berries, could not do without such a sugar-man or skipping-jack as the young Rothschild has.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Most of the folktales dealing with the Indians are lurid and romantic. The story of the Indian lovers who were refused permission to wed and committed suicide is common to many places. Local residents point out cliffs where Indian maidens leaped to their death until it would seem that the first duty of all Indian girls was to jump off cliffs.”
—For the State of Iowa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)