Notable Residents
- Gary Borrowdale, footballer
- James Heath, professional golfer.
- Jimmy Hill, footballer for Fulham Football Club and BBC TV Football commentator.
- William Holman Hunt, 1827–1910, Pre-Raphaelite artist, painted The Light of the World at Worcester Park Farm, while staying there in the early 1850s with John Everett Millais.
- John Major - Conservative Party leader and prime minister from 1990 to 1997, was born at Worcester Park in 1943 but spent most of his early life in Brixton.
- Roger Mayer (engineer) - sound engineer, most notable for his development of the fuzz box.
- Daley Thompson, British decathlete, lived near "The Plough" public house.
- HG Wells, author, lived in The Avenue.
- Kenneth Wolstenholme, the BBC's original TV football commentator.
- Jack Reeve, Most consecutive pogo stick jumps (257,067) Guinness world record holder.
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