List of people who have lived in Hampstead Garden Suburb
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This is a list of notable people who have lived in Hampstead Garden Suburb.
Present[edit]
- Hugh Laurie – actor and musician.[citation needed]
- Sir Brian Leveson – Lord Justice of Appeal (Press ethics inquiry)[1]
- Claudia Roden - cookbook author [citation needed]
- Jonathan Ross – television and radio presenter.[citation needed]
- Harry Styles – pop singer previously with One Direction.[citation needed]
- Robert Winston – British professor, medical doctor, scientist, television presenter.[citation needed]
- Nicky Horne - British radio presenter.[citation needed]
Past[edit]
- Edgar Anstey – documentary filmmaker and Oscar winner (lived at 6, Hurst Close) [citation needed]
- Saif al-Islam Gaddafi – second son of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi[citation needed]
- Sir Ove Arup – architectural structural engineer and founder of the engineering firm Arup (lived at 28, Willifield Way) Blue Plaque[citation needed]
- Dame Henrietta Barnett – social reformer, founder of Toynbee Hall, Whitechapel Art Gallery and creator of Hampstead Garden Suburb (lived at 1, South Square) Blue Plaque[citation needed]
- Stanley Black – bandleader and composer (lived at 8, Linell Close)[citation needed]
- Warwick Braithwaite – opera conductor (lived at 23, Linden Lea)[citation needed]
- Angela Buxton – tennis player and winner of the 1956 women's doubles title at the French Championships and Wimbledon (lived in a flat above the shops in Market Place and later at 16, Winnington Road)[citation needed]
- John Chapman – playwright of several noted farces (lived at 48, Wildwood Road)[citation needed]
- Charlie Chester – comedian (lived at 94, Erskine Hill & 5, Vivian Way)[citation needed]
- Charles Clarke – Labour Party MP & Home Secretary (lived at 3, Meadway Close)[citation needed]
- Eric Coates – composer (lived at 7, Willifield Way) Blue Plaque[citation needed]
- Maurice Codner - British portrait painter (lived at 26, Temple Fortune Lane)[citation needed]
- Constantine – the last King of Greece[citation needed]
- Sir Robin Day – television and radio journalist and interviewer (lived at 84, Oakwood Road)[citation needed]
- George Devine – theatre manager, director and actor, founder of the Young Vic Theatre (lived at Lucas Square, 64, Hampstead Way)[citation needed]
- Robert Donat – actor (lived at 8, Meadway) Blue Plaque[citation needed]
- Clive Dunn – actor[citation needed]
- Noel Edmonds – broadcaster (lived in Brookland Hill)[citation needed]
- Vanessa Feltz – personality (lived in Winnington Road)[citation needed]
- Howard Ferguson - composer (lived at 106, Wildwood Road)[2]
- Darrell Figgis – Irish writer, Sinn Féin activist and independent parliamentarian in the Irish Free State[citation needed]
- Michael Flanders – actor, singer and lyricist, one half of Flanders and Swann (lived at 1, Brunner Close)[citation needed]
- Mark Fleischmann - actor[citation needed]
- Martin Furnival Jones – director general of MI5 from 1965 until 1972 (lived at 53, Temple Fortune Hill)[citation needed]
- John Gale – theatre producer and artistic director of Chichester Festival Theatre (lived at 57, Northway)[citation needed]
- Antony Gormley – sculptor (lived in Wildwood Road)[citation needed]
- Charles Hamilton - writer, who created Billy Bunter under the name of Frank Richards[citation needed]
- Tony Hancock – comedian and actor (lived at 10, Grey Close) Blue Plaque[citation needed]
- Dame Myra Hess – concert pianist (lived at 48, Wildwood Road) Blue Plaque[citation needed]
- Gerard Hoffnung – musician, humorist, caricaturist and broadcaster (lived at 5, Thornton Way)
- Archbishop Trevor Huddleston – anti-apartheid campaigner (lived at 53, Hampstead Way)[citation needed]
- Barry Hugman - sports author and statistician (lived in Denison Close)[citation needed]
- Bruce Kent – CND campaigner (lived at 73, Meadway)[citation needed]
- William Knightley-Smith - first class cricketer (lived in Ossulton Way)[citation needed]
- William Lewis – Daily Telegraph editor (lived in Northway)[citation needed]
- Cyril Luckham – actor (lived at 70, Hampstead Way)[citation needed]
- James Bolivar Manson - painter, director of the Tate Britain gallery, lived at 98 Hampstead Way[citation needed]
- Peter Mandelson – Labour Party MP and cabinet minister (lived at 12, Bigwood Road)[citation needed]
- David McCallum – actor (lived at 1, Erskine Hill)[citation needed]
- Millicent Martin - actress - and Ronnie Carroll - singer (lived in Ossulton Way)[citation needed]
- Lord Longford & Lady Elizabeth Pakenham & Lady Antonia Fraser – historian and biographer; campaigner; author (lived at 10, Linnell Drive)[citation needed]
- Heather Mills – charity campaigner and former model (lived in Allingham Court, The Bishops Avenue)[3]
- Cecil Parker – actor (lived at 17, Litchfield Way)
- Frank Pick – transport administrator (lived at 15, Wildwood Road)[citation needed]
- Sir Ralph Richardson – actor (lived at Bedegars Lee, Kenwood Close) Blue Plaque[citation needed]
- Paul Robeson – American actor and singer (lived in Wildwood Road)[citation needed]
- Paul Scott – novelist, playwright and poet (lived at 61, Brookland Rise & 78, Addison Way)[citation needed]
- Vikram Seth – poet and novelist (lived at 133, Willifield Way) with his mother Leila Seth, the first female Chief Justice in India[citation needed]
- Will Self – author and journalist (lived at 33, Brim Hill)[citation needed]
- Dinah Sheridan – actress[citation needed][citation needed]
- Emanuel Shinwell – Labour Party MP & Secretary of State for War (lived at 33, Erskine Hill)[citation needed]
- Alastair Sim – actor (lived at 13, Wildwood Road)[citation needed]
- Sir Donald Sinden – actor (lived at 60, Temple Fortune Lane) Blue Plaque[citation needed]
- Lord Soper – Methodist minister, socialist, pacifist and President of the League Against Cruel Sports (lived at 6, Willifield Way & 17, Bigwood Road)[citation needed]
- Jerry Springer – American television presenter (born & lived at Belvedere Court, Lyttelton Road).[citation needed][citation needed]
- Ringo Starr – drummer for The Beatles and actor (lived in Kenwood Close)[citation needed]
- Nigel Stock – actor (lived at 21, Heathgate)[citation needed]
- Thomas S. Tait – Modernist architect (lived at Gates House, Wyldes Close) Blue Plaque[citation needed]
- Dame Elizabeth Taylor – actress (lived at 8, Wildwood Road) Blue Plaque[4]
- Dimitri Tiomkin – film-score composer and four-time Oscar winner (lived in Hampstead Lane)[citation needed]
- Sir Raymond Unwin – engineer, architect and town planner, chief planner of Hampstead Garden Suburb (lived at Wyldes, Hampstead Way) Blue Plaque[citation needed]
- Anton Walbrook – actor (lived at 36, Holne Chase)[citation needed]
- Sir Hugh Walpole – author (lived in Turner Drive and at 19, Thornton Way)[citation needed]
- Gwen Watford & Richard Bebb – actress; actor & noted collector of early sound recordings (lived at 22, Temple Fortune Lane)[citation needed]
- Evelyn Waugh – author (lived at 145, North End Road)[citation needed]
- Fritz Wegner — artist, illustrator[citation needed]
- Rachel Weisz – actress (lived at 6, Linnell Close)[citation needed]
- Rebecca West – author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer (lived at 5, Chatham Close)[citation needed]
- Harold Wilson – Labour Party MP & twice prime minister (lived at 10 & 12, Southway) Blue Plaque.[citation needed]
- Sir Donald Wolfit – actor (lived in Hampstead Way)
[5] Freddie Highmore- actor, writer, and producer
References[edit]
- ^ Ward, Victoria (31 January 2013). "Lord Justice Leveson and Richard Madeley fight planning application for underground pool". The Daily Telegraph. London.
- ^ Ferguson, Howard; Hurd, Michael, eds. (2001-07-15). Letters of Gerald Finzi and Howard Ferguson. Boydell and Brewer Limited. ISBN 978-1-84615-104-0.
- ^ "Heather Mills flips her Bishops Avenue appt". Real Estate Talker. 2009-09-15. Retrieved 25 September 2009.
- ^ "Plaque: Elizabeth Taylor". Archived from the original on 26 November 2020. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
- ^ Eva Jacobs (1 April 2013). Notable Residents and where they lived. Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust. ISBN 978-0951674291.