Hampstead Garden Suburb Virtual Museum : Individual : A list of well known past Suburb personalities

A list of well known past Suburb personalities

Edgar Anstey – Documentary filmmaker and Oscar winner (lived at 6, Hurst Close)
Sir Ove Arup – Architectural structural engineer and founder of the engineering firm Arup (lived at 28, Willifield Way) Blue Plaque
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
Stanley Black – Bandleader and Composer (lived at 8, Linell Close)
Warwick Braithwaite – Opera Conductor (lived at 23, Linden Lea)
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)
John Chapman – Playwright of several noted farces (lived at 48, Wildwood Road)
Charlie Chester – Comedian (lived at 94, Erskine Hill & 5, Vivian Way)
Charles Clarke – Labour Party MP & Home Secretary (lived at 3, Meadway Close)
Eric Coates – Composer (lived at 7, Willifield Way) Blue Plaque
Constantine – the last King of Greece
Sir Robin Day – Television & Radio journalist and interviewer (lived at 84, Oakwood Road)
George Devine – Theatre Manager, Director and Actor, founder of the Young Vic Theatre (lived at Lucas Square, 64, Hampstead Way)
Robert Donat – Actor (lived at 8, Meadway) Blue Plaque
Noel Edmonds – Broadcaster (lived in Brookland Hill)
Vanessa Feltz – Personality (lived in Winnington Road)
Michael Flanders – Actor, Singer and lyric-writer, one half of Flanders and Swann (lived at 1, Brunner Close)
Hermione Granger Muggle born witch. Seen walking from her home in Heathgate towards St. Jude’s church in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Martin Furnival Jones – Director General of MI5 from 1965 until 1972 (lived at 53, Temple Fortune Hill)
Antony Gormley – Sculptor (lived in Wildwood Road)
Tony Hancock – Comedian and Actor (lived at 10, Grey Close) Blue Plaque
Dame Myra Hess – Concert Pianist (lived at 48, Wildwood Road) Blue Plaque
Gerard Hoffnung – Musician, Humorist, Caricaturist and Broadcaster (lived at 5, Thornton Way)
Archbishop Trevor Huddleston – Anti-apartheid campaigner (lived at 53, Hampstead Way)
Cyril Luckham – Actor (lived at 70, Hampstead Way)
Peter Mandelson – Labour Party MP & Cabinet Minister (lived at 12, Bigwood Road)
David McCallum – Actor (lived at 1, Erskine Hill)
Millicent Martin - Actress - and Ronnie Carroll - Singer (lived in Ossulton Way)
Lord Longford & Lady Elizabeth Pakenham & Lady Antonia Fraser – Historian & Biographer; Campaigner; Author (lived at 10, Linnell Drive)
Cecil Parker – Actor (lived at 17, Litchfield Way)
Sir Ralph Richardson – Actor (lived at Bedegars Lee, Kenwood Close) Blue Plaque
Paul Robeson – American Actor and Singer (lived in Wildwood Road)
Paul Scott – Novelist, Playwright and Poet (lived at 61, Brookland Rise & 78, Addison Way)
Vikram Seth – Poet and Novelist (lived at 133, Willifield Way)
Emanuel Shinwell – Labour Party MP & Secretary of State for War (lived at 33, Erskine Hill)
Alastair Sim – Actor (lived at 13, Wildwood Road)
Sir Donald Sinden – Actor (lived at 60, Temple Fortune Lane) Blue Plaque
Lord Soper – Methodist minister, socialist, pacifist and President of the League Against Cruel Sports (lived at 6, Willifield Way & 17, Bigwood Road)
Ringo Starr – Drummer for The Beatles and Actor (lived in Kenwood Close)
Nigel Stock – Actor (lived at 21, Heathgate)
Harry Styles – Pop singer with One Direction (lived in Winnington Road)
Thomas S. Tait – Modernist Architect (lived at Gates House, Wyldes Close) Blue Plaque
Dame Elizabeth Taylor – Actress (lived at 8, Wildwood Road)
Dimitri Tiomkin – Film-score Composer and four-time Oscar winner (lived in Hampstead Lane)
Sir Raymond Unwin – Engineer, Architect and Town Planner, chief planner of Hampstead Garden Suburb (lived at Wyldes, Hampstead Way) Blue Plaque
Anton Walbrook – Actor (lived at 36, Holne Chase)
Sir Hugh Walpole Author (lived in Turner Drive and at 19, Thornton Way)
Gwen Watford & Richard Bebb – Actress; Actor & noted collector of early sound recordings (lived at 22, Temple Fortune Lane)
Evelyn Waugh – Author (lived at 145, North End Road).
Rachel Weisz – Actress (lived at 6, Linnell Close)
Rebecca West – Author, Journalist, Literary critic and Travel writer (lived at 5, Chatham Close)
Harold Wilson – Labour Party MP & twice Prime Minister (lived at 10 & 12, Southway) Blue Plaque.
Sir Donald Wolfit – Actor (lived in Hampstead Way)
Sir Brian Leveson – Lord Justice of Appeal (Press ethics inquiry)
Claudia Roden - cookbook author
Jonathan Ross – television and radio presenter.
Robert Winston – British professor, medical doctor, scientist, television presenter.
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi – second son of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi
Maurice Codner - British portrait painter (lived at 26, Temple Fortune Lane)
Clive Dunn – actor
Darrell Figgis – Irish writer, Sinn Féin activist and independent parliamentarian in the Irish Free State
Mark Fleischmann - actor
John Gale – theatre producer and artistic director of Chichester Festival Theatre (lived at 57, Northway)
Barry Hugman - sports author and statistician (lived in Denison Close)
Bruce Kent – CND campaigner (lived at 73, Meadway)
William Knightley-Smith - first class cricketer (lived in Ossulton Way)
William Lewis – Daily Telegraph editor (lived in Northway)
James Bolivar Manson - painter, director of the Tate Britain gallery, lived at 98 Hampstead Way
Heather Mills – charity campaigner and former model (lived in Allingham Court, The Bishops Avenue)
Frank Pick – transport administrator (lived at 15, Wildwood Road)
Will Self – author and journalist (lived at 33, Brim Hill)
Dinah Sheridan – actress
Jerry Springer – American television presenter (born & lived at Belvedere Court, Lyttelton Road).
Fritz Wegner — artist, illustrator
Freddie Highmore — actor, writer, and producer
Hugh Laurie – actor and musician.

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A list of well known past Suburb personalities