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
- Theo Adams – Performance Artist
- Martin Bell – BBC war reporter, independent MP & British UNICEF Ambassador
- Sir Victor Blank – Finance (Lloyds TSB)
- Katie Boyle – TV presenter
- Tom Hiddleston – Actor
- Hugh Laurie – Actor & Musician.[1]
- Sir Brian Leveson – Lord Justice of Appeal (Press ethics inquiry)[2]
- Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan – TV presenters
- David Matthews – Composer
- Michael Ridpath – Author
- Claudia Roden – Cookbook writer & cultural Anthropologist
- Jonathan Ross – TV & Radio presenter.[1]
- Marc Sinden – Film Director, Actor & Theatre Producer
- Harry Styles – Pop singer with One Direction.[1]
- Gok Wan – Guru stylist & TV presenter
- Lord Winston – Professor, Surgeon, Scientist & TV presenter
Past
- Edgar Anstey – Documentary filmmaker and Oscar winner (lived at 6, Hurst Close)
- Saif al-Islam – Second son of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi
- 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
- Clive Dunn – Actor
- Noel Edmonds – Broadcaster (lived in Brookland Hill)
- Vanessa Feltz – Personality (lived in Winnington Road)
- Darrell Figgis – Irish writer, Sinn Féin activist and independent parliamentarian in the Irish Free State
- Michael Flanders – Actor, Singer and lyric-writer, one half of Flanders and Swann (lived at 1, Brunner Close)
- Mark Fleischmann - Actor
- Martin Furnival Jones – Director General of MI5 from 1965 until 1972 (lived at 53, Temple Fortune Hill)
- John Gale – Theatre producer and Artistic Director of Chichester Festival Theatre (lived at 57, Northway)
- 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)
- Barry Hugman - Sports Author/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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Will Self – Author and Journalist (lived at 33, Brim Hill)
- Dinah Sheridan – Actress
- 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)
- Jerry Springer – American television presenter (born & lived at Belvedere Court, Lyttelton Road).[1]
- Ringo Starr – Drummer for The Beatles and Actor (lived in Kenwood Close)
- Nigel Stock – Actor (lived at 21, Heathgate)
- Thomas S. Tait – Modernist Architect (lived at Gates House, Wyldes Close) Blue Plaque
- Dame Elizabeth Taylor – Actress (lived at 8, Wildwood Road)[1]
- 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)
- Fritz Wegner — Artist, illustrator.
- 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.[1]
- Sir Donald Wolfit – Actor (lived in Hampstead Way)
References
- ^ a b c d e f Gye, Hugo (October 15, 2015). "Noisy gardeners in posh Hampstead Garden Suburb will get football-style red cards for using leaf blowers and lawnmowers - and are urged to ditch modern machinery and return to 'old-fashioned manual tools'". The Daily Mail. Retrieved October 16, 2015.
- ^ Ward, Victoria (31 January 2013). "Lord Justice Leveson and Richard Madeley fight planning application for underground pool". The Daily Telegraph. London.
- ^ "Heather Mills flips her Bishops Avenue appt". Real Estate Talker. Retrieved 25 September 2009.
- ^ "Notable Residents and where they lived". Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust ISBN 978-0-9516742-9-1.
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