List of people from Beckenham

Beckenham is a town in the London Borough of Bromley, England. The following is a list of those people who were either born or live in Beckenham, or had some important contribution to make to the town.

A

• Raymond Adamson (1920–2002), television actor
• Rory Allen (born 1977), football player
• Julie Andrews (born 1935), actress, singer, author
• Claude Ashton (1901–1942), football player, cricketer, hockey player
• Gerald Aste (1900–1961), cricketer

B

• A.L. Barker (1918–2002), novelist, short story writer
• Django Bates (born 1960), composer; multi-instrumentalist, band leader
• Hugh Bean (1929–2003), violinist
• Floella Benjamin (born 1949), actress, singer and TV presenter
• John Bennett (1928–2005), actor
• Enid Blyton (1897–1968), children’s writer
• Frank Bourne (1984–1945), Anglo-Zulu War veteran
• David Bowie (1947–2016), musician, actor, producer, arranger
• Zowie Bowie (born 1971), film director (and son of David Bowie)
• Betty Box (1915–1999), film producer and screenwriter
• Sydney Box (1907–1983), film producer and screenwriter
• Tony Bradman (born 1954), children’s author
• Peircy Brett (1709–1781), admiral in Royal Navy; politician
• Bob Broadbent (1924–1993), cricketer
• Ali Brown (born 1970), cricketer
• Godfrey Bryan (1902–1991), cricketer
• Ronald Bryan (1898–1970), cricketer
• Stuart Bunce (born 1971), actor
• Arthur Gardiner Butler (1844–1925), entomologist

C

• Pat Coombs (1926–2002), actress
• James Cossins (1933–1997), actor

D

• Richard Daintree (1831–1878), geologist and photographer
• T. Pelham Dale (1821–1892), Anglo-Catholic ritualist clergyman
• Samuel Daukes (1811–1880), architect
• Maurice Denham (1909–2002), actor

E

• George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland (1784–1849), politician and colonial administrator
• William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland (1745–1814), politician and diplomat
• Carl Erhardt (1897–1988), ice hockey player

F

• Liam Fontaine (born 1986), football player
• Philip Fotheringham-Parker (1907–1981), racing driver
• Peter Frampton (born 1950), singer-songwriter and musician

H

• Haircut 100, New wave/Jazz-funk band formed in 1980 by Nick Heyward
• John Pennington Harman (1914–1944), recipient of the Victoria Cross
• David Haye, boxer
• Alec Hearne (1863–1952), cricketer
• Nick Heyward (born 1961), singer, guitarist
• Leigh Hinds (born 1978), football player
• C. Walter Hodges (1909–2004), illustrator and author
• Elizabeth Hope (1842–1922), evangelist; temperance movement
• Charles Howard (1904–1982), cricketer
• Olly Howick (born 1987), cricketer, Andrew Flintoff's clone

J

• Steve Jansen (born 1959), musician
• Graham Johnson (born 1946), cricketer

K

• Robert Key (born 1979), cricketer
• Daniel J. King (born 1963), chess player; writer and journalist
• John Kingman (born 1939), mathematician

L

• Kate Lawler (born 1980), TV presenter, disc jockey, winner of Big Brother UK
• Alfred Layman (1858–1940), cricketer
• Mark Lovell (born 1983), football player

M

• Andrew Manze (born 1965), baroque violinist and conductor
• Piers Merchant (1951–2009), politician
• Bob Monkhouse (1928–2003), entertainer

O

• John Orchard (1928–1995), film actor (M*A*S*H)
• Jonathan Orders (born 1957), cricketer

P

• Tom Pettit (1859–1956) real tennis player
• Arthur Beresford Pite (1861–1934), architect
• Mary Potter (1900–1981), painter
• James Pigott Pritchett (1789–1868), architect
• Frank Pullen (1915–1992), businessman and builder

R

• Cornthwaite Rason (1858–1927), Premier of Western Australia
• Dorothy Richardson (1873–1957), novelist
• Christopher Ricks (born 1933), literary critic
• Ken Ritchie (born 1946), psephologist

S

• Stanley Scott (1854–1933), cricketer
• Richard Smith (born 1971), fingerstyle guitarist
• Wende Snijders (born 1978), Dutch singer
• Frank Spenlove-Spenlove (1868–1933), painter; founder of "Yellow Door School of Art" in Beckenham
• David Sylvian (born 1958), singer, musician, composer

T

• Richard Thorpe (born 1984), rugby union player

V

• Paul Volley (born 1975), rugby union player

W

• Wavell Wakefield, 1st Baron Wakefield of Kendal (1898–1983), rugby union player and politician

Bill Wyman, bass guitarist, member of the Rolling Stones, lived at 44 Birkbeck Road, Beckenham in the 1960s.

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