List of people from Lewisham

Among those who were born in the London Borough of Lewisham, or have dwelt within the borders of the borough are

• Danny Baker (broadcaster) lived in Deptford
• Rosa May Billinghurst (suffragette) lived in Lewisham
• Kate Bush (musician) lived in Brockley and Lewisham
• James Callaghan (politician) lived in Blackheath
• Sir James Clark Ross (explorer) lived in Blackheath
• Maxwell Confait, Colin Lattimore, Ronal Leighton and Ahmet Salih lived in Catford
• Jim Connell (socialist) lived in Crofton Park and Honor Oak
• Jean Cooke RA, artist, born in Blackheath
• Horatio Henry Couldery (1832–1893), animal artist noted for his paintings of cats, kittens and dogs, was born in Lewisham
• Ernest Dowson (poet) lived in Catford and Lee
• Gabrielle (musician) lived in Brockley and Honor Oak
• W. G. Grace (cricketer) lived in Sydenham
• Malcolm Hardee (comedian) lived in Blackheath and Lewisham
• Frank Harper (actor) grew up in the borough and attended Malory School in Downham
• George Julian Harney (chartist) lived in Deptford
• Will Hay (comedy actor) lived in Crofton Park
• Sir Isaac Hayward (politician) lived in Deptford
• Keely Hazell (Page 3 girl) born in Lewisham
• Jimi Hendrix (American rock legend) lived in Hither Green in late 1966
• Frederick John Horniman (collector) lived in Forest Hill
• Leslie Howard (British actor) lived in Forest Hill
• Glenda Jackson (politician) lived in Blackheath
• Alex James (bass guitarist of Blur) went to university in New Cross, Goldsmiths.
• David Jones (poet) lived in Brockley
• Kwes (music record producer) born in Lewisham
• Elsa Lanchester (Anglo-American actress) born in Lewisham
• Jude Law (actor) lived in Lewisham
• Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen (designer) lived in Blackheath
• Marie Lloyd (entertainer) lived in Lewisham and New Cross
• Eleanor Marx (politician) lived in Sydenham
• Spike Milligan (comedian) lived in Catford, Crofton Park and Honor Oak
• Laila Morse (actress and sister of Gary Oldman) lives in New Cross
• Edith Nesbit (writer) lived in Blackheath, Grove Park and Lewisham
• Gary Oldman (actor) was born in New Cross and grew up in Deptford
• P Money (grime artist) born and raised in Lewisham
• Mica Paris (musician) lived in Lewisham
• Novelist (musician) was born and grew up in Brockley
• Gladys Powers (centenarian) was born in Lewisham
• Russian Tsar Peter the Great lived in Deptford
• Maxi Priest (musician) was born and raised in Lewisham
• Luke Pritchard (musician) was born in Lewisham
• Louise Redknapp (TV presenter and wife of footballer Jamie Redknapp) was born in Lewisham
• Ignatius Sancho (writer and campaigner) lived in Blackheath
• Dame Cicely Saunders (founder of hospice movement) lived in Sydenham
• Sir Ernest Shackleton, Antarctic explorer, lived in Sydenham
• Charlene Soraia (musician) was brought up in Sydenham
• Steve Spacek (singer and producer in Spacek and Africa Hitech) grew up in Lewisham
• Timothy Spall (actor) lives in Honor Oak
• Jason Statham (actor) lives in Forest Hill
• Doris Stokes (medium) lived in Lewisham
• E. W. Swanton (writer) lived in Forest Hill
• David Sylvian (musician) lived in Lewisham
• Archbishop Desmond Tutu lived on Brownhill Road Catford
• Terry Waite (humanitarian) lived in Blackheath
• Max Wall (comedian) lived in Lee
• Barnes Wallis (engineer) lived in New Cross
• Ian Wright (footballer) lived in Lewisham
• Shaun Wright-Phillips (footballer and son of Ian Wright) grew up in Brockley
• Bill Wyman (musician) lived in Sydenham
• Edmond Halley (astronomer royal, Greenwich observatory) lived in Lee and is buried here at St. Margaret church.

Notable residents of Blackheath

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(This list includes people associated with the portion of Blackheath that lies in Greenwich.)

• Sophie Aldred, actress and television presenter, was raised in Blackheath and attended Blackheath High School.
• John Julius Angerstein, whose art collection formed the basis of the National Gallery in 1824, built Woodlands House, Mycenae Road, Westcombe Park.
• His son John Angerstein, MP for Greenwich
• Danny Baker, BBC London radio presenter and television personality.
• Blade, British hip hop artist, was raised and schooled in Blackheath.
• Sir Richard Branson, entrepreneur, was born in Blackheath.
• Captain Samuel Brown, naval officer, engineer and inventor, died at Vanbrugh Lodge, Vanbrugh Fields, Blackheath in 1852.
• Caroline of Brunswick, married to the Prince Regent, was banished in 1799 to a private residence ('The Pagoda' - attributed to architect Sir William Chambers) in Blackheath.
• James Callaghan, British Prime Minister 1976-1979, lived in Blackheath in the 1950s and 1960s, and his daughter Margaret went to Blackheath High School.
• Fanny Cradock lived at 134 Shooters Hill Road.
• Emily Davison, suffragette, was born in Blackheath.
• Clemence Dane, Playwright and novelist was born in Blackheath.
• Francis Dodd (1874–1949), artist, lived at Arundel House, 51 Blackheath Park.
• Montague John Druitt, for many years a popular suspect in the Jack the Ripper murders, lived during the 1880s in Blackheath at 9 Eliot Place.
• Peter Martin Duncan (1824–1891), palaeontologist and doctor, practised in Blackheath during the 1860s.
• Astronomer Royal Sir Frank Watson Dyson lived at 6 Vanbrugh Hill, SE3 between 1894 and 1906 (blue plaque).
• Sir Arthur Eddington (1882–1944), mathematician and astrophysicist, lived at 4 Bennett Park (blue plaque).
• Eliza Fay (1756–1816), author of Original Letters from India, ran a school in Blackheath in 1805-14.
• Nick Ferrari LBC 97.3 radio presenter.
• James Glaisher (1809–1903), who pioneered modern weather forecasting techniques, lived at 20 Dartmouth Hill (blue plaque).
• Charles Gounod, composer, lived at 4 Morden Road in 1870 (blue plaque).
• Malcolm Hardee, anarchic comedian lived briefly at 33 Glenluce Road in the late 1990s.
• Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864), American author, lived at 4 Pond Road in 1856 (blue plaque).
• Ginnie Hole, author and screenwriter of The Bill and Casualty.
• Jools Holland OBE, musician with the band Squeeze and solo artist, lives in Westcombe Park.
• John Hughes, The Very Reverend, lived as a child on Mycenae Road, Blackheath.
• Glenda Jackson, former actress and now MP for Hampstead lives in Blackheath.
• Thomas Keell, prominent British anarchist of the early twentieth century.
• Jude Law, actor, attended John Ball Primary School.
• Albert Lee, guitarist, composer and singer.
• David Lindsay (1897–1945), novelist, born and raised in Blackheath.
• Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen (designer) lived in Blackheath.
• Elisabeth Lutyens, composer, lived in Pond Road.
• Donald McGill (1875–1962), postcard cartoonist lived at 5 Bennett Park (blue plaque).
• John Stuart Mill (1806–1873), British philosopher and political economist.
• Sir Stuart Milner-Barry, chess player and codebreaker, lived in Blackheath Park.
• Ray Moore (1942–1989), broadcaster and supporter of BBC Children In Need, lived in Blackheath.
• Blake Morrison, author, writer, prize winning poet, Professor of creative writing at Goldsmiths College, former literary editor.
• Edith Nesbit, author and Fabian, moved to 16 Dartmouth Row in 1879.
• Sir Gregory Page, 2nd Baronet, landowner, had houses in Westcombe Park and Wricklemarsh, near Lee.
• Jack Peñate, singer/songwriter
• Hugh Phillips (1940–2005), surgeon and later Deputy Lieutenant of Norfolk, born in Blackheath.
• Keith Pyott (1902–1968), played Autloc in the Doctor Who serial The Aztecs, he had also featured in several other series and over 20 films.
• Anthony Quiney, writer and historian.
• Sir James Clark Ross, who in 1831 located the magnetic North Pole, and after whom the Ross Island and Ross sea are named, lived on Eliot Place.
• Paul Rutherford (1940–2007), a jazz trombonist who later became the leading UK free improvising trombonist, lived in Blackheath.
• Lee Ryan, singer, songwriter and actor, member of the band Blue.
• Ignatius Sancho, 18th century black writer, composer, businessman and freed slave.
• Axel Scheffler, book illustrator, lives in Blackheath.
• Boris Starling, novelist, was born and brought up in Blackheath.
• Walter Napleton Stone (1891–1917), recipient of the Victoria Cross, was born in Blackheath.
• Terry Waite, humanitarian and hostage in Lebanon (1987–1991), lived in Blackheath and worked at the local All Saints church.
• Sir Willard White, opera singer.
• Maurice Wilkins, joint discover of DNA, lived on St Johns Park.
• Sir Alfred Yarrow, shipbuilder, lived at Woodlands, Mycenae Road, Westcombe Park from 1896.