Dulwich People
Dulwich has been home to many notable residents and our local history group is researching their lives and achievements. Dulwich is taken broadly as the Dulwich Estate and its immediate neighbourhood, including the Southwark side of Herne Hill, East Dulwich as far as Barry Road and Sydenham next to the Estate boundary. Please also see the illustrated book Two Hundred Years of Dulwich Radicalism (PDF) by Duncan Bowie. The notable residents included in this list meet the following criteria:
- they made a contribution to national life
- are known outside their work and local area
- lived or worked in Dulwich for a reasonable time (and not just attended a local school)
- AEW Mason
- Alexander Glenny
- Alexander Milne
- Alexander Parkes
- Alfred Carver
- Alfred Lammer
- Alfred Temple
- Anna Storace
- Anne Shelton
- Annie Besant
- Annie Brewster
- Anthony Harding
- Anthony Highmore
- Arnold Dolmetsch
- Arthur Ewins
- Arthur Gilkes
- Barbara Hall
- Boris Karloff
- Brass Crosby
- Charles Barry Jr
- Charles D McK Campbell
- Charles Hutton
- Charles Ranken
- Charles Voysey
- Christopher Hinton
- Colin Cole
- Colonel Constable
- CS Forester
- Dalbiac family
- David Cox
- de Bolotoff family (inc Rosalie Selfridge)
- Denison Allport
- Druce family
- Ebenezer Howard
- Edward Alleyn
- Edward Milner
- Edward Thurlow
- Edwin Hall
- Elhanan Bicknell
- Elsie Widdowson
- Eric Morley
- Ernest Shackleton
- Eva Widdowson
- Evan Spicer
- Evelyn Lowe
- Francis Peek
- Francis Pettitt
- Frank Clowes
- Frank Trier
- Frederick Doulton
- Frederick Hall
- George Brown
- George Glenny
- George Hicks
- George Webster
- George Widdowson
- Gerald Kelly
- Gerry Bowden
- Gertrud Bing
- Goodman family
- Guy Fountain
- Harriet Raincock
- Harry Powell
- Helene Aldwinckle
- Henry Atkinson
- Henry Bessemer
- Henry Hoyland
- Henry Jarvis
- Henry Thompson
- Herbert Baker
- Herman Kleinwort
- Hiram Maxim
- Irene Layman
- Isaac Goldsmid
- Jack Lane
- Jack Westrup
- James Allen
- James Cornwall
- James Douglass
- James Eno
- James Fitton
- James Henderson
- James Horsburgh
- Jimmy Thomas
- Joan Alleyn
- Joan Clarke
- Johann Schroder
- John Allen
- John Alleyne
- John Belcher
- John Courage
- John Crace
- John Laws
- John Lawson Johnston
- John Logie Baird
- John Portwine
- John Ruskin
- John Sutherland
- Jon Silkin
- Joseph Allen
- Joseph Paxton
- Joseph Romilly
- Khalid Sheldrake
- Lawrence Durrell
- Lord Byron
- Lorraine Wilson
- Louisa Carlill
- Louise Michel
- Luke Lightfoot
- Margaret Thatcher
- Mark Evison
- Mary Boast
- Mary Jemima Alger
- Maurice Baring
- Melton Fisher
- Michael Croft
- Middlecott family
- Nathaniel Bogle French
- Noel Desenfans
- Ozias Linley
- Patrick Campbell
- Percy Horton
- Percy Oliver
- Peter Bourgeois
- Peter Cushing
- Peter Thompson
- PG Wodehouse
- Philip Johnstone
- Phyllis Pearsall
- Raincock family
- Raymond Chandler
- Richard Church
- Richard Randall
- Richard Shawe
- Robert Knolles
- Ronald Reed
- Roy McKay
- Sam Silkin
- Samuel Matthews
- Sarah Sophia Mills
- Sax Rohmer
- Stanley Watkins
- Stephen Poyntz Denning
- Thomas Farmer Baily of East Dulwich
- Thomas Tilling
- Thomas Williams
- Thomas Wilson
- Thomas Withington
- Thomas Wright
- Tom Morris
- VS Pritchett
- Walter Emery
- William Cartwright
- William Cummings
- William Distant
- William Frith
- William Hayman Cummings
- William Innes
- William James
- William Joyce
- William Mitchell
- William Penney
- William Rogers
- William Vestey
- William Vizard
- Wood family