People

Dulwich People

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)
  1. AEW Mason
  2. Alexander Glenny
  3. Alexander Milne
  4. Alexander Parkes
  5. Alfred Carver
  6. Alfred Lammer
  7. Anna Storace
  8. Anne Shelton
  9. Annie Besant
  10. Anthony Harding
  11. Arnold Dolmetsch
  12. Arthur Gilkes
  13. Barbara Hall
  14. Boris Karloff
  15. Brass Crosby
  16. Charles Barry Jr
  17. Charles Hutton
  18. Charles Voysey
  19. Christopher Hinton
  20. Colin Cole
  21. Colonel Constable
  22. CS Forester
  23. David Cox
  24. Ebenezer Howard
  25. Edward Alleyn
  26. Edward Milner
  27. Edward Thurlow
  28. Edwin Hall
  29. Elhanan Bicknell
  30. Elsie Widdowson
  31. Eric Morley
  32. Ernest Shackleton
  33. Eva Widdowson
  34. Evan Spicer
  35. Evelyn Low
  36. Francis Peek
  37. Francis Pettitt
  38. Frank Clowes
  39. Frank Trier
  40. Frederick Doulton
  41. Frederick Hall
  42. George Brown
  43. George Glenny
  44. George Webster
  45. George Widdowson
  46. Gerald Kelly
  47. Gertrud Bing
  48. Guy Fountain
  49. Harry Powell
  50. Henry Atkinson
  51. Henry Bessemer
  52. Henry Jarvis
  53. Henry Thompson
  54. Herbert Baker
  55. Herman Kleinwort
  56. Hiram Maxim
  57. Isaac Goldsmid
  58. Jack Lane
  59. Jack Westrup
  60. James Allen
  61. James Cornwall
  62. James Douglass
  63. James Eno
  64. James Fitton
  65. James Henderson
  66. Jimmy Thomas
  67. John Allen
  68. John Alleyne
  69. John Belcher
  70. John Courage
  71. John Crace
  72. John Johnston
  73. John Laws
  74. John Logie Baird
  75. John Portwine
  76. John Ruskin
  77. John Sutherland
  78. Jon Silkin
  79. Joseph Allen
  80. Joseph Paxton
  81. Joseph Romilly
  82. Khalid Sheldrake
  83. Lawrence Durrell
  84. Lord Byron
  85. Louise Michel
  86. Luke Lightfoot
  87. Margaret Thatcher
  88. Mark Evison
  89. Maurice Baring
  90. Melton Fisher
  91. Michael Croft
  92. Noel Desenfans
  93. Ozias Linley
  94. Patrick Campbell
  95. Percy Horton
  96. Percy Oliver
  97. Peter Bourgeois
  98. Peter Cushing
  99. PG Wodehouse
  100. Philip Johnstone
  101. Phyllis Pearsall
  102. Raymond Chandler
  103. Richard Church
  104. Richard Shawe
  105. Robert Knolles
  106. Ronald Reed
  107. Roy McKay
  108. Sam Silkin
  109. Samuel Matthews
  110. Sax Rohmer
  111. Stanley Watkins
  112. Thomas Tilling
  113. Thomas Williams
  114. Thomas Wilson
  115. Thomas Withington
  116. Thomas Wright
  117. Tom Morris
  118. VS Pritchett
  119. Walter Emery
  120. William Cartwright
  121. William Distant
  122. William Frith
  123. William Innes
  124. William James
  125. William Joyce
  126. William Mitchell
  127. William Penney
  128. William Rogers
  129. William Vestey
  130. William Vizard

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