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)
- AEW Mason
- Alexander Glenny
- Alexander Milne
- Alexander Parkes
- Alfred Carver
- Alfred Lammer
- Anna Storace
- Anne Shelton
- Annie Besant
- Anthony Harding
- Arnold Dolmetsch
- Arthur Gilkes
- Barbara Hall
- Boris Karloff
- Brass Crosby
- Charles Barry Jr
- Charles Hutton
- Charles Voysey
- Christopher Hinton
- Colin Cole
- Colonel Constable
- CS Forester
- David Cox
- Ebenezer Howard
- Edward Alleyn
- Edward Milner
- Edward Thurlow
- Edwin Hall
- Elhanan Bicknell
- Elsie Widdowson
- Eric Morley
- Ernest Shackleton
- Eva Widdowson
- Evan Spicer
- Evelyn Low
- Francis Peek
- Francis Pettitt
- Frank Clowes
- Frank Trier
- Frederick Doulton
- Frederick Hall
- George Brown
- George Glenny
- George Webster
- George Widdowson
- Gerald Kelly
- Gertrud Bing
- Guy Fountain
- Harry Powell
- Henry Atkinson
- Henry Bessemer
- Henry Jarvis
- Henry Thompson
- Herbert Baker
- Herman Kleinwort
- Hiram Maxim
- Isaac Goldsmid
- Jack Lane
- Jack Westrup
- James Allen
- James Cornwall
- James Douglass
- James Eno
- James Fitton
- James Henderson
- Jimmy Thomas
- John Allen
- John Alleyne
- John Belcher
- John Courage
- John Crace
- John Johnston
- John Laws
- John Logie Baird
- John Portwine
- John Ruskin
- John Sutherland
- Jon Silkin
- Joseph Allen
- Joseph Paxton
- Joseph Romilly
- Khalid Sheldrake
- Lawrence Durrell
- Lord Byron
- Louise Michel
- Luke Lightfoot
- Margaret Thatcher
- Mark Evison
- Maurice Baring
- Melton Fisher
- Michael Croft
- Noel Desenfans
- Ozias Linley
- Patrick Campbell
- Percy Horton
- Percy Oliver
- Peter Bourgeois
- Peter Cushing
- PG Wodehouse
- Philip Johnstone
- Phyllis Pearsall
- Raymond Chandler
- Richard Church
- Richard Shawe
- Robert Knolles
- Ronald Reed
- Roy McKay
- Sam Silkin
- Samuel Matthews
- Sax Rohmer
- Stanley Watkins
- Thomas Tilling
- Thomas Williams
- Thomas Wilson
- Thomas Withington
- Thomas Wright
- Tom Morris
- VS Pritchett
- Walter Emery
- William Cartwright
- William Distant
- William Frith
- William Innes
- William James
- William Joyce
- William Mitchell
- William Penney
- William Rogers
- William Vestey
- William Vizard