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List of people from Beckenham

People connected to Beckenham, England

People connected to Beckenham, England

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 else had important connections 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
  • Jack Bryan (1896–1985), cricketer
  • Ronnie 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

  • Mary Farmer (1940-2021), textile artist and designer
  • 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

J

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

K

  • Georgina Kennedy (born 1997), professional squash player (Commonwealth Games champion 2022)
  • Rob Key (born 1979), cricketer
  • Daniel 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
  • Ivor Moreton (1908–1984), singer and pianist, lived in Beckenham during World War II

O

  • John Orchard (1928–1995), film actor (MASH*)
  • Jonathan Orders (born 1957), cricketer

P

  • 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
  • Ritchie (vocalist) (born 1952), British-Brazilian musician

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

References

References

  1. [[The National Archives (United Kingdom). The National Archives]]; [[Kew]], London, England; ''1939 Register''; Reference: ''RG 101/1215E''
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