• Source: List of people from Beckenham

    • 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 (M*A*S*H)
    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


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