List of people from the London Borough of Lambeth
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The following is a list of people who were born in the London Borough of Lambeth, or have dwelt within the borders of the modern borough (in alphabetical order by surname):
- Tony Abbott, Prime Minister of Australia, born in Lambeth in 1957
- Lee Rigby
- Naveen Andrews, actor, born in Lambeth in 1969
- Muriel Angelus, actress, born Lambeth, 1912–2004
- Elias Ashmole, alchemist, died in Lambeth in 1692
- Catherine Howard, Queen of England, born c.1521-1526
- Winifred Barnes (1892–1935), musical theatre comedy actress and singer, born in Brixton
- William Blake, religious visionary, poet and artist
- Daniel Bott, Mayor of Strathfield, born in Lambeth
- David Bowie, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, arranger, and actor
- Ben Bryant, cricketer
- Henry Burton, cricketer, born in Lambeth in 1874
- Shane Byrne, 6-time British Superbike champion
- Kevin Campbell (footballer), born in Lambeth
- Carlisle United FC, born in Lambeth
- Phoebe Carlo (1874–1898), actress, born in Lambeth
- Charlie Chaplin, film actor and comedian, spent his early life in Lambeth
- Graham Chidgey (born 1937), cricketer
- Simon Cowell, television personality, born in Lambeth
- Joy Crookes, singer-songwriter, born in Lambeth
- Helen Hoppner Coode, Punch's first woman cartoonist
- John Doulton and Sir Henry Doulton, founded pottery company Royal Doulton in Lambeth
- Victoria crossin 1914.
- West Ham United
- Inter Miami, born in Lambeth
- Christopher Newman Hall, founded the Christ Church complex in Lambeth of which only the Lincoln Memorial Tower survives today
- Ken Livingstone, former London Mayor, born in Lambeth in 1945
- Rob Lord, composer of music for films, TV and computer games
- Archie Madekwe, actor; born in Lambeth
- Geoff Marshall, video producer and presenter; born in Lambeth
- W. Somerset Maugham, completed his training in obstetrics in Lambeth and used that experience as the basis for his novel Liza of Lambeth
- fashion designer
- Elliot Rodger, perpetrator of the 2014 Isla Vista killings, born in Lambeth in 1991
- Carl McCoy, frontman for gothic rock band Fields of the Nephilim, born there in 1963
- F. B. Meyer, pastored Christ Church in Lambeth
- William Chester Minor, major contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary; while living at Lambeth, he murdered George Merrett, for which crime he was found criminally insane and confined for the rest of his life at Broadmoor.[1]
- John Nash, architect and urbanist, born in Lambeth in 1752
- Akai Osei, street dancer; winner of Got To Dance; born in Lambeth
- Fulham F.C, born in Lambeth
- Conrad Phillips, actor (1925–2016)
- Shirley Pitts (1934–1992), English fraudster and thief, the "queen of shoplifters", born on the Lambeth Walk
- Guy Pratt, bass guitarist, born in Lambeth
- Frederick Ruffell(born 1997), cricketer
- Get Some In (ITV 1975 to 1978); starred in Eastenders; Doctor Who, The Good Life, and Bless This House.
- Katie Seymour, Gaiety Theatre dancer, Lambeth resident
- Charlie Smirke, Derby-winning jockey, born in Lambeth
- James Stephen, undersecretary of state for the colonies (1836–1847)
- Sir Arthur Sullivan, composer of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, born in Lambeth in 1842
- Edward Thomas, poet, born in Lambeth
- Michael Thomas (footballer, born 1967), born in Lambeth
- clergyman in the Church of England, curate of St. Mary's Lambeth in 1863
- Harriet Vernon, music hall performer and principal boy; born in Lambeth in 1858
- Peter Whittle (born 1961), politician, author, journalist and broadcaster, born in Lambeth
- Ireland national cricket team, Middlesex County Cricket Club, Surrey County Cricket Cluband the Reigate Priory Llamas in the Surrey Championship
- Chris Murtagh (born 1984) cricketer who has played for Surrey County Cricket Club, the Reigate Priory Llamas and Shropshire County Cricket Club
- Loyle Carner (born 1994), musician
- Karamoko Dembele(born 2003), footballer
- Carl Wheatle (born 1998), basketball player
References
- ISBN 978-0-06017-596-2. (The original British edition is titled The Surgeon of Crowthorne.)