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 had some important contribution to make to the town.

Notable people from Beckenham

Table of contents: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

• Raymond Adamson (1920-2002), television actor
• Rory Allen (1977- ) soccer player
• Julie Andrews (1935- ) actress, singer, author
• Claude Ashton (1901–1942) soccer player; cricketer; hockey player
• Gerald Aste (1900–1961) cricketer

B

• A.L. Barker (1918–2002) novelist; short story writer
• Django Bates (1960 ) composer; multi-instrumentalist; band leader
• Hugh Bean (1929–2003) violinist
• Floella Benjamin (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- ) musician, actor, producer, arranger
• Zowie Bowie (1971-) film director (and son of David Bowie)
• Betty Box (1915–1999) film producer & screenwriter
• Sydney Box 1907-1983) film producer & screenwriter
• Tony Bradman (1954- ) children’s author
• Peircy Brett (1709–1781) admiral Royal Navy; politician
• Bob Broadbent (1924–1993) cricketer
• Ali Brown (1970- ) cricketer
• Godfrey Bryan (1902–1991) cricketer
• Ronald Bryan (1898–1970) cricketer
• Stuart Bunce (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 & photographer
• T. Pelham Dale (1821–1892) Anglo-Catholic ritualist clergyman
• Samuel Daukes (1811–1880) architect
• Maurice Denham (1909–2002) actor

E

• Carl Erhardt (1897–1988) ice hockey player

F

• Liam Fontaine (1986- ) soccer player
• Philip Fotheringham-Parker (1907–1981) racing driver
• Peter Frampton (1950- ) singer-songwriter and musician

H

• John Pennington Harman (1914–1944) recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Nick Heyward (1961- ) singer, guitarist
• Alec Hearne (1863–1952) cricketer
• Leigh Hinds (1978- ) soccer player
• C. Walter Hodges (1909–2004) illustrator and author
• Elizabeth Hope (1842–1922) evangelist; temperance movement
• Charles Howard (1904- ) cricketer
• Olly Howick (1987- ) cricketer, Andrew Flintoff's clone.
• David Haye Boxer

J

• Steve Jansen 1959- ) musician
• Graham Johnson (1946- ) cricketer

K

• Daniel J. King (1963- ) chess player; writer & journalist
• John Kingman (1939- ) mathematician
• Robert Key (1979- ) cricketer

L

• Kate Lawler (1980- ) TV presenter; disc jockey; winner of Big Brother UK
• Alfred Layman (1858–1940) cricketer
• Mark Lovell (1983- ) soccer player

M

• Andrew Manze (1965- ) baroque violinist and conductor
• Piers Merchant (1951–2009) politician
• Bob Monkhouse (1928–2003) entertainer

O

• John Orchard (1928–1995) film actor (M*A*S*H)
• Jonathan Orders (1957- ) cricketer

P

• Tom Pettit (1859–1956) real tennis player
• Arthur Beresford Pite (1861–1934) architect
• 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 (1933- ) literary critic
• Ken Ritchie (1946- ) psephologist

S

• Stanley Scott (1854–1933) cricketer
• Richard Smith (1971– ) fingerstyle guitarist
• Wende Snijders 1978- ) Dutch singer
• Frank Spenlove-Spenlove (1868–1933) painter; founder of ‘’Yellow Door School of Art’’ in Beckenham
• David Sylvian (1958- ) singer, musician, composer
• Scott Day (1980 - ) full time mug and fat boy

T

• Richard Thorpe 1984- ) rugby union player

V

• Paul Volley (1975- ) rugby union player

W

• Wavell Wakefield, 1st Baron Wakefield of Kendal (1898–1983) rugby union player & politician