List of people from Beckenham explained

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

• 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^[1]

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

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

Notes and References

1. [The National Archives (United Kingdom)|The National Archives]