![Keats House](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/Keats_House.jpg)
This is a list of notable people who have lived in
Hampstead
Hampstead () is an area in London, which lies northwest of Charing Cross, and extends from the A5 road (Roman Watling Street) to Hampstead Heath, a large, hilly expanse of parkland. The area forms the northwest part of the London Borough o ...
, an area of northwest London known for its intellectual, liberal, artistic, musical, and literary associations. After 1917, and again in the 1930s, it became base to a community of ''avant garde'' artists and writers and was host to a number of émigrés and exiles from the
Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution was a period of political and social revolution that took place in the former Russian Empire which began during the First World War. This period saw Russia abolish its monarchy and adopt a socialist form of government ...
and
Nazi Europe.
Amongst the people on this list who were ''born'' in Hampstead are politician
Nigel Lawson
Nigel Lawson, Baron Lawson of Blaby, (born 11 March 1932) is a British Conservative Party politician and journalist. He was a Member of Parliament representing the constituency of Blaby from 1974 to 1992, and served in the cabinet of Margar ...
, racing driver
Damon Hill
Damon Graham Devereux Hill, (born 17 September 1960) is a British former professional racing driver from England and the 1996 Formula One World Champion. He is the son of Graham Hill, and, along with Nico Rosberg, one of two sons of a Formula ...
, actors
Stephen Fry
Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English actor, broadcaster, comedian, director and writer. He first came to prominence in the 1980s as one half of the comic double act Fry and Laurie, alongside Hugh Laurie, with the two starring ...
and
Dirk Bogarde
Sir Dirk Bogarde (born Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde; 28 March 1921 – 8 May 1999) was an English actor, novelist and screenwriter. Initially a matinée idol in films such as '' Doctor in the House'' (1954) for the Rank Org ...
, novelist
Evelyn Waugh
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (; 28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966) was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer. His most famous works include the early satires '' Decl ...
, and the English educator and administrator
Robert Laurie Morant
Sir Robert Laurie Morant, (7 April 1863 – 13 March 1920) was an English administrator and educationalist.
Career overview
Born in Hampstead, Morant was the older brother of Amy Morant. He was educated at Winchester College and New College, O ...
. Several of the people on this list, including
John Constable
John Constable (; 11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for revolutionising the genre of landscape painting with his pictures of Dedham Vale, th ...
,
Eleanor Farjeon, and
Hugh Gaitskell
Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell (9 April 1906 – 18 January 1963) was a British politician who served as Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1955 until his death in 1963. An economics lecturer and wartime civil servant ...
are buried in the churchyard of
St John-at-Hampstead. The Hampstead
post code district (NW3) includes the neighbourhoods of
Frognal
Frognal is a small area of Hampstead, North West London in the London Borough of Camden. Frognal is reinforced as the name of a minor road, which goes uphill from Finchley Road and at its upper end is in the west of Hampstead village.
History ...
,
Chalk Farm
Chalk Farm is a small urban district of north London, lying immediately north of Camden Town, in the London Borough of Camden.
History
Manor of Rugmere
Chalk Farm was originally known as the Manor of Rugmere, an estate that was mentioned ...
,
Swiss Cottage
Swiss Cottage is an area of Hampstead in the London Borough of Camden, England. It is centred on the junction of Avenue Road and Finchley Road and includes Swiss Cottage tube station. Swiss Cottage lies north-northwest of Charing Cross. Th ...
,
Belsize Park
Belsize Park is an affluent residential area of Hampstead in the London Borough of Camden (the inner north-west of London), England.
The residential streets are lined with mews houses and Georgian and Victorian villas. Some nearby localities ar ...
, and parts of
Primrose Hill
Primrose Hill is a Grade II listed public park located north of Regent's Park in London, England, first opened to the public in 1842.Mills, A., ''Dictionary of London Place Names'', (2001) It was named after the natural hill in the centre of ...
.
''Note:'' * ''indicates people born in Hampstead.''
Music and dance
![Rosen - Frederick Delius](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/Rosen_-_Frederick_Delius.jpg)
*
Larry Adler (American harmonica player)
*
Thomas Augustine Barrett aka Leslie Stuart (English composer)
*
Sir Arnold Bax (English classical composer and poet)
["Arnold Bax (Composer, Arranger)"](_blank)
''Bach-Cantatas.com'' (Retrieved 18 June 2009)
*
Jane Goodall
Dame Jane Morris Goodall (; born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall on 3 April 1934), formerly Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall, is an English primatologist and anthropologist. Seen as the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall is best kn ...
* (English explorer)
*
Arthur Bliss
Sir Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss (2 August 189127 March 1975) was an English composer and conductor.
Bliss's musical training was cut short by the First World War, in which he served with distinction in the army. In the post-war years he qu ...
(English classical composer)
[
*]Dennis Brain
Dennis Brain (17 May 19211 September 1957) was a British horn player. From a musical family – his father and grandfather were horn players – he attended the Royal Academy of Music in London. During the Second World War he served in the Roya ...
(English classical horn player)[
*]Alfred Brendel
Alfred Brendel KBE (born 5 January 1931) is an Austrian classical pianist, poet, author, composer, and lecturer who is known particularly for his performances of Mozart, Schubert, Schoenberg, and Beethoven.Stephen Plaistow"Brendel, Alfred" ' ...
(Austrian classical pianist)
* Clara Butt (English contralto
A contralto () is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range is the lowest female voice type.
The contralto's vocal range is fairly rare; similar to the mezzo-soprano, and almost identical to that of a countertenor, typica ...
opera singer)[
*]Sir Edward Elgar
Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, (; 2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestr ...
(English classical composer)
*Frederick Delius
Delius, photographed in 1907
Frederick Theodore Albert Delius ( 29 January 1862 – 10 June 1934), originally Fritz Delius, was an English composer. Born in Bradford in the north of England to a prosperous mercantile family, he resisted atte ...
(English classical composer)[
*]Jacqueline du Pré
Jacqueline Mary du Pré (26 January 1945 – 19 October 1987) was a British cellist. At a young age, she achieved enduring mainstream popularity. Despite her short career, she is regarded as one of the greatest cellists of all time.
Her care ...
(British cellist
The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually tuned in perfect fifths: from low to high, C2, G2, D ...
)
* Jon English Australian singer, songwriter, musician and actor
*Marianne Faithfull
Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull (born 29 December 1946) is an English singer and actress. She achieved popularity in the 1960s with the release of her hit single " As Tears Go By" and became one of the lead female artists during the British I ...
(English singer-songwriter)[Mottram, James]
"Stay Faithfull: A revealing audience with Marianne Faithfull"
''Independent.co.uk'', 26 April 2008 (Retrieved 18 June 2009)
*Howie Payne
Howie Payne (born Howard Elliot Payne 5 November 1970) is an English musician, singer-songwriter and record producer, formerly of the Stands.
Following the Stands' split, Payne embarked on a solo career under the name Howard Eliott Payne and rel ...
(English singer, songwriter, music producer)
*Kathleen Ferrier
Kathleen Mary Ferrier, CBE (22 April 19128 October 1953) was an English contralto singer who achieved an international reputation as a stage, concert and recording artist, with a repertoire extending from folksong and popular ballads to the cl ...
(English contralto opera singer)[
*]Liam Gallagher
William John Paul Gallagher (born 21 September 1972) is an English singer and songwriter. He achieved fame as the lead vocalist of the rock band Oasis from 1991 to 2009, and later fronted the rock band Beady Eye from 2009 to 2014, before starti ...
(singer and songwriter, frontman of popular rock 'n' roll band Oasis)
*Tamara Karsavina
Tamara Platonovna Karsavina (russian: Тамара Платоновна Карсавина; 10 March 1885 – 26 May 1978) was a Russian prima ballerina, renowned for her beauty, who was a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and l ...
(Russian ballerina
A ballet dancer ( it, ballerina fem.; ''ballerino'' masc.) is a person who practices the art of classical ballet. Both females and males can practice ballet; however, dancers have a strict hierarchy and strict gender roles. They rely on ye ...
)[
*]Hans Keller
Hans (Heinrich) Keller (11 March 19196 November 1985) was an Austrian-born British musician and writer, who made significant contributions to musicology and music criticism, as well as being a commentator on such disparate fields as psychoana ...
(Austrian-born violinist and musicologist
Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some m ...
)
*Frederic King
Frederic King (3 January 1853 – 20 May 1933) was a baritone best known for his performances in the works composed by Arthur Sullivan for the Leeds Festivals of 1880 and 1886. Later, he taught singing for 42 years at the Royal College of M ...
(Victorian era baritone and teacher of singing)['Mr F. King Dead – A Famous Teacher of Singing'](_blank)
– ''The Straits Times
''The Straits Times'' is an English-language daily broadsheet newspaper based in Singapore and currently owned by SPH Media Trust (previously Singapore Press Holdings). ''The Sunday Times'' is its Sunday edition. The newspaper was establish ...
'' 6 June 1933 pg 19
* Stephen Kovacevich (American classical pianist and conductor)
*Nick Mason
Nicholas Berkeley Mason, (born 27 January 1944) is an English drummer and a founder member of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd. He is the only member to feature on every Pink Floyd album, and the only constant member since its formation i ...
(English drummer, member of Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd are an English rock band formed in London in 1965. Gaining an early following as one of the first British psychedelic groups, they were distinguished by their extended compositions, sonic experimentation, philosophical lyrics an ...
)
*Tobias Matthay
Tobias Augustus Matthay (19 February 185815 December 1945) was an English pianist, teacher, and composer.
Biography
Matthay was born in Clapham, Surrey, in 1858 to parents who had come from northern Germany and eventually became naturalised Brit ...
(English classical pianist and composer)[
* John McCormack (Irish ]tenor
A tenor is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the countertenor and baritone voice types. It is the highest male chest voice type. The tenor's vocal range extends up to C5. The low extreme for tenors is wide ...
opera and concert singer)[
*]Yehudi Menuhin
Yehudi or Jehudi (Hebrew: יהודי, endonym for Jew) is a common Hebrew name:
* Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999), violinist and conductor
** Yehudi Menuhin School, a music school in Surrey, England
** Who's Yehoodi?, a catchphrase referring to t ...
(American-born classical violinist of Lithuanian Jewish origin)
* Jon Moss
Jonathan Aubrey Moss (born 11 September 1957) is an English drummer, best known as a member of the 1980s new wave group Culture Club. He has also played with other bands, including London, the Nips, the Damned and Adam and the Ants.
Early ...
(English drummer, best known as member of Culture Club
Culture Club are an English pop band formed in London in 1981. The band comprises Boy George (lead vocals), Roy Hay (guitar and keyboards), Mikey Craig (bass guitar) and formerly included Jon Moss (drums and percussion). Emerging in the New ...
)
*Anna Pavlova
Anna Pavlovna Pavlova ( , rus, Анна Павловна Павлова ), born Anna Matveyevna Pavlova ( rus, Анна Матвеевна Павлова; – 23 January 1931), was a Russian prima ballerina of the late 19th and the early 20t ...
(Russian ballerina)
*Paul Robeson
Paul Leroy Robeson ( ; April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976) was an American bass-baritone concert artist, stage and film actor, professional American football, football player, and activist who became famous both for his cultural accomplish ...
(American classical singer and actor)[
*]Cecil Sharp
Cecil James Sharp (22 November 1859 – 23 June 1924) was an English-born collector of folk songs, folk dances and instrumental music, as well as a lecturer, teacher, composer and musician. He was the pre-eminent activist in the development of t ...
(English composer, principal of the Hampstead Conservatoire)[
*]Slash
Slash may refer to:
* Slash (punctuation), the "/" character
Arts and entertainment Fictional characters
* Slash (Marvel Comics)
* Slash (''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'')
Music
* Harry Slash & The Slashtones, an American rock band
* Nash ...
* (British-American musician, guitarist for Guns N' Roses
Guns N' Roses is an American hard rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1985. When they signed to Geffen Records in 1986, the band comprised vocalist Axl Rose, lead guitarist Slash, rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin, bassist Duff ...
and Velvet Revolver)
*Sting
Sting may refer to:
* Stinger or sting, a structure of an animal to inject venom, or the injury produced by a stinger
* Irritating hairs or prickles of a stinging plant, or the plant itself
Fictional characters and entities
* Sting (Middle-earth ...
(English rock musician, singer-songwriter)
*Harry Styles
Harry Edward Styles (born 1 February 1994) is an English singer, songwriter, and actor. His musical career began in 2010 as a solo contestant on the British music competition series '' The X Factor''. Following his elimination, he was brough ...
(English singer and member of One Direction
One Direction, often shortened to 1D, are an English-Irish pop boy band formed in London in 2010. The group are composed of Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, and previously Zayn Malik until his departure from the g ...
)
*Jess Glynne
Jessica Hannah Glynne (born 20 October 1989) is an English singer and songwriter. After signing with Atlantic Records, she rose to prominence in 2014 as a featured artist on the singles "Rather Be" by Clean Bandit and " My Love" by Route 94, bo ...
* (English singer and songwriter)
*Sam Smith
Samuel Frederick Smith (born 19 May 1992) is an English singer and songwriter. After rising to prominence in October 2012 by featuring on Disclosure's breakthrough single "Latch", which peaked at number eleven on the UK Singles Chart, they ...
* (English pop singer and songwriter)
*Jennifer Vyvyan
Jennifer Vyvyan (13 March 1925 – 5 April 1974) was a British classical soprano who had an active international career in operas, concerts, and recitals from 1948 up until her death in 1974. She possessed a beautifully clear, steady voice with ...
(English operatic soprano)
Literature
*Edwin Abbott Abbott
Edwin Abbott Abbott (20 December 1838 – 12 October 1926) was an English schoolmaster, theologian, and Anglican priest, best known as the author of the novella ''Flatland'' (1884).
Biography
Edwin Abbott Abbott was the eldest son of ...
(headmaster and theological writer)[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography](_blank)
Retrieved 23 January 2011
*Eliza Acton
Eliza Acton (17 April 1799 – 13 February 1859) was an English food writer and poet who produced one of Britain's first cookery books aimed at the domestic reader, '' Modern Cookery for Private Families''. The book introduced the now-un ...
(English poet and cook)
*Robert Aickman
Robert Fordyce Aickman (27 June 1914 – 26 February 1981) was an English writer and conservationist. As a conservationist, he co-founded the Inland Waterways Association, a group which has preserved from destruction and restored England's inl ...
(English fiction writer)
* Lucy Aikin (English author and historian)
*Alfred Ainger
Alfred Ainger (9 February 18378 February 1904) was an English biographer and critic.
Biography
The son of an architect in London, he was educated at University College School, King's College London and Trinity College, Cambridge, from where ...
(English biographer and critic)
*Martin Amis
Martin Louis Amis (born 25 August 1949) is a British novelist, essayist, memoirist, and screenwriter. He is best known for his novels ''Money'' (1984) and ''London Fields'' (1989). He received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his memoir ' ...
(British novelist)[Leader, Zachary (2006). ''The Life of Kingsley Amis''. Cape, p. 614.]
*William Allingham
William Allingham (19 March 1824 – 18 November 1889) was an Irish poet, diarist and editor. He wrote several volumes of lyric verse, and his poem "The Faeries" was much anthologised. But he is better known for his posthumously published ''Di ...
(Irish poet)
* Christopher Andrewes (British academic and editor)
* John Armstrong (Scottish poet)
*Alan Ayckbourn
Sir Alan Ayckbourn (born 12 April 1939) is a prolific British playwright and director. He has written and produced as of 2021, more than eighty full-length plays in Scarborough and London and was, between 1972 and 2009, the artistic director o ...
* (British playwright)
*Joanna Baillie
Joanna Baillie (11 September 1762 – 23 February 1851) was a Scottish poet and dramatist, known for such works as ''Plays on the Passions'' (three volumes, 1798–1812) and ''Fugitive Verses'' (1840). Her work shows an interest in moral philoso ...
, (Scottish poet and dramatist)
* Robert Bakewell(English geologist)
*William Bayliss
Sir William Maddock Bayliss (2 May 1860 – 27 August 1924) was an English physiologist.
Life
He was born in Wednesbury, Staffordshire but shortly thereafter his father, a successful merchant of ornamental ironwork, moved his family to a ...
(English physiologist)
*Enid Blyton
Enid Mary Blyton (11 August 1897 – 28 November 1968) was an English children's writer, whose books have been worldwide bestsellers since the 1930s, selling more than 600 million copies. Her books are still enormously popular and have b ...
(British author)[
*]Robert Dudley Baxter
Robert Dudley Baxter (3 February 1827, Doncaster – 1875, Frognal) was an English economist and statistician.
Life
Robert Dudley Baxter was educated privately and at Trinity College, Cambridge University. He studied law
Law is a set o ...
(English economist and statistician)
*Sybille Bedford
Sybille Bedford, OBE (16 March 1911 – 17 February 2006) was a German-born English writer of non-fiction and semi-autobiographical fiction books. She was a recipient of the Golden PEN Award.
Early life
She was born as Sybille Aleid Elsa von ...
(German-born English novelist, biographer, and travel writer)[Obituary: Sybille Bedford](_blank)
''Telegraph.co.uk'', 21 February 2006 (Retrieved 18 June 2009)
*Walter Besant
Sir Walter Besant (14 August 1836 – 9 June 1901) was an English novelist and historian. William Henry Besant was his brother, and another brother, Frank, was the husband of Annie Besant.
Early life and education
The son of wine merchant Willi ...
(English novelist and historian)[
*]John Betjeman
Sir John Betjeman (; 28 August 190619 May 1984) was an English poet, writer, and broadcaster. He was Poet Laureate from 1972 until his death. He was a founding member of The Victorian Society and a passionate defender of Victorian architecture ...
(English poet)[Wilson, James A J]
"Limelight: Sir John Betjeman"
''Intute.ac.uk'' (Retrieved 18 June 2009)
*Basil Bunting
Basil Cheesman Bunting (1 March 1900 – 17 April 1985) was a British modernist poet whose reputation was established with the publication of '' Briggflatts'' in 1966, generally regarded as one of the major achievements of the modernist traditio ...
(English poet)
*Lord Byron
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), known simply as Lord Byron, was an English romantic poet and peer. He was one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement, and has been regarded as among the ...
(English poet)["Hampstead & West Hampstead Area Guide"](_blank)
''AllinLondon.co.uk'' (Retrieved 18 June 2009)
*Gilbert Cannan
Gilbert Eric Cannan (25 June 1884 – 30 June 1955) was a British novelist and dramatist.
Early life
Born in Manchester of Scottish descent, he got on badly with his family, and in 1897 he was sent to live in Oxford with the economist Edwin Can ...
(British novelist and dramatist)
*Elias Canetti
Elias Canetti (; bg, Елиас Канети; 25 July 1905 – 14 August 1994) was a German-language writer, born in Ruse, Bulgaria to a Sephardic family. They moved to Manchester, England, but his father died in 1912, and his mother took her ...
(Bulgarian-born modernist novelist and playwright)
*Allan Chappelow
Allan Gordon Chappelow FRSA (20 August 1919 – May/June 2006) was an English writer and photographer who lived in Hampstead, north London. He wrote books on George Bernard Shaw and specialised in portraits of writers and musicians. He was fou ...
(English photographer and writer of books on George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from ...
)
*Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fiction ...
(British crime writer of novels, short stories and plays)[Adams, Gene]
"The mystery of the Lawn Road novels"
''CamdenNewJournal.co.uk'' (Retrieved 18 June 2009)
*Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (; 21 October 177225 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lak ...
(English poet)[Wilson, Anne]
"London's Literary Village"
''NYTimes.com'', 30 September 1990 (Retrieved 18 June 2009)
* Jean de Bosschère (after 1944: Jean de Boschère) (Belgian (French) poet, author, essayist, painter, illustrator, sculptor)[Jean Azaïs, Annuaire International des Lettres et des Arts (1922-1923)](_blank)
page 44.[Selected Letters of John Gould Fletcher, page 82](_blank)
*Daphne du Maurier
Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, (; 13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989) was an English novelist, biographer and playwright. Her parents were actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and his wife, actress Muriel Beaumont. Her grandfather was Geo ...
(English novelist and playwright; granddaughter of George du Maurier)[Wade, David]
"Whatever happened to Hampstead Man?"
''Telegraph.co.uk'', 8 May 2004
*George du Maurier
George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier (6 March 1834 – 8 October 1896) was a Franco-British cartoonist and writer known for work in ''Punch'' and a Gothic novel ''Trilby'', featuring the character Svengali. His son was the actor Sir Gerald ...
(British novelist and cartoonist)[
* Halide Edip (Turkish novelist)
* T. S. Eliot (American-born British poet, playwright, and literary critic)
* Sir William Empson (English literary critic and poet)]["What's Happening" (''Playback'', Spring 2007, issue 37, p.2)](_blank)
''BL.uk'', 20 December 1970 (Retrieved 18 June 2009)
* Eleanor Farjeon (English writer, particularly of children's literature
Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. Modern children's literature is classified in two different ways: genre or the intended age of the reader.
Children's ...
)[''The Houghton Mifflin dictionary of biography''](_blank)
Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003, pp. 189, 516.
*Ian Fleming
Ian Lancaster Fleming (28 May 1908 – 12 August 1964) was a British writer who is best known for his postwar ''James Bond'' series of spy novels. Fleming came from a wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co., an ...
(British journalist and novelist, creator of the James Bond
The ''James Bond'' series focuses on a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections. Since Fleming's death in 1964, eight other authors hav ...
novels)[Rose, Steve]
"James Bond: the enemy of architecture"
''Guardian.co.uk'', 4 November 2008 (Retrieved 18 June 2009)
*John Fowles
John Robert Fowles (; 31 March 1926 – 5 November 2005) was an English novelist of international renown, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism. His work was influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, among others.
Aft ...
(English novelist and essayist)
*Antonia Fraser
Lady Antonia Margaret Caroline Fraser, (' Pakenham; born 27 August 1932) is a British author of history, novels, biographies and detective fiction. She is the widow of the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Harold Pinter (1930–2008), and ...
(British biographer)[
*]Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes Macías (; ; November 11, 1928 – May 15, 2012) was a Mexican novelist and essayist. Among his works are ''The Death of Artemio Cruz'' (1962), ''Aura'' (1962), '' Terra Nostra'' (1975), ''The Old Gringo'' (1985) and ''Christopher ...
(Mexican novelist)
*John Galsworthy
John Galsworthy (; 14 August 1867 – 31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright. Notable works include '' The Forsyte Saga'' (1906–1921) and its sequels, ''A Modern Comedy'' and ''End of the Chapter''. He won the Nobel Prize ...
(English novelist and playwright; recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature
)
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, caption =
, awarded_for = Outstanding contributions in literature
, presenter = Swedish Academy
, holder = Annie Ernaux (2022)
, location = Stockholm, Sweden
, year = 1901
, ...
)
*Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (2 October 1878 – 26 May 1962) was a British Georgian poet, associated with World War I but also the author of much later work.
Early work
Gibson was born in Hexham, Northumberland, and left the north for London in 1914 ...
(English Georgian poet)
* Jane Green (English novelist and screenwriter)Jane Green (author)
Jane Green (born in 1968) also known by her married name, Jane Green Warburg, is an English-born American author whose works of fiction are American and international best-sellers. As of 2014, Green's books had sold in excess of 10 million copi ...
*Geoffrey Grigson
Geoffrey Edward Harvey Grigson (2 March 1905 – 25 November 1985) was a British poet, writer, editor, critic, exhibition curator, anthologist and naturalist. In the 1930s he was editor of the influential magazine ''New Verse'', and went on to p ...
(English poet)
* Thom Gunn (Anglo-American poet)
*Leigh Hunt
James Henry Leigh Hunt (19 October 178428 August 1859), best known as Leigh Hunt, was an English critic, essayist and poet.
Hunt co-founded '' The Examiner'', a leading intellectual journal expounding radical principles. He was the centre ...
(English critic, essayist, poet)
*Aldous Huxley
Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly 50 books, both novels and non-fiction works, as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems.
Born into the prominent Huxle ...
(English novelist and essayist)["Poetic licence"](_blank)
''Independent.co.uk'', 6 April 2005 (Retrieved 18 June 2009)
* John Le Carre (English novelist)
*John Keats
John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. His poems had been in publication for less than four years when he died of tuberculos ...
(English poet)
*Marghanita Laski
Marghanita Laski (24 October 1915 – 6 February 1988) was an English journalist, radio panellist and novelist. She also wrote literary biography, plays and short stories, and contributed about 250,000 additions to the ''Oxford English Diction ...
(English novelist, playwright and critic)
*Margaret Laurence
Jean Margaret Laurence (née Wemyss; July 18, 1926 – January 5, 1987) was a Canadian novelist and short story writer, and is one of the major figures in Canadian literature. She was also a founder of the Writers' Trust of Canada, a non-pr ...
(Canadian novelist)
* D H Lawrence (English novelist, poet, and literary critic)
*Katherine Mansfield
Kathleen Mansfield Murry (née Beauchamp; 14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a New Zealand writer, essayist and journalist, widely considered one of the most influential and important authors of the modernist movement. Her works are celebra ...
(New Zealand-born short story writer)[
*]John Mortimer
Sir John Clifford Mortimer (21 April 1923 – 16 January 2009) was a British barrister, dramatist, screenwriter and author. He is best known for novels about a barrister named Horace Rumpole.
Early life
Mortimer was born in Hampstead, London ...
* (English barrister and dramatist)
* John Middleton Murry (English essayist, novelist, and critic)[
*]George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to totalit ...
(British novelist and journalist)
*J. B. Priestley
John Boynton Priestley (; 13 September 1894 – 14 August 1984) was an English novelist, playwright, screenwriter, broadcaster and social commentator.
His Yorkshire background is reflected in much of his fiction, notably in ''The Good Compa ...
(English novelist, playwright, and broadcaster)
* Hardin Scott (Literary character)
*Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley ( ; 4 August 17928 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame during his lifetime, but recognition of his achi ...
(English poet)
*Edith Sitwell
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell (7 September 1887 – 9 December 1964) was a British poet and critic and the eldest of the three literary Sitwells. She reacted badly to her eccentric, unloving parents and lived much of her life with her governess ...
(English poet and critic)[
*]Stephen Spender
Sir Stephen Harold Spender (28 February 1909 – 16 July 1995) was an English poet, novelist and essayist whose work concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry by th ...
(English poet, novelist, and essayist)
*Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as '' Treasure Island'', ''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll ...
(Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist)
*Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore (; bn, রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He resh ...
(Bengali
Bengali or Bengalee, or Bengalese may refer to:
*something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia
* Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region
* Bengali language, the language they speak
** Bengali alphabet, the w ...
poet, novelist, musician, painter and playwright)[
* Alec Waugh (British novelist)][
*]Evelyn Waugh
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (; 28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966) was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer. His most famous works include the early satires '' Decl ...
* (English novelist, travel writer, and biographer)
* Anna Wickham (British poet)
Theatre and film
*Simon Amstell
Simon Marc Amstell (born 29 November 1979) is a British comedian, writer and director. He wrote and directed the films '' Carnage'' (2017) and ''Benjamin'' (2018). His work on television has included presenting '' Popworld'' and '' Never Mind th ...
(English comedian, television presenter, screenwriter and actor)
* Dame Peggy Ashcroft (English actress)
*Peter Barkworth
Peter may refer to:
People
* List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name
* Peter (given name)
** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church
* Peter (surname), a s ...
(English actor)
*Dirk Bogarde
Sir Dirk Bogarde (born Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde; 28 March 1921 – 8 May 1999) was an English actor, novelist and screenwriter. Initially a matinée idol in films such as '' Doctor in the House'' (1954) for the Rank Org ...
* (English actor and novelist)[Jury, Louise]
"The private world of Dirk Bogarde"
''Independent.co.uk'', 28 March 2007 (Retrieved 18 June 2009)
* Michael Byrne nglish actorBorn, schooled and resided in Hampstead
*Richard Burton (Welsh actor)["What I've Learned: Peter O'Toole"](_blank)
''Esquire.com'', 17 February 2007 (Retrieved 18 June 2009)
*Rhys Matthew Bond (British-born actor whose family moved to Canada when he was 10 years old)
*Emilia Clarke (English actress)
*Tom Conti (Scottish actor)
*Peter Cook (English satirist, writer and comedian)
*Judi Dench, Dame Judi Dench (English actress, widow of Michael Williams)[Waterman, Ivan]
"I've got Judi on my mind"
''The Independent'', 23 March 1998
*Gerald du Maurier * (English actor and theatre manager)[
*]Stephen Fry
Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English actor, broadcaster, comedian, director and writer. He first came to prominence in the 1980s as one half of the comic double act Fry and Laurie, alongside Hugh Laurie, with the two starring ...
* (English actor, screenwriter, playwright, comedian)
*Ricky Gervais (British comedian, actor, director, and writer)
*Michael Gothard (British actor)
*Laurence Harvey (British actor)
*Mamoun Hassan (Saudi-born British Film Maker)
*Jim Henson (American puppeteer and filmmaker)
*Sophie Hunter (English theatre and opera director, wife of actor Benedict Cumberbatch)
*Jeremy Irons (English actor) and Sinéad Cusack (Irish actress)
*Wolf Kahler (German actor)
*Hugh Manning (English actor)
*Margaret Nolan * (actress, artist, model)
*Peter O'Toole (Irish actor)
*Harold Pinter (British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor)
*Karel Reisz (Czech-born British filmmaker)[Corliss, Richard; White, Arthur]
"When Acting Becomes Alchemy"
''Time.com'', 7 September 1981 (Retrieved 29 June 2009)
*Ralph Richardson (English actor)
*Ridley Scott (British film director and producer)
*Alastair Sim (Scottish actor)
*Marie Studholme (English musical comedy actress and picture postcard beauty)
*Elizabeth Taylor, Dame Elizabeth Taylor * (London-born British-American actress)
*Marti Webb (British actress and singer)
*Anton Walbrook (Austrian actor, also known as Adolf Wohlbrueck)
*Tom Wilkinson (British actor)
*Finty Williams (English actress, daughter of Judi Dench and Michael Williams)
*Michael Williams (actor), Michael Williams (English actor, late husband of Judi Dench)
Visual arts and architecture
*Mary Adshead (English painter, illustrator and designer)
*Helen Allingham (English watercolour painter and illustrator)
*Charles Baxter (painter), Charles Baxter (English portrait painter)
*Cecil Beaton * (English photographer, interior and stage designer)["Cecil Beaton (1904-1980), Photographer, designer and writer"](_blank)
''NPG.org.uk'' (Retrieved 18 June 2009)
*Reginald Blomfield (British architect)
*Robert Polhill Bevan (English painter and lithographer)[
*Dorothy Bohm (Königsberg-born photographer)
* Jean de Bosschère (after 1944: Jean de Boschère) (Belgian (French) poet, author, essayist, painter, illustrator, sculptor)]
*Arthur Boyd (Australian painter)["Biography: Arthur Boyd (1920–1999)"](_blank)
''Galeriaaniela.com.au'' (Retrieved 18 June 2009)
*Frank Brangwyn (Anglo-Welsh water colourist, engraver and illustrator)[
*Patrick Caulfield (British photorealist artist)]
*Basil Champneys (British architect)
*Ewan Christian (British architect)
*John Constable
John Constable (; 11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for revolutionising the genre of landscape painting with his pictures of Dedham Vale, th ...
(English landscape painter)["Biography: Constable"]
''VAM.ac.uk'' (Retrieved 18 June 2009)
*Luis Ricardo Falero (Spanish painter)
*Horace Field (British architect)
*Walter Field (English painter)
*Lucian Freud (Berlin-born British painter)
*Naum Gabo (Russian sculptor)
*Nick Gentry (English portrait artist)
*Mark Gertler (artist), Mark Gertler (British painter)
*Kate Greenaway (British illustrator)[
*Ernő Goldfinger (Hungarian-born architect and furniture designer)]
*Walter Gropius (German architect and founder of the Bauhaus, Bauhaus School)
*John Heartfield (German photomontage artist)[
*Barbara Hepworth (English sculptor)]["Mondrian In London" (''Studio International'', December 1966)](_blank)
''Snap-Dragon.com'' (Retrieved 18 June 2009)
* Frank Holl (English painter and royal family, royal portraitist)
*John Linnell (English painter)
*Berthold Lubetkin (Russian émigré architect)
*Bernard Meadows (English Sculptor)
*Lee Miller (American photographer)[Conrad, Peter]
"The Miller's tale"
''Guardian.co.uk'', 4 December 2005 (Retrieved 18 June 2009)
*Marie-Louise von Motesiczky (Austrian painter)
*Henry Moore (English sculptor)
*Piet Mondrian (Dutch painter)
*Ben Nicholson (English abstract painter)[
*Roland Penrose (English surrealist artist, poet, and art collector)]
*Arthur Rackham (English book illustrator)[
*Brian Robb (English artist, illustrator and cartoonist)
*George Romney (painter), George Romney (English portrait painter)][
*William Rothenstein (painter, writer, lecturer)
*Frank O. Salisbury (English artist; built his house, Sarum Chase, at Hampstead)
*George Gilbert Scott (English architect)][
*Henry Courtney Selous (English painter)][Keats House]
*Richard Norman Shaw (British architect)[
*Eric Slater (English woodcut artist)
*Alfred Stevens (sculptor), Alfred Stevens (British sculptor)][
*Vernon Ward (British painter)
]
Politics and social activism
*H.H. Asquith (British Liberal Prime Minister 1908–1916)
*Henrietta Barnett (English social reformer and author, married to Samuel Augustus Barnett)[
*Samuel Augustus Barnett (Anglican clergyman and social reformer)][
*Aneurin Bevan (Welsh Labour Party politician)]
*Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor, Henry Brooke (British Conservative Party politician)[Elrington, C R (Editor); Baker, T F T; Bolton, Diane K; Croot, Patricia E C]
"A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 9", p.33–42
''British-History.ac.uk'', 1989 (Retrieved 18 June 2009)
*Anthony Crosland (British Labour Party politician)[
*Andrew Fisher (Australian Prime Minister 1908–1909, 1910–1913)
*Michael Foot (British Labour Party politician and journalist)]
*Charles de Gaulle (French general and statesman, President of France 1959–1969),[Mewshaw, Michael]
"Hampstead High"
''The New York Times'', 1 March 1998 whose family lived at 99 Frognal for the last ten months of their English exile in the Second World War
*Hugh Gaitskell
Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell (9 April 1906 – 18 January 1963) was a British politician who served as Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1955 until his death in 1963. An economics lecturer and wartime civil servant ...
(British Labour Party politician)
*Denis Healey (British Labour Party politician)[
*Louisa Gurney Hoare (writer on education)
*Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse (British liberal politician and sociologist)][Hollis, Patricia (1997), ''Jennie Lee: A Life''. Oxford University Press, p. 25. ]
*Henry Hyndman (English writer and socialist politician)[
*Douglas Jay (British Labour Party politician)][
*Roy Jenkins (British Labour Party politician)][
*Muhammad Ali Jinnah (lawyer, statesman and the founder of Pakistan)
*Lord Leverhulme (English industrialist, philanthropist, and Liberal Party politician)][
*Ramsay MacDonald (British Labour politician and twice Prime Minister)]
*Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (Czech philosopher and politician living in exile in Platts Lane during the First World War; in 1918 became first President of the Czechoslovakia)
*Temple Moore (British architect)
*Onora O'Neill (British philosopher, cross bench member of the House of Lords)
*Frank Pakenham, Frank Pakenham later Lord Longford (British Labour Party politician)[
*William Pitt the Elder (British Prime Minister)][
*Barbara Robb (British campaigner for the elderly)
*Adrian Gilbert Scott (British architect)]
*Sir Neil Shields (British Conservative Party politician and businessman)
*Harry Vane (English statesman and Member of Parliament, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony 1636–1637)[
*Beatrice Webb (British sociologist, economist, and socialist reformer; married to Sidney Webb)][English Heritage Blue Plaques](_blank)
Retrieved 22 March 2010)
*Sidney Webb (British economist, socialist reformer and co-founder of the London School of Economics)[
]
Science and medicine
*Edgar Adrian, Lord Edgar Adrian (British electrophysiology, electrophysiologist, recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize in Medicine)
*Mark Akenside (English physician)
*W. W. Rouse Ball (English mathematician)
*Hugh Kerr Anderson (British physiologist and educator)
*Edward Victor Appleton (English physicist)
*George Armstrong (physician), George Armstrong (Scottish pharmacist and physician)
*Ronald Aylmer Fisher (English statistician and evolutionary biologist)[
*Thomas Balogh, Baron Balogh, Thomas Balogh (Hungarian economist)]
*Henry Hallett Dale, Henry Dale (English pharmacologist, recipient of the 1936 Nobel Prize in Medicine)[
*Anna Freud (Austrian child psychologist, daughter of Sigmund Freud)
*Sigmund Freud (Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist)]
*Harold Gillies (New Zealand-born, otolaryngologist and plastic surgeon)[
*Sir Alexander Houston FRS FRSE
*Andrew Huxley (English physiologist and biophysics, biophysicist, recipient of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Medicine)
*Julian Huxley (English evolutionary biologist, half brother of Andrew Huxley)][
*Florence Nightingale (English nursing pioneer and statistician)
*Karl Pearson (British statistician)][
*Selwyn Selwyn-Clarke (British physician and barrister)
*William Sharpey (Scottish physiologist and anatomist)]
*Rupert Sheldrake (English scientist and author)
*Marie Stopes (British palaeobotanist and birth control pioneer)
*Joseph Warren Zambra (Pioneering photographer, optician and co-founter of the scientific instrument makers Negretti and Zambra)
Media, journalism, and broadcasting
*Ernest Belfort Bax (British Marxist journalist and philosopher)
*Henry Brailsford (journalist)[
*John Passmore Edwards (journalist, newspaper owner and philanthropist)][
*Judy Finnigan (broadcaster, married to Richard Madeley)]
*Clement Freud (broadcaster, writer, politician)["Tributes paid to a British institution"](_blank)
''HamHigh.co.uk'', 16 April 2009 (Retrieved 18 June 2009)
*John Lawrence Hammond (British journalist and writer on social history)[
*Richard Madeley (broadcaster, married to Judy Finnigan)][The Biography Channel (UK)]
Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan Biography
Retrieved 23 January 2011
*Jonathan Romain (rabbi, Doctor of Philosophy, MBE, religious and social leader, writer and broadcaster)
*Charles Saatchi (advertising executive and art collector)
Sport
* Son Heung-min, Heung-min Son (South Korean Football player, footballer)
*Andrey Arshavin (Russian association football, footballer)["Arshavin answers Arsenal fans’ questions!"](_blank)
''ArseneKnowsBest.wordpress.com'', 10 June 2009 (Retrieved 18 June 2009)
*Chris Bonington * (British mountaineer)
*Harriet Dart (British Tennis, tennis player)
*Harold Evans (cricketer), Harold Evans (Cricketer)
*Cesc Fàbregas (Spanish footballer)
*Thierry Henry (French footballer)
*Damon Hill
Damon Graham Devereux Hill, (born 17 September 1960) is a British former professional racing driver from England and the 1996 Formula One World Champion. He is the son of Graham Hill, and, along with Nico Rosberg, one of two sons of a Formula ...
* (British racing driver)
*Alexander Hleb (Belarusian footballer)
*Tiago Ilori * (Portuguese footballer)
*Reginald Macaulay (Old Etonians F.C., Old Etonian amateur association football, footballer, veteran FA Cup Finals 1881 to 1883, lived in later life at Eton Avenue and was buried at the Parish Church)
*Gillian McKeith (television personality and author)
*Samir Nasri (French footballer)
*Robin van Persie (Dutch footballer)
*Patrick Vieira (French footballer)
*Christian Eriksen (Danish footballer)
*Geoffrey Wood (Cricketer)
Other
*Gilbert Abbott à Beckett (English humourist)
*Edgar Adrian, Lord Edgar Adrian (philosopher)
*Richard Amner (English Presbyterian minister)
* John Thompson McKellar Anderson, Major John Thompson McKellar Anderson Victoria Cross, VC Distinguished Service Order, DSO (recipient of the Victoria Cross)
*Richard Arden, 1st Baron Alvanley, Richard Arde (barrister and politician)
*Cyril Asquith, Baron Asquith of Bishopstone, Cyril Asquith (barrister, judge and Law Lord)
*Raymond Asquith (barrister and army officer)
*A. J. Ayer, Sir A. J. Ayer (philosopher)
*Sir Richard Burton (explorer and diplomat)
*Kenneth Clark, Lord Clark (art historian)
*King Constantine II, King Constantine and Queen Anne-Marie of Greece (exiled monarchs of Greece)
*Fritz Dupre, iron and manganese ore merchant, known as the "Manganese Ore King"
*Maxime de la Falaise (English model, designer and food writer; daughter of Oswald Birley)[''The Times'']
"Obituary: Maxime de la Falaise"
9 May 2009. Retrieved 24 January 2011.
*David Devant (magician)[
*Margaret Gardiner (art collector), Margaret Gardiner (British art collector and peace campaigner)
*Thomas Field Gibson (manufacturer and benefactor)
*Ernst Gombrich, Sir Ernst Gombrich (art historian)][Conrad, Peter]
"History man"
''Guardian.co.uk'', 2 October 2005 (Retrieved 18 June 2009)
*Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh (brewing magnate and philanthropist)[English Heritage]
History of Kenwood House
Retrieved 23 January 2011
*Rowland Hill (postal reformer), Rowland Hill (postal reformer)[
*Friedrich von Hügel (theologian)][
*Leonard Huxley (writer), Leonard Huxley (schoolteacher and biographer)][
*]Robert Laurie Morant
Sir Robert Laurie Morant, (7 April 1863 – 13 March 1920) was an English administrator and educationalist.
Career overview
Born in Hampstead, Morant was the older brother of Amy Morant. He was educated at Winchester College and New College, O ...
* (English educator and administrator)[Bentley, Michael (1999)]
''Politics without democracy, 1815-1914''
Wiley-Blackwell, p. 278.
*William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield (barrister and judge)
*Flinders Petrie (Egyptologist)[
*Caroline Anne James Skeel (educator)]
*Michael Ventris (classical scholar and paleographer)[
*Nicholas Winton, Sir Nicholas George Winton (British humanitarian)
]
Notes and references
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People from Hampstead