The following list includes notable people associated with the London Borough of Enfield. *

Andy Abraham Andrew Abraham (born 17 July 1964) is a British singer. He was the runner-up in the second UK series of TV talent show ''The X Factor'' in 2005 to Shayne Ward, and also represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008. Before ...

(b. 1964) – singer * Abz Love (b. Richard Breen, 1979) – musician * Adele (b. 1988) – singer/songwriter *

Kacey Barnfield Kacey Louisa Barnfield (born 14 January 1988), also credited as Kacey Clarke, is an English actress. As a teenager she played Maddie Gilks in the long running British television series ''Grange Hill'', on which she was in six series. As an adult ...

(b. 1988) – actress *

Joseph Bazalgette Sir Joseph William Bazalgette CB (; 28 March 181915 March 1891) was a 19th-century English civil engineer. As chief engineer of London's Metropolitan Board of Works, his major achievement was the creation (in response to the Great Stink of 1 ...

(1819–1891) – civil engineer who rescued London's sewerage system * Sir Anthony Berry (1925–1984) – politician * Black the Ripper (1987–2020) - rapper, entrepreneur and cannabis activist * James Blake (b. 1988) – musician *

Bernard Bresslaw Bernard Bresslaw (25 February 193411 June 1993) was a British actor. He is best known as a member of the ''Carry On'' film franchise. Bresslaw also worked on television and stage, did recordings and wrote a series of poetry. Biography Bernard B ...

(1934–1993) – actor * David Burrowes (b. 1969) – politician * Chas & Dave *

Charles Childerstone Charles Childerstone (3 July 1872 – 29 May 1947) was an English operatic tenor and actor who after a career on the stage including a period with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company from 1896 to 1903 later had a career on the music halls and in f ...

(1872-1947), tenor and actor * Roy Chipolina (b. 1983) – footballer *

Dodie Clark Dorothy Miranda Clark (born 11 April 1995), known mononymously as Dodie (stylised dodie), is an English singer, songwriter, author and YouTuber. Dodie began her career uploading original songs and covers to YouTube. She has over 210 videos, o ...

(b. 1995) – musician * Charles Cowden Clarke (1787–1877) – author *

Sharon D. Clarke Sharon Delores Clarke (born 12 August 1966) is an English actress and singer. She is a three-time Olivier award winner, and is best known to television audiences for her role as Lola Griffin in the medical drama ''Holby City'', and as Grace O'Br ...

(b. 1966) – actress and singer *

Benjamin Clementine Benjamin Sainte-Clémentine (; born 7 December 1988) is a British composer, musician and actor. Born and raised in London, England, Clementine later moved to Paris, France, where he experienced homelessness for a time. After moving back to Lond ...

- singer/songwriter * Jim Crace (b. 1946) – writer *

Paul Dacre Paul Michael Dacre (; born 14 November 1948) is an English journalist and the former long-serving editor of the British right-wing tabloid the ''Daily Mail''. He is also editor-in-chief of DMG Media, which publishes the ''Daily Mail'', ''The Ma ...

- former ''Daily Mail'' editor *

John Dalton John Dalton (; 5 or 6 September 1766 – 27 July 1844) was an English chemist, physicist and meteorologist. He is best known for introducing the atomic theory into chemistry, and for his research into colour blindness, which he had. Colour b ...

(b. 1943) – musician, bassist with the Kinks *

Alfie Deyes Alfred Sidney Deyes (born 17 September 1993) is an English YouTuber, vlogger and businessman. On 4 September 2014, he released his first book, '' The Pointless Book''. Since 2014, he has released three books in the ''Pointless Book'' series and ...

(b. 1993) – YouTuber and businessman *

Benjamin Disraeli Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British statesman and Conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He played a central role in the creation o ...

(1804–1881) – politician, prime minister and novelist *

Isaac D'Israeli Isaac D'Israeli (11 May 1766 – 19 January 1848) was a British writer, scholar and the father of British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. He is best known for his essays and his associations with other men of letters. Life and career Isaac wa ...

(1766–1848) – writer *

Michael Duberry Michael Wayne Duberry (born 14 October 1975) is an English former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He started his career with Premier League side Chelsea, and also played in the top flight for Leeds United and Reading, and i ...

(b. 1975) – footballer * Rick Edwards (b. 1979) – radio and television presenter * Tim Eggar (b. 1951) – politician * Neale Fenn (b. 1977) – football player and manager *

Caroline Flack Caroline Louise Flack (9 November 1979 – 15 February 2020) was an English television and radio presenter and actress. She won the twelfth series of BBC’s ''Strictly Come Dancing'' in 2014 and presented ''The X Factor'' and later '' Love Isl ...

(1979–2020) – television presenter * Bruce Forsyth (1928–2017) – TV personality * John French (1907–1966) – photographer * Mike Gatting (b. 1957) – cricketer *

Anthony Giddens Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens (born 18 January 1938) is an English sociologist who is known for his theory of structuration and his holistic view of modern societies. He is considered to be one of the most prominent modern sociologists and is t ...

(b. 1938) - sociologist *

Alison Goldfrapp Alison Elizabeth Margaret Goldfrapp (born 13 May 1966) is an English musician and record producer, known as the vocalist of English electronic music duo Goldfrapp. Early life Goldfrapp was born on 13 May 1966, in Enfield, London, the youngest o ...

(b. 1966) *

Alan Hopes Alan Stephen Hopes (born 17 March 1944) is a British Roman Catholic prelate, and former Anglican priest. From 2013 - 2022 he served as the Bishop of East Anglia and is currently the Apostolic Administrator of the same diocese until the installat ...

* Chris Hughes (b. 1947) – quiz contestant * Nigar Jamal * David Jason *

Jay1 Jason Andrè Juami (born 27 January 1998), better known by his stage name Jay1 (stylised as JAY1), is a British rapper and songwriter who is from Coventry. He is of Congolese ancestry. He has had two top 20 singles in the UK. Jay1 is best known ...

- rapper * Hugh Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Putney – politician * Russell Kane – comedian * Boris Karloff – actor *

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 tuberculo ...

– poet *

Joe Keyes Joe Keyes may refer to: * Joe Keyes (musician) * Joe Keyes (rugby league) Joseph Keyes (born 17 September 1995) is an Ireland international rugby league footballer who plays as a and for the Halifax Panthers in the Betfred Championship. He h ...

– rugby league player * Kataxenna Kova (b. 1985) – model * Charles Lamb – poet and essayist * Norman Lewis * Terry Lightfoot * Nikki Lilly (b. 2003) – YouTuber *

Jake Livermore Jake Cyril Livermore (born 14 November 1989) is an English professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for club West Bromwich Albion. Livermore began his career at Tottenham Hotspur, spending most of his tenure out on loan at clu ...

* Andy Love *

Iain MacLeod Iain Norman Macleod (11 November 1913 – 20 July 1970) was a British Conservative Party politician and government minister. A playboy and professional bridge player in his twenties, after war service Macleod worked for the Conservative Researc ...

– politician *

Simon Mayo Simon Andrew Hicks Mayo (born 21 September 1958) is an English radio presenter and author who worked for BBC Radio from 1982 until 2022. Mayo has presented across three BBC stations for extended periods. From 1986 to 2001 he worked for Radio ...

Declan McKenna Declan Benedict McKenna (born 24 December 1998) is an English singer-songwriter. He initially gained recognition for winning the Glastonbury Festival's Emerging Talent Competition in 2015. McKenna self-released the song "Brazil", a protest son ...

(b. 1998) – singer-songwriter, music producer, and activist * Paul McKenna * Julia McKenzie * Norris McWhirter *

Ross McWhirter Alan Ross McWhirter (12 August 1925 – 27 November 1975) was, with his twin brother, Norris, the cofounder of the 1955 ''Guinness Book of Records'' (known since 2000 as ''Guinness World Records'') and a contributor to the television programm ...

Colin Metson Colin Peter Metson (born 2 July 1963) is a former English cricketer. He was described by Dickie Bird as "the best wicketkeeper I have seen in England since Alan Knott".Ron Moody *

Gregory Motton Gregory Motton (born September 1961) is a British playwright and author. Best known for the originality of his formally demanding, largely a-political theatre plays at the Royal Court in the 1980s and 1990s, state of the nation satires in the 1 ...

– playwright * Dave Murray – musician, guitarist for Iron Maiden * Harrison Palmer – cricketer * Walter Pater – writer * Trevor Peacock – actor *

William Pitt, Earl of Chatham William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, (15 November 170811 May 1778) was a British statesman of the Whig group who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1766 to 1768. Historians call him Chatham or William Pitt the Elder to distinguish ...

(1708–1778) – Prime Minister and statesmanE.J. Climenson, ''Elizabeth Montagu, The Queen of the Blue-stockings, her correspondence from 1720-1761'' (1906) II, 8 . Pitt lived at South Lodge, Enfield from before 1752 until his purchase of the Montagus' former residence at Hayes, Kent, in 1756. p.cit. 94/ref> *

Lee Pluck Lee Pluck (born 25 March 1982) in Enfield, London, is an English retired professional footballer who played as a defender for Barnet in the Football League The English Football League (EFL) is a league of professional football clubs from ...

(b. 1982) – football player with

Barnet Barnet may refer to: People *Barnet (surname) * Barnet (given name) Places United Kingdom *Chipping Barnet or High Barnet, commonly known as Barnet, one of three focal towns of the borough below. *East Barnet, a district of the borough below; an ...

and Cambridge City * Michael Portillo – politician * Kathryn Prescott (b. 1991) – actress * Megan Prescott (b. 1991) – actress * Michelle Ryan (b. 1984) – ''

EastEnders ''EastEnders'' is a Television in the United Kingdom, British soap opera created by Julia Smith (producer), Julia Smith and Tony Holland which has been broadcast on BBC One since February 1985. Set in the fictional borough of Walford in the Ea ...

'' actress * Scorcher (b. 1986) – rapper, actor, producer *

Sam Sloma Samuel Mark Sloma (born 29 October 1982) is an English former footballer, who played defender/midfielder. His teams included Woking, Wimbledon, and Dagenham & Redbridge. He played for the Great Britain football team at the 2009 Maccabia ...

(b. 1982) - footballer * Nathan Smith (b. 1987) – footballer * William Smith (1813–1893) – lexicographer * Louie Spence (b. 1969) - dancer * Rachel Stevens (b. 1978) – singer/songwriter, band member of S Club 7 *

Derek Taunt Derek Roy Taunt (16 November 1917 (Note 1) – 15 July 2004) was a British mathematician who worked as a codebreaker during World War II at Bletchley Park. Taunt attended Enfield Grammar, then the City of London School. He studied mathemat ...

Norman Tebbit Norman Beresford Tebbit, Baron Tebbit (born 29 March 1931) is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he served in the Cabinet from 1981 to 1987 as Secretary of State for Employment (1981–1983), Secretary of State for Trad ...

, Lord Tebbit * Alan Teulon, land surveyor *Professor Philip Tew *

Andrew Turnbull, Baron Turnbull Andrew Turnbull, Baron Turnbull, (born 21 January 1945) is a British politician and civil servant who served as the head of Her Majesty's Civil Service and Cabinet Secretary between 2002 and 2005, when he was succeeded by Sir Gus O'Donnell. ...

* Stephen Twigg *

Chris Walker-Hebborn Christopher James Walker-Hebborn (born 1 July 1990) is an English swimmer who competed for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2016 Summer Olympics, winning a silver medal at the latter. A successful youth and junior athlete, Walke ...

– swimmer, gold medallist in 100m backstroke at the 2014 European Championships and Commonwealth Games * Murray Walker * Jessie Wallace (b. 1971) – ''

'' actress * Tion Wayne - rapper *

Neil 'Roberto' Williams Neil Roberto Williams (born 20 July 1978), known by his stage name Roberto, is a British radio presenter, television presenter, voice-over artist and DJ. Williams was born in London. He currently presents the breakfast show on Heart 80s from H ...

– radio and television presenter * Paul Whitehouse * Amy Winehouse (1983–2011) – singer/songwriter * Ray Winstone

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