Among those who were born in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, or have dwelt within the borders of the modern borough are (''in alphabetical order''):

Kingston upon Thames (town)

Joss Ackland Sidney Edmond Jocelyn Ackland CBE (born 29 February 1928) is an English retired actor who has appeared in more than 130 film and television roles. He was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for portraying Jock Del ...

, actor, lived at Ravenswood Court in Coombe * Clara Amfo, radio presenter (1984) * Nigel Barley, anthropologist (1947) *

Cyril Joe Barton Cyril Joe Barton, VC (5 June 1921 – 31 March 1944) was a Second World War bomber pilot in the Royal Air Force who received the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwe ...

, World War II hero * Harold Bauer, pianist, born 1873 *

Erin Boag Erin Boag (born 17 March 1975) is a professional ballroom dancer. She has danced from the age of three, originally starting ballet and later moving into ballroom dance, ballroom, Latin dance, Latin and Jazz dance, jazz. Born in Auckland, New Zeal ...

, professional

ballroom dance Ballroom dance is a set of partner dances, which are enjoyed both socially and competitively around the world, mostly because of its performance and entertainment aspects. Ballroom dancing is also widely enjoyed on stage, film, and television. ...

r and star of ''

Strictly Come Dancing ''Strictly Come Dancing'' (informally known as ''Strictly'') is a British dance contest show in which celebrities partner with professional dancers to compete in mainly ballroom and Latin dance. Each couple is scored by a panel of usually 4 ...

'' (1975) * Sydney James Bounds (1920–2006), author * Derek Bourgeois, composer (1941) * Tom Brown, satirist (1662–1704), lived at Kingston for three years when schoolmaster there * Timothy Browning, mathematician * John Bryant, journalist * Richard Butler, lead singer of The Psychedelic Furs (1957) * Donald Campbell, car and motorboat racer (1921) * John Cleland, author (1709) * Finn Cole, actor (1995) * Joe Cole, actor (1988) * Terence Conran, industrial designer, restaurateur, retailer and writer *

Matt Cooke Matthew David Cooke (born September 7, 1978) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played sixteen seasons and 1046 games in the National Hockey League (NHL). Cooke won the Stanley Cup with the Pittsburgh Penguins during the ...

, television presenter (1982) * John Cooper, auto engineer (1923) * Peter Cox, lead singer Go West (band) (1955) *

Victoria Crowe Victoria Elizabeth Crowe OBE, DHC, FRSE, MA (RCA) RSA, RSW (born 1945) is a Scottish artist known for her portrait and landscape paintings. She has works in several collections including the National Galleries of Scotland, the National Po ...

, painter (1945) *

William Daniell William Daniell (1769–1837) was an English Landscape art, landscape and Marine art, marine painter, and printmaker, notable for his work in aquatint. He travelled extensively in India in the company of his uncle Thomas Daniell, with whom he ...

(1769), artist and engraver * Sandy Denny, singer and musician *

Es Devlin Esmeralda "Es" Devlin (; born 24 September 1971) is an English artist and stage designer who works in a range of media, often mapping light and projected film onto kinetic sculptural forms. Early life Devlin was born in Kingston upon Thames, ...

, stage designer (1971) * Chris Dreja, guitar, bass, and keyboards with 1960s band The Yardbirds (1963-1968)

Box of Frogs Box of Frogs were an English rock music, rock band formed in 1983 by former members of the Yardbirds, who released their first album in 1984. The core group consisted of Chris Dreja, Paul Samwell-Smith, and Jim McCarty. Vocals on their eponym ...

(1983-1986) *

Lisa Faulkner Lisa Tamsin Faulkner (born 19 February 1972) is an actress, presenter and celebrity chef. Early life Faulkner was born in Merton, London, to David Faulkner and Julie (née Day). She lived in Esher and was educated at Tiffin Girls' School in ...

(1973), actor *

Archibald Frazer-Nash Archibald Goodman Frazer Nash (30 June 1889 – 10 March 1965), was an early English motor car designer, engineer, and inventor who specialised in manufacturer of light "cycle cars" and sports cars in England. Nash added his third name Frazer ...

(1889), engineer and car designer *

Nell Tiger Free Nell Tiger Free (born 13 October 1999) is a British actress. She is best known for her role as Leanne Grayson in the television series ''Servant'', and as Myrcella Baratheon in seasons 5 and 6 of the television series ''Game of Thrones,'' repl ...

(1999), actress *

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 i ...

(1867–1933), author *

George Fisher Gilmour George Fisher Gilmour (1904-1984) was a British artist, playwright, and filmmaker. As a genre painter, he worked primarily in oil and watercolor. Biography George Fisher Gilmour was born on April 12, 1904, in Kingston upon Thames to George Str ...

(1904–1984), artist, playwright, and filmmaker *

Dora Gordine Dora Gordine (8 June 1895 – 29 December 1991) was an Estonian Jewish Modernist figurative and portraitist sculptor. Her early career was influenced by the Noor Eesti (‘Young Estonia’) group of artists who favoured Art Nouveau. She moved ...

(1895–1991), sculptor, lived at Dorich House (c 1937-1991), Kingston Vale, which is now a museum. *

Pamela Green Phyllis Pamela Green (28 March 1929 – 7 May 2010) was an English glamour model and actress, best known at the end of the 1950s and early 1960s. She modeled for Zoltán Glass and his brother Stephen, Horace Roye, Jean Straker, Bill Brandt, ...

(1929–2010), glamour model, was born in Kingston * Earl Haig (1861–1928), World War I general, lived at Ravenswood Court in Coombe *

Edward Highmore Edward Thomas Highmore (born 3 April 1961) is an English actor. He was born in Kingston upon Thames, London. Life and career Best known for playing Leo Howard in the 1980s BBC drama ''Howards' Way''. He also appeared in '' Doctor Who'', playing ...

(1961), actor * Herbert Hill (1867), cricketer * Neon Hitch, singer (1986) * Tom Holland (1996), actor *

John Hoyland John Hoyland RA (12 October 1934 – 31 July 2011) was a London-based British artist. He was one of the country's leading abstract painters.

, artist, built and worked from a studio in Kingston upon Thames from 1964 * Len Hutton (1916), English Test cricketer * John Inverdale (1957), BBC broadcaster, born in

Plymouth Plymouth () is a port city and unitary authority in South West England. It is located on the south coast of Devon, approximately south-west of Exeter and south-west of London. It is bordered by Cornwall to the west and south-west. Plymouth ...

, but residing in Kingston upon Thames from 1964 *

P.D.James Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, (3 August 1920 – 27 November 2014), known professionally as P. D. James, was an English novelist and life peer. Her rise to fame came with her series of detective novels featuring th ...

author, resident 1961-1966 * Stuart Latham (1912), first producer of

Coronation Street ''Coronation Street'' is an English soap opera created by Granada Television and shown on ITV since 9 December 1960. The programme centres around a cobbled, terraced street in Weatherfield, a fictional town based on inner-city Salford. Origi ...

Dean Lewington Dean Scott Lewington (born 18 May 1984) is an English professional Association football, footballer and coach who plays as a Defender (association football)#Full-back, left-back, as well as a Centre Back, centre-back for club Milton Keynes Dons ...

, footballer (1984) *

Sarah Lindsay Sarah Lindsay (born 1958) is an American poet from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. In addition to writing the two chapbooks ''Bodies of Water'' and ''Insomniac's Lullabye'', Lindsay has authored two books in the Grove Press Poetry Series: ''Primate Behavio ...

(1980), Olympic speed skater * Margaret Lockwood (1916–1990), actress, born in Karachi but lived her later years in Kingston * Gren Lucas (1935-2022), Botanist and Conservationist at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. From 1995 lived at Hornchurch Close, Ham, Kingston upon Thames. * John Martyn, singer, guitarist and songwriter (1948) * Debbie McGee, television presenter and magician (1958) * Jonny Lee Miller (1972), actor * Jeremy Moon (1934), artist * Ivor Moreton (1908–1984), pianist and singer, lived in Coombe.Principal Probate Registry. ''Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration made in the Probate Registries of the High Court of Justice in England''. London, England * Nicky Morgan, (1972) politician * Eadweard Muybridge (1830), photographer *

Ingrid Newkirk Ingrid Elizabeth Newkirk (née Ward; born June 11, 1949) is a British-American animal activist and the president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the world's largest animal rights organization. She is the author of several ...

(1949) founder of PETA *

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(1982), actor * Tom Onslow-Cole, British racing driver (1987) * Mike Osborn (1917), military officer *

Katherine Parkinson Katherine Jane Parkinson (born 9 March 1978) is an English actress. She appeared in Channel 4's '' The IT Crowd'' comedy series as Jen Barber, for which she received a British Comedy Best TV Actress Award in 2009 and 2014, and was nominated twice ...

(1978), actress * Roy Plomley (1914), radio broadcaster, producer, playwright *

George Yeomans Pocock George Yeomans Pocock (March 23, 1891 – March 19, 1976) was a leading designer and builder of racing shells in the 20th Century. Pocock-built shells began to win U.S. Intercollegiate Rowing Association championships in 1923. He achieved interna ...

(1891), boatbuilder *" Rat Scabies" (Christopher Millar), drummer for The Damned (1957) *

Steven Reid Steven John Reid (born 10 March 1981) is a former professional footballer who played as a right back, having previously played most of his career in midfield. He was most recently the first team coach at Nottingham Forest. Reid began his caree ...

, footballer (1981) * Kelly Reilly (1977), actor *

Declan Rice Declan Rice (born 14 January 1999) is an English professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Premier League club Arsenal and the England national team. Rice began his professional career at West Ham United, having been re ...

, footballer for West Ham United and the England national team (1999) * Lynn Ripley a.k.a. Twinkle (singer) (1948) * Patrick Roberts, professional footballer (1997) * Tom Rowlands of the Chemical Brothers (1971) *

Anna Rust Anna Rust (born 3 May 1995) is an English actress and filmmaker. She began her career as a child actress in the ITV drama ''Doctor Zhivago'' (2002) and the film ''The Brothers Grimm'' (2005). She has since appeared in the Amazon Prime series ''C ...

(1995), actor * James Saunders, composer (1972) * Luke Shaw, footballer for

Manchester United F.C. Manchester United Football Club, commonly referred to as Man United (often stylised as Man Utd), or simply United, is a professional football club based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. The club competes in the Premier League, ...

(1995) * Lucie Silvas, singer (1977) *

Tim Smith Tim, Timothy or Timmy Smith may refer to: Musicians *T. V. Smith (born 1956), British singer and songwriter *Tim Smith (Cardiacs) (1961–2020), English singer-songwriter and frontman of Cardiacs *Timmy Trumpet (born 1982), Australian DJ and produ ...

, singer and guitarist for

Cardiacs Cardiacs are an English rock band formed in Kingston upon Thames by Tim Smith (lead guitar and vocals) and his brother Jim (bass, backing vocals) in 1977 under the name Cardiac Arrest. The band's sound fused circus, baroque pop and medieval mu ...

(1961-2020) *

James Squire James Squire, alternatively known as James Squires, (18 December 1754 – 16 May 1822) was a First Fleet convict transported to Australia. Squire is credited with the first successful cultivation of hops in Australia around the start of the 19t ...

transported ''Transported'' is an Australian convict melodrama film directed by W. J. Lincoln. It is considered a lost film. Plot In England, Jessie Grey is about to marry Leonard Lincoln but the evil Harold Hawk tries to force her to marry him and she wou ...

convict and brewer in Australia (1754) * Alec Stewart, former England cricket captain *

Stormzy Michael Ebenezer Kwadjo Omari Owuo Jr. (born 26 July 1993), known professionally as Stormzy, is a British rapper, singer and songwriter. In 2014, he gained attention on the UK underground music scene through his ''Wicked Skengman'' series of f ...

, rapper, lives in Kingston * Dave Swarbrick, folk fiddle player (1941) * Lynne Truss, author, born in Kingston upon Thames in 1955 * Jacqueline Wilson, grew up and went to school in Kingston and still lives there today * Steven Wilson, musician (1967)

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Kingston Kingston may refer to: Places * List of places called Kingston, including the five most populated: ** Kingston, Jamaica ** Kingston upon Hull, England ** City of Kingston, Victoria, Australia ** Kingston, Ontario, Canada ** Kingston upon Thames, ...