# 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 else had important connections to make to the town.

## 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 (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

* Mary Farmer (1940-2021), textile artist and designer
* 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

## 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
* Ritchie (vocalist) (born 1952), British-Brazilian musician

## 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