# List of people from Tonbridge

This is a list of people from Tonbridge, Kent, England.

## Born in Tonbridge

* Elias Allen (1588–1653), maker of sundials and scientific instruments
* Timothy Allen (born 1971), photojournalist$^†$
* Harry Andrews (1911–89), actor
* Anna Atkins (1799–1871), botanist and photographer
* Edwin Bramall (1923–2019), soldier
* Ron Challis (1932–2001), football referee
* John George Children (1777–1852), chemist, mineralogist and zoologist
* William Cobbold (1862–1922), England international football player
* Sir James Darling (1899–1955) Chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Commission
* Marcus Dillistone (born 1961) Royal Premiered British film director, and music producer for the Athens 2004 Olympic Opening & Closing Ceremonies
* Richard de Clare (1130–76), Earl
* Neville Duke (1922–2007), World War II pilot and world air speed holder in 1953
* Desmond Dupré, (1916–1974), lutenist and early music pioneer
* Henry Fowler (1858–1933), educationist
* Robin Hanley (1968–96), cricketer
* Harold Langhorne (1866–1932), soldier
* Shane MacGowan (born 1957), singer-songwriter
* Cecil Powell (1903–1969), Nobel Prize Winner for Physics$^†$
* Reginald Punnett (1875–1967) geneticist
* James Reynolds (1866–1950), cricketer
* Malcolm Simmons (1946-2014) British Speedway Champion 1976–77 and former captain of England team
* Ray Singer (born 19??), record producer
* Johnnie Stewart (1917–2005), television producer
* Walter Tirel (1065–1100+), nobleman
* Sir Skinner Turner (1868–1935), chief judge of the British Supreme Court for China
* James Welldon (1854–1937), Bishop of Calcutta
* Sir Dick White (1906–1983), intelligence officer
* Claud Woolley (1886–1962), cricketer
* Frank Woolley (1887–1978), cricketer
* Ian Wynne (born 1973), Olympic canoeist
* ([Robert Smith]) (born 1981), Racing driver

## Old Juddians

These people attended The Judd School
* Timothy Allen (born 1971), photojournalist
* Fergus Anckorn (born 1918), magician and soldier
* Luke Baldwin (born 1990), rugby player
* Torsten Bell, Labour Party politician
* Humphrey Burton (born 1931), broadcaster, presenter and director
* William Cockcroft (born c1950), Chief Scout Commissioner
* Rob Crilly (born 1973), journalist and author
* Richard Dixon, British chemist, fellow of the Royal Society, and winner of the Rumford Medal
* Neville Duke (1922–2007), World War II pilot and world air speed holder in 1953
* Angus Fairhurst (1966–2008), artist
* Taylor Fawcett, actor from Life of Riley
* David Fulton (born 1971), cricketer
* John Gathercole, (1937–2010), Archdeacon of Dudley
* Max Godden, (died 2000), Archdeacon of Lewis
* Tom Greatrex (born 1974), MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West
* Harold Hailstone (1897–1982), cartoonist and illustrator; brother of Bernard
* Bernard Hailstone (1910–1987), artist; brother of Harold
* Guy Hands (born 1959), financier
* Donald Hodge (1894–2001), First World War veteran
* Jack Holden (actor), actor
* George Henry Horton (born 1993), filmmaker
* Harry Kendall (born 1996), athlete
* Terence Lewin (1920–99), First Sea Lord and Chief of Defence Staff
* Sir Clive Loader, Air Chief Marshal
* Rob Luft (born 1993), jazz guitarist and composer
* Anton Matusevich (born 2001), British tennis player
* Nathaniel Mellors (born 1974), artist & musician
* James Miller, (born 1976), British novelist and academic
* Richard Moth, former Bishop of the Forces and current Bishop of Arundel and Brighton
* David Moule-Evans (1905–1988), composer
* Mr Bingo (born 1979), illustrator
* Geoffrey Paterson (born 1983), conductor
* Cecil Powell (1903-1969), Nobel prize winner in Physics
* Tom Probert (born 1986), cricketer
* Martin Purdy (born 1981), Rugby Union player
* Stuart Skeates, (born 1966), Major General and former Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
* Tim Stanley, journalist
* Rob Warner (academic), (born 1956), British academic
* James Whiteaker (born 1998), athlete
* Michael Willard, (born 1938) cricketer
* Ronald Williams (1906–79), Bishop of Leicester
* Stewart Wood, Baron Wood of Anfield, Member of the House of Lords

## People connected with Tonbridge

* Sir Adrian Baillie (1898–1947), MP for Tonbridge 1937–45
* Hugh de Audley (1289–1347), English ambassador to France, was buried at Tonbridge Priory
* Margaret de Audley (1318–47), baroness and countess, was buried at Tonbridge Priory
* David Bartleet (1929–2002), Bishop of Tonbridge 1982–93
* Brian Castle (born 1949), current bishop of Tonbridge
* Margaret de Clare (1293–1342), countess, was buried at Tonbridge Priory
* Ralph de Stafford (1301–72), nobleman, was buried in Tonbridge Priory
* Richard fitz Gilbert (1030–1091), nobleman, built Tonbridge Castle
* Richard Fitz Gilbert de Clare (died 1136), nobleman, founded Tonbridge Priory and held Tonbridge Castle
* Philip Goodrich (1929–2001), Bishop of Tonbridge from 1973 to 1982
* Jilly Goolden (born 1959), food critic, attended West Kent College
* Arthur Griffith-Boscawen (1865–1946), MP for Tonbridge 1892–1906
* David Halsey (1919–2009), Bishop of Tonbridge 1968–72
* Victoria Hislop (born 1959), author, grew up in Tonbridge
* Dame Kelly Holmes(born 1970), Olympic athlete, attended Hugh Christie School
* Richard Hornby (1922–2007), MP for Tonbridge 1956–74
* Andrea Leadsom (born 1963), educated at Tonbridge Girls' Grammar School
* Robert Norton (1838–1926), MP for Tonbridge 1885–92
* Adrian Quaife-Hobbs (born 1991), racing driver, lives in Tonbridge
* Sophie Rhys-Jones (born 1965), now The Countess of Wessex, attended West Kent College
* Angie Sage (born 1952), author, attended Tonbridge Grammar School for Girls
* Margaret Sharp (born 1938) peer, attended Tonbridge Grammar School for Girls
* Brian Smith (born 1943), Bishop of Tonbridge 1993–2001
* John Stanley (born 1942), MP for Tonbridge and Malling since 1974
* Holman F Stephens (1868–1931), ran a number of railway companies from offices in Tonbridge
* Paul Watson (born 1942), artist and documentary film maker, lives in Tonbridge
* Paul Way (born 1962), golfer, attended Hugh Christie School
* Gerald Williams (1903–89), MP for Tonbridge 1945–56
* Russell White (1896–1979), Bishop of Tonbridge from 1959 to 1968
* Jonathan Williams (born 1993), footballer for Crystal Palace FC, lives in Tonbridge
* Bob Woolmer (1948–2007), cricketer, attended Yardley Court School