# List of people from Royal Tunbridge Wells

Royal Tunbridge Wells is a town in Kent, England. The following is a list of those people who were either born or live(d) in Royal Tunbridge Wells, or made some important contribution to the town. As a spa town Royal Tunbridge Wells was a popular resort for the upper classes, including members of the British royal family.
* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* R
* S
* T
* V
* W
* Y
* See also
* References

## A

* Peter Adolph (1916–1994), Inventor of Subbuteo Table Soccer
* Joe Alwyn (born 1991), actor
* Jonathan Anders (born 1971), Shropshire cricketer
* Anti-Nowhere League, punk rock band

## B

* Luke Baldwin (born 1990), rugby player
* Gary Barden (born 1955), musician
* Reverend Thomas Bayes (1702–1761), mathematician, who lived in Ashton Lodge
* Will Bayley (born 1988), paralympian
* C. A. Bayly (1945–2015), historian
* Jeff Beck (1944–2023), musician
* Rachel Beer (1858–1927), newspaper editor
* Compton Bennett (1900–1974), film director
* Golding Bird (1814–1854), medical writer
* Douglas Booth (born 1992), actor and musician
* Frank W. Boreham (1871–1959), Baptist preacher
* Jo Brand (born 1957), comedian
* William Thomas Brande (1788–1866), chemist
* Gary Brazil (born 1962), football player
* Christopher Brown (born 1943), British composer
* Nick Brown (born 1950), politician
* Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803–1873), author
* Thomas Harrison Burder (1789–1843), physician and author
* Peter Burton (1924–2007), physicist, philosopher, logician
* Ballard Berkeley, British actor

## C

* John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll (1845–1914), Governor General of Canada
* Oliver Chris (born 1978), actor
* George Cohen (born 1939), football player
* Paul Condon, Baron Condon (born 1947), police commissioner
* Emma Corrin (born 1995), actress
* Martin Corry (born 1973), rugby player
* Reverend Arthur Shearly Cripps (1869–1952), missionary and writer
* Sidney Elisabeth Croskery (1901–1990), doctor
* Richard Cumberland (1732–1811), dramatist
* Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham (1887–1963), military officer

## D

* Gerald Charles Dickens (born 1963), actor and performer
* Marcus Dillistone (born 1961), film director
* Sir Howard Douglas, (1776–1861), military officer
* Keith Douglas (1920–1944), poet
* Roy Douglas (1907–2015), classical composer
* Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding (1882–1970), Royal Air Force officer

## E

* John Cox Dillman Engleheart (1784–1862), miniature painter

## F

* Arthur Fagg (1915–1977), cricketer
* Caroline Fry (1787–1846), writer

## G

* Thomas Field Gibson (1803–1889), Tunbridge Wells improvement commissioner and Royal Commissioner for the Great Exhibition of 1851
* Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, artist and educator
* Jilly Goolden (born 1956), television personality
* Léon Goossens (1897–1988), oboist
* Edward Meyrick Goulburn (1818–1897), clergyman and writer ↑
* David Gower (born 1957), cricketer
* Pauline Gower (1910–1947) pilot, commandant of the Women's Air Transport Auxiliary in Second World War
* Sir Robert Gower, MP (1880–1953)
* Sarah Grand (1854–1943), suffragist and "New Woman" writer
* Sir Tyrone Guthrie (1900–1971), theatrical director

## H

* Ker Baillie Hamilton (1804–1889), colonial governor
* Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge (1785–1856), Viceroy of India
* Jake Hill (born 1994), racing driver in the British Touring Car Championship
* Philip Carteret Hill (1821–1894), Nova Scotia politician
* Katrina Hodge, soldier and Miss England 2009

## J

* Louise Jameson (born 1951), actress
* Richard Jones (1790–1855), economist

## L

* Danny La Rue (1927–2009), entertainer
* Enid Lakeman (1903–1995), political reformer
* Duncan Lamont (1918–1978), actor
* Sydney Turing Barlow Lawford (1865–1953), Lieutenant-General and father of actor Peter Lawford
* Ron Ledger (1920–2004), politician
* Henry Bilson Legge (1708–1764), politician
* Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (1848–1939), daughter of Queen Victoria

## M

* Annunzio Paolo Mantovani (1905–1980), conductor
* Patrick Mayhew, Baron Mayhew (1929–2016), politician
* Alec McCowen (1925–2017), actor
* Victor McLaglen (1886–1959), actor

## N

* Richard (Beau) Nash (1674–1762), celebrated dandy and leader of fashion
* William Nicholson (born 1948), writer

## O

* Sir Charles Ogle (1775–1858), naval officer

## P

* Tim Page (1944–2022), photojournalist
* Charles Paulet, 3rd Duke of Bolton (1685–1754), politician
* Tim Pears (born 1956), novelist
* Eliza Phillips (1822/3–1916), conservationist and co-founder of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
* Rose Pipette (born 1986), pop singer with The Pipettes

## R

* Sir Richard Robinson (1849–1928), businessman and local politician
* Richard Rose (born 1982), footballer

## S

* Sir David Lionel Salomons (1851–1925), scientist
* Sarah Sands (born 1961), journalist
* Henry Albert Seymour (1861–1938), secularist, anarchist and gramophone pioneer
* Mary Monica Maxwell-Scott (1852–1920), author
* Dominic Sherwood (born 1990), actor
* Pollie Hirst Simpson MBE (1871–1947), charity organiser and the first agricultural adviser to the National Federation of Women's Institutes (WI)
* Colin Smart (born 1950), rugby player
* Horace Smith (1779–1849), poet and novelist
* Soft Play, musical band
* Jamie Spence (born 1963), golfer
* Sir Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt (1811–1888), naval officer
* Reverend Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing (1835–1926), zoologist
* Gary A. Stevens (born 1962), footballer
* Francis Meadow Sutcliffe (1863–1941), photographer

## T

* William Temple (1833–1919), recipient of the Victoria Cross
* William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863), novelist
* Bob Todd (1921–1992), comedy actor

## V

* Krystal Versace (born 2001), Winner of RuPaul's Drag Race UK (Season 3)
* Sid Vicious (1957–1979), musician

## W

* Virginia Wade (born 1945), tennis player
* H T Waghorn (1842–1930), cricket historian
* Scott Wagstaff (born 1990), footballer
* Charity Wakefield (born 1981), actress
* Arthur Waley (1889–1966), Orientalist
* Nick Wallace (born 1972), writer
* Frank Weare (1896–1971), World War I flying ace
* William Webber (1800–1875), surgeon
* James Whitbourn (born 1963), composer

## Z

* Andy Zaltzman, comedian and writer
* Helen Zaltzman, co-host of popular podcast, Answer me this