# List of residents of Barnes, London

This is a list of notable residents of Barnes, London, a district in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.
Barnes, in a bend of the River Thames, is in the extreme north-east of Richmond upon Thames (and as such is the closest part of the borough to central London). Its built environment includes a high proportion of 18th- and 19th-century buildings in the streets near Barnes Pond. Together these make up the Barnes Village conservation area, where along with its west riverside most of the mid-19th century properties are concentrated.
Barnes has retained its village-like atmosphere and, with its easy links to central London, it has attracted residents from the financial and arts sectors. Its past residents include the composer Gustav Holst (1874–1934) and Ninette de Valois (1898–2001), founder of the Royal Ballet. They each lived in houses on The Terrace which are now marked by blue plaques.

## Living people

| Name | Dates | Description | Notes |
| Vassos Alexander | b. 1973 | Sports reporter, radio presenter and writer | Lives in Barnes |
| Michael Ball | b. 1962 | Singer and actor | Lives in Barnes |
| Sir Tim Besley | b. 1960 | Economist | Lives in Barnes |
| Samantha Bond | b. 1961 | Shakespearean actress best known for playing Miss Moneypenny in four James Bond films and for her role as Lady Rosamund Painswick in Downton Abbey | She was born in Barnes |
| Gyles Brandreth | b. 1948 | Writer, broadcaster, actor, comedian and former Conservative Party MP for the City of Chester | Lives in Barnes |
| Niamh Cusack | b. 1959 | Irish actress, whose roles have included Dr Kate Rowan in the UK series Heartbeat (1992–1995) | Lives in Barnes |
| Duffy | b. 1984 | Singer, songwriter and actress | Has lived at 26 The Terrace in Barnes |
| Michael Edwards | b. 1938 | Poet and academic | Was born in Barnes |
| Sheherazade Goldsmith | b. 1974 | Environmentalist, jeweller and columnist | Lives in Barnes |
| Zac Goldsmith, Baron Goldsmith of Richmond Park | b. 1975 | Life peer and former MP for Richmond Park | Lives in Barnes |
| David Harsent | b. 1942 | Poet | Lives in Barnes |
| Patricia Hodge | b. 1946 | Actress | Lives in Barnes |
| Tomoyasu Hotei (布袋 寅泰) | b. 1962 | Japanese musician, singer-songwriter, composer, record producer and actor | Moved to Barnes in 2012 |
| Karen Inglis | | Children's author | Lives in Barnes |
| Ronan Keating | b.1977 | Singer, songwriter, musician, philanthropist and broadcast presenter | He and his wife Storm live in Barnes |
| Matthew Kneale | b. 1960 | Writer, best known for his 2000 novel English Passengers | Brought up in Barnes |
| Susan Kramer, Baroness Kramer | b. 1950 | Life peer and former MP for Richmond Park | Lives in Barnes |
| Gary Lineker | b. 1960 | Sports broadcaster and former professional footballer | Lives in Barnes |
| Suzannah Lipscomb | b. 1978 | Historian, academic and broadcaster specialising in the 16th century | Lives in Barnes |
| George MacKay | b. 1992 | Actor | Brought up in Barnes |
| Dr Tania Mathias | b. 1964 | Ophthalmologist and Conservative Party politician who was MP for Twickenham from 2015 to 2017 | Brought up in Barnes |
| Brian May | b. 1947 | Musician, singer, songwriter and astrophysicist, best known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Queen | Has lived at Suffolk Road, Barnes |
| Roger McGough | b. 1937 | Performance poet, broadcaster, children's author and playwright | Lives in Barnes |
| Alistair McGowan | b. 1964 | Impressionist, comic, actor, singer and writer | Lives in Barnes |
| Chris Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes | b. 1944 | Life peer, Chancellor of the University of Oxford, and former MP for Bath, who subsequently served as 28th Governor of Hong Kong and Chairman of the BBC Trust | Lives in Barnes |
| Robert Pattinson | b. 1986 | Actor, musician and songwriter | Brought up in Barnes |
| Jan Ravens | b. 1958 | Actress and impressionist known for her voice work on Spitting Image and Dead Ringers | Lives in Barnes |
| Dan Snow | b. 1978 | Historian and broadcaster | Brought up in Barnes |
| Roger Taylor | b. 1949 | Musician, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, best known as the drummer for the rock band Queen | Lived on White Hart Lane and at 40 Ferry Road, Barnes |
| Pete Tong | b. 1960 | Disc jockey | Lives in Barnes |
| Stanley Tucci | b. 1960 | Actor, writer, producer and film director | Lives in Barnes |
| Julia Watson | b. 1953 | Actress known for playing Barbara "Baz" Wilder in the BBC medical drama Casualty | Lives in Barnes |
| Holly Willoughby | b. 1981 | Television presenter, model and author | She and her husband, television executive Dan Baldwin, live in Barnes. |

## Historical figures

Those marked § are commemorated in Barnes by a blue plaque.
| Name | Dates | Description | Notes | Refs |
| Louis-Alexandre de Launay, comte d'Antraigues and his wife, Madame Saint-Huberty | 1753–1812 1756–1812 | De Launay was a French pamphleteer, diplomat spy and political adventurer during the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. Saint-Huberty was a celebrated French operatic soprano. | Murdered at their country home at 27 The Terrace, which they had purchased about three years earlier, by an Italian servant whom they had dismissed | |
| Ninette de Valois | 1898–2001 | Founder of the Royal Ballet | Lived at 14 The Terrace from 1962 to 1982 | § |
| Major John Freeman | 1915–2014 | Politician, diplomat and broadcaster | Lived in Barnes | |
| James Henry Greathead | 1844–1896 | Railway engineer and pioneer of tunnelling | Lived at 3 St Mary's Grove, Barnes, from 1885 to 1889 | § |
| Sir Ralph Moor | 1860–1909 | High Commissioner of the British Southern Nigeria Protectorate | Poisoned himself at The Homestead on Church Road in 1909 | |
| Colin Patterson | 1933–1998 | Palaentologist at the Natural History Museum | Lived in Barnes | |
| Jan Pieńkowski | 1936–2022 | Writer and illustrator | Lived in Barnes and was a patron of the Barnes Literary Society | |
| Lyon Playfair | 1818–1898 | Professor of chemistry and Liberal MP | Lived at 26 Castelnau Villas (98 Castelnau), Barnes in 1851, while taking part in organising the Great Exhibition | |
| Albert Frederick Pollard | 1869–1948 | Historian and founder of the Historical Association | Lived at 7 St Mary's Grove | |
| Sir John Power, 1st Baronet | 1870–1950 | Businessman and Conservative MP for Wimbledon | Lived at 1 Queen's Ride, Barnes from 1908 to 1919 | |
| Sir John Russell Reynolds, 1st Baronet | 1828–1896 | British neurologist and physician, President of the Royal College of Physicians, 1893–95 | Occupied Rose Cottage, Barnes Green as a weekend cottage from about 1862 to 1870 | |
| Robert Willis | 1799–1878 | Scottish physician, librarian, and medical historian | Lived and practised at The Homestead on Church Road from 1846 until his death in 1878 | |

### Actors

| Name | Dates | Description | Notes |
| Joss Ackland | 1928-2023 | Actor | He lived in Barnes |
| Peter Bowles | 1936–2022 | Actor, best known as Richard de Vere in To the Manor Born, Major Yeates in The Irish R.M. and Donald Fairchild in Executive Stress | Lived in Barnes |
| Phyllis Calvert | 1915–2002 | Actress | Lived in Barnes |
| Clive Dunn | 1920–2012 | Actor, best known as Lance Corporal Jones in Dad's Army | He and his wife Cilla had a house in Barnes |
| Jimmy Edwards | 1920–1988 | Comedy actor and writer, best known as Pa Glum in Take It from Here and as headmaster "Professor" James Edwards in Whack-O! | Born in Barnes |
| Rik Mayall | 1958–2014 | Actor, writer and comedian, and a pioneer of alternative comedy in the 1980s | Lived and died in Barnes |
| Peter Mayhew | 1944–2019 | Actor who played Chewbacca in the Star Wars films | Born and brought up in Barnes |
| John Moody | c.1727–1812 | Irish actor who retired to Barnes Common as a market gardener | Moody lived at 11 The Terrace, Barnes from about 1780 until his death. He is buried at St Mary's Church, Barnes with his two wives. |
| Jimmy Perry | 1923–2016 | Actor and scriptwriter, co-creator of the TV series Dad's Army | Born in Barnes |
| Jon Pertwee | 1919–1996 | Actor, the Third Doctor in Doctor Who | Had a family house in Barnes |
| Terry-Thomas | 1911–1990 | Comedian and character actor who became known to a worldwide audience through his films during the 1950s and 1960s | Terry-Thomas lived in Barnes. |
| Frank Thornton | 1921–2013 | Actor (Captain Peacock in the BBC comedy Are You Being Served?) | Lived and died in Barnes |
| Dame Dorothy Tutin | 1930–2001 | Film, television and theatre actress in the West End and for the RSC and National Theatre | Lived in Barnes. Married to actor Derek Waring |
| Derek Waring | 1927–2007 | TV, radio and stage actor | Lived in Barnes. Married to actress Dame Dorothy Tutin |
| Aubrey Woods | 1928–2013 | Actor in theatre, TV and radio | Lived in Barnes |

### Artists, architects and designers

| Name | Dates | Description | Notes | Refs |
| Thomas Allom | 1804–1872 | Architect, artist, topographical illustrator and a founding member of what became the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) | Allom designed Holy Trinity Barnes and lived locally at 1 Barnes Villas (now 80 Lonsdale Road), Barnes, where he died on 21 October 1872. | |
| Gillian Ayres | 1930–2018 | Artist, best known for abstract painting and printmaking using vibrant colours | Ayres was born and brought up in Barnes. | |
| Lynn Chadwick | 1914–2003 | Sculptor and artist | Chadwick was born in Barnes. | |
| Christopher Dresser | 1834–1904 | Designer and design theorist | Dresser lived at Elm Bank, Barnes from 1889 to 1904. | |
| Sidney Richard Percy | 1821–1886 | Landscape painter | Percy lived with his father, the painter Edward Williams (1781–1855), at 32 Castelnau Villas (92 Castelnau), from 1845 to 1856. Percy was born Sidney Richard Percy Williams and was Edward's fifth son. All five of his brothers, and several members of the next generation of the Williams family, also became landscape painters. | |
| Henry William Pickersgill | 1782–1875 | Portrait painter | Pickersgill lived at Nassau House, Barnes Green, from about 1854 to 1857. He is buried in Barnes Cemetery. | |
| Kurt Schwitters | 1887–1948 | German-born artist most famous for his collages, called Merz pictures | He lived at 39 Westmorland Road, Barnes. | § |

### Military

| Name | Dates | Description | Notes | Refs |
| Vice-Admiral Alfred Carpenter | 1881–1955 | Royal Navy officer and a recipient of the Victoria Cross | Carpenter was born in Barnes. | |
| Admiral Martin Dunbar-Nasmith | 1883–1965 | Royal Navy officer and a recipient of the Victoria Cross | Dunbar-Nasmith was born at 136 Castelnau. | § |
| Lieutenant-General Robert Ballard Long | 1771–1825 | Officer of the British and Hanoverian Armies | Long retired to his house on The Terrace. | |

### Musicians

| Name | Dates | Description | Notes | Refs |
| Marc Bolan | 1947–1977 | Singer, songwriter, musician and poet | Bolan lived at Lonsdale Road, Barnes. | |
| Carl Davis | 1936-2023 | American-born conductor and composer | He lived in Barnes | |
| George Frederick Handel | 1685–1759 | Composer | Handel lived at the house of Mr Mathew Andrews in Barn Elms in the summer of 1713. | § |
| Gustav Holst | 1874–1934 | Composer, arranger and teacher, best known for his orchestral suite The Planets | Holst lived at 31 Gretna Road, Richmond from 1903 to 1908, then moved with his family to Barnes. The house at 10 The Terrace where he lived between 1908 and 1913 has a blue plaque in his honour. | § |
| Herbert Howells | 1892–1983 | Composer, organist and teacher, most famous for his large output of Anglican church music | Howells lived from 1946 to 1983 at 3 Beverley Close, Barnes. | |
| Freddie Mercury | 1946–1991 | Musician, vocalist and lyricist of the rock band Queen | Mercury shared a house at 40 Ferry Road. | |

### Sportspeople

| Name | Dates | Description | Notes | Refs | Images |
| Ebenezer Cobb Morley | 1831–1924 | A solicitor and sportsman, Morley is regarded as the father of The Football Association and modern football. | He lived at 26 The Terrace at Barnes and is buried in Barnes Cemetery. | | |

### Writers

| Name | Dates | Description | Notes |
| Lynne Reid Banks | 1929–2024 | Author | She was born in Barnes. |
| Henry Fielding | 1707–1754 | Novelist, author of Tom Jones and also a magistrate who founded the Bow Street Runners | Fielding lived at Milbourne House, Barnes Green in about 1750, when writing Amelia. |
| Judith Kerr | 1923–2019 | Author and illustrator | She and her husband, Nigel Kneale (1922–2006), scriptwriter, both lived in Barnes. |
| Eric Newby | 1919–2006 | Travel author | Newby was brought up in Castelnau Mansions, Barnes. |
| Barbara Pym | 1913–1980 | Novelist, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, whose Quartet in Autumn (1977) was nominated for the Booker Prize | Pym lived at 47 Nassau Road. |
| Richard Brinsley Sheridan | 1751–1816 | Playwright, poet, theatre owner and Whig MP | Sheridan owned Downe House, Richmond Hill and took a house on Barnes Terrace in 1810 when his son Tom was living at Milbourne House. |
| Dodie Smith | 1896–1990 | Author of I Capture the Castle and The Hundred and One Dalmatians | Smith lived in Riverview Gardens. |
| Colin Welland | 1934–2015 | Oscar-winning screenwriter of Chariots of Fire | Welland lived in Barnes. |