# List of Chelsea people

This is a list of notable residents and former residents of the London, England borough of Chelsea.
* David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon
* Anne of Cleves died Chelsea Manor 1557
* Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban
* Hilaire Belloc (Cheyne Walk)
* John Betjeman (Radnor Walk)
* Honor Blackman (Markham Square)
* Enid Blyton (Beaufort Street)
* Dirk Bogarde (Lower Sloane Street)
* William Boyd
* Marc Isambard Brunel and Isambard Kingdom Brunel (civil engineers); 98 Cheyne Walk
* Charles Cadogan, 8th Earl Cadogan
* Phyllis Calvert (actress) was born in Chelsea
* Catherine, Princess of Wales (Wife of Prince William) (Old Church Street)
* Thomas Carlyle the "Sage of Chelsea" (24 Cheyne Row – now National Trust House)
* Christian the lion
* Dame Agatha Christie
* Eric Clapton (lived on King's Road during the late 1960s)
* Petula Clark (lived at 4 Royal Avenue in the 1980s)
* Steve Clark (Spent the last few months of his life there while on a 6-month leave of absence from Def Leppard until his death on 8 January 1991.)
* Steve Coogan used to live in the area in the 1990s.
* Frank Cadogan Cowper, artist
* Thomas Crapper (plumbing supplies) (King's Road)
* John de Salis, at 12 First Street and then 28 Upper Cheyne Row (1970s and early 1980s)
* Quentin Crisp (Beaufort Street)
* George Devine & Jocelyn Herbert (Rossetti Studios, Flood Street)
* Charles Ejogo (born 1976), entrepreneur
* George Eliot (spent the last 3 weeks of her life at 4 Cheyne Walk)
* T. S. Eliot (19 Carlyle Mansions, Chelsea Embankment)
* Mary, Dowager Viscountess Fane (No. 2, Swan Walk)
* Rosalind Franklin
* John Fraser (botanist) (Paradise Row)
* Fredo, British rapper
* Judy Garland (spent the last few months of her life there with her fifth husband until death on 22 June 1969)
* Ava Gardner, the Hollywood actress spent the last twenty years of her life here, until her death in 1990
* Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury (Swan Walk)
* Elizabeth Gaskell (93 Cheyne Walk)
* Margaret Green, painter (Elm Park Gardens and Lucan Place)
* Joyce Grenfell (King's Road from 1945-57 and Elm Park Gardens from 1957-79)
* Adelaide Hall, jazz singer and entertainer lived at 74 Drayton Gardens with her husband Bert Hicks. Shirley MacLaine was a neighbour and very friendly with the Hicks.
* James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton Royalist General, owned Chelsea Place, his London residence from 1638 until his execution.
* James Edmund Harting, ornithologist, born 1841 in Chelsea
* Herbert Hughes (musician) (Old Church Street)
* Michael Hutchence (Redburn Street)
* Mick Jagger and all the Rolling Stones (Edith Grove, Cheyne Walk)
* Henry James (21 Cheyne Walk)
* Rory Jennings, (actor, presenter) starred in British television program EastEnders
* Jerome K. Jerome (Flat 104, Chelsea Gardens, Chelsea Bridge Road)
* William Jones, 18th century wine merchant and naturalist
* Henry George Kendall Ship Captain of the RMS Empress of Ireland.
* Roger Keyes
* Jiah Khan (born Nafisa Khan, a British actress who appeared in Bollywood films)
* Letitia Elizabeth Landon, poet and novelist. (Hans Place)
* Sir William Arbuthnot Lane, 1st Baronet and Lady Frittie Arbuthnot Lane lived at 72 Drayton Gardens (next door to Adelaide Hall).
* David Lloyd George (10 Cheyne Walk)
* Harold Macmillan, prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963, was born there in 1894.
* Bob Marley composed his hit "I Shot the Sheriff" in a one-bedroom flat off Cheyne Walk in the mid-1970s. 42 Oakley Street
* Gavin Maxwell, novelist, journalist, explorer and author of Ring of Bright Water (9 Paultons Square)
* Arthur Meaby, engineer and a volunteer for the Youth Hostels Association
* Naomi Mitchison, novelist. (17 Cheyne Walk)
* A. A. Milne, playwright and author of Winnie-the-Pooh, lived at 13 (formerly 11) Mallord Street.
* Kylie Minogue (singer, songwriter, actress)
* Florence Montgomery Novelist and children's writer
* Sir Thomas More Lawyer, philosopher, author, statesman and Renaissance humanist
* John Camden Neild (5 Cheyne Walk)
* Annabelle Neilson, model and television personality, lived and died 2 Oakley Gardens
* John O'Hara American novelist,author of BUtterfield_8_(novel)
* Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh
* Sylvia Pankhurst (Cheyne Walk)
* Sir Eduardo Paolozzi (artist & sculptor)
* Ramsay Weston Phipps (military historian. 21 Carlyle Square)
* Suzelle Poole, English ballerina
* Cyril Power (artist and architect) (16 Redcliffe Street)
* Katharine Susannah Prichard, novelist, communist. (Flat 64, Chelsea Gardens, Chelsea Bridge Road)
* Mary Quant (King's Road and Markham Square)
* Carol Reed (King's Road)
* Nick Rhodes, keyboardist and songwriter of Duran Duran.
* Dante Gabriel Rossetti (16 Cheyne Walk)
* Tony Selby, actor
* John Shaw Jr., architect of the 19th century
* Mary Shelley author of Frankenstein
* Osbert Sitwell (Carlyle Square)
* George Smiley (9 Bywater Street) Fictional Character
* Ned Sherrin, broadcaster,writer. (3 Bywater Street. Died at 4 Cornwall Mansions, Ashburnham Road)
* Dame Maggie Smith (actress)
* Chris Squire
* Philip Wilson Steer (109 Cheyne Walk)
* Bram Stoker (author of Dracula)
* Algernon Charles Swinburne (16 Cheyne Walk)
* Thomas Fielden Taylor, New Zealand Anglican priest and city missioner
* Wilfred Thesiger (Tite Street)
* Gordon Thorne (first-class cricketer and British Army officer)
* J. R. R. Tolkien (Author of The Lord of the Rings)
* J. M. W. Turner (died at 119 Cheyne Walk on 19 December 1851)
* Mark Twain (23 Tedworth Square)
* James Webb painter/artist
* Mary Wesley Novelist,author of The Camomile Lawn. (31 & 39 Smith Street)
* James McNeill Whistler (21, 96 & 101 Cheyne Walk)
* Eric Whitacre (American composer and conductor)
* Oscar Wilde (today 34 Tite Street, 16 Tite Street in Wilde's lifetime)
* Thomas Young, recipient of the Victoria Cross
* Count Nicolaus Zinzendorf, founder of the Moravian Church, Lindsey House