# List of people from Sevenoaks

Sevenoaks is a town in Kent, England. The following is a list of pages of people who were born, live or have lived in the town, or made some important contribution to it. Please add only notable people with a Wikipedia page.

## A

* John Miller Adye (1819–1900) Army officer
* Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst (1717–97) colonial governor of Massachusetts
* William Amherst (c. 1732–1781) Army officer
* William Amherst, 3rd Earl Amherst (1836–1910) Member of Parliament, Freemason
* Geoffrey Anson (1922–77) cricketer
* Charles Robert Ashbee (1863–1942) member of Arts & Crafts Movement

## B

* Cheryl Baker (born 1954) singer in Bucks Fizz and TV presenter
* Reg Balch (1894–1994) Canadian photographer and scientist
* Anton du Beke (born 1966) ballroom dancer
* Douglas Booth (born 1992) actor
* Thomas Bourchier (c. 1404–1486) Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Chancellor
* Tom Bosworth (born 1990) Olympic race walker
* William Bowra (1752–1820) cricketer
* Matthew Branton (born 1968) novelist
* Bill Bruford (born 1949) drummer for bands such as Yes and King Crimson

## C

* Hugh Cecil (born 1889) photographer
* Mike Conway (born 1983) 2006 British Formula Three and 2019–20 FIA World Endurance Championship champion
* Simon Cope (born 1966) cyclist

## D

* Anne Seymour Damer (1748–1828) sculptor
* W. H. Davies (1871–1940) poet and tramp
* Daniel Day-Lewis (born 1957) actor, attended Sevenoaks School in his early teens
* Christopher Don (Donny) (born 1984) disc jockey, drum and bass artist
* John Donne (1572–1631) metaphysical poet and Dean of Old St Paul's Cathedral
* Diana Princess of Wales (1961-1997) attended West Heath School in Sevenoaks.

## E

* Joan Adeney Easdale (1913–1989) poet, was born in Sevenoaks.
* John Epps (1805–69) homeopathic physician; religious dissenter

## F

* John Farey (1791–1851) mechanical engineer
* John Frith (1503–1533) priest and writer

## G

* Philip Game (1876–1961) Metropolitan Police Commissioner; Governor of New South Wales
* Walter Gilliat (1869–1963) priest, Association football player
* Cathy Gilliat-Smith (born 1981) England and Great Britain field hockey player
* Paul Greengrass (born 1955) film director and screenwriter
* George Grote (1794–1871) historian

## H

* Henry Moore (born 2008) Golden boot winner (2023)
* Paul Hartnoll (born 1968) musician (Orbital)
* Brian Hord (born 1934) politician
* George Henry Horton (born 1993) filmmaker
* John Humphrys (born 1943) radio broadcaster
* Gloria Hunniford (born 1940) radio and television personality
* John Hurt (born 1940) actor

## K

* Janet Kear (1933–2004) ornithologist
* Caron Keating (1962–2004) TV presenter
* Sam King (1911–2003) golfer
* John Kirk (1832–1922) Scottish physician, naturalist, companion to explorer David Livingstone, British Consul in Zanzibar
* John Buxton Knight (1843–1908) landscape painter
* Dick Knowles (1917–2008) MP

## L

* Justine Lord (born 1938) actress

## M

* Joseph Miller (died 1794) cricketer
* John Minshull (c. 1741–1793) cricketer
* Sarah Morris (born 1967) British-born American artist and filmmaker based in New York
* Netta Muskett (1887–1963) novelist

## P

* Lance Percival (born 1933) actor, comedian and singer
* Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (1878–1957) President of Sevenoaks Boy Scouts Association and Sevenoaks Chess Club

## R

* Val Romney (c. 1718–1773) cricketer

## S

* Lionel Sackville-West, 2nd Baron Sackville (1827–1908) diplomat
* Lionel Sackville-West, 6th Baron Sackville (1913–2004) stockbroker
* Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962) author, member of the Bloomsbury group
* John Salako (born 1969) association footballer
* James Sharman (living) TV producer and sportscaster; host of The Footy Show on The Score
* Peter Sissons (1942 - 2019) newsreader
* Philip Stanhope, 1st Baron Weardale (1847–1923) politician and philanthropist
* Tilda Swinton (born 1960) actress, attended West Heath School, Sevenoaks
* Plum Sykes (born 1969) fashion writer and novelist

## T

* Andy Titterrell (born 1981) England rugby union international
* Edward Thomas (1878–1917) poet and journalist

## W

* Tom Warren (born 1983) rugby union player
* H. G. Wells (1866–1946) novelist and science fiction writer
* James Whitbourn (born 1963) composer
* Charlie Whiting (1952-2019) Formula One race director
* Joe Wilkinson (born 1975) comedian

## Y

* Lizzy Yarnold (born 1988) Skeleton racer, most successful British Winter Olympian of all time

## Z

* Robert Charles Zaehner (1913–1974) British academic whose field of study was Eastern religions.