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词条 List of people from the London Borough of Merton
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  2. B

  3. C

  4. D

  5. F

  6. G

  7. H

  8. J

  9. K

  10. L

  11. M

  12. N

  13. O

  14. P

  15. R

  16. S

  17. T

  18. W

  19. Y

  20. Z

  21. References

Among those who were born in the London Borough of Merton, or have dwelt within the borders of the modern borough are (alphabetical order):

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A

  • Khalid Abdalla – actor, The Kite Runner and United 93
  • Admiral Mariot Arbuthnot – Commander of the Royal Navy in North America during the American War of Independence
  • Bob Astles – former associate of Ugandan presidents Milton Obote and Idi Amin
  • Ray Austin – TV and film director, actor, stuntman; born in Merton

B

  • Barloc of Norbury
  • Ben Barnes – actor, The Chronicles of Narnia, Prince Caspian
  • Cyril Barton – posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross during World War II
  • Ian Bazalgette – posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross during World War II
  • Sir Joseph Bazalgette (1819–1891) – civil engineer; his creation in the mid-19th century of the sewer network for central London eliminated cholera epidemics
  • Dave Benson-Phillips – children's television presenter, lived in Cannon Hill Lane
  • Bernard Braden – TV personality, mainly of the 1960s
  • Jo Brand – comedian, lived in Mitcham
  • Martin Brett (Brett Martini) – musician, voice of Beehive
  • Richard Briers – actor
  • Raymond Briggs – cartoonist
  • Steve Brookstein – winner of the first series of TV talent show The X Factor
  • James Brunlees – engineer, lived at Argyle Lodge, Parkside
  • Roy Budd – jazz musician
  • Josephine Butler – feminist campaigner of the Victorian era, Blue Plaque at 8 North View, Wimbledon Common

C

  • Jane Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Surbiton – British peer and Commissioner of the Equality and Human Rights Commission
  • Anthony Caro – sculptor, born here in 1924
  • George Edward Cates – World War I Victoria Cross recipient
  • Ernst Boris Chain – joint winner of the 1945 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of penicillin; Blue Plaque at 9 North View, Wimbledon Common
  • Mavis Cheek – novelist born and brought up in Wimbledon
  • Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough – close friend of Queen Anne
  • Danny Cipriani – England rugby player
  • Norman Coburn – actor, played Donald Fisher in Australian soap opera Home and Away
  • Vernon Corea – radio broadcaster
  • Annette Crosbie – actress, screen wife of One Foot in the Grave{{'}}s Victor Meldrew
  • Ambrose Crowley – ironmaster
  • Steve Curtis – eight-time World Offshore powerboat racing champion

D

  • Sean Davis – footballer, plays for Bolton Wanderers, previously with Fulham, Tottenham Hotspur and Portsmouth
  • Clint Dempsey – footballer, during his playing career at Fulham
  • Sandy Denny – singer, born at the Nelson Hospital
  • Laurence Doherty – winner of thirteen Wimbledon tennis championships and two Olympic gold medals
  • Reginald Doherty – winner of twelve Wimbledon tennis championships and three Olympic gold medals
  • John Donne – Jacobean poet
  • Hugh Dowding – commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain in 1940, Blue Plaque at 3 St Mary's Road
  • Henry Dundas, Viscount Melville – Home Secretary and Secretary of State for War to William Pitt the Younger, resident of Cannizaro House

F

  • The Field Mice – pop group
  • Michael Fielding – The Mighty Boosh comedian; Noel's younger brother
  • Noel Fielding – The Mighty Boosh comedian
  • Mike Fillery – footballer
  • Ford Madox Ford (1873–1939) – author; works include The Good Soldier and Parade's End

G

  • Paul Geraghty – author, illustrator
  • David Gibson – cricketer
  • John William Godward – painter
  • Good Shoes – indie music band whose first album, Think Before You Speak, included the track "Morden"
  • Charles Patrick Graves – journalist
  • Robert Graves – poet
  • Deryck Guyler – actor

H

  • Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia – guest at a house in Parkside while in exile from Ethiopia owing to the Italian invasion; his statue stands in Cannizaro Park
  • Victoria Hamilton – actress
  • George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen – prime minister 1852–55; resident of Cannizaro House
  • Florence Harmer – historian, born in Mitcham
  • Will Hay – actor
  • Tubby Hayes – jazz musician
  • Georgette Heyer – novelist, born and grew up in Wimbledon; wrote her first five novels there; a later novel, Pastel, is set in a suburb very like Wimbledon
  • Leslie Hore-Belisha, 1st Baron Hore-Belisha – while Minister of Transport, 1934-7, he introduced the driving test and the Belisha Beacon; then Secretary of State for War, 1937–40
  • John Horne Tooke – politician, lived at Chester House on Wimbledon Common
  • Neil Howlett – opera singer, born in Mitcham
  • Thomas Hughes – author of Tom Brown's Schooldays, written in Wimbledon
  • James Hunt – 1976 Formula 1 World Champion

J

  • Vinnie Jones – former footballer and film actor

K

  • Barbara Kelly – TV personality
  • Hetty King – Music Hall artiste and male impersonator; a blue commemorative plaque was erected on her home in Palmerston Road, Wimbledon by The Music Hall Guild of Great Britain and America in November 2010
  • Lorelei King – actress
  • Maxwell Knight – spymaster
  • David Kynaston – author, historian

L

  • Jay Laga'aia – actor
  • Don Lang – Britain's answer to Bill Haley; with his band, a mainstay of Britain's first television rock and roll programme Six-Five Special
  • Libera – boy vocalists;regular contributors to the BBC's Songs of Praise TV programme; have toured extensively throughout the world; have released several chart-topping albums; based at St Phillip's Parish Church in Norbury
  • Glen Little – footballer
  • Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer – scientist and astronomer; joint discoverer of helium

M

  • M.I.A. – singer, songwriter and rapper
  • Alexander Maconochie – founder of the Royal Geographical Society; penal reformer
  • Frederick Marryat – author, Blue Plaque at Gothic Lodge, 6 Woodhayes Road; also lived at Wimbledon House
  • John Martyn – singer-songwriter
  • Master Shortie – MC
  • Tony McGuinness – musician, Above and Beyond
  • Will Mellor – actor
  • Thomas Ralph Merton – physicist
  • Sally Morgan – celebrity psychic medium
  • Mud{{citation needed|date=September 2011}} – glam rock group
  • Marcus Mumford – musician, Mumford & Sons
  • Gillian Murphy – dancer, American Ballet Theatre
  • John Murray III (1808–1892) – publisher; significant publications include Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species; built a house called "Newstead" at Somerset road.

N

  • Lord Horatio Nelson – Admiral; his estate, Merton Place, included part of Wimbledon at the eastern end of the Broadway, though strictly he was a resident of Merton, the neighbouring parish

O

  • Mikel John Obi – Chelsea FC defensive midfielder
  • October – singer-songwriter

P

  • F.W.J. Palmer – engineer, born here
  • Alan Pardew – football manager
  • Michelle Paver – author, Chronicles of Ancient Darkness
  • Charles Pepys, 1st Earl of Cottenham – Lord Chancellor
  • Augustus Porter – socialite
  • Chris Powell – manager of The Championship football club Charlton Athletic, former footballer, grew up in Mitcham
  • Sir William Henry Preece – developed English telephone system; Blue Plaque at Gothic Lodge, 6 Woodhayes Road
  • Robert Prizeman – classical crossover music composer; choirmaster of Libera and St Phillip's Parish Church, Norbury; composed the BBC's Songs of Praise signature music
  • Steve Punt – comedian

R

  • Oliver Reed – actor
  • Diana Rigg – actress
  • Laura Robson – Junior Wimbledon tennis champion
  • Annie Ross – jazz singer
  • Rox – musician
  • Margaret Rutherford – actress, Blue Plaque at 4 Berkeley Place

S

  • Sampha – singer-songwriter, known for collaborative work with SBTRKT, Jessie Ware and Drake
  • Arthur Schopenhauer – philosopher, Blue Plaque at Eagle House where he lived in 1803
  • Ridley Scott – film director, Blade Runner and Gladiator
  • Jay Sean – R&B singer
  • Brian Sewell – art critic and media personality
  • Slick Rick (Richard Walters) – rapper, hip-hop musician, born in Mitcham but moved to the Bronx, New York
  • Shane Smeltz – New Zealand footballer: lived in Mitcham when he played for AFC Wimbledon
  • Mark Edgley Smith – composer
  • Alex Stepney – former Manchester United footballer and 1968 European Cup winner
  • Steve-O – Jackass performer
  • Herbert Strudwick – cricket wicket-keeper
  • Graham Stuart – footballer
  • Dave Swarbrick – fiddler of Fairport Convention

T

  • Jamie T – singer/songwriter and musician
  • Arnold Toynbee (1852–1883) – economic historian, Blue Plaque at 49 Wimbledon Parkside
  • Joseph Toynbee (1815–1866) – surgeon, Blue Plaque at 49 Wimbledon Parkside
  • Ralph Tubbs – architect; his buildings include the Dome of Discovery and Charing Cross Hospital
  • John Mosely Turner – supercentenarian

W

  • Terri Walker – R&B and soul singer
  • Max Wall – actor, comedian and entertainer
  • Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham (1730–1782) – twice Prime Minister
  • William Allison White – recipient of the Victoria Cross
  • William Wilberforce (1759–1833) – 19th-century anti-slavery campaigner
  • Nigel Winterburn – football player
  • Jamie Woon – singer-songwriter

Y

  • Young MC (Marvin Young) – hip-hop musician, born in Wimbledon and moved to Queens, New York

Z

  • Faryadi Sarwar Zardad – Afghan warlord; later tried for war crimes, convicted and imprisoned

References

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