List of people from Sevenoaks

Sevenoaks is a town in Kent, England. The following is a list of those people who were either born, live or lived in the town, or had some important contribution to make to it.

Notable people from Sevenoaks

Table of contents: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

• John Miller Adye (1819–1900) Army officer
• Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst (1717–97) colonial governor of Massachusetts ^[1]
• William Amherst (c 1732-81) 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

• Reg Balch (1894–1994) Canadian photographer and scientist
• Anton du Beke (1966- ) ballroom dancer
• Douglas Booth (1992- ) actor
• Thomas Bourchier (c 1404-1486) Archbishop of Canterbury; Lord Chancellor
• John Bowra (1716–85) cricketer
• William Bowra (1752–1820) cricketer
• Matthew Branton (1968– ) novelist
• Bill Bruford (1949- ) drummer for bands such as Yes and King Crimson

C

• Hugh Cecil (1889- ?) photographer
• Herbert Willie Andrew Christie (1868–1946) Brigadier-General, British Army
• Mike Conway (1983- ) 2006 British Formula Three champion
• Simon Cope (1966- ) cyclist

D

• Anne Seymour Damer (1748–1828) sculptor
• Daniel Day-Lewis (1957- ) actor ^[2]
• Christopher Don (Donny) (1984- ) Disc jockey; drum and bass artist
• John Donne (1572–1631) poet and preacher
• W. H. Davies (1871–1940) poet and tramp

E

• John Epps (1805–69) homeopathic physician; religious dissenter
• Alan Everitt (1926-2008) major historian of provincial England

F

• John Farey (1791–1851) mechanical engineer
• John Frith (1503–33) 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 (1981- ) England and Great Britain field hockey player
• Paul Greengrass (1955- ) British Film Director and Screenwriter
• George Grote (1794–1871) historian

H

• Paul Hartnoll (1968- ) musician (Orbital)
• Brian Hord (1934- ) politician
• John Humphrys (1943- ) radio broadcaster
• Gloria Hunniford (1940- ) radio and television personality
• John Hurt (1940- ) actor

Idi Amin

J

Peter James Jennings (1982 - ) Architect

K

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

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L

• Justine Lord (1938- ) actress

M

• Laura Maasland actress ^[3]
• Joseph Miller (? -1794) cricketer
• John Minshull (c 1741-93) cricketer
• Max Maton (1993– ) British-born Dutch entrepreneur and philanthropist based in London.
• Sarah Morris (1967– ) British-born American artist. Morris is a painter and filmmaker based in New York.

P

• Lance Percival (1933- ) actor, comedian, after-dinner speaker
• Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (1878–1957) President, Sevenoaks Boy Scouts Association; and of Sevenoaks Chess Club

Q

• Professor Qiwei Yao (1960-) Head Of Statistics at the London School of Economics^[4] (September 2006 – December 2009)

R

• Val Romney (c 1718-73) 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 (1969- ) Association football player
• James Sharman (?) TV producer and sportcaster; host of The Footy Show on The Score
• Peter Sissons (1942- ) newsreader
• Philip Stanhope, 1st Baron Weardale (1847–1923) politician & philanthropist
• Tilda Swinton (1960- ) actress ^[5]
• Plum Sykes (1969- ) fashion writer & novelist

T

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

W

• Tim Walker (1957-) Author
• Tom Warren (1983- ) rugby union player
• H. G. Wells (1866–1946) science fiction writer

Y

• Elizabeth Yarnold, (1988- ) Olympic athlete

References

1. Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607-1896. Marquis Who's Who. 1967.
2. attended Sevenoaks School in his early teens
3. plays the role of Number 5 in the Cbeebies programme, Numberjacks
4. Homepage, LSE http://stats.lse.ac.uk/q.yao/
5. attended West Heath School, Sevenoaks