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) ^[1]
• 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)
• Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece (Cheyne Walk)
• 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.^{[ citation needed ]}
• Frank Cadogan Cowper, artist
• Thomas Crapper (plumbing supplies) (King's Road) ^[1]
• 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)
• Hugh Magnus MacLeod, 30th Chief of Clan MacLeod (Royal Hospital Road)
• Elizabeth Gaskell (93 Cheyne Walk)
• Margaret Green, painter (Elm Park Gardens and Lucan Place) ^[2]
• 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. ^[3] 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 ^[4]
• 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. ^[5]
• 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. ^[6]
• Kylie Minogue (singer, songwriter, actress)
• Nick Kamen, singer, model. (Kings Road)
• Florence Montgomery Novelist and children's writer ^[7]
• Sir Thomas More Lawyer, philosopher, author, statesman and Renaissance humanist
• John Camden Neild (5 Cheyne Walk)
• Annabelle Neilson, socialite, lived and died 2 Oakley Gardens
• John O'Hara American novelist,author of BUtterfield_8_(novel)
• Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh ^[1]
• Sylvia Pankhurst (Cheyne Walk)
• Sir Eduardo Paolozzi (artist & sculptor)
• Ramsay Weston Phipps (military historian. 21 Carlyle Square ^[8] )
• 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) ^[1]
• 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 ^[9]
• Osbert Sitwell (Carlyle Square) ^[10]
• 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 ^[11] (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) ^[12]
• 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

References

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3. Electoral roll no 1378
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7. ODNB: Charlotte Mitchell, "Montgomery, Florence Sophia (1843–1923)". Retrieved 13 March 2014"
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11. Obituary: Sir Wilfred Thesiger 1910 – 2003. Travelintelligence.com.
12. "Literary Manhattan article on Mark Twain". Archived from the original on April 26, 2012.