List of people from the London Borough of Hackney

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Location of the London Borough of Hackney within Greater London

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

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Notable residents

Key to "Notes" in tables below regarding the residents' affiliation to Hackney
LetterDescription
BIndicates that the subject was born in Hackney.
DIndicates that the resident died in Hackney.
IIndicates that the subject is buried in Hackney.
LIndicates that the resident lived in Hackney.

Reference citations in the "Notes" column refer to the information in the entire row.

Academia and research

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Edmond Halley
People from Hackney in academia and research
NameNotabilityDistrict [nb 1] Notes [nb 2]
Carol Adams First chief executive of the General Teaching Council for England L
Arthur Aikin FLS and founder of the Chemical Society of London Hoxton L
Revd George Collison First president of Hackney Academy Homerton L
William Godwin Political philosopher (studied)HoxtonL [1]
Philip Henry Gosse Naturalist De Beauvoir Town L [2]
Edmond Halley Astronomer Haggerston B [3]
George Loddiges Horticulturalist and scientist Hackney L/I [4]
Sir Charles Martin FRS FRCS Scientist; a director of the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine Dalston B
Richard Price Philosopher, mathematician, and first actuary Newington Green D [5]
Leonard Woolley Archaeologist and discoverer of Ur Upper Clapton L [6]

Arts and entertainment

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DJ Dextrous
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1907 Hetty King sheet music cover, 1907

Business and finance

People from Hackney in business and finance
NameNotabilityDistrict [nb 1] Notes [nb 2]
Robert Aske Merchant and philanthropist Hoxton L
Sir John Harvey Jones Businessman and television presenterB
Moses Montefiore Financier and philanthropist Stamford Hill L
Emma Obanye Businesswoman, entrepreneurL
Samuel Rogers Poet and banker
Nathan Meyer Rothschild FinancierStamford HillL
Alan, Lord Sugar Businessman and celebrity Clapton L

Crime

People from Hackney with criminal notoriety
NameNotabilityDistrict [nb 1] Notes [nb 2]
Ronald and Reginald Kray Crime gang leaders Haggerston B
Dick Turpin Highwayman, plied his trade Kingsland Road and
in Stoke Newington
L

Engineering and technology

People from Hackney in engineering and technology
NameNotabilityDistrict [nb 1] Notes [nb 2]
Sir Francis Beaufort HydrographerBuried in Saint John's Church Gardens.
Hackney Central
D
Jean Charles de Menezes Electrician wrongly accused of a crime; shot dead by police in 2005
Joseph Priestley Chemist and philosopherPreached at the Gravel Pit Meeting in
Homerton, lived in Lower Clapton
L [23]

Journalism and the media

People from Hackney in journalism and the media
NameNotabilityDistrict [nb 1] Notes [nb 2]
Laura Bates Feminist writer and founder of the Everyday Sexism Project Hackney L
Mel Calman Cartoonist and writer Stamford Hill B [24]
Benjamin Cohen Internet entrepreneur and journalist Hoxton L [25]
Robert Crampton Journalist South Hackney L [26]
Trevor Nelson DJ (and MBE)HoxtonL
Donald Zec JournalistAttended Upton House Secondary School, HomertonL [27] |

Literature

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Mary Wollstonecraft, (c. 1797); a painting by John Opie
People from Hackney in literature
NameNotabilityDistrict [nb 1] Notes [nb 2]
Grace Aguilar Writer Hoxton B
Lucy Aikin Biographer, daughter of John Aikin L
Talbot Baines Reed WriterHackneyB
Anna Laetitia Barbauld Poet, buried in Saint Mary's Church Stoke Newington L/I [28]
Alexander Baron Writer
(works include The Lowlife , set in the area)
Hackney Downs School L [29]
James Burgh Writer, educationalist and philosopherL [30]
Rosa Nouchette Carey Children's novelistTryons RoadL [31]
Daniel Defoe Writer and spy (educated)Stoke NewingtonL [32]
Siobhan Dowd Author Haggerston L
Sir Edmund Gosse Poet, author and critic De Beauvoir Town B [33]
Kate Greenaway Children's illustratorHoxtonL [34]
William Hazlitt Writer (educated) Homerton L
Mary Howitt Poet and translator Upper Clapton L
Mary Lamb Writer, including co-author of Tales from Shakespeare Hackney L
Harold Pinter Playwright and Nobel Prize winnerHackney Downs SchoolB [35]
Edgar Allan Poe Writer (educated)Stoke NewingtonL [36]
Samuel Rogers Poet and bankerL
Michael Rosen Children's Laureate 2007–2009 Dalston L [37]
Iain Sinclair WriterHaggerstonL
Mary Wollstonecraft Reformer and writer, mother of Mary Shelley Newington GreenL [38]

Medicine

Politics and government

Religion

People from Hackney in religion
NameNotabilityDistrict [nb 1] Notes [nb 2]
William Booth Founder of the Salvation Army Stoke Newington B (buried in Abney Park Cemetery in Stoke Newington)
Leslie Flint Direct-voice mediumSalvation Army Maternity HospitalB (buried in Hove Cemetery in Hove, East Sussex)
Vicesimus Knox Anglican pacifist Hoxton L
Isaac Watts Theologian, logician, and hymn writerStoke NewingtonL
Jabez Whiteley Anglican missionary, and first bishop of Chota NagpurHoxtonB

Sport

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Entries with no sourced locality (district) of residence available are marked with a "?".
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 All entries contain a reliably sourced reference. Entries may also contain a letter indicating the individual was Born, Lived, Died or Interred in Hackney.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">London Borough of Hackney</span> London borough in United Kingdom

The London Borough of Hackney is a London borough in Inner London, England. The historical and administrative heart of Hackney is Mare Street, which lies 5 miles (8 km) north-east of Charing Cross. The borough is named after Hackney, its principal district. Southern and eastern parts of the borough are popularly regarded as being part of east London that spans some of the traditional East End of London with the northwest belonging to north London. Its population is estimated to be 281,120.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dalston</span> Area of East London, England

Dalston is an area of East London, in the London Borough of Hackney. It is four miles northeast of Charing Cross. Dalston began as a hamlet on either side of Dalston Lane, and as the area urbanised the term also came to apply to surrounding areas including Kingsland and Shacklewell, all three of which being part of the Ancient Parish of Hackney.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Homerton</span> Area of East London, England

Homerton is an area in London, England, in the London Borough of Hackney. It is bordered to the west by Hackney Central, to the north by Lower Clapton, in the east by Hackney Wick, Leyton and by South Hackney to the south. In 2019, it had a population of 14,658 people. In terms of ethnicity it was 43.9% White, 33.0% Black, 10.9% Asian and 7.8% Mixed. It covered an area of 0.830 sq kilometres. Homerton ward on Hackney Borough Council is currently represented by three Labour councillors. There are fifty listed buildings located within the boundaries of the ward.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hoxton</span> Neighbourhood in the East End of London, England

Hoxton is an area in the London Borough of Hackney, in East London, England. It was historically in the county of Middlesex until 1889. It lies immediately northeast of the City of London financial district, and was once part of the civil parish and subsequent Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch, prior to its incorporation into the London Borough of Hackney.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Shoreditch</span> Area of London, England

Shoreditch is an area in London, England and is located in the London Borough of Hackney alongside neighbouring parts of Tower Hamlets, which are also perceived as part of the area due to historic ecclesiastical links. Shoreditch lies just north-east of the border with the City of London and is considered to be a part of London's East End.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Stamford Hill</span> Area of Hackney, London

Stamford Hill is an area in Inner London, England, about 5.5 miles north-east of Charing Cross. The neighbourhood is a sub-district of Hackney, the major component of the London Borough of Hackney, and is known for its Hasidic community, the largest concentration of orthodox Ashkenazi in Europe.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Stoke Newington</span> Area in London, England

Stoke Newington is an area occupying the northwest part of the London Borough of Hackney, England. The area is five miles northeast of Charing Cross. The Manor of Stoke Newington gave its name to Stoke Newington the ancient parish.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Old Street</span>

Old Street is a 1-mile (1.6 km) street in inner north-east Central London, England that runs west to east from Goswell Road in Clerkenwell, in the London Borough of Islington, via St Luke's and Old Street Roundabout, to the crossroads where it meets Shoreditch High Street (south), Kingsland Road (north) and Hackney Road (east) in Shoreditch in the London Borough of Hackney.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Metropolitan Borough of Hackney</span>

The Metropolitan Borough of Hackney was a metropolitan borough of the County of London from 1900 to 1965. Its area became part of the London Borough of Hackney.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">De Beauvoir Town</span> Human settlement in England

De Beauvoir Town is a neighbourhood in the London Borough of Hackney, 2 miles (3.2 km) north of the City of London. The area was a part of Hackney, the Ancient Parish and subsequent Metropolitan Borough that was incorporated into the larger modern borough. It is sometimes described as a part of Dalston, which is in turn also a part of the former parish and borough of Hackney.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hackney North and Stoke Newington (UK Parliament constituency)</span> Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1950 onwards

Hackney North and Stoke Newington is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom since 1987 by Diane Abbott, a member of the Labour Party who served as Shadow Home Secretary from 6 October 2016 to 5 April 2020. Abbott was one of the first three Black British MPs elected, and the first female Black British MP in the UK.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hackney South and Shoreditch (UK Parliament constituency)</span> Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1974 onwards

Hackney South and Shoreditch is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2005 by Meg Hillier of Labour Co-op.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hackney Central</span> Human settlement in England

Hackney Central is a sub-district of Hackney in the London Borough of Hackney in London, England and is four miles (6.4 km) northeast of Charing Cross.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Parks and open spaces in the London Borough of Hackney</span>

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hackney (parish)</span>

Hackney was a parish in the historic county of Middlesex. The parish church of St John-at-Hackney was built in 1792, replacing the nearby former 16th-century parish church dedicated to St Augustine. The original tower of that church was retained to hold the bells until the new church could be strengthened; the bells were finally removed to the new St John's in 1854. See details of other, more modern, churches within the original parish boundaries below.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Clapton Square</span> Garden square in Lower Clapton in the London Borough of Hackney

Clapton Square is the second largest garden square in the London Borough of Hackney, located in Lower Clapton, Clapton. It is lined by buildings on three sides. Its Conservation Area designated in 1969 – extended in 1991 and 2000 – takes in a larger green space separated by a stretch of open road: St John's Gardens. Those gardens have the tallest and largest building visible from all parts of the square's garden, the Church of St John-at-Hackney, rebuilt in 1792-97 which contains older monuments. Two sides of the square are lined with tall, partly stone-dressed, classical, Georgian terraced houses.

Hackney was a local government district within the metropolitan area of London, England from 1855 to 1894. It was formed by the Metropolis Management Act 1855 and was governed by the Hackney District Board of Works, which consisted of elected vestrymen. It was in the part of the county of Middlesex that was within the area of the Metropolitan Board of Works. In 1889 it became part of the County of London and the district board functioned as a local authority under the London County Council.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">West Hackney</span> Area of East London, England

West Hackney is a district in the London Borough of Hackney, situated on the eastern side of Ermine Street, the major Roman Road better known as the A10.

New City College (NCC) is a large college of further education with campuses in East London and Essex. The college was formed in 2016 with the amalgamation of separate colleges, beginning with the merger between Tower Hamlets College and Hackney Community College, followed by the gradual additions of Redbridge College, Epping Forest College, and both Havering College of Further and Higher Education, Havering Sixth Form College and BSix Sixth Form College. It is the second largest provider of post-16 education in the country since 2019.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hackney, London</span> Human settlement in England

Hackney is a district in East London, England, forming around two-thirds of the area of the modern London Borough of Hackney, to which it gives its name. It is 4 miles (6.4 km) northeast of Charing Cross and includes part of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Historically it was within the county of Middlesex.

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