Notable people

• Actress Michele Austin
  Michele Austin
  Michele Austin is a British actress best known for her role as PC Yvonne Hemmingway on ITV's The Bill, for which she won the Screen Nation award for best television actress in 2005....
  
  , best known as PC Yvonne Hemmingway in ITV
  ITV
  ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
  
  's The Bill
  The Bill
  The Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work...
  
  , attended Claremont High School
  Claremont High School (Kenton)
  Claremont High School is a co-educational, non-denominational comprehensive secondary school located in Kenton, in the London Borough of Brent, United Kingdom...
  
   in Kenton

• Cricketer Denis Compton
  Denis Compton
  Denis Charles Scott Compton CBE was an English cricketer who played in 78 Test matches, and a footballer...
  
   (1918-1997) lived in Kenton

• TV exercise instructor Mr Motivator (Derrick Evans)
  Derrick Evans
  Derrick Errol Evans , better known as "Mr. Motivator", is a Jamaican-born British exercise instructor. He rose to fame in the early 1990s through appearances on the UK breakfast television show GMTV, where he dressed in tight, colourful spandex outfits...
  
   lived in Kenton

• Acclaimed stage actress Annette McLaughlin attended Claremont High School
  Claremont High School (Kenton)
  Claremont High School is a co-educational, non-denominational comprehensive secondary school located in Kenton, in the London Borough of Brent, United Kingdom...
  
   in Kenton

• Mary Millington
  Mary Millington
  Mary Millington was a British model and pornographic actress. She has been described as one of the "two hottest British sex film stars of the seventies", the other being Fiona Richmond....
  
   (1945-1979), 1970s sex symbol
  Sex symbol
  A sex symbol is a celebrity of either gender, typically an actor, musician, supermodel, teen idol, or sports star, noted for their sex appeal. The term was first used in the mid 1950s in relation to the popularity of certain Hollywood stars, especially Marilyn Monroe and Brigitte...
  
  , was born in Kenton

• Actress Sophie Okonedo
  Sophie Okonedo
  Sophie Okonedo, OBE is a British actress, who has starred both in successful British and American productions. In 1991, she made her acting debut in the British critically acclaimed coming-of-age drama, Young Soul Rebels...
  
   lived in Kenton

• Stuart "Psycho" Pearce
  Stuart Pearce
  Stuart Pearce OBE is an English football manager and former player. He is currently the manager of the England national under-21 team and the Great Britain and Northern Ireland Olympic football team...
  
  , football manager and former player, attended Claremont High School
  Claremont High School (Kenton)
  Claremont High School is a co-educational, non-denominational comprehensive secondary school located in Kenton, in the London Borough of Brent, United Kingdom...
  
   in Kenton

• Actress Pam St. Clement
  Pam St. Clement
  Pamela Ann Clement , known by the stage name Pam St. Clement, is an English actress. She has played Pat Evans in the BBC soap opera EastEnders since 1986, and is now one of the programme's longest-serving cast members. St. Clement announced her intention to leave EastEnders on 8 July 2011 and will...
  
  , best known as Pat
  Pat Evans
  Patricia Louise "Pat" Evans is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders. She has been played by Pam St. Clement since 12 June 1986, just over a year after the show first aired...
  
   in BBC
  BBC
  The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
  
   soap EastEnders
  EastEnders
  EastEnders is a British television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 1985 and continuing to today. EastEnders storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional London Borough of Walford in the East End...
  
  , lived in Kenton

• Journalist and broadcaster John Timpson
  John Timpson
  John Harry Robert Timpson OBE, , born in Kenton, Harrow, Middlesex, was a British journalist, best known as a radio presenter. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, a boys' independent school in Northwood, London....
  
   (1928-2005) was born in Kenton

• Footballer Darren Ward was born in Kenton

• Actress Mary Wimbush
  Mary Wimbush
  Mary Wimbush was an English actress, whose career spanned sixty years from the 1940s to the 2000s...
  
   (1924-2005), best known as Julia Pargetter in BBC Radio 4
  BBC Radio 4
  BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the...
  
  's The Archers
  The Archers
  The Archers is a long-running British soap opera broadcast on the BBC's main spoken-word channel, Radio 4. It was originally billed as "an everyday story of country folk", but is now described on its Radio 4 web site as "contemporary drama in a rural setting"...
  
  , was born in Kenton

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