Waltham Forest is the birthplace of William Morris

William Morris

William Morris 24 March 18343 October 1896 was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement...

, best known as one of the principal founders of the British Arts and Crafts Movement. Morris was a designer of wallpaper and patterned fabrics, a writer of poetry and fiction, and a pioneer of the socialist movement in Britain.

Other famous people such as Footballer and former England Captain David Beckham

David Beckham

David Robert Joseph Beckham, OBE is an English footballer who plays midfield for Los Angeles Galaxy in Major League Soccer, having previously played for Manchester United, Preston North End, Real Madrid, and A.C...

, I, Claudius

I, Claudius (TV series)

I, Claudius is a 1976 BBC Television adaptation of Robert Graves' I, Claudius and Claudius the God. Written by Jack Pulman, it proved one of the corporation's most successful drama serials of all time...

star Derek Jacobi

Derek Jacobi

Sir Derek George Jacobi, CBE is an English actor and film director.A "forceful, commanding stage presence", Jacobi has enjoyed a highly successful stage career, appearing in such stage productions as Hamlet, Uncle Vanya, and Oedipus the King. He received a Tony Award for his performance in...

, former Essex and England Cricket Captain Graham Gooch

Graham Gooch

Graham Alan Gooch OBE DL is a former cricketer who captained Essex and England. He was one of the most successful international batsmen of his generation, and through a career spanning from 1973 until 2000, he became the most prolific run scorer of all time with 67,057 runs...

 and film director and producer Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE was a British film director and producer. He pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in British cinema in both silent films and early talkies, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood...

 were also born in the borough.

Among those who were born in the London Borough of Waltham Forest

London Borough of Waltham Forest

The London Borough of Waltham Forest is in northeast London, England. Officially, it forms part of Outer London as it borders Essex. However, it can be seen that the NE London boundary does not extend far compared to elsewhere in the city...

, or have dwelt within the borders of the modern borough are (alphabetical order):

• Patrick Agyemang
  Patrick Agyemang
  Patrick Agyemang is a footballer who plays for Queens Park Rangers as a striker. He has been capped 4 times by the Ghana national team, scoring one goal....
  
  
• Damon Albarn
  Damon Albarn
  Damon Albarn is an English singer-songwriter and record producer who has been involved in many high profile projects, coming to prominence as the frontman and primary songwriter of Britpop band Blur...
  
  
• Keith Albarn, manager of Soft Machine
  Soft Machine
  Soft Machine were an English rock band from Canterbury, named after the book The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs. They were one of the central bands in the Canterbury scene, and helped pioneer the progressive rock genre...
  
   and father of Damon Albarn
  Damon Albarn
  Damon Albarn is an English singer-songwriter and record producer who has been involved in many high profile projects, coming to prominence as the frontman and primary songwriter of Britpop band Blur...
  
  , taught art at Walthamstow Art College in the 1960s
• Jodi Albert
  Jodi Albert
  Jodi Mary Albert is an English actress and singer, best known for playing Debbie Dean in the British soap opera Hollyoaks on Channel 4 from 2002 to 2004, returning for guest appearances in 2005 & 2006, and her inclusion as one fifth of Irish girl group Wonderland.-Biography:Albert attended the...
  
   (former Hollyoaks
  Hollyoaks
  Hollyoaks is a long-running British television soap opera, first broadcast on Channel 4 on 23 October 1995. It was originally devised by Phil Redmond, who has also devised shows including Brookside and Grange Hill...
  
   actress)
• Jotham Annan , actor The Browning Version
  The Browning Version (1994 film)
  The Browning Version is a 1994 film directed by Mike Figgis and starring Albert Finney. The film is based on the 1948 play by Terence Rattigan, which was previously adapted for film under the same name in 1951.-Plot:...
  
  
• Danny Bailey
  Danny Bailey
  Daniel Stephen "Danny" Bailey is an English professional footballer, currently playing for Isthmian League Division One North side Ware....
  
  
• David Bailey
• Trevor Bailey
  Trevor Bailey
  Trevor Edward Bailey CBE was an England Test cricketer, cricket writer and broadcaster.An all-rounder, Bailey was known for his skilful but unspectacular batting...
  
  , Essex
  Essex
  Essex is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East region of England, and one of the home counties. It is located to the northeast of Greater London. It borders with Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent to the South and London to the south west...
  
   and England cricketer.
• Jill Barklem
  Jill Barklem
  Jill Barklem is a British writer and illustrator of children's books. Her most famous work is the Brambly Hedge series, published from 1980.- Biography :...
  
  
• Chris Barltrop, Ringmaster of Moscow State Circus
• Robert Barltrop
  Robert Barltrop
  Robert Barltrop was an English socialist activist, essayist, and biographer.Barltrop grew up in the East End of London, descended from a long line of blacksmiths, although his father was a horse fodder dealer; he won a scholarship to the Sir George Monoux Grammar School in Walthamstow, now Sir...
  
  
• Graham Barnfield
  Graham Barnfield
  Graham Barnfield is a British academic and pundit associated with the hard left Revolutionary Communist Party .In 1993 he began writing on cultural politics in the United States under President Franklin D. Roosevelt...
  
  , pundit and academic, moved to Highams Park in 2001. He lived in the former home of actress Tara Moran
  Tara Moran
  Kathleen Tara Moran is an English actress.Moran's television debut was in Yorkshire Television's educational history series for schools, How We Used to Live...
  
  .
• David Beckham
  David Beckham
  David Robert Joseph Beckham, OBE is an English footballer who plays midfield for Los Angeles Galaxy in Major League Soccer, having previously played for Manchester United, Preston North End, Real Madrid, and A.C...
  
   grew up in Chingford having been born at Whipps Cross Hospital
  Whipps Cross University Hospital
  Whipps Cross University Hospital is an NHS-run University Hospital in Whipps Cross, Waltham Forest, London, United Kingdom which housed London's first Hyperbaric Unit....
  
   in Leytonstone
  Leytonstone
  Leytonstone is an area of east London and part of the London Borough of Waltham Forest. It is a high density suburban area, located seven miles north east of Charing Cross in the ceremonial county of Greater London and the historic county of Essex...
  
   on 2 May 1975. As a child he attended Chingford School and played football for Ridgeway Rovers, a local side.
• Steve Bell
  Steve Bell (cartoonist)
  Steve Bell is an English political cartoonist, whose work appears in The Guardian and other publications. He is known for his left-wing views and distinctive caricatures.-Early life:...
  
  
• John Berger
  John Berger
  John Peter Berger is an English art critic, novelist, painter and author. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to a BBC series, is often used as a university text.-Education:Born in Hackney, London, England, Berger was...
  
  , socialist artist and writer, lived in Highams Park as a child.
• Peter Blake (artist)
  Peter Blake (artist)
  Sir Peter Thomas Blake, KBE, CBE, RDI, RA is an English pop artist, best known for his design of the sleeve for the Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. He lives in Chiswick, London, UK.-Career:...
  
  , artist, painted sleeve cover of the Beatles Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band.
• Blazin' Squad
  Blazin' Squad
  Blazin' Squad were an English pop-rap vocal group. The group enjoyed significant success in the UK, achieving six top ten hits, including "Crossroads", a cover version of the Bone Thugs-n-Harmony original.-In The Beginning: 2002:...
  
  , members of the band lived in or near Highams Park and studied at Highams Park School.
• Paul Boateng
  Paul Boateng
  Paul Yaw Boateng, Baron Boateng is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Brent South from 1987 to 2005, becoming the UK's first black Cabinet Minister in May 2002, when he was appointed as Chief Secretary to the Treasury...
  
  
• Mick Box
  Mick Box
  Michael Frederick Box , better known by his stage name Mick Box, is the lead guitarist of British rock group Uriah Heep, having previously been a member of The Stalkers and Spice, both with original Uriah Heep vocalist David Byron. He is the only member from the band's founding in 1969 who is...
  
  , guitarist for Uriah Heep born in Walthamstow.
• Boy Kill Boy
  Boy Kill Boy
  Boy Kill Boy were an English rock band based in Leytonstone, East London. Perhaps Best known for their highest charting single "Suzie", the band produced two studio albums and six singles before splitting in 2008.- History :...
  
  
• Matthew Bourne
  Matthew Bourne
  Matthew Bourne OBE is a British classical and contemporary ballet and dance choreographer.-Biography:Matthew Bourne was born in Hackney, London in 1960. He went to William Fitt and Sir George Monoux School in Walthamstow, London...
  
  , choreographer and dancer, was born in Walthamstow.
• Frederick Bremer
  Frederick Bremer
  Frederick William Bremer was a British gasfitter, plumber. engineer and inventor recognised as the man who built the first petrol driven car in Great Britain in 1892.-The Bremer car:...
  
  , Inventor.
• Lee Butcher
  Lee Butcher
  Lee Anthony Butcher is a professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Leyton Orient. He started his career as a youth player at Norwich City and Arsenal, before moving to Tottenham Hotspur following his release in 2007...
  
  , Leyton Orient Goalkeeper
• Edward Buxton (conservationist)
  Edward Buxton (conservationist)
  Edward North Buxton was a British conservationist and liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1886....
  
  
• Dave Cairns
  Dave Cairns
  Dave Cairns is an English rock guitarist and songwriter, best known for his role in the 1970s/1980s band Secret Affair...
  
   guitarist with Secret Affair
  Secret Affair
  Secret Affair were a mod revival band, formed in 1978 and disbanded in 1982. They reformed to perform and record in the 2000s.-Career:In a period of a little over two years, Secret Affair posted five releases in the UK Singles Chart and released three albums...
  
   was born in Walthamstow.
• Jeremy Cameron
• Cartrain
  Cartrain
  Cartrain , often stylised cartяain, is a British artist associated with the graffiti urban art movement. YBA artist Damien Hirst has threatened to take legal steps against Cartain over his art and activities.-Early life:...
  
  
• Maurice Chambers
  Maurice Chambers
  Maurice Anthony Chambers is a cricketer representing Essex. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast bowler.Chambers made his debut first-class appearance for Essex in June 2005....
  
  
• Nigel Clarke
• Cornelius Cardew
  Cornelius Cardew
  Cornelius Cardew was an English experimental music composer, and founder of the Scratch Orchestra, an experimental performing ensemble. He later rejected the avant-garde in favour of a politically motivated "people's liberation music".-Biography:Cardew was born in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire...
  
  
• Harry Cohen
  Harry Cohen
  Harry Michael Cohen is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Leyton and Wanstead from 1983 to 2010.-Early life:...
  
   M P for Leyton, attended Selwyn School
• Terry Coldwell
• Terry Cole
  Terry Cole
  Terry Cole is a British TV and film stuntman.- Career :Terry Cole has been part of the entertainment business for many years performing for live audiences, TV and film. Terry has had many roles in various films and television shows...
  
  
• Phil Collen
  Phil Collen
  Philip Kenneth "Phil" Collen is the co-lead guitarist and one of the backing vocalists for English rock band Def Leppard. He joined the band in 1982 following the departure of Pete Willis.-Early years:...
  
  , lead guitarist of Def Leppard
  Def Leppard
  Def Leppard are an English rock band formed in 1977 in Sheffield as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. Since 1992, the band have consisted of Joe Elliott , Rick Savage , Rick Allen , Phil Collen , and Vivian Campbell...
  
  .
• Jack Cornwell VC, born in Leyton in 1900
• Fanny Cradock
  Fanny Cradock
  Phyllis Nan Sortain Pechey , better known as Fanny Cradock, was an English restaurant critic, television cook and writer who mostly worked with her then common-law husband Johnnie Cradock, adopting his surname long before they married. She was the daughter of the novelist and lyricist Archibald...
  
  
• Bobby Crush
  Bobby Crush
  Bobby Crush is an English pianist, songwriter and television presenter.-Career:Crush first came to public attention after making six winning appearances on Hughie Green's British ITV talent show, Opportunity Knocks, in the early 1970s...
  
  
• Molly Cutpurse
  Molly Cutpurse
  Molly Cutpurse is an English transgender author. She was born in Stratford in the East End of London in September 1952 and raised in nearby Leyton...
  
   (Author)
• Johnny Dankworth, jazz musician, born in Highams Park in 1927, attended Selwyn School and Sir George Monoux Grammar School.
• Paul Di'Anno
  Paul Di'Anno
  Paul Andrews , better known as Paul Di'Anno, is an English singer best known as the first vocalist to record with the iconic heavy metal band Iron Maiden, from 1978 to 1981....
  
  , lead singer of Iron Maiden
  Iron Maiden
  Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band from Leyton in east London, formed in 1975 by bassist and primary songwriter Steve Harris. Since their inception, the band's discography has grown to include a total of thirty-six albums: fifteen studio albums; eleven live albums; four EPs; and six...
  
   1978-1981.
• Alan Davies
  Alan Davies
  Alan Davies is an English comedian, writer and actor best known for starring in the TV mystery series Jonathan Creek and as the permanent panellist on the TV panel show QI.- Early life :...
  
  , stand-up comedian and regular guest on quiz show QI
  QI
  QI is a British comedy panel game television quiz show created and co-produced by John Lloyd, hosted by Stephen Fry, and featuring permanent panellist Alan Davies. Most of the questions are extremely obscure, making it unlikely that the correct answer will be given...
  
  , was born in Chingford
• Curtis Davies
  Curtis Davies
  Curtis Eugene Davies is an English professional footballer who plays as a central defender for Birmingham City. Davies has previously played for Luton Town, where he began his career, West Bromwich Albion, Aston Villa and Leicester City....
  
   (Premiership footballer)
• Chris Day
  Chris Day
  Christopher Nicholas Day is an English professional football goalkeeper currently playing for League One side Stevenage....
  
  
• Eric Deakins
  Eric Deakins
  Eric Petro Deakins, born 7 October 1932, is a British Labour Party politician.Deakins was educated at Tottenham Grammar School and London School of Economics and became a commercial executive...
  
  
• Joe Dever
  Joe Dever
  Joe Dever is an award-winning British fantasy author and game designer. Originally a musician, Dever became the first British winner of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Championship of America in 1982....
  
  , author and games designer, was born in Chingford in 1956.
• Adam Devlin
  Adam Devlin
  Adam Devlin is the guitarist and songwriter for the English band, The Bluetones.-External links:*...
  
  , guitarist for The Bluetones
  The Bluetones
  The Bluetones were an English indie rock band, formed in Hounslow, Greater London, in 1993. The band's members were Mark Morriss on vocals, Adam Devlin on guitar, Scott Morriss on bass guitar, and Eds Chesters on drums. A fifth member, Richard Payne, came on board between 1998 and 2002...
  
   lives in Walthamstow.

• Benjamin Disraeli, former British Prime Minister, attended Higham Hall School in Walthamstow
• John Drinkwater
• Iain Duncan Smith
  Iain Duncan Smith
  George Iain Duncan Smith is a British Conservative politician. He is currently the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and was previously leader of the Conservative Party from September 2001 to October 2003...
  
   M P
• Ian Dury
  Ian Dury
  Ian Robins Dury was an English rock and roll singer, lyricist, bandleader and actor who initially rose to fame during the late 1970s, during the punk and New Wave era of rock music...
  
  , singer and songwriter, studied at Walthamstow Art College.
• East 17
  East 17
  East 17 are a pop boy band comprising Tony Mortimer, John Hendy and Terry Coldwell. Tony Mortimer is the group's frontman and primary songwriter. Formed in Walthamstow, London in 1991, the group have achieved eighteen Top 20 singles and four Top 10 albums, and were one of the UK's most popular boy...
  
  , British pop boy band, including singer/song writer Brian Harvey
  Brian Harvey
  Brian Harvey is an English musician and formerly lead singer of pop band East 17.Harvey was born in Walthamstow, London, and attended Sir George Monoux School from 1988-90.-Career:...
  
  .
• Brian Edmeades Essex Cricketer
• Sir George Edwards (aviation)
  George Edwards (aviation)
  Sir George Robert Freeman Edwards, OM, CBE, FRS, DL , was a British aircraft designer and industrialist.Edwards was born in Highams Park, England...
  
  , aircraft designer (Concorde) and industrialist was born in Hale End Road, Highams Park, on 9 July 1908.
• Daniel Evans, singer and X Factor finalist (2008)
• Eamon Everall
  Eamon Everall
  Eamon Everall is an English artist and educator. He was one of the 12 founder members of the Stuckists art group. He paints in a "neo-cubist" style, with subjects from life worked on over a long period.-Life and career:...
  
   studied at Waltham Forest School of Art
• Ken Farnes
  Ken Farnes
  Kenneth Farnes was an English cricketer. He played in 15 Tests from 1934 to 1939.Farnes was born in Leytonstone, Essex, and was educated at the Royal Liberty School in Gidea Park. He made his first-class debut for Essex in 1930, aged only 19. He took 5-36 in his second county match against Kent...
  
  
• Joanne Fenn
  Joanne Fenn
  Joanne Fenn née Mersh, is an English middle distance runner.-Career:Jo had shown a great deal of promise in her early athletics career having been the English schools 300m hurdles champion. However, a series of injuries, particularly shin splints, halted her career...
  
  
• Fire Camp
  Fire camp
  According to the National Incident Management System , a fire camp is one of five predesignated temporary facilities. Fire camps provide certain essential auxiliary forms of support, such as food, sleeping areas, and sanitation for Wildland firefighters...
  
  
• Patrik Fitzgerald
  Patrik Fitzgerald
  Patrik Fitzgerald is a singer-songwriter. The son of working-class Irish immigrant parents, he began recording and performing during the punk rock movement in 1977, after working briefly as an actor.-Early recordings:His early songs were generally short, sarcastic efforts, recorded with just an...
  
  
• Marion Foale
  Marion Foale
  Marion Foale artist and fashion designer.Foale attended Ilford County High School, where she entered several painting contests. After school she attended Walthamstow School of Art...
  
  
• Quinton Fortune
• Harrison Foss
• James Foster (cricketer)
  James Foster (cricketer)
  James Savin Foster is an English cricketer: a wicket-keeper who played seven Tests and 11 One Day Internationals in 2001/02 and 2002/03. Foster played his club cricket at Ilford Cricket Club and then Wanstead & Snaresbrook Cricket Club...
  
  
• Samantha Fox
  Samantha Fox
  Samantha Karen "Sam" Fox is an English dance-pop singer, actress, and former glamour model. In 1983, at the age of 16, she began her topless modeling career on Page Three of The Sun, and went on to become a popular pin-up girl...
  
  
• Neil Gerrard
  Neil Gerrard
  Neil Francis Gerrard is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Walthamstow from 1992 until 2010.-Early life:...
  
   M P for Walthamstow
• Terry Gibson
  Terry Gibson
  Terence Bradley "Terry" Gibson is an English former footballer who played as a forward for several clubs, including Tottenham Hotspur, Coventry City, Manchester United and Wimbledon.-Playing career:...
  
  
• Sir Stephen Gomersall
  Stephen Gomersall
  Sir Stephen Gomersall, KCMG was educated at Forest School, Snaresbrook and Queens' College, Cambridge. After 14 years serving as a diplomat in Japan and as British ambassador, 1999-2004, he became Chief Executive of Hitachi Europe Ltd. at the age of 56...
  
  
• Graham Gooch
  Graham Gooch
  Graham Alan Gooch OBE DL is a former cricketer who captained Essex and England. He was one of the most successful international batsmen of his generation, and through a career spanning from 1973 until 2000, he became the most prolific run scorer of all time with 67,057 runs...
  
  
• Jon Goodman
  Jon Goodman
  Jonathan "Jon" Goodman is an Anglo-Irish former professional footballer, and was the Sports Scientist at Reading before leaving to concentrate on his consultancy business....
  
  
• 'Lucky' Aloysius Gordon, Jazz pianist.
• Nickolas Grace
  Nickolas Grace
  Nickolas Grace is a British actor known for his roles on television, including Anthony Blanche in the acclaimed ITV adaptation of Brideshead Revisited and the Sheriff of Nottingham in the 1980s series Robin of Sherwood...
  
  
• Michael Grandage
  Michael Grandage
  Michael Grandage CBE is a British theatre director and producer, and current Artistic Director at the Donmar Warehouse, London. Grandage won the 2010 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play for Red.-Early years:...
  
  
• Peter Greenaway
  Peter Greenaway
  Peter Greenaway, CBE is a British film director. His films are noted for the distinct influence of Renaissance and Baroque painting, and Flemish painting in particular...
  
   CBE
• Mark Greenstreet
  Mark Greenstreet
  Mark Greenstreet is a British actor who first came to prominence in the 1985 BBC television serial Brat Farrar. First and foremost a stage actor, Greenstreet played many of the great leading roles from the works of Shakespeare, Chekhov and Ibsen to Orton, Wilde and Coward in the UK and around the...
  
  
• Gunshot
  Gunshot (band)
  Gunshot was a British hip hop group, formed by MC Mercury, MC Alkaline, Q-Roc, DJ White Child Rix and DJ/MC Barry Blue in the area of Leyton in east London.-Career:...
  
   (British Hip hop group)
• Fitz Hall
  Fitz Hall
  Fitz Benjamin Hall is an English footballer who plays for Queens Park Rangers. He is a central defender who can also play as a central midfielder. His nickname is "One Size" Fitz Hall, a pun on the phrase "one size fits all"...
  
  
• King Harold I
  Harold Harefoot
  Harold Harefoot was King of England from 1037 to 1040. His cognomen "Harefoot" referred to his speed, and the skill of his huntsmanship. He was the son of Cnut the Great, king of England, Denmark, and Norway by Ælfgifu of Northampton...
  
  
• Jacqui Harper
• Steve Harris
  Steve Harris (musician)
  Stephen Percy "Steve" Harris is an English musician and songwriter, known as the bassist, occasional keyboardist, backing vocalist and primary songwriter of the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden, which he founded in 1975...
  
   (Founder and bass player of Iron Maiden
  Iron Maiden
  Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band from Leyton in east London, formed in 1975 by bassist and primary songwriter Steve Harris. Since their inception, the band's discography has grown to include a total of thirty-six albums: fifteen studio albums; eleven live albums; four EPs; and six...
  
  )
• Brian Harvey (musician)
• Patrick Haseldine
  Patrick Haseldine
  Patrick John Haseldine is a former British diplomat who was dismissed in August 1989 by the then Foreign Secretary, John Major, for "various disciplinary offences constituting breaches of the Diplomatic Service Regulations"...
  
  
• Martin Hayes (footballer)
  Martin Hayes (footballer)
  Martin Hayes is an English former footballer.-Career:Born in Walthamstow, London, Hayes played youth football for Essex schoolboys before joining Arsenal as an apprentice in June 1982...
  
  
• Paul Hayes
  Paul Hayes
  Paul Edward Hayes is an English footballer who plays for Charlton Athletic.-Scunthorpe United:Born in Dagenham, London, Hayes grew up in East London and went to Barclay Junior School in Leyton, where he captained the school football team from the age of 7...
  
  
• Barry Hearn
  Barry Hearn
  Barry Hearn is an English sporting events promoter, and the founder and chairman of promotions company Matchroom Sport. He is currently the chairman of Leyton Orient F.C., and the Professional Darts Corporation and was also until July 2010 chairman of the World Professional Billiards and Snooker...
  
  
• Don Henderson
  Don Henderson
  Don Henderson was an English actor whose film and TV work covered many years but is best remembered for his role as the fictional detective George Bulman...
  
  
• John Hendy
• Peter Hennessy
  Peter Hennessy
  Peter John Hennessy, Baron Hennessy of Nympsfield, FBA is an English historian of government. Since 1992, he has been Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary, University of London.-Early life:...
  
  , historian.
• John Hewer
  John Hewer
  John Hewer was an English actor. He was born in Leyton, London.A stalwart of London's Players Theatre throughout his career, he appeared in many musical theatrical productions, including Sail Away and Six of One in London's West End theatre, but the highlight of his theatrical career was starring...
  
   "Captain Birdseye"
• Steve Hillage
  Steve Hillage
  Steve Hillage is an English musician, best known as a guitarist. He is associated with the Canterbury scene and has worked in experimental domains since the late 1960s...
  
  
• James Hilton
  James Hilton
  James Hilton was an English novelist who wrote several best-sellers, including Lost Horizon and Goodbye, Mr. Chips.-Biography:...
  
  
• Sir Alfred Hitchcock
  Alfred Hitchcock
  Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE was a British film director and producer. He pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in British cinema in both silent films and early talkies, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood...
  
  
• David Holdsworth
  David Holdsworth
  David Gary Holdsworth is an English former footballer who is the current manager of Lincoln City.-Playing career:He played as a centre back for Watford, Sheffield United, Birmingham City, Walsall, Bolton Wanderers, Scarborough and Gretna, and was capped once for England at Under-21 level...
  
  
• Dean Holdsworth
  Dean Holdsworth
  Dean Christopher Holdsworth is an English former professional football player, now manager. As a striker he scored 193 goals in 610 league games over a 22 year career. Despite playing for 16 clubs in 19 spells the majority of his goals and appearances came at Brentford, Wimbledon, and Bolton...
  
  
• Helen Hollick
  Helen Hollick
  Helen Hollick is a British author of historical fiction. She is the author of the Arthurian trilogy Pendragon's Banner, and the novels Harold the King and A Hollow Crown.-Life and career:...
  
  
• Richard Holmes (military historian)
  Richard Holmes (military historian)
  Brigadier Edward Richard Holmes, CBE, TD, JP , known as Richard Holmes, was a British soldier and noted military historian, particularly well-known through his many television appearances...
  
  
• Tom Hood
  Tom Hood
  Tom Hood , was an English humorist and playwright, son of the poet and author Thomas Hood. A prolific author, he was appointed, in 1865, editor of the magazine Fun. He also founded Tom Hood's Comic Annual in 1867....
  
  , humourist and playwright, born at Lake House in 1835
• Sydney Horler
  Sydney Horler
  Sydney Horler was a prolific British novelist specialising in thrillers. Born in Leytonstone, London and was educated at Redcliffe School and Colston School in Bristol....
  
  
• Justin Hoyte
  Justin Hoyte
  Justin Raymond Hoyte is an English footballer who plays for Middlesbrough. His younger brother, Gavin Hoyte, plays for Arsenal in the reserve team. His mother is the British sprinter, Wendy Hoyte.-Arsenal:...
  
  
• Roger Huddle
• Mick Hume
  Mick Hume
  Mick Hume is a British journalist and former organiser of the defunct Revolutionary Communist Party. He was raised in Woking and educated at Manchester University where he read American Studies...
  
  , journalist.
• Nasser Hussain
  Nasser Hussain
  Nasser Hussain OBE is a former Essex and England cricketer.Beginning his career in a strong Essex side in the late 1980s, he was an outstanding fielder and a stylish but inconsistent batsman. In first-class cricket from 1987 to 2004 Hussain scored 20,698 runs in 334 matches at an average of 42.06,...
  
   OBE
• Doug Insole
  Doug Insole
  Doug Insole CBE is a former English cricketer, who played for Cambridge University, Essex and in nine Test matches for England, five of them on the 1956-57 tour of South Africa, where he was vice-captain to Peter May...
  
   England Cricketer
• Jonathan Ive
  Jonathan Ive
  Jonathan "Jony" Ive, CBE is an English designer and the Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple Inc. He is the leading designer and conceptual mind behind the iMac, titanium and aluminum PowerBook G4, G4 Cube, MacBook, unibody MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iPod, iPhone, and iPad.- Early...
  
  , designed the iPod (all generations) iMac (all generations), iBook, Powerbook, MacBook and MacBook Pro, as well as the new iPhone
  IPhone
  The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones marketed by Apple Inc. The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007...
  
  .
• Iron Maiden
  Iron Maiden
  Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band from Leyton in east London, formed in 1975 by bassist and primary songwriter Steve Harris. Since their inception, the band's discography has grown to include a total of thirty-six albums: fifteen studio albums; eleven live albums; four EPs; and six...
  
  
• Bill Jacklin Artist
• Derek Jacobi
  Derek Jacobi
  Sir Derek George Jacobi, CBE is an English actor and film director.A "forceful, commanding stage presence", Jacobi has enjoyed a highly successful stage career, appearing in such stage productions as Hamlet, Uncle Vanya, and Oedipus the King. He received a Tony Award for his performance in...
  
  
• Tolga Kashif
  Tolga Kashif
  Tolga Kashif is a British born musical conductor, composer, orchestrator, producer and arranger of Turkish Cypriot descent.-Early life:...
  
  
• Colin Kazim-Richards
  Colin Kazim-Richards
  Colin Kazim-Richards , commonly known as Colin Kâzım, Kâzım or Kâzım Kâzım, is an English-born Turkish footballer who plays for Galatasaray, and internationally for Turkey having qualified for Turkish nationality through his mother's ethnicity...
  
  
• Lena Kennedy
  Lena Kennedy
  Lena Kennedy , was an English author. Her books were mostly historic romantic fiction set in and around the East End of London where she lived for all her life...
  
  
• The Kray twins
  Kray twins
  Reginald "Reggie" Kray and his twin brother Ronald "Ronnie" Kray were the foremost perpetrators of organised crime in London's East End during the 1950s and 1960s...
  
   are buried in Chingford cemetery.
• Terry Lawless
  Terry Lawless
  Terry Lawless was an English boxing manager and trainer who worked in London, most successfully during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.-Biography:...
  
  
• T E Lawrence of Arabia
• Lethal Bizzle
  Lethal Bizzle
  Lethal Bizzle, also known as Lethal B , is a Ghanaian British rapper. His songs are known to satirise modern Gangsta rap; much of the humour comes from the adoption of hip-hop style and language...
  
  
• Leyton Buzzards
  Leyton Buzzards
  The Leyton Buzzards aka The Buzzards were a British rock band, active between 1976 and 1980, best known for their minor hit single, "Saturday Night ".-Career:...
  
  
• John Lill
  John Lill
  John Lill CBE is an English classical pianist.-Biography:Lill studied at the Royal College of Music and with Wilhelm Kempff. His talent emerged at an early age, as he gave his first piano recital at the age of nine. At age 18, he performed Rachmaninoff's 3rd Piano Concerto under Sir Adrian Boult...
  
  
• Russell Lissack
  Russell Lissack
  Russell Dean Lissack is an English musician best known as the lead guitarist of London based indie rock band, Bloc Party. Lissack is also in the electronica band Pin Me Down; a duo of himself and Milena Mepris...
  
   from Bloc Party grew up in Chingford
• Natasha Little
  Natasha Little
  Natasha Little is a British actress. She is best known for her work on British television, but has also featured in many film and theatre roles.- Early life :...
  
  
• Mike McStay starred in No Hiding Place
  No Hiding Place
  No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967....
  
  
• Morell Mackenzie
  Morell Mackenzie
  Sir Morell Mackenzie was a British physician, one of the pioneers of laryngology in the United Kingdom.-Biography:...
  
  
• Bryan Magee
  Bryan Magee
  Bryan Edgar Magee is a noted British broadcasting personality, politician, poet, and author, best known as a popularizer of philosophy.-Early life:...
  
  
• Luigi Manze - Manze’s Pie and Mash Shop
• Dominic McVey
  Dominic McVey
  Dominic McVey is a British entrepreneur from London who started business at the age of 13, importing micro-scooters from the United States into the United Kingdom....
  
   Britain's youngest self made millionaire
• Graeme Miller
• Shazia Mirza
  Shazia Mirza
  Shazia Mirza is a British comedian and columnist from Birmingham, England.-Background:Shazia was born as the eldest daughter in Birmigham to Pakistani parents, Mohammed and Sarwat Mirza...
  
  
• George Allan Mitchell
  George Allan Mitchell
  George Allan Mitchell VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:...
  
   VC
• Chris Moncrieff
  Chris Moncrieff
  Chris Moncrieff, is a British journalist. He was the political editor of the Press Association from 1980 to 1994.He joined the agency's political staff in the Houses of Parliament in 1962 and became a lobby correspondent in 1973...
  
  , Political Journalist.
• George Monoux
  George Monoux
  Sir George Monoux , born in Walthamstow, Essex, England, was made Sheriff of London in 1509 and became the Lord Mayor of London in 1514.On 15 June 1527 Monoux purchased land for almshouses and a school in Walthamstow...
  
  , Lord Mayor of the City of London, 1514
• Bobby Moore
  Bobby Moore
  Robert Frederick Chelsea "Bobby" Moore, OBE was an English footballer. He captained West Ham United for more than ten years and was captain of the England team that won the 1966 World Cup...
  
  
• Tara Moran
  Tara Moran
  Kathleen Tara Moran is an English actress.Moran's television debut was in Yorkshire Television's educational history series for schools, How We Used to Live...
  
  
• More Fire Crew
  More Fire Crew
  More Fire Crew was an east London-based grime crew from Waltham Forest, and was one of the first crews in the grime scene.The crew was formed when Ozzie B and Lethal Bizzle went to secondary school together. Ozzie and Lethal soon joined up with their friend Shaunie B, who was a DJ on Amy FM, and...
  
  
• Ian Morgan
  Ian Morgan
  Ian Arthur Morgan is an English former footballer, born in Walthamstow, London, who played as a winger in the Football League for Queens Park Rangers and Watford in the 1960s and 1970s....
  
  
• Roger Morgan
  Roger Morgan
  Roger Ernest Morgan is an English former footballer, born in Walthamstow, London, who played as a winger in the Football League for Queens Park Rangers and Tottenham Hotspur....
  
  

• William Morris
  William Morris
  William Morris 24 March 18343 October 1896 was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement...
  
  
• Tony Mortimer
  Tony Mortimer
  Anthony Michael "Tony" Mortimer is a British songwriter, composer, singer and rapper.-Career:Mortimer is a member of the 1990s, UK chart-topping boy band, East 17, with who had seven Top 10 singles and four hit albums between 1992 and 1997...
  
  
• Fabrice Muamba
  Fabrice Muamba
  Fabrice Ndala Muamba is a footballer who plays for Bolton Wanderers as a midfielder in the Premier League. He previously played for Arsenal and Birmingham City. At international level, he has represented England at under-21 level....
  
  
• Frank Muir
  Frank Muir
  Frank Herbert Muir was an English comedy writer, radio and television personality, and raconteur. His writing and performing partnership with Denis Norden endured for most of their careers. Together they wrote BBC radio's Take It From Here for over 10 years, and then appeared on BBC radio...
  
   (Writer and radio personality)
• Jimmy Neighbour
  Jimmy Neighbour
  James Edward "Jimmy" Neighbour was a professional footballer who played for Tottenham Hotspur, Norwich City, West Ham United and the Seattle Sounders.- Football career:...
  
  
• Grant Nelson
  Grant Nelson
  Grant Nelson , also known as Wishdokta, 24 Hour Experience, Bump & Flex and N'n'G, is a DJ, producer and remix artist....
  
  , Radio DJ went to school in Chingford.
• Peter Nicol
  Peter Nicol
  Peter Nicol, MBE , is a former professional squash player from the United Kingdom, who represented first Scotland and then England in international squash. In 1998, while still competing for Scotland, he became the first player from the UK to hold the World No. 1 ranking...
  
   MBE
• Ross Noble
  Ross Noble
  Ross Markham Noble is an English stand-up comedian, brought up in Cramlington, Northumberland, England.Noble rose to mainstream popularity through making appearances on British television, particularly interviews and on celebrity quiz shows such as Have I Got News for You...
  
  
• Michael Nyman
  Michael Nyman
  Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE is an English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, known for the many film scores he wrote during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway, and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion's The Piano...
  
  , composer and musicologist.
• Ronnie O'Sullivan
  Ronnie O'Sullivan
  Ronald Antonio "Ronnie" O'Sullivan , is an English professional snooker player known for his rapid playing style and nicknamed "The Rocket". He has been World Champion on three occasions , and is second on the all-time prize-money list, with career earnings of over £6 million, behind only Stephen...
  
  
• Cornelia Parker
  Cornelia Parker
  Cornelia Ann Parker OBE, RA is an English sculptor and installation artist. -Life and career:Parker studied at Gloucestershire College of Art and Design and Wolverhampton Polytechnic...
  
  
• Grayson Perry
  Grayson Perry
  Grayson Perry is an English artist, known mainly for his ceramic vases and cross-dressing. Perry's vases have classical forms and are decorated in bright colours, depicting subjects at odds with their attractive appearance. There is a strong autobiographical element in his work, in which images of...
  
  , ceramicist and 2003 Turner Prize
  Turner Prize
  The Turner Prize, named after the painter J. M. W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist under the age of 50. Awarding the prize is organised by the Tate gallery and staged at Tate Britain. Since its beginnings in 1984 it has become the United Kingdom's most publicised...
  
   winner, has his studio in Walthamstow.
• Mark Petchey
  Mark Petchey
  Mark Dave Petchey is a former tennis player from England, who turned professional in 1988. The right-hander won one doubles title in his career. He reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on 8 August 1994, when he became the number 80 of the world...
  
  
• Pascale Petit
  Pascale Petit
  Pascale Petit is a poet. She grew up in France and Wales. She trained as a sculptor at the Royal College of Art and was a visual artist for the first part of her life...
  
  , poet, twice shortlisted for T.S. Eliot Prize, lives in Walthamstow.
• Eddie Phillips
• Leslie Phillips
  Leslie Phillips
  Leslie Samuel Phillips, CBE is an English actor with a highly recognisable upper class accent. Originally known for his work as a comedy actor, Phillips subsequently made the transition to character roles.-Early life:...
  
  , comedy star of the Carry On Films
  Carry On films
  The Carry On films are a series of low-budget British comedy films, directed by Gerald Thomas and produced by Peter Rogers. They are an energetic mix of parody, farce, slapstick and double entendres....
  
  , lived in Chingford.
• Sol Plaatje
  Sol Plaatje
  Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje was a South African intellectual, journalist, linguist, politician, translator, and writer. The Sol Plaatje Local Municipality, which includes the city of Kimberley, was named after him.-Early life:...
  
  
• Fred Pontin
  Fred Pontin
  Sir Frederick William Pontin was born in Walthamstow, the son of Frederick William Pontin and Elizabeth Marian Tilyard and was knighted in 1976. He died in Blackpool aged 93. He had a successful career in the city's Stock Exchange. He attended Sir George Monoux Grammar School in Walthamstow...
  
  , founder and managing director of Pontins holiday camps
• Ruth Rendell
  Ruth Rendell
  Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE, , who also writes under the pseudonym Barbara Vine, is an English crime writer, author of psychological thrillers and murder mysteries....
  
  
• Lt.Col V.C. 'Dope' Richmond, designer of the R101
  R101
  R101 was one of a pair of British rigid airship completed in 1929 as part of a British government programme to develop civil airships capable of service on long-distance routes within the British Empire. It was designed and built by an Air Ministry-appointed team and was effectively in competition...
  
  
• Tony Robinson
  Tony Robinson
  Tony Robinson is an English actor, comedian, author, broadcaster and political campaigner. He is best known for playing Baldrick in the BBC television series Blackadder, and for hosting Channel 4 programmes such as Time Team and The Worst Jobs in History. Robinson is a member of the Labour Party...
  
  
• Alliot Verdon Roe
• Jonathan Ross
  Jonathan Ross (television presenter)
  Jonathan Stephen Ross, OBE is an English television and radio presenter, best known for presenting the BBC One chat show Friday Night with Jonathan Ross from 2001 until he left the BBC in 2010. Ross began hosting a new chat show on ITV1 starting 3 September 2011...
  
  
• Paul Ross
  Paul Ross
  Paul Ross is an English television and radio presenter, journalist, and media personality. He is the son of Martha Ross and the elder brother of Jonathan Ross.-Early life:...
  
  
• Ken Russell
  Ken Russell
  Henry Kenneth Alfred "Ken" Russell was an English film director, known for his pioneering work in television and film and for his flamboyant and controversial style. He attracted criticism as being obsessed with sexuality and the church...
  
  
• Russ Sainty (1960s UK rock 'n' roll star)
• 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...
  
  
• Nick Saloman
• June Sarpong
  June Sarpong
  June Sarpong MBE is an English television presenter of Ghanaian descent.-Education:Sarpong was born in London to Ghanaian parents. She was educated at Connaught Girls School in Leytonstone and Sir George Monoux College in Walthamstow....
  
  , television presenter.
• Graham Saville
  Graham Saville
  Graham John Saville is a former English cricketer of the 1960s and 1970s. His main career was with Essex, whom he represented on 170 occasions at first-class or List A level, though he also turned out twice for Minor Counties in first-class games and twice for Norfolk in the Gillette Cup.He was...
  
  
• Baroness Scotland
  Patricia Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal
  Patricia Janet, Baroness Scotland of Asthal, PC, QC is a British barrister, and served in many ministerial positions within the UK Government, most notably as the Attorney General for England and Wales and Advocate General for Northern Ireland.-Early life and career:Baroness Scotland was born in...
  
  , Attorney General, grew up in Walthamstow and attended Walthamstow School for Girls.
• Jamie Shea
  Jamie Shea
  Jamie Patrick Shea is Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium....
  
  
• Teddy Sheringham
  Teddy Sheringham
  Edward Paul "Teddy" Sheringham MBE is a retired English footballer, and the father of footballer Charlie Sheringham. Sheringham played as a striker, and had a successful career at the club level, winning almost every domestic honour available with his clubs, most notably the Treble with Manchester...
  
   (footballer) was born on 2 April 1966 in Highams Park.
• Rita Simons British actress, singer and model
• Talvin Singh
  Talvin Singh
  Talvin Singh Matharoo , is a producer and composer and tabla player, known for creating an innovative fusion of Indian classical music and drum and bass...
  
  
• John Smith (filmmaker)
  John Smith (filmmaker)
  John Smith is an award winning avant garde filmmaker noted for his use of humour in exploring various themes that often play upon the film spectator's conditioned assumptions of the medium. Noted works include , , and .John Smith studied film at the Royal College of Art...
  
  , avant–garde filmmaker. Born in Highams Park, attended Selwyn Avenue School and George Monoux School.
• Rodney "Gypsy" Smith
• Vivian Stanshall
  Vivian Stanshall
  Vivian Stanshall was an English singer-songwriter, painter, musician, author, poet and wit, best known for his work with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, for his surreal exploration of the British upper classes in Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, and for narrating Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells.-The great...
  
  , musician, painter, singer, broadcaster, songwriter, poet and writer, best known for his work with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
  Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
  The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band are a band created by a group of British art-school denizens of the 1960s...
  
  , grew up in Grove Road, Walthamstow.
• Seán Mac Stíofáin
  Seán Mac Stíofáin
  Seán Mac Stíofáin was an Irish republican paramilitary activist born in London, who became associated with the republican movement in Ireland after serving in the Royal Air Force...
  
  
• Meera Syal
  Meera Syal
  Meera Syal MBE is a British comedienne, writer, playwright, singer, journalist, producer and actress. She rose to prominence as one of the team that created Goodness Gracious Me and became one of the UK's best-known Indian personalities portraying Sanjeev's grandmother, Ummi, in The Kumars at No...
  
  
• Thomas Griffith Taylor
  Thomas Griffith Taylor
  Thomas Griffith "Grif" Taylor was a British / Australian geographer, anthropologist and world explorer. He was a survivor of Captain Robert Scott's ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition to Antarctica .-Early life:...
  
   (1890-1963) Antarctic explorer
• Norman Tebbit
  Norman Tebbit
  Norman Beresford Tebbit, Baron Tebbit, CH, PC , is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he served in the Cabinet from 1981 to 1987 as Secretary of State for Employment...
  
  
• Sally Tuffin
• Carole Vincent
• Nicola Walker
  Nicola Walker
  Nicola Walker is an English actress, best known for her starring roles in various British television programmes from the 1990s onwards, particularly as Ruth Evershed in the spy drama Spooks. She has also worked in theatre, radio and film....
  
  
• Angela Watkinson
  Angela Watkinson
  Angela Eileen Watkinson is a politician in the United Kingdom. She is Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Hornchurch and Upminster, and was first elected in 2001 to the earlier seat of Upminster, beating Keith Darvill who had taken the seat from the Conservatives in 1997...
  
   M P
• Michael Watson
  Michael Watson
  Michael Watson, MBE is a retired British boxer whose career ended prematurely as a result of near-fatal injury sustained in a WBO super-middleweight title fight defeat by Chris Eubank in September 1991....
  
  
• Doreen Wells, Prima Ballerina - Royal Ballet
• Geoffrey Wellum
• Daniella Westbrook, former 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...
  
   star lives in Chingford.
• Adam Woodyatt
  Adam Woodyatt
  Adam Brinley Woodyatt is an English actor and media personality, best known for his role as Ian Beale in the long-running BBC soap opera EastEnders...
  
  , English actor who plays Ian Beale
  Ian Beale
  Ian Albert Beale is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Adam Woodyatt. He is the longest-serving character and the only remaining original character to have appeared continuously since the first episode on 19 February 1985...
  
   in 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...
  
  , born in Walthamstow 1968.
• Phil Woosnam
  Phil Woosnam
  Phillip Abraham Woosnam is a Welsh former Association football inside-right and manager. He went on to become commissioner of the North American Soccer League.-Playing career:...