List of people from Sevenoaks
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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
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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.
N
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O
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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
U
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V
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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
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- ↑ attended Sevenoaks School in his early teens
- ↑ plays the role of Number 5 in the Cbeebies programme, Numberjacks
- ↑ Homepage, LSE http://stats.lse.ac.uk/q.yao/
- ↑ attended West Heath School, Sevenoaks
