List of personalities from Blackheath
This list contains personalities who were born, died or worked in Blackheath , a borough of London .
Blackheath-born personalities
19th century
- William Lockhart (1811-1896), physician and missionary
- John Gilbert (1817-1897), painter
- William Kelly (1821–1906), Northern Irish ancient speaker, Bible interpreter, author and preacher of the Brethren movement
- Sam Mussabini (1867–1927), trainer and journalist
- Emily Davison (1872–1913), suffragette
- David Lindley (1876-1945), writer
- Arthur Adalbert Chase (1874–?), Cyclist
- Spencer Bassett (1885-1917), football player
- Clemence Dane (1888-1965), writer
20th century
- Boyd Neel (1905–1981), conductor
- Eileen Hiscock (1909-1958), track and field athlete
- Sheila Burrell (1922-2011), actress
- Mary Quant (* 1934), designer
- Julian Rathbone (1935–2008), writer
- Anne Perry (* 1938), writer
- Jon Hiseman (1944-2018), drummer
- Glenn Tipton (born 1947), guitarist
- Richard Branson (born 1950), entrepreneur
- Jools Holland (* 1958), pianist and television presenter
- David Hillier (born 1969), football player
Died in Blackheath
- Moses Browne (1704–1787), writer and cleric
- George Engleheart (1752–1829), painter
- John Pond (1767-1836), astronomer
- Samuel Brown (1776-1852), civil engineer
- William Lindley (1808-1900), engineer
- Charles Fox (1810–1874), civil engineer and entrepreneur
- John Elliot Cairnes (1823–1875), political economist
- Roy Fuller (1912-1991), writer
Known Blackheath residents
17th to 18th centuries
- John Vanbrugh (1664–1726), architect and playwright
- William Chambers (1723–1796), architect
- Augusta von Hannover (1737-1813), Princess Royal, Duchess and Princess of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel
- Caroline von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1768–1821), Queen of Great Britain, Ireland and Hanover
- Stephen Groombridge (1755-1832), astronomer
19th century
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881), British Prime Minister
- Harriet Taylor Mill (1807-1858), suffragette
- James Abbott (1807-1896), General
- Arthur Cayley (1821–1895), mathematician
- Peter Martin Duncan (1824-1891), paleontologist
- Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917), medical doctor
- Alfred Cellier (1844–1891), organist and conductor
- Aston Webb (1849-1930), architect
- Henry Mortimer Durand (1850-1924), British Foreign Secretary
- Arnold Toynbee (1852-1883), economic historian
- John Henry Maunder (1858–1920), organist and composer
- Alfred William Alcock (1859–1933), naturalist
- Francis Alphonsus Bourne (1861–1935), Archbishop of Westminster
- Frank Dyson (1868-1939), astronomer
- Freeman Wills Crofts (1879-1957), writer
20th century
- Victor Pasmore (1908–1998), painter
- John Peter Jukes (1923-2011), theologian
- Paul Oestreicher (* 1931), pastor
- Sophie Aldred (born 1962), actress
- Mick Whitnall (* 1968), guitarist
- Rio Ferdinand (* 1978), football player