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Among those who were born in the London Borough of Hackney, or have dwelt within the borders of the modern borough are (alphabetical order):
- Grace Aguilar, writer.
- Freema Agyeman, actress.
- John André, soldier, executed as a spy by George Washington lived with his Huguenot family at Clapton.
- Anna Laetitia Barbauld, poet, lived in Stoke Newington and buried in Saint Mary's Church.
- Jeremy Beadle, television presenter.
- Sir Francis Beaufort, hydrographer, is buried in Saint John's Church Gardens.
- Steven Berkoff, playwright and actor, was educated at Hackney Downs School.[1]
- Cherie Blair QC, barrister raised in Stoke Newington.
- Tony Blair, British Prime Minister, lived at London Fields in the early 1980s.
- Marc Bolan, musician was born at Homerton, and raised at Stoke Newington Common.
- William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army and is buried in Abney Park Cemetery in Stoke Newington.
- Richard 'Abs' Breen, singer and member of pop band Five was born in Hackney.
- Eric Bristow, darts champion.
- Michael Caine, actor educated at Hackney Downs School.
- Martin John Callanan, artist.
- Edith Cavell, nurse executed in Belgium in 1915 worked at Saint Leonard's Hospital.
- Benjamin Cohen, internet entrepreneur and journalist.
- Harry Cohen, Labour Member of Parliament was born in Hackney.
- Phil Collen, guitarist with Def Leppard.
- The Reverend George Collison, first President of Hackney Academy.
- Daniel Defoe, writer and spy was born in Stoke Newington.
- DJ Dextrous, Ivor Novello Award & BAFTA Award winning Producer/DJ was born in Stoke Newington.
- Pete Doherty, musician.
- Siobhan Dowd, author lived at Haggerston.
- Idris Elba, actor in television, theatre and film, and a hip-hop soul musician.
- Noel Fielding, comedian, as Vince Noir in The Mighty Boosh.
- Colin Firth, actor, lived at Sutton Place, Homerton.
- William Godwin, political philosopher studied at Hoxton.[2]
- Sir Edmund Gosse, poet, author and critic lived at De Beauvoir.
- Philip Henry Gosse, naturalist lived in De Beauvoir.
- Edmond Halley, astronomer was born in Haggerston.
- Ron 'Chopper' Harris, footballer for Chelsea F.C. raised in Hackney.
- Carol Harrison, actress best known for her role as Louise Raymond in EastEnders lives at Victoria Park, South Hackney.
- Sir John Harvey Jones, businessman and television presenter.
- William Hazlitt, writer studied at Homerton.
- Shaka Hislop, goalkeeper for West Ham United and Trinidad and Tobago was born in Hackney.
- Alfred Hitchcock film director, began his career at the Gainsborough Studios in Shoreditch.[3]
- John Howard, prison reformer was born and raised in Lower Clapton.
- John Hunter, governor of New South Wales lived and is buried in Hackney.
1907 Hetty King sheet music, expressing a concern of modern residents
- Anne Keothavong, tennis player lives in Hackney.
- Hetty King, male impersonator of the music hall era, was born in Shoreditch.
- Ronald and Reginald Kray, crime gang leaders both born in Hoxton.
- Leona Lewis, singer, songwriter, and first female winner of UK talent contest The X Factor lived in Stamford Hill.
- Kevin Lisbie, football player for Charlton Athletic was born in Hackney.
- Marie Lloyd, entertainer was born in Hoxton and lived her later life in Hackney.[4]
- George Loddiges, horticulturalist and scientist lived in Hackney.
- Peter Lowe, artist was born at Victoria Park, South Hackney.
- Nicko McBrain drummer for Iron Maiden.
- Martine McCutcheon, actress and singer.
- Tom McRae, singer and songwriter lived in Dalston and Hackney.
- Syrie Maugham, interior decorator.
- Bill Meyer (artist), printmaker and artist.
- Moses Montefiore, financier and philanthropist was raised in Stamford Hill.
- Samuel Morley (MP), philanthropist and abolitionist was born in Homerton and lived in Stamford Hill.
- Anthony Newley, actor and singer was born in Homerton.
- Colonel John Okey, regicide of Charles I lived in Hackney.
- James Parkinson, physician and researcher famous for identifying Parkinson's Disease lived in Hoxton.
- Jack Petchey, businessman, football investor, and philanthropist.
- Harold Pinter, playwright and Nobel Prize winner was educated at Hackney Downs School.
- Edgar Allan Poe, writer educated in Stoke Newington.
- Richard Price, philosopher, mathematician, and first actuary lived in Hackney.
- Joseph Priestley, chemist and philosopher.
- Mike Reid, actor and comedian.
- Nathan Meyer Rothschild, financier lived in Stamford Hill.
- Helen Shapiro, singer was educated at Clapton Park Girls School.
- Iain Sinclair, writer lives in Haggerston.
- Adrian Smith, guitarist with Iron Maiden.
- Sir Alan Sugar, businessman and celebrity.
- Jessica Tandy, actress, born in Clapton.[5]
- Douglas Trendle, singer and musician with Bad Manners known as Buster Bloodvessel lived in the Stamford Hill.
- Dick Turpin, highwayman, plied his trade on Kingsland Road and in Stoke Newington.
- John Simon Ritchie, musician and singer with the Sex Pistols better known as Sid Vicious.
- Isaac Watts, theologian, logician, and hymn writer lived and died at Stoke Newington.
- Rachel Whiteread, artist lives and works in Dalston.[6]
- Barbara Windsor, actress was born in Shoreditch and lived in Stoke Newington.
- Ray Winstone, actor born in Homerton.[7]
- Mary Wollstonecraft, reformer and writer, mother of Mary Shelley was born and raised in Hoxton.
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John Opie, Mary Wollstonecraft, (c. 1797)
