List of people from Royal Tunbridge Wells

Royal Tunbridge Wells is a town in Kent, England. The following is a list of those people who were either born or live(d) in Royal Tunbridge Wells, or made some important contribution to the town. As a spa town Royal Tunbridge Wells was a popular resort for the upper classes, including members of the British royal family.

A

Peter Adolph (1916–1994), Inventor of Subbuteo Table Soccer
Joe Alwyn (born 1991), actor
Jonathan Anders (born 1971), Shropshire cricketer
Anti-Nowhere League, punk rock band

B

Luke Baldwin (born 1990), rugby player
Gary Barden (born 1955), musician
Reverend Thomas Bayes (1702–1761), mathematician, who lived in Ashton Lodge
Will Bayley (born 1988), paralympian
C. A. Bayly (1945–2015), historian
Jeff Beck (1944–2023), musician
Rachel Beer (1858–1927), newspaper editor
Compton Bennett (1900–1974), film director
Golding Bird (1814–1854), medical writer
Douglas Booth (born 1992), actor and musician
Frank W. Boreham (1871–1959), Baptist preacher
Jo Brand (born 1957), comedian
William Thomas Brande (1788–1866), chemist
Gary Brazil (born 1962), football player
Christopher Brown (born 1943), British composer
Nick Brown (born 1950), politician
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803–1873), author
Thomas Harrison Burder (1789–1843), physician and author
Peter Burton (1924–2007), physicist, philosopher, logician
Ballard Berkeley, British actor

C

John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll (1845–1914), Governor General of Canada
Oliver Chris (born 1978), actor
George Cohen (born 1939), football player
Paul Condon, Baron Condon (born 1947), police commissioner
Emma Corrin (born 1995), actress
Martin Corry (born 1973), rugby player
Reverend Arthur Shearly Cripps (1869–1952), missionary and writer
Sidney Elisabeth Croskery (1901–1990), doctor
Richard Cumberland (1732–1811), dramatist
Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham (1887–1963), military officer

D

Gerald Charles Dickens (born 1963), actor and performer
Marcus Dillistone (born 1961), film director
Sir Howard Douglas, (1776–1861), military officer
Keith Douglas (1920–1944), poet
Roy Douglas (1907–2015), classical composer
Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding (1882–1970), Royal Air Force officer

E

John Cox Dillman Engleheart (1784–1862), miniature painter

F

Arthur Fagg (1915–1977), cricketer
Caroline Fry (1787–1846), writer

G

Thomas Field Gibson (1803–1889), Tunbridge Wells improvement commissioner and Royal Commissioner for the Great Exhibition of 1851
Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, artist and educator
Jilly Goolden (born 1956), television personality
Léon Goossens (1897–1988), oboist
Edward Meyrick Goulburn (1818–1897), clergyman and writer ↑
David Gower (born 1957), cricketer
Pauline Gower (1910–1947) pilot, commandant of the Women's Air Transport Auxiliary in Second World War
Sir Robert Gower, MP (1880–1953)
Sarah Grand (1854–1943), suffragist and "New Woman" writer
Sir Tyrone Guthrie (1900–1971), theatrical director

H

Ker Baillie Hamilton (1804–1889), colonial governor
Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge (1785–1856), Viceroy of India
Jake Hill (born 1994), racing driver in the British Touring Car Championship
Philip Carteret Hill (1821–1894), Nova Scotia politician
Katrina Hodge, soldier and Miss England 2009

J

Louise Jameson (born 1951), actress
Richard Jones (1790–1855), economist

L

Danny La Rue (1927–2009), entertainer
Enid Lakeman (1903–1995), political reformer
Duncan Lamont (1918–1978), actor
Sydney Turing Barlow Lawford (1865–1953), Lieutenant-General and father of actor Peter Lawford
Ron Ledger (1920–2004), politician
Henry Bilson Legge (1708–1764), politician
Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (1848–1939), daughter of Queen Victoria

M

Annunzio Paolo Mantovani (1905–1980), conductor
Patrick Mayhew, Baron Mayhew (1929–2016), politician
Alec McCowen (1925–2017), actor
Victor McLaglen (1886–1959), actor

N

Richard (Beau) Nash (1674–1762), celebrated dandy and leader of fashion
William Nicholson (born 1948), writer

O

Sir Charles Ogle (1775–1858), naval officer

P

Tim Page (1944–2022), photojournalist
Charles Paulet, 3rd Duke of Bolton (1685–1754), politician
Tim Pears (born 1956), novelist
Eliza Phillips (1822/3–1916), conservationist and co-founder of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Rose Pipette (born 1986), pop singer with The Pipettes

R

Sir Richard Robinson (1849–1928), businessman and local politician
Richard Rose (born 1982), footballer

S

Sir David Lionel Salomons (1851–1925), scientist
Sarah Sands (born 1961), journalist
Henry Albert Seymour (1861–1938), secularist, anarchist and gramophone pioneer
Mary Monica Maxwell-Scott (1852–1920), author
Dominic Sherwood (born 1990), actor
Pollie Hirst Simpson MBE (1871–1947), charity organiser and the first agricultural adviser to the National Federation of Women's Institutes (WI)
Colin Smart (born 1950), rugby player
Horace Smith (1779–1849), poet and novelist
Soft Play, musical band
Jamie Spence (born 1963), golfer
Sir Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt (1811–1888), naval officer
Reverend Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing (1835–1926), zoologist
Gary A. Stevens (born 1962), footballer
Francis Meadow Sutcliffe (1863–1941), photographer