Editing Sydenham, London (section)

===Famous residents===
[[File:Sir GEORGE GROVE 1820-1900 Promoter of Musical Knowledge lived here.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Sir George Grove English Heritage Blue Plaque at Westwood Hill]]
[[File:Ernest Shackleton Plaque.jpg|thumb|Blue plaque marking the home of [[Ernest Shackleton]] at 12 Westwood Hill, Sydenham]]
[[File:Burnage Court, Lawrie Park Avenue, SE26 (1888) 5 Feb 2022.jpg|thumb|right|Burnage Court, Lawrie Park Avenue, Sydenham, complete with 1888 [[datestone]]]]
*[[A-ha]] – Norwegian pop band lived in Sydenham and recorded early demos at Rendezvous studios on Kirkdale with [[John Ratcliff (producer)|John Ratcliff]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=A-ha 'Take On Me' |url=https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/ha-take-me |access-date=6 November 2022 |website=Sound on Sound}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Take On Me — a-ha's evergreen hit has been covered often, most recently by the band themselves |url=https://ig.ft.com/life-of-a-song/take-on-me.html |access-date=6 November 2022 |website=Financial Times}}</ref>
* [[John Arnott (English footballer)|John Arnott]] &mdash; footballer<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Men Who Made Gillingham Football Club|last=Triggs|first=Roger|publisher=Tempus Publishing Ltd|year=2001|isbn=9780752422435|pages=44–45}}</ref>
* [[Edward Aveling]] &mdash; biologist and social activist, partner of [[Eleanor Marx]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=17 April 2018 |title=The Jewess of Jew Walk |url=https://www.thejc.com/news/all/the-jewess-of-jews-walk-1.462556 |access-date=2023-06-04 |website=[[The Jewish Chronicle]]}}</ref>
*[[John Logie Baird]] &mdash; inventor of both the first publicly demonstrated colour television system, and the first purely electronic [[colour television]] picture tube<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/baird-john-logie-1888-1946-47|title=BAIRD, John Logie (1888–1946) {{!}} English Heritage|website=www.english-heritage.org.uk|access-date=2017-01-11}}</ref>
*[[George Baxter (printer)|George Baxter]] &mdash; inventor of [[Color printing|colour printing]], lived on Peak Hill from 1860 till his death in 1867. There is a memorial at former Christ Church, [[Forest Hill, London|Forest Hill]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Lewis |first=C.T. Courtney |title=George Baxter (colour printer) his life and work |page=72}} https://archive.org/stream/georgebaxtercol00lewigoog#page/n212/mode/2up</ref>
*[[Dietrich Bonhoeffer]].{{cn|date=May 2025}}
*[[David Bowie]] &mdash; spent five years living in Sydenham in his early adult life.{{cn|date=May 2025}}
*[[Bill Bradley (cricketer)|Bill Bradley]] &mdash; cricketer<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/9195.html|title=Bill Bradley|website=Cricinfo|access-date=2017-01-12}}</ref>
*[[Kelly Brook]] &mdash; the model and actress once shared a home with then boyfriend Billy Zane in Lawrie Park Road<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=SYDENHAM: Kelly Brook and Billy Zane's former home for sale|url=https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/5078068.sydenham-kelly-brook-and-billy-zanes-former-home-for-sale/|access-date=2020-10-19|website=News Shopper|date=23 March 2010 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Thomas Campbell (poet)|Thomas Campbell]] &mdash; poet<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell|last=Campbell|first=Thomas|publisher=Haskell House|year=1907|isbn=9781410224156|pages=xiv}}</ref>
*[[Louise Creighton]] &mdash; social activist and writer, born in Sydenham<ref>{{Cite ODNB |title=Creighton [née von Glehn], Louise Hume (1850–1936), social activist and writer of popular history and biography |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-38640 |access-date=2023-06-04 |year=2004 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/38640 }}</ref>
*[[Connie Fisher]] &mdash; singer and actress, winner of the [[BBC]] TV program ''[[How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?]]''<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/starinterviews/londons-alive-with-the-sound-of-marias-success-7169150.html|title=London's alive with the sound of Maria's success|date=2006-11-17|newspaper=Evening Standard|language=en-GB|access-date=2017-01-12}}</ref>
*[[Bud Flanagan]] &mdash; [[music hall]] singer/entertainer, died in Sydenham<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/entertainment/music/pub_plans_musical_tribute_to_bud_flanagan_1_666865|title=Pub plans musical tribute to Bud Flanagan|newspaper=East London Advertiser|access-date=2017-01-12}}</ref>
*[[Denis Gifford]] &mdash; comics and film historian<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/may/26/guardianobituaries|title=Denis Gifford|last=Holland|first=Steve|date=2000-05-25|newspaper=The Guardian|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|access-date=2017-01-12}}</ref>
*[[Wilfrid de Glehn]] &mdash; painter, was born in Sydenham<ref>{{Cite book|title=Oscar Wilde's Elegant Republic: Transformation, Dislocation and Fantasy in fin-de-siècle Paris|last=David Charles|first=Rose|publisher=Cambridge Scholars|year=2016|isbn=978-1443887632|pages=39}}</ref>
*[[W. G. Grace]] &mdash; England's greatest cricketer<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/grace-w.g.-1848-1915|title=GRACE, W.G. (1848-1915) |website=www.english-heritage.org.uk|access-date=2017-01-11}}</ref> 
*[[George Grove]] &mdash; of [[The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians|musical dictionary]] fame<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/grove-sir-george-1820-1900|title=GROVE, Sir George (1820–1900) {|website=www.english-heritage.org.uk|access-date=2017-01-11}}</ref>
*[[Rolf Harris]] &mdash; musician, television personality, painter and actor, was a key figure in the Sydenham Society<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/rolf-harris-home-raided-months-3819188|title=Rolf Harris home raided months before arrest after plumber found stash of child porn under floorboards|last=Penrose|first=Justin|date=2014-07-06|newspaper=Mirror|access-date=2017-01-12}}</ref> 
*[[Norman Hunter (author)|Norman Hunter]]  &mdash; writer and creator of ''[[Professor Branestawm]]''
*[[Richard Jefferies]] &mdash; the naturalist and author, lived at 20 Sydenham Park (a [[blue plaque]] indicates the house)
*[[Flora Klickmann]] &mdash; editor of ''[[The Girl's Own Paper|The Girls Own Paper]]'' from 1908 to 1931.{{cn|date=May 2025}}
*[[René Lalique]] &mdash; according to [[Henri Vever]], Lalique studied at Sydenham Art College between 1878 and 1880
*[[E. A. Letts|Prof Edmund Albert Letts]] [[FRSE]] &mdash; chemist, born in Sydenham
*[[Margaret Lockwood]] &mdash; star of [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s ''[[The Lady Vanishes]]'' (1938)
*[[Lionel Logue]] CVO &mdash; Australian speech therapist and stage actor who successfully treated, among others, [[King George VI]]. He lived in a villa named Beechgrove from 1933 to 1940
*[[Linda Ludgrove]] &mdash; [[Commonwealth Games|Commonwealth]] gold medallist swimmer
*[[Joseph Marryat (1757–1824)|Joseph Marryat]] &mdash; merchant, banker, MP and father of the author [[Frederick Marryat]]
*[[Eleanor Marx]] &mdash; daughter of [[Karl Marx]], lived and died in Sydenham<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/marx-eleanor-1855-1898|title=MARX, Eleanor (1855–1898) {{!}} English Heritage|website=www.english-heritage.org.uk|access-date=2017-01-11}}</ref>
*[[John Dudley North]] &ndash; aircraft designer, born at Sydenham<ref>{{Cite ODNB|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-35255|title=North, John Dudley (1893–1968), aircraft designer|year=2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/35255}}</ref>
*[[Sandy Powell (costume designer)|Sandy Powell]] &mdash; three-time [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] winning costume designer
*[[John Scott Russell]] &mdash; naval architect who built the [[SS Great Eastern]]
*[[Cicely Saunders|Dame Cicely Saunders]] &mdash; founder of the modern [[hospice]] movement<ref>{{Cite journal|date=2016-12-25|title=Dame Cicely Saunders, founder of the modern hospice movement, dies|url=http://www.bmj.com/content/suppl/2005/07/18/331.7509.DC1|journal=BMJ|language=en|issn=1756-1833}}</ref> 
*[[Ernest Shackleton]] &mdash; the Antarctic explorer<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/shackleton-sir-ernest-1874-1922|title=SHACKLETON, Sir Ernest (1874–1922) {{!}} English Heritage|website=www.english-heritage.org.uk|access-date=2017-01-11}}</ref>
*[[Francis Pettit Smith]] &mdash; one of the inventors of the [[screw propeller]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/smith-sir-francis-pettit-1808-1874|title=SMITH, Sir Francis Pettit (1808–1874) {{!}} English Heritage|website=www.english-heritage.org.uk|access-date=2017-01-11}}</ref>
*[[Charlene Soraia]] &mdash; alternative singer-songwriter, born and grew up in Sydenham
*[[Jason Statham]] &mdash; film actor<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2013/jul/07/jason-statham-action-film-career-gallery|title=Jason Statham: the career so far – in pictures|last=Whitmore|first=Greg|date=2013-07-06|website=the Guardian|access-date=2017-01-11}}</ref>
*[[David Henry Stone]] &mdash; [[Sheriff of London|Sheriff]] and [[Lord Mayor of London]], lived at 'Fairwood' on Sydenham Hill
*[[Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock|Baroness Mary Warnock]] – philosopher, writer and [[life peer]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Warnock [née Wilson], (Helen) Mary, Baroness Warnock (1924–2019), philosopher, headmistress, and public servant |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-90000380946 |access-date=2023-06-04 |website=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |year=2023 |language=en |doi=10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.90000380946 |last1=Wilson |first1=Duncan |isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 }}</ref>
*[[David Wiffen]] &mdash; singer-songwriter, born in Sydenham in 1942
*[[Bill Wyman]] &mdash; member of [[The Rolling Stones]], grew up in Sydenham<ref>{{Cite book|title=Stone Alone|last=Wyman|first=Bill|publisher=Viking.|year=1990|isbn=978-0-670-82894-4|pages=[https://archive.org/details/stonealone00wyma/page/41 41]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/stonealone00wyma/page/41}}</ref>
*[[Billy Zane]] &mdash;  the [[Titanic (1997 film)|Titanic]] actor once shared a home with then girlfriend Kelly Brook in Lawrie Park Road<ref name=":0" />