Editing Wanstead (section)

==Notable residents==
{{Further|:Category:People from Wanstead}}
* [[Clive Burr]], drummer (ex-Samson/Iron Maiden)
* [[Charles Bressey]], civil engineer
* [[Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester|Robert Dudley]], Earl of Leicester and favourite of [[Elizabeth I]], had a house here, in which he died, much to Elizabeth's intense sorrow, on 4 September 1588, three days before the Queen's 55th birthday
* [[Thomas Hood]], poet
* [[Peter Goddard (physicist)|Peter Goddard]], physicist and journalist
* [[Rodney Gordon]], architect
* [[William Penn]], Quaker, founder of the [[Province of Pennsylvania]].
* [[James Holden (locomotive engineer)]]
* [[Edward Phelips (speaker)|Sir Edward Phelips]], Speaker of the House of Commons 1604-1611
* [[James Pound]], astronomer.
* [[Max Raison]] (1901–1988), cricketer
* [[Harry Roberts (criminal)|Harry Roberts]], criminal
* [[Richard Brinsley Sheridan]], dramatist, lived in the right-hand house of the Georgian Terrace in the High Street near to the George
* [[Mark Stephens (solicitor)]], lawyer, mediator, writer and broadcaster
* [[Colin Ward]], social historian, writer and anarchist
* [[Jessie Wallace]], actress, lived in Wanstead
* [[Tom Watt (actor)|Tom Watt]], actor
* [[Joseph Wilton]], sculptor