Editing Kew (section)

===Other notable inhabitants===
====Historical figures====
[[File:Cottages on Kew Green - geograph.org.uk - 1229005.jpg|thumb|Cottages on Kew Green]]
[[File:Harold-pinter-atp.jpg|thumb|150px|Playwright [[Harold Pinter]] lived in Kew.]]
[[File:Krishnan Guru-Murthy at Chatham House 2013.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Krishnan Guru-Murthy]] lives in Kew.]]
[[File:Milton Jones portrait.jpg|thumb|150px|Comedian [[Milton Jones]] was brought up in Kew.]]
[[File:Gabby Logan cropped.jpg|thumb|150px|TV presenter and former international gymnast [[Gabby Logan]] lives in Kew.]]
[[File:Achsmith.jpg|thumb|150px|[[A. C. H. Smith]], novelist and playwright, photographed in 2011 by Stephen Morris, was born in Kew.]]
*[[Francis Claude Blake]] (1867–1954), engineer, lived at 13 Kew Gardens Road.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Search Results for 1911 Census For England |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/search/results?datasetname=1911+census+for+england+&+wales&sid=103&address=13+kew+gardens+road&keywordsplace_proximity=5 |access-date=2024-05-16 |website=www.findmypast.co.uk |language=en}}</ref>
*[[David Blomfield]] (1934–2016), leader of the [[Liberal Party(UK)|Liberal Party]] group on [[Richmond upon Thames Council]], writer, book editor and [[local historian]], lived in Kew.<ref name="Grossman">{{Cite news |last=Grossman, Wendy |author-link=Wendy M. Grossman |date=22 August 2016 |title=David Blomfield obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/aug/22/david-blomfield-obituary |access-date=16 July 2017 |work=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref> He is buried in Richmond Cemetery.
*[[Ferruccio Bonavia]] (1877–1950), violinist, composer and music critic, lived at 352 Kew Road, Kew from 1914 until 1919.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bonavia |first=Michael |title=London Before I Forget |date=1990 |publisher=The Self Publishing Association Ltd |isbn=1-85421-082-3 |pages=14, 19}}</ref>
*[[Tony Bradshaw]] (1926–2008), [[evolutionary ecology|evolutionary ecologist]], was born in Kew<ref name = "Fitter">{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2008/sep/11/evolution|title=Obituary: Tony Bradshaw|author=Fitter, Alastair|author-link= Alastair Fitter|work=[[The Guardian]] |date=11 September 2008|access-date= 27 April 2025}}</ref>
*Sir [[Arthur Herbert Church]]  (1834–1915), chemist, who was an expert on pottery, stones and the chemistry of paintings, lived and died at Shelsley, a detached house at 21 Ennerdale Road, Kew<ref name="Mineralogical">{{Cite web |title=Mineralogical Society: Ordinary Members |url=https://rruff.info/doclib/MinMag/Volume_13/13-59-v.pdf |access-date=13 February 2024 |website=RRUFF Project (Tucson, Arizona) |page=xi |publication-place=London |publication-date=20 March 1901}}</ref> which has since been demolished; the site is now occupied by Voltaire, a [[Modernist architecture|Modernist]] block of flats designed by Vivien Pilley (A V Pilichowski).<ref name="Voltaire">{{Cite web |title=Sir Arthur Herbert Church: scientist, artist, author and collector |url=https://voltaire.london/sir-arthur-herbert-church-scientist-artist-author-and-collector/ |access-date=13 February 2024 |website=Voltaire}}</ref><ref name="Thomson video">{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhkPj2s1DJM&t=140s |title=No. 21 Ennerdale Road, Kew; or, how I became a Modernist house detective |date=12 February 2024 |last=Thomson |first=Hilary |type=Video |publisher=[[Richmond Local History Society]] via [[YouTube]] |access-date=7 March 2024}}</ref>
*[[Richard Cook (journalist)|Richard Cook]] (1957–2007), [[jazz]] writer, magazine editor and former [[record label|record company]] executive, was born in Kew.<ref name="Cook obituary">{{Cite news |last=Morton, Brian |author-link=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |date=1 September 2007 |title=Richard Cook: Jazz writer and editor |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/richard-cook-401071.html |access-date=11 January 2013 |work=[[The Independent]] |location=London}}</ref>
* [[Stephen Duck]] ({{circa}} 1705–1756), poet, lived in Kew.<ref name="Lysons">{{cite web | url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/london-environs/vol1/pp202-211 | title=Kew | publisher=Centre for Metropolitan History | work=The Environs of London: volume 1: County of Surrey | year=1792 | access-date=12 December 2022 | author=Lysons, Daniel | pages=202–211| author-link=Daniel Lysons (antiquarian) }}</ref>
* [[Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau]] (1968–2013), brother of King [[Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands]], lived in Kew with his wife [[Princess Mabel of Orange-Nassau]] (born 1968).<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/prince-johan-friso-obituary-popular-royal-who-ceded-his-place-in-line-to-the-dutch-throne-8758105.html | title=Prince Johan Friso Obituary: Popular royal who ceded his place in line to the Dutch throne |work=[[The Independent]] | date=13 August 2013 | access-date=13 August 2013 | author=Keleny, Anne| location=London}}</ref>
* [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal Party]] leader [[Jo Grimond]] (1913–1993) lived on Kew Green.<ref name="Blomfield 1994, p.131"/><ref name="Steel">{{cite journal | url=https://liberalhistory.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/80_Autumn_2013.pdf | title=Jo Grimond 1913–1993  | journal=Journal of Liberal History | date=Autumn 1993 | volume= 80 |page=12 | author-link=David Steel| author= Steel, David|access-date=12 December 2022}}</ref><ref name="Grimon image">{{Cite web |date=10 December 1964 |title=Liberal leader Jo Grimond seen relaxing at his Kew Green home  |url=https://historicimages.com/products/ksa28673 |access-date=13 February 2024 |website=Historic Images}}</ref>
* [[Susanne Groom]] (1945–2023), historian, author and curator at [[Historic Royal Palaces]], lived in Kew.<ref name="Groom">{{Cite web |title=Susanne Jean GROOM |url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/Lugihojm74OE4RPkxMCPH8Bll-Y/appointments |access-date=16 May 2025 |website=[[gov.uk]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.richmondhistory.org.uk/wordpress/events/300th-anniversary-arrival-royal-hanoverians-richmond-kew/ |title=Talk by Susanne Groom: The 300th anniversary of the arrival of the royal Hanoverians at Richmond and Kew |date=8 October 2018 |publisher=[[Richmond Local History Society]] |access-date=13 November 2018}}</ref>
*[[John Haverfield Sr]] (1694–1784), surveyor, [[gardener]] and landscape architect,<ref name=Tunstall >{{Cite journal |access-date = 28 April 2025|last=Haverfield |first=T Tunstall |date=29 November 1862 |title=Notes on Kew and Kew Gardens |url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/8e4cb12bf5f0edb0/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=14717 |journal=The Leisure Hour: A Family Journal of Instruction and Recreation |issue=570 |pages=767–768 |via=[[ProQuest]]}}</ref><ref name="Desmond">{{Cite book |last=Desmond |first=Ray |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=thmPzIltAV8C&q=haverfield&pg=PA327 |title=Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturalists |publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]] and [[Natural History Museum, London]] |year=1994 |page=326 |isbn=978-0-85066-843-8 |via=Google Books}}</ref> lived on Kew Green where he had a house built {{circa|1750}}, which was known as Haverfield House.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Pasmore |first=Stephen |date=1986 |title=Miss Haverfield of Kew |journal=[[Richmond Local History Society|Richmond History: Journal of the Richmond Local History Society]] |volume=7 |pages=28–29}}</ref>
* [[John Huntley (film historian)| John Huntley]] (1921–2003), film historian, educator and archivist, was born in Kew.<ref name="Brownlow">{{cite news|author= Brownlow, Kevin|author-link= Kevin Brownlow|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100424215341|title= Obituary: John Huntley|work=[[The Independent]]|date= 28 August 2003|access-date= 27 April 2025}}</ref>
* [[Elinor Jenkins|Elinor May Jenkins]] (1893–1920), [[war poet]], and her brother [[Arthur Lewis Jenkins]] (1892–1917), soldier, pilot and war poet,  who are buried next to each other in [[Richmond Cemetery]], lived at the family home at Sussex House, 220 Kew Road. The house has been demolished and its name has been given to a block of flats that has been built on the site.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Reilly |first=Catherine W |title=English Poetry of the First World War: A Bibliography |publisher=New York: St. Martin's Press |year=1978 |isbn=9780860431060}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Out of the Fire of Hell. Welsh Experience of the Great War 1914-1918 in Poetry and Prose |year=2008 |isbn=9781843238904 |editor-last=Llwyd |editor-first=Alan |pages=327|publisher=Gomer }}</ref>
* [[Serge Lourie]] (1946–2024), former Leader of [[Richmond upon Thames Council]], and councillor for Kew for 28 years, lived in Kew.<ref name="Companies">{{Cite web |title=Alexander Serge LOURIE |url=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/YZm-p5YhSwYuJeoFEDghnkoqSbA/appointments |access-date=8 October 2017 |publisher=[[Companies House]]}}</ref>
* [[Alfred Luff]] (1846–1933), [[cricketer]], who made three [[first-class cricket|first-class]] appearances for [[Surrey County Cricket Club|Surrey]] in 1867, was born in Kew.<ref name="Luff Archive">{{cite web | url= https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/31/31102/31102.html | title=Alfred Luff | publisher=[[CricketArchive]] | access-date=11 January 2013}}</ref>
* [[Phil Lynott]] (1949–1986), Irish rock guitarist, songwriter, vocalist and leader of [[Thin Lizzy]], lived in Kew.<ref name="Phil Lynott remembered">{{cite news | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/birmingham/content/articles/2009/08/19/thinlizzy_feature.shtml | title=Phil Lynott remembered | work=[[BBC Birmingham]] | date=13 November 2014 | access-date=31 May 2023 | author=Faulkner, Scott}}</ref>
* [[Andrew Millar]] (1705–1768), Scottish bookseller and publisher, owned a country home on Kew Green<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.millar-project.ed.ac.uk/manuscripts/html_output/1.html|title=Letter from Andrew Millar to Andrew Mitchell, 26th August 1766|work= Circulating Enlightenment|publisher= AHRC Millar Project, [[University of Edinburgh]]|access-date=1 May 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle= Millar, Andrew |volume= 18 |page= 460 |short=1}}</ref> and died there in 1768.<ref group="nb">{{EB1911|inline=1|wstitle=Aiton, William|volume=1|page=460}}</ref>
* [[Samuel Molyneux]] (1689–1728), Member of Parliament and an amateur astronomer, who was married to Lady Elizabeth Diana Capel, the eldest daughter of [[Algernon Capell, 2nd Earl of Essex]], inherited Kew House on the death of Lady Capel of Tewkesbury.<ref name="Molyneux bio">{{cite web | url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Molyneux_Samuel/ | title=Samuel Molyneux | publisher=School of Mathematics and Statistics, [[University of St Andrews]], Scotland | date=December 2008 | access-date=12 December 2022 |author1=O'Connor, J J  |author2=Robertson, E F}}</ref> Molyneux set up an observatory at the house and collaborated there with [[James Bradley]] in innovative designs for reflecting telescopes.<ref name="Molyneux bio"/> Kew House which later, as the White House, became the home of Prince Frederick and Princess Augusta, was pulled down in 1802 when George II's short-lived gothic "castellated palace" was built.<ref name="Kew House archive">{{cite web | url=http://www.exploringsurreyspast.org.uk/GetRecord/SHCOL_553 | title=Archive record: Kew House, otherwise Kew Palace: Lease, 1759 Reference Number: 553 | publisher=[[Surrey History Centre]] | work=Exploring Surrey's Past | date=16 August 1759 | access-date=18 October 2012}}</ref>
*[[Desmond Morton (civil servant)|Desmond Morton]] (1891–1971), soldier, intelligence officer and personal assistant to [[Winston Churchill]] 1940–45, lived at 22 Kew Green 1952–71.<ref name="Bennett2006">{{cite book | first= Gill | last=Bennett | author-link = Gill Bennett|title=Churchill's Man of Mystery: Desmond Morton and the World of Intelligence |publisher=[[Routledge]] |date= 2006 |isbn= 9780415394307}}</ref>
* [[Conrad Noel]] (1869–1942), Church of England priest and prominent [[Christian socialist]], was born in Royal Cottage, Kew Green.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Heywood|first=Andrew|year=1996|title=Gustav Holst, William Morris and the Socialist Movement|url=http://www.morrissociety.org/JWMS/11.4Spring1996/SP96.11.4.Heywood.pdf|journal=The Journal of the William Morris Society|publisher=[[William Morris Society]]|volume=11|issue=4|pages=39–47|issn=0084-0254|access-date=22 April 2018|archive-date=23 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180423170046/http://www.morrissociety.org/JWMS/11.4Spring1996/SP96.11.4.Heywood.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[Harold Pinter]] (1930–2008),  playwright, dramatist, actor, director and [[List of Nobel laureates in Literature|Nobel Prize laureate]], lived from 1960 to 1963 at Fairmead Court, Taylor Avenue, Kew<ref name="Baker2013">{{cite book|author=Baker, William|title=A Harold Pinter Chronology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LTiwAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA109|date=22 November 2013|publisher=[[Palgrave Macmillan]]|isbn=978-1-137-38432-4|page=109}}</ref> where he wrote his 1961 play''[[The Collection (play)| The Collection]]''.<ref name="Collection">{{Cite web |title=The Collection (1961) |url=https://pinterlegacies.uk/work/72 |access-date=6 December 2024|website=[[University of Leeds]]: The History of Production of the Works of Harold Pinter}}</ref>
* [[George Pither]] (1899–1966), professional footballer, was born in Kew.<ref name="BristolRoversHistory">{{Cite web |title=O and P |url=http://bristolroversmemorabilia.weebly.com/o-and-p.html |access-date=27 April 2025 |website=The Bristol Rovers History Group }}</ref>
*[[Hugh Portman|Sir Hugh Portman, 4th Baronet]] (died 1632), MP for [[Taunton (UK Parliament constituency)|Taunton]], lived in a house opposite [[Kew Palace]].<ref name="Lysons" />
* Admiral Sir [[Henry Prescott]] (1783– 1874), [[Royal Navy]] officer who served during the [[French Revolutionary Wars|French Revolutionary]] and [[Napoleonic Wars]], and was later (1834–1841) the Governor of the [[Newfoundland Colony]], was born in Kew.<ref name="NLH">{{Cite web |date=August 2020 |title=Prescott, Sir Henry (1783-1874) |url=https://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/politics/civil-henry-prescott.php |access-date=28 April 2025 |website=Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage}}</ref> 
*[[Sir John Puckering]] (1544–1596), lawyer, politician, [[Speaker of the English House of Commons]], and [[Lord Keeper]] from 1592 until his death, lived in Kew.<ref name="Lysons"/>
*[[Anthony Saxton]] (1934–2015), advertising executive and [[executive search|headhunter]], lived at 3 Mortlake Road in Kew, and was a churchwarden of [[St Anne's Church, Kew]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/02018211/officers |title=Saxton Bamphylde Hever Limited |publisher=[[Companies House]] |access-date=20 September 2018}}</ref>
*[[Harry Scandrett]] (1892–1977), [[flying ace]] credited with [[List of World War I aces credited with 7 victories|seven aerial victories]] during the [[First World War]], was born in Kew.<ref name="theaerodrome">{{cite web |url=http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/england/scandrett.php |title=Harry Scandrett |work=The Aerodrome |year=2016 |access-date=28 April 2025}}</ref>
*Clementina Jacobina Sobieski Schnell (1760–1842), lived for 53 years at the Little Red House on Kew Green. She was related to [[Flora MacDonald]]. Her husband, Francis Schnell, was tutor to  Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland. She died in 1842 when her headdress caught fire.<ref>{{Cite news |access-date = 14 April 2025|date=27 September 1938 |title=A Link With Prince Charlie |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS135607099/TTDA?u=rtl_ttda&sid=bookmark-TTDA&xid=980f4412 |work=[[The Times]] |pages=8 |via=The Times Digital Archive}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitionofroya00newg_3 |title=Exhibition of the royal house of Stuart |date=1889 |location=Internet Archive |pages=58}}</ref>
* [[Sarah Trimmer]] (née Kirby; 1741–1810), writer and critic of 18th-century British children's literature, lived in Kew before her marriage.<ref>{{cite book|author=Rodgers, Betsy|page = 113|chapter=Schools of Industry: Mrs. Trimmer|title= Cloak of Charity: Studies in Eighteenth-Century Philanthropy|location=London|publisher=[[Methuen and Company|Methuen and Co]].|date= 1949|OCLC=967508}}</ref>
* [[Patrick Troughton]] (1921–1987), actor, most famous for playing the [[Second Doctor]] in the TV series ''[[Doctor Who]]'', lived in Kew.<ref name="Troughton">{{cite web | url=http://www.troughtonmichael.com/joomla16/index.php/extracts | title=Life depends on Change and Renewal | work=Extracts from Biography | access-date=11 October 2016 | author=Troughton, Michael | author-link=Michael Troughton | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161011231535/http://www.troughtonmichael.com/joomla16/index.php/extracts | archive-date=11 October 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref>
* Robert Tunstall (c 1759–1833) from [[Brentford]], who built the second stone [[Kew Bridge]], died at a house on Kew Green.<ref>{{Cite news |date=21 December 1833 |title=Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/R3212131270/BNCN?u=rtl_ttda&sid=bookmark-BNCN&xid=00fc839b |work=The Standard (London) |access-date = 14 April 2025|via=British Library Newspapers}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last1=Cooke |first1=Nicholas |last2=Phillpotts |first2=Christopher |date=2007 |title=EXCAVATIONS AT KEW BRIDGE HOUSE, KEW BRIDGE ROAD, BRENTFORD, 2007 |url=https://www.wessexarch.co.uk/sites/default/files/Kew%20Bridge%20publication.pdf |website=Wessex Archaeology}}</ref>
* [[George Vassila]] (1857–1915), cricketer, was born in Kew.<ref name="Vassila Archive">{{cite web | url= https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/33/33500/33500.html | title=George Vassila | publisher=[[CricketArchive]] | access-date=11 January 2013}}</ref>
* [[Andrew Watson (footballer, born 1856)|Andrew Watson]] (1856–1921), the world's first [[black people|black person]] to play [[association football]] at international level,<ref name="NRS Watson">{{Cite web |title=Andrew Watson: Scotland's First Black Footballer |url=https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/learning/features/andrew-watson-scotlands-first-black-footballer |access-date=28 December 2023 |website=[[National Records of Scotland]]|date=31 May 2013 }}</ref><ref name="blackhistorymonth">{{cite web|url=http://www.black-history-month.co.uk/articles/andrew_watson.html |title=First Black footballer, Andrew Watson, inspired British soccer in 1870s |work=Black History Month |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100610052137/http://www.black-history-month.co.uk/articles/andrew_watson.html |archive-date=10 June 2010|access-date = 14 April 2025 }}</ref> retired to London in around 1910 and died of [[pneumonia]] at 88 Forest Road, Kew in 1921.<ref name = "Watsondeath">{{cite news |first=Andy |last=Mitchell |url=http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/top-football-stories/first-black-footballer-watson-story-takes-twist-1-2845754 |work=[[The Scotsman]] |date=20 March 2013 |access-date=20 March 2013 |title=First black footballer: Watson story takes twist}}</ref> He is buried in [[Richmond Cemetery]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.scottishsporthistory.com/1/post/2013/08/andrew-watson-a-gravestone-that-deserves-more.html | title=Andrew Watson: a gravestone that deserves more|author=Mitchell, Andy|date=16 August 2013|work=Scottish Sport History|access-date = 11 February 2021 }}</ref>

====Living people====
*[[Geoffrey Archer (writer)|Geoffrey Archer]], fiction writer and former Defence Correspondent of [[ITN]], lives on Kew Green.<ref name="Brockes">{{Cite news |last=Brockes, Emma |author-link=Emma Brockes |date=23 July 2001 |title=Archer: the interview |work=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/jul/23/fiction.emmabrockes |access-date=7 April 2014}}</ref>
*[[Mick Avory]], musician and former drummer with [[The Kinks]], lives in Kew.<ref name="Original">{{Cite news |last=Ambrose, Tom |date=22 February 2014 |title=Original Kinks drummer Mick Avory returns to Twickenham Eel Pie Club |url=https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/11026477.original-kinks-drummer-mick-avory-returns-to-twickenham-eel-pie-club/|access-date=20 January 2025 |work=[[Richmond Guardian]]}}</ref>
*[[Nick Baird]], group corporate affairs director of energy firm [[Centrica]], lives in Kew.<ref>{{Cite web | title=Nick Baird Consulting Ltd |url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/14620780/officers|access-date=20 January 2025 |website=[[Companies House]]}}</ref>
*[[Marie-Elsa Bragg]], writer, Anglican priest and therapist, lived in Kew as a young child.<ref name="Stanford"/>
*[[Melvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg]], broadcaster and author, lived in Kew when he was married to his first wife, Marie-Elisabeth Roche.<ref name="Stanford">{{Cite news |last=Stanford |first=Peter |date=25 July 2015 |title=Melvyn Bragg's daughter: 'My father has been a tortured man all my life |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/bbc/11762778/Melvyn-Braggs-daughter-My-father-has-been-a-tortured-man-all-my-life.html |access-date=15 April 2025 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]}}</ref><ref name="BrooksST">{{Cite news |last=Brooks |first=Richard |date=30 March 2008 |title=The death of my Lisa never stops, says Melvyn Bragg |url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/the-death-of-my-lisa-never-stops-says-melvyn-bragg-v3xsvt0nj5q |access-date=3 February 2025 |work=[[The Sunday Times]]}}</ref>
*[[Ray Brooks (actor)|Ray Brooks]], television and film actor, lives in Kew.<ref>{{Cite news |date=29 November 2012 |title=Interview With Ray Brooks, Voice Of Mr Benn, Lover Of Chiswick And Resident Of Kew |work=Chiswick Herald |url=https://chiswickherald.co.uk/interview-with-ray-brooks-voice-of-mr-benn-lover-of-chiswick-and-resident-p293-203.htm|access-date=8 December 2022}}</ref>
*[[Aggrey Burke]] (born 1943), psychiatrist and academic, born in Jamaica, who spent the majority of his medical career at [[St George's Hospital]] in London, specialising in transcultural psychiatry and writing literature on changing attitudes towards black people and mental health. In 1959, while still a teenager, he moved to Britain with his parents. The family settled in Kew, where Burke was schooled and was the only black child in his class.<ref name="Kehinde Andres interview">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jan/13/we-were-made-to-feel-like-outcasts-the-psychiatrist-who-blew-the-whistle-on-racism-in-british-medicine|title=Interview: 'We were made to feel like outcasts': the psychiatrist who blew the whistle on racism in British medicine|first=Kehinde|last=Andrews|author-link=Kehinde Andrews|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=13 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220116191324/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jan/13/we-were-made-to-feel-like-outcasts-the-psychiatrist-who-blew-the-whistle-on-racism-in-british-medicine|archive-date=16 January 2022|access-date = 28 April 2025}}</ref> 
* [[Justin Lee Collins]], comedian and television presenter, lives in Kew.<ref>{{Cite news |date=26 September 2012 |title=Justin Lee Collins 'kept girlfriend's sexual history' |work=[[BBC News]] |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-19730639 |access-date=26 September 2012}}</ref>
*[[David Durie|Sir David Durie]], former civil servant and [[Governor of Gibraltar]], lives in Kew.<ref name="Family">{{Cite web |title=Sir David Durie |url=http://duriefamily.co.uk/history-today-duries-today/sir-david-durie |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129200248/http://duriefamily.co.uk/history-today-duries-today/sir-david-durie |archive-date=29 November 2014 |access-date=9 May 2014 |website=History & Today |publisher=The Durie Family}}</ref>
*[[Simon Fowler (author)|Simon Fowler]], social historian and author, lives in Kew.<ref name="RLHS Who">{{Cite web |title=Who we are |url=https://www.richmondhistory.org.uk/wordpress/what-we-do/who-we-are/ |access-date=27 December 2018 |publisher=[[Richmond Local History Society]]}}</ref>
*[[Giles Fraser]], vicar of [[St Anne's Church, Kew]], bought a house in Kew in 2023.<ref>{{Cite news |date=29 December 2023 |title=The Rev Giles Fraser: 'It was scary to be a ﬁrst-time buyer at 58' |work=[[The Times]]|author= Membury, York|url=https://www.thetimes.com/business-money/article/giles-fraser-rev-interview-salary-net-worth-home-xqsmsn73l|access-date=29 September 2024}}</ref>
*[[Krishnan Guru-Murthy]], [[Channel 4]] journalist, lives in Kew.<ref name="RBGTrustees">{{Cite web |title=Board of Trustees |url=https://www.kew.org/about-us/who-we-are/board-of-trustees |access-date=28 April 2025 |website=[[Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew]]}}</ref>
*[[Donald Insall|Sir Donald Insall]], architect, conservationist and author, lives in Kew.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Fleming, Christine |date=20 June 2010 |title=OBEs, CBEs, and knighthoods all round as Richmond residents on Queen's Birthday Honours List |work=[[Richmond and Twickenham Times]] |url=https://www.richmondandtwickenhamtimes.co.uk/news/8227529.obes-cbes-and-knighthoods-all-round-as-richmond-residents-make-it-on-to-queens-birthday-honours-list/|access-date=12 December 2022}}</ref>
* [[Milton Jones]], comedian, was brought up in Kew.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Moore, Cliff |date=3 October 2011 |title=Milton Jones, Bournemouth Pavilion |work=[[Bournemouth Daily Echo]] |url=https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/leisure/reviews/9284073.milton-jones-bournemouth-pavilion/ |access-date=8 December 2022}}</ref>
* [[Gabby Logan]], TV presenter, and her husband [[Kenny Logan]], [[Rugby union|rugby]] player, live in Kew.<ref name="My London: Logan">{{Cite news |last=Conway, Juliet |date=12 October 2012 |title=Gabby Logan's My London |work=[[Evening Standard]] magazine |location=London |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/esmagazine/gabby-logans-my-london-8206713.html |access-date=14 January 2016}}</ref>
* [[Steven McRae]], [[principal dancer]] with the [[Royal Ballet]], lives in Kew.<ref name="Hoggard">{{Cite news |last=Hoggard |first=Liz |date=3 September 2018 |title=Behind the scenes: Royal Ballet stars talk flexible living, family life and how London should keep hold of great talent |work=[[Evening Standard]] |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/homesandproperty/interiors/royal-ballet-stars-talk-flexible-living-family-life-and-how-london-should-keep-hold-of-great-talent-a123501.html |access-date=25 April 2021}}</ref>
*[[Paul Ormerod]], economist, has lived in Kew.<ref name="Ormerod">{{Cite news |last=Ormerod, Paul |author-link=Paul Ormerod |date=2 December 1993 |title=Letter: Kenneth Clarke's Budget: taxes, consumer spending, unemployment and Canada's Tories |work=[[The Independent]] |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/letter-kenneth-clarkes-budget-taxes-consumer-spending-unemployment-and-canadas-tories-1464823.html |access-date=30 January 2016}}</ref>
*[[Helen Sharman]], the first British woman in space, lives in Kew.<ref name="Sharman thoughts">{{Cite web |last=[[Helen Sharman|Sharman, Helen]] |date=April 2020 |title=Thoughts from space |url=https://kewtw9.org/thoughts-from-space/ |access-date=7 March 2024 |website=TW9}}</ref>
* [[A. C. H. Smith]], novelist and playwright, was born in Kew.<ref name="A C H Smith">{{Cite web |title=ACH Smith Archive |url=https://www.bristol.ac.uk/theatre-collection/explore/theatre/ach-smith-archive/ |access-date=15 April 2025 |website=[[University of Bristol]] Theatre Collection}}</ref>
* [[Jenny Tonge, Baroness Tonge]], former MP for [[Richmond Park (UK Parliament constituency)|Richmond Park]], and a councillor for Kew for nine years, lives in Kew.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Tonge, Jenny |author-link=Jenny Tonge |date=16 April 2010 |title=Volcano's shadow may fall on UK {{sic|nolink=y|ecomony|expected=economy}}, but not on Heathrow flight path |work=[[The Guardian]] |location=London |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2010/apr/16/volanco-heathrow |access-date=19 February 2017}}</ref>