Editing Plaistow, Newham (section)

==Notable residents==
{{Further|:Category:People from Plaistow, Newham}}

===Arts and entertainment===
[[Aaron Hill (writer)|Aaron Hill]], writer and dramatist, lived at Hyde House<ref name ="Hill"/> during his retirement and until his death in 1750.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://m.oxfordscholarship.com/mobile/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198183884.001.0001/acprof-9780198183884-chapter-11 | title=Patriotism, Fame and Death, 1743–1750 | year=2003 | publisher=Oxford University Press | doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198183884.001.0001 | access-date=20 October 2012| last1=Gerrard | first1=Christine | isbn=978-0-19-818388-4 }}</ref> [[William Holl the Younger]], noted portrait and figure engraver, was born in Plaistow in 1807.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk/portraits/engravers/holl.html | title=William Holl the Younger | publisher=Edinburgh University Library | access-date=18 February 2013}}</ref>

Singers [[David Essex]], [[Ronnie Lane]], [[Sandra Kerr]], [[Jade Ewen]], [[Mumzy Stranger]] and [[Alison Hinds]] were born in Plaistow, as was comedian and folk singer [[Richard Digance]]. Singer and entertainer [[Joe Brown (singer)|Joe Brown]] was born in [[Lincolnshire]] but lived in Plaistow from the age of two. Record producer [[Norman Newell]] was born in Plaistow.

A number of grime MCs and DJs have origins in Plaistow, including [[Ghetts]], [[Durrty Goodz]] and [[Crazy Titch]]. Rapper [[21 Savage]] was born in Plaistow and moved as a youth to [[Atlanta]] in the United States.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Tobin |first1=Olivia |date=5 February 2019 |title=21 Savage latest: Rapper could face 10-year-ban from the US, lawyer says |work=Evening Standard |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/21-savage-latest-rapper-could-face-10yearban-from-the-us-a4057356.html |access-date=6 February 2019}}</ref>

Actor [[Terence Stamp]] attended Tollgate Primary School and [[Plaistow County Grammar School|Plaistow Grammar School]]. Actor [[Honor Blackman]] was born in Plaistow, as were actors [[Jimmy Akingbola]], [[Ron Pember]] and [[Roberta Taylor]] and comedian, actor and playwright [[Andi Osho]].

===Sports===
Multi-times Olympic athlete [[Fred Alsop]] was born in Plaistow in 1938.

England international footballers [[Sol Campbell]], [[Tony Cottee]], [[Rob Lee]] and [[Martin Peters]] were born in Plaistow.

England international speedway rider [[Reg Fearman]] was from Plaistow. He managed England and Great Britain national teams, and was also Chairman of the [[British Speedway Promoters' Association]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://speedwayplus.brinkster.net/RegReply.shtml | title=Reg Fearman : Right of Reply | publisher=Speedway Plus | date=12 January 2006 | access-date=2 February 2013}}</ref>

[[Edward Temme]], born in Plaistow, was a member of the British Olympic Water Polo teams of 1928 and 1936 and was the first man to swim the [[English Channel]] in both directions.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/te/edward-temme-1.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418003413/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/te/edward-temme-1.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=18 April 2020 | title=Edward Temme | publisher=Sports Reference LLC | access-date=20 October 2012}}</ref>  He is reputed to have swum non-stop in both directions and to have achieved this feat twice.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.echo-news.co.uk/echofeatures/memories/3781680.Champion_channel_swimmer_Edward_Temme_trained_in_Leigh_Creek/ | title=Feats of an almost-forgotten hero | publisher=Newsquest (Essex) Ltd | date=22 October 2008 | access-date=20 October 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081208065829/http://www.echo-news.co.uk/echofeatures/memories/3781680.Champion_channel_swimmer_Edward_Temme_trained_in_Leigh_Creek/ | archive-date=8 December 2008 | url-status=dead | df=dmy-all }}</ref>

===Other===
Other famous residents have included:

* [[William Clowes (surgeon)|William Clowes]],<ref name="lived">{{cite web | url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42752&strquery=Plaistow | title=BRITISH HISTORY ONLINE, West Ham | publisher=University of London & History of Parliament Trust | access-date=2 October 2012}}</ref> one of England's early surgeons whose books were the leading surgical writings of the [[Elizabethan era|Elizabethan]] age, who spent his retirement in Plaistow until his death in 1604.
* [[Thomas Foote|Sir Thomas Foot]], [[Lord Mayor of London]], who used Hyde House in High Street as his seat in the 17th century.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.newhamstory.com/node/2094 | title=Hyde House Plaistow | publisher=Newham London | access-date=25 September 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120926231844/http://newhamstory.com/node/2094 | archive-date=26 September 2012 | url-status=dead | df=dmy-all }}</ref>
* [[Edmund Burke]] [[Privy Council of Great Britain|PC]], Irish statesman and author who moved to England and became a [[Whig (British political party)|Whig]] [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP), who lived in Plaistow c. 1759–1761<ref name="lived"/> on Balaam Street.<ref name="Turpin"/>
* [[William Dodd (priest)|William Dodd]], clergyman who was hanged for forgery, lived on Balaam Street.<ref>{{cite book| title=Stratford, West Ham & The Royal Docks| last=Pewsey| first=Stephen| year=1996| publisher=Sutton Publishing| isbn=0-7509-1417-3| page=35}}</ref>
* [[George Edwards (naturalist)|George Edwards]], sometimes referred to as the father of British ornithology,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.draytonhall.org/news/press_room/press_release.html?id=78 | archive-url=https://archive.today/20121220211155/https://www.draytonhall.org/news/press_room/press_release.html?id=78 | url-status=dead | archive-date=20 December 2012 | title=Press Release | publisher=Drayton Hall | date=26 October 2011 | access-date=20 October 2012 }}</ref> who retired to Plaistow in 1763<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/term_details.aspx?bioId=126170 | title=Biographical details, George Edwards | publisher=The British Museum | access-date=20 October 2012}}</ref> until his death in 1773.
* [[Luke Howard]], who in 1802 devised the naming and classification of [[cloud]]s and cloud formations still in popular use today, and who operated a business in pharmaceuticals in Plaistow from 1796 until 1803 when he moved the business to nearby [[Stratford, London|Stratford]]. He continued to reside in Plaistow until 1812, when he moved to [[Tottenham]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.enotes.com/luke-howard-reference/luke-howard | archive-url=https://archive.today/20130122192202/http://www.enotes.com/luke-howard-reference/luke-howard | url-status=dead | archive-date=22 January 2013 | title=Luke Howard | publisher=eNotes | access-date=15 August 2012 }}</ref>  The family's pharmaceutical business was instrumental in the development of quinine and both Howard and his son, quinologist [[John Eliot Howard]]<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.kew.org/collections/ecbot/collections/topic/cinchona/a-short-history-of-cinchona/index.html | title=A short history of Cinchona | publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew | access-date=19 February 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130318034527/http://www.kew.org/collections/ecbot/collections/topic/cinchona/a-short-history-of-cinchona/index.html | archive-date=18 March 2013 | url-status=dead | df=dmy-all }}</ref> (who was born in Plaistow), were elected [[Royal Society#Fellows|Fellows of the Royal Society]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=17&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27howard%27%29 | title=Fellow details | publisher=The Royal Society | access-date=19 February 2013}}</ref>
* [[Roderic Alfred Gregory|Roderic Gregory]], biologist and professor of physiology who isolated [[gastrin]]<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.history.qmul.ac.uk/research/modbiomed/Publications/wit_vols/44836.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806083400/http://www.history.qmul.ac.uk/research/modbiomed/Publications/wit_vols/44836.pdf |archive-date=6 August 2020 |url-status=live | title=Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine, Peptic Ulcer: Rise and Fall | publisher=Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL | date=November 2002 | access-date=1 February 2013 }}</ref> (the stimulator of gastric acid), born in Plaistow in 1913<ref>{{cite journal | url=http://rsbm.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/44/207 | title=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of The Royal Society, Roderic Alfred Gregory, C.B.E. | journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society | publisher=Royal Society Publishing | date=1 November 1998 | volume=44 | pages=207–216 | doi=10.1098/rsbm.1998.0014 | access-date=1 February 2013| last1=Dockray | first1=G. J. | s2cid=29047715 }}</ref> and awarded the [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] in 1971.
* [[David Amess|Sir David Amess]], who was born in Plaistow, was a [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|MP]], representing [[Basildon (UK Parliament constituency)|Basildon]] from 1983 to 1997 and [[Southend West (UK Parliament constituency)|Southend West]] from 1997 until he was [[murder of David Amess|murdered]] in 2021. Amess was [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]] in the 2015 New Year Honours.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=61092 |supp=y|page=N2|date=31 December 2014}}</ref>