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====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 ο¬rst-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>
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