Editing Purley, London (section)

==Notable residents==
* [[Michael Arthur (academic)|Michael Arthur]], Vice-Chancellor of Leeds University, Provost of University College London from September 2013, was born in Purley.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Winter |first1=Laura |title=Debrett's People of Today 2012 |date=December 2011 |publisher=Debrett's Peerage |isbn=978-1-870520-97-3 |page=42 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S_b0ygAACAAJ |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Jay Aston]], singer with [[Bucks Fizz (band)|Bucks Fizz]], was born in Purley.<ref name="ency">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_NNmFiUnSmUC |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |last=Larkin |first=Colin |year=2011 |isbn=9780857125958 |page=2942 |publisher=Omnibus Press |access-date=May 27, 2018 }}</ref>
* [[Ronald Binge]] and his wife Vera lived at 18, Smitham Bottom Lane in the 1950s. He composed the well-known ''Elizabethan Serenade'' there.<ref>Norris, Gerald. ''A Musical Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland'' (1981), p. 96</ref> 
*[[Derren Brown]], magician and mentalist, was born and grew up in Purley.<ref name="nyprofile">{{cite magazine |last1=Green |first1=Adam |title=How Derren Brown Remade Mind Reading for Skeptics |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/10/07/how-derren-brown-remade-mind-reading-for-skeptics |access-date=4 October 2019 |magazine=The New Yorker |date=30 September 2019}}</ref>
*[[Kit Connor]], actor, was raised in Purley.<ref>{{cite web |title=Christmas is saved by 10-year-old boy from Purley after Santa Claus crashes his sleigh |url=https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/11600027.video-christmas-saved-10-year-old-boy-purley-santa-claus-crashes-sleigh/ |website=Your Local Guardian |date=13 November 2014 |publisher=Sutton and Croydon Guardian |access-date=11 September 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Peter Cushing]], actor, was born in nearby Kenley, and went to school in Purley.<ref>{{cite web |title=Peter Cushing {{!}} Actor {{!}} Blue Plaques |url=https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/peter-cushing/ |website=English Heritage |access-date=11 September 2022}}</ref>
* [[Brian Fahey (composer)|Brian Fahey]], composer of "At the Sign of the Swingin' Cymbal" (the signature tune to BBC Radio's ''[[Pick of the Pops]]'').<ref>{{cite web |title=Brian Fahey |url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/default_content/12774664.brian-fahey/ |website=HeraldScotland |date=20 April 2007 |access-date=11 September 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Andy Frampton]], former professional footballer, grew up in Purley.<ref>{{cite web |title=Andy's Wimbledon mission - News - AFC Wimbledon |url=https://www.afcwimbledon.co.uk/news/2013/september/andys-wimbledon-mission/ |website=www.afcwimbledon.co.uk |access-date=11 September 2022 |language=en-gb}}</ref>
*[[Shelagh Fraser]], actress, was born in Purley<ref name="fraser-obit">{{Cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/sep/20/guardianobituaries2 |title=Obituaries: Shelagh Fraser |last=Granger |first=Derek |date=20 September 2000 |website=The Guardian |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180719091044/https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/sep/20/guardianobituaries2 |archive-date=19 July 2018 |url-status=live |access-date=19 July 2018}}</ref> 
*[[Laura Hamilton]], TV presenter and Dancing on Ice Contestant, lives in Purley.<ref>{{cite web |title=TV presenter calls time on village Post Office in shed dispute |url=https://insidecroydon.com/2018/03/01/tv-presenter-calls-time-on-post-office-over-shed-dispute/ |website=Inside Croydon |access-date=11 September 2022 |date=1 March 2018}}</ref>
*[[Nigel Harman]], actor, was born in Purley.<ref>{{cite web |title=Steamy relationship |url=https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/436368.Steamy_relationship/ |website=Your Local Guardian |date=26 November 2003 |access-date=11 September 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Bernard Ingham|Sir Bernard Ingham]], Margaret Thatcher's former press secretary, lived in Purley.<ref>{{cite news |title=Sir Bernard Ingham: The uncivil servant |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/sir-bernard-ingham-the-uncivil-servant-112142.html |access-date=11 September 2022 |work=The Independent |date=24 March 2003 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[David P. Lane|Sir David P. Lane]], oncologist best known for identifying [[P53]], went to John Fisher school in Purley.<ref>{{cite web |title=Welcome {{!}} The John Fisher School |url=https://www.johnfisherschool.org/parents-and-carers/prospective-parents |website=www.johnfisherschool.org |access-date=11 September 2022}}</ref>
*[[Martin Lee (singer)|Martin Lee]], singer with [[Brotherhood of Man]], was born in Purley.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kauth |first1=André |title=Pop History Band 1: Musikgruppen von A bis K |date=14 October 2019 |publisher=Books on Demand |isbn=978-3-7481-7940-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ITK2DwAAQBAJ&dq=%22martin+lee%22+%22purley%22&pg=PA62 |language=de}}</ref>
*[[Archibald Low]], pioneer of radio guidance systems, was born in Purley.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=The Machine Age |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,717585,00.html |magazine=TIME |access-date=11 September 2022 |date=21 November 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101121045036/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,717585,00.html |archive-date=21 November 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[Ray Mears (author)|Ray Mears]], TV survivalist, went to school in Purley.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mears |first1=Raymond |title=My outdoor life |date=2013 |publisher=London : Hodder & Stoughton |isbn=978-1-4447-7819-9 |url=https://archive.org/details/myoutdoorlife0000mear |access-date=11 September 2022}}</ref>
*[[Ron Noades]], former chairman of [[Wimbledon FC]], [[Crystal Palace FC]] and [[Brentford FC]] and owner of the Altonwood Golf Group, lived in Rose Walk, Purley, from 1993 until 2013.<ref name="MyLondon">{{cite news |last1=Truelove |first1=Sam |title=Life on Purley's Webb Estate - where celebs flock and homes sell for £4 million |url=https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/life-purleys-webb-estate-celebrities-17069378 |access-date=11 September 2022 |work=MyLondon |date=11 October 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Innes Hope Pearse]], doctor and co-founder of the [[Peckham Experiment]], grew up in Purley.<ref>{{cite ODNB |last1=Goodway |first1=David |title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |chapter=Williamson, George Scott (1883–1953), medical practitioner and biologist |date=May 2021 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/102456 |edition=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |chapter-url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/102456 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Francis Rossi]], lead singer of Status Quo, lives in the Webb Estate in Purley.<ref name="MyLondon"/>
*[[John Horne Tooke]], an English politician and philologist, lived in Purley at the end of the 18th century where he began writing ''Epea Pteroenta, Or, The Diversions of Purley''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Brayley |first1=Edward Wedlake |title=The History of Surrey |date=1844 |publisher=R.B. Ede |page=43 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZDhNAAAAYAAJ&dq=The+history+of++purley+john&pg=PA42 |access-date=11 September 2022 |quote=Purley House, on this estate, was formerly the property and residence of the late John Horne Tooke, esq.; whose celebrated philological work inituled, “Epea Pteroenta, or the Diversions of Purley,” was written here, and first published, in octavo, in 1786.|language=en}}</ref>
*[[Wilfried Zaha]], footballer, [[Crystal Palace FC]], lives in the Webb Estate.<ref name="Daily Mirror"/>