Editing Dalston (section)

==Notable people==
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* [[Tony Blair]], [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] politician and former [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]], lived at 59 Mapledene Road 1980–86
* [[Martina Evans]], poet, lives in Balls Pond Road and has referenced Dalston in some of her poems.<ref>{{cite web |title=On Living in an Area of Manifest Greyness and Misery |url=https://www.poetryinternational.com/en/poets-poems/poems/poem/103-15587_ON-LIVING-IN-AN-AREA-OF-MANIFEST-GREYNESS-AND-MISERY|website=www.poetryinternational.com|access-date=18 July 2021}}</ref>
* [[Stephen Fry]] and [[Hugh Laurie]], performers, shared a house on St Mark's Rise in Dalston in the early 1980s<ref>{{cite book|title=[[The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography]]|last1=Fry|first1=Stephen|publisher=[[Penguin Books]]|year=2010|isbn=978-0-718-15483-7|location=London|page=365|author-link1=Stephen Fry}}</ref>
* [[Sam Lee (musician)|Sam Lee]], folk musician and ethnomusicologist
* [[Emily Lloyd]], actress
* [[Diane Morgan]], interviewer from Bolton<ref>{{cite web|url=https://inews.co.uk/essentials/playing-idiot-easy-diane-morgan-philomena-cunk-motherland-miserable/|title='Playing an idiot is easy': Diane Morgan on the joy of Philomena Cunk|date=28 December 2016|website=Inews.co.uk|access-date=8 November 2017}}</ref>
* [[Charles James Martin (scientist)|Charles James Martin]], director of the [[Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine]]
* [[Alan Spenner]], bass player with [[the Grease Band]] and [[Roxy Music]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/15272876-81af-4cb5-a5e0-b893c78295f9|title=Alan Spenner – New Songs, Playlists & Latest News – BBC Music|publisher=BBC|access-date=8 November 2017}}</ref>
* [[Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters|Edith Thompson]], hanged for murder, was born here
* [[Rachel Whiteread]], [[Turner Prize]]-winning artist
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