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==Notable people== {{more citations needed section|date=October 2021}} * [[Dannie Abse]], Welsh poet and doctor, lived in Golders Green.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11126588/Dannie-Abse-obituary.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11126588/Dannie-Abse-obituary.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Dannie Abse - obituary |year=2014 |publisher=The Daily Telegraph }}{{cbignore}}</ref> * [[Michael Allmand]] [[Victoria Cross|VC]] (1923β1944), recipient of the [[Victoria Cross]], was born in Golders Green. *[[Aajibai Banarase]] (1910β1983), Indian community leader in London, lived in Golders Green. *[[Ian Black (journalist)|Ian Black]], journalist and author<ref name="Shrink">{{Cite news |last=Black, Ian; Black, Helen |date=1 October 2022 |title=My brain is shrinking β and so is my world. Could I find out what's wrong with me? |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/oct/01/ian-black-journalist-shrinking-brain-shrinking-world? |access-date=2 October 2022 |work=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref> * [[Ken Blaiklock]] (1927β2020), Antarctic explorer and recipient of the [[Polar Medal]] with 3 bars, was born in Golders Green. * [[Alex Clare]], singer-songwriter, lives in Golders Green. * [[Elchanan Heilprin|Elchanan Halpern]], Rabbi of Golders Green.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kikar.co.il/164251.html|date=18 February 2015|website=[[Kikar HaShabbat (website)|Kikar HaShabbat]]|language=he|script-title=he:ΧΧΧ"Χ Χ¨ΧΧΧΧΧ©ΧΧΧ: ΧΧΧΧΧ Χ¨ΧΧ ΧΧΧΧ Χ ΧΧΧ€Χ¨ΧΧ ΧΧ¦"Χ|access-date=26 January 2022}}</ref> *Samuel Greenstein, middle distance athlete, lives in Golders Green.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thepowerof10.info/athletes/profile.aspx?athleteid=671685 | title=Athlete Profile }}</ref> * [[Kazuo Ishiguro]], novelist, lives in Golders Green.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5829/the-art-of-fiction-no-196-kazuo-ishiguro|title = The Art of Fiction No. 196|year = 2008|volume = Spring 2008|issue = 184|last1 = Hunnewell|first1 = Susannah}}</ref> * [[Ghada Karmi]], author, lived in Golders Green with her family after leaving Israel in 1948. * [[Lina Khan]], American legal scholar serving as chairwoman of the [[Federal Trade Commission]], grew up in Golders Green. * [[David Kossoff]], actor, lived in Hayes Crescent, near Temple Fortune; his late son, musician [[Paul Kossoff]], grew up there. * [[Ernest Krausz]] (1931β2018), Romanian-Israeli professor of sociology and President at [[Bar Ilan University]], lived there. * [[Sydney Kyte]] (1896β1981), bandleader, lived in Golders Green from the 1930s to the 1960s.<ref>[[The London Archives|London Metropolitan Archives]]; London, England; Electoral Registers</ref> * [[Michael McIntyre]] grew up in Golders Green.<ref>{{cite book|last=McIntyre|first=Michael|title=Life and laughing|year=2011|publisher=Paragon|location=Bath|isbn=978-1-4458-5618-6|edition=Large print}}</ref> * [[Mary Macarthur]], women's rights campaigner, lived there. * [[Marilyn Malin]], publisher, editor and literary agent, was born and grew up in Golders Green.<ref>{{cite web | last=Nissen | first=Jane | title=Marilyn Malin obituary | website=the Guardian | date=28 February 2022 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/feb/28/marilyn-malin-obituary | access-date=31 December 2024}}</ref> * [[Louis Marks]], television screenwriter and producer, was born there.<ref>{{cite web | url= https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2010/oct/07/louis-marks-obituary | title= Louis Marks obituary | work=The Guardian| first=Anthony | last=Hayward | date=7 October 2010 | access-date=19 April 2021}}</ref> * [[Nicolas Medtner]], composer and concert pianist, lived at 69 Wentworth Road, 1935-51. * [[Valerie Grosvenor Myer]], writer and academic, and her husband, theatre critic Michael Grosvenor Myer, who had grown up in the district, lived in Hayes Crescent in the early years of their marriage, 1960β63. * [[Kathleen Simon, Viscountess Simon]], abolitionist, lived and died in Golders Green.<ref name=odnb>{{cite ODNB|title=Simon, Dame Kathleen Rochard, Viscountess Simon|last=Oldfield|first=Sybil|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/66994|date=January 2008|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/66994|access-date=4 January 2013}} {{subscription required}}</ref> * [[Osi Umenyiora]], former [[New York Giants]] defensive end, was born in Golders Green. * [[Evelyn Waugh]], novelist, author of ''Brideshead Revisited'', lived in nearby North End, Hampstead. * [[Anthony Joshua]], British professional boxer, lived in Golders Green with his mother.
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