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==Notable residents== [[File:Joseph Chamberlain.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Statesman [[Joseph Chamberlain]], born Camberwell, 1836 and father of [[Neville Chamberlain]].]] Residents of the area have included children's author [[Enid Mary Blyton]], who was born at 354 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, on 11 August 1897 (though shortly afterwards the family moved to Beckenham),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.enidblytonsociety.co.uk/chronology.php|title=The Enid Blyton Society|website=enidblytonsociety.co.uk}}</ref> and the former leader of the [[TGWU]], [[Jack Jones (trade unionist)|Jack Jones]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.homesandproperty.co.uk/area-guides/greater-london/living-in-camberwell-area-guide-to-homes-schools-and-transport-links-36896.html|title=Living in Camberwell: area guide to homes, schools and transport links|date=22 August 2014}}</ref> who lived on the Ruskin House Park estate. [[Karl Marx]] initially settled with his family in Camberwell when they moved to London in 1849.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Karl Marx: His Life and Work|last=Rühle|first=Otto|publisher=Routledge|year=2013|page=169}}</ref> Others include the former editor of ''[[The Guardian]]'' [[Peter Preston]].<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/jan/07/peter-preston-obituary |title = Peter Preston obituary|newspaper = The Guardian|date = 7 January 2018|last1 = McKie|first1 = David}}</ref> ''The Guardian'' columnist [[Zoe Williams]] is another resident,<ref name=" guardian.co.uk My Neighbour, the Lion Man of Peckham">{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/Columnists/Column/0,,1727778,00.html |title=Zoe Williams: My neighbour, the Leopard Man of Peckham |work=The Guardian |access-date=27 February 2011 |location=London}}</ref> whilst [[Florence Welch]] of the rock band [[Florence + the Machine]] also lives in the area,<ref name=TILwelch>{{cite web |url=http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/lifestyle/article-23726059-florence-welch---my-london.do |title=Florence Welch – My London |work=Evening Standard |date=31 July 2009 |author=Amy Grier |access-date=27 February 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100914231621/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/lifestyle/article-23726059-florence-welch---my-london.do |archive-date=14 September 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> as do actresses [[Lorraine Chase]] and [[Jenny Agutter]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/news/2015-01-18/call-the-midwifes-jenny-agutter-i-do-love-playing-a-nun/ |title=Jenny Agutter on Call the Midwife, the Railway Children and the pitfalls of Hollywood |work=Radio Times |date=18 January 2015 |access-date=27 May 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://londonnewsonline.co.uk/actress-jenny-agutter-joins-forces-with-camberwell-community-leaders-to-help-boost-local-businesses-featuring-denmark-hill-railway-station/ |title=Actress Jenny Agutter joins forces with Camberwell community leaders to help boost local businesses featuring Denmark Hill Railway Station – South London News |publisher=Londonnewsonline.co.uk |date=16 August 2019 |access-date=27 May 2020}}</ref> [[Syd Barrett]], one of the founders of [[Pink Floyd]], studied at [[Camberwell College of Arts]] from 1964.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/syd-barretts-last-remnants-sold-in-frenzy-of-bidding-426398.html |title=Syd Barrett's last remnants sold in frenzy of bidding |work=The Independent |date=30 November 2006 |access-date=27 February 2011 |location=London |first=Terry |last=Kirby}}</ref> [[Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte]] gave birth to her son, [[Jérôme Napoléon Bonaparte]], the nephew of the Emperor [[Napoleon I]], in Camberwell in 1805.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://shannonselin.com/2015/02/jerome-napoleon-bonaparte/|title=Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon's American Nephew – Shannon Selin|date=20 February 2015}}</ref> * [[Tammy Abraham]], professional footballer<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thefa.com/news/2018/jan/03/tammy-abraham-answers-questions-from-south-london-youngsters-at-football-beyond-borders-030118|title=Back to his roots!|first=The Football|last=Association|publisher=The Football Association}}</ref> * [[Henry Bessemer]], inventor, had an estate in Denmark Hill<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jl-IAwAAQBAJ&q=sir+henry+bessemer+camberwell&pg=PT184|title=Camberwell Through Time|first=John D.|last=Beasley|date=15 November 2010|publisher=Amberley Publishing Limited|isbn=9781445627267|via=Google Books}}</ref> * [[John Bostock]], professional footballer<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.afccamberwell.co.uk/john-bostock |title=AFC Camberwell |access-date=8 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190308081216/https://www.afccamberwell.co.uk/john-bostock |archive-date=8 March 2019 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * [[Jeremy Bowen]], BBC war correspondent<ref>{{cite web|author=Jeremy Bowen |url=https://twitter.com/BowenBBC/status/1142375686943981570 |title=Jeremy Bowen on Twitter: "As a Camberwell resident since the 1980s, I'd like to say that mostly it's calm and peaceful. Though there can be some police activity at night." |via=Twitter |date=22 June 2019 |access-date=27 May 2020}}</ref>{{Primary source inline|date=June 2023}} * [[Thomas Brodie-Sangster]], actor and musician<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/thomas-brodie-sangster-admits-hed-like-an-evil-role-as-he-attempts-to-escape-cute-image-a2925581.html |title = Thomas Brodie-Sangster: I'd like an evil role, actually|date = 2 September 2015}}</ref> * [[Joseph Chamberlain]], politician, born in Camberwell<ref>[[Julian Amery]] and [[J. L. Garvin]], ''The life of Joseph Chamberlain'', Six volumes, Macmillan, 1932–1969.</ref> * [[Florence Collingbourne]] (1880–1946), British actress and singer<ref>[https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interactive/8912/ONS_B18802AZ-0061?pid=38666009&backurl=https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv%3D1%26dbid%3D8912%26h%3D38666009%26tid%3D%26pid%3D%26usePUB%3Dtrue%26_phsrc%3Ddjv3312%26_phstart%3DsuccessSource&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=djv3312&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&_ga=2.125041354.1335830168.1588585387-1197399642.1515349816 England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837–1915 for Florence Eliza Collingbourne: 1880, Q1-Jan–Feb–Mar – Ancestry.com {{subscription required}}]</ref> * [[Catherine Dean (artist)|Catherine Dean]], artist<ref name="Albert Houthuesen Chronology">{{Cite web|url=http://www.houthuesen.com/Chronology.htm|title=Albert Houthuesen Chronology}}</ref> * [[Alfred Domett]] (1811–1887) New Zealand politician and premier from 1862–63.<ref>[https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/1d15/domett-alfred ''Dictionary of New Zealand Biography'']</ref> * [[Thomas Green (sculptor)|Thomas Green]] (1659–1730)<ref>''Dictionary of British Sculptors'' 1660-1851 by Rupert Gunnis p.179</ref> * [[Albert Houthuesen]], artist<ref name="Albert Houthuesen Chronology"/> * [[Marianne Jean-Baptiste]], British actress, director and singer-songwriter<ref>{{cite web | url=https://openplaques.org/plaques/1154 | title=Marianne Jean-Baptiste blue plaque}}</ref> * [[Ida Lupino]], Hollywood film actress and director, born in Herne Hill<ref>''Southwark News'' "DOUBLE PLAQUE IN HERNE HILL FOR HOLLYWOOD STARS STANLEY AND IDA LUPINO"[https://www.southwarknews.co.uk/news/double-plaque-in-herne-hill-for-hollywood-stars-stanley-and-ida-lupino/]</ref> * [[David McSavage]], Irish stand-up<ref>{{Cite web|last=Nolan|first=Larissa|date=9 May 2021|title=David McSavage: I like having the status of an outsider|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/david-mcsavage-i-like-having-the-status-of-an-outsider-cnjkx983q|access-date=22 April 2022|website=[[The Times]]|language=en}}</ref> * [[William Henry Margetson]], painter * [[Erin O'Connor]], fashion model<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2006/mar/12/modernism|title=Back to the future|date=12 March 2006|website=The Guardian}}</ref> * [[Carolyn Quinn]], [[BBC Radio 4]] journalist<ref>{{cite news | title = Birthdays | newspaper = [[The Guardian]] | page = 37 | date = 22 July 2014 }}</ref> * [[James Ring]] (1856–1939) photographer, born in Camberwell.<ref name="DNZB Ring">{{DNZB|title=James Ring|first= John|last= Sullivan|id=2r23|accessdate=23 April 2017}}</ref> *[[William Rust (journalist)|William Rust]], British communist activist, war correspondent, and first editor of the ''[[Morning Star (British newspaper)|Morning Star]]'', born in Camberwell<ref>{{Cite ODNB|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-40599|title=Rust, William Charles (1903–1949), political activist and journalist|year=2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/40599}}</ref> * [[Jadon Sancho]], professional footballer, lived in Peckham<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.londonnewsonline.co.uk/south-londoner-jadon-sancho-could-make-full-england-debut-at-the-age-of-just-18/ |title=South Londoner Jadon Sancho could make full England debut – at the age of just 18 |first=Richard |last=Cawley |newspaper=South London Press |date=9 October 2018 |access-date=11 October 2018}}</ref> * [[Edward Burnett Tylor]], [[anthropologist]]<ref>Lowie, Robert H. "Edward B. Tylor." ''American Anthropologist'', vol. 19, no. 2, 1917, p. 262. JSTOR, [http://www.jstor.org/stable/660758].</ref> * [[Ben Watson (footballer, born July 1985)|Ben Watson]], professional footballer<ref>Hugman, Barry J., ed. (2010). The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2010–11. Mainstream Publishing. p. 430. {{ISBN|978-1-84596-601-0}}.</ref> * [[Jack Whicher]], detective<ref>[http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec?htx=View&r=5538&dbid=1558&iid=31280_199025-00155&fn=Jonathan&ln=Whitcher&st=r&ssrc=&pid=5384950 London, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813–1906 Record for Jonathan Whitcher] – [[Ancestry.co.uk]]</ref> * [[Florence Welch]] (b. 1986), musician and front woman of [[Florence and the Machine]].<ref name="Ryan">{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopfeatures/5443013/Florence-and-the-Machine-interview-sound-and-vision.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopfeatures/5443013/Florence-and-the-Machine-interview-sound-and-vision.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Florence and the Machine interview: sound and vision|first=Francesca|last=Ryan|date=4 June 2009|work=The Telegraph}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
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