Editing Camden Town (section)

==Notable people==

[[File:Amy Winehouse Statue, Camden (14946739033).jpg|thumb|right|upright=0.8|Bronze statue of [[Amy Winehouse]] in Camden Town, London unveiled in September 2014]]
*Love Island Series 10 Runner up and business owner, [[Whitney Adebayo]] was born and raised in Camden Town.
* [[B. R. Ambedkar]] (social reformer, jurist and LSE graduate) lived at 10, King Henry Road, Camden Town, now known as Ambedkar House, in 1921 and 1922.
*[[Beryl Bainbridge]] lived in Albert Street from the 1960s until her death in 2010.<ref>{{cite news|last=Kellaway|first=Kate|title=The secret art of Beryl Bainbridge|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/may/15/beryl-bainbridge-paintings-kate-kellaway|access-date=7 December 2011|newspaper=The Guardian|date=15 May 2011}}</ref>
*Playwright [[Alan Bennett]] lived in [[Gloucester Crescent, Camden|Gloucester Crescent]] for many years. [[Margaret Fairchild]] (aka Miss Shepherd) lived in a van on his driveway.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://camdennewjournal.com/article/lady-in-the-van-house-is-becoming-derelict-and-needs-restoration-work |title='Lady In The Van House' is becoming 'derelict' and needs restoration work |newspaper=Camden New Journal|date=20 November 2020|author=Richard Osley }}</ref>
*Comedian [[Roisin Conaty]] was born and grew up in a Camden [[council house]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hogan |first=Michael |date=2020-04-25 |title=Roisin Conaty: 'Standup is a confidence game. You sell the sizzle, not the sausage' |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/apr/25/roisin-conaty-standup-is-a-confidence-game-you-sell-the-sizzle-not-the-sausage- |access-date=2023-11-07 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
*[[Charles Dickens]]'s second London home was in Bayham Street in 1822. He later moved to 112 Little College Street (now College Place),<ref>{{cite news|last=Jolly|first=Emma|title=Charles Dickens in Camden|url=http://www.londonhistorians.org/index.php?s=file_download&id=19|date=February 2011}}</ref> where he boarded with Elizabeth Roylance, a family friend, whom Dickens later immortalised as "Mrs. Pipchin" in ''Dombey and Son''.
*Singer [[Eliza Doolittle (singer)|Eliza Doolittle]] grew up in the area.
*Jazz Musician [[Nubya Garcia]] was born and grew up Camden Town.
*Actor and singer [[Anthony Head]] was born in Camden Town.
*Physicist, mathematician, and engineer [[Oliver Heaviside]] was born in Camden Town.<ref>{{cite web|title=Archives biographies: Oliver Heaviside 1850–1925|url=https://www.theiet.org/membership/library-archives/the-iet-archives/biographies/oliver-heaviside-1850-1925/|publisher=The Institution of Engineering and Technology|access-date=11 May 2022}}</ref>
*Actor [[Freddie Highmore]] was born in Camden Town in 1992.
*Actor [[Daniel Kaluuya]] was raised on a [[Public housing in the United Kingdom|council estate]] in Camden Town.
*[[Ashley Keane]], former professional footballer for [[Torquay United F.C.]], was born in Camden in 1981.
*Dancer and actress [[Donna King]] teaches at her studio in Camden Town.
*Drag queen [[Lady Camden]] was born in Camden before moving to California in 2020.
*Author and journalist [[Bernard Levin]] grew up in Camden Town's Plender Street.<ref>{{cite book|author=Levin, Bernard|title=Enthusiasms|year=1985|url=https://archive.org/details/enthusiasms000levi|url-access=registration|publisher=Coronet|pages=[https://archive.org/details/enthusiasms000levi/page/80 80–82]|isbn=0-340-36927-2}} Retrieved 14 December 2013.</ref>
*Actress and dancer [[Louisa Lytton]] was born & raised in Camden Town.
*Music Band [[Madness (band)|Madness]] are from and grew up in Camden Town and surrounding areas.
*Hip-hop trio [[N-Dubz]] are from and grew up in the area.
*[[Richard Ryan (biographer)|Richard Ryan]] lived in Camden Town from 1819 until his death in 1849.
*Boxer [[Tom Sayers]] lived in Camden, and died at No. 257 Camden High Street in 1865. The house now has a plaque.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://openplaques.org/plaques/71|title=Tom Sayers – Blue Plaque|website=openplaques.org|access-date=14 December 2013}}</ref>
*Painter [[Walter Sickert]] lived and worked as part of the [[Camden Town Group]] in Mornington Crescent.<ref>{{cite news|title=Walter Sickert Nudes: An underworld stripped bare|last=Dorment|first=Richard|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/3669068/Walter-Sickert-Nudes-An-underworld-stripped-bare.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506033814/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/3669068/Walter-Sickert-Nudes-An-underworld-stripped-bare.html |archive-date=6 May 2021 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=6 November 2007}}{{cbignore}}</ref> In 1908 he painted a group of four paintings collectively titled ''[[The Camden Town Murder]]'', in reference to the notorious [[Camden Town Murder]] case of 1907.
*Poet [[Dylan Thomas]] owned a house at 54 [[Delancey Street, Camden|Delancey Street]] from 1951 until his death in 1953.<ref>{{cite web|title=1950s to Dylan's death|url=http://www.dylanthomas.com/index.cfm?articleid=5398|publisher=City and County of Swansea|access-date=7 December 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120205125744/http://www.dylanthomas.com/index.cfm?articleid=5398|archive-date=5 February 2012}}</ref> There is a plaque on the house today.
*Journalist and novelist [[Sean Thomas (writer)|Sean Thomas]] lives in Camden.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-deep-absurdity-of-hs2-diversitys-agenda/|title=The deep absurdity of HS2's diversity agenda|work=[[The Spectator]]|first=Sean|last=Thomas|date=26 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231009080542/https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-deep-absurdity-of-hs2-diversitys-agenda/|archive-date=9 October 2023|quote=This is because I live exactly where Camden Town meets Primrose Hill – and where Britain's first intercity railway tore through inner London (around 1837), surging out of London's first mainline station: Euston.}}</ref>
* Bandleader [[Pasquale Troise]] lived at Rochester Terrace in the 1930s.<ref>'Mandoliers in Car Crash: Troise Injured', in ''The Manchester Guardian'', 13 June 1938, p.11</ref>
*Singer [[Amy Winehouse]] lived in Camden Town for many years. First buying a flat at 2 Jeffrey's Place in 2003 and then at 25 Prowse Place in 2008.<ref>{{cite news|title=Police could step in to disband Amy's paparazzi army|url=http://www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/police_could_step_in_to_disband_amy_s_paparazzi_army_1_628567|access-date=1 July 2014|newspaper=Ham & High|date=22 August 2008|archive-date=14 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714120330/http://www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/police_could_step_in_to_disband_amy_s_paparazzi_army_1_628567|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2010, she moved to 30 Camden Square where she was found dead on 23 July 2011.<ref>{{cite news|last=Wilson|first=Cherry|title=Amy Winehouse found dead aged 27 in London home|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/jul/23/amy-winehouse-found-dead-27|access-date=7 December 2011|newspaper=The Guardian|date=23 July 2011}}</ref> Winehouse was strongly associated with Camden Town.<ref name="Grdn2024"/> Since her death she has been entitled as "The Queen of Camden" and a bronze statue of her was placed in [[Stables Market]] on what would have been her 31st birthday, 14 September 2014.