Editing Stepney (section)

==Notable people==
{{category see also|People from Stepney}}{{More citations needed section|date=March 2025}}
[[Richard Mead]], a physician responsible for advances in the understanding of [[transmissible diseases]], was born in Stepney.

Others born in Stepney are entertainer [[Des O'Connor]],<ref>{{IMDb name|id=0640300|name=Dec O'Connor}}</ref> actor [[Steven Berkoff]],<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070107071043/http://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/article2124821.ece  ''Steven Berkoff: The real East Enders''], [[The Independent]] 4 January 2007 accessed 10 May 2007</ref> playwright [[Arnold Wesker]], gardener [[Rachel De Thame]], television executive [[Alan Yentob]], artist [[Frank Paton]], drummer [[Kenney Jones]], musician and writer [[Jah Wobble]],<ref>Jah Wobble, Memoirs of a Geezer, p. 1.</ref> singer [[Kenny Lynch]] and his sister [[Maxine Daniels]], singer [[Charles Coborn]], [[Association football|footballers]] [[Ledley King]], [[Ashley Cole]], [[Mark Lazarus]], [[Barry Silkman]], and [[Darren Purse]], heavyweight [[boxing|boxer]] [[William Thomas Wells|"Bombardier" Billy Wells]], former [[armed robber]] and businessman [[Roy Shaw]], former British featherweight boxing champion [[Sammy McCarthy]], sportswriter [[Norman Giller]], and [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] politician [[Wes Streeting]].

Clergymen [[John Sentamu]], formerly Bishop of Stepney, and Father Richard Wilson, founder of the ''Hoppers' Hospitals'' at [[Five Oak Green]], Kent, lived in the borough at one time.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/legacies/work/england/kent/article_4.shtml|title=The hoppers of Kent|publisher=BBC Legacies|access-date=21 December 2007}}</ref>

Actors born in Stepney include [[Matthew Garber]], [[Bernard Bresslaw]], [[Terence Stamp]], [[Craig Fairbrass]], [[Jeff Shankley]], [[John Lyons (actor)|John Lyons]], [[Eddie Marsan]], [[Ben Onwukwe]], [[Victor McLaglen]], [[Roy Marsden]], [[Ruth Sheen]], [[EastEnders]] actress [[Anita Dobson]] and [[Nicola Walker]].

Musicians [[Monty Norman]] (composer of the [[James Bond Theme]]) and [[Lionel Bart]] (known for creating the book, 
music and lyrics to the production ''[[Oliver!]]''), were also born in Stepney, as was musician [[Wiley (musician)|Wiley]], widely considered to be the founding father of [[grime music]].

British communist [[Alf Salisbury]], who smuggled monetary funds to German anti-fascists during Hitler's rise to power, and fought in both the [[Battle of Cable Street]] and for the [[International Brigades]] during the [[Spanish Civil War]], was born in Stepney.{{Citation needed|date=March 2025}} Fellow communist [[Betty Papworth]] and activist Betty Papworth was also born in Stepney.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Obituarity: Betty Papworth|url=https://www.thecnj.com/camden/2008/072408/obit072408.html|access-date=2025-03-20|website=Camden New Journal}}</ref>