Editing Bloomsbury (section)

==Notable residents==
[[File:George_Charles_Beresford_-_Virginia_Woolf_in_1902_-_Restoration.jpg|thumb|right|upright|[[Virginia Woolf]], considered one of Britain's most important authors]]
[[File:Vladimir Lenin.jpg|thumb|right|upright|[[Vladimir Lenin]], founder of the [[Soviet Union]]]]
* [[Hylda Baker]], the actress and TV comedienne, had an apartment in [[Ridgmount Gardens]] in Torrington Place, Bloomsbury, where she lived throughout the 1960s and 70s when she was in London.<ref>Notable London Abodes: [http://www.notableabodes.com/person-abode-details/8513/dame-hylda-baker-comedienne_97-ridgmount-gardens-bloomsbury-london Hylda Baker]{{Dead link|date=April 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* [[Ada Ballin]] (1863–1906), magazine editor and writer on fashion<ref name=odnb>[http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101055732/Ada-Ballin Ada Ballin]{{Dead link|date=October 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, ODNB, Retrieved 6 October 2016</ref>
* [[J. M. Barrie]] (1860–1937), playwright and novelist, lived in Guilford Street and 8 Grenville Street when he first moved to London;<ref>Mackail, Denis: ''The Story of J.M.B. Peter Davies'', 1941</ref> this is where Barrie situated the Darlings' house in ''[[Peter Pan]]''.<ref>J.M. Barrie: ''Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up''. Act I. Hodder & Stoughton, 1928</ref>
* [[Vanessa Bell]] (1879–1961), painter, sister of Virginia Woolf, lived at 46 [[Gordon Square]].
* [[William Copeland Borlase]] M.P. (1848–1899), died bankrupt and disowned by his family at 34 Bedford Court Mansions.
* [[Vera Brittain]] (1893–1970) and [[Winifred Holtby]] (1898–1935), lived at 58 Doughty Street.
* [[Randolph Caldecott]] (1846–1886), illustrator, lived at 46 Great Russell Street.
* [[William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire]] (1698–1755), sold the [[Old Devonshire House]] at 48 Boswell Street.
* [[Charles Darwin]] (1809–1882), lived at 12 Upper [[Gower Street, London|Gower Street]] in 1839.<ref>[http://darwin.baruch.cuny.edu/biography/london/london.html Charles Darwin] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010303070823/http://darwin.baruch.cuny.edu/biography/london/london.html |date=3 March 2001 }}. Retrieved 8 March 2007.</ref>
* [[George Dance the Younger|George Dance]] (1741–1825), architect, lived at 91 Gower Street.
* [[Charles Dickens]] (1812–1870), novelist, lived at 14 [[Great Russell Street]], Tavistock Square and [[48 Doughty Street]].
* [[George du Maurier]] (1834–1896), artist and writer, lived at 91 (formerly 46) Great Russell Street.
* [[Benton Fletcher]] (1866–1944), housed his keyboard collection at the [[Old Devonshire House]], 48 Boswell Street, in the 1930s and 40s.
* [[E. M. Forster]] (1879–1970), novelist, essayist, and broadcaster, resided in Brunswick Square
* [[Ricky Gervais]] (born 1961), comedian, lived until recently in Southampton Row, Store Street and owned one of the penthouses in Bloomsbury Mansions in Russell Square, WC1.
* [[Mary Anne Everett Green]] (1818–1895), Calenderer of State Papers, author of ''Lives of the Princesses of England'', mother of Evelyn Everett-Green, a prolific 19th-century novelist.
* [[Philip Hardwick]] (1792–1870) and [[Philip Charles Hardwick]] (1822–1892), father and son, architects, lived at 60 [[Russell Square]] for over ten years.
* [[Travers Humphreys]] (1867–1956), barrister and judge, was born in [[Doughty Street]].
* [[John Maynard Keynes]] (1883–1946), economist, lived for 30 years in [[Gordon Square]].
* [[Vladimir Lenin]] (1870–1924), founder of the USSR, lived here in 1908.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/lenin-tavistock-place/ |title=Lenin - Tavistock Place |website=London Remembers }}</ref>
* [[James Lind (naturalist)|James Lind of Windsor]] (1736–1812), natural philosopher, physician to [[George III]]
* [[Emanuel Litvinoff]] (1915–2011), author, poet, playwright and human rights campaigner, lived for 46 years in Mecklenburgh Square.
* [[Edmund Lodge]] (1756–1839), [[officer of arms]] and writer on [[heraldry]], died at his Bloomsbury Square house on 16 January 1839.<ref>ODNB: Lucy Peltz, "Lodge, Edmund (1756–1839)" [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/16920 Retrieved 11 March 2014] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924145109/http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/16920 |date=24 September 2015 }}</ref>
* [[Bob Marley]] (1945–1981), musician, lived in 34 Ridgmount Gardens for six months in 1972.
* [[Charlotte Mew]] (1869–1928), poet, was born at 30 Doughty Street and lived there until the family moved nearby to 9 Gordon Street, in 1890.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/charlotte-mew |title=Charlotte Mew |date=1 April 2017 |website=Poetry Foundation |language=en-us |access-date=2 April 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal/archive/online_archive/v2_1_2003/current/in_conference/networking-women/collecott.htm |title=In-Conference: Diana Collecott &ndash; HOW2 |website=www.asu.edu |access-date=2 April 2017 }}</ref>
* [[Jacquie O'Sullivan]] (born 1960), musician and former member of [[Bananarama]].
* [[Dorothy Richardson]] (1873–1957), novelist, lived at 7 Endesleigh Street and 1905–6 [[Woburn Walk]]. Her experiences are recorded in her autobiographical novel, in thirteen volumes, ''Pilgrimage''.<ref>''Windows on Modernism: Selected Letters of Dorothy Richardson'', ed Gloria G, Fromm. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press 1995, p. xxx; The Dorothy Richardson Society web site [http://dorothyrichardson.org/society/conference_2015.htm] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170201063723/http://dorothyrichardson.org/society/conference_2015.htm|date=1 February 2017}}.</ref>
* Sir [[Francis Ronalds]] (1788–1873), inventor of the [[electric telegraph]], lived at 40 Queen Square in 1820–1822.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Sir Francis Ronalds: Father of the Electric Telegraph |last=Ronalds |first=B.F. |publisher=Imperial College Press |year=2016 |isbn=978-1-78326-917-4 |location=London }}</ref>
* [[Dorothy L. Sayers]] (1893–1957), novelist lived at 24 Great James Street from 1921 to 1929. Her main female character Harriet Vane also lived in Bloomsbury.
* [[Alexei Sayle]] (born 1952), English stand-up comedian, actor and author.<ref>{{cite news |title=Alexei Sayle: Bloomsbury by bike - video |url=https://www.theguardian.com/travel/video/2013/oct/08/alexei-sayle-bloomsbury-festival-london-bike-video?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2&et_cid=51918&et_rid=7107573&Linkid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.theguardian.com%2ftravel%2fvideo%2f2013%2foct%2f08%2falexei-sayle-bloomsbury-festival-london-bike-video |access-date=8 October 2013 |newspaper=The Guardian |date=8 October 2013 |author=Alexei Sayle |format=Video upload }}</ref>
* [[John Shaw Sr.|John Shaw Senior]] (1776–1832) and [[John Shaw Jr.|John Shaw Junior]] (1803–1870), father and son, architects, lived in [[Gower Street, London|Gower Street]].
* [[Catherine Tate]] (born 1968), actress and comedian, brought up in the Brunswick Centre, close to [[Russell Square]].
* [[Kenneth Williams]] (22 February 1926 – 15 April 1988), actor and comedian, lived at 57 Marchment Street opposite the Brunswick Centre.
* [[Wee Georgie Wood]] (1895–1979), actor and comedian, lived and died at Gordon Mansions on Torrington Place.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bushell |first=Peter |title=London's Secret History |url=https://archive.org/details/londonssecrethis0000bush |url-access=registration |publisher=Constable |date=1983 |page=[https://archive.org/details/londonssecrethis0000bush/page/179 179] |isbn=9780094647305 }}</ref>
* [[Virginia Woolf]] (1882–1941), author, essayist, and diarist, resided at 46 [[Gordon Square]] (1904–07) and 52 Tavistock Square (1924–39).
* [[Thomas Henry Wyatt]] (1807–1880), architect, lived at 77 Great Russell Street.
* [[John Wyndham]] (1903–1969), lived at the Penn Club in [[Tavistock Square]] (1924–38) and then (except for 1943–46 army service) at the club's present address, 21–22 Bedford Place, off Russell Square, until his marriage in 1963 to Grace Isabel Wilson, who had lived in the next room at the club.
* [[W. B. Yeats|William Butler Yeats]] (1865–1939), poet, dramatist and prose writer, lived at [[Woburn Walk]].