Editing Whitechapel (section)

===Resident in or otherwise associated with Whitechapel===
*[[Altab Ali Park|Altab Ali]], murdered in a Whitechapel park in 1978
*[[Barney Barnato]], diamond mining industrialist and [[Randlord]], 1851–1897
*[[Richard Brandon]] (? – 20 June 1649), the reputed [[Executioner of Charles I|executioner]] of [[Charles I of England|King Charles I]] was buried at the Whitechapel parish church of St Mary Matfelon. The church register records that he lived in Rosemary Lane (modern [[Royal Mint Street]]).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.casebook.org/victorian_london/whitechapel1881.html |title=Casebook: Jack the Ripper – Whitechapel |website=Casebook.org |access-date=6 January 2018 |archive-date=18 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180318125801/http://www.casebook.org/victorian_london/whitechapel1881.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[Mary Hughes (social worker)|Mary Hughes]] (1860–1941), a voluntary parish worker who initially lived in the [[Blackwall Buildings]] before moving to a converted pub on Vallance Road where she offered food and shelter to the needy.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://pubshistory.com/LondonPubs/MileEnd/EarlGreysCastle.shtml |title=Earl Grey's Castle, 71 Vallance Road, London, E1 |website=pubshistory.com |access-date=19 March 2018 |archive-date=20 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180320043707/https://pubshistory.com/LondonPubs/MileEnd/EarlGreysCastle.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[Jack the Ripper]], [[serial killer]]
*[[Charles Lahr]] (1885–1971), German-born anarchist, London bookseller and publisher, secretary of the Whitechapel branch of the Industrial Union of Direct Actionists (IUDA)
*[[Jack London]], who wrote ''[[The People of the Abyss]]'' while staying in Whitechapel – an account of his 1902 stay amongst the East End poor
*[[Richard Parker (mutineer)|Richard Parker]], [[Royal Navy]] mutineer buried in [[St Mary Matfelon]]
*[[Rudolf Rocker]], [[anarcho-syndicalist]] writer, historian and prominent activist, active in Whitechapel 1895–1918, 1873–1958
*[[Obadiah Shuttleworth]], composer, violinist and organist of the parish church, d. 1734
*[[Abraham Nahum Stencl|Avrom Stencl]] (1897–1983), Polish-born Yiddish poet, early companion of [[Franz Kafka]], published ''Loshn and Lebn'' in Whitechapel