Editing Clerkenwell (section)

==Notable people==
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*[[John Bell (Bishop of Worcester)|John Bell]] (d. 1556), [[Church of England]] bishop
*[[Thomas Birch]] (1705–1766), English historian
*[[Thomas Britton]] (1644–1714), English charcoal merchant best known as a concert promoter
*[[James Duff Brown]] (1862–1914), English librarian, information theorist, music biographer and educationalist
* Rev. [[Moses Browne]] (1704–1787), [[Church of England]] priest and poet
*[[Robert Burnside (minister)|Robert Burnside]] (1759–1826), English Baptist minister
*[[Phil Cameron]] (b. 1972), English entrepreneur, the founder of [[No.1 Traveller]], and a former Tony and Olivier Award-winning theatre producer
*[[Edward Cave]] (1691–1754), English printer and journalist
*[[William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle]] (1592–1676), English polymath and aristocrat, having been a poet, equestrian, playwright, swordsman, politician, architect, diplomat and soldier
*[[Oliver Cromwell]] (1599–1658), English [[Military history of the United Kingdom|military]] and [[Politics of England|political]] leader and later [[Lord Protector#Cromwellian Commonwealth|Lord Protector]] of the [[The Protectorate|Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland]]
*[[Helkiah Crooke]] (1576–1648), Court physician to King [[James I of England]], best remembered for his textbook on [[anatomy]], ''Mikrokosmographia, a Description of the Body of Man''
*[[Hubert de Burgh-Canning, 2nd Marquess of Clanricarde|Earl of Clanricarde]] (1832–1916), Anglo-Irish ascendancy nobleman and politician
*[[Daniel Defoe]] (c. 1660–1731), English trader, writer, journalist, [[pamphleteer]] and spy, now most famous for his novel ''[[Robinson Crusoe]]''
*[[Charles Dickens]] (1812–1870), English writer and social critic
*[[Michael Fagan incident|Michael Fagan]] (b. 1948), [[Buckingham Palace]] intruder
*[[Zaha Hadid]] (b. 1950–2016), Iraqi-British architect
*[[John Holwell]] (1649–1686?), English [[astrologer]] and mathematician
*[[Anthony Horowitz]] (b. 1955), English novelist and screenwriter specialising in mystery and suspense
*[[Bedford Jezzard|Bedford Alfred George Jezzard]] (1927–2005), English footballer and manager<ref>{{cite book|title=The Watford Football Club Illustrated Who's Who|last=Jones|first=Trefor|year=1996|isbn= 0-9527458-0-1|page=132|publisher=T.G. Jones }}</ref>
*[[Vladimir Lenin]] (1870–1924), Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist
*Hannah Rosetta Dinah Parks (1860–1931), stage name [[Cora Cardigan]], a virtuoso flautist known as the 'Queen of Flute Players'.
*Umberto [[Bert Rossi]], criminal
*[[Charles Sabini]] (1889–1950), English criminal, leader of the ''Sabini gang''
*[[Tom Smith (confectioner)|Tom Smith]] (1823–1869), confectioner and creator of the [[Christmas cracker]]
*[[Jessie Vokes]] (1848–1884), actress and dancer 
*[[Louis Wain]] (1860–1939), English artist
*[[John Weever]] (1576–1632), English antiquary and poet
*[[John Wilkes]] (1725–1797), English radical, journalist and politician
*[[Elizabeth Wilkinson]] (1700s), English [[bare-knuckle boxing]] champion, known to be the first female boxer
*[[George Ebenezer Williams]] (1783−1819), English organist and composer