Editing Catford (section)

==Notable residents==
* [[Jak Airport]], guitarist of punk band [[X-Ray Spex]] and [[New wave music|new wave]] band [[Classix Nouveaux]], was born and raised there.
* [[Ray BLK]], British singer and songwriter.
* [[Captain (Royal Navy)|Captain]] [[William Colbeck (seaman)]] (1871–1930), Antarctic explorer, lived in Inchmery Road. His sons went to St Dunstan's.
* Maxwell Confait, Colin Lattimore, Ronal Leighton and Ahmet Salih. See [[The Murder of Maxwell Confait]].
* [[Henry Cooper]], British heavyweight boxer came from the area.
* [[Ernest Christopher Dowson]], poet and decadent lived and died in Catford. Dowson introduced the phrases 'Days of wine and roses' and 'Gone with the wind'.
* [[Hughroy Currie]] (Boxer), British Heavyweight Champion in 1985-86. Lived in Catford, Brockley and briefly Bromley
* [[Leslie Dwyer]], actor, was born in Catford.
* [[Ben Elton]], comedian and writer, was born in Catford in 1959.
* [[Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster]] – Forster Park is named after him.
* [[Joe Gomez (footballer)|Joe Gomez]], defender for [[Liverpool F.C.]] Born in Catford.
* [[Japan (band)]], 1980s new wave band. Vocalist [[David Sylvian]], bassist [[Mick Karn]], drummer [[Steve Jansen]] and keyboardist [[Richard Barbieri]] all grew up in Catford and attended Catford Boys School.
* [[Anthony Jones (photographer)|Anthony Jones]], art photographer lives in the area.
* [[Jem Karacan]], international footballer, born in Catford. 
* [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|George Arthur Knowland]], recipient of the [[Victoria Cross]].
* [[Ethel Le Neve]], mistress of Dr Crippen, hanged for the murder of his wife.<ref>{{cite news |first= Roger |last= Wilkes |title= Inside story: last refuge for a killer's mistress |date=30 January 2002 |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]] |url =https://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/main.jhtml?xml=/property/2002/01/30/pinside26.xml |archive-url =https://archive.today/20120914134449/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/main.jhtml?xml=/property/2002/01/30/pinside26.xml |url-status =dead |archive-date =14 September 2012 |access-date = 7 July 2008 |location=London}}</ref>
* [[Lucy Mangan]] columnist for The Guardian newspaper lived in Catford for more than thirty years.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/apr/26/familyandrelationships1 | work=The Guardian | location=London | title=Catford: a tribute (yes, really) | first=Lucy | last=Mangan | date=26 April 2008 | access-date=28 April 2010}}</ref>
* [[Andy McNab]], former serviceman in the [[Special Air Service]] (SAS) and writer was born in Catford.
* [[Alexander McQueen]], fashion designer was born in Lewisham
* [[Jacqui McShee]], folk singer and co-founder of [[Pentangle (band)|Pentangle]].
* [[Spike Milligan]] (1918–2002), comedian and writer went to school at Catford's Brownhill Boys' School. He claimed to have lived in Catford and wrote about the area in his books and sketches. In reality he lived in nearby [[Honor Oak]].
* [[Frank Pullen]], the property developer and racehorse owner was born in Catford and opened the first of his shops on Catford Broadway.
* [[Bernard Sunley]], property developer and philanthropist, born in Catford in 1910.
* [[Robin Trower]], Guitarist, Procol Harum, and extensive solo career.
* Tom Stabb, co-host of [[Alan Partridge]]-based podcast 'Monkey Tennis' resides in Catford.
* [[Robert Stanford Tuck]], Second World War fighter ace.
* [[Chris Welch]], music journalist and author, was raised in Catford.