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==Notable residents== {{Div col|colwidth=30em}} *[[Damon Albarn]] *[[Brett Anderson]] *[[Mike Atherton]] *[[J. M. Barrie]], playwright and novelist, and his wife, Mary, lived at 100 Bayswater Road. *[[Tony Blair]] *[[Winston Churchill]] *[[Richard Cobden]], lived on [[Westbourne Terrace]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/morley-the-life-of-richard-cobden|title=The Life of Richard Cobden | Online Library of Liberty|website=Oll.libertyfund.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.artwarefineart.com/gallery/portrait-richard-cobden-mp-1804-1865|title = Portrait of Richard Cobden, MP 1804 – 1865 |website=Artwarefineart.com}}</ref> *[[A. J. Cronin]] *[[Umaru Dikko]], former Nigerian minister of transportation *[[Tim Dry]] has lived in Bayswater since the early 1980s. *[[Ade Edmondson]] *[[Stephanie Beacham]] *[[Roger C. Field]], inventor and designer whose first home was flat D, 15 Cleveland Square *[[Alexander Fleming]] *[[Mariella Frostrup]] *[[Ferdinand de Géramb]] *[[Reginald Gray (artist)|Reginald Gray]], Irish artist, lived with his wife Catherine at 105a Queensway from 1958 to 1963. *[[J. B. Gunn]], physicist, lived with his mother, the Freudian psychoanalyst L. F. Gunn/Grey-Clarke, at 14 Durham Terrace, in the 1940s *[[Francis Guthrie]], whose observations led to the [[Four color theorem]]<ref>{{cite journal |title=Francis Guthrie: A Colourful Life |year=2012 |doi=10.1007/s00283-012-9307-y |url=https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00283-012-9307-y.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140323165516/http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs00283-012-9307-y.pdf |archive-date=2014-03-23 |url-status=live |access-date=2 June 2020|last1=Maritz |first1=Pieter |last2=Mouton |first2=Sonja |journal=The Mathematical Intelligencer |volume=34 |issue=3 |pages=67–75 |s2cid=121812208 |hdl=10019.1/70384 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> *[[Alice Hart-Davis]] *[[Thora Hird]] *[[Paul Johnson (writer)|Paul Johnson]] *[[Dylan Jones]] *[[Jonathan King]] *[[Keira Knightley]] *[[Guglielmo Marconi]], the pioneer of wireless communication, lived at 71 Hereford Road between 1896 and 1897 with his mother upon arrival in England (marked by a [[blue plaque]]). *[[Rik Mayall]] *[[Stella McCartney]] *[[Queen Noor of Jordan]] *[[Dermot O'Leary]] *[[Irfan Orga]], exile and writer, lived at 29, 35 and 21 Inverness Terrace from 1942 until the mid-1950s, publishing his memoirs ''Portrait of a Turkish Family'' in 1950. *[[Nick Ross]] *[[Ilyich Ramirez-Sanchez|Ilyich Ramírez Sánchez]], terrorist known as [[Carlos the Jackal]] *[[Jennifer Saunders]] *[[Tony Selby]], lived at Basement, 1, Stanhope Place, W2 2HB *[[Paul Simonon]] *[[Sting (musician)|Sting]] occupied a basement flat at 28A [[Leinster Square]] in the late 1970s during the formative years of [[The Police]]. [[Trudie Styler]], now his wife, lived in a basement flat two doors down.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,11913,768378,00.html |title=Interview: Trudie Styler | Magazine | the Observer |access-date=2006-02-24 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070313122407/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0%2C11913%2C768378%2C00.html |archive-date=13 March 2007 }} ''observer.guardian.co.uk''</ref> *[[Georgina Castle Smith]] (pseudonym Brenda), children's writer born and bred in Bayswater<ref>Charlotte Mitchell: Smith, Georgina Castle... ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford, UK: OUP, 2004/2008) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-41041?rskey=8xWYL9&result=1 Retrieved 2 April 2018.]</ref> *[[Luigi Sturzo]], Catholic priest and politician, and one of the fathers of Christian democracy and a founder of the [[Italian People's Party (1919)]] *[[John Tenniel]], artist and cartoonist, was born at 22 [[Gloucester Place]], New Road, Bayswater on 28 February 1820.<ref>L. Perry Curtis jun., "Tenniel, Sir John (1820–1914)" [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/36458 Retrieved 25 February 2014, pay-walled.]</ref> *[[Jeremy Thorpe]] *[[Kwasi Kwarteng]] {{Div col end}}
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