Editing Kew (section)

==People==
{{Main|List of people from the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames}}

===Royal associations with Kew===
[[File:West Hall, West Hall Road, Kew.jpg|thumb|[[West Hall, Kew|West Hall]] is Kew's only surviving 17th-century building apart from [[Kew Palace]].]]
[[File:Sarah Kirby (née Bull); John Joshua Kirby by Thomas Gainsborough.jpg|thumb|''Sarah Kirby (née Bull) and [[Joshua Kirby (artist)|Joshua Kirby]]'' by [[Thomas Gainsborough]]]]
[[File:Frederick, Prince of Wales, and his sisters by Philip Mercier.jpg|thumb|right|A musical portrait of [[Frederick, Prince of Wales]] and his sisters by [[Philip Mercier]], dated 1733, uses the Dutch House, the present-day Kew Palace, as its ''[[En plein air|plein-air]]'' backdrop.]]
[[File:Marianne North Gallery 821.JPG|thumb|Interior of [[Marianne North]] Gallery, Kew Gardens]]
[[File:Pissarro-Kew-greens-Lyon.jpg|thumb|French painter [[Camille Pissarro]]'s impression of [[Kew Green]] in 1892]]
[[File:Tomb_of_Johan_Zoffany.jpg|thumb|Tomb of the painter [[Johan Zoffany]] at [[St Anne's Church, Kew|St Anne's Church]]]]

====The Tudors and Stuarts====
[[Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester]] ({{circa}} 1460–1526) was granted lands at Kew in 1517. When he died in 1526 he left his Kew estates to his third wife, Eleanor, with the remainder to his son George.  In 1538, Sir George Somerset sold the house for £200 to [[Thomas Cromwell]] ({{circa}} 1485–1540), who resold it for the same amount to [[Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk]] ({{circa}} 1484–1545). Brandon had probably already inhabited Kew during the life of his wife [[Mary Tudor, Queen of France|Mary Tudor]],  daughter of [[Henry VII of England|Henry VII]] and widow of the French king [[Louis XII]]. According to [[John Leland (antiquary)|John Leland]]'s ''Cygnea Cantio'' ("Swan Song"), she stayed in Kew (which he refers to as "Cheva")<ref>{{cite web | url=https://philological.cal.bham.ac.uk/swansong/trans.html| title=Cygnea Cantio | publisher=The Philological Museum | work=Cygnea Cantio (Swan Song) | year=1545 | access-date=31 May 2023 | author=[[John Leland (antiquary)|Leland, John]] (translated by Sutton, Dana F)}}</ref> for a time after her return to England.<ref name="Parishes">{{cite web | title=Parishes: Kew | work=A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 3 |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/surrey/vol3/pp482-487|year=1911 | access-date=15 June 2023|editor=[[Henry Elliot Malden|Malden, H E]] | location= London|pages=482–487}}</ref>

One of [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]]'s closest friends, [[Henry Norris (courtier)|Henry Norris]] ({{circa}} 1482–1536), lived at Kew Farm,<ref>Blomfield 1994, p.5</ref> which was later owned by [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth I]]'s favourite, [[Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester]] (1532–1588).<ref>Blomfield 1994, p.12</ref> This large [[palace|palatial house]] on the Thames riverbank predated the royal palaces of Kew Palace and the White House. Excavations at Kew Gardens in 2009 revealed a wall that may have belonged to the property.<ref>{{cite web | url= https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/browse/issue.xhtml?recordId=1109648&recordType=GreyLitSeries | title=Replacement Outdoor Children's Play Area, land adjacent to the Climbers and Creepers Building, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew... Archaeological Watching Brief and in situ Preservation of Remains | website= Archaeological Data Service | date=2010 | access-date=31 May 2023 | author= Potter, G|pages=i and 4}}</ref>

In Elizabeth's reign, and under the Stuarts, houses were developed along Kew Green.<ref>Blomfield 1994, p.16</ref> [[West Hall, Kew|West Hall]], which survives in West Hall Road, dates from at least the 14th century and the present house was built at the end of the 17th century.<ref>Blomfield 1994, p.18</ref>

[[Elizabeth Stuart (1596–1662)|Elizabeth Stuart]]  (1596–1662), daughter of [[James VI and I|James I]], later known as the  "Winter Queen", was given a household at Kew in 1608.<ref name="Parishes"/>

[[Anne, Queen of Great Britain|Queen Anne]] subscribed to the building of the [[St Anne's Church, Kew|parish church on Kew Green]], which was dedicated to [[Saint Anne|St Anne]] in 1714, three months before the queen's death.<ref>Blomfield 1994, p.23</ref>

====The Hanoverians====
The [[Hanoverians]] maintained the strongest links with Kew, in particular [[Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha|Princess Augusta]] who founded the botanic gardens<ref name="Heritage Year 2006">{{cite press release | url=http://www.kew.org/press/heritage_year.html | title=Reading the Royal Landscape: Heritage Year 2006 | publisher=[[Royal Botanic Gardens Kew]] | date=2006 | access-date=4 February 2016 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160205020133/http://www.kew.org/press/heritage_year.html | archive-date=5 February 2016 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> and her husband [[Frederick, Prince of Wales]] (1707–1751) who lived at the White House in Kew. Augusta, as [[Dowager]] Princess of Wales, continued to live there until her death in 1772.<ref name="Royal">{{cite web | url=https://www.richmond.gov.uk/royal_richmond_timeline  | title=Royal Richmond timeline: 900 years of royal associations with Richmond upon Thames | publisher=[[London Borough of Richmond upon Thames]] | work=Local history timelines | date= 1 April 2020|access-date=31 May 2023}}</ref> Frederick commissioned the building of the first substantial [[greenhouse]] at Kew Gardens.<ref>Blomfield 1994, p.32</ref>

In 1772 [[King George III]] and [[Queen Charlotte]] moved into the White House at Kew.<ref name="Royal"/> Charlotte died at the [[Kew Palace|Dutch House]] (now Kew Palace) in 1818.<ref name="Royal"/>

[[King William IV]] spent most of his early life at Richmond and at Kew Palace, where he was educated by private tutors.<ref>{{cite book|author= Zeigler, Philip |pages= 13–19|year=1971| title= King William IV|location= London|publisher=[[William Collins, Sons|Collins]]| isbn = 978-0-00-211934-4|author-link= Philip Ziegler}}</ref>

===Georgian expansion===
During the [[French Revolution]], many refugees established themselves in Kew, having built many of the houses of this period.  In the 1760s and 1770s the presence of royalty attracted artists such as [[Thomas Gainsborough]] and [[Johann Zoffany]].<ref name="Parishes"/><ref name="Blomfield 1994, pp.43-45">Blomfield 1994, pp.43–45</ref>

===Artists associated with Kew===
*[[Diana Armfield]] (born 1920) lives in Kew.<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=Summer 2021 |author= Bethel, Claire|title=Interview with local artist, Diana Armfield |url=https://mcusercontent.com/ba3306019a38caf7ead351ce3/files/2151ecad-202b-20f6-8f47-f5766e6f7b3a/Kew_Newsletter_Summer_2021.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210721114750/https://mcusercontent.com/ba3306019a38caf7ead351ce3/files/2151ecad-202b-20f6-8f47-f5766e6f7b3a/Kew_Newsletter_Summer_2021.pdf |archive-date=21 July 2021 |url-status=live |magazine=The Kew Society Newsletter |access-date=14 April 2025}}</ref><ref name= "Partnership">{{Cite web |author= Macpherson, Amy|date=14 December 2015 |title= Painting their life: Diana Armfield and Bernard Dunstan  |url=https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/video-diana-armfield-bernard-dunstan |access-date=21 July 2021 |website=[[Royal Academy]]}}</ref>  She is known for landscapes, and has also painted portraits, literary subjects and still lifes. She has a particular interest in flower paintings, and is considered to owe much to the tradition of [[Walter Sickert]].<ref name="Armfield, Diana Maxwell">{{Cite web |title=Armfield, Diana Maxwell |url= https://www.oxfordartonline.com/benezit/display/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.001.0001/acref-9780199773787-e-00300157|work=[[Benezit Dictionary of Artists]]|publisher= Oxford Art Online |access-date=15 June 2023}}</ref><ref name="Buckman1">{{Cite book |last=Buckman |first=David |title=Artists in Britain Since 1945 |date=2006 |publisher=Art Dictionaries Ltd. |isbn=0-953260-95X |page=44}}</ref>
*[[Margaret Backhouse (artist)|Margaret Backhouse]] (1818–1896) was a successful British portrait and [[genre painter]] during the 19th century who lived at Lichfield Villas.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Margaret Backhouse. Probate • England and Wales, National Index of Wills and Administrations, 1858–1957 |url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7XZ7-S7W2 |website=Family Search}}</ref>
*[[Franz Bauer|Franz (later Francis) Bauer]] (1758–1840) was an Austrian [[microscopist]] and [[botanical artist]] who became the first botanical illustrator at Kew Gardens. By 1790 he had settled at Kew, where as well as making detailed paintings and drawings of flower dissections, often at microscopic level, he tutored [[Queen Charlotte]], her daughter [[Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom|Princess Elizabeth]] and [[William Jackson Hooker|William Hooker]] in the art of illustration, and often entertained friends and botanists at his home. He is buried at St Anne's,<ref name="Local history notes">{{Cite web |title=St Anne's Church, Kew Green |url=https://www.richmond.gov.uk/media/6325/local_history_st_annes_kew.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170803051334/http://www.richmond.gov.uk/media/6325/local_history_st_annes_kew.pdf |archive-date=2017-08-03 |url-status=live |access-date=8 October 2022 |website=Local History Notes |publisher=[[London Borough of Richmond upon Thames]]}}</ref> next to Thomas Gainsborough.
* The American-born English artist [[Walter Deverell]] (1827–1854), who was associated with the [[Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood]], lived at 352 Kew Road, then called Heathfield House. He had a [[studio]] at the end of the garden where there are now garages. In this setting he painted "The Pet".<ref>Blomfield 1994, p.95</ref>
* [[Bernard Dunstan]]  (1920–2017) lived in Kew. He was an artist, teacher and author, best known for his studies of figures in interiors and landscapes. At the time of his death, he was the longest serving [[Royal Academician]].<ref name= "Partnership"/>
*[[George Engleheart]] (1750–1829), one of the greatest English painters of [[portrait miniatures]], was born in Kew.<ref name="Engleheart NT">{{Cite web |title=Penelope Blathwayt, Mrs Jeremiah Pierce Crane (1755–1810): George Engleheart (Kew 1750&nbsp;– Blackheath 1839) National Trust Inventory Number 453454 |url=http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/453454 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140905043622/http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/453454 |archive-date=5 September 2014 |access-date=10 October 2017 |website=National Trust Collections |publisher=[[National Trust]]}}</ref>
* [[Walter Hood Fitch]] (1817–1892), [[botanical illustrator]], lived on Kew Green.<ref>1881 England Census. Class: ''RG11''; Piece: ''845''; Folio: ''111''; Page: ''3''; GSU roll: ''1341200''</ref>
*[[Thomas Gainsborough]] (1727–1788), who is considered one of the most important British artists of the second half of the 18th century,<ref>{{cite book |page=111 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u9Et3Te5KqgC&pg=PA111 |title=Masterworks of European Painting in the California Palace of the Legion of Honor
|author1=Nash, Steven A |author2=Federle Orr, Lynn |author3= Stewart, Marion C |publisher=Hudson Hills |year=1999|access-date = 8 February 2025|isbn=9781555951825 }}</ref> visited Kew many times, staying with his friend Joshua Kirby and, after Kirby's death, in a house probably rented by his daughter close to St Anne's Church, where he is buried.<ref name="Blomfield 1994, pp.43-45"/>
*[[Arthur Hughes (artist)|Arthur Hughes]] (1832–1915), [[Pre-Raphaelite]] painter, lived and died at Eastside House, 22 Kew Green.<ref name="Tate Hughes">{{Cite web |last=Riggs, Terry |date=November 1997 |title=Arthur Hughes: artist biography |url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/arthur-hughes-283|access-date=12 December 2022 |publisher=[[Tate]]}}</ref> The site is marked by a [[blue plaque]].<ref name="EH Hughes">{{Cite web |title=Hughes, Arthur (1832-1915)  |url=https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/arthur-hughes/|access-date=3 July 2023 |website=Visit Richmond |publisher=[[English Heritage]]}}</ref>
*[[Tom Keating]] (1917–1984), artist, [[Art restoration|art restorer]] and [[Art forgery|art forger]], lived in Kew from 1961 to 1967.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Norman |first=Geraldine |author-link = Geraldine Norman|date=10 August 1976 |title=Samuel Palmer imitator who duped art world |pages=1 |work=[[The Times]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Rais |first=Guy |date=16 January 1979 |title=Art fakes girl under spell of older painter |pages=9 |work=[[The Times]]}}</ref> He was best known for his highly-publicised crusade against the [[art world]],<ref>{{Cite news  |date=20 August 1976 |title=Mr. Keating says art imitations are protest |pages=1 |work=[[The Times]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Norman |first=Geraldine |author-link = Geraldine Norman|date=27 August 1976 |title=Mr. Keating made 2000 pastiches |pages=1 |work=[[The Times]]}}</ref> his trial for art fraud at the [[Old Bailey]],<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/the-faker-s-moll-1077511.html| last=Sweet|first = Matthew|author-link = Matthew Sweet (writer)|date=31 January 1999 |access-date = 2 April 2023|title=The Faker's Moll |work=[[The Independent on Sunday]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news  |date=28 January 1979 |title=Court Portraits: The best free show in town |work=[[The Observer]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Rais |first=Guy |date=2 February 1979 |title=Old masters' spirits took over, says Tom Keating |pages=3 |work=[[The Times]]}}</ref> and his critically acclaimed [[Channel 4]] television series ''Tom Keating On Painters.''<ref>{{Cite news |date=11 November 1982 |title=Today's television programmes – CHOICE: Tom Keating On Painters |pages=25 |work=[[The Times]] |editor-last=Davalle |editor-first=Peter}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Gosling |first=Kenneth |date=18 March 1983 |title=Channel 4 wins two awards |pages=5 |work=[[The Times]]}}</ref>
*[[Joshua Kirby (artist)|Joshua Kirby]] (1716–1774) was a landscape painter, engraver, and writer, whose main artistic focus was "[[linear perspective]]", based on the ideas of English mathematician [[Brook Taylor]].<ref>See a short literary biography of Joshua Kirby in ''[[The Gentleman's Magazine]]'' (ed. [[John Nichols (printer)|John Nichols]]) Vol. 78, January 1808, [https://books.google.com/books?id=qWwdAQAAMAAJ&dq=Joshua+Kirby&pg=PA4 pp. 4–5].</ref> He was the son of topographer [[John Kirby (topographer)|John Kirby]], and the father of the writer [[Sarah Trimmer]] and the [[entomologist]] [[William Kirby (entomologist)|William Kirby]].<ref name="Kirby">{{Cite book |last=Freeman, John |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fwA6AAAAcAAJ |title=Life of the Rev William Kirby MA |publisher=[[Longman]], Brown, Green & Longmans |year=1852 |location=London |access-date=11 July 2017}}</ref> In 1760 he moved to Kew, where he taught [[linear perspective]] to George III.<ref name="RKD">[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/44461 John Joshua Kirby] in the [[RKD]] (Netherlands Institute for Art History). Retrieved 24 December 2018.</ref> He was a [[Fellow of the Royal Society]].
*Sir [[Peter Lely]] (1618–1680), [[portrait painter]], had a house on the north side of Kew Green.<ref name="Lysons"/> On almost exactly the same site, [[Jeremiah Meyer]] (1735–1789), miniaturist to Queen Charlotte and George III, built a house a century later. Meyer is buried at St Anne's.<ref name="Blomfield 1994, pp.43-45"/>
*[[Charles Mozley]] (1914–1991), artist and art teacher, lived and died at 358 Kew Road, Kew.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Charles Mozley&nbsp;– details |url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/term_details.aspx?bioId=113735 |access-date=23 May 2016 |website=The Collection |publisher=[[British Museum]]}}</ref><ref>{{NHLE|num=1357700|desc=356 and 358 Kew Road |date = 10 January 1950|access-date=12 February 2021}}</ref>
*Victorian artist [[Marianne North]] (1830–1890) did not live in Kew, but she left to Kew Gardens her collection of botanic art, painted on her extensive overseas travels, and funded a gallery&nbsp;– the [[Kew Gardens#Features|Marianne North Gallery]]&nbsp;– to house them.<ref>Blomfield 1994, p.96</ref>
* French [[Impressionist]] painter [[Camille Pissarro]] (1830–1903) stayed in 1892 at 10 Kew Green, on the corner of Gloucester Road, now marked by a blue plaque.<ref name="Pissarro">{{Cite web |title=Camille Pissarro (1831–1903) French impressionist stayed here in 1892 |url=https://openplaques.org/plaques/9922|access-date=3 July 2023|website=Open Plaques}}</ref> During his stay he painted ''Kew Gardens&nbsp;– Path to the Great Glasshouse'' (1892)[https://www.wikiart.org/en/camille-pissarro/kew-gardens-path-to-the-great-glasshouse-1892], ''Kew Greens'' (1892)[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pissarro-Kew-greens-Lyon.jpg] and ''Church at Kew'' (1892)[http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/camille-pissarro/church-at-kew-1892]. His third son, [[Félix Pissarro]] (1874–1897), painter, [[etcher]] and [[caricaturist]], died in a [[sanatorium]] at 262 Kew Road in 1897.<ref name="Pissarro West London 46">{{Cite book |last=Reed, Nicholas |title=Pissarro in West London (Kew, Chiswick and Richmond) |publisher=Lilburne Press |year=1997 |isbn=978-1-901167-02-3 |edition=Fourth |page=46}}</ref>
*[[Charles Haslewood Shannon|Charles Shannon]] (1863–1937), artist best known for his portraits, died in Kew<ref name="Annex">{{Cite web |title=Charles Haslewood Shannon Biography |url=https://www.annexgalleries.com/artists/biography/2158/Shannon/Charles |access-date=29 November 2022 |website=The Annex Galleries}}</ref> at 21 Kew Gardens Road.
*[[Matilda Smith]] (1854–1926), the first official [[botanical artist]] of the [[Kew Gardens|Royal Botanic Gardens]], lived at Gloucester Road, Kew.<ref>Probate 1927</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|date=1927|title=Matilda Smith, A.L.S.|url=https://issuu.com/kewguildjournal/docs/v4s34p455-all|journal=Journal of the Kew Guild. Annual Report, 1925–1926|volume=1927|pages=527–528|via=ISSUU|access-date=15 May 2021|archive-date=3 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230303204629/https://issuu.com/kewguildjournal/docs/v4s34p455-all|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*The painter [[Johan Zoffany]] (1725–1810), who lived at [[Strand-on-the-Green]], is buried in St Anne's churchyard.<ref>Blomfield 1994, p.45</ref>

===Botanists who have lived in Kew===
Unsurprisingly, many botanists have lived in Kew, near the botanic gardens:
[[File:St Anne's Church, Kew, John Smith and family headstone.jpg|150px|thumb|Grave of John Smith and his family in the churchyard at St Anne's]]
*[[William Aiton]] (1731–1793), botanist, was appointed director in 1759 of the newly established botanical garden at Kew, where he remained until his death. He effected many improvements at the gardens, and in 1789 he published ''[[Hortus Kewensis]]'', a catalogue of the plants cultivated there.<ref group="nb">{{EB1911|inline=1|wstitle=Aiton, William|volume=1|page=448}}</ref> When he died, he was succeeded as director at Kew Gardens by his son [[William Townsend Aiton]] (1766–1849), who was also a botanist, and was born in Kew.<ref name="DNB">{{cite DNB |wstitle= Aiton, William Townsend |volume= 01 |last= Britten  |first= James  |author-link= James Britten |page= 208 |short= 1}}</ref> William Townsend Aiton was one of the founders of the [[Royal Horticultural Society]].<ref name="DNB" /> He retired in 1841 but remained living at Kew, although passing much of his time with his brother at [[Kensington]] where he died in 1849.<ref name="DNB" /> Both father and son lived at Descanso House on Kew Green and are buried in St Anne's churchyard<ref name="DNB" /> where the substantial family tomb is a prominent feature. Inside the church there is also a memorial to them.<ref name="Aitons">{{Cite book |url=https://www.richmondhistory.org.uk/wordpress/publications/79-2/ |title=Royal Gardeners at Kew – The Aitons |publisher=[[Richmond Local History Society]] |year=2009 |isbn=9780955071751 |access-date=12 December 2022}}</ref>
* [[John Patrick Micklethwait Brenan]] (1917–1985), director of the botanic gardens, lived in Kew and died there on 26 September 1985.<ref name="Kew Bulletin">{{cite journal | title=John Patrick Micklethwait Brenan (1917–1985) | author=Verdcourt, Bernard | journal=[[Kew Bulletin]] | year=1987 | volume=42 | issue=2 | pages=286–296|jstor = 4109685}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Bell|first=A|date=1986|title=Professor J P M Brenan|url=https://issuu.com/kewguildjournal/docs/v10s90p385-all|journal=Journal of the Kew Guild|volume=10|pages=483|via=ISSUU|access-date=3 May 2021|archive-date=26 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210826113607/https://issuu.com/kewguildjournal/docs/v10s90p385-all|url-status=dead}}</ref> He is buried at St. Anne's.<ref name="Kew Bulletin"/><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Sands|first=Martin J S|date=1986|title=News of Kewites at home and abroad in 1985|url=https://issuu.com/kewguildjournal/docs/v10s90p385-all|journal=Journal of the Kew Guild|volume=10|pages=461|via=ISSUU|access-date=3 May 2021|archive-date=26 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210826113607/https://issuu.com/kewguildjournal/docs/v10s90p385-all|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Sir William Hooker]] (1785–1865) and his son [[Joseph Dalton Hooker|Sir Joseph Hooker]] (1817–1911), botanists and directors of Kew Gardens, lived at 49 Kew Green, Kew. The site is marked by a blue plaque.<ref name="Hooker">{{Cite web |title=Hooker, Sir Joseph (1817–1911) & Hooker, Sir William (1785–1865) |url=https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/william-hooker/ |access-date=8 May 2021 |website=Blue Plaques |publisher=[[English Heritage]]}}</ref><ref name="RTT 30 Jul 2010">{{Cite news |date=30 July 2010 |title=Princess Alexandra unveils blue plaque to Kew Gardens' directors Sir William and Sir Joseph Hooker |url=https://www.richmondandtwickenhamtimes.co.uk/news/8304104.princess-alexandra-unveils-blue-plaque-to-kew-gardens-directors-sir-william-and-sir-joseph-hooker/ |access-date=1 May 2024 |work=[[Richmond and Twickenham Times]]}}</ref>
*[[John Hutchinson (botanist)|John Hutchinson]] (1884–1972), botanist, lived on Kew Green, near [[Kew Gardens#Herbarium|Kew Gardens' Herbarium]], during the Second World War.<ref name="Chivers">{{Cite web |last=Chivers |first=Nora |date=8 April 2004 |title=Kew Invasion! |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/52/a2504152.shtml |access-date=9 May 2021 |website=[[BBC]] WW2 People's War}}</ref><ref>[[The National Archives (UK)]].''[[1939 Register]]''; Reference: ''RG 101/1377A. Ancestry.com.''</ref>
* [[Daniel Oliver (botanist)|Daniel Oliver]] (1830–1916), [[Professor]] of Botany at [[University College London]] 1861–88 and Keeper of Kew Gardens' [[Herbarium]]  1864–90, lived on Kew Green.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Oliver, Daniel (1830–1916) |url=https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.person.bm000153006 |access-date=28 June 2021 |website=[[JSTOR]]}}</ref>
* [[Henry Nicholas Ridley]] (1855–1956), botanist, geologist and [[naturalist]], died at his home in Kew.<ref name="Holttum">{{Cite journal |last=Holttum |first=R E |author-link=Richard Eric Holttum|date=Jan–Feb 1957 |title=Henry Nicholas Ridley, C. M. G., F. R. S. 1855-1956 |journal=[[Taxon (journal)|Taxon]] |volume=6 |issue=1 |pages=1–6|doi=10.1002/j.1996-8175.1957.tb02684.x }}</ref>
*[[John Smith (botanist)|John Smith]] (1798–1888), botanist, the first curator at Kew Gardens, lived on Kew Green.<ref>1861 England Census. Class: RG 9; Piece: 460; Folio: 42; Page: 7; GSU roll: 542642. [[Ancestry.com]]</ref> He died at Park House, Kew Road, and is buried in [[St Anne's Church, Kew|St Anne's churchyard]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=1888 |title=Smith, John |url=https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar?surname=smith&yearOfDeath=1888&page=47#calendar |website=Probate Search}}</ref>
* [[William T Stearn]] (1911–2001), botanist, who was president of the [[Linnean Society]], lived in Kew.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Heywood |first=Vernon |author-link=Vernon Heywood |date=June 2002 |title=William Thomas Stearn, CBE, VMH (1911–2001) – an appreciation |journal=[[Archives of Natural History]] |volume=29 |issue=2 |pages=NP–143 |doi=10.3366/anh.2002.29.2.NP}}</ref>
*[[John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute]] (1713–1792), botanist and honorary director of Kew Gardens 1754–72, adviser to Princess Augusta and tutor to George III and, later, [[Prime Minister of Great Britain]] 1762–63, lived at King's Cottage, 33 Kew Green.<ref name="Places in History: Kew Green">{{Cite web |last=Gascoigne, Bamber |author-link=Bamber Gascoigne |date=2001 |title=HistoryWorld's Places in History: Kew Green |url=http://www.historyworld.net/placesinhistory/kewgreen.asp |access-date=1 May 2024 |website=[[HistoryWorld]]}}</ref>

===Other notable inhabitants===
====Historical figures====
[[File:Cottages on Kew Green - geograph.org.uk - 1229005.jpg|thumb|Cottages on Kew Green]]
[[File:Harold-pinter-atp.jpg|thumb|150px|Playwright [[Harold Pinter]] lived in Kew.]]
[[File:Krishnan Guru-Murthy at Chatham House 2013.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Krishnan Guru-Murthy]] lives in Kew.]]
[[File:Milton Jones portrait.jpg|thumb|150px|Comedian [[Milton Jones]] was brought up in Kew.]]
[[File:Gabby Logan cropped.jpg|thumb|150px|TV presenter and former international gymnast [[Gabby Logan]] lives in Kew.]]
[[File:Achsmith.jpg|thumb|150px|[[A. C. H. Smith]], novelist and playwright, photographed in 2011 by Stephen Morris, was born in Kew.]]
*[[Francis Claude Blake]] (1867–1954), engineer, lived at 13 Kew Gardens Road.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Search Results for 1911 Census For England |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/search/results?datasetname=1911+census+for+england+&+wales&sid=103&address=13+kew+gardens+road&keywordsplace_proximity=5 |access-date=2024-05-16 |website=www.findmypast.co.uk |language=en}}</ref>
*[[David Blomfield]] (1934–2016), leader of the [[Liberal Party(UK)|Liberal Party]] group on [[Richmond upon Thames Council]], writer, book editor and [[local historian]], lived in Kew.<ref name="Grossman">{{Cite news |last=Grossman, Wendy |author-link=Wendy M. Grossman |date=22 August 2016 |title=David Blomfield obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/aug/22/david-blomfield-obituary |access-date=16 July 2017 |work=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref> He is buried in Richmond Cemetery.
*[[Ferruccio Bonavia]] (1877–1950), violinist, composer and music critic, lived at 352 Kew Road, Kew from 1914 until 1919.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bonavia |first=Michael |title=London Before I Forget |date=1990 |publisher=The Self Publishing Association Ltd |isbn=1-85421-082-3 |pages=14, 19}}</ref>
*[[Tony Bradshaw]] (1926–2008), [[evolutionary ecology|evolutionary ecologist]], was born in Kew<ref name = "Fitter">{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2008/sep/11/evolution|title=Obituary: Tony Bradshaw|author=Fitter, Alastair|author-link= Alastair Fitter|work=[[The Guardian]] |date=11 September 2008|access-date= 27 April 2025}}</ref>
*Sir [[Arthur Herbert Church]]  (1834–1915), chemist, who was an expert on pottery, stones and the chemistry of paintings, lived and died at Shelsley, a detached house at 21 Ennerdale Road, Kew<ref name="Mineralogical">{{Cite web |title=Mineralogical Society: Ordinary Members |url=https://rruff.info/doclib/MinMag/Volume_13/13-59-v.pdf |access-date=13 February 2024 |website=RRUFF Project (Tucson, Arizona) |page=xi |publication-place=London |publication-date=20 March 1901}}</ref> which has since been demolished; the site is now occupied by Voltaire, a [[Modernist architecture|Modernist]] block of flats designed by Vivien Pilley (A V Pilichowski).<ref name="Voltaire">{{Cite web |title=Sir Arthur Herbert Church: scientist, artist, author and collector |url=https://voltaire.london/sir-arthur-herbert-church-scientist-artist-author-and-collector/ |access-date=13 February 2024 |website=Voltaire}}</ref><ref name="Thomson video">{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhkPj2s1DJM&t=140s |title=No. 21 Ennerdale Road, Kew; or, how I became a Modernist house detective |date=12 February 2024 |last=Thomson |first=Hilary |type=Video |publisher=[[Richmond Local History Society]] via [[YouTube]] |access-date=7 March 2024}}</ref>
*[[Richard Cook (journalist)|Richard Cook]] (1957–2007), [[jazz]] writer, magazine editor and former [[record label|record company]] executive, was born in Kew.<ref name="Cook obituary">{{Cite news |last=Morton, Brian |author-link=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |date=1 September 2007 |title=Richard Cook: Jazz writer and editor |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/richard-cook-401071.html |access-date=11 January 2013 |work=[[The Independent]] |location=London}}</ref>
* [[Stephen Duck]] ({{circa}} 1705–1756), poet, lived in Kew.<ref name="Lysons">{{cite web | url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/london-environs/vol1/pp202-211 | title=Kew | publisher=Centre for Metropolitan History | work=The Environs of London: volume 1: County of Surrey | year=1792 | access-date=12 December 2022 | author=Lysons, Daniel | pages=202–211| author-link=Daniel Lysons (antiquarian) }}</ref>
* [[Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau]] (1968–2013), brother of King [[Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands]], lived in Kew with his wife [[Princess Mabel of Orange-Nassau]] (born 1968).<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/prince-johan-friso-obituary-popular-royal-who-ceded-his-place-in-line-to-the-dutch-throne-8758105.html | title=Prince Johan Friso Obituary: Popular royal who ceded his place in line to the Dutch throne |work=[[The Independent]] | date=13 August 2013 | access-date=13 August 2013 | author=Keleny, Anne| location=London}}</ref>
* [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal Party]] leader [[Jo Grimond]] (1913–1993) lived on Kew Green.<ref name="Blomfield 1994, p.131"/><ref name="Steel">{{cite journal | url=https://liberalhistory.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/80_Autumn_2013.pdf | title=Jo Grimond 1913–1993  | journal=Journal of Liberal History | date=Autumn 1993 | volume= 80 |page=12 | author-link=David Steel| author= Steel, David|access-date=12 December 2022}}</ref><ref name="Grimon image">{{Cite web |date=10 December 1964 |title=Liberal leader Jo Grimond seen relaxing at his Kew Green home  |url=https://historicimages.com/products/ksa28673 |access-date=13 February 2024 |website=Historic Images}}</ref>
* [[Susanne Groom]] (1945–2023), historian, author and curator at [[Historic Royal Palaces]], lived in Kew.<ref name="Groom">{{Cite web |title=Susanne Jean GROOM |url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/Lugihojm74OE4RPkxMCPH8Bll-Y/appointments |access-date=16 May 2025 |website=[[gov.uk]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.richmondhistory.org.uk/wordpress/events/300th-anniversary-arrival-royal-hanoverians-richmond-kew/ |title=Talk by Susanne Groom: The 300th anniversary of the arrival of the royal Hanoverians at Richmond and Kew |date=8 October 2018 |publisher=[[Richmond Local History Society]] |access-date=13 November 2018}}</ref>
*[[John Haverfield Sr]] (1694–1784), surveyor, [[gardener]] and landscape architect,<ref name=Tunstall >{{Cite journal |access-date = 28 April 2025|last=Haverfield |first=T Tunstall |date=29 November 1862 |title=Notes on Kew and Kew Gardens |url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/8e4cb12bf5f0edb0/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=14717 |journal=The Leisure Hour: A Family Journal of Instruction and Recreation |issue=570 |pages=767–768 |via=[[ProQuest]]}}</ref><ref name="Desmond">{{Cite book |last=Desmond |first=Ray |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=thmPzIltAV8C&q=haverfield&pg=PA327 |title=Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturalists |publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]] and [[Natural History Museum, London]] |year=1994 |page=326 |isbn=978-0-85066-843-8 |via=Google Books}}</ref> lived on Kew Green where he had a house built {{circa|1750}}, which was known as Haverfield House.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Pasmore |first=Stephen |date=1986 |title=Miss Haverfield of Kew |journal=[[Richmond Local History Society|Richmond History: Journal of the Richmond Local History Society]] |volume=7 |pages=28–29}}</ref>
* [[John Huntley (film historian)| John Huntley]] (1921–2003), film historian, educator and archivist, was born in Kew.<ref name="Brownlow">{{cite news|author= Brownlow, Kevin|author-link= Kevin Brownlow|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100424215341|title= Obituary: John Huntley|work=[[The Independent]]|date= 28 August 2003|access-date= 27 April 2025}}</ref>
* [[Elinor Jenkins|Elinor May Jenkins]] (1893–1920), [[war poet]], and her brother [[Arthur Lewis Jenkins]] (1892–1917), soldier, pilot and war poet,  who are buried next to each other in [[Richmond Cemetery]], lived at the family home at Sussex House, 220 Kew Road. The house has been demolished and its name has been given to a block of flats that has been built on the site.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Reilly |first=Catherine W |title=English Poetry of the First World War: A Bibliography |publisher=New York: St. Martin's Press |year=1978 |isbn=9780860431060}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Out of the Fire of Hell. Welsh Experience of the Great War 1914-1918 in Poetry and Prose |year=2008 |isbn=9781843238904 |editor-last=Llwyd |editor-first=Alan |pages=327|publisher=Gomer }}</ref>
* [[Serge Lourie]] (1946–2024), former Leader of [[Richmond upon Thames Council]], and councillor for Kew for 28 years, lived in Kew.<ref name="Companies">{{Cite web |title=Alexander Serge LOURIE |url=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/YZm-p5YhSwYuJeoFEDghnkoqSbA/appointments |access-date=8 October 2017 |publisher=[[Companies House]]}}</ref>
* [[Alfred Luff]] (1846–1933), [[cricketer]], who made three [[first-class cricket|first-class]] appearances for [[Surrey County Cricket Club|Surrey]] in 1867, was born in Kew.<ref name="Luff Archive">{{cite web | url= https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/31/31102/31102.html | title=Alfred Luff | publisher=[[CricketArchive]] | access-date=11 January 2013}}</ref>
* [[Phil Lynott]] (1949–1986), Irish rock guitarist, songwriter, vocalist and leader of [[Thin Lizzy]], lived in Kew.<ref name="Phil Lynott remembered">{{cite news | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/birmingham/content/articles/2009/08/19/thinlizzy_feature.shtml | title=Phil Lynott remembered | work=[[BBC Birmingham]] | date=13 November 2014 | access-date=31 May 2023 | author=Faulkner, Scott}}</ref>
* [[Andrew Millar]] (1705–1768), Scottish bookseller and publisher, owned a country home on Kew Green<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.millar-project.ed.ac.uk/manuscripts/html_output/1.html|title=Letter from Andrew Millar to Andrew Mitchell, 26th August 1766|work= Circulating Enlightenment|publisher= AHRC Millar Project, [[University of Edinburgh]]|access-date=1 May 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle= Millar, Andrew |volume= 18 |page= 460 |short=1}}</ref> and died there in 1768.<ref group="nb">{{EB1911|inline=1|wstitle=Aiton, William|volume=1|page=460}}</ref>
* [[Samuel Molyneux]] (1689–1728), Member of Parliament and an amateur astronomer, who was married to Lady Elizabeth Diana Capel, the eldest daughter of [[Algernon Capell, 2nd Earl of Essex]], inherited Kew House on the death of Lady Capel of Tewkesbury.<ref name="Molyneux bio">{{cite web | url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Molyneux_Samuel/ | title=Samuel Molyneux | publisher=School of Mathematics and Statistics, [[University of St Andrews]], Scotland | date=December 2008 | access-date=12 December 2022 |author1=O'Connor, J J  |author2=Robertson, E F}}</ref> Molyneux set up an observatory at the house and collaborated there with [[James Bradley]] in innovative designs for reflecting telescopes.<ref name="Molyneux bio"/> Kew House which later, as the White House, became the home of Prince Frederick and Princess Augusta, was pulled down in 1802 when George II's short-lived gothic "castellated palace" was built.<ref name="Kew House archive">{{cite web | url=http://www.exploringsurreyspast.org.uk/GetRecord/SHCOL_553 | title=Archive record: Kew House, otherwise Kew Palace: Lease, 1759 Reference Number: 553 | publisher=[[Surrey History Centre]] | work=Exploring Surrey's Past | date=16 August 1759 | access-date=18 October 2012}}</ref>
*[[Desmond Morton (civil servant)|Desmond Morton]] (1891–1971), soldier, intelligence officer and personal assistant to [[Winston Churchill]] 1940–45, lived at 22 Kew Green 1952–71.<ref name="Bennett2006">{{cite book | first= Gill | last=Bennett | author-link = Gill Bennett|title=Churchill's Man of Mystery: Desmond Morton and the World of Intelligence |publisher=[[Routledge]] |date= 2006 |isbn= 9780415394307}}</ref>
* [[Conrad Noel]] (1869–1942), Church of England priest and prominent [[Christian socialist]], was born in Royal Cottage, Kew Green.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Heywood|first=Andrew|year=1996|title=Gustav Holst, William Morris and the Socialist Movement|url=http://www.morrissociety.org/JWMS/11.4Spring1996/SP96.11.4.Heywood.pdf|journal=The Journal of the William Morris Society|publisher=[[William Morris Society]]|volume=11|issue=4|pages=39–47|issn=0084-0254|access-date=22 April 2018|archive-date=23 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180423170046/http://www.morrissociety.org/JWMS/11.4Spring1996/SP96.11.4.Heywood.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[Harold Pinter]] (1930–2008),  playwright, dramatist, actor, director and [[List of Nobel laureates in Literature|Nobel Prize laureate]], lived from 1960 to 1963 at Fairmead Court, Taylor Avenue, Kew<ref name="Baker2013">{{cite book|author=Baker, William|title=A Harold Pinter Chronology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LTiwAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA109|date=22 November 2013|publisher=[[Palgrave Macmillan]]|isbn=978-1-137-38432-4|page=109}}</ref> where he wrote his 1961 play''[[The Collection (play)| The Collection]]''.<ref name="Collection">{{Cite web |title=The Collection (1961) |url=https://pinterlegacies.uk/work/72 |access-date=6 December 2024|website=[[University of Leeds]]: The History of Production of the Works of Harold Pinter}}</ref>
* [[George Pither]] (1899–1966), professional footballer, was born in Kew.<ref name="BristolRoversHistory">{{Cite web |title=O and P |url=http://bristolroversmemorabilia.weebly.com/o-and-p.html |access-date=27 April 2025 |website=The Bristol Rovers History Group }}</ref>
*[[Hugh Portman|Sir Hugh Portman, 4th Baronet]] (died 1632), MP for [[Taunton (UK Parliament constituency)|Taunton]], lived in a house opposite [[Kew Palace]].<ref name="Lysons" />
* Admiral Sir [[Henry Prescott]] (1783– 1874), [[Royal Navy]] officer who served during the [[French Revolutionary Wars|French Revolutionary]] and [[Napoleonic Wars]], and was later (1834–1841) the Governor of the [[Newfoundland Colony]], was born in Kew.<ref name="NLH">{{Cite web |date=August 2020 |title=Prescott, Sir Henry (1783-1874) |url=https://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/politics/civil-henry-prescott.php |access-date=28 April 2025 |website=Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage}}</ref> 
*[[Sir John Puckering]] (1544–1596), lawyer, politician, [[Speaker of the English House of Commons]], and [[Lord Keeper]] from 1592 until his death, lived in Kew.<ref name="Lysons"/>
*[[Anthony Saxton]] (1934–2015), advertising executive and [[executive search|headhunter]], lived at 3 Mortlake Road in Kew, and was a churchwarden of [[St Anne's Church, Kew]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/02018211/officers |title=Saxton Bamphylde Hever Limited |publisher=[[Companies House]] |access-date=20 September 2018}}</ref>
*[[Harry Scandrett]] (1892–1977), [[flying ace]] credited with [[List of World War I aces credited with 7 victories|seven aerial victories]] during the [[First World War]], was born in Kew.<ref name="theaerodrome">{{cite web |url=http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/england/scandrett.php |title=Harry Scandrett |work=The Aerodrome |year=2016 |access-date=28 April 2025}}</ref>
*Clementina Jacobina Sobieski Schnell (1760–1842), lived for 53 years at the Little Red House on Kew Green. She was related to [[Flora MacDonald]]. Her husband, Francis Schnell, was tutor to  Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland. She died in 1842 when her headdress caught fire.<ref>{{Cite news |access-date = 14 April 2025|date=27 September 1938 |title=A Link With Prince Charlie |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS135607099/TTDA?u=rtl_ttda&sid=bookmark-TTDA&xid=980f4412 |work=[[The Times]] |pages=8 |via=The Times Digital Archive}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitionofroya00newg_3 |title=Exhibition of the royal house of Stuart |date=1889 |location=Internet Archive |pages=58}}</ref>
* [[Sarah Trimmer]] (née Kirby; 1741–1810), writer and critic of 18th-century British children's literature, lived in Kew before her marriage.<ref>{{cite book|author=Rodgers, Betsy|page = 113|chapter=Schools of Industry: Mrs. Trimmer|title= Cloak of Charity: Studies in Eighteenth-Century Philanthropy|location=London|publisher=[[Methuen and Company|Methuen and Co]].|date= 1949|OCLC=967508}}</ref>
* [[Patrick Troughton]] (1921–1987), actor, most famous for playing the [[Second Doctor]] in the TV series ''[[Doctor Who]]'', lived in Kew.<ref name="Troughton">{{cite web | url=http://www.troughtonmichael.com/joomla16/index.php/extracts | title=Life depends on Change and Renewal | work=Extracts from Biography | access-date=11 October 2016 | author=Troughton, Michael | author-link=Michael Troughton | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161011231535/http://www.troughtonmichael.com/joomla16/index.php/extracts | archive-date=11 October 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref>
* Robert Tunstall (c 1759–1833) from [[Brentford]], who built the second stone [[Kew Bridge]], died at a house on Kew Green.<ref>{{Cite news |date=21 December 1833 |title=Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/R3212131270/BNCN?u=rtl_ttda&sid=bookmark-BNCN&xid=00fc839b |work=The Standard (London) |access-date = 14 April 2025|via=British Library Newspapers}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last1=Cooke |first1=Nicholas |last2=Phillpotts |first2=Christopher |date=2007 |title=EXCAVATIONS AT KEW BRIDGE HOUSE, KEW BRIDGE ROAD, BRENTFORD, 2007 |url=https://www.wessexarch.co.uk/sites/default/files/Kew%20Bridge%20publication.pdf |website=Wessex Archaeology}}</ref>
* [[George Vassila]] (1857–1915), cricketer, was born in Kew.<ref name="Vassila Archive">{{cite web | url= https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/33/33500/33500.html | title=George Vassila | publisher=[[CricketArchive]] | access-date=11 January 2013}}</ref>
* [[Andrew Watson (footballer, born 1856)|Andrew Watson]] (1856–1921), the world's first [[black people|black person]] to play [[association football]] at international level,<ref name="NRS Watson">{{Cite web |title=Andrew Watson: Scotland's First Black Footballer |url=https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/learning/features/andrew-watson-scotlands-first-black-footballer |access-date=28 December 2023 |website=[[National Records of Scotland]]|date=31 May 2013 }}</ref><ref name="blackhistorymonth">{{cite web|url=http://www.black-history-month.co.uk/articles/andrew_watson.html |title=First Black footballer, Andrew Watson, inspired British soccer in 1870s |work=Black History Month |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100610052137/http://www.black-history-month.co.uk/articles/andrew_watson.html |archive-date=10 June 2010|access-date = 14 April 2025 }}</ref> retired to London in around 1910 and died of [[pneumonia]] at 88 Forest Road, Kew in 1921.<ref name = "Watsondeath">{{cite news |first=Andy |last=Mitchell |url=http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/top-football-stories/first-black-footballer-watson-story-takes-twist-1-2845754 |work=[[The Scotsman]] |date=20 March 2013 |access-date=20 March 2013 |title=First black footballer: Watson story takes twist}}</ref> He is buried in [[Richmond Cemetery]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.scottishsporthistory.com/1/post/2013/08/andrew-watson-a-gravestone-that-deserves-more.html | title=Andrew Watson: a gravestone that deserves more|author=Mitchell, Andy|date=16 August 2013|work=Scottish Sport History|access-date = 11 February 2021 }}</ref>

====Living people====
*[[Geoffrey Archer (writer)|Geoffrey Archer]], fiction writer and former Defence Correspondent of [[ITN]], lives on Kew Green.<ref name="Brockes">{{Cite news |last=Brockes, Emma |author-link=Emma Brockes |date=23 July 2001 |title=Archer: the interview |work=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/jul/23/fiction.emmabrockes |access-date=7 April 2014}}</ref>
*[[Mick Avory]], musician and former drummer with [[The Kinks]], lives in Kew.<ref name="Original">{{Cite news |last=Ambrose, Tom |date=22 February 2014 |title=Original Kinks drummer Mick Avory returns to Twickenham Eel Pie Club |url=https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/11026477.original-kinks-drummer-mick-avory-returns-to-twickenham-eel-pie-club/|access-date=20 January 2025 |work=[[Richmond Guardian]]}}</ref>
*[[Nick Baird]], group corporate affairs director of energy firm [[Centrica]], lives in Kew.<ref>{{Cite web | title=Nick Baird Consulting Ltd |url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/14620780/officers|access-date=20 January 2025 |website=[[Companies House]]}}</ref>
*[[Marie-Elsa Bragg]], writer, Anglican priest and therapist, lived in Kew as a young child.<ref name="Stanford"/>
*[[Melvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg]], broadcaster and author, lived in Kew when he was married to his first wife, Marie-Elisabeth Roche.<ref name="Stanford">{{Cite news |last=Stanford |first=Peter |date=25 July 2015 |title=Melvyn Bragg's daughter: 'My father has been a tortured man all my life |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/bbc/11762778/Melvyn-Braggs-daughter-My-father-has-been-a-tortured-man-all-my-life.html |access-date=15 April 2025 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]}}</ref><ref name="BrooksST">{{Cite news |last=Brooks |first=Richard |date=30 March 2008 |title=The death of my Lisa never stops, says Melvyn Bragg |url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/the-death-of-my-lisa-never-stops-says-melvyn-bragg-v3xsvt0nj5q |access-date=3 February 2025 |work=[[The Sunday Times]]}}</ref>
*[[Ray Brooks (actor)|Ray Brooks]], television and film actor, lives in Kew.<ref>{{Cite news |date=29 November 2012 |title=Interview With Ray Brooks, Voice Of Mr Benn, Lover Of Chiswick And Resident Of Kew |work=Chiswick Herald |url=https://chiswickherald.co.uk/interview-with-ray-brooks-voice-of-mr-benn-lover-of-chiswick-and-resident-p293-203.htm|access-date=8 December 2022}}</ref>
*[[Aggrey Burke]] (born 1943), psychiatrist and academic, born in Jamaica, who spent the majority of his medical career at [[St George's Hospital]] in London, specialising in transcultural psychiatry and writing literature on changing attitudes towards black people and mental health. In 1959, while still a teenager, he moved to Britain with his parents. The family settled in Kew, where Burke was schooled and was the only black child in his class.<ref name="Kehinde Andres interview">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jan/13/we-were-made-to-feel-like-outcasts-the-psychiatrist-who-blew-the-whistle-on-racism-in-british-medicine|title=Interview: 'We were made to feel like outcasts': the psychiatrist who blew the whistle on racism in British medicine|first=Kehinde|last=Andrews|author-link=Kehinde Andrews|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=13 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220116191324/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jan/13/we-were-made-to-feel-like-outcasts-the-psychiatrist-who-blew-the-whistle-on-racism-in-british-medicine|archive-date=16 January 2022|access-date = 28 April 2025}}</ref> 
* [[Justin Lee Collins]], comedian and television presenter, lives in Kew.<ref>{{Cite news |date=26 September 2012 |title=Justin Lee Collins 'kept girlfriend's sexual history' |work=[[BBC News]] |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-19730639 |access-date=26 September 2012}}</ref>
*[[David Durie|Sir David Durie]], former civil servant and [[Governor of Gibraltar]], lives in Kew.<ref name="Family">{{Cite web |title=Sir David Durie |url=http://duriefamily.co.uk/history-today-duries-today/sir-david-durie |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129200248/http://duriefamily.co.uk/history-today-duries-today/sir-david-durie |archive-date=29 November 2014 |access-date=9 May 2014 |website=History & Today |publisher=The Durie Family}}</ref>
*[[Simon Fowler (author)|Simon Fowler]], social historian and author, lives in Kew.<ref name="RLHS Who">{{Cite web |title=Who we are |url=https://www.richmondhistory.org.uk/wordpress/what-we-do/who-we-are/ |access-date=27 December 2018 |publisher=[[Richmond Local History Society]]}}</ref>
*[[Giles Fraser]], vicar of [[St Anne's Church, Kew]], bought a house in Kew in 2023.<ref>{{Cite news |date=29 December 2023 |title=The Rev Giles Fraser: 'It was scary to be a ﬁrst-time buyer at 58' |work=[[The Times]]|author= Membury, York|url=https://www.thetimes.com/business-money/article/giles-fraser-rev-interview-salary-net-worth-home-xqsmsn73l|access-date=29 September 2024}}</ref>
*[[Krishnan Guru-Murthy]], [[Channel 4]] journalist, lives in Kew.<ref name="RBGTrustees">{{Cite web |title=Board of Trustees |url=https://www.kew.org/about-us/who-we-are/board-of-trustees |access-date=28 April 2025 |website=[[Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew]]}}</ref>
*[[Donald Insall|Sir Donald Insall]], architect, conservationist and author, lives in Kew.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Fleming, Christine |date=20 June 2010 |title=OBEs, CBEs, and knighthoods all round as Richmond residents on Queen's Birthday Honours List |work=[[Richmond and Twickenham Times]] |url=https://www.richmondandtwickenhamtimes.co.uk/news/8227529.obes-cbes-and-knighthoods-all-round-as-richmond-residents-make-it-on-to-queens-birthday-honours-list/|access-date=12 December 2022}}</ref>
* [[Milton Jones]], comedian, was brought up in Kew.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Moore, Cliff |date=3 October 2011 |title=Milton Jones, Bournemouth Pavilion |work=[[Bournemouth Daily Echo]] |url=https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/leisure/reviews/9284073.milton-jones-bournemouth-pavilion/ |access-date=8 December 2022}}</ref>
* [[Gabby Logan]], TV presenter, and her husband [[Kenny Logan]], [[Rugby union|rugby]] player, live in Kew.<ref name="My London: Logan">{{Cite news |last=Conway, Juliet |date=12 October 2012 |title=Gabby Logan's My London |work=[[Evening Standard]] magazine |location=London |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/esmagazine/gabby-logans-my-london-8206713.html |access-date=14 January 2016}}</ref>
* [[Steven McRae]], [[principal dancer]] with the [[Royal Ballet]], lives in Kew.<ref name="Hoggard">{{Cite news |last=Hoggard |first=Liz |date=3 September 2018 |title=Behind the scenes: Royal Ballet stars talk flexible living, family life and how London should keep hold of great talent |work=[[Evening Standard]] |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/homesandproperty/interiors/royal-ballet-stars-talk-flexible-living-family-life-and-how-london-should-keep-hold-of-great-talent-a123501.html |access-date=25 April 2021}}</ref>
*[[Paul Ormerod]], economist, has lived in Kew.<ref name="Ormerod">{{Cite news |last=Ormerod, Paul |author-link=Paul Ormerod |date=2 December 1993 |title=Letter: Kenneth Clarke's Budget: taxes, consumer spending, unemployment and Canada's Tories |work=[[The Independent]] |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/letter-kenneth-clarkes-budget-taxes-consumer-spending-unemployment-and-canadas-tories-1464823.html |access-date=30 January 2016}}</ref>
*[[Helen Sharman]], the first British woman in space, lives in Kew.<ref name="Sharman thoughts">{{Cite web |last=[[Helen Sharman|Sharman, Helen]] |date=April 2020 |title=Thoughts from space |url=https://kewtw9.org/thoughts-from-space/ |access-date=7 March 2024 |website=TW9}}</ref>
* [[A. C. H. Smith]], novelist and playwright, was born in Kew.<ref name="A C H Smith">{{Cite web |title=ACH Smith Archive |url=https://www.bristol.ac.uk/theatre-collection/explore/theatre/ach-smith-archive/ |access-date=15 April 2025 |website=[[University of Bristol]] Theatre Collection}}</ref>
* [[Jenny Tonge, Baroness Tonge]], former MP for [[Richmond Park (UK Parliament constituency)|Richmond Park]], and a councillor for Kew for nine years, lives in Kew.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Tonge, Jenny |author-link=Jenny Tonge |date=16 April 2010 |title=Volcano's shadow may fall on UK {{sic|nolink=y|ecomony|expected=economy}}, but not on Heathrow flight path |work=[[The Guardian]] |location=London |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2010/apr/16/volanco-heathrow |access-date=19 February 2017}}</ref>