Editing London Underground (section)

==Notable people==
* [[Harry Beck]] (1902–1974) designed the [[tube map]], named in 2006 as a British design icon.{{sfnp|Ovenden|2013|p=153}}
* [[Hannah Dadds]] (1941–2011), the first female train driver on the London Underground.<ref>{{Cite web |date=13 November 2016 |title=Dadds, Hannah |website=Explore 20th Century London |url=http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/dadds-hannah |access-date=20 September 2022 |archive-date=13 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161113181435/http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/dadds-hannah |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref>
* [[Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet|John Fowler]] (1817–1898) was the railway engineer that designed the Metropolitan Railway.{{sfnp|Ovenden|2013|p=11}}
* [[MacDonald Gill]] (1884–1947), cartographer credited with drawing, in 1914, "the map that saved the London Underground".
* [[James Henry Greathead]] (1844–1896) was the engineer that dug the [[Tower Subway]] using a method using a wrought iron shield patented by [[Peter W. Barlow]], and later used the same tunnelling shield to build the deep-tube City & South London and Central London railways.{{sfnp|Ovenden|2013|p=34}}{{sfnp|Day|Reed|2010|pp=40, 52}}
* [[Edward Johnston]] (1872–1944) developed the [[Johnston (typeface)|Johnston Sans]] typeface, still in use today on the London Underground.{{sfnp|Ovenden|2013|p=69}}
* [[Charles Pearson]] (1793–1862) suggested an underground railway in London in 1845 and from 1854 promoted a scheme that eventually became the Metropolitan Railway.{{sfnp|Ovenden|2013|p=10}}
* [[Frank Pick]] (1878–1941) was UERL publicity officer from 1908, commercial manager from 1912 and joint managing director from 1928. He was chief executive and vice chairman of the LPTB from 1933 to 1940. It was Pick that commissioned Edward Johnston to create the typeface and redesign the roundel, and established the Underground's reputation as patrons of the arts as users of the best in contemporary poster art and architecture.{{sfnp|Croome|Jackson|1993|pp=512–513}}
* [[Robert Selbie]] (1868–1930) was manager of the Metropolitan Railway from 1908 until his death, marketing it using the [[Metro-land]] brand.{{sfnp|Ovenden|2013|p=69}}{{sfnp|Jackson|1986|pp=194, 346}}
* [[Edgar Speyer]] (1862–1932) Financial backer of Yerkes who served as UERL chairman from 1906 to 1915 during its formative years.{{sfnp|Lentin|2013|pp=5, 6, 63}}
* [[Albert Stanley, 1st Baron Ashfield|Albert Stanley]] (1874–1948) was manager of the UERL from 1907, and became the first chairman of the London Passenger Transport Board (LPTB) in 1933.{{sfnp|Ovenden|2013|p=63}}
* [[Edward Watkin]] (1819–1901) was chairman of the Metropolitan Railway from 1872 to 1894.{{sfnp|Jackson|1986|p=334}}
* [[Charles Yerkes]] (1837–1905) was an American who founded the Underground Electric Railways Company of London (UERL) in 1902, which opened three tube lines and electrified the District Railway.{{sfnp|Ovenden|2013|p=40}}{{sfnp|Croome|Jackson|1993|pp=49–51, 79–81}}