Editing Dulwich (section)

==Notable residents==
Famous people born in the area include: artist [[Madge Tennent]] in 1889;<ref>{{cite news|last1=Wageman|first1=Virginia|title=Larger than Life|url=http://www.hanahou.com/pages/Magazine.asp?Action=DrawArticle&ArticleID=341&MagazineID=21|access-date=9 August 2017|work=Hana Hou|volume=5|issue=5|publisher=Hawaiian Airlines}}</ref> the author [[Enid Blyton]] in 1897;<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/6570310/Why-Enid-Blytons-greatest-creation-was-herself.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/6570310/Why-Enid-Blytons-greatest-creation-was-herself.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Why Enid Blyton's greatest creation was herself |work=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=4 April 2016}}{{cbignore}}</ref> the first compiler of the [[London A-Z]], [[Phyllis Pearsall]] in East Dulwich in 1906, she went on to live in Dulwich Village; code breaker [[Mavis Batey]], then Mavis Lever, was born in Dulwich on May 5, 1921; the war-time singer [[Anne Shelton (singer)|Anne Shelton]] who lived on Court Lane until shortly before her death in 1994; also on Court Lane, Dr [[Reginald John Gladstone]] [[FRSE]] embryologist, lived here until his house was destroyed in the blitz in 1941; footballer [[Trevor Sinclair]] in 1973; the actor [[Tim Roth]] in 1961; the television personality [[Lisa Vanderpump]] in 1960; actress [[Sally Hawkins]] in 1976 and actor [[Angus Castle-Doughty]] in 1995.<ref>{{cite web |title=Angus Castle-Doughty |url=https://www.mandy.com/uk/a/angus-castle-doughty |publisher=Mandy.com |access-date=26 August 2023}}</ref>

In 1980, [[Bon Scott]], the lead singer of [[AC/DC]], after a night's heavy drinking, was found lifeless in a car outside 67 Overhill Road, East Dulwich. He was rushed to hospital but was dead on arrival at King's College Hospital.

The Village has also long been popular with people in show business; [[Ronnie Corbett]] lived there for years.{{when|date=July 2023}} [[Carl Barât]], [[The Libertines|Libertines]] lead singer, lives on Lordship Lane. [[Ronnie Reed]], who ran [[double agents]] during the [[Second World War]], and was an [[MI5]] officer from 1940 to 1976, lived in Court Lane Gardens from 1960 to 1995.<ref name="foo bar">{{cite book|first=Nicholas|last=Reed|date=2011|title=My Father, The Man Who Never Was: Ronnie Reed, The Life and Times of an MI5 Officer|location=Folkestone|publisher=Lilburne Press|isbn=978-1-901167-21-4}}</ref> [[Huw Edwards]], the former ''[[BBC News at Ten]]'' newsreader, resides in Dulwich. Actor [[Iain Glen]] also lives in the village.{{cn|date=May 2025}}

Dulwich has also been home to several [[Members of Parliament]] and senior [[Civil Servant]]s. [[Margaret Thatcher]] bought a house in a "gated community" in Dulwich after her time as [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]]. [[Edward George, Baron George]], governor of the [[Bank of England]] and himself an [[Old Alleynian]], lived in Gilkes Crescent just off the Village until his retirement. [[Ian McColl, Baron McColl of Dulwich]] who served as [[John Major]]'s [[Parliamentary Private Secretary]] in the [[House of Lords]], also lives there.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Saumarez Smith |first1=Otto |title=Action for Cities: the Thatcher government and inner-city policy |journal=Urban History |date=May 2020 |volume=47 |issue=2 |page=1 |doi=10.1017/S0963926819000543 |url=https://proxy.lib.wayne.edu/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/action-cities-thatcher-government-inner-city/docview/2393016446/se-2?accountid=14925 |access-date=10 February 2025}}</ref>

[[Michael Boyce, Baron Boyce|Admiral Sir Michael Boyce]], a former [[Chief of the Defence Staff (United Kingdom)|Chief of the Defence Staff]], lived in Woodwarde Road and Sir [[John Scarlett]], head of [[MI6]], lived just off the South Circular Road.{{when|date=July 2023}} [[Harriet Harman]] MP lives in Winterbrook Road, [[Albert Booth]] MP, [[Secretary of State for Employment]] under [[James Callaghan]], lived on the corner of Woodwarde Road and Desenfans Road and [[Sir Robin Butler]], secretary to the Cabinet, lived in Half Moon Lane.{{cn|date=May 2025}}

In the closing chapter of [[Charles Dickens]]' romance ''[[The Pickwick Papers]]'', [[Samuel Pickwick]] retires to a house in Dulwich, "one of the most pleasant spots near London."