Royal Tunbridge Wells is a town in Kent, England. The following is a list of those people who were either born or live(d) in Royal Tunbridge Wells, or made some important contribution to the town. As a spa town Royal Tunbridge Wells was a popular resort for the upper classes, including members of the British royal family.
Notable people from Royal Tunbridge Wells
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Peter Adolph (1916-1994), Inventor of Subbuteo Table Soccer
Joe Alwyn (1991– ), actor
Jonathan Anders (1971– ), Shropshire cricketer
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Luke Baldwin (1990– ), rugby player
Gary Barden (1955– ), musician
The Reverend Thomas Bayes (1702–1761), mathematician, who lived in Ashton Lodge
Will Bayley (1988– ), paralympian
C. A. Bayly (1945–2015), historian
Jeff Beck (1944–2023), musician
Rachel Beer (1858–1927), newspaper editor
Compton Bennett (1900–1974), film director
Golding Bird (1814–1854), medical writer
Frank W. Boreham (1871–1959), Baptist preacher
Jo Brand (1957– ), comedian
William Thomas Brande (1788–1866), chemist
Gary Brazil (1962– ), football player
Nick Brown (1950– ), politician
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803–1873), author
Thomas Harrison Burder (1789–1843), physician and author
Peter Burton (1924–2007), physicist, philosopher, logician
Ballard Berkeley, British actor
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John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll (1845–1914), Governor General of Canada Oliver Chris (1978– ), actor George Cohen (1939– ), football player Paul Condon, Baron Condon (1947– ), police commissioner Emma Corrin (1995-), actress Martin Corry (1973– ), rugby player The Reverend Arthur Shearly Cripps (1869–1952), missionary and writer Sidney Elisabeth Croskery (1901–1990), doctor Richard Cumberland (1732–1811), dramatist Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham (1887–1963), military officer
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Gerald Charles Dickens (1963–), actor and performer
Marcus Dillistone (1961–), film director
Sir Howard Douglas, (1776–1861), military officer
Keith Douglas (1920–1944), poet
Roy Douglas (1907–2015), classical composer
Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding (1882–1970), Royal Air Force officer
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John Cox Dillman Engleheart (1784–1862), miniature painter
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Arthur Fagg (1915–1977), cricketer
Caroline Fry (1787–1846), writer
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Thomas Field Gibson (1803–1889), Tunbridge Wells improvement commissioner and Royal Commissioner for the Great Exhibition of 1851 Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, artist and educator Jilly Goolden (1956– ), television personality Léon Goossens (1897–1988), oboist Edward Meyrick Goulburn (1818–1897), clergyman and writer ↑ David Gower (1957– ), cricketer Pauline Gower (1910-1947) pilot, commandant of the Women's Air Transport Auxiliary in Second World War Sir Robert Gower, MP (1880–1953) Sarah Grand (1854–1943), suffragist and "New Woman" writer Sir Tyrone Guthrie (1900–1971), theatrical director
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Ker Baillie Hamilton (1804–1889), colonial governor
Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge (1785–1856), Viceroy of India
Jake Hill (1994–), racing driver in the British Touring Car Championship
Philip Carteret Hill (1821–1894), Nova Scotia politician
Katrina Hodge, soldier and Miss England 2009
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Louise Jameson (1951– ), actress
Richard Jones (1790–1855), economist
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Danny La Rue (1927–2009), entertainer
Enid Lakeman (1903–1995), political reformer
Duncan Lamont (1918–1978), actor
Sydney Turing Barlow Lawford (1865–1953), Lieutenant-General and father of actor Peter Lawford Ron Ledger (1920–2004), politician Henry Bilson Legge (1708–1764), politician Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (1848–1939), daughter of Queen Victoria
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Annunzio Paolo Mantovani (1905–1980), Patrick Mayhew, Baron Mayhew (1929–2016), politician Alec McCowen (1925–2017), actor Victor McLaglen (1886–1959), actor
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Richard (Beau) Nash (1674–1762), celebrated dandy and leader of fashion
William Nicholson (1948– ), writer
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Sir Charles Ogle (1775–1858), naval officer
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Tim Page (1944–2022), photojournalist
Charles Paulet, 3rd Duke of Bolton (1685–1754), politician
Tim Pears (1956– ), novelist
Eliza Phillips (1822/3–1916), conservationist and co-founder of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Rose Pipette (1986– ), pop singer with The Pipettes