List of people from the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames

Only people who are sufficiently notable to have individual entries on Wikipedia have been included in the list and, in each instance, their birth or residence has been verified by citations.

Together these make up the Barnes Village conservation area where, along with its west riverside, most of the mid-19th century properties are concentrated.

Its past residents include the composer Gustav Holst (1874–1934)[1] and Ninette de Valois (1898–2001), founder of the Royal Ballet.

Its notable residents include Sir Tim Berners-Lee (born 1955), computer scientist and inventor of the World Wide Web, who grew up there[3] and attended Sheen Mount Primary School.

The mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing (1912–1954) lived at Ivy House – which now has a blue plaque – in Hampton High Street between 1945 and 1947 while working at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington.

For many centuries it had village status and extended far to the south, to include East Sheen and part of what is now Richmond Park.

Mortlake's most famous former resident is John Dee (1527–1608/09), mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, alchemist and adviser to Queen Elizabeth I.

He retired to Petersham, where he wrote A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and Round the World while living in what is now called Glen Cottage in River Lane.

The Portland stone monument over his grave, renovated in the 1960s, is now Grade II listed in view of its historical associations.

[11] Teddington is on the north bank of the Thames, just after the start of a long meander, between Hampton Wick and Strawberry Hill.

Notable past residents include Sir Noël Coward (1899–1973), actor, playwright and songwriter, who was born at 131 Waldegrave Road, Teddington.

[13][14] Twickenham, the administrative centre of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, has an extensive town centre and is the home of rugby union, with hundreds of thousands of spectators visiting Twickenham Stadium, the world's largest rugby stadium, each year.

[15] During the 18th and 19th centuries, a number of fine houses were built and Twickenham became a popular place of residence for people of "fashion and distinction".

The opening of Richmond railway station in 1846 was a significant event in the absorption of the town into a rapidly expanding London.