[4] The new buildings were designed by the University College alumnus Sir Philip Dowson of Arup Associates.
[10] The Danish-Irish astronomer John Louis Emil Dreyer (1852–1926) lived at 14 Staverton Road from 30 September 1916 onwards with his wife Kate.
England's first woman barrister and tutor at St Anne's College, Ivy Williams, lived at 30 Staverton Road until her death in 1966.
[13] Other residents include the ecological economist Stanislav Edward Shmelev,[14] Sir William D. M. Paton FRS (1917–1993), winner of the Gairdner Foundation International Award in 1959 and Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Oxford, and the solid-state physicist H. M.
[15] The fictional character George Papadimitriou called a meeting of the Oakley Street resistance group at 28 Staverton Road in Philip Pullman’s The Book of Dust, Volume One, "La Belle Sauvage", chapter 13.