List of people from Tonbridge

This is a list of people from Tonbridge, Kent, England.

Born in Tonbridge[]

• Elias Allen (1588–1653), maker of sundials and scientific instruments
• Timothy Allen (born 1971), photojournalist^†
• Harry Andrews (1911–89), actor
• Anna Atkins (1799–1871), botanist and photographer
• Edwin Bramall (1923–2019), soldier
• Ron Challis (1932–2001), football referee
• John George Children (1777–1852), chemist, mineralogist and zoologist
• William Cobbold (1862–1922), England international football player
• Sir James Darling OBE (1899–1955) Chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Commission
• Marcus Dillistone (born 1961) Royal Premiered British film director, and music producer for the Athens 2004 Olympic Opening & Closing Ceremonies
• Richard de Clare (1130–76), Earl
• Neville Duke DSO OBE DFC (2 bars) AFC, FRAeS (1922–2007), World War II pilot and world air speed holder in 1953
• Desmond Dupré, (1916–1974), lutenist and early music pioneer
• Henry Fowler (1858–1933), educationist
• Robin Hanley (1968–96), cricketer
• Harold Langhorne (1866–1932), soldier
• Shane MacGowan (born 1957), singer-songwriter
• Cecil Powell (1903–1969), Nobel Prize Winner for Physics^†
• Reginald Punnett FRS (1875–1967) geneticist
• James Reynolds (1866–1950), cricketer
• Malcolm Simmons (born 1946) British Speedway Champion 1976–77 and former captain of England team
• Ray Singer (born 19??), record producer
• Johnnie Stewart (1917–2005), television producer
• Walter Tirel (1065–1100+), nobleman
• Sir Skinner Turner (1868–1935), chief judge of the British Supreme Court for China
• James Welldon (1854–1937), Bishop of Calcutta
• Sir Dick White KCMG KBE (1906–1983), intelligence officer
• Claud Woolley (1886–1962), cricketer
• Frank Woolley (1887–1978), cricketer
• Ian Wynne (born 1973), Olympic canoeist
• ([Robert Smith]) (born 1981), Racing driver

Former Students at Tonbridge Grammar School[]

Old Juddians[]

These people attended The Judd School

• Timothy Allen (born 1971), photojournalist
• Fergus Anckorn (born 1918), magician and soldier
• Luke Baldwin (born 1990), rugby player
• Humphrey Burton (born 1931), broadcaster, presenter and director
• William Cockcroft (born c1950), Chief Scout Commissioner
• Rob Crilly (born 1973), journalist and author
• Richard Dixon, British chemist, fellow of the Royal Society, and winner of the Rumford Medal
• Neville Duke DSO OBE DFC (2 bars) AFC, FRAeS (1922–2007), World War II pilot and world air speed holder in 1953
• Angus Fairhurst (1966–2008), artist
• Taylor Fawcett, actor from Life of Riley
• David Fulton (born 1971), cricketer
• John Gathercole, (1937–2010), Archdeacon of Dudley
• Max Godden, (died 2000),
• Tom Greatrex (born 1974), MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West
• Harold Hailstone (1897–1982), cartoonist and illustrator; brother of Bernard
• Bernard Hailstone (1910–1987), artist; brother of Harold
• Guy Hands (born 1959), financier
• Donald Hodge (1894–2001), First World War veteran
• Jack Holden (actor), actor
• George Henry Horton (born 1993), filmmaker
• Terence Lewin (1920–99), First Sea Lord and Chief of Defence Staff
• Sir Clive Loader KCB, OBE, ADC, FRAeS (born 1953), Air Chief Marshal
• Rob Luft (born 1993), jazz guitarist and composer
• Anton Matusevich (born 2001), British tennis player
• Nathaniel Mellors (born 1974), artist & musician
• James Miller, (born 1976), British novelist and academic
• Richard Moth, former Bishop of the Forces and current Bishop of Arundel and Brighton
• David Moule-Evans (1905–1988), composer
• Mr Bingo (born 1979), illustrator
• Geoffrey Paterson (born 1983), conductor
• Cecil Powell (1903-1969), Nobel prize winner in Physics
• Tom Probert (born 1986), cricketer
• Martin Purdy (born 1981), Rugby Union player
• Stuart Skeates, (born 1966), Major General and former Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
• Tim Stanley, journalist
• Rob Warner (academic), (born 1956), British academic
• Michael Willard, (born 1938) cricketer
• Ronald Williams (1906–79), Bishop of Leicester
• Stewart Wood, Baron Wood of Anfield, Member of the House of Lords

Old Tonbridgians[]

People connected with Tonbridge[]

• Sir Adrian Baillie (1898–1947), MP for Tonbridge 1937–45
• Hugh de Audley (1289–1347), English ambassador to France, was buried at Tonbridge Priory
• Margaret de Audley (1318–47), baroness and countess, was buried at Tonbridge Priory
• David Bartleet (1929–2002), Bishop of Tonbridge 1982–93
• Brian Castle (born 1949), current bishop of Tonbridge
• Margaret de Clare (1293–1342), countess, was buried at Tonbridge Priory
• Ralph de Stafford (1301–72), nobleman, was buried in Tonbridge Priory
• Richard fitz Gilbert (1030–1091), nobleman, built Tonbridge Castle
• Richard Fitz Gilbert de Clare (died 1136), nobleman, founded Tonbridge Priory and held Tonbridge Castle
• Philip Goodrich (1929–2001), Bishop of Tonbridge from 1973 to 1982
• Jilly Goolden (born 1959), food critic, attended West Kent College
• Arthur Griffith-Boscawen (1865–1946), MP for Tonbridge 1892–1906
• David Halsey (1919–2009), Bishop of Tonbridge 1968–72
• Victoria Hislop (born 1959), author, grew up in Tonbridge
• Dame Kelly Holmes DBE (born 1970), Olympic athlete, attended Hugh Christie School
• Richard Hornby (1922–2007), MP for Tonbridge 1956–74
• Andrea Leadsom (born 1963), educated at Tonbridge Girls' Grammar School
• Robert Norton (1838–1926), MP for Tonbridge 1885–92
• Adrian Quaife-Hobbs (born 1991), racing driver, lives in Tonbridge
• Sophie Rhys-Jones (born 1965), now The Countess of Wessex, attended West Kent College
• Angie Sage (born 1952), author, attended Tonbridge Grammar School for Girls
• Margaret Sharp (born 1938) peer, attended Tonbridge Grammar School for Girls
• Brian Smith (born 1943), Bishop of Tonbridge 1993–2001
• John Stanley (born 1942), MP for Tonbridge and Malling since 1974
• Holman F Stephens (1868–1931), ran a number of railway companies from offices in Tonbridge
• Paul Watson (born 1942), artist and documentary film maker, lives in Tonbridge
• Paul Way (born 1962), golfer, attended Hugh Christie School
• Gerald Williams (1903–89), MP for Tonbridge 1945–56
• Russell White (1896–1979), Bishop of Tonbridge from 1959 to 1968
• Jonathan Williams (born 1993), footballer for Crystal Palace FC, lives in Tonbridge
• Bob Woolmer (1948–2007), cricketer, attended Yardley Court School

Notes[]

† also Old Juddian.